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

116th Sitting 31/08/2016


We had the room setup as usual.

I did the opening prayer at 8.35pm, turned out the light and put the first tune on.
We did the Rainbow Bridge visualization exercise…

Liz started off by a river with a red brick humpback bridge to her left. It was all very simple like a nursery rhyme, blue sky with clouds, sheep going over the bridge and green meadows either side of the river. Liz walked over the bridge and the bricks felt warm. She felt very close with nature. Then it morphed into a bridge with iron bars up it like a grid cut off from the river, hemmed into the bridge. There were cars going over it and felt a bit like London, very busy and lots of people. The bridge kept morphing between being the metal bridge and the red brick bridge. Then some black and white swallows flew past and Liz followed them to the other side where they turned into monks with black and white gowns. They were leading people working the land in spiritual communities with complete harmony and contact with nature. The swallows build their nests in cliffs, eves or wherever, nature provides for them and Liz felt a sense of freedom and the importance of living within a community in touch with natural things. She felt that this technical age we now have has cut us off from nature. It’s now all greed and wanting more. The simplicity of life, working with nature, felt very important to Liz. She asked how do we get back to that and felt it was important that we should do whatever we can to re-establish it somehow within our life and it was still possible to do that…

I started off standing next to a swimming pool and felt like I was a child. I had an inflatable rubber ring on and arm bands. I was afraid to jump into the water, it felt like my first time and people were in the pool encouraging me to jump saying there was nothing to fear. Eventually I plucked up the courage to jump in and as I did so I turned into a dolphin and found I could swim really well. All the other people in the pool were also now dolphins and we were all swimming together in what had changed into the sea. We swam down to the sea bed and found a treasure chest which I opened with my beak to reveal hundreds of gold coins that glistened in the sun shining through the water. At first I thought this was a great find then it dawned on me that this was worth nothing compared to being able to lose the fear of water. Losing any fear seemed much more valuable to me now than monetary wealth so I put the lid down and swam with the other dolphins back to the surface. I looked up and saw seagulls flying and thought they too had lost a fear when they took their first flight and how precious that must be to them. I felt that losing fears made you want to help others and not to just think of yourself. The sea was now a swimming pool again and we had changed back to people. There was another child standing at the edge afraid to jump in so I joined the others encouraging him to jump and the whole process started over again…

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

I started to see bright blobs coming and going in front of me. I tried to become one with a blob and it got brighter. For about one minute I felt like I was floating and then it faded.

Liz began to speak…

‘I’ve got seven times seven over seven... Connection with Sphynx or Lynx... Take some steps…’

‘I’m looking at a landscape with a large lake in the middle, park land… It’s like I’m looking at it from above, from high up’

The music ended and Liz continued…

‘I’ve got the name Keith and a feeling there’s some people I haven’t got hold of but they came showing themselves briefly and then it’s like in a dream and they’ve gone again… I’m looking into this large lake like in America, looking from above, parkland… I’ve got the name Jeanie; I’m seeing a pewter tankard… I’m looking at the early people that landed, the Puritans that landed in America, dressed like that… moose’

‘I had a fleeting glimpse of an Indian village, reservation, ziadean, pollution of the rivers, countdown, terrible crisis, can’t go fishing, it’s like a yellow river, stevedore’

‘I’m looking at some writing like hairline scribbles, like hieroglyphics, writing on clay’

‘I’ve got the name Hephzibah… I have El Al Israeli Airlines’

‘I hear something musical… xylophone’

‘I have the waves of the sea, it is a forgiving sea, all the iniquities, the waves cancel them out, absorbed into the great sea of being, waves’

‘I am learning a new language, a universal language… Christmas’

‘I have this picture of all these ladies in headscarves like back in the war, in the factories, it’s like they are all pulling a rope, all tugging together, all joining forces, tug of war, but there’s great comradery’

‘Names, Edith, Natalie’

‘A positive outcome from the war was the mobilization of feminine power, of the women pulling together and we need that to restore the balance… that’s Hephzibah… I have a very beautiful woman looking into the future, over the horizon, a distant view, long term view of the renewal of the washing of the Earth. Women are washing away the tenebras, the shadows, the sins, sins of the fathers’

‘Daisy, what does Daisy say, she says do it, I think she’s talking about loving deeds. There is one never ending perpetual night, give me a thousand kisses’

‘Yes I think there’s a lot to be said for free swallows and dolphins. They’re the creatures that are attuned to the Earth energies, working in harmony with the natural environment’

‘I have a lot of women tonight and they wish to get their message across… it’s good to pull together and to be strong, to be in harmony as in the music of an orchestra, resonate, resonance, and we can overcome all the adversity by being in tune and attuned with each other, our lives in love and harmony, in the paradoxical fight for peace’

‘Have you got anything you would like to ask?’

Me… ‘I’ve got a question… Where do our thoughts come from?’

‘All our thoughts are in the mind of God, in the greater mind. Our thoughts are self-generated; the self is larger than the individual self so our thinking is within the larger mind, self-generating. When we become fully conscious of our thinking we can add to the pool of thought, the thinking becomes conscious and more original but for the majority the thinking is derived from the pool of thought, reiterative, the thought is common property of many minds interlinked’

Me… ‘So do we pick up thoughts from other people both from this side and those who have passed on?’

‘Yes, the more original thought, the more conscious thinking leaves a strong mark and modifies. The thinking leaves a deeper more inspirational type of impression and so will last longer and have greater power for influencing and for a deeper thinker, someone who is consciously thinking but the impressions of the group thinking will just drift, a bit like people being immersed in the sea, in the water that’s washing through them and thoughts drift in and out without them evaluating or causing much change or leaving a strong impression but the strong thoughts can shape thought form and the paradigms of the world reshape’

Me… ‘Sometimes I’m aware of… it’s almost like I’m hearing words in my head, sometimes it’s my name being called or just random words. I can never reply to them or get anything from them it’s just words and that’s as far as it goes. It’s not like it’s a start of a conversation or anything. I wonder sometimes if it’s coming from some other intelligence or if I’m just picking up random words in the atmosphere’

‘Sometimes it can be your own larger self drawing your attention to your inner being, to your larger self, attracting your attention with a word, a little bit like a flag. That larger self may also be in touch with other loved ones, beings who may be thinking of you, resonating with you and you capture the calling of your name. Could be somebody incarnate or discarnate but to discern whether this is from the person alive or dead or just your own larger self alerting you the distinctions are small and at a higher level there is a blurring of the boundaries between the individual and the larger whole. So to determine at what level you’re receiving information you yourself can determine by becoming more aware, more conscious, but to take these things quite lightly, not to put too much certainty on these phenomena. If they are helpful to you, if they help you to feel connected that’s good but unless there is some particular beneficial message not to put too much weight on them’

‘Edgar Cayce is reported to have said if these things helped to make you a better husband or wife, father or son, mother or daughter or neighbour all well and good, go with them but if not leave them alone. We hope with growing awareness to be able to bridge the gap in understanding these things because there is a yearning for knowledge, for truth, for understanding, for information, for greater consciousness and this longing evokes a response in the greater self, so this request for greater understanding will be fulfilled. Slowly you grow towards, we grow towards enlightenment. It seems a painfully slow process but the lid can be lifted quite suddenly sometimes but to walk in faith in darkness with the certainty that the light will be switched on, that the light will come, that you will immerge into the light and that’s what we’re doing, we’re all to a certain extent walking in the darkness but with that faith, certainty and hope that sooner or later the mist will clear and we will see clearly and these little glimmerings, these voices, these little signs, they’re there to help keep alive the faith, the confidence, they’re the glimmerings. So treasure them but recognise that they are just the crumbs to keep you hungry, to keep you seeking, to keep you open and ready for the full feast, but the human mind because it’s so full of derivative thought and noise and clutter, semi-conscious, it’s very difficult to get a clear message or a clear thought form through. They vanish like dreams quite often because the noise drowns them out or the mind ignores them because it’s just listening to the background chatter. So the genuine focused thought that is being directed specifically for you may get swallowed up in a distracted mind, in your mind when it is distracted by the ambient noise levels, but sometimes it can leave it’s trail, leave a mark and when your mind is quite still or more attentive to those shooting stars of thoughts it will see the trace, it will pick it up, may even realise it’s a shooting star thought and see its colours, see its shape before it disappears and the burning impression of it may be strong enough so that you can read the message but that’s what we are doing now, we’re trying to train ourselves to be receptive to those messages, to that information, being very still and allowing. It has a similar quality to finding a quiet spot where there’s no light pollution and watching the sky for shooting stars. You have to keep focused in a wide scanning way because the shooting star can come from almost any direction. So it’s like a vacant but attentive scanning of the sky of the mind so that when the thought form appears it can be recognised, perceived and held long enough in that quite attentive space for it to unload its message, to reveal its meaning but sometimes it is too fast and disappears. That’s why it’s important to allow the opportunity like now for silent spacious attention’

‘I’m just getting it’s easy to pull the wool over your eyes with a cat’s cradle of mixed thoughts, threads, slightly tangled or maybe with a pattern that wasn’t quite intended but the burning meteor of a clear and lucid thought is often of a different quality like a burning coal it’ll leave its mark but just be patient. The work’s only beginning, just beginning, it’s a training and you are both being trained, you are training yourselves’

‘I get the sense we’ve got many with us who are delighted, who want to share this common delight with us, this community of seekers, of beings wanting enlightenment and the joy of communication. I sense their joy and gratitude and love to share and welcome fellow travellers. It’s those who wish to hold the flaming meteor of truth, we’re part of the diamond brand’

‘I have Hephzibah still but will say thank you to Hephzibah and all the truth seekers, the whole diamond, the brace of diamonds and to thank you all and thank you for your patience and thank us for our patience… I’ll say over and out now and God bless you all’

I put the music on for a while as Liz came fully back with it.
She had a strong feeling of Hephzibah Menuhin.

I’d had a vision of something connecting me to Liz at floor level. It was a bit like a shining oblong section metal rod. I felt myself sinking down and as I did so the rod became very bright as if reflecting the sun from above.

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

We are now taking a break and will resume sitting at the beginning of October...