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

59th Sitting 17/02/2015


We had the room setup as usual.

I did the opening prayer at 8.40pm, turned out the red light and put the music on.

We then did the Rainbow Bridge visualisation exercise…

Liz started out on crazy paving, dancing along it with lots of other people. She then headed for a vast expanse of blue sea water and saw in the distance a galleon. It looked like a ghost ship, only half visible in a mist and it came towards her and lowered the gangplank. Liz walked on and met the captain who seemed familiar; he had white hair and an old fashioned three cornered hat. Liz asked where they were going and he said ‘nowhere in particular, this is just a free floating voyage’ the ship then took off going quiet fast. There were two people either side of Liz and they were all steering together and holding hands. Liz was being told that they would never come to the horizon ahead; it just goes on and on. It was as if in the past they thought the Earth was flat and you’d fall off the edge but now we know it just goes round and round, there’s no falling off it. The scene then transposed into the universe, looking out at all the stars and there were telescopes and instruments everywhere. They told Liz that all these telescopes and instruments were there to try and see beyond the horizon, beyond the boundaries. It was this sense of boundlessness. The important thing was holding hands, keeping this sense of connection, the connectedness of everything, unboundedness. They all then changed into birds and were flying beyond the universe, crossing all these different boundaries, each one leading further. This sense of it going round and round and all being one without edge, without boundaries. The exploring is endless going on and on. When they were birds it was just like they were in this place of rejoicing, rejoicing in this endlessness and spacelessness. Liz saw bird formations that were just pure joy, that was the feeling of this freedom and the message was just look at the horizon and realise the boundlessness of it all. Liz then returned by just thinking herself back…

I started off walking up the aisle of a church. There were Chinese ladies standing each side of me motioning me forwards towards the altar that had a bright light in front of it. I walked into the light and then felt myself moving downwards and into a new scene, a bright colourful fairy land type place full of colourful birds and bright green grass. There were deer running around and I spotted a bright white deer by a tree and walked up to it. I felt I needed to ride it so jumped on its back and we took off along a path of coloured crystals getting faster and faster. We came up to a large pool of water and went straight in and under the water. I found I could breathe okay and soon forgot I was under water. We came up to an entrance to a cave and went in. The walls were bright and golden and we stopped in front of a Buddhist monk sitting alone. I got off the deer and asked him why there was nothing in the cave and he told me to look again. I now saw the walls were full with shelves of books and he told me they were not really there but represented knowledge and information. He told me that knowledge can be found everywhere in everything no matter where you are. He picked up a grain of sand and said there was knowledge in that and went on to say I should also observe how other people perceive things and what they get from it. Everybody has a different way of perceiving things and nobody is really correct. You can learn by understanding how different people perceive in different ways, it’s important to understand their way of thinking. The music was ending and he told me to get back on the deer, close my eyes then open them and I would be back so I did and I was…       

I put the music back on and we continued.

I had a popping in my right ear.
The atmosphere was looking blue and misty to me.
Then it started to look bright and blobby.

Liz got the name… ‘Gifford’

Then she got… ‘Rosicrucian connected with furnace… a feeling of a lot of people and information’

Liz continued…

‘I just got this sense of a canvas, a painting of an onion, perhaps it’s torn or something, sticking plaster on the canvas. I just get a sensation of telephones, messages coming through. I’m just trying to clear my mind… I’ve got this Rosicrucian again… Sheila’s name just came to me and a strong sense of green… a crucifix… green and gold… The picture I had of Sheila she is much younger, I didn’t know her younger, short brown hair… Heyday or Heidi…’

‘I had a feeling, it’s like this green and gold cloth, it’s like an altar, sacrament of peace to these tormented souls, their offering and this golden challis is sacrament of peace… they have a table… I ask Gerry to take the sacrament…’

As Liz finished saying this I saw a light come and go near the ceiling above Liz.
Then the room went very dark.
My arms went cold and fuzzy.

I heard a few clicks and soft whistles to my right but none of them came out on the recording.

Liz continued…

‘Robin, Robin…’

‘I got the name Picasso, maybe that was the artist earlier… Fernando, Ferdinand…’

‘I get this great sense of a tapestry being woven around us, a great tapestry, all these threads being connected, a great information matrix, we need to pull out a clear thread… Robin… I got the feeling Haystack wants to help… pit bull, pit bull terrier… got the image of a fox… I’ve got Dorothy, Dorothy Carron again… Verdant, it’s the green again, verdant pastures… I just got this sense of resurrection, new life, new vitality of the Earth, the green shoots, the importance, the cherishing of maintaining, of nourishing, regenerating new green growth and they want to protect the health, that’s good. It’s the rebirthing; it’s also called the emerald isle…’

‘You have to hold on to the hope, hope is the rope, it will pull us into the future, nearer to the green future’

‘Sadie… I get the number seven… Sadie says she’s seven as well’

‘Deirdre…’

‘Yes I’m just bringing to mind the broken branches… I had a childhood friend Deidre and we used to look at the bushes that had been damaged, the branches broken by boys, other children slashing the trees and Deirdre complained bitterly that the sacrilege of these broken branches was devaluing. I saw how important it was to Deirdre to cherish and to preserve all green things, living green plants, trees, but to desecrate nature was a great tragedy, an insult, she berated these thoughtless children. It’s the mindfulness towards nature, cherishing of the greenness. This seems to be the urge from the side of spirit to activate and rekindle positive regard for nature. To hold on to the hope and the mindless ones will fall behind, the predominant urge is towards growth and the greening and those that fall short of that to mindless savagery just decay, fall away because the thrust is towards the new growth and the greening and the hope that’s pulling us along and upwards and into the new age… so join the growth and leave the prison behind’

‘I see a lot of Fs… someone said to me featherweights… There’s a sense that I get, a sort of strange fight the good fight, the sense of there being an army of helpers poised and ready there to bring the dream into being, to guide, to inspire, to fire the arrow into the future, the great greening of the Earth reality. A body, an army of helpers, diamond… We are all here just waiting, poised… I get a sense of some impending action… The reservoir of energy raining down on the Earth, over the houses, green, flowers… awakening’

The music ended.

Liz felt a bit dizzy for a while.
She had remained aware throughout the session.  
I had drifted off a few times towards the end.

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

58th Sitting 10/02/2015


The room was set up as usual.
I did the opening prayer at 8.30pm, turned out the light and put the music on.
Then we started with the Rainbow Bridge visualisation exercise.

Liz found herself on a great expanse of silvery sands and could see her wet footprints disappearing as she walked. The sea was far out and there was a rainbow arching towards her. Liz was draw towards it. It was like a doorway in the sky and she imagined herself towards it where she found invisible stairs that she climbed up into the sky until she got to what looked like a water-shoot going back down so went down that head first towards a light whooshing out onto a great platform of light. There were lots of people there welcoming her. It was a beach and a place Liz recognized with sand hillocks and rocks. There were goats and sheep grazing and lots of people dressed in white but they were only semi-visible, all smiling and waving. Silver was there as well and Liz felt at home. She sat on a tussock and a smiling woman came towards her with blond platted hair and white gown. She asked Liz if she wanted to swim which she did so they both took their clothes off and swam in the sea going under the water. She told Liz ‘you don’t have to worry about breathing, you don’t need to breath here’ She then said ‘you’ve often asked to find this pearl of great price and we’re going to fetch it’ They then went down to the bottom of the sea where there were some pearls. She gave Liz one saying ‘put it in your mouth and swallow it, now the wisdom of the pearl is in you’ They came out of the sea and she said ‘the significance of this is that you now know you have the ability to transit between the two worlds, this is the knowledge, this is the pearl of great price and you can be at home in both worlds, spirit and matter’ The music came to an end and she said ‘you can now just wish yourself back’ and that is what Liz did…

I started off on a snowy slope in the mountains. I had skis on so skied down until the snow began to disappear and I came to a stop on the grass. I took off the skis and then saw my mum standing in front of me who told me she would show me to the bridge. I followed her to a wooden bridge which stretched over to an island. We crossed it to the island which seemed to be raised high above the water level with what looked like roots connecting it to the water. Walking onto the island I noticed my mum was getting fainter, more translucent. She said not to worry about that, she was still here. The island looked like a scene from a fairy tale, lots of weird looking palaces and castles. We made our way to one of the palaces and as we did so everything around me became blue, even the grass. We went through the main gate and into the palace and a room that was filled with people who all looked at me and seemed interested that I was there. Then we went up some stairs and entered another room where I saw three German Shepard dogs that I used to own and they greeted me excitedly. Then I noticed an old lady in a chair and when she looked up I recognised her as my grandmother and also in the room I saw my other grandmother. They told me how pleased they were with the development work we were doing and to keep at it as there’s much more to come and eventually they would be able to communicate at our circles. They went on to say lots of reassuring words then as the music finished I said goodbye and decided to just think myself back to my side…

Again quite a few similarities between our two visualisations including sliding down slopes, translucent people, promise of communication and we’d both imagined ourselves back.

I put the music back on…

Liz got a sudden smell of apples.

I was seeing white wispy bits floating around the room and then bright blobs coming and going in front of me.
Liz saw little needles or elements of light.
I felt tightness in the centre of my forehead.
It seemed to me to now be bright everywhere with flickers round the room.

Liz saw outlines of what looked like walls in the room, upright structures.
She had the sensation of undulating shadowy shapes streaming past.
Then she saw ‘bar codes’ of light and geometrical structures.
I now saw what looked like flickering flames dancing round the room.

We experimented by closing our eyes and found that it dimmed the phenomena but we could still see it.

The recorder picked up a swishing noise…


Then I heard a noise like someone tut-tutting near where the recorder sits but it wasn’t picked up on the recording and Liz didn’t hear it at the time either.

Liz kept getting the name ‘Hodges’

I heard another noise but again nothing was recorded.

Liz was getting very hot.

I heard some clicks to my right but nothing on recording.

Liz was now very cold.

I saw two fleeting flashes either side of where Liz was sitting.

We were both dropping off for periods of time. Afterwards we could only recall hearing some of the tunes on the CD.

Liz was still getting the name ‘Hodges’

A thump came out on the recording. I think this was during a period when we were both out of it.


The music ended.

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

57th Sitting 03/02/2015


We had the room set-up as normal.
I did the opening prayer at 8.40pm and turned out the red light.

We started with the Rainbow Bridge visualisation exercise.

‘Liz started off on a shore. It was beautiful hard sand with rocks and pools and Liz didn’t want to leave but she knew that over to her left was an industrial looking metal bridge with a rainbow arched over it. Liz felt that was where she should be so went across a causeway to the bridge. As she crossed the bridge she was met by loads of people walking the other way and a mixture of old fashioned horses and carriages with modern cars and buses, all sorts of traffic streaming towards her. It was like an information highway all streaming in the direction Liz had come from. At the end of the bridge Liz was greeted by two people in white. They said they were her guardians and they were taking her to where she’d asked to go, to the hub, the nexus and the source of all this information. They said in her dreams Liz had asked the questions… ‘who is dreaming?’ and ‘who am I?’  and they were going to take her there. Liz got into a kind of bubble car or space ship with them which took off getting faster and faster until they reached a vortex of energy like a crystal tower, or a crystal palace. They got out the bubble onto a platform and the light was dazzling, even when looking through some dark glasses they gave her. They asked Liz to listen and she heard a high pitched penetrating note which seemed to be going through the whole universe and they told her it was the sound of all information, the fundamental, pure note. It was like a diamond stylus, absolute diamond hardness and crystalline. Liz felt completely empty like she was transparent, they said this was the source of all information through the universe, pure light, everything is in it but it’s absolutely clear like diamond. It was beyond words. Liz wanted to stay there but they told her this was just a taste and took her back in the bubble…

I started off walking through a forest. It seemed to be winter time as the trees were bare and there were crunchy leaves on the ground. I was also aware of deer running around and then a white deer stopped in front of me so I climbed on and it took me out of the forest and onto green grass then down to the edge of a large lake. There was an empty boat in the water  so I climbed into that and with a push from the nose of the deer the boat took me out onto the lake passing through rainbows until I saw it was heading towards an island. I got out onto the island which was more like a dessert island with sand and palm trees. The people there looked like Australian Aborigines and seemed to recognise me saying ‘welcome back’ I told them I didn’t think I had been there before but they assured me I had and went on to explain that although I believe I’m just having a physical life I am actually operating in other realities at the same time but only aware of the physical reality at the moment. As I learn, grow and develop spiritually I will begin to recognise this place a bit more. My attention was then drawn to something in the middle of the island. It appeared to me like a pole with various coloured balls on threads spinning round giving off a bright light. I asked what it was and they told me that I can’t really perceive it as it really is and will put whatever image from my own experience on it until I reach a point in my growth where I can perceive it truly but they did tell me that it was something very important to me. I then returned in the boat following a push from the Aborigines…

Afterwards Liz and I discussed the possibility that we had both been shown the same thing but just perceived it in our own way.

I then put the music back on and we continued the sitting.

It was now looking light and misty in the room to me.
I felt a popping, pressure sensation in my right ear.
Then I saw bright blobs coming and going in front of me.
I felt tickles on my face.

Liz had the sensation of something rushing past her left to right at chin level.

My knees went very cold.

Liz wanted the say ‘geh, geh, geh…’ as in the pronunciation of the letter G.
She then got an image of someone looking through prison bars.

Liz had the feeling she was being swept to one side.
I encouraged her to go with that feeling as long as it feels comfortable.

We were both drifting in and out of it for a while.

Liz started to speak softly and I turned down the music…

‘Sheila, Sheila… Ssssss… Silver, Silver… Silver sent Sheila…’

Me… ‘Does Sheila have a message at all?’

‘She’s crossing the bridges… sending her love… safe, safe now… it is like balloons, a birthday, joyful… say goodbye, it’s not for ever, short time, good… send off, bye bye… was terrified at first… and she says Heather will come through’

Me… ‘Who will?’

‘Heather will come through’

Me… ‘She’s doing very well’

‘There's seven bridges to cross… turning the tables… I feel they’re stabilizing… very… yellow, I got yellow, yippy… Can I hear some music, music on the tape?’

Me… ‘Yes I’ve just turned it down slightly’

‘It’s the pan pipes… waltzing… have the didgeridoo… it’s the breath of the Earth, they got the resonate harmonic of the Earth, they’re talking about it and tuning, synergy… that’s why if you stand bare foot you sense tuning, terrified, there’s a sound, sound, she was terrified, it’s all right now, yeh, how long… not long… you can turn the music up, take it away’

It sounded like Liz had been controlled at times. Some words are soft and unclear on the recording…


After about ten minutes Liz began speaking again…

‘I’ve got a sense that someone would like to take a picture with a camera, it’s like a great assembly of people… It’s like there’s such a lot of people, I just get this image’

Me… ‘What are the people doing?’

‘They’re just rejoicing, they’re just happy, like a large gathering, family, happy feeling, just share kindness, joyous, grateful… It’s so good to be here… They’re very still as if they’re focused, almost like a prayer gathering…’

‘It’s the joy of the gathering, the confluence of many rivers coming together that’s the joy of the gathering. It’s like the many rivers coming together, all the strands, so many people in life we meet sometimes just momentarily, passing by contact and that contact is established. It’s a network and the presence remains and that connected network is established and at some point all those trickles, strands come together and shine, form a great confluence, they come together in awareness, it’s like the many arteries and blood vessels and fibres that make up the eye all coming together to create vision, a great mess but the end result is seeing. We see through the eyes of many, through the eyes of others, all eyes become the one great seeing, individual eyes become the sight, the seeing of the see. A great consciousness of being shared, shared feeling, the one, made of many and the many are one, always the one, the eye and the I, the I am’

The music ended.

I asked Liz if she had anymore words, she said…

‘Terrified dreams, terrified projections and they turn and they all come home to me, I am the source, I am the whole, I am the son’

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

Liz had drifted off at times during the session and came back feeling very present. At times she was catatonic and felt tingling vibrations going through her.
Her stomach was churning throughout the session. She got very hot and felt she had been partially taken over.

While talking about the session afterwards Liz told me she knew a Sheila and wondered if the communication had been from her. She hadn’t seen her for some time and wasn’t sure if she had passed or not.
Liz phoned someone who knew Sheila the following evening who told her that Sheila had recently passed. Liz gave her my details and below is an email I received after the phone call.

You don’t know me, but I spoke to Liz earlier this evening and she
mentioned you and suggested that I look up ‘Mercury Circle’. Liz introduced
herself and told me that she had got my telephone number from Inga.
Strangely, although I had telephoned Inga, on numerous occasions during the
past few days, there had been no reply, so I had not yet told her that
Sheila had passed.


Liz said that she knew Sheila and asked how she was. I told her that Sheila
had passed last Wednesday morning. Liz told me that Sheila had come
through, during a circle, yesterday evening, but at that time, she had not
known that she had died.


Liz said that you would probably be posting a transcript of the session in
due course. She told me a little of what was said, which I find totally
amazing because, before she died, Sheila had episodes of being terrified
and saying ‘I am terrified’ but she didn’t know why and didn’t think that
she had anything to be terrified of, or about. About two weeks before she
died, she said that she was not terrified anymore and everything was
wonderful. She was hardly present after that.


Obviously, that she was experiencing terror, was very troubling for those
that knew and loved her. It is such a relief to know that it was just a
phase that she passed through and is now at peace, and by the sound of it
has already started working from the other side.