169th Sitting 08/05/2018

We had the room setup as usual.

I did the opening prayer at 7.50pm, turned out the light and put the music on.

We did the Rainbow Bridge Exercise then continued into the session...

Liz started to speak about 50 minutes after the opening prayer...

'I've got this expression of putting the cart before the horse. I was thinking it refers to the seeking of evidence in parapsychology, where the cart is all the experiments and statistical data but the horse is the experience, the person experiencing, the phenomenon and that is what's pulling and delivering the data but if you put the data as primary you miss out the importance of the actual person who is receiving the information and that's the important component in the study. Without the horse, or the person the information has no significance'

'Just getting the term stochastic resonance'

'I keep getting an image of Sandra Jackson a girl I was at school with'

'The Colourists, a particular group of artists in Scotland'

'Got the impression of William way below... I get the feeling there's a lot of interference... Silver... there's a Donald...'

'I started off with the Reverend Dobbs, it was like reflections through the looking glass, a sense of a double universe, a reflection, you can just walk through the glass, walk through the boundary, this boundary realm which is actually very active. The spiritual reflection of us is just beyond this boundary it's just a question of stepping through the looking glass, meeting the reflected self, passing through the barrier but there can be lots of interference. There are times when it's easier to pass, times when you can glide through, like osmosis. It's as if I'm shaking hands with someone across the barrier. Whenever you shake hands there is an information transfer'

'Got a Catherine'

'Now I've got somebody here, a Quaker... conquest or Constantinople, lots of Cs... cuneiform writing... Edison... can't make a mistake... frayed ends... someone saying I'd rather not give up yet... not Constantinople but constant and stable, secure funding, testing hypothesis... keep getting the word matches, like match sticks... seeing a Swan Vestas match box... strike a match... prudence, perspective'

'Consider the country you come from, someone strange tries to make themselves known. There's a varied reception. How do they make themselves known... introductions. They stand out and they look different. Initial tendency is to ignore, avoid, fear, reject. Imagine that person changes their attire, adjusts their appearance so they begin to look like everyone else, a little more acceptable, not true, camouflage, masking the reality of their foreignness... dilemma. But after a reasonable period, the Trojan horse person, camouflaged, begins to feel accepted and comfortable and then begins to reveal more of his identity and the reception is different, people listen and appreciate a little more, show a little more empathy because this person is actually in many ways like them. That's how presenting a strange phenomenon in a form that's acceptable to most people, for they can identify it as explicable, familiar, allows the possibility of deeper consideration and understanding of it. So, revealing it through the medium of science, a commonly accepted methodology and vocabulary can help to lessen its foreignness, its occult association because the occult is that which is dangerous and foreign. But the jargon of science, the laboratory, the everyday common experiences, explicable experiences are acceptable. So, the occult adopts a Trojan horse disguise to help lessen the negative associations, fear rejection, out of hand rejection but don't put the cart before the horse, the purveyor of the experiences is an ordinary human being worthy of study, consideration and seen as part of the normal human type and can be much more accepted'

'Terence Rattigan, he's Somerset born, these names keep dropping in... blue moon... somebody telling Jewish jokes, Rabbi Blue maybe...'

'I have some Indian faces, red Indians and the sense I'm getting is they are groups of people who are considered necessary to segregate them, ghettoed, but gradually they're in the process of their normalisation, their integration into the larger group, their uniqueness becomes something valued, the unique gifts and offerings that they bring into the whole human pool become valued once the strangeness barrier is overcome... perhaps this applies to the paranormal, all the gifts that mediums bring and psychics and as these phenomena become integrated into the normal and acceptable study of science and into the general parlance of everyday communication and experience of what it is to be human, this will be valued and the gifts it brings will be treasured rather than rejected. I think the message I'm getting is that the person has to be studied, the person is important and when the person experiencing this phenomenon is understood and valued the phenomenon itself will be valued and understood in a different way. A cart in front of a horse won't go anywhere but if the horse is given plenty of hay and water then attached to the cart respectfully and allowed to pull that cart to its destination then the cart load of data will arrive where its meant to be and stored and valued and delivered appropriately'

'The word cuneiform keeps coming back'

'A sense of this narrow pipeline through the barrier through which communication, a tune, like a telephone wire, it's more like a straw, a pipe, a conduit, a flow, information flow'

'Keep getting the words repeating, Strawberry Fields forever, combined with wanting to keep the communication flow going, it's a narrow tube, I think there's a lot of interference, butterfly wings, a connection with chaos'

'I'm back to Edison, light bulb moments, how many Jews does it take to change a light bulb?... I can only say thank you for trying to get through and I'm being a bit opaque, thank you for trying... a sense of old coins, Queen Victoria, Royal Mint...'

'Have the name Ethel'

'I think we've come to the end...'

I put a tune on to help Liz feel back with it.

We then discussed our Rainbow Bridge Exercise.

Liz started off with an enormous blue sea and blue sky and that was the boundary, the horizon, the sea merged into the sky, an incredible sense of blueness. It was as if one was the reflection of the other, a reflected self. Then out of the blueness came transparent blue people moving towards Liz and Liz was moving towards them across this barrier, a two-way flow, a very strange experience. Then Liz wanted to go into the blue and find something more concrete as this was formless and she found a dessert island with palm tree beaches and Hawaiian people living very simply, just enjoying and sharing the fruit and the nature and the sky. It was very peaceful, Liz felt very good and just held onto the blue...

I started off watching a long, wide snake on the ground going between my legs and I turned round to see it disappearing into the distance so followed it into a hot dry dessert where it wriggled its way through warm soft sand. I did the same and we then came to a large lake. The snake went into the water to cool off and I did the same. Under the water were more snakes and they were all enjoying the cool water and eating the vegetation growing from the lake bed. It was a wonderful feeling of sharing, peace and harmony. Then I saw something flowing into the lake above me and went to the surface to see it was a waterfall of liquid mercury that was solidifying as it hit the cool water into coin like discs that sunk down and into the lake bed as if fertilising it to make the vegetation grow. I wanted to find the source of this and found a ladder that took me to the top of the waterfall where I saw a city. There were huge buildings like banks and businesses and I saw flowing from them all this liquid mercury and got the impression that this was money that had been made by these huge businesses and corporations. The atmosphere felt stressed and unpleasant. I sensed greed and fighting and the wanting to accumulate wealth for oneself. It was the complete opposite to the wonderful sharing, peace and harmony of the lake and I found it funny that all this money was just turning into fertiliser for the vegetation in the lake...

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