We had the room set-up as usual but this week we
experimented with no music playing.
We still had our music for the Rainbow Bridge Exercise and
we played the first tune after that then I turned the music volume off but kept
the CD playing so I could keep a check on where we were time wise during the
session by turning it up slightly at times to hear what was playing.
I gave the opening prayer at 8.40pm then we did the Rainbow
Bridge Exercise…
Liz started off at a deep ravine with tumbling streams at
the bottom and waterfalls. There were bungee cords and Tarzan like swings
hanging from a bridge going over it and people were swinging from these instead
of going over the bridge. It was like an adventure playground and Liz decided
to grab a rope and whiz across. It was great fun and Liz found herself tumbling
down into a great pile of moss. It had a beautiful texture and Liz was aware of
moths, insects and spider webs around her. She followed the web which took her
further into enormous old oaks where she saw of lots of little people like
fairies and different beings. It was a community of people. She climbed up a
rope ladder and saw tree houses and structures in the trees; the whole
community was living in the trees. A strange silvery coloured man with blonde
hair, a bit like a wizard, met Liz at a tree house. He showed her the
importance of it all and pointed at the moon which was now shining telling her
how it was important for all the creatures of the night. It had been the sun,
now it was the moon and both these luminaries were important. He told Liz this
wood was a living community of beings, teeming with life and this was her
portion in this life; it was like a slice that Liz was being offered to record
and to draw. It was like an incredibly intricate dance, all these different
insects, frogs, butterflies, lizards, snakes, birds and fairies, all
interwoven, all with Liz together in this community and Liz had to study them
and be with them. It was a very important environment to the Earth. Liz had
been given this portion to look after and cherish. She would come back and have
this opportunity to record all this intricate life and to bring it to life for
other people…
I started off in a bedroom looking out at the garden where
in was snowing. I wanted to be out there and as I was thinking that found
myself in the garden standing in the snow. The garden was surrounded by a high
brick wall and I saw a ladder against it so climbed up it to see what was on
the other side. It was a brightly coloured magical landscape and I leapt off
the wall landing on soft green grass. The sun was shining and it was pleasantly
warm with a gentle breeze. I saw hundreds of multi-coloured flowers and as I
walked past they turned to face me. I heard music coming from them and also
clouds of fluffy seeds which filled the atmosphere and stuck to me as I walked.
I was soon covered in these light fluffy seeds. The wind then blew me into the
air, higher and higher and I watched the colourful landscape get smaller and
smaller until I found myself in space heading towards the moon which looked
like a bright light bulb. I landed and it appeared to be made entirely of
cheese. I picked a bit up to taste and sure enough it was cheese. I decided to
explore and passed some cheese shops which were closing down as nobody wanted
to buy cheese when it was so freely available. I then met a giant mouse, it was
the same size as me and told me what a wonderful place this was, all the food
was free and everybody shared. The mouse handed me a piece of gift wrapped
cheese and said that this is what it could be like on Earth if everybody
thought of others, shared everything and were not so greedy. There was enough
food on Earth for everybody; no one should ever go hungry. I thanked the mouse
and took off for home finding myself back in the bedroom as if I had just woken
up. I thought it must have been a dream but then noticed the gift wrapped
cheese on the table…
We continued with our session…
I felt tightness around my forehead.
It looked lighter and misty to me and then a few bright
blobs started coming and going in front of me.
Liz had a vision of lots of mountains and then waves in the
room.
Then she got a strong image of a mouse.
I saw pin-pricks swirling around the room.
It looked like the atmosphere was getting closer to me.
Liz heard musical notes in her left ear, like a wind
instrument.
I picked up a high pitched sound like a symbol being lightly
tapped.
Liz got the name ‘Barbra’
Liz felt cold.
I was warm.
Without the music playing it felt to me like I was sitting
out in the open and not in a small room.
I saw images of three old ladies, one at a time, I felt I
knew them but couldn’t think who they were.
Liz began speaking…
‘I seem to be in two
places at once… I saw two people, men; they seemed to be one of the same…’
‘I’m under an
overhanging tree, it’s a birch…’
‘Christabel… I have a
belt woven in bright colours…’
‘I got a strong sense
of the forest, woodlice and creatures… It’s a good place to be… There’s your
mouse, long tail…’
‘I have this pattern
like shingles or like the way feathers are layered on each other, a shelter,
it’s a pattern in nature like pine cones, it’s the overlapping layers, a way of
keeping out the rain, a protection, shells, scales, husks… I now have a sense
of pushing up through the soil like a mushroom and there you have on the cap of
the mushroom the scales… A sense of upheavals and the sense of the importance
of shelter, to trust the Earth and the safe places and follow the patterns of
nature, sustainability, close to the soil, close to the earth, the way of the
forest…’
‘I had a face like a
great Aztec or Mien leader. I felt there was an emphasis that in building up
the big structures they’d lost the sense of the Earth… emphasising the
importance of going back to fundamentals… great cities, great edifices are
crumbling, covered in flies, nature is taking over…’
‘Somebody was flashing
a silver spoon, a flash of light. I get the sense that’s the image of being
spoon fed, being born with a silver spoon in their mouth… We’ve got so much
technology, so much edifice… as all edifices it’s vulnerable, Earth changes, we
need to learn to survive, go back to basics…’
‘Christabel is showing
me the rainbow colours in her weaving because the rainbow wishes a promise,
hope, salvation…’
‘I’ve got the name
Pat…’
‘There’s somebody in a
wheelchair, paraplegic… somebody who has no movement in her spine…’
‘I’ve got a picture of
somebody who looks like Richard Branson… he seems to have got older, has a big
beard now and a pipe, large white bushy beard…’
‘I get a strange sense
of tunnelling in the Moon… Cordalite… It’s a beautiful shell like a conch,
perfect form…’
‘I’ve got Terrence
again…’
‘There’s a golden
light coming from the right… I’ve had a black couple, I’m not sure which
nationality, a woman connected… a bit like twins, I couldn’t tell from her
accent where she was from. I had the feeling she was trying to disguise it,
pretend to be somebody else, it’s a bit like a dream, that’s all I could bring
back, it was like a conversation going on between these two people, I wasn’t
sure if it was one of the same person connected like husband and wife…’
I asked… ‘Were they
aware of you being there?’
‘I don’t think so… I
wasn’t going to mention it but then I got this golden light…’
‘I had a very strong
sense of Robin Hood type characters, people involved in that, I even had a sense
of somebody in a peeked cap and hood watching themselves hanging, being hung
from a tree…’
I asked… ‘So they were
outside of themselves?’
‘I think so; I sent
them to the light…’
‘I’ve got a pile of
plates and a large man is moving them… I don’t know if it’s connected to a restaurant
or circus… it’s a restaurant…’
‘I’ve got this strange
sensation almost like a snake or something, came with the name Laura Lee, it
was almost as if she was curled up asleep at the bottom of this date palm tree,
a rather furry trunk at the bottom, close to the forest floor…’
‘I’m on a tobacco
boat, lots of different people, looks like a connection with the slave trade,
trading, it seems to be a connection with the West Indies, tobacco… A strong
mixture of black and white people living simply… gold… I just left peace to all
protagonists in this pageant, that’s what it’s like, a pageant… I’m looking up
at the star now, I just end with peace that passes all understanding to all
players, all images, all imaginings, all imagination, everything on both sides…
peace..’
The music CD had ended.
I checked Liz was back with it and feeling okay.
I had drifted off a couple of times during the session but
didn’t bring back any dream memories.
Liz had had the sensation of falling sideways.
A lot of what she got disappeared from her memory before she
could verbalise it, a bit like a dream.
Liz did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing
down exercise.