28th Sitting 27/03/2014

Liz was feeling better this week.

We had everything set up as usual except we decided as an experiment to remove all luminous tabs so we were now sitting in total darkness.

We started with our Rainbow Bridge Exercise at 8.30pm.

Liz began on a river bank watching boats going past. She couldn’t see the other side as it was in a mist. Liz felt she wanted to stay on this side and was blocked from going over but at the same time felt she was being called to go over as if invisible hands were reaching out to pull her over. The bridge was suspended and made from wrought iron. As Liz walked across, the other side became mushy, undefined and marsh mellow like with rainbows coming out of it. As she got closer she saw wonderful colours, very unusual and different colours like jewels, quite magical like an enchanted forest path. Liz met a lady with blonde hair who greeted her. There was a door but Liz felt she needed healing and cleansing first as she wasn’t quite prepared. She felt she was made welcome and could go there when she was ready but now didn’t feel right…

I started off on a pebble beach which felt uncomfortable under bare feet. I couldn’t see the other side as it was misty but I saw the odd pin-prick light in the mist which I thought at the time may be lights on boats. I started over the bridge which was narrow. I could reach both hand rails at the same time. It became brighter, the mist cleared and I saw rainbows as I walked across. I noticed birds flying above me. At first just white gulls then there were tropical birds of many colours. By now the sun was shining brightly. I met a white robed monk who didn’t speak but just held his hands out to me and I put my hands in his. He then let go and pointed to the other side where I saw a wonderful landscape made up of colourful jewels sparkling in the sunshine. I realised this was what was making the pin-prick lights that I had seen in the mist from my side. Before leaving the monk gave me something which I couldn’t discern properly. It was something like a piece of rope or a belt?…

Our visualisations had many similarities again. We both couldn’t see the other side due to mist; we both had hands reach out to us, we each met one person who didn’t speak and we saw coloured jewels and rainbows.

I didn’t think of it at the time but I’ve since realised that what I saw was possibly a kind of metaphor for me as for some time now I have seen pin-pricks during my daily life, usually when I’m thinking about spiritual things. Maybe they were giving me a glimpse of the source of these pin-pricks?

I did the opening prayer and then put the music back on.

It was getting very cold in front of my legs.

We both thought the room had gone darker.

Liz saw lots of shapes and blotches moving around the room.

I thought it looked blotchy too.

Liz had a sensation of the space distorting, becoming circular like a gold fish bowl and visual patterns like streams going round.

She sensed flowing energy streaming through the room.

I had a sense of hexagonal shapes like honeycomb and I was aware of much movement in the room.

Liz had a tickle in her hair.

My legs were very cold like there was a cold breeze in front of them.

Liz saw a pyramid shape blob in front of her.

When she said that I too briefly saw a pyramid shape in front of me and it seemed to be glowing on the top, a bit like snow on a mountain.

I had a tickle in my left ear and on the back of my left hand.

My legs felt fuzzy.

I had a big bright blob in front of me.

My nose was getting blocked.

The room was looking darker again to me and I noticed a reddish colour to my right.

Liz also noticed the reddish colour which was to her left and she then saw it slowly move to her right.

Liz then got a blue glowing shape in the centre of her vision.

I thought the centre of the room was getting brighter.

I had a fuzzy touch on my right arm and a tickle on the back of my right leg.

There were lots of blobs which seemed to be close to my eyes and a bluish colour.

Liz saw some fleeting lights go past, right to left.

A click came out on the recording which neither of us heard at the time…

AUDIO CLIP

I saw a white misty light to my right.

Liz had a blob to her left which developed into round swirls like bunches of grapes.

Then in front and to the right of her she saw what looked like a curly haired wig or sheep’s wool.

I had a strong fuzzy feeling on my right ankle and it felt like something was wrapping itself around it.

It now looked dark and felt very cold to my right.

Liz saw what looked like coconut matting and diamond shapes at the bottom of her field of vision.

I was now freezing cold. It was like the cold was going through me from right to left.

Liz was also very cold.

I felt something in my hair.

I saw a pin-prick light to my right and felt a touch on my right arm.

Then I felt something in my hair again.

We paused the music for two minutes and listened out for any noises.

We heard nothing in the room and I put the music back on.

My stomach was making rumbling noises and I now had a big bright blob in front of me.

I got a strong taste in my mouth and my lips became very cold.

The taste went but returned about five minutes later.

It was very cold in front of me.

The last two tunes came on which are both instrumentals (Ensemble Accentus - Si verias and Beethoven-Moonlight Sonata) we normally both drift off during these but this week I found myself being controlled. I remained aware but in a slightly altered state.

I got the strong taste in my mouth again and noticed it seemed to be coming from the roof of my mouth and not up from my throat. It was different to what I experience in the cabinet on Mondays in the Mercury Light Circle when I feel stuff building up in my throat.

My arms were moved up in front of me and cupped like they were holding a ball. Then my hands were held together as if in prayer.

My breathing was slow and controlled. There was a soft gurgling sound as I slowly breathed out and my breath felt very hot against my hands. I didn’t feel they wanted to speak at this point; they were just experimenting with me.

I was held very still and it felt like there was a tall collar around the back and sides of my neck stopping my head moving.

Then all the sensations and taste left me just as the music came to an end.

It’s difficult to describe the taste. The best I can think of is a kind of sulphur egg taste but it wasn’t unpleasant. Some mediums I’ve sat with in the past have mentioned a metallic taste in their mouth but I wouldn’t say this was metallic.

During this time Liz had been aware of somebody she knew in the room.

Liz then did the healing exercise, the closing prayer and our closing down exercise…

27th Sitting 20/03/2014

We had the room set up as normal.

Liz was still a little under the weather with a tickly cough.

The luminous tabs were a bit brighter this week which we found a bit of a hindrance when trying to see phenomena and may next week experiment with no luminosity in the room.

As always we kicked off with the Rainbow Bridge Exercise at 8.30pm.

Liz started off visualizing a rainbow and then she was in a meadow full of wild flowers like daisies and harebells. There were also children, lambs and goats in the meadow. Liz then found herself by a large shallow lake or stream with a wooden bridge going over it. She was holding the hands of some of the children and had a white goat with her. They all started walking over the bridge which was wide, wooden with very shallow sides painted a green pea blue colour. Half way across she came up to a large glass lift or elevator. It went straight up instead of across and they all got in. It went up into and above the clouds to a white shimmering place with a large golden palace or temple. It had a court yard with fountains and harps everywhere. There was wonderful music playing and it was just a wonderful harmonious place to be in and nice to know they could go and be there. Liz thought about changing the goat into a unicorn and flying back but decided instead to come back the same way she got there…

I started off sitting on a large grey rock. I climbed down to walk towards the river and bridge and sensed there was a cave behind me but didn’t look round to see. I had to negotiate several rocks and when I touched one of them it moved and I realized they were all made of something like polystyrene and weren’t real. The bridge was wooden and unpainted. As I walked across I passed several white horses going the other way and some were pulling carriages with what looked like Victorian ladies on board. The bridge then turned into a Victorian street and I carried on walking looking at the old buildings and I noticed several boys running around looking like they’d come out of the musical Oliver. There was a beggar sitting at the side of the street and I threw him some coins from my pocket which I saw were old pennies and ha’pennies. I knew the tune was ending and wondered how I might get back. Then when I turned round and looked behind me I saw that the street had morphed back into the bridge so I just had to walk back to my side again…

This week we had both seen our bridge turn into something unusual and neither of us communicated with anyone we just observed…

I’d had a strong pressure on my forehead while doing the Rainbow Bridge exercise and now felt light headed.

I did the opening prayer and put the music back on.

Liz suddenly felt hot.

It felt cool and breezy around my legs.   

I felt light touches on the back of my right hand.

I could see lots of movement in the room. It looked bright and blobby with darker shapes moving about.

I had a pulsating feeling in my right arm between elbow and wrist. I felt pins and needles in my right hand.

I suddenly got very cold down my right side.

Liz suddenly felt very cold round her legs.

I now had a throbbing feeling in the fingers of my right hand.

I saw a bright blue blob in front of my eyes, more to the right, and a pressure around my right ear.

It was now very cold down the front of my legs.

I noticed an earthy smell which lasted a few seconds.

I felt something around my right ear. It was similar to the feeling I get in the cabinet.

Liz said it was as if a light had been turned out and went suddenly dim.

I saw a black shadow move from left to right.

There were a few dim shooting stars to my left.

The room looked very dark to me.

We both heard a click which came from the direction of the empty seat to my left and Liz’s right. It sounded like it was in the room and not a noise from next door.

The click came out on the recording. It sounds different on the recording to the click we had last week which neither of us heard at the time.

AUDIO CLIP

The room now looked lighter to me with a light mist on the ceiling.

It got very cold in front of my legs again.

I could feel something trickling down the left side of my face.

I felt a tickle on my left foot then on the back of my right leg.

My nose was getting blocked.

I had the feeling I was getting smaller, or my chair and the room was getting bigger.

I felt tickles on my left foot again.

We both thought the room had gone dark.

I got a smell like a phosphorus match striking.

Liz got the smell as well.

I had a feathery touch on the back of my right hand.

I suddenly got very cold.

This week instead of doing our Cross Experiment we paused the music for about two minutes and sat quiet allowing our spirit friends to produce any sounds…

I heard two very quiet clicks to my right but Liz didn’t hear them and nothing was picked up by the recorder. I also saw a massive bright blob build up in front of me while we sat listening.

We will continue to do this for the next few weeks unless instructed otherwise.

Liz had a sensation of being a slice in a long series going before and after, a time sequence. She tried to hold onto this slice but had a sense of being smeared out. She tried to bring into a sharp focus just this slice but had the feeling of being three or four dimensional, the time before and after.

I got a feathery touch on my left cheek. It got my attention and felt very physical.

I was very cold again.

I fell asleep a few times during the last two tunes and had some dreams that I couldn’t remember afterwards.

Liz also drifted off a little and found herself thinking about friends and family who had passed.

Once the tunes had ended Liz did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise…

Liz continues to set up her fluxgate magnetometer in the room above our séance room and this week readings were picked up which coincided with our healing exercise. We have had readings which correspond to phenomena happening in the room in both our sittings in the past but it’s so far not been consistent so although we keep records we’ve put it down to chance or other outside conditions being recorded. This is now the third time it has happened during the healing exercise in our Thursday group so there is a good chance the healing Liz is sending out is being recorded by the magnetometer…

26th Sitting 13/03/2014

We sat as usual with the addition of lemon and salt in the room as we do with our Monday sits. I decided to do this after I got a strong image of a lemon whilst sitting last week.

Also after forgetting to charge up the luminous tabs on the ping-pong balls and table last week we found it a lot better with them glowing dimly instead of the ‘Blackpool Illuminations’ effect we normally get so again I left the luminous tabs uncharged.

As always we started with the Rainbow Bridge Exercise at 8.30pm.

This week Liz found herself in a place that she recognized and has been to many times. She was on the shore opposite Holy Island. A rainbow was going across towards the island. She then saw a long white concave bridge with criss-cross white railings and found she was crossing it in leaps and bounds eager to get to the island as if there was no gravity. There seemed to be rainbows everywhere in the mountains on the island which seemed to transpose itself into Nepal and Tibet. Somebody Liz knew who was connected with the island was waiting for her and introduced her to a crowd of people she knew who had passed and she also saw Joan waving to her at the back. She felt reassurance from these people that they were all there working with us and the physical connection Liz had with the island was very important to us…

I started off among tall bamboo plants and it was very hot. I came out onto a shore and saw the bridge which was made out of grey Lego bricks!!! I walked over it with bare feet and could feel the dimpled surface. The bridge was swaying from side to side making me feel giddy. I had the feeling my dad (who is still on this side) was with me, though I didn’t see him. When I saw the other side it looked like a painting and I recognised it as the style of painting my gran (my dad’s mum) used to do. Then I saw my gran walking towards me and she was holding her brushes, paints and pallet. She told me she had indeed painted the scene I could see and gave me the paints saying I could use them in my development. She reminded me of when she’d come through at a Dave Thompson séance and then said... ‘I told you you could develop this...’ She was very reassuring about our circle’s development and I returned to my side clutching the paints, brushes and pallet…

Once again a similarity occurred between our two visualizations as we were both given reassurance about our circles from people we knew…

I was now feeling quite light headed and floaty, a feeling that stayed with me for most of the sitting.

I did the opening prayer and put the music back on.

The room looked very light and misty to me.

Liz felt cool around her face.

She saw white blobs to her right and it was getting colder to her right.

The room was now looking pink to me and bright each side of me.

I was cold all over, particularly around my waist.

I felt a few touches on the back of my neck.

My nose was feeling blocked.

Liz saw a young female face.

She got the name Barbra and the impression of a colourfully embroidered lace hanky.

I got the impression of three greyhound dogs, black, brown and beige.

I felt a touch in my hair.

We both thought the room had gone very dark.

Liz then thought it was filling with a cloud of bluish fog, with movement within it like reflections in water.

I saw a colourless blob in the centre of the room and that did look a bit like reflections in water.

Liz had a feeling like vertigo in her abdomen.

Then she said the room went dark and the feeling left her.

We both reported a yellow colour in the room.

Liz thought it looked fluffy like an Easter chick!!!

I felt cobwebs over my face and touches in my hair.

Liz was cold down the left side of her face.

I felt cold to my right and had a touch on my right knee.

I had a pressure on my face and felt like someone was close.

It felt like something was holding my hands still. I had them held together on my lap and if I tried to lift them up it was like a magnetic field was holding them down.

The feeling spread to my whole body and for about ten minutes I felt I couldn’t move.

Then the feeling suddenly left me.

Liz got the name Terrence.

The American/Indian tune came on and we once again attempted our ‘Cross Experiment’

Liz got a wrought iron cross, rounded at the bottom, which then changed to a more shinning, sparkling dark grey iron cross. Then she saw a plain flat cross in gold.

I saw a flat black cross coming out of a mist then saw a person standing with their arms out, making the shape of a cross. It then became blobby and misty and I saw an arm reaching out of the mist holding a wooden cross roughly made from two branches.

I felt like my nose was running.

I could see lots of small lights darting around the room.

Liz thought the room looked a violet colour.

She had an irritation in her sinuses.

I felt a touch on my right foot.

Liz saw light to her right.

She thought the luminous tabs were moving on the table but when we put the light on at the end all ping-pong balls were still in their places.

I could see bright blobs moving about on the table.

A tap came out on the recording as if something touched the recorder. Niether of us heard it at the time. We do get noises sometimes from next door but these come out sounding muffled. This tap is quite clear…

AUDIO CLIP

As the music came to an end Liz reported a flash above the table that made her jump.

Then I saw a flash above the table a few seconds afterwards.

Liz then did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise…

25th Sitting 06/03/2014

We didn’t sit last week as we had a ‘Liz in the cabinet’ sit instead.

We had the room set up as normal but for some reason I forgot to charge up the luminous tabs on the table and Ping-Pong balls and by the time I realised this it was too late. We could still just about see the luminous tabs but they were nowhere near as bright as usual. 

8.30pm and it was time to start with the Rainbow Bridge Exercise.

Liz started off walking through slushy, weedy undergrowth to the river where there was a sandy and pebbly shore. She sat for a while on a rock bathing her feet. To her left was a wooden white bridge. It was long and straight disappearing into the distance. Liz could see some land and clouds in the distance full of rainbows. It was a land of rainbows and she wanted to go there as it looked magical. The edge of the bridge merged with the sandy shore and as Liz walked over it she passed a group of donkeys with panniers and a long train of people like Arabs or Moroccans. They all seemed friendly but carried on walking. There was then a long stretch with nobody on it and Liz started to run. She split into two people, an adult Liz continued walking on the bridge but her awareness was with a child Liz flying above her holding onto two children like Wendy and Peter Pan. When she reached the other side her awareness was back with her adult self on the bridge and she met a lady in a pale blue dress (this ties up with the message Liz got from Joan on Monday 03/03/2014) she had blonde hair and was a bit like Alice in Wonderland. There was a tea party going on with children round a table sitting on deck chairs including Rupert Bear and the Rabbit. The lady asked Liz to sit down with them and encouraged her to work with the children telling her she was welcome back any time. She gave Liz a pearl to keep like a large ball. Liz felt it was to do with communication. (Liz had another message in the Monday group some weeks ago about being a pearl on a beach under moonlight to help with communication) Liz now realised the tune was ending so quickly manufactured an umbrella in her mind to bring her swiftly back to her side…  

My visualization began with me lying in bed. It was like I was dreaming and another body came out from my physical body and floated down to the river bank. My awareness was in my dream body and I could see my physical body asleep in the bed. My dream body was translucent and my vision a bit blurred and everything seemed to be like a photo negative. As I started walking over the bridge my vision became clearer. The bridge was white and the sides were like halves of large spoked wheels. Then I noticed the bridge was made of a kind of foam/sponge material. As I walked across I passed a snake and a couple of lizards going the other way that ignored me or possibly didn’t see me. When I reached the other side there was a column of mist which morphed into a very tall biblical looking man in robes. His size made me realize I was a child and he put his hand on my head and mumbled a few words that I couldn’t understand. Then everything I could see faded and I found myself back in bed…  

Interestingly we both seemed to leave our bodies and become children in a second body this week.

Liz had felt prickles on her head and I had a pressure on my forehead.

I did the opening prayer and put the music back on.

To me it looked like the room was getting lighter.

Liz got the impression of something falling.

She saw light in her peripheral vision and lots of shapes moving round the room.

I saw misty light each side of me.

Liz was now seeing lights all around the room, mainly vertical and a moving marble effect that was a bluish colour.

I was seeing large wisps of light in the middle of the room with a pink tinge.

My legs were getting cold and feeling fuzzy.

Liz was cold all over.

Liz saw an oblong block of light which got her attention in the middle of the room and it moved to her right.

Then she saw a flash to her right.

She said the centre of the room was now a rose tint.

I could see blobs in the centre of the room and a few dim lights to my right moving towards the centre.

I felt tickles round my face.

There was a lot of pink light to my right, Liz saw it as well.

Liz felt a feathery touch on her face.

My nose felt like it was running.

I felt a light touch on the back of my right hand and tickles round both wrists.

Liz was seeing clouds of blackish grey smoke billowing up in front of her.

I had a bright blue colour in front of me that looked a bit like the surface of crinkled aluminium foil.

Liz felt touches in her hair; it felt like someone was putting a silk scarf on her head.

Then it felt more like a nun’s veil and Liz got a warm peaceful feeling.

I saw a vertical light come and go near the centre of the room. It looked just like curtains parting for a few seconds letting a little light in.

I had a tickle in my left ear.

I felt something in my hair and my nose now felt blocked.

Liz had the sensation of a tree made of light with concave branches dipping down and going out each side of the room. It looked like a negative photo.

I got a vision of a lemon being squeezed. In our other group we always put out half a lemon, salt and various minerals. I wondered if this was a message that we should now do the same in this group. We’ve been using these things since the original Mercury Circle and the idea is that the team can use them to replenish us in some way after our energies have been used during a sitting.

I was yawning a lot and it felt like a tear was running down the side of my nose. I try not to touch my face during a sitting but it was getting so itchy and I had to scratch the side of my nose but when I did so it felt dry.

Liz got a vision of crustacean shells, like crabs.

I felt a touch on my right foot then it suddenly got cold in front of me.

The American/Indian tune came on so we did our cross experiment again.

Liz built a cross out of stripped branches, white wood bound together with string so there was a big lump in the middle where the binding protruded.

Then she did the same thing with bones.

At the end she had a flat brass or gold cross with emeralds and rubies in each of the four ends.

I couldn’t keep my eyes open at the start so closed them and saw a Chinese man made from brass holding his hands together as if praying. He became animated and moved one of his hands to a horizontal position making a cross and he started laughing.

When I opened my eyes there was a bright blob in front of me and I saw a black cross form within the blob followed by a bright shining cross. Then I tried to manipulate the blob into a cross shape which I just about managed to do but couldn’t hold it like that and it sprung back into a blob shape.

I felt something running down my forehead.

Then I felt something running down my left cheek and had tickles in my hair and left ear.

There seemed to be a lot of light to my right.

Liz had the sensation of looking down at a bumpy surface like sand dunes as if she was a bird hovering above.

I drifted off during the last couple of tunes and got an image of vertical lines which changed into a book case full of books. One of them came flying out towards me and I could make out a date, 1930, on the spine. I tried to see the title but couldn’t read it.

My head felt very hot at the end.

Liz did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise…

24th Sitting 19/02/2014

This week we swapped days from Thursday to Wednesday.

We had the room set up as usual and as always started the sitting with the Rainbow Bridge Exercise at 8.30pm.

Liz started off amongst plants and foliage at the edge of a lake covered with water lilies. The bridge was to her right. It was small, made of metal, convex shaped and painted white. It had a white mesh surface and the sides were like spokes of a wheel, all painted white. The bridge led to an island which had another bridge on the other side which was long straight and wooden. Liz felt this would lead her to where she needed to go. The island was full of water birds, flamingos, turkeys and lots of plants and bird boxes. Liz rushed across the island then across the second bridge where she saw lots of rainbow bubbles in the lake and in the air and found a beautiful place like a school building on the other side. She was greeted by children including a blonde curly haired girl who she recognised as a childhood friend called Jenifer Baker. She looked a little bit sad and was being looked after by a lady Liz had seen before, with her hair in a plat but it was now brown and she gave Liz her name, Freda. (This doesn’t tie up yet with what I got last Monday in the MLC) She told Liz she’d like her to work at the school where they were giving love to the children. Liz noticed the bubbles again and each one had a whole world inside. Then Liz got into one of the bubbles which brought her back to her side depositing her with a splash in a lush frilly leafed lettuce…

I also started off amongst plants. Mine were yellow like rapeseed and as I walked towards the bridge they got taller, or maybe I was getting shorter!!! They were soon taller than me as I walked along a narrow path through them. There were other pathways leading off the path but I chose to stay on it as I knew it led to the bridge. I came out onto a beach and the bridge which was wooden, short and painted white was to my left. I could just about see the other side before I started to cross. The sky above it was lit up by a beautiful sunset. I felt like I was a child and wanted to run across the bridge. As I crossed I saw a group of Chinese ladies with parasols. They were doing a kind of dance as they walked swaying from side to side. One lady was being carried in a chair and she lent down and handed me a book saying this was the first of many books that I would receive. I got the feeling the book contained much knowledge and after bidding the ladies good bye I took a peek into the book as I walked back to my side but found it hard to focus and read the words. I got the impression this book wasn’t going to give me any easy answers and I still had to work at getting knowledge from it…

I did the opening prayer and put the music back on.

My legs were getting very cold.

I saw a few pin-pricks above the table.

Liz saw a green light to her right.

I had the impression of a dim beam of light coming down from the ceiling onto the table, like a spot light on a stage.

I saw wispy bits in front of me and blue mist each side.

I got an image of an elephant in front of me waving it’s trunk from side to side.

Then Liz also got the sense of an elephant in the room.

I got the tune in my head ‘Nellie the Elephant’

I felt a tingly feeling on my eye brows and eye lids.

Liz got the sense of a character Dido from a book her uncle wrote called Under Plum Lake.

Then she got the word Violet and the sense of a deep crack between tall grey rocks going down a canyon, like a crack between worlds going into another reality. Liz wasn’t sure if Violet was a person’s name or possibly ultra-violet, beyond physical.

I had a fuzzy feeling on the right side of my head.

I saw a big blob in front of me with shooting stars within it.

I felt a light touch on the back of my right hand and something brush against my eye lashes.

Then I saw blue/green wavy streaks of light.

I felt touches in my hair and a fuzzy feeling on my right foot.

Then I got a fuzzy feeling on my left shin which seemed to wrap around my leg.

Liz got an image of a Moses basket.

I felt something brush against my nose.

I saw a few flashes above me and the room started to look light and misty.

Liz felt she had lots of people with her. They were people she had known when on this side and they were giving her personal messages. She got the feeling they were working with us, they were pleased we were doing it and told her we have wonderful opportunities to learn.

I felt a light touch on my right hand finger and a cool breeze on my face.

I got a vision of a large metal tea pot.

It reminded me of one used at a garage I worked at about 30 years ago. I couldn’t get it out my mind and kept thinking about some of the characters there, particularly a big guy known as Jumbo. (Another elephant connection)

Liz was feeling very hot.

She got the impression she was becoming a bird, a peregrine falcon, soring into the sky.

I got another touch on the back of my right hand fingers and a cold fuzzy feeling on my right hip.

The American/Indian tune came on and we resumed our Cross Experiment again.

Like previous weeks I got brief glimpses of a small black cross but my vision was soon filled with bright flame like blobs. I did see a dark hill build up and thought I might see a cross on that but didn’t.

Liz got the feeling the upright was becoming clearer but the horizontal was just like nodules, looking more like an icon, a cross with a circle on it. The horizontal branches were not yet formed, like buds. Then it turned into the many armed Avalokitesvara. Liz then thought of a Ganesha statue she used to have which was an elephant god and looked like a cross.

My feet went very cold and felt heavy.

It felt like someone was standing on them and it got very cold in front of me.

I got a name, Simon.

I now felt freezing cold all over, like I was in a swirling cold mist and I felt a few cool breezes.

Liz felt she was in a dense fog but her temperature was ambient.

She felt prickles on her head.

I got the phrase Brass Monkey.

Then I got an image of the three wise monkeys making me think of an ornament my Gran used to have.

I saw a salmon colour mist to my right.

Liz thought she could see it as well.

During the last two tunes I drifted off a bit and kept getting the number seven. It was something to do with seven states of awareness and I was hearing that we are in them all at the same time but only aware of one at a time but with practice we can become aware of being in more than one at the same time. I heard each one separates its self from the other by its own shadow.

When I told Liz she said it very much tied up with a dream she had had about colours, the difficulty that there are colours behind colours and we need to hold onto the white light and keep the earth connection.

The music CD had ended and Liz did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise…

23rd Sitting 13/02/2014

We had the room set up as usual and started with the Rainbow Bridge Exercise at 8.30pm.

Liz began with a small brown river. She had lots of children with her and got the feeling she was a child as well. They were all dipping their bare feet in the water. The bridge was small and made of concrete, convex curved with a soft asphalt covering. Liz took the children over the bridge. The other side wasn’t like an earthly landscape it was rainbow like with purples and strange colours. It looked like a beautiful fairy tale with fairies and other children there. Liz met a tall lady with blonde hair in a plat wrapped in a coil round her head. She was like a nurse maid and took the children off Liz. Behind her was the person Liz felt she had come to see dressed in a wizard’s hat and cloak. When Liz saw his face she realized it was her dad making her feel warm with emotion. He took her to a wooden cabin where he removed his hat and cloak saying he didn’t need them, they were just for the children. He said he was there with the rest of Liz’s family. He gave her permission to do this work for spirit he knew it was good and was all in favour of it now; he wanted Liz to carry on. When on this side he would never have considered the subject, it was very taboo then. He said that all the children in Liz’s family come to visit him there and he pretends to be a wizard.

Liz could hear the music coming to an end and had to run back…

I started off on a bank with no grass, just smooth brown mud with cracks in it like it had been sun-baked. I had bare feet and could feel the heat in it. I climbed up rough wooden steps to get onto the bridge and I was worried about getting slinters in my feet. The bridge was made of concrete and was very long with lots of arches supporting it like a viaduct. As I walked across, the surface beneath my feet became smoother and slowly changed into smooth marble. It looked grey and mottled but as I went further it changed to pure white. I then saw the other side was all white including the people who had white robes on. Then they removed their robes to reveal rainbow coloured clothes and the whole scene changed to a kind of rainbow land, full of colour. There was what looked like kites trailing rainbow coloured strands of ribbon darting around in the sky and lots of twinkling things like fairies were floating down.   

I realized the music was about to end so ran back to my side…

We noticed quite a few similarities between our two visualisations when we talked about them afterwards.

I did the opening prayer and put the music back on.

I had a pressure on my forehead and tightness around my chest.

Liz could feel entities crowding into the room.

The energy of the room felt strong to both of us.

Liz was aware of shimmering forms in the dark over and in front of the table.

I saw them as well but mainly to each side of me. Some were darting across my vision from side to side.

Liz described them as like silk and I concurred.

To me they looked like strands of silk hanging down and dancing around like flames. Then the atmosphere changed to misty vertical waves.

Liz got the impression of a horizontal rainbow stretching across the room.

She saw fleeting dim torch lights.

I was now seeing horizontal waves.

I saw a yellowish mist close to my eyes.

Liz felt a pricking sensation on her left eye.

I felt touches on my right foot and the right side of my head.

I was very cold down my right side.

Then I got a pricking sensation on my left eye.

Liz saw a mist building up in the room.

Then she saw what she described as a round wheel with a very crenulated edge, like a flower design. She could only see the left half of it. It was a bit like a doily but she felt it was made of stone.

She then perceived arches in the room, like cloisters.

I was seeing steaks of light coming and going like shooting stars.

I felt a vibration under my right foot.

The room was looking very misty to me.

I was seeing a few flashes in front of my eyes.

I felt something in my ear.

My legs and the top of my head were cold.

Liz felt very cold all over.

She got the name ‘Carol’

I felt two thuds on the floor with my right foot but didn’t hear anything.

I saw dim torch lights to my right.

I felt a fuzzy feeling on my cheek bones and the backs of my hands. Also a fuzzy feeling pressing down on the top of my head which felt like it was going into my scull.

There was a tickle on my left arm which felt like something under my sleeve.

We started our Cross Experiment as the American Indian tune came on.

We both decided to relax, do nothing and let the cross come to us.

Liz didn’t get anything except right at the end an upright, solid 4x4 stake going right through the middle of the room.

I saw a small golden cross at the beginning leaning to one side. It was pulsating with light coming out of it and the light eventually filled my vision, obscuring the cross. It was dazzling making me close my eyes then I briefly saw a black cross silhouetted against the light.

The room soon returned to darkness after our experiment.

I felt something in my hair.

I heard a slurp type noise to my right but Liz didn’t hear it.

During the last two tunes I drifted off and saw a row of black and white photos and drawings of people in a semi-circle around me. One stood out and the face looked animated. I saw it was my granddad smiling at me.

We were both feeling very cold at the end when the tunes ended.

Liz did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise. 

22nd Sitting 06/02/2014

We had the room set up as usual and started with our Rainbow Bridge Exercise at 8.30pm.

Liz began in a large wide valley. The river seemed distant and meandering. The rainbow stretched from one side of the valley to the other. The bridge was bamboo and Liz saw many Chinese people wearing triangular conical hats. A little Chinese girl with short black hair came running towards her, took her hand and wanted to lead her over the bridge to meet her mummy and family. They met a tall lady on the other side. She was very friendly and introduced Liz to the family. They were sitting round a table having tea. The table was covered in lotus flowers and water lilies, pink, white, gold and yellow. Coming out of them were what looked like needles or aerials? They told Liz they were like stamens with pollen and the pollen would spread, this was the seeds we were spreading. Liz associated them with pure thoughts, purity. These flowers were very important and Liz was given one to bring back. She felt they were our connection, our transmission with spirit. It was like the stamens were full of seed to be disseminated…  

I started off sitting on a bench looking down at the river. Then I got up and walked down a stony, shingle path to the bridge. At this point I realised I was wearing long white robes and I used a long stick to help me walk. I remember feeling unstable as the robes got tangled around my feet. The bridge was made of wood, roughly built and didn’t look particularly solid but I decided to walk over it. Half way across I saw knights on horseback coming towards me and on the other side I could see a castle on a hill. My attention was drawn to the flags flying on it, white with red crosses like English St George flags. There was no communication between me and the knights and after a while they turned to return to their side and as they did this their horses sprouted wings, taking off and flying them to the castle…

I felt a lot of pressure on my forehead during the Rainbow Bridge Exercise and it was making me feel light headed. I had trouble speaking as Liz and I described our experiences.

I then did the opening prayer and put the music on still feeling very light headed.

The feeling I get is always different to what I experience when sitting in the cabinet on Mondays. It’s more like I’m being affected by the atmosphere and energy in the room whereas in the cabinet I feel more controlled by entities. I’ve so far never felt controlled or feel I want to give communications in our Thursday sitting.

Liz reported something crawling over her head.

She felt strong presences in the room.

She saw small lights close to her flashing on and off, looking like the luminous tabs on the table.

She had a tight feeling around her solar plexus.

The room started to look light and pinkish each side of me.

I saw wispy bits and flashes in front of me.

Liz thought it looked misty blue in the middle of the room.

She saw a light falling down in front of her.

She got the name Brenda. She’s had this name before and feels she wants to communicate.

I was getting the impression the room was filled with twirling silk ribbons.

It was looking darker everywhere to me.

Liz was aware of a lot of light to her right. Like a strong light shining down on her.

She then saw the room fill up with blobby shapes, some moving slowly, others darting around.

I picked up a smell that came and went, a bit like a fish and chip shop smell.

I had a fuzzy feeling on the back of my right hand and finger.

My legs were very cold.

I was seeing lots of blobs floating about, and then it went light and misty.

Liz got the impression of lots of tall houses, a French village, they all had shutters.

Liz sensed a feeling around her throat like a choker necklace. She saw it as a contraption with needles going into her throat. She said it didn’t feel uncomfortable but felt her throat was being opened up. She felt someone wanted to talk through her. They wanted to say something but didn’t have any words.

I suggested that if any words came into her mind she should try and verbalise them.

I felt another fuzzy feeling on the back of my finger and felt something in my right ear.

It looked light to my right, a primrose yellow colour.

Liz got an impression and verbalised what she saw…

‘Billy is holding this golden ball. He came through as William but then said Billy, Billy, he’s got a golden ball and he just wanted to let you know. He says he’s not the fellow in the bowler hat but I actually think he is… He’s just playing. Now he’s transmogrified into Joseph and his multi-coloured dream coat, he’s just playing, a bit of an actor. But the golden ball is real, not an ordinary ball like an orb. More like real gold, its real gold’

I got a touch on my left foot.

Then I got the Fish and Chip shop smell again.

Liz had a strong ectoplasm smell and said the room was kaleidoscoping, changing shape and size.

She felt a tickle under her foot.

She saw a few moving lights and felt pressure on her head.

The American Indian tune came on which meant it was time for us to resume our ‘Cross Experiment’

As we started I briefly saw a thin black cross come and go but soon my vision was filled with bright blobs of light looking like flames in front of me. I had trouble keeping my eyes open, they wanted to close. As the tune ended the room returned to darkness.

Liz was trying to create cross threads as if weaving and she could almost see at one point the upright part of the cross. She tried to hold onto the image of the upright stamen she saw earlier. She got a thin line but it felt very dynamic moving right across the room horizontally and then vertical from top to bottom. Then she saw a shadowy three dimensional cross but not clearly. She didn’t get hot this week.

I was now cold all over.

Liz thought the room looked bright.

I thought it was dark.

I got the Fish and Chip shop smell again briefly and a tickle on my right foot.

We both drifted off during the last two tunes.

Liz found herself in an anteroom of a large house. It was like a long corridor. She seemed to be working on her memoirs making her think of Winston Churchill.

I saw a photo album opened up with a photo of a white horse. I was shown a distinguishing mark on the horse but couldn’t remember what it was afterwards. I turned the page of the album and there was a page filled with signatures and messages but again I couldn’t remember what they were afterwards.

The music ended and Liz did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise by which time we were both feeling totally back with it.

Liz had felt at times during the sitting the team wanted to speak through her but felt her own mind and thoughts getting in the way and blocking it.

This is something I’ve experienced and I’m sure other developing trance mediums feel the same when starting out. I told her to think of it more as a joint communication, her and spirit, at this stage and not to worry about what is said…