This group began sitting in July 2013 as an experiment using the 'Basic Guide' published by the 'Scole Experimental Group' in 1996.

We've changed the way we sit over the years. I am continuing to develop trance mediumship and Liz gives a mixture of evidential clairvoyance, inspired speaking and trance...

Our intentions are to receive information that will help us understand the bigger picture, why we are here, what happens when we die, the mechanics of mediumship and how we can help in raising the quality of consciousness...

...Nick Pettitt

35th Sitting 29/05/2014


We didn’t sit last week as we had a ‘Liz in the cabinet’ sit instead.
This week it was just Liz and me.

At 8.30pm we kicked off with the Rainbow Bridge Exercise…

Liz started off on very wet marsh land. Everything was surrounded by rainbows including each blade of grass. There was no bridge but there was a raised dry sun-baked tract running through the marsh and Liz walked along that. She reached some low lying buildings that looked like laboratories. Inside people in white coats were working on things. Liz didn’t feel particularly welcome as they were all so busy working but they took her to a grey bearded man with short hair who was happy to show Liz around and talk to her. She saw plants and ducks; it looked like they were breeding things there and concerned about saving species from earth. It all seemed a bit secret and Liz wondered where the love was in all of this but she then saw a higher ground that surrounded this place with temples and she was told this was where they got their inspiration from…

I started off high up and had to make my way down zigzag steps leading to the bridge which was decorated with lights along each side. I tried to see the other side but got the feeling I shouldn’t be looking too far ahead yet and to just concentrate on where I was now. As I walked over the bridge it morphed into a brightly coloured children’s bouncy castle with lots of children playing on it. I found it hard to walk over and asked one of the kids where I could get off and he pointed at some steps in the corner. I climbed down onto an asphalt surface and some of the children threw balls to me which I threw back. I was aware of other people in the distance observing but could not see them clearly and then the bouncy castle started to move away from me looking like a hovercraft and as it disappeared I found myself back on my side…

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

As soon as the music started I got cold around my legs and a pressure on my forehead.
I had a tickle in my right ear and fuzzy feeling on right foot.
Then I felt a cold sensation on my forehead like a drip of water hitting it.
It was getting very cold to my left.

We were both yawning.

I felt feathery touches down the left side of my face.

There was a bluish white mist in the room to my left.
Liz saw it too in the same area which was to her right. She described it as milky blue.

After a few minutes I noticed the mist was in front of me then to my right as if it had moved through me.
Not at the same time but about a minute later Liz reported a similar thing like the mist had moved through her and was now to her left.
We were both now very cold on the side where we perceived the mist.    

I had a pressure on my right foot.
I could feel something on the back of my neck and also around my right ear. It felt like something was connecting them together.

I picked up a smell like the sea side and felt cold all over like I was in a cool breeze.

Liz felt a feathery touch around her eye lids.
Then I felt a feathery touch on the back of my left hand fingers.
It was very cold and fuzzy down my right side.

I noticed a black shadow like a big bird go over me towards the centre of the room.

I picked up a musty smell, like smelly socks.

We were at the half way point and I lowered the volume on the music.
We were supposed to be listening out for noises in the room but we both drifted off for a while!!!
I came back after about ten minutes to see a bird’s face like an eagle staring at me. It was brown and golden colour and I noticed two rings each side of its face.
Then the face faded then I saw dim lights coming and going in the distance.

Liz came back about ten minutes after me.
She had somebody with her and verbalized what she was getting…

‘Hark… the great shinning… blades of grass blazing with gold… he’s trying to convey… I’ve got the lambs again; feed my lambs… woven basket, a basket of grasses and rushes… makes me think of Moses and hark is the word of the prophets… I ask who’s there and I get Leslie… I ask for a message and just get plain brown wrapping paper, keeping it simple…’

Liz was trying hard not to elaborate or add her own interpretations to what she perceived.

Liz then got the names Rupert and Brenda.
She saw brown eyes.

The music came to an end.


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

34th Sitting 15/05/2014


We had the room set up as usual.
Unfortunately Rich was at home with a sprained knee so it was just Liz and I this week.

We began with the Rainbow Bridge Exercise at 8.30pm.

Liz started with an image that looked like a small eye or a beetle. It was oval shape, red in the centre with black around it and a glowing blue on the outside. She couldn’t get it out of her vision so decided to follow it. Then it looked like a scarab beetle and was swimming in the brown muddy river. The bridge was on Liz’s left and seemed to be constructed from scaffolding and wood. It was a real hotchpotch job as if built by kids with Mechano.  Liz began to climb over the bridge up steps that went on and on. At the top was a long straight stretch over the wide river. As Liz crossed, in the distance it looked like London from above, a great city spread out with lots of rainbows. She found herself being drawn to this city and was now flying towards it. She reached out her hands and saw people waving from a great tower. They were scientists and philosophers, a learning community, part of a university. Liz felt she was a part of them, she felt welcomed. It was impersonal but natural to be there. She was being given perspective, urged to look out and get perspective over the whole environment before returning to her side…

I started off in a very red landscape making me think of Mars. Several red spider or beetle like critters were running around over rocks. The bridge to my left was also red as was the river. As I crossed the colour changed to blue then got brighter becoming yellow then a bright dazzling white. I saw some people coming towards me who were dressed in bright white robes. It was difficult to see them as they blended in to the bright surroundings, I could just make out their eyes and mouths. They didn’t say anything but I suddenly realised they had surrounded me and I could feel a calm relaxing energy coming off them which made me turn into the same bright white. We seemed to be drifting up, I felt giddy and lost my bearings. I heard the music coming to an end and when I thought about how I would get back I suddenly found myself back on the bridge on my hands and knees as if I’d been dropped there. I got up and made my way back…

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

I had a pressure on my forehead and cold legs.
Liz had a fuzzy feeling on the top of her head and her legs were cold.
I felt very buzzy, like I was charged up.
Liz felt like there were pairs of eyes around the room looking at her.

I got a warm feeling on the left side of my face as if something warm was close to it.
Liz saw lots of white blobs like cotton wool.
I felt very fuzzy down my right side.
Liz got the name Clive.

I had tickles in my hair, down the left side of my face then under my left foot which slowly travelled round to the top of my left foot.
I couldn’t stop yawning.
My knees suddenly went cold.
I got the sensation that something was covering my right eye.

Liz saw a dim light moving about.
I drifted off slightly and got a vision of a piece of polished tiger eye crystal.
Liz felt her head was being turned.
The atmosphere was looking red to me.

Both Liz and I reported tickles in our hair.

It was about half way through and I turned the music down slightly so we could listen out for any noises in the room.

I felt a fuzzy touch on my right elbow which travelled down my arm into my hand.
Liz felt like she had a beret on, tilted to the left.
I had a tickly nose and was cold down my right side.

I got a vision of what looked like the front of a galleon, very colourfully decorated coming from my right.
I suddenly got cold all over.
It now looked light and yellow in the room to me.

I turned the music back up for the last few tunes, neither of us had reported any noises in the room and I heard nothing on the recording.

We both drifted in and out of sleep during the last couple of tunes.
Liz found herself at a train station waiting for travellers.

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

While she was sending out healing I noticed the room filling up with a silver/grey mist.
Then when she was sending light and healing to those who had passed but were confused and still on the physical plane, I saw lots of twinkling lights near the ceiling. They were all arch shaped like little bridges…

33rd Sitting 08/05/2014

We had the room setup and sat as usual.

At 8.30pm we did the Rainbow Bridge Exercise…

Liz had a good trip, starting off with stepping stones that seemed to go on forever. There were children like fairies changing into butterflies dancing in front of her and they all had golden hair. Ahead she saw an enormous expanse of silvery water with rainbows all over it. There was no need for a bridge as the rainbows made a bridge and the children urged Liz to fly over it with them. This she did, they swooped up and it felt more like gliding than flying. There were mountain peaks ahead and Liz wanted to get to them. As they got near to the mountains the children took Liz to some pastures where there were white goats. It looked a bit like a scene from the Swiss book ‘Heidi’ There was a cave and Peter was there who is somebody in spirit that Liz knows. She felt emotional seeing him there. They talked for a while then his skin changed to a black colour. Liz questioned why and he said it was because she’d made all the children white with golden hair but really they are all colours. Then the children became black skinned and started dancing again. There was a great feeling of freedom and happiness and Liz felt this was the way it should be with children. Peter and the children then brought Liz back…

Rich was walking along a river bank running his hands along the tops of the grass and bulrushes. There was a constant presence of a big eye in the sky above him…

I started off on a pebbly beach where everything looked silver. The bridge was also silver and looked like it was made out of aluminium. I started to cross it and like the last couple of weeks everything started looking brighter as I crossed. I came across some palm trees each side of the bridge and they parted as I walked through them which reminded me of the old TV programme ‘Thunderbirds’ Everything then started to have a Hawaiian feel to it. I saw lots of colourfully dressed ladies dancing around in hula skirts. Then I came up to a black man sitting by a cave who was also colourfully dressed with a kind of flat hat on. The cave looked dark and he invited me to have a look inside where I saw it was bright and the walls looked like gold. He told me it was a place of healing but time was now running out and he said I could come back and explore it another time as there was much more to see inside. He then gave me a gold sovereign to take back with me…

Once again Liz and I seemed to get many similarities between our visualizations.

I then did the opening prayer before putting the music back on.

It immediately got very cold down the fronts of my legs.
I had tickles in my hair and around my right ear and a big blob started to build up in front of me.
I got a fuzzy feeling on my left leg.

Liz had an energetic feeling like uneasiness building up in her abdomen area. It wasn’t unpleasant but just strange.
This was followed by a pulling sensation and feeling of emptiness.
Then Liz saw blobs in the room.

Rich was becoming overshadowed by his guide giving him a very heavy feeling holding him still and unable to speak.

I felt cobwebs over my face.

Liz had the sense of an apex of a roof, like a large letter ‘A’ between her and me and it was darker on her right.
I could just about see this as well and it looked darker on my left.

Liz got an image of a red velvet beret and the name Beryl.
Then she got bag pipes and tartan.

I had a pressure on my right foot.
The room suddenly looked darker to me.
I was seeing white wispy bits and pin-prick lights to my right.
I had the feeling something was flying above me. It looked like a black shadow moving about over my head.

Liz felt touches in her hair and felt emotional.

Liz and I both thought the atmosphere of the room was more calm and gentle this week.
It was now looking lighter to me.
Liz was getting cobwebs on her head.

We reached the half-way point and like last week I turned the music down slightly to better hear any noises produced by the team.
I also kept an ear on Rich as it sounded like his breathing and mouth were starting to be controlled.

Liz and I both got very cold around the legs.
Liz felt she had a presence in front of her.
She got the sense of a badger then saw a gold bangle and shiny necklace.
I had a bright blob in front of me.

I felt Rich’s guide was ready to communicate…

Me… ‘If our friend wants to communicate they’d be very welcome, be nice to hear a few words’

‘I must be brief… Do you have a question for me?’

Me… ‘Have you a name you can give us?’

‘My name is not important’

Me… ‘Okay, well you’re very welcome’

‘I feel some… there is a question for me?’

Me… ‘Will you be working with this circle and be part of the group?’

‘Yes…’

Me… ‘How will you develop? Will you be speaking through the medium as you are now or are you looking to develop a more independent voice?’

‘We are trying to make an independent voice but for now this is what we are able to do’

Me… ‘How do you find the energies and conditions of the room?’

‘Yes, to us it is just light’

Me… ‘Just light yes… Do you feel it is something you will be able to work in okay?’

‘Ah yes’

Me… ‘Is there anything else you would like us to do to help develop the communication from yourself?’

‘Must find more people… More people is more energy’

Me… ‘Normally we find that, extra sitters, they kind of find us’

‘Yes, this is the way’

Me… ‘Yes okay, so we won’t go out and drag them off the street as it were’

‘No, they will come… Liz you have a question for me?’

Liz… ‘Yes, have you communicated with groups before?’

‘Ha, ha, yes… very many’

Liz… ‘So you’re a seasoned communicator… are you just getting used to the energy of the medium?’

‘No I have known him many lifetimes’

Liz… ‘But in this lifetime, are you just getting used to channelling?’

‘We are always here, it is…’

Liz… ‘How to manifest’

‘Yes but also for Richard to practice more’

Liz… ‘What would you advise, what would be in the medium’s best interest to help him to bring forward communication?’

‘Just to spend time with us, to meditate’

Me… ‘Is that something he could do at home?’

‘Yes, he has been this evening… But there is a question Liz that you have, not about this group or this room but perhaps a deeper question… is there something you always wish to know?’

Liz… ‘Well the truth, ha, ha…’

‘There are many truths’

Liz… ‘What it really is, what it’s all really about’

‘It is all about love… that is all that matters’

Me… ‘Are you able to describe the conditions that you live in now?’

‘You would say I am a traveller. I travel and I watch and I learn and I’ve gained some knowledge and this is what I offer to you’

Liz… ‘What has gone wrong with the development of mankind, that they’ve misconstrued love in such a way?’

‘Nothing has gone wrong. It is sometimes hard for you on this plane to see the bigger picture. Everything is as it should be, it is part of the development of the human soul and all is not straight but sometimes twists and turns but there is nothing to fear, all is good’

Liz… ‘What about the appearance of cruelty and war and aggression, how does that…’

‘This is not an issue of the soul but of the body. It is the nature of things. When you realise that your soul and your body are not the same it will allow you to understand that the body, the stuff of matter, is denser and has a part of this heaviness sometimes what you would call negativity can manifest as cruelty and as war, but always God, there is no separation. You are not your body, you are just light, we are all just light. There have always been wars and there will always be conflict but this is a part of the learning. There are many higher realms than this where these things no longer happen but this is your school and sometimes even though you do not wish to go to school it is in your best interest… I will come again, good night’

Liz… ‘Good night…’

Me… ‘Thank you very much for coming. Look forward to speaking to you again… That was well timed, the music has just finished’

‘All is planned, goodnight’


Rich came back. He told us his guide had been sat with him since the start of the session. He had been unable to speak but he had experienced some of the things we’d reported.
This was the first time he’d communicated through Rich for about ten years so he’d done really well as it was a very good communication.
Rich had remained aware during the communications and felt quite drained for a while afterwards.

The communication had meant a lot to Liz as it reminded her of a dream she’d had many years ago where she’d been given teaching. In the dream she had to write down on a slate the purpose of life and she wrote ‘It’s a school and the lesson we have to learn is love’ She said the communicator felt like an old friend.

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

32nd Sitting 01/05/2014


We had the room set up as usual and all sat in the same places.

The last few weeks we’ve had a few minutes silence during our sitting to listen for any noises or voices but this week decided to keep the music playing throughout but to turn the volume down a bit for the last half of the sitting.
This was following advice from an independent voice medium who didn’t recommend us developing independent sounds or voices in silence.

We started with the rainbow bridge exercise at 8.30pm.

At first Liz got silver, like a great shining silver lake or estuary. Then on her right was a long straight metal bridge and over on the other side a wonderful landscape with an enormous round white temple on a hill with trees and a large area of flat land around it with lots of people. Liz wanted to get there quickly and as she crossed the bridge she met a white horse and cart driven by a white robed monk who she recognised as St Columba. He pulled her up into the cart, put his arm and cloak around her and took her to the temple where there were many white robed priests and also Buddhists. Outside the temple were plants for healing and inside a great mirror reflecting the sun and moon, radiating it out to the earth and there were rainbows coming from it. There was a large healing pool and he invited Liz to bathe in it. He wanted her to know she was part of all this and could come back at any time. He then took her back on his cart…   

Rich met a shepherd again on the bridge who took him over to the other side which was a dessert. They walked across it coming to an oasis which then turned into a jungle. They walked through the jungle and met a jaguar before coming back…

I started off on a rocky beach. I had trouble getting over the rocks which were covered in green moss and very slippery. The bridge looked a bit dilapidated and covered in green lichen but as I walked over it the atmosphere got brighter and the bridge became cleaner and newer. I got to a point where everything was so bright it hurt my eyes so I stopped and waited to see if anyone came over from the other side. A black knight appeared on a horse and as he passed he lifted his face visor and I saw there was no one in it just an empty suit of armour. Then another horse came by ridden by a clown who smiled at me as he went by. A third horse appeared ridden by a cartoon girl, possibly sleeping beauty, and as she passed she said they can be anything they liked on their side. It was now time to go back and as I left I saw a cartoon cat, like Tom from Tom and Jerry, waving good bye…

I had felt light touches in my hair and on my face during my visualisation.

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

Rich had a tingly feeling down his right arm and felt something brush against the back of his right arm.
Liz was itchy on the right side of her head.

Liz was starting to see white blobby things moving around the room.
Both Rich and I reported misty white light around our peripheral vision.
Rich kept getting the feeling light was getting into the room but it wasn’t.
Liz now thought it looked like a web of light in the room, a large cobweb with holes in it.

I thought it was starting to look darker with a few white wispy bits floating about.
Liz said the atmosphere was milky grey.
Rich saw a pin-prick light flash on and off above Liz.

I was seeing various lights that looked like cracks in the darkness opening then closing.
Liz and Rich confirmed they were seeing this as well.
Then Rich reported a bright blue blob in the centre of his vision.
We all thought the room felt alive and charged.

I felt a tickle on my right leg and right wrist.
My knees and feet were cold and the air around my face felt cold.
It felt like there was a presence in front of me.
I now had a white/blue blob in front of me.

I got a strong fuzzy feeling on the right side of my right leg and a few seconds later it crept round to the front of my leg before disappearing.
Liz had a fuzzy feeling on her left side and said it looked very dark to her left.
Rich was cold on his right side.
Liz and Rich both felt there was a presence between them.

Liz sensed an old fashioned writing desk and feather quill pen.

We all heard a thud near Liz and it came out on the recording…


Interestingly Liz had just asked if there was somebody in the room to let us know somehow.

Rich saw the ceiling light up for a few seconds but it went dark again as soon as he reported it.
Liz was getting the sense of a teenage boy.
I felt he may be the one making noises in the room.

Rich had a buzzing feeling in both arms and both legs.
Liz had a similar feeling in her left arm and leg and also her right hand index finger.

Liz sensed a female presence. She had an ornate ruff around her neck and a star shape around her head. Elizabethan?
Rich got an image of a Spanish galleon. The sails were down.

Rich had a tingling down the back of his legs.
Liz felt like someone was holding her left arm.

I saw the ceiling light up for a second.
Rich and I both thought the room looked sparkly.
Rich saw three pin-prick lights in a vertical line.

Rich had a feeling on both ears. It wasn’t a pressure but felt like cupped hands were held against them or he had ear muffs on.
He got a message that the team were still building up the energy at the moment.

Rich also got the feeling he was being lifted up, becoming buoyant, and a sense of steam or energy coming off him.

Liz got the name Sheila.
Liz then kept getting images of lozenges, a box of cough sweets, and she got the name Tim.
Rich got the image of a Mexican step pyramid.

We were now halfway through our sitting so I turned down the volume of the music but still kept it playing.

My knees got very cold again.
Rich heard a faint tap, tap on the wall opposite him.
Rich and I then both heard a click near the cabinet which was to Rich’s right.

Liz got the word Frogs.
Then she had a sense of being a fish slowly swimming through water. She could sense a scaly skin.
She drifted off for a while.

It was getting brighter to my right.
Then I heard a click to my left.

The recorder picked up a kind of ratchet noise which none of us heard at the time…


Rich and I both heard a couple more taps.

My legs felt fuzzy again and the atmosphere looked milky.

Rich heard a ‘boing’ noise like we heard last week but I didn’t hear it this time.

Liz got an image of a lady in dark blue uniform with a peeked cap.
Possibly police or armed forces.
She got the name Olive.
Then she saw a fire warden pulling people out of rubble during the war.
Liz’s head kept being twisted to her right.

I felt a touch on my left leg.
Then I heard a click to my left.

Rich asked the team to give us a couple of clicks to let us know it was them.
We waited but didn’t hear anything.

Liz got the name Francis Falconer.
Then she got Wednesday William.

Rich and I heard a slightly louder click and it was picked up by the recorder…


I asked them to do it again, we waited but they didn’t.

Liz was now getting images of tunnels and air-raid shelters.

The music CD ended.

We all thought it had been an excellent sitting with a lot more happening than usual.

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