115th Sitting 10/08/2016

We had the room setup as usual.

I did the opening prayer at 8.50pm, turned out the light and put the first tune on.

We did the Rainbow Bridge Visualisation Exercise…

Liz found herself in a tropical jungle, in a clearing with vines and creepers all around and a deep dark pool with water falls and springs flowing into it, a beautiful place and the pool was reflecting the stars in the night sky. Liz was aware of a little Indian girl with her, holding her hand, and Liz was superimposed on her, she saw her face on the girl’s face. Liz felt this was a very sacred space with a connection to another layer, another world. She felt there were lots of other beings in the clearing. Liz and the girl then began to climb a creeper into the trees up to the canopy way above looking down. The pool looked just like an eye and the girl who had now changed into an adult woman said it was to do with perspective. They were now seeing things at another level, the pool had been a vortex of energy for connecting with this other level but now they were in that other level and things seemed vaster and freer. They were waiting and Liz wondered what they were waiting for and then this space started changing and creating itself into a large dome or temple, a golden space around them. It was a learning space and they were creating it somehow…

I started off as part of a ring of dancers all holding hands. We were all coming together and then expanding back into a circle and each time we did this the circle got bigger as more dancers joined it. The circle continued to get bigger and bigger until it encircled the whole Earth. We all seemed to be floating a few feet from the surface still holding hands in this giant circle. I then noticed lots of what looked like volcanos forming on the surface of the Earth and they all started to erupt sending steam into the air. This continued for a while and then the volcanos disappeared and were replaced by flat fields of grass. I asked what had happened and was told that we were a healing circle for the Earth and had helped it release the pressure built up in it. This pressure had been created by us the human race as we continued to live with fear and negativity. We needed to live more with love and positivity to create more harmony in the Earth. The human race was influenced by both negativity and positivity and the balance could go either way so it was important that we all learn to live a more positive, loving life caring for others and the Earth…

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

The atmosphere started to look a deep purple colour to me.

I felt pressure on my forehead and right ear.

My knees became very cold.

I got a fleeting image of an old lady throwing seed on the ground for the birds.

The music CD finished and Liz began to speak…

‘I’ve got ladybird… Ladybird books…’

Then Liz fell asleep for about 20 minutes.

When she woke up she immediately started talking again…

‘I see cherries, cherry tree… They’re taking me back to Oxted, Mr Reuter-Callard, he was there at the beginning, a teacher at school… thank you… wheels within wheels… a connection showing the tenacity of these connections, of the links that we have with each other, but even with that old person and the young person, teacher and pupil, those connections endure and sometimes it’s the teacher that learns from the pupil’

‘I seem to be being shown something solid… it’s almost like our connection with everything, almost like a solid, a multidimensional, past, present, future… it’s like a solid… I think that’s too simplistic, something to do with the nature of reality, how it is, but it’s trying to describe something that’s outside our three dimensional construct... That might have been Mr Reuter-Callard who was a physicist’

‘There’s a sense that we’re very blessed with our perceived world, our experience of nature, of reality, it’s like a picture that we have, so clear and sharp and focused. It’s a very wonderful experience; it’s worth realizing how we should treasure it. It’s almost like I’m seeing our picture juxtaposed on the solid that’s so dense, so intricate. Our three dimensional reality, our picture is so tranquil, it’s like a photograph, a glimpse, a snapshot’

‘If you imagine being on the inside of a diamond, something dense and solid and dark because it’s so dense it’s almost impossible to see, to perceive, and then imagine you are able to take a snapshot of just a section through that and it lights up and it’s what we see, our world, that’s our world in all its intricacy and beauty before the lights go out again’

‘I think someone is trying to get something across but it’s not a very easy concept… I’m reminded of the very simplistic ways people used to understand our reality, our world, that it was supported on the backs of elephants… but then what was supporting the elephants? The fact is that there’s a long way to go still to understand the nature of reality and it’s still beyond comprehension even on the other side’

‘I have the name Sarah Jane; have the sense of a birthday party, children’s birthday party’

‘I get the feeling of this very rich sea but a confusion of so many associations, connections, almost mind boggling and can be lost in it without a sense of perspective, floundering, drowning in this rich sea of experience but the opportunity here in this reality facing a still picture, a very calm and focused appraisal of the sensory experience. A picture like a painting, a snapshot is such a blessing and I feel it’s like being urged to contemplate what we see, what we feel, what we picture, that presents itself to us of our world, our nature, to enjoy, to appreciate because this gift of such a slowed down still scene. It’s almost like an oasis of calm in a reality that can be like a maelstrom, like a storm, like a tempest, unimaginable depth and confusions, hold on to this rare opportunity. Living the experience of an incarnation on Earth is like a coming into an oasis of calm, a tranquil place compared with the seething power of the universe outside reality. Take this opportunity, drink deep of the well of life, from the oasis of calm. If you drink deep enough from the well of life here, that will sustain you when you enter into the larger universe, into the seething universe of infinite possibilities. It will help to stabilise you, to anchor you, to sustain you but don’t waste the opportunity, cherish the gift of incarnation… that’s all’

I played a tune to help Liz come back.

She got… ‘Kilda, St Kilda’ as she came back.

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

114th Sitting 03/08/2016

We had the room setup as usual but we now have a wooden table replacing the plastic one.

We sat half hour later than usual this week and I did the opening prayer at 9.05pm, turned out the light and put the first tune on.

We did the rainbow bridge visualisation exercise…

Liz found herself on a strand of hard sand with snaking sea water like an estuary. She was walking on the sand towards a Spanish galleon and as she got closer she saw lots of brightly coloured people on board, almost like Mother Hubbard’s Shoe. Liz went on board with them and they changed into a sort of drawing that was drawing itself, a very free-form flow like Felix Topolski used to do. It was as if Liz was looking at some of his drawings. Liz also felt she was still walking on the sand watching this boat keep disappearing into this drawing, like a Chinese drawing. She realised it was a bit like watching footsteps disappearing in the sand, the insubstantiality of things. It reminded her of dreams and one of the exercises of preparing to have lucid dreams. Then suddenly it was like she was looking at Nell Gwynn in a play with a basket of oranges back in Elizabethan times and it struck her the significance of oranges if you’re going on a long voyage in a galleon, they’d discovered that you needed oranges to prevent scurvy and keep healthy. Then she saw tomatoes, squashes and various fruit and veg that have vitamin C. Liz had the feeling that the message was if you’re going on this long journey into altered conscious states or lucid dreaming you’re going on a consciousness voyage into new unchartered territory and you have to be healthy, you have to prepare yourself…   

I started off on top of a huge slide so I slid down it and then realised I was sliding down the trunk of a giant elephant. When I got to the bottom I just sat there as the elephant walked slowly along a pathway lined with trees. Then a giant gorilla came out from the trees and picked me up in its hand, a bit like the film King Kong, and I was carried along the path until the gorilla stopped at a tall tree and deposited me on the top. I was wondering how I would get down when a giant heron flew down and picked me up in its foot then flew high into the sky. I noticed it had a blanket hanging from its beak with something in it. Then we started to descend towards a grassy field full of yellow flowers next to a lake. The heron let me go on the grass and gently placed the blanket by the side of the lake and I saw it had a baby in it and there were more babies in a line on blankets beside the lake. The heron then took off leaving me with all these babies that were crying out. Then an old lady appeared and tended to the babies so I asked her where I was. She told me I was at the start of a journey for all these babies and I was also starting this journey. She said that on this journey I was going to see and experience new things, it would be something to enjoy and not the force it, just let it happen naturally, there was no rush…

Interestingly we had both been at the start of an unchartered journey to experience new things this week.

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

The room soon started to flicker and looked wavy to me.

I felt pressure around my right ear.

Then I started to see bright blobs coming and going in front of me.

I tried to become one with a blob and felt it draw closer to me. I sensed a person in a purple hooded robe in front of me and they put their hands on my head. I tried to see a face but saw several different faces that kept changing. My arms started to feel fuzzy and then I fell asleep.

Liz also fell asleep about this time and we both woke up just before the music CD finished playing.

Neither of us brought back any dream experiences and Liz took a while to realise were she was.

The music stopped playing and Liz began to speak…

‘I have an image of a starfish… Doreen or Dorothy… I seem to be looking at these fine spider webs but they’re plants and flower heads, like May blossom, intricate, grasses’

‘I’ve got Pegasus, flying horse’

‘I’ve got an image of a doily, a lace mat, table mat… Carol Clarke, the name of my Dad’s secretary… I have the sense of thick brown fur like a coat or a blanket… It’s taken me somehow to Regents Park so I’m in London, Bakers Street, the Planetarium, Madame Tussauds… Victoria and Albert museum, I think that was where Carol Clark took me. I’m coming back to embroidered hankies, very Victorian, intricate lace work. I think Carols wearing black, maybe it’s her own funeral or someone else’s funeral. I’d like to ask her what conditions she’s in now, just seem to be getting images of London, old red busses, these are memories Carol, so where are you now? Corinthians, speak with the tongues of angels but have not love, then it becomes a tinkling brass, faith hope and charity and the greatest of these is charity. I think Carol is thinking about love. I think she’s recognised the value of love. I wonder have you found love where you are now? I get the sense there’s a lot of love where she is now. She didn’t get to experience it before but her connection with me was a loving one. I think there was a difference between the artefacts and the woven doily, the objects and living things, natural world, flowers, intricate nature of the real blossoms, nature in the raw and the fine art fineries, manmade objects which are beautiful but they lack the vibrancy of the natural world and that’s become very alive in this new place. The values of living, that thick fur, textures. One can be too refined, too cultured, too caught up in the artificial world of man’s creation and overlook the delights of nature in the raw, of natural objects’

It now seemed like Carol had taken over and was speaking…

‘I would say that some have to pass over the threshold into a new life to appreciate the natural physical world. Seems paradoxical to leave the world in order to appreciate it but it’s come alive for me and the meaning of the poems, now it’s living in singing truth. I know what the love is now, I can feel the love force but it’s a wonder to me that the civilization being civilized can kill the natural appreciation, the real love that our society, our education, our values swart love, love of the living thing so it becomes less, too much fascination with artefacts in civilisation. I would say learn to fly, learn to sing, learn to love and unlearn all the rest. I’m sitting in a deckchair in the sun, just sunning myself. Now I can feel the sun, gentle, it’s like I’m on holiday. When I say holiday I mean holy day, my holiday is a holy day. So where I am I would say is a blessed place, a place of love and relaxation. I’m extremely happy in a way I didn’t know before or perhaps I always knew but it was hidden by the lace curtains, fascination with lace’

Liz then got the name Templeton or Temple Bar, London.

Carol continued…

‘We have places and times overlapping and I have the sense of this layered reality like layers of a sandwich, like looking through different layers of  tissue of grease proof paper, you can see the one though the other, it’s difficult to see which one you’re actually looking at and then there’s a sense of being pulled away, flowing away. It’s very hard to fix your view, your viewpoint. There’s a sense of freedom, travel, roaming, it’s like being a bird’

Liz got the name Diane, the Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe, Narnia.

Liz saw some words written on a slate…

‘I cry every morning, I water the world with my tears, charming the face of the lambkins, grey now with fears, startled by all around me, all is not as it appears’

Liz then got…

‘Droyless and Cressida were my allies, am I Sofraces?’

Carol continued…

‘I have an answer, we’ve all been each other, we’ve all been writing this great parody. You don’t have to worry who you are; you can be whoever you are, whoever you want, whoever you were, whoever you will be. You are who I am; I am who you are… Great scholars and thinkers alike puzzle at the edge of the abyss and then fall in. Puzzle not, jump feet first, we’re all fit for fun, we’re all suited to delight’

Liz felt Carol was dropping her lots of words, golden nuggets for her little nut tree.

Carol continued…

‘Is there anything you’d like to ask before we finish?’

Me… ‘When we try and think about the non-physical reality it’s very difficult to understand it because we have to think of it in terms of what we understand, i.e. the physical reality. I just wondered if there’s any easier way of understanding the non-physical reality without using physical objects to describe it’

‘Taste and see, enter into the experience, allow, allow yourself to swim in the sensations and the experience, the feeling of it, the quality. Goodness doesn’t have a form or a shape, these are qualities, these are feelings, they’re not fixed in a sense of a rock or a brick or a hat which is a shape and a form and an object you recognise but you say kindness, warmth, mercurial, shimmering, these are the sensory qualities. Do you understand what I’m saying?’

Me… ‘Yes that makes sense’

‘By these things you can know the shape and the sense of a non-physical reality without it being in bricks and mortar and then when you sense qualities, beauty for example, you can build up around it objects that you find beautiful but they have in common a quality of beauty. Beauty could be the face of a person you love, could be the wing of a bird, a feather, could be a rose, could be the Taj Mahal, a stain glass window, all these things may seem beautiful, have a quality of beauty. They all have a feeling about them that makes you think they’re beautiful but you could transpose a black bird’s egg for a diamond and still have beauty. The egg can smash, the diamond can be ground to powder but you still have the memory of beauty, it can’t disappear, it’s a constant throughout its changing forms. So in the non-physical reality it’s understood more, the nature of the impermanent objects that we regard as physical, the qualities speak more and have the lasting edge, they’re the more fundamental, it’s understood. So if you have appreciated the qualities of beauty, love, tenderness, clarity, the physical reality, or the objects you create in your whatever reality will contain, will resonate with those feelings. If the qualities you experience are depression, dismalness, disgust, distain, dislike, hatred, irritation, the objects that are created for you to manifest your reality will resonate with these feelings, sharp, jagged, ugly, dull, but all those objects are only transitory appearances of the underlying quality. So you will appreciate the non-physical reality according to the qualities that you appreciate, the qualities that you are able to attune to, those that you feel and those would describe for you a reality but it’s only a description of these qualities that you are resonating with but it’s all transitory, you can change it. So your question was how can you appreciate a non-physical reality without trying to make it concrete. The answer is you do appreciate it but it’s a natural tendency to try and make it concrete but the concreteness that you make it will be out of the qualities that you have appreciated and sensed. So your non-physical reality is with you all the time but you just need to tune in to what it is you’re sensing and feel more aware. To be aware of the qualities that you’re sensing in yourself, in your inner life and they underpin both your physical and your non-physical realities because he will see a beautiful world in this Earth of yours, of ours, or he will see a dreary, woebegone, hateful world, but it’s all one world… Does that answer make sense to you?’

Me… ‘Perfect sense yes, makes me think about it in a different way, thank you for that’

Liz was now back in control…

‘Perhaps we should finish now and thank Carol for sharing and we send our love and where you are is a good place I can tell, God bless you, thank you, thank you for your presence on Earth and for your contact, treasured memories we both shared and send my love to dad, the scribe’

I put the music on for a while as Liz came fully back with it.

She got the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Huguenots as she came back.

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