232nd Sitting 28/01/2021

We had a Zoom sitting.

Liz was wired to the Mind Mirror EEG.

Liz did the opening prayer as I tuned in and soon felt myself controlled.

The communication began...

‘Try to imagine your life devoid of feeling, devoid of emotion. Think of yourself as merely playing a part that has been written for you. You follow your lines; you learn your lines and you re-enact something that has already been created by something else. You are no longer the creator; you are merely acting that what has been created before you. Imagine if all life was like this, there would be no meaning, there would be no point in living. You as a piece of consciousness are a creative spirit, you are constantly creating, making something new, making something which has not been, that has not existed in the past. Your physical world may appear to be fixed and yet you have the power to change that world. It is merely a projection of your understanding. Change your understanding and that what you see, that what you touch will also change. You have that power within you and you are all using that power but you do not realise, you do not fully understand how life works and how life continues to work at the point of death from this physical universe. For at that time nothing has changed, you are still a creative spirit creating your reality using that what you understand, building on that understanding, enabling you to create something new, something more suited to that what you have become’ 

‘When you think of life beyond the physical world, your thoughts conjure up unusual conditions, alien conditions. But why should this be? If you are creating now and you create after your physical life then that what you experience must be the same, must follow on. Your understanding will not change until you put the effort in to change that understanding yourself. Put that effort in a positive direction and your world will become a brighter, kinder place, more colourful, wider, more complex’ 

‘Once you have left the physical world as you understand it, you will not realise that a change has been made for your life continues. The world you will now live in is still your creation but your memory can bring you back to the Earth. What you will understand as now is not so fixed for you will find yourself connected to so much more. You will feel the impact of the physical life but the details will fade. You will be given the opportunity to relive episodes throughout your life but your main concern is how you can grow, how you can increase your understanding in a positive way. There are many that will help you for they too are growing, are increasing their understanding and by helping you they are helping themselves. This is how all of life works. The more help you give, the more help you receive and everyone benefits. You as a creating spirit will continue. You will see opportunities presented to you and you alone will choose. As you adjust to a new environment you will better understand all those opportunities and you will select that what is most appropriate for a more positive understanding’

‘The words we give you will help you to understand but you yourself use that what you have, that what you have created within yourself to see the truth in all what we say, and know that truth. And to know that truth you have to experience that truth, we can only advise. We can only give you what we feel will resonate with you. Live life to the full, explore every avenue presented to you with a smile upon your face. Life is for living; life is to be enjoyed. When you lose that smile you have lost that connection to your true self. Step back and consider what has affected you to take that smile away and you will see it as just one blip in a world full of beauty. Turn and face that beauty and you will feel yourself recharged, that smile will return and those around you will also benefit. Stand tall in a world of confusion and you will see the sun. Stoop and all you will see is confusion. Thank you, thank you my dear friend, please continue with your wonderful experiment’

Liz... ‘Thank you friend’

Liz then tuned in and after a few minutes began to speak...

‘Saying grandson... It’s your grandad I think, just getting this feeling he’s coming, he’s showing himself as quite old, 70s, 80s, feeling his hands are wrinkled, maybe arthritic. His face feels broad but wrinkled and I feel a slight stoop. Giving me the image of a cup of tea, good strong brown tea in a white cup and saucer, at home and comfortable. He's come with a gardening image, little seeds springing up like watercress in a large seed tray. Getting an impression of a round table with a cloth on it, he’s brushing crumbs off the cloth, he wants to put something else on the table like a jigsaw puzzle, something he wants to do with you, some game he played. Getting the sense of Dinky cars. But there’s something he wants to play on the table, it’s time to get down to some play. I’m seeing match sticks. The cloth on the table is red checked. Got the word dahlia again’ 

This sounds like my dad’s dad. There was a table in kitchen used for eating and playing board games. I can’t remember if it was round or oblong. He did do gardening and grew vegetables and fruit as well as flowers. I can’t remember exactly what he grew but it probably included watercress and dahlias.

‘He’s showing me something quite strange, it looks like a long ice crystal, or could be something like a piece of rock wrapped in cellophane, but it’s long. It could even be a long jet of water coming out of a hose pipe but frozen in time. Could be a crystal or something that’s thick and viscus that’s flowing. Could be candle wax. It’s connected me with the pull on a bell, like a church bell, a long dangling piece of rope but why is it looking shiny?’

‘He’s giving me the sense of a dog’s lead, I'm seeing a dog with a large fluffy tail, baring it’s teeth like a snarl’ 

They had dogs but I don’t recall one with a large fluffy tail.

‘I'm just asking why is he here and what does he want to say to you and he’s saying he’s just loving being around, just potting around here, just hanging out with you’

Me... ‘Do you know which grandad this is?’

‘Let me ask him, he’s showing me a bicycle and scooter, I think it’s your mother’s father but at first I thought it was your father’s father. I'm getting the feeling of a house like a castle; I think it’s your father’s father’

Me... ‘It does sound more like my father’s father to me’

‘He’s showing me something that looks like a black rubber sheet, something you’d put down on the ground, maybe in a garage or a shed, or by the back door but it’s quite large. Something someone has put down to do some work on or cover the floor, a non-slip insulating mat. He’s giving me the sense of a big garage, lots of tools. He’s put an image into my head of an old rusty lawn roller at the back of the garage stuck in a corner’

This sounds to me like he’s trying to show Liz the pit he had dug in the garage to be able to work underneath the car. I mentioned this to Liz afterwards and she said she did have a feeling of a pit in a garage but didn’t mention it thinking it a bit too sophisticated to have in a private home garage so didn’t mention it. This highlights the importance of saying everything you get but at the same time we don’t know what’s coming from spirit or coming from our imagination.

‘I'm seeing an envelope, not sure what’s inside it? When I asked that question I saw coins. Victorian coins’

I used to collect old coins and I remember grandad looking out for old coins in his change, especially Victorian coins.

‘I got a flash of books, Rupert Bear books, from that period, children’s books. Whether they kept books at home or he read to you or he bought you a book, I'm not quite sure, it just flashed into my mind, children’s books. Like large annuals, bumper books. He’s giving me the feeling of little feet running around, a happy feeling of children being in the house. I don’t know if he showed it but he liked having you around, something he enjoyed but I don’t know if you realised that or whether he showed it. I’m seeing a Hornby train set, an engine, green and yellow. I’m getting sweets wrapped in cellophane like spangles, candy sweets. He’s giving me these impressions, just wants to share some memories with you so you know it’s him. Feeling him with a sleeveless pullover’

I remember children’s annuals upstairs that belonged to my dad and his brothers when they were kids. He used to have a jar of cough candy sweets which I sometimes ate but didn’t really like them.

‘He wants to go to the tunnel, like going down a long tunnel, it’s very dark, a sooty feeling. I’m sensing a grave with daffodils or spring flowers on it, which had a connection with the tunnel, it reminded him of the tunnel. He’s giving me the image of the flowers, bursting out into the light. I wonder if what he was showing me, the long ice crystal, was to do with the silver cord that linked him to all that he was showing and then it’s like he burst out into the spring. It's like he can still reconnect and potter in all that past’ 

‘I asked him what about the present, can you show me anything that Nick has been doing currently? and he just popped in the name Clorisa and a sense of a school desk, of studying. Something with speakers, like a radio. A small pot of paint and a brush. I’m seeing bottles of milk. Got the image of being just a hair breadth away, something about hair. I’m seeing a dark suit on a hanger, it’s like a suit you might have worn at a funeral, don’t think it’s black, more like navy’ 

I spend a lot of time sitting at my computer desk which has two speakers on it. Clorisa or the paint pot and brush don’t mean anything to me. I have cartons of oat milk but not bottles and I don’t have a suit.

‘Giving me a sense of a jar of marmalade, the old-fashioned jars, Robinsons, with a golliwog’ 

I used to collect the golliwogs from the marmalade jars and I have a vague memory of gran knitting a golliwog.

‘Getting a sense of tiles, black and white tiles, Victorian tiles like on a pathway or bathroom’

I can't remember this.

‘When I asked him what he’s doing now he just gave me the sense of watering the flowers’ 

‘Getting a strong sense of orange, the family connection, all the photographs. He just wants you to know the family is still strong, it’s still there just a hair breadth away but in consciousness it seems like a distance. It's like in a dream, when you come out of it it’s very hard to reconnect, to remember the dream, difficult to hold the connection, I think he’s finding it difficult. But it's like he’s holding a burning torch, just wants you to know that he’s there. I'm just getting this feeling of love and don’t know if that’s something he would have expressed when he was alive. That feeling is much more real now, he just wants to pat your hand and connect. He's got distant now, I'm feeling your grandmother there. She's got longer hair, looking younger and slim, very different feel about her, she feels purposeful. It's like she’s put on a pair of goggles, she’s doing her racing car, super speed, super efficiency. I'm just seeing driving down the roads and the country side going past fast. She’s connecting with you again with that, I think she was with you when you were in America, she’s showing me those long journeys with the countryside going past fast, big landscape, empty roads, that feeling of freedom. I’m seeing cactuses like in Mexico but I know you didn’t go to Mexico’

Me... ‘There were some in Arizona when we went there’

‘That would be it, those hot dry areas’

‘Got a sense of silver, silver clouds, it’s those words Hi Ho Silver, the cowboy thing, the Lone Ranger. I don’t think she never went to America but she would have loved to go and was there with you. I can’t imagine that grandparents live precariously through their grandchildren but they tune into the things that they appreciate, they enjoy to see you enjoying, and they encourage you in the things that you are doing that they most tune into’

‘Getting an image of marrows in the garden. Washing on the line dancing in the breeze. The birds being fed’

‘I was trying to see if they could make me aware of what they are doing in their spirit life but I just get the sense of exploring, adventure, and that’s your grandmother. She’s a force of nature pulling him to go with her in some of these explorations but he’s still pottering a little bit, he’s being drawn towards going a bit beyond now, expanding his horizons but she’s already been doing that. Seeing a hot air balloon, being able to go high so that you can see everything, get an overview, a panorama. As you do that you are dropping all the ballast in order to go higher. As you do that more and more you get the feeling of that possibility of exploration, that sense of your horizon expanding and I think that’s what they are doing’

Gran was certainly more of an adventurer than grandad. He would have preferred to stay at home.

‘I’ll say thank you to them... I asked or something from your grandfather that you would recognise with him and I just got a rather complicated looking medallion or medal, it looked like something from an officer class or police force, I don’t know if you’ve got something of his like that. It looked quite intricate, quite ornate not just a simple one. Thank you, God bless both of you and happy journeys’

Grandad gave me his war medals and also some from gran’s father who was a policeman and won medals in swimming competitions.

Liz felt back with it and I did the closing prayer, sent out healing and did our closing down exercise...

231st Sitting 21/01/2021

We had another sitting with Zoom.

Liz was wired to the Mind Mirror EEG.

Liz did the opening prayer and again included asking for information about the process of dying and what happens after we die.

I soon started to feel myself being controlled and the communication began...

‘All enquiries will be answered for we can sense your frustration. There is a fine line between your understanding and that what we can give to you. You base your understanding on the life that you lead and that what you have experienced, you are limited by what you can experience and yet a part of you is playing another part, another role in your development and is outside of what you perceive to be yourself. This part of you can relay information to you, it is up to you to how you interpret that information. We as a communication can bring through answers. Clear your mind of all preconceived ideas and allow a new understanding to come through. The physical world is a brief experience, a brief passing of experiences, and yet it builds up within yourself a form of understanding which enables you to move on’

‘At the moment of death, you lose contact with your physical world, you regain contact with that what is outside of yourself. You have always been connected to that what is outside of yourself but for the first time in your physical memory you will have full control of your living consciousness, that what lives within you, that what motivates you, that what gives you the passion to develop yourself, to become something better and to help others. You reach a new state of mind and you see life from a new perspective, a perspective new to you at that point in time. Your memories are fading, your physical memories are fading. You are becoming more than you have ever been before and yet you feel the same. At this time, you are presented with various situations which help you to adjust, help you to adjust to a new environment, an environment of feeling, and environment of thought. That urge to do something better, to improve yourself is at its strongest at this point in time. You are given the opportunity to look at yourself as a physical being, see what you have done, see the pathway you have trod and the interactions with others and your effect on others and on the environment in which you have lived. Each day is seen from a new perspective, a perspective of possibilities, possibilities that were taken and those that were missed. You pay particular attention to those possibilities that were missed. We know that you will soon be back, soon be a part of the physical world once again and you want to do better, you want to be more aware, more aware of the possibilities that are presented to you. You as a physical being can do no wrong and you will understand this. You will feel good about yourself for you will know that you have completed once again a physical lifetime and your history has been recorded. Another stepping stone has been taken as you move forward in life. There is nothing to fear, nothing to confuse you, everything seems simple in what you understand as a spirit world, a non-physical world. You are pure consciousness with a task in your mind and when you are ready you will be helped to choose a new journey, a new physical journey that will help you to grow even more, to complete a new step. Do not worry about how you lead your physical life for you are looking at it from your own physical perspective. When you see it from a spiritual perspective you will be pleased, you will be grateful for the opportunities that have been given to you and you will know that this is an ongoing experiment. Make the most of your life while you hold the physical form and know that you will return a better person, playing your part once again in a constant evolving world’

‘Your greater self never grows tired, for the greater self is life itself and motivates you through the darkest of days. When your physical body grows weary the greater self is supporting you, giving that urge to stay alive. Help one another, love one another, play your part to make this world you live in the most beautiful world you can imagine, for that is what it is, you have merely closed your eyes to the true light of life... Thank you, thank you my dear friend, please continue with your experiments’

Liz... ‘Thank you friend’

I felt back with it then Liz tuned in...

‘A small man came forward in a rather baggy brown suit with a microphone and he’s dancing around, being a little bit of a comedian. The suit he’s wearing has got large squares on it, not very bold but in a faint white weave, because he’s small it feels a little bit large on him but I feel he’s on a platform. I'm seeing a car connected with him, I don’t think he was driving himself, it feels like a taxi, a large black car. Getting a feeling of Travis there and Daisy. I’m thinking that this is Colin Fry I'm seeing but I want confirmation that this is him. As I'm asking, he’s showing me a book, could be a bible, it’s like he’s holding it and the pages are open, he’s been ruffling through it. Actually, as I’m seeing it looks like an A to Z or an almanac of some sort, a reference book to find a place, that’s why the taxi is there’

As Liz was relaying this information it made me think of when Colin Fry did a trance demonstration at Three Bridges Spiritualist Church. I told Colin the week before that I would be going with my brother and his wife and he asked if I would pick him up from his house on the way which I did. I was a taxi driver at the time and picked him up with my taxi. It was white not black but was a large estate car. Not being familiar with the area he directed me to the church. You could say Colin was being an A to Z. Also, I’m pretty sure there was a bible on a lectern in front of Colin when he was doing the trace demonstration. There’s a good chance Travis and Daisy were there that evening as they lived in the area and always attended Colin’s trance evenings when they could. I’m not sure what colour suit he wore that evening but I remember getting to his house early and he came to the door with no trousers on just the jacket saying he wasn’t quite ready yet which I found funny at the time.

'I'm just getting an image of an older woman, I don’t know if it’s his mother or somebody else but she’s got grey or whitish hair, a slight Victorian feeling about what she’s wearing, a black cardigan and a white blouse with a lacy collar. I think she’s a grandmother or a great aunt. I'm seeing a bag which makes me think of my grandmother, that’s a Catholic connection, connection with a convent'

‘I'm asking if it is him can he give me some information that you will recognise. As soon as I say that I am getting an image of a top hat upside down with money going into it, don’t know if it’s a collection thing or just something funny. Just popped an image in my head of a goldfish bowl with goldfish in it. I keep coming back to the microphone, if it is him it’s almost as if they want to sing a song like a karaoke or something, like old fashioned songs, Widdicombe Fair just popped into my head and Uncle Tom Cobbly and all, old songs. I don’t know if this was something this person did or would like to do but it’s like encouraging people to join in like at a Christmas party, a gathering. Giving me the sense of a puppet on a string’

When Colin did his trance evenings at his place, he didn’t charge but there was a biscuit tin that was handed round for people to put what they wanted in. It’s possible that Liz misinterpreted a biscuit tin for an upside-down top hat with money going into it. Then she interpreted it as a fish bowl. If Liz had just said ‘I am getting an image of something with money going into it, like a collection’ That would be good evidence. This shows how a medium’s interpretation can change the message into something else. At Colin’s séances we used to sing old fashioned songs at the start to build up the energies but we never sang the two songs Liz has mentioned. Again, these could be the songs Liz associates with old fashioned songs. 

‘I'm asking for a more serious contact; I want to know that I’ve got a real contact and he’s come up behind me with more serious garb on, his reverend garb, but there’s a part of him that wants to turn the dog collar into a cravat, almost like he’s dressing up as the gentleman with the top hat again, he doesn’t want to be very serious, he’s urging me to lighten up’

About ten years ago Liz and I saw Colin doing a clairvoyance demo in Brighton. This was the first time I had seen Colin for about ten years and I was surprised to see he had become a Spiritualist Minister and was dressed up as a reverend. This was something he would never have done when I first knew him as he didn’t like the idea of Spiritualism being a religion.

‘Now there’s the top hat being tapped with a magic wand as if your dad is around but I can’t see him. I’m being shown indigestion tablets and getting the word dyspepsia. I’m being taken back to Andy Pandy, post war early television. Got the name Sally’ 

I can’t think of any connection with indigestion Tablets or Sally.

‘I'm feeling your dad’s here and he was just handing me Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum’

I can’t think of any connection with my dad and Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum.

Afterwards Liz remembered that during a meditation in the week she felt Colin come through and asked for a sign that it was him. She got the word 'Spearmint'

‘Seem to be going back to the 1950s, see an old gramophone, one of those old pieces of furniture gramophones, dark brown wood, plays His Masters Voice records, 78s. Got an image of chairs like you’d get in a church hall or village hall, very simple chairs that you stack, connected with meetings, gatherings’

This isn’t ringing any bells for me.

‘This lady is still here and she does remind me of my grandmother, I didn’t think it was at first but it could be. I get the feeling from her that this sort of stuff would have been the fires of hell. Taboo. It's that Catholic feeling, burning of the books. I’m still seeing Colin Fry and I think he’s brought her through for a reason. It goes very deep and is possibly one of my blocks, that fear of excommunication, fears that are there because this area is taboo. Colin did come through when I was doing a session earlier in the week and he showed an image superimposed on himself of Jesus with the crucifixion, the crown of thorns. It was that image of the suffering side of mediumship, the persecution side. I think that’s why he’s giving me that feeling of lighten up, you’ve got to have some fun with it because there’s been a lot of heavy stuff associated with mediumship and a lot of suffering. It's been closet stuff, it’s had fear associated with it. That's why he brought a levity to his performances when he did it in church halls and spiritualist centres, he kept it light. Too much solemnity reminds people of the fiery furnace. Fears that are in the human soul because of that background that many people have, fears that these areas are taboo. The art of performance. Mediumship is a form of counselling for the soul’

‘I'm getting a sense of a grey elephant, maybe Joan is around too’

‘I think they are drawing my attention to the Christmas gifts, that part of the mediumship, the gifts they put out for children at Christmas, you told me it was one of those that hurt Colin’

Me... ‘Yes, that’s right’

When Colin was doing a Christmas Tree Séance one of the materialised spirit children opened up one of the presents brought by a sitter which was a toy that lit up when being played with. The child did play with it and the light that shone caused the ectoplasm to shoot back into Colin causing haemorrhaging. He later showed me the scare on his stomach. 

‘You’re tampering with energies but you have to know what you are doing. You have to be tough; you have to toughen up because it’s not all plain sailing and the frail human form is opening itself up to energies it might find difficult to connect with. It's like the communion wine I'm seeing, having communion, communion with spirits, communion wine, communion with Christ, the blood and the body of Christ. You have to connect at the highest level, you have to take that on. If you become a vehicle for light, for Christ then healing and all things are possible but you have to prepare the way for opening that light, accumulating that light, connecting to that light. That's key, that’s fundamental if you want this form of mediumship which we are working towards. Preparation is all important to be a vehicle to accommodate these energies, to transmit, to be a transducer for the energies, it’s as if spirit can only go so far. Miracles can happen, do happen but the more robust manifestations of physical mediumship require much preparation and attunement which is why it doesn’t happen overnight. Just put Stuart Alexander’s name in my mind. I know Colin was a carpet layer and he’s showing me the carpet laying. To come out of that into the front view facing audiences is a big step. But it’s that absolute connection, and it’s a two-way process, they can come so far forward but the work has to go on here and it’s that build up the commitment and trust but when it happens it’s like a light that suddenly switches on but it’s like in building, before you can switch on the lights the circuitry has to be put in, the electrician has to put all the wiring in and test it and certify it safe otherwise you can get fires or blow fuses or get electrocuted. So the circuitry has to be connected up to the mains supply and when it’s all tested and certified then you can flick the switch. An amazing light, and there’s a lot behind the scenes. The house buyer goes in, flicks on the light, doesn’t realise all the work that’s gone on beforehand. Sometimes it’s generations of work, background to the electric power supply but that’s just an analogy allowing the spiritual powers to manifest through the human body at full blast, with full power, not in a dim way that so often happens. Counselling for the spirit is good, is necessary, serves a purpose but the manifestation of full phenomena is another issue. That's serious stuff and behind the frivolity, the fun aspect of it, there’s a lot of work going on in the background and a lot of suffering behind it, generations, it’s in the human psyche because it can create in some wonder but in others fear and when people are afraid, they attack and the forms of attack are many, disbelief, persecution, disempowerment, accusations of fraud, not always possible to protect the medium from these forces, from the fears generated by phenomena but if you are willing and ready, we are ready to work with you. You have to be aware of the process and the blocks to the successful wiring, your own fears of making that connection. Who was it said our greatest fear is not that we are small and insignificant but that we are great and powerful? You have the keys to the gates and the choice to open the gates, it’s yours and you alone can know if you have truly made the choice. We watch and test the water, we have our dip stick to test the degree of commitment, to test the readiness for the full wiring, the redness for the installation of full electricity in your human house. But every little step along the path if not in your lifetime, the work you do progresses to beyond, but the time is coming when these miracles will be seen again and will transform belief, transform the current human paradigm. A time is coming and there will be many, the wiring of the human house is part of the plan, little by little, one generation to the next, the infrastructure has begun and will carry on. Thank you for your attention’

Me... ‘Thank you’

‘We are still at the stage of morse code you understand, ha ha... we haven’t got to the real optic fibre connection, ha, ha... That’s The Diamond for you’

Liz was in fits of laughter.

I’m not sure if Liz just found what was said funny or there was some influence from Colin as he would sometimes break out in fits of laughter for no apparent reason when he came back after a séance.

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

230th sitting 16/01/2021

We had a Zoom sitting.

Liz was wired to the Mind Mirror EEG.

Liz did an opening prayer and asked for information on the dying process, the conditions we find ourselves in and what life is like in the spirit world.

I was soon controlled and the communication began...

‘Each day of your life brings new forms of evidence for you are walking in a world full of synchronicities. You notice these synchronicities in your life and you find they will help you for you have begun to develop, you have started a pathway of investigation and we wish to help you, we wish to give you that support but we do not wish to interfere with your free will. You have to make your own way, you have to decide, you have to create a picture in your mind and build on that picture yourself. We join with you in your life, in your discoveries and we add to the enthusiasm in your mind to continue to move forward, continue to unravel the secrets of your own world. There was a time when life was simple but your world has become a place of complications. Each person in your world adds to those complications until they realise their true selves. You have understood this and are working at unravelling those mysteries. One by one you walk a predetermined pathway and yet as you walk you also live a physical life. Leave yourself open to our worlds. Live a physical life and a spiritual life, keep one foot in each reality and you will pick up those subtle reminders throughout your life that will encourage you to keep on moving forward, to keep on discovering more. Only you can interpret that what you discover and, in that interpretation, you will begin to unfold a truth, a truth for you. There is no need to compare that truth with the truth of others for you know, you know what is true and what is false. Use your own mind to create your own way of understanding. We can help and we will help but as you grow you draw closer to yourself, your true self, that what has given you the opportunity to live a physical life, and that what you will return to when the time is right. There is nothing complicated about the circle of life and when you do find complications irritating your mind cast them aside, keep your mind focused on that what is simple, that what is easy to understand for as you develop, you will find it easier to be both in the physical world and the spiritual world, for both states are natural to you. It is only your world that has taught you to stay firmly fixed to the physical world but your true self knows that your part is being played in both worlds simultaneously. Listen for our words, watch for the synchronicities in your life and keep your life simple. The physical world was designed for you and you fit that world like a glove, but when you become unbalanced, when you cling to the physical, that world becomes a world full of complications, a world full of questions, a world full of misunderstandings. Balance your spiritual life and physical life and you will become a whole person... thank you, thank you my dear friend, please continue with your interesting experiments and we will speak again’

Liz... ‘Thank you friend’

We had a short break as Liz lost her internet signal and had to move into another room.

Then we started again and Liz tuned in to see what she could get...

‘I’ve got an elderly gentleman, might be your grandfather. He’s got a greyish look about him; hair is grey, he is slightly stooped and he has a pleasant face but it’s slightly sunken, I’m seeing him in about his 80s, bushy eyebrows, lips fleshy, ears sticking out a little bit, a squarish face, nose quite large. I think it’s your grandfather on your mother’s side but, that’s what I'm feeling. He’s got a withered look about him, a gardener feeling but he had a slightly worried air about him, I felt him before we started, a very clear feeling he was there. He’s saying something about tunnels and I immediately get the feeling of tunnel vision. He appeared when I asked about the dying process and what it meant, what it felt like. He’s saying it was a bit of a shock in a way, he’d had tunnel vision about that, about the afterlife. It took him a while to acclimatise, I think he felt worried about leaving. I get the feeling of him with his cabbages and the things he was used to, the physical things. I think the image he had of heaven was choirboys singing, he’s putting that image into my head of a row of choirboys singing but there he is with his greenhouse, the same person. It's great but it took him a while to understand because it wasn’t what he expected, the image he had of an afterlife was holier somehow, wasn’t so ordinary. I'm asking him if there was anything that was different but he’s saying he’s getting the idea from us, that there’s more to it than that. It's like he’s been playing with the same sort of setup, doing the same things but he’s now beginning to feel that there’s more to it. I think he’s aware of your dad around, he’s giving me the image of the bluebird of happiness and the sunshine above him. He’s been quite content. It's the what-ifs, what if you change? I’m saying to him ‘how would you want to change?’ he’s just saying ‘for the better’ I’m saying ‘what would be better?’ I immediately get an image of an elephant; I wonder if Joan’s around? ‘what would be better is to learn more about what there is to learn’ I think he would like to learn more about this communication, being able to communicate with this world and I think he is getting help but I sense there is a part of him that’s being reluctant to make changes. But it is time, he’s getting a bit tired of digging the same soil, it’s been very lovely but he feels that there is more to it and he’s wanting to understand. The image of a camel has just popped into my head, a beast that stores up a supply of water, sustenance, can be safe in difficult places because it can carry what it needs, it stores. That's a hopeful image, he’s got the reserves in him to do all sorts of things, that’s a confidence to do that, he’s just realising that that’s possible, there are things he can do, ways that he can grow, places he can go to that he hadn’t anticipated, outside of his normal range and experience. It's as if his expectation of what’s possible has held him back from exploring further. It's still a little bit of a disturbing thought to think that you can go to these places and have adventures, venturing out of the familiar routine and landscape and I think he’s become aware that he’s stopped himself from doing that but he’s having some help with that now. Just got the name Freddie. I’m getting an image of Joan, a golden lady, lady with golden hair. I'm feeling that his character and personality gave him a certain reluctance to explore these things and to go outside his comfort zone. It's like an inner battle with him at the moment, he really wanted to speak and express his concerns for breaching his normal constraints. I feel he’s grinning, it’s a good feeling but it wasn’t that easy, a little bit of a battle for him but it’s been stimulated by his contact with us. He just wants you to know that his love is still there, if he goes forward it won’t mean he’s letting go of that, and it won’t mean that he’s not going to be around, he needs to know that himself but he can’t lose his contact with you, with the family, with his past life, he’s not quite ready for that. It's like the sun’s up there and he’s saying sunny days ahead, a feeling of hopefulness. He’s giving me a feeling of him sitting with a tankard of beer, a comfort zone feeling, not wanting to let go of all that yet but a feeling that the time has come but he doesn’t have to let go of it. I'm saying to him in my mind ‘you can go backwards and forwards, you don’t have to totally let go of one thing to flow into another’ he’s with your grandma as well and it’s like he feels slightly alone in all this, it’s his battle or conflict at present. He's just giving me this feeling of a female presence; she feels serene and stable and he’s feeling this urge for change, a sense of difficulty. She’s just there carrying on with all the normal things, keeping everything running smoothly, but he’s wringing his hands and furrowing his brow. It's like Mole in Wind of the Willows when he emerges from underground and sniffs the air and feels spring in the air and feels slightly torn about leaving his home but the urge of the sun above him and the fresh green fields is calling him and he ends up in the new adventure with his friends but his home was calling him back all the time. He’s feeling serener himself now, he’s a lovely man, I feel he’s got it off his chest, back to his normal self now. Just going to ask Joan and Freddie if they are there to help with his education and council. I’m getting an image of an earth worm or a snake. That's interesting as it was the snake that was the temptation in the Garden of Eden with the tree of knowledge, almost like an analogy there for the feeling for him that knowledge is a dangerous thing, going outside your comfort zone is like shaking the foundations of reality, going against the ordained. The taboo on knowledge and enquiry, I'm asking why, now this is interesting because you were talking earlier about the simplicity, of things being easy and it is because the path of knowledge and enquiry leads to transitions, developments, leads to development of the mind and consciousness and has in our history created problems where independently individuals have diverted from the path, from common sense and you need to know that those who are helping you, are helping you towards wholeness and integrity and not leading you on a wild goose chase. These are the temptations of the human mind. Can you trust your spirit guides? Can you trust your human guides? And this is where the individual responsibility comes in, discern the path for each one, each individual path it leads to harmony, wholeness but just as a river changes its course, to re-scape the landscape, to make new inroads, new environments, changes, so that human life can make new turns, new transitions, creating new pathways, new experiences. The Earth has been moulded and modelled over millennia and so the human soul is shaped, moulded and modelled through millennia and the asking of questions and questioning is part of the process of making the changes. You question whether the path you are on is the best path, or the place you are in is the best place or whether the knowledge you have is the full knowledge, correct knowledge and in doing this you create the opening for change, the remodelling of the landscape of your soul. This process continues after death, so don’t be surprised that turmoil in the soul can go on after death but just as in life there’s help and the possibility to make the changes after death, this is also the case. But existential crises that occur in life also occur after death because the soul doesn’t stop in its education, in its experiencing, and the consciousness in an individual soul can choose to resist the questioning and the changes because of the discomfort. Creation is a process involving energetic change, movement from one state to another. This requires will power, false effort, and in the process there can be chaotic fluctuations, instabilities before things settle down. This is the nature of creation and in the emerging consciousness of the process this leads to the arising resistances because the well-worn path, well-worn pattern is easy, is simple, is well tried. The new pattern is unknown yet, subject to fluctuations, subject to instabilities before it settles down. This leads to what some term anguish in the soul, the danger of leaving one state for another but it is an inevitable process. The evolutionary cycle that was setup in the beginning operates at all levels and this is where those who are further along the path, who have seen beyond the limitations of the human mind are able to help and it is in those higher forces and intelligences that you can place your trust. Ask and you will receive’

I felt that it was my grandad on my father’s side who was communicating as the character coming through felt more like him. Also, there was a mention of tunnels which made me think of tunnels he had at the end of his garden used in the war to shelter during air raids. Afterwards I emailed a picture of him to Liz and she confirmed it was quite like him but she saw him older. I thought this was an excellent communication which slowly morphed into what was more like a trance communication and I noticed Liz’s voice change as if she was being controlled. The impression I got was that the communication started coming from my grandad as he was on Earth but as it went on it slowly changed to his higher self or true self with the spiritual wisdom that comes with that. 

‘I had a name just then, Gloria’

Me... ‘We’ve had that before haven’t we?’

‘Not sure, but I’ll say thank you’

‘Just got a Phillip and as I say the name Phillip this is someone known to me, do you know a Phillip?’

Me... ‘I can’t think of one at the moment’

‘I feel this is someone known to me, I know he’s been around before, he’s a very good person, he’s been in our sessions before, I'll ask him if he wants to say anything... He just put in my mind, he wants me to give Paul his love, he was a school friend of his and lived with us for a while. He said he’s been watching both of our spiritual progress. I feel Gloria was connected with him. He's showing me a patterned sleeveless jumper, flower pots and pottery with a smile, taking great pride and joy in the everyday things, the joy and simplicity of normal activities. But something that came through earlier with you was the possibility of being in the two worlds at once, the higher level and the mundane, to have a foot in both worlds, he keeps on with the words biblio or biblia, the bible was very important to him, I think he went to China to sell bibles, he was part of a church that’s very prominent in China. He just says to me tell Paul I love him, I think he wants Paul to know this and he’s looking out for him and he’ll be there for him, as a friend is a friend for life and life beyond. He also wants me to give his love to Susie. He's saying he’s very comfortable with our séances, he came through, it’s not something he would have contemplated when he was alive but he’s felt very comfortable, it’s like he can see the light, he’s giving me a sense of a strong light with you too... Thankyou Phil...’

Liz thanked all the communicators for coming through.

I then did a closing prayer, sent out healing and did our closing down exercise...

229th Sitting 07/01/2021

We had another Zoom meet-up.

Liz was wired to the Mind Mirror EEG.

Liz did the opening prayer.

I was soon controlled and the communication began...

‘There is always value in a communication, in all communication. Someone will benefit, someone will find something of interest that will spark in their minds a thought, a thought about the larger reality, the bigger picture. You all live your individual lives in your physical world, you find all that you need in your physical world and yet a part of you can sense that there is so much more. Treat each day as a new adventure, treat each day as a new beginning and as that day unravels make the most of all that you see, all that you come across, all of the situations that are presented to you throughout that day for they have been given to you as a gift. Treasure that gift, learn from that gift and pass that gift onto others. There is much that you can do to improve your world, to brighten your world, to raise the vibration of your world. You yourself are connected to every part of that world and every being that exists in your world. The way you react to situations can be felt by everybody within that world and beyond that world. You are a part of consciousness and as consciousness you spread your wings throughout all of life. Nothing is hidden from you; nothing is disconnected from you. What you do now sends ripples throughout all of consciousness. Create positivity in your life and that positivity will be felt. Do not let those situations and those people around you dim that positivity. You are in charge of your life; you choose how to react. Make those choices with love in your heart, understand how each person in your world is also working towards raising the vibration in your world in their own way, making mistakes, learning from mistakes and growing. You cannot judge another person for you are not that person. All mind has its own value to life and each person in your world contributes to that value’

‘Many words have been said throughout your world, many changes have happened as a result of those words. Choose your words carefully, consider the meaning behind each word you utter for that is what you are giving to one another. You may feel it is merely words but the feelings travel throughout your world, they contribute to the growth, the raising of vibrations throughout your world. Those words that you hear, put your own feeling on those words, do not let the words drive you for you are in charge. If you allow worlds to affect the way you think you have lost that connection with yourself. Always be one step ahead of yourself, prepare yourself, set aside your beliefs and fears, and see everybody as a part of something greater. Understand that they are working at creating positive energy. Words can be misunderstood, life can be misunderstood, look for the good in all situations, stay positive and remember to play you part. You have all been given a great opportunity to better yourself and better your world. Make your life joyous by joining hands with all who you meet, creating friendships and understanding. There are many levels of understanding, try to keep yourself raised to the highest levels. Keep your thoughts pure and your heart open and those around you will feel your energy, your positive energy. You cannot be harmed by words when you see them as interpretations of love. Love can be found in all things, in all situations and if you look for that love you will not be hurt... Thank you, thank you my dear friend’

Liz... ‘Thank you friend’

I soon felt back with it and then Liz started to tune in... 

‘I’ve got this gentleman, a sailor, quite elderly, late 70s, very vital but a wrinkled face, creased face, a bit like Popeye the Sailor Man. He reminds me of Bill, maybe connected with Bill? Maybe someone you’ve met? He’s singing things like ‘What shall we do with the drunken sailor’ in a blue stripy uniform, wants to do a jig, happy nautical person, grey hair, feels as though he’s tanned but he’s showing himself pale. Barrels of rum, boats, rowing boats, fishing. In the Navy, a capstan, large mechanical apparatus on a bigger boat. I feel he’s also connected with Travis or knows Travis. He’s saying garage. A feeling of long hair that’s been cut off like a plat, connection with a barber, a barber’s sign. He’s being playful, got Long John Silver with a wooden leg, pirates. He’s a kind person, I feel I know him. There’s a lady connected with him, Dahlia or Delia, a lady that got left behind, a very nice lady. The sea was very important in his life, the open sea and the waves, a self-sufficient person. He’s singing ‘All the nice girls love a sailor’ He didn’t like to be pegged down, it was a relationship he could dip in and out of. He’s popping phrases into my head, there’s plenty more fish in the sea. I’m getting a name like Roy. I’m sensing a massage, don’t get hooked up. He's sensing the vastness of the spirit world and it’s reminding him of that sense of adventure and open space on the sea, the lure of foreign lands. Sailor Sam. Telescopic vision looking into the distance, telescope. Keep coming back to the lady, the softness, the petticoats, there was that element but he didn’t want to get hooked into that, but he appreciated that. The thing that really held him was the distance, keeping his freedom. Now he's got that but it’s as if he’s slightly cut adrift’

Sounds like a nice chap but nobody I recognise. Roy was mentioned and is the name of a long-time friend of my dad but he doesn’t in any way fit the description.

‘Now I’ve got somebody coming forward, brown overalls, got the name George, somebody different. Grey curly hair, brown grocers coat like a store manager, a sense of packets of corn flakes, grocery store. Seeing a till, counting up the pennies. Don't know if this is somebody you can connect with or a store where you worked?’

Me... ‘I can’t place anything at the moment’

‘Connection with newspapers. A nice man, magpies, feeding birds. Could be symbolic, black and white, somebody who had strong opinions, left and right, right and wrong. Somebody who had a Protestant work ethic, having to earn your bread and butter. Paper doilies on plates, strong commitment to the home, supporting a household. Liked to see lads being brought up the right way, knowing how to earn their pocket money, earn their living, not take things for granted, help the family, that was him, leaving school early to work. Getting a sense of bicycles against the shop, boys' bikes’

The only thing I can think of is the newsagents where I did a paper round as a boy and we all lent our bikes against the shop when collecting the papers but I have no memory of the guy who ran the shop unfortunately.

‘Getting a radio and the name Teddy, radio broadcast, like the little radios you had just after the war, battery operated, dials and knobs, getting the words testing, testing, testing... Just asking if anybody was trying to come through and I got a jokey The Queen of Sheba’

I wonder if Liz got Teddy wrong and it’s actually Freddy? Freddy used to come through each week in the Mercury Circle and would always announce himself with ‘Radio radio...’ I also remember him jokingly saying things like ‘testing, testing...’ He would definitely say the Queen of Sheba as a play on words, Queen being the name of the rock band he sung in and his character was camp like a queen.

‘My feeling is it’s your dad, I’ve got leather buttons, brown leather buttons, the sort that look like chestnuts, conkers. He’s wanting to put spectacles on to look more closely, finding it difficult to focus. He's got the Christmas and holly out of the way, settling down to something a bit more serious. He's brought me back to the Christmas dinner, and socks. Piano keyboard, wanting to play it, saying something funny like the Raj of Kapoor. The importance of having music in your life, music as a way of sharing, communicating, expressing. The black and white notes, the black and white, the minor key, to be able to express sadness in the minor keys, associate the minor keys with that more spiritual searching, longing, the sadness, the deeper emotions. Image of Polly Parrot, a parrot just repeats things, with the piano you can create things, speak your own... vary, a parrot can’t play the piano. He’s got his hat and a magic wand, he’s tapping his hat with the magic wand, reminding me of Sooty and Sweep, Harry Corbet, izzy wizzy let’s get busy, and then Sweep comes along and does something silly, the magic goes wrong. He’s put into my head Grange Hill, a drama on TV, I don’t know if you ever watched it?'

Me... ‘I never watched it but I know what it is’

‘Children that were difficult, bullying, antisocial. He’s saying girls have problems as well, girls can be subjected to bullying and can have nasty experiences, rough and tumble. He's giving me an image of putting all these experiences into a pot and stirring it. Cook it all up, boil it so it’s all mixed up then you just pour it onto the earth, let it settle and get digested into the earth, it all goes back to feed the earth, grist for the mill. I'm still feeling that keyboard, very prominent, he wants to emphasize it. Getting the colour violet, connected with higher spirituality, crown chakra, third eye, imagination. Loosen up the keyboard, he’s urging you to get back into music, to improvise, let rip, to play, to encourage your creativity. Oh, for the wings of a dove’

‘I don’t know if your dad could be sarcastic at times but he’s going back to the parrot in the cage, pretty Polly, pretty Polly...’

Me... ‘Yes, he was sarcastic’

‘Yes, because he often seems to make sarcastic comments, it’s his form of humour but he’s very perceptive really. He's a bit of a heavy dude really, he’s got a strong character’

‘I’m getting brown wrapping paper in connection with you, that you wrap parcels in, don’t know if it’s of any significance to you but I'm just seeing it being unrolled?’

Me... ‘I do use that sometimes’

I have been sending off and receiving a few parcels recently.

‘The association I'm getting is wrapping up candlesticks’

I haven’t done that.

‘This may be a link with Brenda’

Brenda has been sorting out a lot of dad’s stuff, some of which she has been wrapping up and sending to places but not candlesticks.

‘Did they have a little dog? Was Brenda thinking of getting a dog?’

Me... ‘No...’

‘I’m just seeing a dog, white, quite small, long hair, looks like a lady’s dog... He’s taking me to an image of train sets, like Hornby, ones that are quite realistic’

My brother had Hornby train sets when we were young.

‘Is there French windows in Brenda’s house?’

Me... ‘Yes French doors’

‘I’m with him there, feels like a living room or lounge, French doors going onto the garden’

This describes the room where he passed. It’s a back room but does look like a living room and the French doors lead out to the back garden.

‘Just get the feeling he’s wanting her to know he’s still around. Did they ever grow things in their garden?’

Me... ‘Only flowers and shrubs’

‘I was getting a feeling of cabbages, green veg’

Me... ‘Years ago my Dad grew things like that, not the latter years’

‘He’s giving me the image of a mop head. I'm feeling he’s much more comfortable now, much more relaxed, settled, energy feels smoother. I think he had a rough ride the last few years and he’s needed some healing time to feel easy again, at peace, resolve all the bits of his life, all the memories, all the different associations and to be there with it and to visit but without it jarring, without it pulling at his heart strings in the same way. It’s like he’s accepting, coming to terms with it and even enjoying the sense of adventure and freedom, the sense of being able to watch and interact and the possibilities. I wonder if he brought through this elderly sailor that came at first, his experience’

‘Getting that name Dahlia again and I don’t know if it’s a woman or flowers. Has Sarah been doing anything with dahlias?’

Me... ‘Not that I know of but I can ask her’

She tells me she hasn’t.

‘I’ll say thank you to him, unless there’s anything else he wishes to say... he’s given me kittens. That reminds me of a song my gran used to sing... two little kittens that lost their mittens all on a winter’s day. He says we need to go and have some tea...’

Liz thanked all of our friends for coming and for the communication.

She then did a closing prayer, sent out healing and did our closing down exercise...

228th Sitting 18/12/2020

We had another Zoom Sitting.

Liz was wired to the Mind Mirror EEG.

Liz did an opening prayer while I tuned in and was soon controlled.

The connection felt strong as the communication began...

‘Everything comes for a reason. You are developing a connection with a larger audience. Imagine them all seated around you waiting for their turn to speak. They have to rely on you to give them that mouthpiece, to allow them to say what they want to say. You have developed up to a point and you will continue to develop and as you develop each connection will grow stronger, you will let go and allow that what comes to you to burst forth, to bring through words, words that can be understood, can be recognised and words that will generate love in the hearts of those who receive them. All mediumship is a form of healing and in healing it reaches the hearts of those who feel confused and in their confusion they feel sadness for those who have left their physical world. Each form of mediumship plays its part in alleviating that sadness, in bringing joy into the hearts of those who feel they have been left behind. It gives them the understanding that those who have left their world are still very much a part of their lives. They begin to see the connection; they begin to feel the connection. As they hear the messages so it strengthens their own connection for they no longer believe that they are far away, they now have that truth in their mind that they are close and they can be contacted’

‘Mediumship is a wonderful tool throughout your world and as you reach a time in your world, a time where the science of your world begins to shake off its beliefs, begins to see a clearer model of a reality that contains more than just physical matter, a reality that can be sensed beyond the physical senses, a reality that is fundamental, fundamental in the production of life. They will see the small part they play in a physical world and the greater part they play in the spiritual vibrations. Mediumship contributes to the overall understanding, the development of understanding throughout your world. Those in search of answers tread many paths. They may tread the scientific path, they may tread the artistic path, they may not know where to look but within your world there are many pockets of development in many areas and as somebody begins to look for greater understanding they will be nudged into situations where they will hear, where they will see evidential communication, something which will widen their understanding, widen their perspective on the meaning of life. There are many beliefs in your world and each leads to a solid truth. Do not worry about the details, the details are not important. What is important is how you feel. You will know when you are facing the truth and you will understand the confusions that lead to that truth. For nothing is written in stone, everything is developing and as life develops you also develop and you find new answers to new questions. Keep asking those questions, keep questioning the answers, do not believe and you will know’ 

‘A brighter world awaits you; a stronger understanding awaits you; you are doing the work and you will reap the benefits in all that you do, thank you, thank you my dear friend and continue your wonderful experiment’

Liz... ‘Thank you friend, that’s very affirming’

I soon felt back with it then Liz began to tune in...

‘I seem to be getting a lesson in percussion, I got an accordion first of all which I connected with your dad, then I got an image of a banana boat and felt your dad behind me making some slightly ironic remark on a boat and then playing percussion with sticks, could be a xylophone, being noisy. Says he just wants a voice’

Dad had a habit of tapping the table with his fingers and hands at meal time. There was a particular beat he used to do with one hand turning over and then back again. He told me his grandad used to do it and I copied him and still do it now myself sometimes.

‘It’s almost like he’s wrapping me in a fur rug’

My dad came through to Liz earlier talking about being wrapped in cotton wool and this gave Liz a feeling of vertigo and she also felt this when he came through strongly during one of our Zoom sittings recently. The fur rug could symbolise a rug of protection for her.

‘He put an image of a bear in my head, like a bear hug’

‘He just put the image in my head of a tooth brush and a beaker, looks like a child’s toothbrush, the beaker is patterned. Could be connected with when you were little, a memory. It's to do with habits, you learned habits when you were little that last with you for life, you hope to keep your teeth for life. It makes me feel he lost his teeth’

Dad didn’t lose his teeth but teeth make me think of two things. Brenda told me she cleaned his teeth just after he died and the other thing is, I’ve had a couple of bits break off my teeth recently but don’t think I need a dentist as there’s no pain, maybe I should go?

‘Comfort, cold comfort. I think that was what he was telling me before, all the fussing and attention, wrapping in cotton wool, it’s cold comfort, what you are losing. I don’t think he could say how he was feeling, being an invalid, wrapped in cotton wool, needing all that care. It was a loss of self-respect I think, a loss of potency. I think that’s why he wants to shout and make a noise now. He's got his energy back, saying something like a radio broadcast that it’s not the end. I don’t think he wants to be remembered for that being in cotton wool, it’s undignified’

He never talked to me about how he was feeling towards the end but I could tell he was in a lot of pain. He was very frustrated about not being able to do the things he used to do but again hid his emotions and put on a brave face.

‘He’s giving me a sense of a zoo or animal park. I seem to be in front of the monkey cage feeding the monkeys. Maybe that’s where the banana boat came in?’

I have a memory of when we were young visiting Longleat Safari Park and the monkeys did some damage to the wipers on the car.

‘He’s taking me back to the Chatterjee and the feeling that the monkey mind can make a silk turban out of a sow's ear. 

‘There's something forming in the back of my mind, it’s like a sign at a station, seeing it in green and white, connected with a railway, a station. I'm standing at a platform looking at this sign, I can’t read what’s on the sign. Into my head came the idea of Brighton. I’ve got paint brushes; he wants to paint something. With this big brush it’s like painting on a wall ‘pick of the day’ it’s like the highlights of the day, things that stand out’

One of dads specialities was being able to say the word Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch and when in Wales on holiday we went to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch train station and dad bought a platform ticket which was extra-long. When Liz said Brighton and then got paint brushes I thought he was going to paint over the word Brighton as it was wrong. It was like he was playing a trick knowing that Liz probably wouldn’t get Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch and if she did she won’t be able to say it!!!

‘He's giving me the feeling of a cat, reminding me of a tortoiseshell cat we used to have. A feeling of a cat being very peaceful, very restful, very present. Feline. Serendipity. The moving finger writes and having written moves on... Chance encounters, chance happenings, spirit led. The idea that fate, you can’t change things, you can’t adjust, there is such a thing as serendipity which is like luck, which can shift things. But like the cat you have to be aware, you have to notice them, you have to be alert. Just minor adjustments can be made by these serendipitous events, things that come into your life, chance encounters, meetings that can cause a subtle change, help to change circumstances, change the way you think, the way you feel, the way you act. Getting a feeling like a village jumble sale, a fete, different stalls selling different things. You come across something you hadn’t expected to see, something unanticipated. You go along to an event like that and something seemingly random catches your attention and hooks you, could be a book, could be an object. He's showing me a train, a model train, quite large. That chance purchase can have long term unanticipated effects, serendipitous purchase’

‘I keep feeling him with the grandchildren, I think he had great affection, feeling that moulding of children, how the little things that you introduce into their lives with children can shape their futures in so many ways, their interests, their direction’

Yes, he loved the grandchildren and was pleased that one of them became interested in magic.

‘We don’t even remember how habits were formed, they start very early on, they shape our life, and I'm sensing they even shape your afterlife except things grow bigger, expand. As I said the word expand, I asked Michael to give me something and it turned into rubber band, stretching, there’s a lot about stretching and I think the idea is not to get tied up in the tricks, in the habits, keep stretching and going beyond because the habits lock you in even after death but you begin to see more of the opportunities’

‘I’m seeing a bar and a liquor store, it’s a limited scene but there’s so much more. Giving me that image of the sun, like it’s in the corner of the screen but it’s a prominent force, effect, that light’

‘Got the name Henry, John Henry’

Dad’s mother came through to me in a séance about 15 years ago and mentioned an Uncle Henry who I couldn’t place at the time but found him later on the family tree one generation above my gran so it was her uncle. Not sure about the John though.

‘Seeing a great big gate to a field, like a hurdle that has to be overcome, got over. Before you can leap over and go to the sun it’s like there’s something beyond and there’s a bit of a barrier before you can get to that, to the sun. Just seeing birds, magpies in the field, black and white birds. That’s interesting, the words earlier were going through my mind, a poem by Rumi... Out beyond ideas of rightdoing or wrongdoing there is a field, I'll meet you there... The black and white is the human judgment of negative and positive, good and bad, the way we categorise things’

‘He just put in my mind the idea of mustard, I don’t know if it’s like mustard and cress growing in the field or the word must, you must do this you must do that’

This could be a memory for me as I have never liked mustard but dad loved it and used it a lot.

‘I'm sensing the broadening out, the stretching is to do with going beyond the limitations of the confines of our thinking, our habits, good and bad, must and should, prerogatives’

‘Now he’s putting on his wizard’s hat. It's got suns and moons and stars on it. Saying I want a bit of magic. Sooty bear and Sweep. He’s wanting to go beyond; he’s seen the possibilities but still a little bit stuck with the habits of a lifetime and not quite over the effects of the last few years. Just showing me fences. A crust of bread, having to earn your crust of bread. Don’t worry about where the next morsel of food is coming from, the universe will provide. Perhaps he did in his life and that’s a habit. To realise you don’t have to worry about those things must be wonderful. I’m seeing all these fences and it’s like you still have to... these fences are connected to all these habits and conditioning. You don’t just drop them just like that, you do carry them with you’

‘He’s gone back to the toothpaste again, it’s like a plastic cup with flowers on it, might be a girl’s one, it’s got pink and yellow flowers on it, it’s pale blue and it’s for putting the toothpaste and toothbrush in. There's some significance, don’t know if it’s for you, Brenda or the grandchildren. He’s giving me the image of a pansy. And now an image of cowboys’ 

‘I sense he wanted you to be the masculine image of the male, all the things that men like doing and overlooked the more sensitive side, the female aspect, the emotional side, and he’s realising that. A side he suppressed in himself, it came out in different ways and maybe he urged you to suppress that other side of your nature. He can see that that in a way limited you. So he’s giving me the girlie images and then juxtaposing those with the cowboy, rough and ready blokey type. I think he had to keep that suppressed in himself, back then, during the war it was frowned on, effeminate men, nowadays it’s... He’s giving me the words systematic error... my feeling is it’s related to upbringing and training which subverts, causes malfunction. He’s giving me the word tearful, to cry. He says it makes you dull if you have to suppress those things, dulls you down’

Dad did suppress his sensitive side to me and my brother. Brenda told me that he got upset about trivial things during the last few years of his life and often cried.

‘Getting the diamond image’

‘I’m saying to him I know you are trying to not overwhelm my energy, putting that blanket round me but I’m asking him to come closer so I can feel more clearly what he’s trying to convey. The minute I said that I begin to feel, I get that tinge of vertigo, he just has to tread carefully, sorry... ha, ha, he’s giving me the image of a great big bear, ha, ha... he’s saying I'm much too delicate, like a porcelain doll’

‘Keep getting daisy, daisy, images of daisy so I don’t know if Travis is there in the background, working at it, trying to adjust, thank you Travis, we can all work together I'm sure. Just popped into my mind the image of Rupert Bear and his little friend, they always had adventures together. Now I've got the word Shen, that’s interesting, Shen is the name I have for one of my guides, Tibetan or Chinese. That’s interesting referring to Rupert and his little Chinese friend, female friend. I think he’s just there affirming that the adventures will take us to a higher place, a place in the clouds with the teachings and for Michael too, all of us, we have helpers’

‘I'm going to say now I think that’s enough, we have Shen, the Diamond and Travis, lots of helpers, all those fences are going to melt away and we will make it into the sun, into that great light, the spiritual journey we are all beginning on together and hopefully teaching and a lot more will come through’

Liz thanked all our friends and did a closing prayer.

We sent out healing and did our closing down exercise...

227th Sitting 09/12/2020

We had another Zoom meetup.

Liz wasn’t wired to the Mind Mirror EEG this week.

Liz did the opening prayer then tuned in to see what she could get...

‘It’s rather strange, I got a sense of chickens and then this Indian gentleman with the name Chatterjee stepped forward. He’s quite elderly, in his 70s or 80s, light brown complexion, slightly bald head, greying hair at the sides. A very kind gentleman, slightly bent, reminding me of the monkey mind because of the name Chatterjee and it’s like he’s got a pet monkey and the chickens around him, I feel he might have a pet shop or animal sanctuary. He's got a large ring on his finger he’s making me aware of, quite ornate with silver, quite a large ring, green turquoise stone in the centre but it changes colour, also blood red. He’s got crates of oranges and vegetables as well’

Me... ‘He’s not ringing any bells with me at the moment, maybe he’s just brought a message of some sort?’

‘Yes... he just gave me an image of a Zebra Crossing and I usually get that sense with somebody that is mixed race, or the connection between mixed cultures’

‘Did I hear a dog barking from your end?’

Me... ‘No, I didn’t hear anything’

‘I could hear one here’ 

‘He’s putting some lights in an incense holder hanging from a ceiling. This is a man who had a very simple life, was a tradesman, maybe had a stall that dealt with all sorts of things but he feels to me like quite a spiritual man, engaged in spiritual thinking and practise, but he had a very open outlook on the world. He's putting into my head, it’s not what you do or what you say it’s how you are that’s important. I think he had lots of fruit in his shop, he’s giving a lot to his monkey. Feeding the monkey mind with good things, healthy stuff. It's a delight, he loves his monkey mind but he feeds it with good stuff, good fruit, and when he lights his candle it’s when the monkey sits on his shoulder and it’s quiet because he knows that’s time for devotional practice, time to sit still and just be with the light. He's saying you don’t need a temple or a mountain, he’s just sitting in his store room. It seems that element of lighting the candle is like a signal to the monkey to sit quietly. I think that’s his message. He's taking me to his wrist, he’s got a chain on his wrist and his ring on his finger. Thank you sir, thank you for your message and your presence’

‘I just got a name Andrew, and it comes with a school tie. Whether this is a school connection of yours, Andrew?’

Me... ‘We used to take a boy to school called Andrew’

‘The tie he’s showing me is horizontal stripes, black and light blue. Saying something about polo, does that ring a bell? I think of the game, horse polo but it’s also the mint with the hole in the middle’

Me... ‘No I can’t think of a connection with polo’

He did like his food particularly cakes and sweets, he also liked animals and looked out for sheep, cows and horses on the journeys.

‘I’m seeing horses and horse racing, I wonder if that’s a connection with Travis, perhaps he’s helping him?’

‘I’m seeing him as a young man, a young executive, could have been working in a store, department store or supermarket in a managerial role, he’s dressed in a suit and he’s young, he’s not showing himself much older than that’

I remember he got a job working with animals after he left school and also loved performing on stage. I think he also got a job working in a shop but can’t be sure.

‘Just got an image of a hot air balloon, something happened to take him off. I think he had cancer because I'm seeing the elephant’s tusks and I connect that with Joan’

‘I’m seeing school playing fields’

‘I don’t know if he shared school with you?’

Me... ‘No’

‘It was a different school’

Me... ‘Yes’

‘Okay, but he’s showing me school playing fields. I think it’s to do with cricket, games’

I think this is to do with his surname which he is trying to get through to Liz, it was Andrew Field.

‘I keep seeing a taxi and it makes me think he was one of the children you took to a special school’

Me... ‘Yes he was’

This is evidential as when I said we used to take a boy to school called Andrew, Liz assumed I was talking about the time when I was going to school. It seems that Andrew has realised this so shows Liz an image of a taxi. She then remembers that I used to take special needs children to school in my taxi.

‘So does it make sense that he would have left school by now and got a job’

Me... ‘Yes he’s a lot older now’

‘My feeling is that something has happened, he’s now on the other side’

Me... ‘I might find that out later as we normally get a Christmas card from his mum’

‘He’s giving me a warm feeling about the taxi; it was quite a safe space for him. Just that sense of gratitude for creating a safe space’ 

‘He likes the feeling of being in a suit and having a job and being in control of his life a little bit more. It's almost like something happened to pluck him up, this hot air balloon. It felt like he shifted to another level, he’s still travelling and wanted you to know he’s alright, he’s there, he’s enjoying it, he’s seeing things from a new level, he’s looking down on the counterpane, the fields, the Earth and it gave him a new perspective’

‘I feel for him the best part of school, what he’s showing me, was the playing field, the games’

He did enjoy games at school and always looked forward to the annual Sports Day.

‘I'm seeing him as quite a slim boy with dark hair and tall’

Me... ‘He had dark hair but I wouldn’t say he was slim’

He was actually quite chubby and short.

‘He’s showing me himself in a suit, but his face had an anxious expression about it, freckles, ears protruding slightly. I think he felt a bit left footed in his life’

Me... ‘What do you mean by left footed?’

‘It’s a strange expression but wrong footed, he always put his foot in things. Maybe he was dyslectic?’

Me... ‘He could have been, he had a lot of issues’

He had down’s syndrome and was very clumsy, knocking things over and putting his foot in things at times which he found amusing.

‘That feeling of not being able to get things quite right, or in perspective, and that feeling of going up in a hot air balloon has sorted that out somehow’

‘He’s showing me a Christmas card, he just wants to send you a Christmas card’

We still send his mum a Christmas card and she sends one to us with a long message of what has happened in the last year.

‘I’ll say thank you Andrew, thank you for making your appearance and for Travis for helping, love and blessings to you’

‘I think he liked having you both there, you and Sarah both in the car, it was like having mummy and daddy on that journey’

He only had a mum who had adopted him. He never had a dad so probably liked the idea of having a mum and a dad on the journey to and from school.

‘It almost sounds like a cliché but I’m sensing an old man, quite thin, white hair, quite long and a white beard. But he feels like an academic and he’s smiling, he’s reminding me of someone. He’s got a feeling a bit like Brian who came to our group. But I'm feeling he’s got a connection with science. I think he’s a doctor, a psychiatrist, somebody in that field or a psychologist. I think this is Geoffrey Blundell who was the electrical engineer who worked on the Mind Mirror. I’m asking him to give me a clue if it is him and he’s giving me GB. He’s put a notion in my head about three ugly ducklings, the story of the ugly duckling that is rejected then grows into a swan. When he said three ugly ducklings I'm thinking of Max Cade, Dr Ann Woolley-Hart and Geoffrey Blundell, the three people I associate with the Mind Mirror, and I think that’s his joke, the three ugly ducklings who have turned into three beautiful swans. I get this sense of a piano or keyboard, music and he’s giving me an indication that music is important, sound, in setting the right brain wave patterns. I was doing experiments with drum beats set at different frequencies. He’s saying it’s to entrain the mind, to entrain the brain waves. Alpha, he’s saying the alpha is important. He’s saying you have to establish your signature, signature tune. He's taking me to an image of brown brogue lace up shoes, dusting the mud off them, keeping your equipment in good working order, cleaning things. Giving me the sense of the sun and he’s using the French word soleil making me think of soleil luminaire, sound and light, both have very profound effects on the brain in the type of patterns you produce. I'm asking him if my experimenting is yielding anything useful. He's giving me a sense of play, just be playful, he’s saying you’ll see how it will help you, giving me an image of the ticket for the bus ride, it’s like it’s clocking the journey, the experiments are clocking the journey, giving the itinerary, have fun, he’s treating it like a holiday. He’s waving goodbye, he’s very warm and friendly, thank you Geoffrey’

Liz thanked and said goodbye to everybody

Then I tuned in and was soon controlled...

‘Once again, we come through to speak with you, give you some form of useful information, something which will make you think, something which will give you a new understanding for you are always looking for something new, something which has not been on your mind. You have a belief that there is something shielded from you but that belief is a false belief for you are connected to all of life, everything is available for you. You have to find that key, that key that unlocks all that is shielded from you. Look at your world, see how your world flourishes, how your world renews itself each year. Ask yourself what is behind the renewal of life on your world. You as an individual see yourself as a part of that world, you understand your own beginning in that world and how you have grown and developed. And you can feel that there is something behind you, something pushing you, something motivating you, something giving you the idea that a greater power exists. But your beliefs tell you that you have no access to that power. You all need to wake up, you all need to feel the power, feel the love, feel life itself motivating you, pushing you forward. You too add to that love by the way you live your life and that love is you. You do not feel it, you are it, you create it and you receive it. Nothing is greater than the love that motivates all of life, love that is continually expanding, and you play your part in helping that love to expand, to grow as you live your life. Try to understand that life is for living, life is fun, life is joyous. You are all in it together creating and growing. See it as a game, a game of life and you all play your part. The negativities and confusions that you experience in life are there as building blocks for your own growth. Rejoice when you experience negativity, know that you have put yourself into that situation to grow, to learn, to create more love. Hold hands with life and feel the love within yourself shining brighter each day. Carry that smile wherever you go knowing that the smile on your face represents that love in your heart, thank you, thank you my dear friend’

Liz... ‘Thank you friend’

Liz then did the closing prayer, sent out healing and did our closing down exercise...

226th Sitting 04/12/2020

We had a Zoom meetup and Liz was wired to the Mind Mirror EEG.

Liz did an opening prayer then I went first.

After a few minutes I started to be controlled and the communication began...

‘Each day of your life is an open book. Fill that book with experience, for that book will develop into an open book of knowledge, knowledge gained from experience. That knowledge is required for without knowledge you have no means of interpreting information given to you. Each time you feel yourself developing within yourself you will know that you have gained more knowledge, more experience. Life is experience and you live that life day by day knowing that you are drawing closer to the true you, that what guides you, that what is inside of you trying to burst out. You are growing, you are becoming more and you are gathering experience and knowledge. As an individual in a world of physical matter you have nothing to fear. Your fears are created by yourself. Try to find those fears and extinguish those fears for they are not required, they are not a part of you. You have seen fears come and go but those that you cling to are not necessary. As you grow you will see how futile fears can be, they have no purpose other than to blind you to your true self. Your physical world was designed to give you the opportunity to rid yourself of those fears, but it is also the reason for those fears, for you feel alone, you do not feel that connection with all of life until you have developed more, until you have grown. You are all working on yourselves and together you are creating a vibration throughout your world which will help you to grow. As you grow your world grows and becomes an environment in which you will find no need for fears but fears still come and go. Try to understand the effect of fears on yourself, recognise that effect and try to understand why. You have all the time in the world to work on those fears and you will be helped but ultimately it is you who makes the choices, who chooses to change yourself or stay the same. You look back on your life and you see the mistakes you have made and yet at that time those mistakes were the choices that you made. See how you have grown; see how you have developed and be joyous in the knowledge that as you grow your life will become so much brighter’

‘You are being watched, you are watched by yourself, that part of you with one foot in the physical and one foot in the spiritual. It is a part of you and can be lived. You as an individual can access all of you, all that exists. Allow yourself to be receptive to that what connects you to the spiritual world for that is you. There is no break between the two worlds, they are one, you merely shield yourself from the spiritual world with your own beliefs. Allow your beliefs to crumble and allow your mind to expand and you will see the true makeup of yourself, of your consciousness and how it connects to all of life. Take yourself out of yourself and see the world in all of its true beauty, devoid of beliefs, devoid of expectations. Allow your world to present itself to you, do not present it to yourself from within, thank you my dear friend’

Then Liz tuned in to see what she could get...

‘I got a name Terry and I felt the presence of a red-haired boy, ginger haired, a bit like Dennis the Menace...’ 

My wife and I were talking about her uncle Terry today who died in his 50s. He had a childish character, a bit of a practical joker like Dennis the Menace and had ginger hair.

‘...but I’ve got a man with greyish hair, thinning on top. I'm seeing him with a roundish face and the hair is thin and smoothed on top, he’s reminding me of my Sunday School teacher, a very kind person but I think this is your grandfather on your mum’s side. He’s a bit fingers and thumbs today, that’s the feeling I'm getting, he’s around his greenhouse again. He wants to put gloves on, with holes, with the fingers cut out. A sense of snow coming’

Maybe just a coincidence but I wore my gloves for the first time this winter today but they don’t have holes for the fingers 

‘He’s giving me a sense of a robin, a round robin. A glass of sherry, something to warm you. A pearl earring or a pearl’

Robins and sherry are good but I can’t be sure about pearls or pearl earrings.

‘A bicycle, propped up against his greenhouse’

I remember finding an old bike propped up against the wall in his cellar which he let me have. It had an extra-large tyre on the back which I thought looked good and fitted it to my bike. I also cut off the front forks and had them welded to the front forks on my bike turning it into a ‘chopper’ bike.

‘Cabbages... reminds me of a boy I knew who had a deformed ear, a cauliflower ear. He’s saying there are some days when you’re feeling all fingers and thumbs, can’t get things quite right, fumbling, a feeling of being old, he felt that, trying to keep going, giving me a sense of himself shuffling in his carpet slippers’

‘He’s giving me a sense that he might have smoked cigarettes at some point, but he put them away in the dustbin, they deserved to go in the dustbin’

Yes, he smoked rollups, I used to be fascinated watching him roll cigarettes and he had loads of tobacco tins which he used to put odds and ends in. I can’t remember if he gave them up or not.

‘He’s polishing windows, maybe a metaphor for not clouding your vision. Seeing him inside the greenhouse cleaning the windows, they’re getting all misted up, everything’s getting misted up. He’s giving me a sense of warmth, warmth of the sun. I think he’s talking about the transition from when he was old and getting cloudy, his vision of the world was getting cloudy, impaired and it was like stepping out into the warm sunshine after a cold spell, that was what dying was like, a release into spring again, into the summer, being young again. He's saying that fear of terminal decline, getting stiffer, all fingers and thumbs with the vision clouding, it’s just part of the fading away and not to be afraid of that, not to fear that because sooner or later you step out of that, that is not an intrinsic part of you, that old age. Realise you can step out of that into the Summerland. He's showing me the bright coloured wall flowers and spring flowers, watering them. Getting a feeling of that Ford car of his again. He’s giving me the impression of planting again, new growth, new plants. I'm surprised to see him planting a new vegetable patch but it’s that feeling that if you don’t see the fruits as you decline you lose connection with the fruits of your labour. You don’t stop in the Summerland; you carry on where you left off in your prime. It's a letting go, there’s a necessary period before you die of letting go, you have to let go of the physical before you can enter into the new phase, this new field and then the work carries on, the things you really love like the car, the planting, the growing things, if that’s what you like, that’s what you do. It's like your gran is behind him with the tea towel, it’s almost like they’ve recreated their life in a way that they shared but it’s somehow got larger because the area he’s planting feels more like a field’ 

‘He's putting an image in my head of coils of rope, a sense of a boat, the coils of rope to tether it is a safety device when you set out on the sea, to make sure you can still get back to where you came from. I think that’s a fear that if you set out you might not be able to get back, you might get lost. That safety rope is a devise to keep you tethered. The coils of rope keep you tethered to the physical and they are there because of the fear of letting go, going free, risking the journey on the sea of spirit. Your grandfather is saying look at me I can come back, I passed over but I haven’t actually gone, I'm not lost’ 

‘I've got a lady, quite thin, large spectacles, dark rims. She’s got a darkish skin, slightly olive, Mediterranean feel. She was around in the 60s, maybe a little earlier. Might have been involved in spiritual work as a teacher, a piano, a waiting room like a school room or surgery. I feel this was a lady who was quite firm and strict and had clear boundaries, quite efficient but pleasant, stern but not someone to be afraid of. She could be very kind. Plum pudding. She’s got an auntie feeling about her. A dog with her, black scotty dog. I think she knew you when you were little, do you have an aunt that fits that description?’

Me... ‘No, I can’t place her at the moment’

‘Could have been a nursery teacher or an early teacher, I see toys around her but she has an auntie feeling about her, it’s almost like you were one of her little charges, maybe she treated all children like family? There’s Christmas parties, picture books, stories, things that stimulate children’s imagination. She’s showing me a particular story with a wolf in it like Little Red Riding Hood, scary stories that children have, children being magicked away and little boys with their heads chopped off, children being treated badly, wicked witches, the big bad wolf. But these are all offset by the gingerbread house, the plum pudding, the Christmas presents and the parties, all these are elements of the nursery school, the early learning. Early imagination is being fed with on the one hand the gingerbread house but the fears associated with it with the witch that tries to push the children in the oven. Hand in hand with the enchanted wood and the benevolence of Little Red Riding Hood taking goodies to her grandma is the deviousness of cunning human nature that wants to steal the life and the beauty, wants to seize it and corrupt it and take it away, wants to harm and distort. These are the elements that are built into the psyche, little children and then these are there in the world, the fairy stories prepare you for the real world where there is much good but also much evil, there are good intentions and bad intentions. I'm just seeing the word discernment, as you grow up you discern true intention to steer your course. But there’s always the fairy godmother. It's like Hansel and Gretel where they’re sensible and they have a coloured string so they can retrace their path so that they know where they are. Safety devises, knowing that you can outwit the evil intent when you recognise it but the real danger is in not recognising. And that was a teaching that there were so many strategies for overcoming the negative pull of the dark side, recognising it for what it is, like the wolf dressed up in the grandmother’s clothing has bad intention and so you are able to take action then and there is always help once you recognise. Red Riding Hood called for the woodcutter who rescued her from the wolf. Knowing that you can call on your guardian angel, your fairy godmother, your genie, your Jesus, your healer for help in every situation where you recognise there’s something not right, something wrong, some danger that you can solicit this help. The pathway for overcoming fears is actually written into that early learning but children often remember just the scary bits’ 

‘This lady keeps showing me herself at a piano, a keyboard. Corn or cornfield. Seeing a playground with games children used to play, hopscotch. She was connected with early schooling; she wants me to say the word joy, a joy in teaching those malleable minds. Feeding the sparrows. She looks like the mother of the Wooden Tops, showing me a train journey, I think she moved away, she was relatively young. I'm asking her to give me something you would definitely recognise and I get the word gloria, a word you sing in hymns and Christmas songs. She’s giving me a sense of a purring cat, a ginger and white cat. A school playground. She could even have been a dinner lady. I feel her blowing a whistle. Getting a sense of wrapping something up in cellophane, not like the clingfilm we have now but actual cellophane, slightly stiffer, I feel it’s sandwiches. She's reminding me of a lady who helped out with adults with learning disabilities, can’t remember if her name was Diane’

I still can’t place this lady. It doesn’t help that I can’t remember any teachers from my early years at school.

‘I'm sensing your father is around, I’m getting Father Christmas. A sense of yule log and advent calendars. He’s got an axe like a wood chopper. Do you have an open fire?’

Me... ‘No, we don’t’

‘I'm associating chopping wood with an open fire, he’s in a wood chopping small trees. Getting a sensation of corrugated iron, he’s got boots on, tramping around in a muddy patch. Drinking a glass of milk, I associate that with calcium. I'm asking why he’s drinking a glass of milk, it’s to do with bone building, maintaining strength, getting the right mineral balance, it’s cow’s milk, cows you milk by hand, an organic source. He’s got an accordion, a keyboard out. He’s gallivanting, singing and music is good for you, to do with expression, expressing. Let your voice free and rejoice. You can play the Christmas carols, the Holly and the Ivy’ 

‘I'm seeing candle sticks. Have you got candle sticks that belonged to your mum or dad?’

Me... ‘No’

‘Is Brenda alone for Christmas?’

Me... ‘We’ll be going round there’

‘Light a candle for him, and sing the Holly and the Ivy with Brenda and he’ll be joining in with you, have a little festival’

‘I'm seeing a Christmas tree with the number 4 on it. That’s the number of this house. Maybe this place is important? Yes, this is the place he made his presence felt in one of our séances. It's a large number 4 in silver. In his Father Christmas guise, he’s got this bag of presents, he’s got lots of goodies in store for us’

‘Just got a sense of Roy Rogers something you can connect with him, cowboy westerns’

Yes, dad was a great fan of Clint Eastwood. We have his DVD with all the Clint Eastward cowboy westerns and recently watched them all.

‘He’s taking me to the sacred, reminding me of my tradition, the Mezuzah, the things you put outside your house in the Jewish tradition, to remind you of God and Spirit, the Jewish prayer in the Shema. It's like it’s on the gate post of this house, number 4. It’s a place for spirit, a place that’s dedicated. He’s giving me tram lines again, interconnecting journeys, pathways, travel lines but with the signals and points you can divert the tracks one with the other, they all interconnect. Not sure if he’s being the signal man or the line switcher. We have to learn to be able to switch and that’s the secret of mediumship, you make this transition so you can share somebody else's journey and then switch back, change tracks’

‘He just gave me the word twiggy’

Not sure why he’s saying twiggy

‘He's dressing up as a magician now, he’s in a velvet gown, deep purple with a wizard’s hat on with the stars and moon, pointy hat and magic wand. Reminds me of the throws in our séance room and the conical hat is like the séance trumpet, the cone. I think he’s going to help us with physical mediumship, I think that’s what he’s showing in his bag of goodies, that’s what he wants to do, Travis and others are in on this. We've got to learn more to switch tracks, to facilitate that and the fear behind not doing that is that you won’t be able to get back on the right track or back to where we were. It could be taking us on a wild goose chase but there’s a controller of that switching mechanism. That’s having the trust in the spirit help we have to help us to get the connection and stay on that track for as long as it takes and then switch us back. Ha, ha, he’s giving us a Cadburys milk chocolate as a little treat, it’s like when you give dogs treats for performing tricks correctly, it’s his reward. He’s putting me in a silver chair, got that silver again, there’s silver behind all of this. Maybe it’s our spirit group, I'm seeing tree tops, maybe it’s time to say goodbye now’

‘Got the word Villiers, and he’s left me with that. And now a tractor’

I associate Villiers with old engines. When I was younger dad used to take me to vintage transport fairs where we would see Villiers tractors and stationary engines.

Liz thanked everyone for coming and did the closing, sending out healing and our closing down exercise...