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

146th Sitting 19/09/2017


We had the room setup as usual.

I did the opening prayer at 8.15pm. I included mentioning to the team that Liz had set up the magnetometer upstairs and asked them to influence the readings if possible. Last week I did the same and we got a different trace on the readout during the time that Liz was talking and receiving inspiration from the team. I thanked them for this and we will make a point of mentioning the magnetometer each time we sit now in both circles.

I turned out the light and put the music on.

We did the Rainbow Bridge visualisation exercise...

Liz started off going through a brick archway, it was like a gate with beautiful spring flowers in baskets either side. As Liz went through it became a tunnel like an aqueduct. She was in water swimming and then became a turtle in the sea. She wanted to explore further, get to another place, evolve. Liz came out onto the land on an island and turned into various different creatures including a beetle, a squirrel and a bird. Each of them had its own story, its own experience, all experiencing it in different ways. Then Liz expanded into another sphere and found herself with a teacher, an elderly Arab with a tea cloth headdress in a tent in the dessert. Liz saw all these different levels, tents within tents within tents and each one had been built perfectly and they were all interconnected. Liz asked who is creating them all? Where do they come from? She wanted to get to the origin, the highest point. The Arab laughed as if the whole thing was a cosmic joke, a conundrum. He told her all the stories fed into one great story but they were all important. At that point it turned into a dream for Liz and she couldn't recall what happened next...

I started off sitting at a big round wooden table in a large dark cave. I watched as the centre of the table started to get higher forming a kind of mushroom shape and then a hole opened up in the centre as masses of pin-prick lights came out whizzing around the cave lighting it up. They were sticking to the walls making them glow brightly. The table then flattened out again and as I looked around the lit-up cave I saw a tunnel leading into it and people started coming in and sitting round the table with me. They were all different and from different parts of the world. I saw a monk, a soldier, a farmer, a policeman etc... Everybody was staring at the centre of the table and I did too as it started to sink down and open up again like a big plug hole and it seemed to suck all the identity from all of us until we all looked the same, stripped of all our character that had made us individual. We were all grey and featureless looking a bit like how aliens are depicted. Then we all got up and went back into the tunnel and out into the world. I saw fields and trees, towns and cities, farms and desserts all around us and we all walked off in different directions to start a new life and build up a new identity...

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

I noticed flashes above me and lots of movement in the room.
It became bright and blobby.
I saw two cupped black hands momentarily within the blobs as if coming out of water.

I then kept drifting in and out of sleep for the rest of the session.
Liz drifted off at the beginning then started to speak as the music CD finished...

'I heard the elderly Arab gentleman saying 'Lahyam' which means 'to life' during that last tune. He's raising a glass, a goblet of wine, deep red, like blood and the blood is identified with life. Life in this world is intense and thick. I'm seeing a number of window frames, each of them is different, different divisions, different frames, like a different signature, different way of dividing it up, bar code. It's the DNA, small differences in the code create a wide variety of characteristics and these characteristics, the totality of the variant personality provide this alternative window frame for each and every one, a specific viewing point and the foolish thing that happens is that according to the variation a person gets stuck with this fascination with the inward responses to the experience and so often what is happening is a person will experience directly, view through a window but then get caught up in the memory of all the different responses to that viewing, similar viewings in the past and stop seeing. So instead of seeing freshly through their window a person gets caught in retrospective scanning of all memories of previous viewings and ceases to see directly. Human beings at present in general are failing to experience directly and clearly with a fresh telling of their story. Their experience is second hand based on the old stories that they've been telling themselves since the beginning of their time. So, clean your windows and look out directly, seeing with a freshness, with an open gaze, letting go of all the old connections and stories of the past. Each moment is a new vision, new experience, a fresh story. So, to be present, to be lucid is the role of the human, to take full advantage of each one's unique window frame and the lessons that have been learnt from the past are already incorporated and allow for fresh responses. With reflection a previous response to a particular scene through the window may have been deemed faulty, not a perfect response, not a beneficial response, not a useful response and with reflection a lesson is learnt and stored and it can be trusted. The knowing process will allow a more appropriate response when a similar view, a similar event through the window arises. It is not necessary to shift from the window to scan the inward responses and memories, that detracts from the immediacy of the experience. It can be trusted but with the immediacy of the experience the benefit of earlier lessons, the benefit of the reflection from earlier experiences and lessons learnt will allow for a modified response. It is not necessary to withdraw from the window into reviewing the past responses and memories associated. Stay at the window, stay looking, stay being present and trust that your response will be apt, will be genuine, will be original. So, don't live second hand through the mind, live first hand through perception, immediacy of perception through the window, through being present and lucid and aware and responding authentically with immediacy with originality and then you will become like a virtuoso violin rather than an old scratched record, an old scratched recording of someone else's violin. So, the rich blood of life is created fresh and spontaneous, every moment is going on, every moment, not a drop that isn't new and refreshed, full of oxygen, that red blood and that's the vitality, the vital freshness of life. So, we say lahyam and raise a glass to life'

'Sadie or Ziad'

'Elephant'

'George or Georgian... Gerontology, study of old age... nitrogen fixing plants like clover... checkerboard, chessboard, checkerboard of days and nights, a beautiful horse changing from black to white, long tail, mares tail'

'Image of a lady laughing with a bonnet like a frill gathered around her face, she's got spectacles, sense the name Annie'

'Feel like being in Stratford, a bridge, a feeling of Shakespeare Country... Anne Hathaway'

'Stanley, something to do with temperance'

'Got this taste of lemon sorbet, a sense of a chef. Sensation of streaming like a dragon's mouth, information stream... Jack... It's like I'm looking at an old fashioned sweet shop, the glass jars... Going up some steps, the bell, looking at childish things, nursery, hay stack, little boy blue. Like Laurie Lee's cider with Rosie, has that feel about it, reminisces as a child in rural country, young lady dressed in greys and browns, a cap, leather britches... Lemon sorbet could be sherbet lemons'

'Alec, Alec Guinness... just the name Alec... steadfast... going down deep to the roots, the roots of a family tree in rural Shropshire'

'Valery... Valery seems to be taking me to Covent Garden, dancing... books like ballet shoes... Picking up information from people and given books that resonate with some of their life experiences... novels contain the condensation of a person's experience'

'Barrels, cooper'

'Watching a funeral procession, carriages, royal funeral Queen Mary... I asked for something relevant with Nick and got Gorden and then switched to people looking at a royal event. Now switched to theatre, George Bernard Shaw, the Embankment, name Harris, Doctor Harris, a nick name Tom Thumb, Silvia... It's coming back to the Embankment and Theatre'

'I saw Joan of Arc, Joan. Just asking is it the name Joan, I've got the elephant with Joan. Crimson velvet cushion or throw... it's just love... roses or cherries... just wanted to send a lot of love, it's like a wishing well, wishing you well, well wishing, the well is deep, all these pennies thrown in the well, it's good luck. I got the image of the well going deep, gold coins at the bottom, strike gold, get there in the end... I've got Annie, it's going to end there, crimson velvet with a heart embroidered on it... thank you Joan'

I played a tune.

Liz got the names Brian and Fanshaw.


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

145th Sitting 12/09/2017


We had the room setup as usual.

I did the opening prayer at 8.10pm and this week included asking for evidential communications from people I would recognise if that were possible. Then I turned out the light and put the music on.

We did the Rainbow Bridge visualisation exercise...

Liz started off with an image of a red brick pillar which got bigger and bigger like a chimney. She then realised it was the chimney of a crematorium. Liz wondered why she was seeing this, it was unsavory and she then became aware of fairies and elemental spirits dancing and rejoicing. They were leading Liz away from the crematorium. There was a sense that it wasn't really necessary to get transfixed on the demise of the body. Liz felt she was stuck with the Earth, she wanted to rise up. She then sensed a huge statue like a Greek god with triangular beard and triangular hat on a throne and he showed Liz a way up to the Holy of Holies. A great wide flight of stairs went up and up to this Holy of Holies and Liz began to make her way up. When there it was like a series of mirror images of the Ark of the Lord. It made Liz feel giddy looking at it so she knelt down and put her head on the ground. She asked for understanding, to be shown what she needed to be shown and got an image of a ripe tomato...

I started off walking down a path that was turning right all the time. It was an asphalt path with grass and trees either side. As well as turning right it seemed to be going down like a spiral. I stopped walking but was still moving as if on skates getting faster and faster until everything looked blurred as it sped past. I felt giddy and disorientated and then everything went white and I felt as if I was part of the white. Then I felt like I was in a white balloon as I could see what looked like fingers poking it from the other side. It burst and I found myself in a small children's playground surrounded by a metal fence. The children were all laughing and very noisy. I felt I wanted to get out of this playground and began to get taller, growing higher and higher until my head was in space. It was quiet and peaceful as I looked round at all the stars and planets. I stood there wondering if I really wanted to stay there or go back to the noise and excitement of the playground...

This week we both experienced giddiness and a wanting to rise up out of a situation.

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

I soon started seeing white wispy shapes moving around the room followed by bright blobs coming and going.
Then I started seeing what looked like green moss.

At one point I was thinking about communications from spirit and how it was difficult for us to know what it was really like after we die as there were varying accounts from different mediums especially on the subject of reincarnation.
Then I got a sudden urge to listen to the words of the song playing at the time and heard...
'The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return'

When the music CD finished Liz began to speak...

'I'm looking at a tiled wall in a kitchen or bathroom with patterns on it like children's drawings, yellow and cream colours, not strong colours'

'Hispanic'

'Cracks in the tiles'

'Charles'

'I'm trying to stay with the tiles... an old-fashioned bath'

'Sense of somebody falling over'

'I saw a face, reminded me of one of my uncles, I've got the word sister'

'I've got an image of somebody going along in one of those mobility scooters, quite an odd looking one'

Me... 'What's odd about it?'

'It was quite tall and just looked clumsy, three wheels, the steering column looked rather high'

Me... 'Sounds like an old-fashioned one'

'Didn't look comfortable anyway'

'Goose, gooses egg... wind tunnel... diamond, diamond shape'

'Looking at some old books, encyclopedia'

'Got the name Henry or Harry... suitcase'

Me... 'There is a Henry in my family but it goes back along way'

'It's an old-fashioned suitcase, brown, leather, square. He's in spectacles looking at books... waving his spectacles... talking about the old dragon'

'Gordonstoun, the school Gordonstoun'

'Got an image of a tram or train... can't get the wheelchair on it'

'Image of a cane or stick'

'I sense this man may be a teacher, public school teacher'

'Got brickwork that's green and mossy'

'I'm looking at a kipper, a fish... the number 70... just heard the words quite forcibly... He's dead'

'I seem to be looking at a printout from my instrument'

'Just seeing garbled images like in a dream, I think that's enough'

I played a tune as Liz came back.

Then I did the healing exercise, closing prayer and closing down exercise.

Out of what Liz said Henry is a part of my family. I couldn't confirm the other things she said about him as he died before I was born so don't know anything else about him.

There is also someone who was a keen fisherman connected with me which could possibly tie up with the fish mentioned but there was nothing else mentioned about this person.

144th Sitting 05/09/2017


We had the room setup as usual.

I did the opening prayer at 8.20pm, turned out the light and put the music on.

We did the Rainbow Bridge visualisation exercise...

Liz started off in front of a waterfall coming out of the mouth of a statue of a dragon. She then went through the dragon's mouth which was heart shaped into a dark tunnel. It was like going back through the womb, slippery as if there were membranes on the side. Liz was on a mat sliding down and felt a bit like Alice going down the rabbit hole. A speck of light got bigger as Liz reached the opening and she came out into snow and found herself on a toboggan racing down a slope with walls of snow either side. It was almost flying over the snow and Liz jumped off sending her rolling in the snow. She then found herself with a group of people and children laughing and playing in the snow, making snowmen and snow houses. Liz was aware she was in a kind of Eskimo body but her face was Chinese and refined. She was drinking a warm salty soup and felt she was in Tibet with lots of people around her and bells ringing. A sense of community, all interconnected and incredible happiness. There was a beautiful temple with monks and they were all connected somehow. Inside the temple Liz became part of a dance with whirling dervishes going round and round, faster and faster, weaving in and out of each other. It was creating an energy vortex lifting them up off the ground like cork screws. Liz felt this was creating a kind of physical phenomena...

I started off just looking into the darkness waiting for something to happen. Eventually I saw curtains like on a stage which parted to reveal a long straight road disappearing into the distance ahead of me. I thought about walking down it but decided to just wait and see what happened. As I watched I saw cracks appearing in the road and it started to break up and disappear. I got the urge to turn around and see what was behind me but I couldn't turn. I tried to feel what was behind me but couldn't and I held up a mirror but could see nothing in it. Then the whole scene around me started to rotate. I stood still as it came around 180 degrees and was now looking at what had been behind me. There was a row of monks in hooded robes all holding loaves of bread and one of them came up to me and broke the loaf in half to reveal an egg which he gave to me and I put it on a table in front of me. It started to crack open and two black birds came out of it. They picked up a sheet holding the top two corners in their beaks. It was a long thin sheet full of writing like a long story but I couldn't read it. They flew above and over me to where the road had been and laid the sheet down in the same place. I was now facing this story ahead of me...

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

I started to see flashes and flickers around the room and then it became lighter and misty.
I saw bright blobs coming and going and there were a few faces amongst them but none I recognised.

Liz fell asleep for a while and I was drifting in and out of it throughout the session.

Liz began to speak as the music CD ended...

'I've got this cave and there are some words over the entrance like Alexia... I asked where the cave was... it's in Scotland'

'I've got the word conundrum and a round ball, a sense of the Tibetan terma, knowledge hidden in a concrete structure like a wall... something like lightening, enlightening'

'I've got something like a code, like an analytical trace, a spectral, small bits with information, peeks on either side of a base line, information strip. I'm asking if that's a way that they can get evidence, influence an information strip like on the magnetometer'

'I keep getting stuck with Tea Ceremony...'

'Full moon... a feeling of rituals connected with phases of the moon, celestial phenomena. Gregorian chanting, telemetry, meteors... suddenly got this sense of an avalanche of information coming, seismic... drip, drip, drip... fear of information overload'

'I'm looking at a veil, like a curtain. There are people behind it. If I draw back the curtain they disappear, it's as though I'm just staring into space. If I put the curtain back I can see their shapes. I sense a hand reaching out from the other side of the curtain and I'm reaching out my hand to hold it, grasp it. I asked who's there, they said Susan. I asked if everything's alright? They said everything's alright, we love you. They said something that doesn't make any sense, salad making storks, corn stubbles... They said thank you for reading my poetry, we'll read yours... and the bridge between worlds, bridging the worlds, kaleidoscope, comforting, dancing shapes. A lot of creative people telling me not to feel unworthy... seismic, seizures, a commotion, cold comfort...'

'Going back to the gladiolus... Christopher... next to Christopher is Hilary'

'Picture of an old man... looks a bit like the old man that used to appear on Quaker Oats porridge, it's a Quaker... feels like something out of Jane Austin... he looks like pictures we've seen of Magnus. Got the name Colonel or Colin. A feeling of gentleman's clubs, like a group of colleagues in a club, no women, like masons'

'In place of the land registry we have this large agricultural community, cooperative... and this was the meaning behind Communism. Not the individual land ownership but the shared enterprise owned by all, the Earth and all its resources are given to the many, given freely to all. With private ownership it's not in accordance with the cosmic directory, it's in defiance of natural law, should not be allowed, will not be allowed, will not be tolerated. We will wipe out private ownership, it's a travesty'

'Harvest, cornfield, something circular, looking at the sun... I wonder if this is to do with crop circles? Picture of butterfly wings, we don't know the real purpose, the patterning, lots of patterning in information, we don't know how to read it, it's there for us to read'

'Yellow, the feeling of gorse, smells of coconut, prickly'

'Johannes...'

'I keep coming back to that strip, that information strip, like a long-toothed comb with prongs either side. Some association with music, encoding harmonic information, pythagorean music of the spheres, harmonies, patterning, all part of this great mathematical pattern encoded in the light. Our physical world is information encoded in light. We unravel it, interpret it through different senses all singing from the same hymn sheet. Different presentation, different rendering, echoing, reflecting his glory... gladiolus, thank you for the gladioli, we're all reflecting, reflections of his glory encoded in light'

'Got this picture of a zebra, the most amazing pattern of the zebra stripes like a bar-code. We each have our bar-code, that's the amazing similarity and uniqueness of patterns containing information. Looks like the ISBN number at the back of a book... so I've come to the end of the book, this is the end now so thank you'

I put a tune on as Liz came back.


I then did the healing exercise, closing prayer and our closing down exercise...