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

41st Sitting 23/07/2014


We sat on Wednesday this week.
The room was set up as usual.
We noticed a moth on the wall just before turning the lights out. It was very welcome to join us but we acknowledged that it could be the cause of any buzzing/fluttering phenomena around the ears tonight!!!

At 8.30pm we did the Rainbow Bridge Exercise.

…Liz found herself in a bed of wild tulips by a lake and to her left was an earth bridge. It was like the lake was divided in two by a tract of land covered in grass. She walked across it and on the other side was dense dark woodland. She was drawn to go in and saw rainbows everywhere, then came to a dappled clearing where there were deer and lots of fairy like creatures and mushrooms. In the middle of the clearing was what appeared to be a vertical column of energy. Liz stepped into it and was taken upwards, she was aware of hands reaching down to draw her up and saw  angels playing harps, beings of light, neither male or female, amorphous, gold and white. They told her these clearings in the woods were very special places (Liz had made a clearing in her own woods) places of power, places where we find heaven on earth, where they can come through and draw close to the earth. These were the ‘Lordly Ones’ from the song. Liz then felt herself being lowered down and found herself back with the wild tulips…

…I started off walking out of a cave to find the start of a railway track with an open truck on it. I climbed into the truck which then began to move along the track towards a bridge and continued over the bridge. The colour of the atmosphere kept changing from a grey to blue, green, red and yellow. It was getting brighter and more colourful. The other side looked tropical with lots of sand, palm trees, colourful birds and kangaroos. The truck kept going taking me to another cave. It was a huge clear crystal cave and the truck stopped at the opening. I got out and entered the cave which appeared to be alive, I could hear it breathing and felt it expanding and contracting. Once inside I sat on a crystal seat. I could see the outside light entering the cave through the clear crystal walls and felt myself filling with energy as I sat there. When it was time to go I returned to the truck which sped me back and I fell out as it stopped sharply…

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

It started to look lighter in my peripheral vision.
I felt touches and pressure around my right ear.
My right leg felt fuzzy.

I had a strong pressure on my nose and it became blocked.
There were bright blobs in front of my eyes.

I felt light touches on my left ear.

I had a sensation something was covering my right eye which lasted about two minutes.

I had a vision of a giant green ant standing up on its back legs.
It made me think of the alien characters in the old Cadburys Smash adverts!!!

Liz had tickles in her hair.
She saw lots of little black shapes in the room making her think of ‘paw prints in the dark’
(This phrase had been used last Monday)

We both experienced a cool breeze coming from our right as if it was circling the room clockwise.

I had fuzzy feelings on my left arm and right leg.
I saw a cartoon face with large teeth laughing.
Then I saw pin-pricks coming up from the floor and white wispy bits spinning around in the centre of the room.

I felt a tug on the left sleeve of my tee-shirt then saw a fleeting glow from that area.
I felt cobwebs on my face and a light touch on my left leg.
It felt like my hair was being twisted and pulled.

I had a tickle under my right foot, a light touch on my left arm and a fuzzy feeling on my right arm.

I experienced a strange buzzing feeling on the back of my neck, then I drifted off for a few seconds and experienced looking at myself with someone else and we saw something coming out the back of my neck, it made me think of toast popping out of a toaster.
Then I found myself floating around the room with a large test tube in my hand. I was catching shafts of energy in the test tube and then putting a stopper in the end.

Liz was getting… ‘Pearly gates… This is heaven on earth… Contrast with pearly gates and the Pearl Harbour attacks… It’s the same energy… Like the energy that gets you to the pearly gates can also create something like Pearl Harbour… It’s a choice… A balance between right and left’

I was seeing steps leading up to a white door.

Liz then got… ‘Testing, testing…’ She felt a creeping over her head. She asked ‘If you’re testing me give me some words’ she then got… ‘Explosion’

I heard a noise to my right. Liz didn’t hear it and it wasn’t picked up on the recorder.

I had a sense of someone with me, a kind of a cockney character. He told me he comes into the room after we’ve gone to rearrange the energies for our next sitting. He said our two sittings each week need different energies and he has what we would perceive as crystals that he puts in different places depending on the type of energy required for each sitting. Whereas I rearrange the physical apparatus in the room he takes care of the energies from his side. I told him he was welcome to speak through me if possible but he said the energies in this sitting were not conducive for trance communication through me at the moment.

The music had ended and Liz then did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise.
While she was sending out healing I got the feeling we were sitting outside in a clearing in the woods. There was a large circle of us sitting round a fire and appeared to be a large dome of light over us.

It’s now a year since we started the Mercury Experiment. Neither of us is quite sure where it’s heading. It seems to be more phenomena that is developing in this group along with our own internal visions and experiences whereas the Mercury Light Circle is getting more communications each week. Both sittings are interesting and enjoyable for both of us and we look forward to future developments and as always sit with no expectations leaving our non-physical friends and energies to work with us in whatever way they feel most beneficial.
As we were discussing this Liz got the feeling of flames…

40th Sitting 18/07/2014


We sat on Friday this week.

The room was set up as normal but we didn’t turn the magnetometer and computer on upstairs as there was a thunder and lightning storm going on while we sat.




At 8.30pm we started with the Rainbow Bridge Exercise.

Liz found herself on a brick edge of a beautiful pool covered with water lilies. To her right was a long wrought iron bridge. She couldn’t see where it led but she did see a funeral procession going over it. They were all dressed in black with pillbox type hats. Liz decided to fly over the bridge and she saw the man in the coffin sit up and look at her. He was wearing striped pyjamas. Liz reached down and pulled him out of the coffin and they flew together over to the other side, over an amazing landscape and into the distant hills. There were rainbows and fountains everywhere. Suddenly they found themselves in an enormous library with huge arches, then it shifted into a courtyard full of fountains and rainbows then back into the library again. The man wanted to stay in the library which was full of beautiful old books and so much learning he was overwhelmed. Liz introduced him to a white haired gentleman, a wise man and she left them talking before she took off, flew through a window and back to the lily pond where she crash landed like a duck…

I started off on a stony beach with lots of low grey cloud making it difficult to see anything clearly. I kept getting flashes in my eyes. (Maybe I was thinking of the thunder storm going on at the time?) I found a rickety old wooden bridge with steps disappearing up into the grey cloud. I wasn’t sure if the bridge was safe but put my faith in it and made my way up the steps. At the top I found a rope bridge which went down sharply almost touching the water then I found it a struggle to get up the other side but some hands reached down to me and helped me up. The hands belonged to two men dressed in white robes and as I stood on the other side I found the atmosphere dazzling as everywhere was a bright white mist. The men told me I wasn’t yet ready to see the other side clearly but when I was the mist would clear. It was now time for me to return so I slid back down the rope bridge had to pull myself back to the other side…

I did the opening prayer and put the music on.

I felt light headed.
I felt touches/pressure around my right ear and the back of my neck.
It looked lighter to me around the ceiling.

Liz was seeing moving white shapes. They were all different sizes. Some were spinning like catherine wheels, some moving horizontally and some coming towards her.

I was seeing a few blue blobs.
My arms were cold and my hands felt buzzy.
I felt pressure on my forehead.

Liz was hot.
She was getting the sensation of a structure like a door frame in the centre of the room, then it changed shape like an upside down roof, then it was streaming like molten metal and then looked like a tunnel.

To me the room now looked very dark but in the centre of the room was wavy movement like a net curtain moving in the wind.
I had lots of cob-web feelings on my face.

I got a strong sensation of something to my right.
There was a bright glowing to my right and it felt cold there.
I felt tickles down the right side of my neck.

I felt a pressure around my left wrist as if something was gripping it.

Liz got the feeling a cloak had been place around her and felt she couldn’t move.

I had a similar feeling and I perceived it as if someone was taking a mould from me.
I was held very still.
I felt warm but it seemed like the atmosphere around me was cold and I could feel it on my bare arms.
I felt a prod on the side of my right leg.
It kept going dark above me like a shadow moving across the ceiling.
I got a sweet smell like lilies.

Liz had a fleeting sensation of tall Swiss houses, like children’s fantasy houses in a valley.

The atmosphere to me now looked bright and misty with pin-pricks.

Liz felt a cob-web over her head.
She saw strange patterns like looking down on patterns made by sunflowers from a great height, a bit like crop circles or the patterns on a butterfly’s wing.

I felt tickles on the left side of my face.
It looked to me like the room was full of strands like fibreglass matting which then changed shape and it was like looking through a tunnel.

Liz was aware of what she perceived to be a mahonia bush to her left.
She felt something in her hair again; it was being pulled and twisted.

I got a fleeting sensation of a postman emptying a letter box then throwing the bag of letters over his shoulder and walking off.

Liz got the sensation of a crown of thorns being placed on her head.

The room was looking lighter to me.
I got the feeling there was a group of people to my right.
I saw one of them as a black man swaying along to the music. I said hello to him in my mind and he just smiled at me.
I felt a light touch on my right arm.

I felt something cold running down my right nostril and it felt like it was moving onto my cheek.
I picked up an ozone smell.

Liz got the name Hillary and a picture of a lady in 40’s or 50’s type cloths and felt she was in a department store.

The music ended.

The session seemed to have been unaffected by the thunder storm which carried on till about half way through.

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

During the healing I felt the room was expanding and was like being inside a church. I then got the sensation of organ music playing…

39th Sitting 10/07/2014


We set the room up and sat as usual.

At 8.30pm we did the Rainbow Bridge Exercise…

Liz started off in a muddy place amongst reeds and bulrushes. She didn’t want to leave as she was enjoying watching the dragon flies and other insects. There was a robust stone bridge to her left which she felt drawn to and went over it with bare feet. On the other side was a town or city, lots of white buildings like hospitals and temples. It felt very structured, lots of people like nuns and nurses with white vales. It felt a very happy and enlightened place. Liz walked through the streets, through a tunnel and came to a square, like a quadrangle with a fountain and stone benches. She decided to sit on a bench. Someone came to join her and told her this place was a place of peace and harmony, the plane of universal harmony that we visit in our sleep. Liz then wanted to make a rose garden which she did just by thinking of white roses. She got a connection with her dad and the person with her changed into her dad. She got an incredible sense of love as he accompanied her back to the bridge.

I started off in a massive field full of long blue grass. I also got the feeling I didn’t want to leave as I watched it being blown by the wind looking like waves on water. Then the grass started to get shorter like it was being pulled into the earth until it looked like a mowed lawn. I felt there was a shore line in the distance, it was too far to walk so I just visualised myself there where I saw a small bridge. It was decorated with all the colours of the rainbow and standing at the entrance were two 17th century court jesters. I made my way over the bridge to a small domed island which I climbed onto and sat on the top. The island then started to rise out of the water and I realised I was sitting on the head of a giant who was now standing up in the water. I slid down onto his shoulder; he picked me up and held me on his hand. He began to talk to me nearly blowing me over as his breath was like a strong wind. He talked about size and how it didn’t matter if you were a microbe or a giant, we were all consciousness with a personality. He then gently placed me back in the blue grass field which had grown long again.

I did the opening prayer and immediately felt cold round my legs as I finished it with ‘Welcome friends’
Liz saw blotchy cotton wool type shapes floating around.
I had a pressure around my head and it felt like something was touching the right side of my face and right ear.
I thought the room was looking lighter and misty.
There were white blobs and lines moving about, mainly coming down from the ceiling.

We both experimented by closing our eyes and confirmed we could still see the light phenomena suggesting it was internal for both of us.
I was yawning.

I was getting more pressure on my forehead.
My legs were still cold but now felt fuzzy as well.
I saw a bright pin-prick shoot down from the ceiling. Liz didn’t see it.

Liz was seeing subtle colours, greens and turquoise.
I was seeing reds and blues and felt the atmosphere was looking wavy.

I felt something on the back of my neck.
Then I felt a vibration under my left foot for about 5 seconds.
I felt something on the top of my head, a bit like a drip of water hitting it.

It looked lighter and yellowish to my right and I was cold down my right side.
I felt there was someone or something there.
Then, as has happened before, it felt like it was moving closer and merging with me from my right.
The right side of me felt very fuzzy and I had the sensation it was dissolving.

Liz got the name ‘Francis’ and the feeling of curly hair.
She got the phrase ‘Shot through with gold’
Then she got ‘An assembly of friends… It doesn’t matter you don’t have to individualise them… A bicycle then a tricycle…’

Liz asked for a message and she got the words to a song she knows…

How beautiful they are,
The lordly ones
Who dwell in the hills,
In the hollow hills.

They have faces like flowers,
And their breath is wind
That stirs amid grasses
Filled with white clover.

Their limbs are more white
Than shafts of moonshire:
They are more fleet
Than the March wind.

They laugh and are glad
And are terrible;
When their lances shake
Every green reed quivers.

How beautiful they are,
How beautiful,
The lordly ones
In the hollow hills.

I drifted off for a while and felt I was walking down corridors of a school I recognised.
I saw a large detailed face of a young girl, blond hair, and freckles.
Then I saw a small face which wasn’t clear.

Then Liz got the feeling of a message in a bottle.
She asked what was on it and got ‘Dunkirk’
Then she got a sense of Khaki and saw a red beret.

I felt something moving up and wrapping round my right leg from my foot to my knee.
I was very cold all over.

Liz got the name ‘Hilary’

What sounds like a voice saying ‘Boo!’ came out on the recording.
Neither of us noticed it at the time.


Liz then got ‘Fellowship’ and ‘Fairy Tale’
She had a strong sense of someone she knew who was introduced to her and she decided to talk with her in her mind…
She got ‘Part of the assembly’ and then a sense of incredibly high levels beyond the ordinary and that it was possible to access them, they were trying to speak from that plane, trying to get Liz to pitch, the more individual level wasn’t so important.

Liz felt the message in a bottle was someone who was trapped in a lower plane and needed rescuing. She felt she was dragged to a lower level but then realised she didn’t need to be with them and could just send light and healing and direct them. Some of what she was experiencing was in dreams from which she couldn’t bring back a clear memory.

Liz got the name ‘Terrence’ and a length of material like cloth.

I had a big bright blob in front of me.

Liz got a big ‘G’

Liz got a strong feeling of the meaning of uniform. ‘All these people, why they don’t need to individualise, that the uniform thing and the response to all of them underneath the thing that links them all is love, it’s like a flower, and that’s the thing, it’s the experience, that’s the only thing that’s important, the experience, that unifying joining thread on which they’re spun, on which they cleave and how they can come back as a unified thread. That’s the only message, that’s the only response, beyond that the rest is trivia, it’s illusion, gossamer, the true essence, the nectar is the love’

I drifted off again towards the end and saw a man’s body face down on the ground all black and burnt. I got the feeling this person had died in a fire and now didn’t want to get up. I managed to persuade him to get up and sit in a chair and I cleaned the soot and ashes off him by blowing over him. I told him to look behind him for a light then walk into it whilst thinking of someone he loved who had already passed. This he did and I saw a frail old lady come out of the light to greet him and take him into it.

The music ended.

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

Update 04/07/2014


The Mercury Experiment will continue next week 10/07/2014.

Last week Liz had a cold and this week we did a 'Liz in the cabinet sit'