We had another Thursday afternoon Zoom meetup.
Liz was wired up to the Mind Mirror EEG.
After doing the opening prayer Liz tuned in to see what she could get for me...
‘I’ve got somebody coming forward who says he’s a school master, thin wavy dark hair, a crumpled look about him, wearing a crumpled mac, his face is slightly asymmetric, pale skin. He’s showing me a globe, he taught geography, he was a smoker, exercise books and maps. He was a secondary school teacher’
I recognise this person from the description and he was a favourite teacher of mine at secondary school. I can’t remember if he was a smoker or not.
I asked Liz if she could get a name.
‘I get a letter D, Donald or Donaldson or Drew. He reminds me of someone I knew called Mick, an Irish statistician’
This is very interesting and shows how hard spirit try to get something evidential through as Liz first gets the letter D which is correct, then she says three names which are incorrect. But then it’s as if spirit is trying hard to correct her and gives her someone called Mick. And if you replace M with the letter D you get Dick which is correct. At the time I thought Liz was totally wrong as I only knew him as Mr Rumsby but have since found out his first name was Dick.
‘He’s got a wedding ring on his finger. He gives me a feeling of rain and going out, a school van. Pickled onions’
Don’t know if he was married or not but do remember going on school trips. Not sure about pickled onions.
‘The feeling of the world being your oyster was very important to him, important to extend your knowledge of the world, the greater world, a sense of place, where we are’
I guess this would be true as he was a geography teacher.
‘Cutlery, knives and forks and spoons. An old piano. A Christmas party, old school hall, decorations’
This could be a reference to a school reunion I went to about 15 years ago held in an old school hall and he was there.
‘He tried to make an effort to make school an enjoyable experience, create interest and fun. He wasn’t incredibly fit, in his 50s or late 40s, struggling with his health, to do with his smoking. He would have liked to have been able to extend his student’s interests beyond the immediate environment to other countries, particularly Africa, the Amazon, tropical rain forests, exotic places but he wasn’t a very exotic person. Image of a giraffe, long neck, sense of reaching up to something a bit beyond, the tree just out of reach, evolutionary possibilities. He didn’t live much beyond his 60s’
He would have been in his 70s when I saw him at the reunion and in his 40s when I was at school. Not sure about the state of his health.
‘He’s showing me a lady, Mrs Murry, connected with the school and with him, maybe his wife. Short hair, greyish white, a pleasant face, plumper than he is, dressed simply but quite nicely, a blue dress. She plays the piano. School dinners. A sunshine feeling about her, had a nice speaking voice’
Can’t place Mrs Murry.
‘He was dehydrated, needed water but he is showing me such lush tropical forests and exotic places and his message for you is he is wanting to give you that colour in your life, to create that importance of exploration, the exotic, beyond your normal boundaries, to explore, step out of the humdrum. Like a television turning from black and white to colour. His life had lost the colour, he’d become quite desiccated. The lady he was showing me had become the ray of sunshine in his life, transformed his life from the grey to this pageant of colour but as you would recognise him he was this more desiccated teacher but who had in his spirit a desire to share the world, to share good things’
I’ve been watching a lot of Michael Palin travel programmes recently and it’s been in my mind how interesting some of the places are and the people who live there and the possibility of travelling to some of them which kind of ties up with his message.
‘He’s giving me the image of a tinder box, wish fulfilling, a rubber band’
‘The name Coulson’
Can’t place Coulson.
‘That wonderful possibility of being able to visit any of these wonderful places on the surface of the Earth, explore all these new vistas and environments. Seeing monkeys swinging in the trees, cheetahs, giraffes. The things you are able to do at school are very limiting. The use of the imagination to take you beyond your normal environment is so important especially if your financial situation doesn’t allow you to travel. What it’s like for him now is more like dreams. Once a teacher, always a teacher. He's got a drawing board with little flags on it, you put a flag in a place and you wish to be there and you can be there, there isn’t any distance. It's just like on a computer, you click on a tab and open up the icon and you’re there experiencing it as a full reality. It’s like a virtual reality game but it’s as real as anything. At school you look at maps, learn facts and it’s two dimensional, but what if you can actually be there, experiential learning, multidimensional. It's like stepping through the book, stepping through the icon into the full reality. It's the limitations of our learning system, where we don’t use the imagination enough. David Attenborough brings those worlds close to people, into our living rooms’
This could be referring to my ongoing meditations and developing the ability to travel to other realities.
‘The lady in the blue dress, I'm seeing her more clearly, she looks like my mum. She’s telling me it’s Andy, somebody I know who’s just died’
‘I’m getting chess board, your dad’s there, blue overalls, work outfit, plumbing tools, spanners. A cat in a bag. Your dad with a sparkler, a bit like a magic wand but a firework’
Yes dad worked on washing machines. The cat in a bag could have been a glove puppet used in his children’s shows and I remember him enjoying indoor fireworks particularly sparklers.
‘He's got your grandma with him, an older lady with white hair, shoulder length with a fringe, quite thick, in her 60s or 70s. Your father’s mother. She’s got quite a characterful face, skin wrinkled and tanned, she’s been in the sun. A feeling of a younger person about her, vitality’
This describes my dad’s mother very well.
‘She's trying to take the overalls off your dad, she would have liked him to have made more of himself, was worth more than that job. A feeling of birds in cages. She's fussing over him’
I think this would be true. Not sure about the birds in cages unless it’s a metaphor for being stuck in the same job.
‘A stuffed animal with horns on a wall like a trophy. A bowl of grapes, fruit is good for you’
She wouldn’t have had a stuffed animal on a wall. Don’t know about grapes but she grew a lot of gooseberries.
‘Your little car was a present from her, she’s showing me a little car. She would have appreciated quite grand cars. A sense of spaghetti connected with cars somehow, an Italian car, a Maserati sports car’
I did have the feeling that she was with me when I bought my car a couple of years ago, I felt she was encouraging me to buy it. It’s the same make, model and colour as one she had in the 50s except that mine is modified with a more powerful engine. Maybe she was trying to get this through about it being more powerful and Liz interpreted it as a Maserati sports car.
‘She seeded the interest of motor mechanics in you, cars, because she had an interest in cars’
This is true, she had an old Ford Popular which I loved going out in and I remember finding a stack of old Car Mechanics magazines in a room at the top of her house and brought them home. I still have them.
‘Her home was her castle, she’s got an ancestry in her, a person of prominence. A crenelated castle, can almost see her in other centuries as the lady of the castle. Strange animals, see an animal like a pig, exotic pet. Swords in tabards. Sandy places like Camber Sands’
Yes, she actually designed her house and had it built in the 30s. She always had pets but just dogs and cats. She enjoyed the beach and probably went to Camber Sands many times.
‘She must have driven herself; I can feel her behind the wheel, she would have liked to do racing, quite a character’
Yes, she loved driving and drove her own cars from the 1930s to the 1970s. Her husband didn’t drive.
‘She loved her boys and wanted the best for them and would have liked your dad to make more of himself, she knew he had a lot of potential but limited himself with his humdrum job’
She had three children, all boys.
‘She’s really interested in your car and would like to see you do more with it, it’s a collector's market. She’s out there on the racetracks with you waving her flag. Brambles, blackberry brambles, a memory. I see her in a car with a headscarf around her head, she loved that feeling, would have loved an open car, she wants you to have an open car and she’ll be sitting next to you. She was a bit of an adrenalin junky or would have been if her life had permitted her to be that. She showed her stamp in all sorts of original ways, she wasn’t humdrum, see her in bangles and heavy jewellery, making herself look interesting, smart, the lady of the castle. She’s spending a lot of time with your dad now, taken those old overalls off him and approving of him wanting to be a real magician now. Your gran or your dad is tossing a ball, doing football tricks, rolling it up their arms and legs, doing clever things with a ball. They are holding up a large multicoloured golf umbrella over their heads. Looking like Mary Poppins because they can do that now’
This all describes my gran very well and I remember picking blackberries with her.
Liz thanked all those who had been with her and for the messages and information they brought through.
Then it was my turn.
It took a bit longer than usual for me to be controlled but after about five minutes the communication began...
‘Each pathway you take... There is always a goal that you work towards, each pathway you walk down you are experiencing new feelings, new ideas. You are gathering experience, building up experience and you are learning. There is always much to be learnt from each experience. Try to understand that you have the ability to learn and to become something more, something larger, more encompassing. Allow your mind to wander, do not restrict yourself to old ideas. Allow yourself to stray from your comfort zone. Do not be afraid of mistakes for mistakes are there to help you, to shape you, to bring you more into focus with a truer picture. Allow those mistakes to become part of your experience and develop a true connection with yourself and with those around you, those that help you, those that you can feel and those you listen to. Watch for differences in your life, take note of unusual events, unusual experiences. These are presented to you to help you’
‘The most important part of each day is the beginning. Set yourself a task each day. Live your life achieving that task. You can always repeat experiences day by day but real learning is to step out of yourself, try something new, allow your mind to wander’
I then came back.
It had felt to me as if I hadn’t got a very strong connection during the communication this week.
Liz then sent out healing and we did our closing down exercise...