188th Sitting 17/01/2019

We had the room setup as usual.

I did the opening prayer at 8.05pm, turned out the light and put the music on.

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

About 20 minutes after the opening prayer Liz began to speak...

‘I had earlier a sense of being overshadowed by a raven and a beautiful surrounding of sweet peas, colours, which took me to this beautiful lady. I call her Amelia Jane, she’s just a soul of great beauty. And puppies, small dogs drinking from a bowl of milk, her delight, a spectacle. She’s someone who takes great delight in beauty, in the beauty of flowers, nature, sunshine, of caring for creatures. I feel the sunshine sometimes eluded her in her life. So there were times of darkness, very sensitive to environment and to people. She wishes to forgive someone for their coarseness, that person was a frog prince. Although he was coarse and ugly, he was a kind and beautiful soul and that’s what drew her to him but she couldn’t let go of the coarseness, the shudder, the frog in her bed. She asks his forgiveness and he too asks her forgiveness for how we are put off by the appearance, the outer presentation of form. Sweet flowers are pink and blue, their ephemeral beauty and fragrance delight the senses. But the stagnant pool, quagmire, the stinking lilies, these can offend the senses and cause us to shy away, to shudder. The hideous cackle of the crow, loud noises, offend the ear, we react with disaffection to these bruising sensory perceptions. Those with fine speech and beautiful language delight the intellect, the mind, the ear, the senses. Those who speak harshly, coarsely can offend, but we have to see through the outer appearance to the inner core. A coconut is rough and hairy, coarse on the outside but inside the white flesh and the milk is sweet. The prickly pear, the irritant, hurt, injury even, but the inside of the prickly pear is wonderful, nutritious, mellow fruit, sweet and flavoursome. Attachment to those things that are pleasant and the avoidance of those things we find unpleasant lead us to misconstrued, to neglect the essential truth. So to have the equanimity, to be with what is true as opposed to that which attracts the senses has to be cultivated. To see beneath the surface, beneath the layer of grime is a blessing. Many born into destitution and squalor are afflicted with distorting appearance, disease and disability but the soul, the essence is a garden of delight. Those who would see through miasma even the dark day there is light hidden. Let your heart reach out to the heart of another avoiding the prickly exterior, avoiding that which may appear ugly, deformed, degraded. The truth in all is a shining light only obscured by the husk’

‘Ann, would like to send an army of nurses into the world to bring healing, to polish and cleanse all that is deformed, all that has been obscured to allow the soul and heart to shine in each and every person, to clear with the might of understanding love, for each person is a gem only obscured by the tarnish of physical obscurities, by the corruptions and the affections that have misconstrued and been twisted and torn. If each and every person can love one unlovable, or release the light in one impoverished, obscured, depraved, that is a lifetime delivered, that is a star released to shine in the heavens. For every person there is one that comes into their life who needs to be released from a form that obscures their true light and nature and to help that individual, to release is a blessing’

‘I have Violet... one of those ladies who even the child can feel the love in them, that likeness of soul. One of Ann’s nurses of the spirit. So to be in Violet’s presence is to have the beauty of violets, that sense of spiritual depts, gentleness, quiet radiance... I think Violet never had children but children were drawn to her’

‘I’m seeing that there are many of these nurses, these natural nurses, these women who attend the souls of people. They may not have children themselves but act like a mother for all beings and they are the nurses of spirit serving the greater good, serving the great spirit, serving the light. I rejoice in their presence in the world’

‘The name Archie Featherstone... these are the men who accompany these women and they are also bridges of the spirit, the great lightness of spirit, the strength and firmness and integrity of stone. They may not become fathers but they are like fathers to the souls of men and women, working to serve the great spirit by helping to support and working with the nurses’

‘Ah, it’s Gordon... it’s like a sign post, showing me a sign post directing towards west, I thought it was east. Connected to the church, Gordon designed churches, I know this Gordon. He is showing me stained glass windows. Aware of a cart wheel, it’s the old crafts, building, it’s like the chalk pits museum, the old crafts, horse and carts. I get a sense that Gordon's showing me the new church, a return to the building of simple buildings, rural communities, craft-based community, he’s pointing the way to a new spirituality based on a re-connection with a natural world, but at the moment that’s held in a museum that’s preserving so that heritage won’t be lost and wherever it’s resurrected it’s like building a new church so people can worship by the work of their hands, by their connection with natural processes, that too is a form of worship when engaged in mindfulness. And the church’s evolved, he’s showing me they were built by masons and craftsmen, stone by stone, carved, these structures were built by individuals with reverence. Every building is a place of worship, a place of connection with the natural order. Your home is your cathedral. He's showing me the nappies on the line and the joy in simple things. Get away from the throwaway society where the home has meaning. Those nappies on the line, each one is washed and used again, not thrown away, so that cloth that’s been woven lasts for a lifetime and doesn’t end up on a garbage heap. There is love in that nappy that’s been washed and aired in the sun and folded and stored for the next baby, the next change. Simple things that delight the soul, that keep the order of things, that maintain the balance and harmony and meaning. He's showing me shoes, clogs, crafted out of a piece of wood that last a lifetime. I see him with his Panama hat and stick waving... thank you Gordon’

‘Philomena, got the name Philomena... Just have a feeling Philomena is telling me she had a hard life but she learnt from it that hardship brings learning, brings experience that can mature you, that can chisel you, form you. At the time you resist the discomfort and pain but at the end you realise that it’s moulded you, given you strength and character to rise above circumstance, to find your truth. Hardship can be a blessing in disguise. That's what Philomena has to say. Hold onto your true star. You find that star in your heart, everyone has it, just feel that point of light and let it grow, let it direct you. Look for it, seek and you will find your star’

‘A bit like the Coldstream Guards or the Sally Army they say play your music, music is good for the soul... and that’s all I think, thank you...’

I put a tune on to help Liz feel back with it. She felt she was dancing with a big cat for a while.

We recounted our Rainbow Bridge Exercises...

Liz started on top of a hill overlooking great tracts of countryside and a rainbow reaching out across it. Then she felt overshadowed by a presence like a raven, dark wings folding round her from behind and lifting her up. Liz became the raven and was aware of having a pearl or moonstone in her beak but couldn’t remember any more...

I started off seeing lots of people coming into the room from the ceiling near where Liz was sitting. They all then stood around the outside of the room making the room seem bigger and bigger. They all looked grey and colourless and I saw soldiers, clergymen, farmers, policemen all sorts of men and women amongst them. Then I noticed sparkling balls of light the size of tennis balls where coming in with them and they all grabbed one in their right hand so I grabbed one too. Then they held the ball up to their heart and I also did that which seemed to make to room fill with colour, lots of gold then all the colours of the rainbow. The floor opened up making a huge hole in the centre of the room and all the colour disappeared down the hole. We all waited then a dragon appeared out of the whole full of all the colours and it flew around the room breathing out a golden fire which didn’t burn but produced a wonderful loving warmth. I asked the dragon what it was and what was it doing? It told me it was responsible for all the colours on the Earth and that we all have a part of it in us because we too can create colours by the way we think. If we are upbeat, happy and positive the colours of the Earth will shine bright and beautiful but when we are down, sad and negative they will be dark and grey. It is our responsibility to try and stay positive throughout our life and make the Earth as beautiful as possible...

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