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

106th Sitting 25/05/2016


We had everything setup as usual.

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

We did the Rainbow Bridge visualisation exercise.

Liz started off on a terrace of stepping stones like individual stages or pedestals, a performing area. On each one there were dancers like water spirits dancing a ballet in classical ballet dress. As Liz watched them they became lighter and lighter and she found herself dancing with them as they went right up into the air, the place was teeming with dancers. Liz found herself dancing with a male dancer like a duet, it was like the polarity of male and female which seemed to be very important. This then transposed into a circus with acrobats. They were being pulled up in a spiral with an umbrella, white but rainbow coloured as well and it went to the top of the big top. Liz was then a solo trapeze artist and she was passing and swapping trapezes with the male trapeze artist, swapping sides, swapping roles, male to female, jumping from one to the other and then right in the middle they had to come together into one trapeze and were pulled up into the umbrella, this spiral of energy and they seemed to turn into an enormous tree and the tree bore the male and female blossom and fruits. It was like Liz was shown the importance of the male and female in everything. The clouds in the sky were full of light but also dark, the dark and the light, the male and female, negative and positive, all opposites and polarities held together in this immense multi coloured rainbow umbrella. It was intrinsic and inbuilt into the whole of creation. Liz then saw a classroom with children and wooden desks briefly suggesting this was a lesson…

I started off walking through giant green grass about seven feet tall. All I could see was grass and the sky if I looked up. The grass felt soft to the touch and smelt good, it was a very pleasant place to be. It then occurred to me that maybe this wasn’t giant grass but I had shrunk to the size of an ant walking through a lawn. I thought if this was the case then I hope a lawn mower doesn’t come along and run me over and as I thought that I heard the sound of an approaching lawn mower! I couldn’t see where it was so just braced myself for the inevitable and sure enough it went right over me and I found myself in the darkness of the grass box thankfully unharmed. I heard voices and realised there were other people in there so I asked them how do we get out? but they all said why worry about getting out, it’s nice in here laying on this soft grass with nothing to do and if you get hungry you can eat the grass which is really tasty. I tried eating a bit of grass and it was very nice but I still wanted to get out and I then suddenly found myself outside walking down a busy street full of people rushing around, pushing each other as they all tried to go about their busy daily lives. It was like I’d gone from one extreme to another. I then got the idea that life should be a balance between this busy lifestyle and having nothing to do and the scene changed again as everybody started to help each other, they were all doing the things they enjoyed for everybody else, there was no more rushing around as everybody now found time to relax, get on with each other and enjoy life in peace and harmony…

I then put the music back on as we continued the session…

I started to see flashes above me and to my sides as the atmosphere began looking livelier and charged.
Then I started to see bright blobs coming and going.

The music finished and Liz began to speak…

‘It’s like being in the belly of a great beast, like Jonah and the Whale; I hear the birds outside perched in the trees, chaffinch… I feel there’s a doctor with his bag of tools come to cut me out by caesarean section from the belly of the whale… A ladder, a ladder takes me to the light. Somewhere voices singing. Now I have three options, to die, to be born or to transmigrate. The song is very important because the song that I hear contains all that I have learnt to remind me, almost like a ladder to help me to extricate myself from the belly of the whale. Music… it’s the soul food. So David played his harp to Saul bringing him out of the black, despair… and I have with me a friend, corduroy trousers and tweed jacket, rough hair, spectacles, he knows the value of the ladder, of the music, of the doctor who can bring you out of the belly of the whale. For many it’s so hard to extricate themselves from the mundane. Magic path, the exit, the chink in the armour, it’s not always obvious or easy to find. Look to the birds, to the bird’s song, to the pattern, those patterns in nature are like the thread, Ariadne’s thread, I can pull you out, up, for you to find your way, out of the land of the dead into the light. These are the words of the doctor’

‘Hirondelle, beyond death, this is the name of the lark… It’s vision…’

‘I have these artists and writers with me, these creative souls are attempting to record the patterns, the pathways out of the beast, the paths to light, attempting to map the journey, these attempts should be lorded not diminished, they’re noble attempts’

‘He said Hirondelle Meleth’s father, I keep seeing a boat and a message for Lark Battau, thank you’

‘Maundy Thursday’

‘Cuthbert again and a thin lady, she’s dressed like a nurse or a nun, light blue, got the name Heidi’

‘Got a sense of sealing wax, wax for sealing with, the apostle, focus one’

‘Cuthbert, quietude, peace’

‘It’s like being on a train, just a sense of journeying, going through tunnels, different time frames, feel a slight right through the heart of England but England is a concept, it’s actually maintained in truth for a very brief time, it’s like one pearl on a string of pearls’

‘Peter… Peter and Silver seem to be one, a sense of looking for a larger perspective, overseeing some ceremony. A green and pleasant land, there’s a lot of green, greening, mass migration to the south, fiscal, settling into green’

‘I’m getting George again, feeling of someone with testimonials, looks like a war hero, medals, badges, stripes, wanting to re-write military history. He’s with the Kremlin, crowded in with lots of people’

‘This is where I get a sense of wanting to reach up and switch on the light, see clearly, it’s rather muddled, Valentino, I can’t comment’

I asked… ‘Can you imagine turning a light on, that may help you to see?’

‘Tractors or tanks, stations, terminus. I get the feeling I’m looking at an old bull or like a Thomas the Tank Engine, training. Somebody is shouting Sudbury. Just a breather, fresh air… I think that’s enough… A lot of farmland here, Jack…’

Liz started to come back and said it was like being in the dark trying to see something, being in quite a few places but out of sync, out of focus, a feeling of swords in ploughshares.

Once Liz was feeling back with it I did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise…

105th Sitting 18/05/2016


We had the room setup as usual.

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

We did the rainbow bridge visualisation exercise…

Liz started off in a beautiful large meadow with dandelion clocks and the wind was blowing the dandelion seeds everywhere like parachutes. She followed the seeds down to a river, a shallow wide stream with lots of boulders in it. Liz waded across to the other side where there were lots of children playing in more meadowland. She followed them up a slope to a white tower with two pillars and a door looking like a church but it was a library. Liz went inside and saw the section of books on life and death. There were lots of books and she was wandering with one to take hold of. The librarian was someone Liz had known in the past, Alex Markin, who was connected with John Walsh. Liz asked him about John and then John came forward to greet her and he said she was continuing the work with children as he’d been a teacher. Liz realised the importance of keeping in contact with all these children she’d known. Liz then came back to the dandelion clocks and realised the significance of time, the dandelion clock, when it’s a dandelion and all the seeds are together it’s very focused but as they blow apart it was like time can be more diffuse, you can enter into any time stream you want to, when the seeds are no longer focused but scattered you have a much more diffuse sense, time is different, you can be in many places at once, time is more wide reaching…

I started off in the dark holding a candle walking along and I noticed I was passing people standing each side of me; the candle lit them up as I passed and they seemed to be urging me forwards. After a while I noticed I wasn’t walking anymore but was floating getting higher and faster. I still saw the people beside me as I past them and I could now see two lines of people stretching out in front of me into the distance like a long twisting snake. I then became aware of clouds ahead of me with a hole in them letting through a wonderful orange light. I’d been looking up at the clouds earlier and had seen one similar. The lines of people took me through this hole into another reality and I found myself sitting on the top of a grassy hill with all the people now sitting around me in circles. One of the people came up to me, he was an old man and he told me how important it was to look at the skies as they give us uplifting energy. It could be the sky at night or day, cloudy or bright, it all has a positive effect on us. A bright sky will lift us up while a grey sky can calm us down, we can be inspired by a beautiful sunset or the stars at night. Whenever you feel life is getting you down or becoming stressful look up at the sky and feel the effect it has on you. He also said that we can have an effect on the sky and make it even more beautiful by sending our loving, creative energy to it and this will have an even greater positive effect on others in the world below…

I put the music back on and we continued the session.

The room soon started to look misty and lighter to me, followed by bright blobs coming and going.
I felt pressure around my right ear and around my eyes.

I got a brief image of a large man sitting in a chair; he looked like an old cartoon with big eyes, bald head and hair sticking out above his ears.

About 25 minutes after putting the music back on Liz started to speak…

‘Two powerful people, Churchill and Khrushchev, Hammer and Sickle, chess board, two powerful people contemplating, seeing things differently now, a starry sky, the bear, Ursa Major… it’s perspective change like a little box, an oven, an incubator and the birds set free, the vastness of space. How do we keep with the pecking order and the quarrels in this little box, blind, blinkered, all around inky black space’

‘We’ve got no signposts now, no race, no flags. We swim in a communion’

‘There’s great men like Lovelock who say we’re evolving at a snail’s pace but they hold the vision of Gaia and the whole Earth and the science fiction writers, Asimov and others, they see beyond, see a vaster picture, they see the leaders having such limited perspective, need to go beyond into the inky black, into the outer reaches to see beyond territory, beyond guns, beyond the beyond’

‘Castigation, commiseration, too late for all that now, they had a chance, working now from the beyond, from the larger perspective, have to get things right’

‘Mabel, Mary, Mayday’

The music ended and Liz continued…

‘Red Cross, Red Crescent, Black Star, Hammer and Sickle, all of the symbols thrown up by humanity, symbolic of the fight between the forces of negativity and the power of love, struggling and hope, a resolution, go beyond see it all in its perspective, contemplate, don’t get caught up in the taking sides and the divisions, go beyond, beyond the beyond and see the inky blackness of the universe beyond the stars, held, the whole of consciousness and the mind of God’

‘I was before the first star and will be after the last, hold onto the inky black’

‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep… from Shakespeare’s Tempest’

‘Think on these things, Churchill, Khrushchev, go beyond, contemplate them’

‘Though I speak with the voice of angels I have many medals, many tributes, many battles won but I have not love, I have become a tinkling brass. Many have passed over but few have come back to report, but those that have, some have said as much that all their achievements, leading of men, medals, badges, honours are nothing. What was important were the acts of love, little acts often and that’s to be learnt from the inky blackness, what has been brought back, importance of these reminders for the leaders of men. Their time is marked but the years in the blackness, in the inky blackness will go on and on. Mark the short years well, bring to fruition the fruits of love because the regret of the wasted opportunity will be bitter, bitter fruit when you die. Long time to repent for the missed opportunity, the wasted gift of leadership. Lead in love not in war, that’s the message now from Churchill and Khrushchev sitting in their arm chairs contemplating from the beyond… thank you for listening’

Me… ‘Thank you’

‘Would you like to say anything?’

Me… ‘Yes, we talk a lot about love, can life exist without love?’

‘Love is the matrix, it’s at the root, it’s inbuilt, it’s part, the medium of consciousness in which consciousness is wrought, nothing is separate from love, nothing without, it’s given, no life without. Love is just a name for what is and what is love. We call it love. The feeling of love is with the identification, the alignment with what is. That is what we call love. Alignment with what is and the feeling is part of our consciousness, sharing of the larger consciousness held in love. Even the bad, what we call bad, the negative, the hatred is still a part, it’s just a turning off, a lesser, an aspect of the creative process, skewed version, a temporary transitory phase’

Me… ‘So is the purpose of life to keep on working at increasing this love?’

‘The awareness of it yes, the consciousness, the full consciousness reflected back. It’s variations on a theme of love all reflecting back the original light. In the process of turning in on itself consciousness condenses and almost becomes so dense that the light is hidden, is trapped, almost split off from itself, turning in on itself to such a degree that the light becomes dimmed. The energy of the system becomes disturbed, lessoned and that’s when the negativities can come in. Darkness we call it, a spiritual darkness, a forgetting, a turning away from the original almost to a point that condensation on that turning in, that stilling, that inspection, the light has come back in. That’s where the struggle arises, the struggle to reclaim, to remember the light to bring it back in, but when that succeeds, when that light, when that focused condensed consciousness that’s almost split off from the original, when the light begins to dawn it becomes a very fine, a very focused, a brilliance of light and that’s what was hoped would happen in the Earth plane but there has to be a letting go of the condensation to remember, to bring that, to allow that energy to revigorate the point of transition, the point of intensification has got to such a stage now that it’s at a crossroads of atrophying, the energy becomes so limited it can disappear, self-destruct almost, or in loosening up, in letting go, remembering the light, it can allow the light in, the original love, light, re-energise and find, become a focused beam to illuminate the light, a brilliance, that’s what we hope for, an awakening, and in this focused intent the diamond will shine, the diamond light wrought through all this turmoil, a very special focused consciousness. The turning point has been reached and there are those who have opened up, transitioned, become aware of the original nature, allowed the light in more and more, are able to receive the light, the light of love, become transformed and we hope the threshold will approach and the whole crystalline structure will loosen sufficiently for the threshold to be reached and a new seeding, new formation, new phase and the polished diamond human consciousness will immerge, a new level radiating and shining back the original light of love. That is a real possibility, we’re working towards this. The individual elements of human consciousness are transitioning now, more and more will transition till the threshold approaches. It is approaching slowly, we hope to speed it up with a catalyst’

Me… ‘What do you mean by transitioning?’

‘Transitioning from being drawn to the negative, the state of the world, to a shifting consciousness, opening up to the light, what has been called in the past enlightenment, the enlightening, an energy shift, the old patternings in the brain break down so a new energy and an understanding, an experience of the one, of the unitary state of love is experienced. That is a stage, a point of no return then more and more people are experiencing that’

Me… ‘So what do we as individuals need to do to reach this point of transition?’

‘To wish for it, to hold the good of all, to ponder on these things, to be open, to be in the now, to release the judgements, release the old thinking, to be aware of how things are and to hold an openness, to hold an opening, to allow spirit to approach, we do the rest. So whoever calls out in the name of love, in the name of truth to wish to experience how it really is, who they really are, experience will be given. It’s the open heart we look for, the open mind, we do the rest because it’s the natural state, just requires the desire for the truth and a willingness to let go of all errors in thinking, a realisation of the conditioning and the false conditioning has led to a world that is a prison and that willingness to disbelieve how we’ve been taught to see things in the world can allow for the possibility of the true state, the original state to immerge, to be remembered. So there is a certain amount of intellectual seeking to be done, intellectual self-questioning, enquiry, contemplation, truth seeking, desire to see things as they really are not as we think they are, as we’ve been taught to think they are and that opens up the soul and to transition. The transition is really a natural process but being blocked by the fear forces of the current human paradigm. It’s been blocked and people are clinging to the old beliefs and ideas, clinging to a false sense of self, a false identity. Many of the current teachers are reinforcing the erroneous view of self. Many, many people are suspicious and weary of opening up to truth, to happiness, to joy, to love, they cling to the old familiar, the war games, divisions, goals, achievements, rat race, judgements, standards, growth curves, a lot of things that don’t matter in the long run. They cling to these because that’s what they’ve been taught to value, social norms, a simple innocent truth of being gets lost, rendered unimportant, the nugget of gold being buried in a pile of muck. So act of faith, to want to find, retrieve the nugget of gold, to be prepared, to wash away the muck, act of faith but you have to realise the resistance and the suspicion, oh no there’s nothing there, illusion, you take the title of Dawkins’ “God Delusion” like he’s thrown out the baby with the bath water, he’s thrown out the nugget of gold, he’s suspicious of it because there’s so much dogma, but with the voice of authority unfortunately the nugget of gold has been dismissed because of the human method of burying it in a pile of muck and then glorifying the muck and forgetting the gold. So there are truth seekers who want to get rid of the muck but in getting rid of the muck they will also get rid of the gold. There’s an old saying in the Upanishads, the self is not known through discourse, through splitting of hairs, through learning however great, it comes to the man who loves, takes that man’s body for his own… and the meaning from the point of view of what we’ve been talking about is that the transition will come to the one who loves truth, to reach out with love to the unknown, to the invisible truth, to reach out to self, to love the greater self, the true self and then the true self will come with love to claim you. So again, the story in the bible of the virgins polishing their lamps in preparation for the bridegroom, they don’t know when he will come but they keep polishing the lamps to be sure that when he comes he will see them shining bright and claim them for his own. So the bridegroom comes and the bride to be waits polishing the lamp. So the answer may be to affect the union of spirit with spirit, a mystical marriage. The answer is to keep the light, the longing for the bridegroom, the longing for the union, to keep that polished, to keep that sharp and bright in the heart, the desire for truth, the desire to know, the desire to be one with the truth, one with one’s own self, love of self, love of the living God. To cultivate that in whatever way you can and the self will come and claim, will be revealed in you, to you. The transition will happen, opening of the door, letting in the light’

There was a pause.

The whole room started to change to a beautiful orange colour to me.

‘I have a lady here with platted hair, long plat, Marigold, Margaret.  She has her back to me, she is, I can’t see if she’s holding a child or a mirror…’

Me… ‘Can you ask her to turn round?’

‘Yes… she’s turning round now and I just see she’s a vast space like a cave, like a cavern, a vast place, empty. She had a mirror, the mirror was reflecting the vastness, this vast empty space and the image of her disappeared and there is just this vastness of space’

Me… ‘What do you think that’s telling you?’

‘The reality beyond the person is something vaster, indefinable. When we try to see who we really are, as we turn towards it we dissolve, the “I” disappears and we become what we truly are’

Me… ‘Is that because we’re just a small part of a much greater self?’

‘Indeed, beyond our human understanding at present and there’s been a certain amount of fear from the human standpoint in letting go of the normal image that we hold of self, of the little self, the transitory self, the physical self that dies, there is a certain amount of fear associated with letting go of that, a certain amount of fear of seeing truly in the mirror who we are because who we are is not the physical body and much of the image that we have of our self is something very different, vaster, but we have intimations of, but there is nothing to fear because in this great cavern that is the being of Marigold, Margaret and the child she holds is the mother and the child, is everything, all those, all held within. I would say that in that cave of her being is love and all that she appears as has been transits, is held in love within that great cave of her whole being, the great paradox that this great emptiness of space holds the fullness of all being and all love, the paradox of being empty and full, empty of self but full of all selves, dead to self but alive to the living God’

Me… ‘Is it possible to live a physical life but also at the same time to have full awareness of our greater self?’

‘Yes’

Me… ‘Is that a state that we are all working towards?’

‘Yes’

Me… ‘If I think about that now it seems to me to be a confusing way to live, it seems quite difficult just to live a physical life but to have a complete understanding at the same time of our greater self seems quite complicated or confusing, difficult to concentrate on one thing or the other’

‘This has been the way before already; this is a valid way of being’

Me… ‘So has something caused us to lose that full awareness of our greater self whilst on the physical plane?’

‘Yes an immersion into the physical and a deliberate encasing of oneself in that physical form and experimenting in total immersion in order to experience, to hasten the experience of enlightenment in that form, focusing of energy in that form but an experiment that was premature but a way round it has been forged for those who’ve left the physical form and tried to communicate back to those in physical form. You see it’s possible to have access to the wider consciousness to a transition consciousness but to return to the experience, to allow the vibrational level to shift to the experience of the physical is possible but difficult. This has been happening for millennia in your time and is possible the other way for those immersed in the physical, to shift their vibrational level to the larger consciousness to the nonphysical and to hold that awareness, possible but difficult, but to do this with total, with full consciousness, this is the evolutionary shift that we are hoping for to increase the level of consciousness to the point that has been called enlightenment but for many when they die that is not automatic, it still has to be worked for because the conditioning of the physical still occludes the conscious entity so the transitioning actually occurs at many vibrational levels that relate to the physical. There are many vibrational levels for the physical being that transition between physical and nonphysical…’

‘I have a picture of Mrs Brown, an elementary teacher, nursery school, so I think I’m being told we’re at an elementary stage in our understanding so it’s difficult to convey the full picture, the complexity. The human understanding is in a very elementary stage, intellectual understanding and there have been some bad teachers, teachers who use fear and chastisement have failed, they’ve alienated their students and they’ve done a disservice. Perhaps we should finish there but I have with the image of Mrs Brown that the use of the stick is outmoded now and we need to use love as the educational tool of the future’

Liz asked for a little music to be played as she came back.
Once she was feeling back with it I did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise…

104th Sitting 11/05/2016


We had the room setup as usual.
I did the opening prayer at 8.40pm, tuned off the light and put the music on.
We did the Rainbow Bridge visualisation exercise…

Liz started off at a red brick tunnel like a storm drain and was going to go down it but then thought she didn’t really want to and noticed lots of ferns growing next to it and was fascinated by the greenness and colours and noticed there were bubbles with rainbows around them. She then suddenly found herself in an enormous rainbow bubble and she didn’t have any shape or form it was like she was with everything and could float anywhere. She was just consciousness with no form or body. She found it interesting to be nothing and no one but just there and in everything, a sense of incredible freedom just flowing with everything without being anything. Liz then went out of it; she was having experiences and conversations but couldn’t remember them when she found herself back in the bubble. Liz then thought of a white bird, free flowing and then the bird turned into a figure, a white robed man and she thought about asking him about freedom and just being but then thought she wasn’t content just to be, she felt she had to have an embodiment somewhere…

I started off looking into some water and it was like somebody had pulled a plug as it was spiralling down towards a plug hole. I got the urge to jump in and go with it and found myself spinning round and round. I could see what looked like musical notes spinning around me. I was expecting to get sucked down the plug hole but just stayed in one place spinning round and watching these musical notes which then changed into thin wires which became entangled forming a thick black cable which then became a spiral around me lifting me up out of the water as it spiralled higher and higher. Then it stopped, it continued to spin round me but didn’t get any higher. I then saw people in other spirals around me; some were higher than me, others lower. I got the feeling that this was where I was in life on my spiritual pathway and as I thought this I felt someone speaking to me, saying that I had progressed to this point and to get higher I had to get rid of various fears, beliefs and ego. I had sometimes managed to get rid of these fears temporarily but had brought myself back down again to this level but each time I did that it gave me more confidence… Then the black spiral became chrome plated and the area around me became brighter and lighter. I saw white birds flying around me, it was a wonderful feeling and the message continued saying that sometimes I would get a boost like this which would help me to get rid of fears and move forward. I was told to recognise these boosts and act on them accordingly. Then as the music ended I got a glimpse of who was speaking to me and it was a young girl, about five years old…

I put the music back on and we continued the session…

I felt pressure on my forehead and around my right ear.
The room started to look brighter to me and then became blobby.

Liz started to speak about halfway through the music CD…

‘Rags to riches… Rainbow people… I had the broken egg shells and a bird emerging, it’s the breaking out of the prison… The surprise of people when the transformation takes place, to have left behind the dross, the old suit of clothes, the rags. I think it’s because it’s like a piece of theatre, like in Pygmalion, you can re-educate, just a question of changing the part you are playing. You can step from the beggar girl to suddenly a duchess and the teacher is just belief, just believing that you can, trusting, trusting of transition. It’s like children believe in the abracadabra, the magic, they can change the crying face into the happy face just by saying abracadabra’

‘We have miracles all around us when we consider the birth of a baby, the miracle of birth and yet we imprison ourselves in a fixed state of belief that we’re stuck, there’s no hope, no exit, no possibility of transformation. Others may be happy, may be wealthy, may have the freedom to travel but we’re fixed, doomed and that is such a perversion of the truth’

‘You have to know that there is no mountain too high to climb, no river too deep to cross, no path too difficult to travel along, everything is possible’

‘Heroes and heroines can play their part. Even the heroin addict can become the heroine not a victim of habit’

‘Rolls to play, it’s just a little costume, a little contrivance, fancy dress, you can put on the costume and you can take it off again. You just have to become aware that it is a costume, one that you’ve chosen to wear. You can un-choose it, discard it. You don’t have to wear a costume at all, you can walk free, that’s the scary thing’

‘It’s the syndrome of the bird in the cage and when the door is open it cowers in the corner too scared to immerge, preferring the safety of the prison, the safe constraints’

The music ended and Liz continued…

‘The key to it is love, you take the Quasimodo, entranced, bewitched, in love with the beautiful girl. The hunchback becomes noble; the despised becomes a hero through love, through selfless devotion. Quasimodo and Esmeralda in the Hunchback of Notre-Dame’

‘I have a sense of Cuthbert and the name Tony; it’s like looking at lots of pebbles on the floor’

‘Would you like to ask anything?’

Me… ‘Yes… We talk about becoming love and letting go of fears, what would you say is the best way of identifying our fears and the best way to get rid of those fears?’

‘Love… imagining a crystal ocean, a state of unfettered bliss, an absolute devotion, cultivating the love, cultivating the desire for this union with absolute bliss. Love can be in the form of an ideal, a person, a divine, a god, whatever but the love, that is cultivated so that becomes the complete focus, everything else drops aside. That becomes the dominant motivation and when love of the living God, love of the absolute, the divine, the crystal clear purity, truth, when that becomes dominant the rags fall away, the rags being the fear and you have the riches. So it has to be cultivated, the desire, in whatever way. The lover sings songs and poems to the beloved, pictures her face, her hands, her feet, worships the ground where she treads. The astronomer loses himself in the glory of the stars in space, devoted to reading the messages in the stars; the naturalist bathes in the beauty of the glory of the living things, the miracle of life, the passion and the love. The pursuit of that can drive out fear. That’s where people take all sorts of risks because that desire becomes the driving and motivating force and then there isn’t any room for fear. So love is the way, to cultivate love’

Me… ‘So it’s not a case of identifying and getting rid of fear it’s more a case of working towards love and becoming love and the fears will naturally fall away’

‘Yes when one is in a state of love, when one has aligned oneself with love through desire, through motivation towards that then love casts out fear’

Me… ‘So how can we work towards love in a physical reality, in our daily lives? What should we be trying to do to move ourselves up more to this love?’

‘To open the heart is to consciously wish for wellbeing for oneself and for those around as though they are also oneself. Whatever is best for me, the best for others too, the best for all, for I, for you, to cultivate that feeling and the empathy. There are ways of actively doing that through prayer, through reading stories of the heroes, of those who have devoted their lives to others, to have an ideal; these arouse in the living spirit, in the human heart a possibility of love. Even reading about these heroes who have devoted themselves to service, to selfless deeds, that can arouse the motivation, the possibility and then to actively seek, to love and to wish well to everyone even those that hurt you which was the Christ message to turn the other cheek, to love your enemies and that has to be cultivated because empathy will help you to understand that even your enemy who seems to hurt you is a human, is trying to do the best they can. Walk in their shoes. Even your enemy wishes for happiness, wishes for comfort, has things that will allay their fears or make them feel at peace. Wish that for them. If your enemy who hurts you, who is mean to you, was in a state of perfect bliss he wouldn’t hurt, he wouldn’t offend, so wish him in that state and that is cultivating love in your heart. Then the highest love to love the love of the living God, love of the miracle of live. Appreciation is also love, to appreciate, to adore, to cultivate those feelings of enjoyment and wonder. The child has an unconditional sense of love and wonder so to become childlike in the appreciation of what is around will open the heart but if your heart is heavy and this is difficult then the intent to ask for the gift of love, to have an intention to become loving, have an intention to rise towards love and those things that will help it will be drawn to you if that is your desire to open your heart’s centre, to rise on the wings of love, to drive out fear, to rise beyond fear, to be elevated above the level of fear into the reality of love. If that is your wish keep wishing, intending, asking and grace will grant this wish one way or another, it will happen in the fullness of time, whatever you ask for in the name of love and the name of truth and the name of freedom is already yours but in the fullness of time it will be revealed to you, yourself will be revealed to you because you, I, we are love. All that’s hiding it is the ragged old cloak, the garment we’ve donned which has got in the way and we hate these old rags’

Me… ‘So we’ve allowed these old rags to build up since incarnating and living a physical life have we?’

‘Yes and we are full of self-loathing in these rags, they’ve imprisoned us, we just don’t know what to do with them, shake them off, it’s our sense of doom and imprisonment but let them be but aim to open the heart like the thirsty man longing for water, he’s drawn towards the oasis, to the well and when he reaches it his thirst will be quenched. To all who call out who cry out for love, love will open up to them and embrace them. The experience of love in which they live will happen, that will be like walking through a door, like the walls around them melting away, one day they will open their eyes and look out and know that they are in love, that they are held in love, that there is nowhere else for them to go, just like opening up your eyes and seeing what was there all along and that’s like the abracadabra, the rags turn to riches in the blink of an eye’

Me… ‘Is it possible to become love and lose all fears whilst still in the physical reality?’

‘It is possible but few achieve this but it can happen and it can happen spontaneously but the call of the world when one is immersed in the physical reality at present, that it’s very easy to go from the sublime to the ridiculous very quickly, to oscillate. To stabilise the fear free state takes some practise and that’s where the prayer and the meditation and the constant disciplining of the mind can help to work towards that threshold beyond which it’s very difficult to fall back, so many have glimpses and moments of selfless devotion, rapture, love but fall back into the old habits of negativity, hatred, delusion. There are those who by grace are transformed and the transformation seems to be fixed but that’s very few and often that’s the result of a lot of previous work but for many at present stabilisation of that state, of those glimpses is necessary because the pull of the universal unconscious at present which is fear based is predominant and without due attention and guard it’s easy to be sucked back so that’s where the stabilisation and meditation and prayer are constant re-affirmation of intention. Remembering is important to stabilise one’s position in the state of love. So for most people it will require some work and stabilisation. Once many people have worked towards this and achieved a certain threshold is reached and there will be a switch in the human psyche from the fear based to a love based and then that’s plane sailing, it’s the beginning of the overall transformation, the rags to riches, but it’s like those strong swimmers that have seen where they are going, have to still work hard against the current until the waters, until the conditions make the last laps easier. When sufficient are all swimming in alignment towards the sea and suddenly the flow will become smooth and even as if those swimmers have suddenly transformed the medium in which they are swimming and the turbulence is left behind so from the turbulent flow we come to the free flow, the unobstructed flow. A little bit like from the ordinary electricity conduction to super conduction, no resistance. It’s doubted that that could take place at room temperature but with love the switch would be instantaneous. That’s where we’re going, the resistance is the fears and blockages and they will fall away’

Me… ‘I suppose for most people who live in this physical world the thought of becoming love just doesn’t come to them they just go about their daily lives building up fears and beliefs. What is there to motivate them, to work towards becoming love themselves?’

‘An acknowledgement of the dissatisfaction that sometimes stirs their soul. An acknowledgement of the boredom that they feel, of the hollow, to face the darkness that they feel at times, the nightmares. For the most part these things are suppressed with distraction, externalisation, all the nightmares are out there in the bombings and the disasters. So the nightmare in our heart is suppressed by seeing it played out on the external and it distracts us from the acknowledgement that these wars and these rapes and savage acts are in our heart, are in us. But the point of nausea and disgust, to become more aware of that and to question what it is, to not accept but it has to be like this. So the dissatisfaction of accepting that this is how things are and should be is the beginning. So the more people are encouraged to query, is this a good way to be? Does it have to be like this? What do you feel about this? To acknowledge the feelings of disgust, distaste, do you care that you’re eating meat from animals who’ve never seen the light of day, who’ve lived cheek by jowl with each other in cramped conditions, does that food feel wholesome? To question that’s education but then to allow for the feelings of ummm rather than just accepting and ignoring. So facing a little bit of the darkness and realising the jarring in one’s own nature and that can then set for a desire for something more and a desire for beauty and harmony. So again it’s education, to open the eyes of people to what is harmonious and beautiful. To encourage appreciation has to be because the soul will resonate with that. That is an education, so then the desire for what is beautiful and good and harmonious, love for the living God, love for what is good, what is true, what is right, what is beautiful, what is kind, considerate. The human soul will be drawn towards that as preferable to the disharmonious, to the cruel and then the compassion for the suffering of the disharmonious and the cruel will also arise, the compassion for the travesties, the sadness. These are all feelings of the heart. So it’s not dismissing the darkness it’s acknowledging it, accepting one’s own contribution to this but desiring more, wanting to transform, to wipe away the tears, to bring joy but to befriend the tears and to befriend the troubled because by befriending and kindness towards that it’s also facilitating the transformation because many a troubled soul has been healed by a kind word and lifted by a kind word and the same applies to our own self, useless to chastise oneself for one’s arrogance, for one’s ignorance, for one’s conceit but to accept these, to wish for better, to wish for the best, because all these sides, the dark and the light are all part of the human condition, part of our experience. It has to be acknowledged but having seen the rags and decided that we want the gold and then we see the rags change to gold, when we decide strongly enough that it’s the gold we want and not the rags but the status quo is that we don’t believe sufficiently in the gold and we’re wedded to the rags at present because the rags is what we’re used to, it’s the old familiar. So to let go of the rags for the gold, until we are absolutely sure and certain the gold is there for us we cling to the rags. So it’s the cultivation and the belief of the gold, the cultivation of the love and desire for the gold, for the beautiful, for the good, for the love, the kindling of that so it becomes the predominant picture in the mind, then it becomes more real than the rags and you can let go and the rags will disappear. At the moment our love is fragile, our goodness is fragile, the fragility of our goodness is because we haven’t invested in that desire for it strongly enough. We’ve been wedded to the violence, to the horror, to the greed, to the negativities, they’re the old familiar’

Me… ‘Difficult to let go of’

‘Yes, we’ve forgotten until we remember and by remembering we re-embody, we reinvest in goodness. Then it will become robust and healthy in us and the rags will fall away. For many it’s easy to say just love, live in love, let go of fear. Easy to say that but for most of us those are words, theories, our bedrock. Theories are what we’ve been born into, it’s our reality so until we change that reality consciously by developing a new paradigm, by remembering the other reality, remembering another reality that we have been forced to forget, that we’ve divested ourselves of, we no longer think we belong to, remembering that is a labour for us but we are given glimpses, reminders, but it’s for us to stabilise those reminders and to allow that to become the main motivating factor, main intention, main guiding light of our life. So there is a work and reconditioning to be done for the majority of people. Grace can give intimations in the experience but for most people they can have that experience but they will fall back so the experience will give them the motivating force to persevere in the transformation but the person has to work for it themselves, to facilitate that change but there is help and so acknowledging that we are not alone, that there is an incentive beyond us in the larger consciousness system, in the larger reality we’re being pulled towards that so once the conscious intention has been made to awaken, to recondition, to realign one’s reality with goodness, with love, there is help and the universe will facilitate every endeavour, and although there may be fallings along the way, maybe times of dearth, people will feel they’re falling back into the old habits, it’s so difficult, a new pull will happen, a new opening, a new reminder’

Me… ‘This help that is beyond this reality and helping us in this reality, is there at the same time also negative energies that are beyond this reality which are trying to hold us back, stop us from moving towards love or is the negativity only within this physical reality?’

‘The negativity is only from ignorance of the true status and ultimately the path of wholeness and integrity. There’s nowhere to go to be outside of love so any interference with the whole pattern, there’s only a blip and a blemish and a transitory turbulence based on ignorance but there is ultimately only one and that one is all and all contains within it the good, bad and the ugly but it’s all contained within love which is the all and the nature of the all is beyond anything that we can know but malevolence is just a misapprehension, a misappropriation of energies and it has no lasting or enduring power. True knowledge and wisdom will see beyond the dualities. So I guess the answer to your question about whether malevolent forces exist not just in our physical reality but in others, or the old hermetic tradition that says as above so below, so we resonate with much that is rippling through the universe but these are transitory stages and states of being and beings but we are all evolving in love and towards love. Much that we call evil is due to our judgement not to our wisdom. Our wisdom says there is nothing and nowhere to go to be outside of love, that everything is real, everything is as it is and there’s no judgement in love, all is as it should be and all is true, just has to be seen from its full perspective rather than the limited conditioned and judgemental perspective that we operate in in our current physical paradigm. You see when you look at the birds and the bees and creatures on Earth they all have their ways, their devious ways of outwitting each other and living and surviving and we don’t make judgements about the way they are and go about things but the human mind has developed in its Machiavellian thinking patterns and condemns and praises, makes judgements, but this is the very partial nature of our thinking. We are as we are but we can choose to operate in different ways, we have that facility and to better and to cooperate more, to be more cohesive, to be kinder and there are ways that we can operate to make things better but to castigate and to judge is a human device, we don’t really do it to animals, we don’t judge the lion for ripping its prey, for taking a mother animal away from her babies to eat to feed its babies, we are as we are and it’s all true but if we’re not quite happy as we are being here in our human status we can change it, we don’t have to stick with it but without judgement we can just register that it doesn’t feel quite nice or right or happy or conducive and we can change it but part of our mind will blame and castigate but that’s the human mind working, making divisions, but it’s all good, it’s all the way it is. If we could see from a higher perspective all these judgements and conditionalities would just fade into a blur, they’re not very important in the bigger picture but we are like ants in a great forest and it’s difficult for us to see the whole. Whatever I am saying is partial, the best of my understanding but bound to be limited. When January comes we put on warm clothes, we cover ourselves with garments. When summer comes and the sun is out we take off those clothes and all I can say is that the summer is coming and the sun is coming and the time for taking off the clothes is coming and it will happen… that’s all’

Me… ‘That’s good to know, thank you for answering my questions with some very interesting answers’

As Liz came back she sensed she had her Uncle Bernie with her.

Once Liz was feeling fully back with it I did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise. 

I had felt very cold when the communication first started and towards the end I felt a strong pulling from my forehead and right ear towards Liz…