An interesting evening by all accounts.
see Spirit Lodge Diary for the official report.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Friday 7th December
Free Spirit Awareness Centre
A public Séance with Warren Caylor
Once everyone had arrived, we all individually searched and scanned as per usual and the rules were read out. Each person was seated and the evening got underway.
Once the second song had nearly finished Rachel’s familiar voice came through to greet everyone and the atmosphere lifted considerably. There were quite a few first time visitors who’d not sat in a true physical circle before and Rachel soon had everyone at ease and laughing.
Yellow Feather made his introduction, speaking to several people and then stepping back to allow Tom to come through.
Tom took great pleasure in playing with the presents under tree and showering everyone with the sweets, unwrapping the toys and slowly taking the Christmas tree apart.
It had been over 10 months since I’d last had a chance to sit in a physical séance with Warren and I could hear the difference in the spirit teams voices. They were much stronger and more ‘natural’ sounding.
A little while later a new voice I’d not heard before came through. It was slightly gravely and with a very ‘correct’ English pronunciation. It talked of philosophy and the state of the planet, the direction in which things were headed. Unfortunately just at that moment, I felt an overwhelming urge to launch into a coughing fit and the concentration on controlling it meant that I missed much of what was being given.
After about 5 or 10 minutes the communicator withdrew and gave us his name as being Winston. Was it “the” Winston Churchill? Who knows? I didn’t hear any hard evidence myself and surely there must be a million Winston’s in spirit but the voice certainly had an air of familiarity about it.
Albert came through and spoke to the man who had checked Warren’s cable ties asking him why he had volunteered to check the ties. He replied that it was simply to be sure in his own mind that everything was secure. Albert commented that this was an excellent justification and as proof of his presence as spirit, dematerialised one of the cable ties from the chair, passed it through Warrens arm, shrank the plastic tie to the size of a finger ring and placed it in the mans open hand. Pretty impressive for a ghost!
Rachel came back and asked if we would like to see Warren completely dematerialised and with a count of 3 (a significant difference to the ‘10 Green Bottles’ that we were asked to sing the last time I sat in the circle) she asked Julie to turn on the red light.
Even from the back of the room -where I had disappointingly ended up sitting- I could plainly see that the cabinet was completely empty and contained nothing but the empty chair. I could even see that the one remaining cable tie was hanging from the chair and the other one was missing entirely.
The lights then went out again as Warren was returned and then on the count of 3 the red light was turned on again and Warren was not only back in the chair again but the gag and remaining cable tie was secured around his wrist –at the end of the evening, this had to be cut off with pliers to release him from the chair.
Around this time Yellow Feather came back asked Julie where the green light was? Julie had to admit that Warren had not yet got around to sorting out a green light for the séance.
Yellow Feather explained to the group that a few weeks ago at a public séance in near Birmingham the room had not been made fully light proof and some green lights had been left on within an Exit sign.
The team had taken the opportunity to experiment and found that the green light was far more effective for full materialisation in the light and as a result had requested green lights for the next séance.
Yellow Feather then instructed Bernie to collect everyone’s contact details after the séance closed in order to invite everyone present back to a ‘special’ séance in the near future, where, under green light conditions, not only would we see yellow feather but also the children and the whole ‘team’ fully materialised in the light!
A few more songs and the energy in the room was really buzzing.
One of the experiments that the team had instigated was the capture on film for the first time, the fully materialised form of a spirit person.
One of Warren’s regular home circle (Malcolm) had brought along his high end digital camera, complete with tripod for Yellow Feather to inspect. Earlier in the evening he had come across to look at it during the blackout and gave it an overall OK.
Now however, Julie was asked to turn on the white light source and Yellow Feather brought his fully materialised physical form into the room. He walked around the room giving everyone a clear sight of his legs and torso.
There was nothing ‘ghost’ like about his presence –other than the fact he appeared to be well over 6 feet tall. And his stomping on the floor made the whole room shake!
He demonstrated his solidity by repeatedly slapping his stomach area with great force –he either had a six pack worthy of a karate black belt or he was all ghost and no body at all.
Sometimes it’s the most unlikely details that make the whole experience the most convincing!
He carried on walking round the room before going back to Malcolm and clearly picked up the camera and tripod in one hand, carrying to back to the cabinet -joking that maybe he’d look after it until the 21st December when the next home circle is due to sit, and the planned photographic experiment is scheduled.
**watch this space for links to these photographs as soon as they are published!!
Rachel and Tom came back and forth into the séance and kept the levels up until eventually it was time to wind up the evening. Tom finally left the CD player alone long enough for Julie to find the ‘coming out’ song on the tape player and Warren was brought back to regular consciousness.
Afterwards, everyone was completely free to examine everything at will. The door seals were removed and Warren was allowed to leave to recover in peace and quiet for a few minutes.
The room was chaos and the Christmas tree was in pieces. The Trumpets and Drums and Whistles – with which Tom had given some truly amazing displays of control and performance earlier- were spread over the room.
We all left our contact details with Bernie and I’m sure that there won’t be a single sitter who will not be looking forward to coming back for a replay under green light conditions.
It was a superb evening, although being directly in line with the white light source, most of the materialisation phenomena that everyone else could see was invisible to me –other than in the form of the odd silhouette passing in front the light.
However, on the couple of occasions when Yellow Feather did come all the way up to the far end of the room, I could see his legs and torso quite clearly. The effect was quite weird, maybe because he was being it from behind, but it looked as if he was semi-translucent and as if he was his own light source as well. Almost like a 3 D X-ray.
Having not been in the séance since last January where I witnessed for myself his first ever full public materialisation in the light, I was happy to see such a fantastic degree of progress since then and can’t wait for my invite back to the green light special in the new year.
Many thanks again to Warren for putting himself in a position to enable the séance and to the spirit team for creating the evidence once again.
A public Séance with Warren Caylor
Once everyone had arrived, we all individually searched and scanned as per usual and the rules were read out. Each person was seated and the evening got underway.
Once the second song had nearly finished Rachel’s familiar voice came through to greet everyone and the atmosphere lifted considerably. There were quite a few first time visitors who’d not sat in a true physical circle before and Rachel soon had everyone at ease and laughing.
Yellow Feather made his introduction, speaking to several people and then stepping back to allow Tom to come through.
Tom took great pleasure in playing with the presents under tree and showering everyone with the sweets, unwrapping the toys and slowly taking the Christmas tree apart.
It had been over 10 months since I’d last had a chance to sit in a physical séance with Warren and I could hear the difference in the spirit teams voices. They were much stronger and more ‘natural’ sounding.
A little while later a new voice I’d not heard before came through. It was slightly gravely and with a very ‘correct’ English pronunciation. It talked of philosophy and the state of the planet, the direction in which things were headed. Unfortunately just at that moment, I felt an overwhelming urge to launch into a coughing fit and the concentration on controlling it meant that I missed much of what was being given.
After about 5 or 10 minutes the communicator withdrew and gave us his name as being Winston. Was it “the” Winston Churchill? Who knows? I didn’t hear any hard evidence myself and surely there must be a million Winston’s in spirit but the voice certainly had an air of familiarity about it.
Albert came through and spoke to the man who had checked Warren’s cable ties asking him why he had volunteered to check the ties. He replied that it was simply to be sure in his own mind that everything was secure. Albert commented that this was an excellent justification and as proof of his presence as spirit, dematerialised one of the cable ties from the chair, passed it through Warrens arm, shrank the plastic tie to the size of a finger ring and placed it in the mans open hand. Pretty impressive for a ghost!
Rachel came back and asked if we would like to see Warren completely dematerialised and with a count of 3 (a significant difference to the ‘10 Green Bottles’ that we were asked to sing the last time I sat in the circle) she asked Julie to turn on the red light.
Even from the back of the room -where I had disappointingly ended up sitting- I could plainly see that the cabinet was completely empty and contained nothing but the empty chair. I could even see that the one remaining cable tie was hanging from the chair and the other one was missing entirely.
The lights then went out again as Warren was returned and then on the count of 3 the red light was turned on again and Warren was not only back in the chair again but the gag and remaining cable tie was secured around his wrist –at the end of the evening, this had to be cut off with pliers to release him from the chair.
Around this time Yellow Feather came back asked Julie where the green light was? Julie had to admit that Warren had not yet got around to sorting out a green light for the séance.
Yellow Feather explained to the group that a few weeks ago at a public séance in near Birmingham the room had not been made fully light proof and some green lights had been left on within an Exit sign.
The team had taken the opportunity to experiment and found that the green light was far more effective for full materialisation in the light and as a result had requested green lights for the next séance.
Yellow Feather then instructed Bernie to collect everyone’s contact details after the séance closed in order to invite everyone present back to a ‘special’ séance in the near future, where, under green light conditions, not only would we see yellow feather but also the children and the whole ‘team’ fully materialised in the light!
A few more songs and the energy in the room was really buzzing.
One of the experiments that the team had instigated was the capture on film for the first time, the fully materialised form of a spirit person.
One of Warren’s regular home circle (Malcolm) had brought along his high end digital camera, complete with tripod for Yellow Feather to inspect. Earlier in the evening he had come across to look at it during the blackout and gave it an overall OK.
Now however, Julie was asked to turn on the white light source and Yellow Feather brought his fully materialised physical form into the room. He walked around the room giving everyone a clear sight of his legs and torso.
There was nothing ‘ghost’ like about his presence –other than the fact he appeared to be well over 6 feet tall. And his stomping on the floor made the whole room shake!
He demonstrated his solidity by repeatedly slapping his stomach area with great force –he either had a six pack worthy of a karate black belt or he was all ghost and no body at all.
Sometimes it’s the most unlikely details that make the whole experience the most convincing!
He carried on walking round the room before going back to Malcolm and clearly picked up the camera and tripod in one hand, carrying to back to the cabinet -joking that maybe he’d look after it until the 21st December when the next home circle is due to sit, and the planned photographic experiment is scheduled.
**watch this space for links to these photographs as soon as they are published!!
Rachel and Tom came back and forth into the séance and kept the levels up until eventually it was time to wind up the evening. Tom finally left the CD player alone long enough for Julie to find the ‘coming out’ song on the tape player and Warren was brought back to regular consciousness.
Afterwards, everyone was completely free to examine everything at will. The door seals were removed and Warren was allowed to leave to recover in peace and quiet for a few minutes.
The room was chaos and the Christmas tree was in pieces. The Trumpets and Drums and Whistles – with which Tom had given some truly amazing displays of control and performance earlier- were spread over the room.
We all left our contact details with Bernie and I’m sure that there won’t be a single sitter who will not be looking forward to coming back for a replay under green light conditions.
It was a superb evening, although being directly in line with the white light source, most of the materialisation phenomena that everyone else could see was invisible to me –other than in the form of the odd silhouette passing in front the light.
However, on the couple of occasions when Yellow Feather did come all the way up to the far end of the room, I could see his legs and torso quite clearly. The effect was quite weird, maybe because he was being it from behind, but it looked as if he was semi-translucent and as if he was his own light source as well. Almost like a 3 D X-ray.
Having not been in the séance since last January where I witnessed for myself his first ever full public materialisation in the light, I was happy to see such a fantastic degree of progress since then and can’t wait for my invite back to the green light special in the new year.
Many thanks again to Warren for putting himself in a position to enable the séance and to the spirit team for creating the evidence once again.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Tuesday 4th December
no posts this week or next as I am travelling on business and will have to miss the circle on Tuesday 4th and 11th December.
cheers
Jon
cheers
Jon
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Tuesday 27th November
7.30am Wednesday morning and I’ve just noticed that Chris has linked this site in her post on the Spirit Lodge Diary, so I’d better post my notes quickly today rather than the usual 2 or 3 days I normally take!
I arrived last night with a strong feeling that the evening was going to be different to what we’ve come to accept as ‘normal’ for our physical circle. I’d been feeling a ‘presence’ or energy around me from about 4pm. And once I was driving towards Bristol this sensation seemed to be getting stronger and stronger.
However, once I’d arrived it seemed to disappear altogether which left me wondering if perhaps I’d just imagined it all – a product of an over active imagination?
Once we were in the Lodge and the door and vent seals were closed (to ensure total blackout) I strapped Brian into the chair and closed the cabinet curtains. Everyone settled into their seats and after last weeks suspected physical touch by spirit, we made sure that everyone was evenly spaced out and could not be touched accidentally, thereby making sure that any future sensations of touch could be definitely attributed to Spirit, rather than unintentional human actions.
I was seated in the North Corner opposite the cabinet but as the lights were dimmed and the opening prayer read out, I didn’t feel a particularly strong energy there and I was looking forward to an interesting night.
Within seconds of the first song starting (allowing for the slight delay as our technology challenged leader struggled to get the right CD going ;-) ) we heard all four cable ties being released.
The usual creaking and groaning, banging and thumping noises came from the cabinet for a few minutes and then the toys started to get ejected into the room.
One unusual aspect was that one of the objects landed just by my foot with a light thump. I took this to be one of the rubber rings which being 4 or 5 inches in diameter are quite heavy, so I was quite surprised to see at the end of the evening that what had landed by my foot was actually one of the plastic maracas. This is a fairly light weight toy that has a very distinctive rattle but it had travelled 8 feet from the cabinet and hit the floor without rattling at all.
We soon heard the sounds of more attempts/preparation for Direct Voice as an assortment of gurgles, wheezes and spluttering came from the cabinet. This died down for a little while and there was suddenly the most enormous crash to my left where Lynn was seated. It was so loud and so heavy that I assumed that the chair from the cabinet, complete with entranced medium had been brought into the room and literally dropped on to the floor.
…Unfortunately the chair had connected with Lynn’s left knee in the process, for which we did get an apology later on.
There was then a few minutes calm while we practised our singing before another attempt was made to make contact with us again. This time the ‘voice’ was projected clearly into the room quite loudly and a very clear “hello” sounded out.
This was followed by the comments “Busy” in response to Chris’ greeting, “Very Busy” came across again before going back to more vocal exercises.
Around this time I felt a huge wash of energy surge into the room and around me, the temperature (especially around my legs) dropped rapidly and I started to feel really cold.
About this time there was some loud knocking on the floor in the centre of the room and (believing that Brian was going to be stretched out on the floor having been deposited there complete with chair earlier on) I imagined that perhaps they were using his hands to beat in time with the music.
For a few seconds this seemed entirely logical until I heard the counter beat coming from within the cabinet.
This went on for a minute or two, clearly demonstrating that none of us and certainly not Brian were making the thumping noises which proved that it was spirit that were causing the sounds in time with the music.
This was followed by another attempt at experimenting with different sounds and vocal ranges with direct voice and we then heard a clear voice greeting us from within the cabinet.
Initially I thought it was the Chief and that the different voice quality was a side effect of being ‘worn out’ by all the extra activity, but our visitor quickly identified himself as Brian’s Granddad and we had an interesting chat about his previous life, his character and an explanation as to why he’d not come through so clearly before.
Once he’d gone, the Chief came through loud and strong with his own unique blend of wit and sense of humour. …He must’ve been a bugger to live with in his last life here.
He asked Chris about the different activities we made nearly a year ago when we first started the circle, about why we were interested or drawn towards the Scole Experiment.
I felt that he was rather obliquely asking us to question ourselves as to where we were going and what the expectations were for the Healing circle on a Friday. Why, I have no idea but I suspect in due course it’ll fall into place. He seemed to be quite intent on making a point of it but without being drawn into anything specific.
He also talked about Brian’s trance state and his need to relax more deeply, requesting a specific change to the ‘going off’ music to enable a deeper trance state to be more easily reached. –taking the opportunity to take the Mick out of Brian’s ability to sleep standing up, sitting down or even working.
We were then allowed to put our own questions to him which he answered clearly and concisely. Clarifying the way he sometimes answered our questions and sought his own advice and guidance to make sure we heard the clearest response.
I asked about how best to react or respond when different ‘energies’ were present in the room and was given some good and very supportive advice on when to ‘go with the flow’ and when to resist.
When the time came to finally close the séance, Chris struggled manly (womanly?) with the CD controls before finally admitting defeat and we resorted to singing 10 Green Bottles to give Brian time to return to consciousness.
When the lights were back on, we saw that he chair was on the floor next to Lynn and Brian was cross legged on the floor in the cabinet. Everything else was strewn around the room and the cable ties were open, the belt still securely around the chair.
Unfortunately due to a technical glitch we didn't get a tape recording of the evenings events, so this is my best effort at total recall. Apologies to all if I've missed anything vital or if my version differs from yours.
The teams’ progress took another huge step forward with clear and loud direct voice as well as Granddad Phil speaking clearly and with great control through Brian.
Thanks again to everyone on both sides for making everything possible.
..and for making ‘nothing’ impossible.
I arrived last night with a strong feeling that the evening was going to be different to what we’ve come to accept as ‘normal’ for our physical circle. I’d been feeling a ‘presence’ or energy around me from about 4pm. And once I was driving towards Bristol this sensation seemed to be getting stronger and stronger.
However, once I’d arrived it seemed to disappear altogether which left me wondering if perhaps I’d just imagined it all – a product of an over active imagination?
Once we were in the Lodge and the door and vent seals were closed (to ensure total blackout) I strapped Brian into the chair and closed the cabinet curtains. Everyone settled into their seats and after last weeks suspected physical touch by spirit, we made sure that everyone was evenly spaced out and could not be touched accidentally, thereby making sure that any future sensations of touch could be definitely attributed to Spirit, rather than unintentional human actions.
I was seated in the North Corner opposite the cabinet but as the lights were dimmed and the opening prayer read out, I didn’t feel a particularly strong energy there and I was looking forward to an interesting night.
Within seconds of the first song starting (allowing for the slight delay as our technology challenged leader struggled to get the right CD going ;-) ) we heard all four cable ties being released.
The usual creaking and groaning, banging and thumping noises came from the cabinet for a few minutes and then the toys started to get ejected into the room.
One unusual aspect was that one of the objects landed just by my foot with a light thump. I took this to be one of the rubber rings which being 4 or 5 inches in diameter are quite heavy, so I was quite surprised to see at the end of the evening that what had landed by my foot was actually one of the plastic maracas. This is a fairly light weight toy that has a very distinctive rattle but it had travelled 8 feet from the cabinet and hit the floor without rattling at all.
We soon heard the sounds of more attempts/preparation for Direct Voice as an assortment of gurgles, wheezes and spluttering came from the cabinet. This died down for a little while and there was suddenly the most enormous crash to my left where Lynn was seated. It was so loud and so heavy that I assumed that the chair from the cabinet, complete with entranced medium had been brought into the room and literally dropped on to the floor.
…Unfortunately the chair had connected with Lynn’s left knee in the process, for which we did get an apology later on.
There was then a few minutes calm while we practised our singing before another attempt was made to make contact with us again. This time the ‘voice’ was projected clearly into the room quite loudly and a very clear “hello” sounded out.
This was followed by the comments “Busy” in response to Chris’ greeting, “Very Busy” came across again before going back to more vocal exercises.
Around this time I felt a huge wash of energy surge into the room and around me, the temperature (especially around my legs) dropped rapidly and I started to feel really cold.
About this time there was some loud knocking on the floor in the centre of the room and (believing that Brian was going to be stretched out on the floor having been deposited there complete with chair earlier on) I imagined that perhaps they were using his hands to beat in time with the music.
For a few seconds this seemed entirely logical until I heard the counter beat coming from within the cabinet.
This went on for a minute or two, clearly demonstrating that none of us and certainly not Brian were making the thumping noises which proved that it was spirit that were causing the sounds in time with the music.
This was followed by another attempt at experimenting with different sounds and vocal ranges with direct voice and we then heard a clear voice greeting us from within the cabinet.
Initially I thought it was the Chief and that the different voice quality was a side effect of being ‘worn out’ by all the extra activity, but our visitor quickly identified himself as Brian’s Granddad and we had an interesting chat about his previous life, his character and an explanation as to why he’d not come through so clearly before.
Once he’d gone, the Chief came through loud and strong with his own unique blend of wit and sense of humour. …He must’ve been a bugger to live with in his last life here.
He asked Chris about the different activities we made nearly a year ago when we first started the circle, about why we were interested or drawn towards the Scole Experiment.
I felt that he was rather obliquely asking us to question ourselves as to where we were going and what the expectations were for the Healing circle on a Friday. Why, I have no idea but I suspect in due course it’ll fall into place. He seemed to be quite intent on making a point of it but without being drawn into anything specific.
He also talked about Brian’s trance state and his need to relax more deeply, requesting a specific change to the ‘going off’ music to enable a deeper trance state to be more easily reached. –taking the opportunity to take the Mick out of Brian’s ability to sleep standing up, sitting down or even working.
We were then allowed to put our own questions to him which he answered clearly and concisely. Clarifying the way he sometimes answered our questions and sought his own advice and guidance to make sure we heard the clearest response.
I asked about how best to react or respond when different ‘energies’ were present in the room and was given some good and very supportive advice on when to ‘go with the flow’ and when to resist.
When the time came to finally close the séance, Chris struggled manly (womanly?) with the CD controls before finally admitting defeat and we resorted to singing 10 Green Bottles to give Brian time to return to consciousness.
When the lights were back on, we saw that he chair was on the floor next to Lynn and Brian was cross legged on the floor in the cabinet. Everything else was strewn around the room and the cable ties were open, the belt still securely around the chair.
Unfortunately due to a technical glitch we didn't get a tape recording of the evenings events, so this is my best effort at total recall. Apologies to all if I've missed anything vital or if my version differs from yours.
The teams’ progress took another huge step forward with clear and loud direct voice as well as Granddad Phil speaking clearly and with great control through Brian.
Thanks again to everyone on both sides for making everything possible.
..and for making ‘nothing’ impossible.
Friday, November 23, 2007
Tuesday 20th November
This evening was set to be interesting not the least because this was to be the first time that we were inviting an outside guest to join the circle.
Although we’ve had a number of sitters come for an evening or two, they have either been members of the Friday group or experienced members of other physical circles.
This was the first time we had invited someone to join us who was coming in cold with a certain level of scepticism. He confirmed afterwards that he had expected to come and reveal fraud at worst, self deception at best.
David (our guest) & I arrived about 20 minutes before the séance start and he had plenty of time to get acquainted with the others before going into the Lodge.
As the guest, David was invited to fasten the cable ties around Brian’s wrists and ankles, securing him to the chair.
Then he tied the waist tie with a fast knot. Brian invited him to make the cable ties as secure as he liked and when he was happy with everything and confident that Brian wasn’t going anywhere, the curtains were drawn over the cabinet and we all sat down.
David was seated directly opposite the cabinet. This placed him in the North Corner which was a far from the Brian as possible (just in case of any unexpected movements) but also the place where the most energy is concentrated.
The lights were turned off and the music started. Within the first minute the cable ties could be heard being popped off. Then the usual thumps and bangs as the chair was moved around in time to the music.
The bells were thrown into the room, then Dave (a regular sitter, seated next to the cabinet) said that he had felt something touch first one foot and then the other.
The other articles in the cabinet were ejected and then Brian’s sweater was thrown onto David (our Guest) lap.
The spirit team then worked some more on the extension of the direct voice that they are working towards. Usually this only lasts for about 5 minutes or so, but tonight there were 3 separate and distinct ‘goes’ at getting voice like sounds. Each one lasting 5 minutes or more. It’s difficult to guess how long it will be until they are able to communicate with us directly, but at this rate, it’s not going to be long now.
Eventually the Chief’s now familiar chuckle was heard, signifying that Brian’s trance had been lightened to a state where he could be used to relay a conversation with us.
Both David and myself asked several questions about the nature of the spiritual dimension and details about the transition from physical to spiritual being.
Interestingly the Chief seemed to hesitate in his answers a couple of times, seeming to go away to confer before coming back and explaining in more detail the answers to our questions.
It seemed unlikely that he wouldn’t have know the answers, but our most likely supposition is that the answers as delivered would have to be suitably phrased for all of all the members present. Everyone being on their own pathway, may or may not have been ready to hear the answers in any given level of detail perhaps?
I’ll be looking for further clarification on this next week if I can.
About 2/3rds of the way through the evening, I felt what I thought to be David’s knee briefly touch mine. As we were sitting at about 45 deg to each other, it occurred to be that he may have shifted position to get more comfortable. Just to be sure I let me knee relax slightly to the left and felt the pressure of what I assumed to be his knee again. I immediately moved my legs to the right as a precaution.
Playing ‘footsie’ with my neighbour in blackout conditions might send completely the wrong message altogether ;-)
A little while later I felt something press against my right foot. Now feeling that my companions both to my left and right were being rather generous with their personal space, I remained very static and restricted for the rest of the evening!
The following day David called me up to ask me to pass on his appreciation to the rest of the circle and to say that the evening had given him a lot to think about. And while his expectation had been to find fraud, what he had found had impressed him and seemed to be genuine.
He asked me if ‘hand on heart’ I had touched him during the séance. I told him about having felt his knee push against mine after which I moved out of the way.
But he was more interested in the fact that someone had seemed to ‘tug’ at the crease of his shirt sleeve. I had had my hands in my lap the whole time and so could guarantee I’d not touched him.
I asked if he’d noticed our knee’s clashing. However, he said had been deliberately keeping his legs away from mine to avoid any chance of self deception.
So now, I had felt my left knee being pressed on the side, my right foot ‘tapped’ and David had felt someone ‘tug’ at his shirt sleeve.
The other Dave on the opposite side of the room had had the rubber ring placed between his feet –after having felt it touch his toes on both feet consecutively.
OK, so not objective physical proof in that we have defined this as being something that 2 or more witnesses experience simultaneously. But definitely worth capturing for the record as (if this was indeed genuine -as I believe it to be) this could be the start of a new level of activity and physical evidence.
The circle was drawn to a close and Brian’s chair was found sitting in the room outside the cabinet minus Brian who was cross legged on the floor inside. The ring was between Dave’s feet, the sweater at David’s feet and the rattles beneath Sandy’s chair.
Our guest was given the cable ties for examination at his leisure after being given the opportunity to examine everything in the cabinet just to confirm that there was no room for anything untoward to have been going on. He also confirmed that the belt was knotted just the way he had left it an hour and half before.
Thanks again to Brian for enabling spirit to come through and to the Chief and his team on the other side for all their work.
Next update following next Tuesday’s circle.
Although we’ve had a number of sitters come for an evening or two, they have either been members of the Friday group or experienced members of other physical circles.
This was the first time we had invited someone to join us who was coming in cold with a certain level of scepticism. He confirmed afterwards that he had expected to come and reveal fraud at worst, self deception at best.
David (our guest) & I arrived about 20 minutes before the séance start and he had plenty of time to get acquainted with the others before going into the Lodge.
As the guest, David was invited to fasten the cable ties around Brian’s wrists and ankles, securing him to the chair.
Then he tied the waist tie with a fast knot. Brian invited him to make the cable ties as secure as he liked and when he was happy with everything and confident that Brian wasn’t going anywhere, the curtains were drawn over the cabinet and we all sat down.
David was seated directly opposite the cabinet. This placed him in the North Corner which was a far from the Brian as possible (just in case of any unexpected movements) but also the place where the most energy is concentrated.
The lights were turned off and the music started. Within the first minute the cable ties could be heard being popped off. Then the usual thumps and bangs as the chair was moved around in time to the music.
The bells were thrown into the room, then Dave (a regular sitter, seated next to the cabinet) said that he had felt something touch first one foot and then the other.
The other articles in the cabinet were ejected and then Brian’s sweater was thrown onto David (our Guest) lap.
The spirit team then worked some more on the extension of the direct voice that they are working towards. Usually this only lasts for about 5 minutes or so, but tonight there were 3 separate and distinct ‘goes’ at getting voice like sounds. Each one lasting 5 minutes or more. It’s difficult to guess how long it will be until they are able to communicate with us directly, but at this rate, it’s not going to be long now.
Eventually the Chief’s now familiar chuckle was heard, signifying that Brian’s trance had been lightened to a state where he could be used to relay a conversation with us.
Both David and myself asked several questions about the nature of the spiritual dimension and details about the transition from physical to spiritual being.
Interestingly the Chief seemed to hesitate in his answers a couple of times, seeming to go away to confer before coming back and explaining in more detail the answers to our questions.
It seemed unlikely that he wouldn’t have know the answers, but our most likely supposition is that the answers as delivered would have to be suitably phrased for all of all the members present. Everyone being on their own pathway, may or may not have been ready to hear the answers in any given level of detail perhaps?
I’ll be looking for further clarification on this next week if I can.
About 2/3rds of the way through the evening, I felt what I thought to be David’s knee briefly touch mine. As we were sitting at about 45 deg to each other, it occurred to be that he may have shifted position to get more comfortable. Just to be sure I let me knee relax slightly to the left and felt the pressure of what I assumed to be his knee again. I immediately moved my legs to the right as a precaution.
Playing ‘footsie’ with my neighbour in blackout conditions might send completely the wrong message altogether ;-)
A little while later I felt something press against my right foot. Now feeling that my companions both to my left and right were being rather generous with their personal space, I remained very static and restricted for the rest of the evening!
The following day David called me up to ask me to pass on his appreciation to the rest of the circle and to say that the evening had given him a lot to think about. And while his expectation had been to find fraud, what he had found had impressed him and seemed to be genuine.
He asked me if ‘hand on heart’ I had touched him during the séance. I told him about having felt his knee push against mine after which I moved out of the way.
But he was more interested in the fact that someone had seemed to ‘tug’ at the crease of his shirt sleeve. I had had my hands in my lap the whole time and so could guarantee I’d not touched him.
I asked if he’d noticed our knee’s clashing. However, he said had been deliberately keeping his legs away from mine to avoid any chance of self deception.
So now, I had felt my left knee being pressed on the side, my right foot ‘tapped’ and David had felt someone ‘tug’ at his shirt sleeve.
The other Dave on the opposite side of the room had had the rubber ring placed between his feet –after having felt it touch his toes on both feet consecutively.
OK, so not objective physical proof in that we have defined this as being something that 2 or more witnesses experience simultaneously. But definitely worth capturing for the record as (if this was indeed genuine -as I believe it to be) this could be the start of a new level of activity and physical evidence.
The circle was drawn to a close and Brian’s chair was found sitting in the room outside the cabinet minus Brian who was cross legged on the floor inside. The ring was between Dave’s feet, the sweater at David’s feet and the rattles beneath Sandy’s chair.
Our guest was given the cable ties for examination at his leisure after being given the opportunity to examine everything in the cabinet just to confirm that there was no room for anything untoward to have been going on. He also confirmed that the belt was knotted just the way he had left it an hour and half before.
Thanks again to Brian for enabling spirit to come through and to the Chief and his team on the other side for all their work.
Next update following next Tuesday’s circle.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Tuesday 13th November.
It’s now just over 10 months since the physical circle first came together. In that time we have all tried out in the cabinet more than once (with the exception of Chris, who prefers to stay well clear of that area herself –providing a source of endless amusement for the rest of us!) and have discovered that we have one member who is particularly well suited to physical mediumship. We have 2 new trance mediums, a mental medium and an established Healing Circle.
The physical circle is starting to make real progress now and this week was particularly interesting.
We started off with nearly a full house of sitters –only Paul was missing due to work commitments. Chris’ mum-in-law had knitted an oversize ‘tank-top’ as a contribution to keeping Brian (the physical medium) warm during the séance as winter is setting in.
We thought it would be interesting to ask if Spirit could remove the sweater during the evening. I’m not sure what we really expected to happen but it seemed like a good idea to at least ask.
Brian, now attractively sporting a black sleeveless jumper, sat down and to relieve Chris of the task of having to get too close to the cabinet, I threaded the cable ties through the loops on the chair and secured his wrists and ankles firmly. More firmly than usual as Brian was keen to eliminate any possibility that he could ‘escape’, as our newest member was joining the circle for the first time in blackout.
The waist belt I also tied up closely around his waist and pulled the knot tight.
With the curtains closed and jokes still emanating from behind the curtains, we took our seats and Chris opened the circle with the prayer.
I was sitting with my back to the door next to the ‘north corner’ and as soon as the lights were out I felt the now familiar swirling sensations as energy built up rapidly in the room. Within 30 seconds, the cable ties were heard to ‘pop’ in quick succession. Rocking and banging sounds followed and the two large rings landed in the room.
The webbing strap with bells attached (velcroed to the base of the chair) then appeared to be gently thrown or dropped into Chris’ lap. Chris sits immediately to the right of the cabinet at about 45 degrees to the front of it. This is the first time that anything being ‘ejected’ has come out at anything other than a straight line.
Thinking that this had been done quite deliberately but wanting more confirmation, she asked if something else could be similarly done for someone else in the room.
About 10 minutes later, there was a clear and distinct sound of something landing right next to me and falling to the floor.
Later, at the end of the session when the lights came on, the new black sweater was found to be lying by my side.
Was this a near miss at repeating the soft drop of the bells in Chris’ lap? I don’t know for sure, but I can be certain that I was not aware of anything being ‘thrown’ towards me. But then again, there were no bells on the jumper so would I have noticed the difference between a thrown object or a dropped one?
Does it really matter though? I mean, I had personally tied Brian into the chair with plastic cable ties and a 2 inch wide judo belt.
What I found most interesting about the whole evening though, was the awareness that I had that there was actually someone ‘else’ in the room with us.
This was the first time that I had felt the ‘physical’ presence of the spirit team in the room.
Probably sounds a bit odd to say this, considering everything that’s happened over the past 10 months and the 24 times we’ve sat with Brian for a physical séance, but this actually felt as though there was another person in the room.
All this aside, the rest of the evening was fascinating as the direct voice became tantalisingly close. For the first time we actually had 2 way communication and could make out clear attempts at speech (go to the Spirit Lodge Journal and follow the link in the official report to hear for yourself)
Then later on, when the Chief came through to update us, we had an opportunity to ask our own questions about what was going on, the energies being used, different forms of physical evidence and the practical aspects of ‘thought’ as an energy in the physical world –both for positive and negative use. The answers we had were detailed and concise. Everything was recorded on tape for reference and if anyone has any questions, feel free to either post them here or send me or Chris an email and we’ll be happy to answer as best we can.
Jon
The physical circle is starting to make real progress now and this week was particularly interesting.
We started off with nearly a full house of sitters –only Paul was missing due to work commitments. Chris’ mum-in-law had knitted an oversize ‘tank-top’ as a contribution to keeping Brian (the physical medium) warm during the séance as winter is setting in.
We thought it would be interesting to ask if Spirit could remove the sweater during the evening. I’m not sure what we really expected to happen but it seemed like a good idea to at least ask.
Brian, now attractively sporting a black sleeveless jumper, sat down and to relieve Chris of the task of having to get too close to the cabinet, I threaded the cable ties through the loops on the chair and secured his wrists and ankles firmly. More firmly than usual as Brian was keen to eliminate any possibility that he could ‘escape’, as our newest member was joining the circle for the first time in blackout.
The waist belt I also tied up closely around his waist and pulled the knot tight.
With the curtains closed and jokes still emanating from behind the curtains, we took our seats and Chris opened the circle with the prayer.
I was sitting with my back to the door next to the ‘north corner’ and as soon as the lights were out I felt the now familiar swirling sensations as energy built up rapidly in the room. Within 30 seconds, the cable ties were heard to ‘pop’ in quick succession. Rocking and banging sounds followed and the two large rings landed in the room.
The webbing strap with bells attached (velcroed to the base of the chair) then appeared to be gently thrown or dropped into Chris’ lap. Chris sits immediately to the right of the cabinet at about 45 degrees to the front of it. This is the first time that anything being ‘ejected’ has come out at anything other than a straight line.
Thinking that this had been done quite deliberately but wanting more confirmation, she asked if something else could be similarly done for someone else in the room.
About 10 minutes later, there was a clear and distinct sound of something landing right next to me and falling to the floor.
Later, at the end of the session when the lights came on, the new black sweater was found to be lying by my side.
Was this a near miss at repeating the soft drop of the bells in Chris’ lap? I don’t know for sure, but I can be certain that I was not aware of anything being ‘thrown’ towards me. But then again, there were no bells on the jumper so would I have noticed the difference between a thrown object or a dropped one?
Does it really matter though? I mean, I had personally tied Brian into the chair with plastic cable ties and a 2 inch wide judo belt.
What I found most interesting about the whole evening though, was the awareness that I had that there was actually someone ‘else’ in the room with us.
This was the first time that I had felt the ‘physical’ presence of the spirit team in the room.
Probably sounds a bit odd to say this, considering everything that’s happened over the past 10 months and the 24 times we’ve sat with Brian for a physical séance, but this actually felt as though there was another person in the room.
All this aside, the rest of the evening was fascinating as the direct voice became tantalisingly close. For the first time we actually had 2 way communication and could make out clear attempts at speech (go to the Spirit Lodge Journal and follow the link in the official report to hear for yourself)
Then later on, when the Chief came through to update us, we had an opportunity to ask our own questions about what was going on, the energies being used, different forms of physical evidence and the practical aspects of ‘thought’ as an energy in the physical world –both for positive and negative use. The answers we had were detailed and concise. Everything was recorded on tape for reference and if anyone has any questions, feel free to either post them here or send me or Chris an email and we’ll be happy to answer as best we can.
Jon
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Tuesday 6th November
Tonights circle consisted of myself, Chris, Sandy & Alan (Chris' husband)
Brian was back this evening in the ‘cabinet’ and as we settled down and he was secured into the chair, humour was running high –as were the spirits.
A slight change this week was the addition of soft cords tied firmly around his wrists, as well as the standard plastic cable ties that we’ve been using for some 6 months or so now.
The waist tie has also been replaced with a stout red cotton belt –the same kind as is used for a Judo or Karate Gi.
Chris tied him in and I went up to check on everything, tightening the tie wraps and also re-tying the waist belt. I have been practicing Judo myself now for over 25 years and as many who have worn a Gi will now, there is a particular shape to the knot used to secure the belt.
Without mentioning to anyone else, I re-tied the knot as would with my own Judo belt.
Each week now for several months, Brian has been removed from the chair and the belt has appeared to remain tied to the chair, suggesting that either Brian has been “transported” through the belt or that belt had been “de-materialised” to allow Brian to be moved out of the chair –or the belt has been untied and re-tied during the blackout.
I’ll come back to the details of the séance shortly, but when the lights came back up at the end of the evening, Brian was out of the chair, lying on his back stretched out under the chair -looking quite comfortable for a change!
The cable ties had been popped off (within the first few minutes of the blackout) with the fastening mechanism turned inside out.
The ropes that were around his wrists were still in place on the chair and the toys were in the main room where they had been thrown earlier in the evening.
But when I looked carefully at the waist tie, I excited to see that my knot not been touched and was still in place exactly as I had left it. The ‘tails’ of the belt were hanging down vertically just as a perfectly tied Judo belt should be. Either Brian has a black belt in one of the Martial Arts or Spirit truly did “de-materialise” either him or the belt.
I know this is seemingly a minor point, but it’s the smallest things sometimes that give the greatest proof.
Within the first 30 seconds of the blackout we heard the first cable tie being stretched. Precisely what happens is not completely clear, but the sound is a short “creaking” noise for a few seconds, followed by a dull ‘pop’. When you look at the cable ties afterwards, the plastic ‘ratchet’ that provides the one-way self locking mechanism has been turned inside out. –I took one home once, put it in a bench vice and with a pair of heavy duty pliers did my very best to physically duplicate the broken locking ratchet.
I eventually gave up. I’m not overly small (13 stone / 180 pounds) but there was no way I could duplicate the effects on the cable ties at room temperature!
& given that Brian is secured by one of these at wrists and ankles, once again the only feasible explanation is that Spirit Energy is manifesting into the room and proving their existence through undeniable physical evidence.
….Way to go Spooks!
Once our spirit friends had released Brian from his captivity, there were a few very loud bangs and sounds of the bells (secured with Velcro to the base of the chair) being removed. They were then ejected from the cabinet and landed in the north corner of the room next to me.
A pair of rubber rings (about 4 inches/10cm in diameter) joined together by another strip of bells on Velcro then came flying out into the room, knocking the upright trumpet (a 2 foot long aluminium cone) for six. Four pairs of cheeks left their respective chairs by a couple of inches when that bang happened!
Immediately after, knocks and bangs could be heard from the cabinet, most of which were clearly in time with the music and the singing. The sounds of a strange, resonant humming was then heard which sounded very much like an attempt at a voice. This then became a odd echoe’y ‘whistling’. All we needed was the clanking of chains and the picture would have been complete!!
After about 15 minutes or so, things quietened down and we soon heard the familiar chuckle of the chief as Brian’s trance level was brought back to a point where he could be used as a channel for communication.
I had a chance to ask some questions about ‘connecting’ with the circle when we were absent from a sitting for whatever reason (I often miss a night or two once every few months due to work/travel) and was interested to hear that depending on our mood and intent, focusing thought and energy into the circle, even when physically absent, could still help build the energy within the séance and assist spirit in their work.
I also asked how the Lodge was perceived from the spirit world, whether the sprit team saw it as a ‘physical’ place with dimensions as we do. The answer was clear, that it is seen as a physical location and that when we sit, a light emanates in the spirit dimension from the mediums and sitters that attracts/notifies the spirit team to our intention and presence.
He also explained that he himself is already ‘with’ Brian before hand and enters the lodge ‘with’ him, just as we do.
There was more detail and the Chief took time to make sure that we clearly understood the finer points and nuances of what was being explained. If you’d like more detailed review, or indeed if there are any particular questions burning in your mind, drop me an email or leave a comment and I’ll answer as best I can.
..and if I can’t, well, I know a man who can!
Brian was back this evening in the ‘cabinet’ and as we settled down and he was secured into the chair, humour was running high –as were the spirits.
A slight change this week was the addition of soft cords tied firmly around his wrists, as well as the standard plastic cable ties that we’ve been using for some 6 months or so now.
The waist tie has also been replaced with a stout red cotton belt –the same kind as is used for a Judo or Karate Gi.
Chris tied him in and I went up to check on everything, tightening the tie wraps and also re-tying the waist belt. I have been practicing Judo myself now for over 25 years and as many who have worn a Gi will now, there is a particular shape to the knot used to secure the belt.
Without mentioning to anyone else, I re-tied the knot as would with my own Judo belt.
Each week now for several months, Brian has been removed from the chair and the belt has appeared to remain tied to the chair, suggesting that either Brian has been “transported” through the belt or that belt had been “de-materialised” to allow Brian to be moved out of the chair –or the belt has been untied and re-tied during the blackout.
I’ll come back to the details of the séance shortly, but when the lights came back up at the end of the evening, Brian was out of the chair, lying on his back stretched out under the chair -looking quite comfortable for a change!
The cable ties had been popped off (within the first few minutes of the blackout) with the fastening mechanism turned inside out.
The ropes that were around his wrists were still in place on the chair and the toys were in the main room where they had been thrown earlier in the evening.
But when I looked carefully at the waist tie, I excited to see that my knot not been touched and was still in place exactly as I had left it. The ‘tails’ of the belt were hanging down vertically just as a perfectly tied Judo belt should be. Either Brian has a black belt in one of the Martial Arts or Spirit truly did “de-materialise” either him or the belt.
I know this is seemingly a minor point, but it’s the smallest things sometimes that give the greatest proof.
Within the first 30 seconds of the blackout we heard the first cable tie being stretched. Precisely what happens is not completely clear, but the sound is a short “creaking” noise for a few seconds, followed by a dull ‘pop’. When you look at the cable ties afterwards, the plastic ‘ratchet’ that provides the one-way self locking mechanism has been turned inside out. –I took one home once, put it in a bench vice and with a pair of heavy duty pliers did my very best to physically duplicate the broken locking ratchet.
I eventually gave up. I’m not overly small (13 stone / 180 pounds) but there was no way I could duplicate the effects on the cable ties at room temperature!
& given that Brian is secured by one of these at wrists and ankles, once again the only feasible explanation is that Spirit Energy is manifesting into the room and proving their existence through undeniable physical evidence.
….Way to go Spooks!
Once our spirit friends had released Brian from his captivity, there were a few very loud bangs and sounds of the bells (secured with Velcro to the base of the chair) being removed. They were then ejected from the cabinet and landed in the north corner of the room next to me.
A pair of rubber rings (about 4 inches/10cm in diameter) joined together by another strip of bells on Velcro then came flying out into the room, knocking the upright trumpet (a 2 foot long aluminium cone) for six. Four pairs of cheeks left their respective chairs by a couple of inches when that bang happened!
Immediately after, knocks and bangs could be heard from the cabinet, most of which were clearly in time with the music and the singing. The sounds of a strange, resonant humming was then heard which sounded very much like an attempt at a voice. This then became a odd echoe’y ‘whistling’. All we needed was the clanking of chains and the picture would have been complete!!
After about 15 minutes or so, things quietened down and we soon heard the familiar chuckle of the chief as Brian’s trance level was brought back to a point where he could be used as a channel for communication.
I had a chance to ask some questions about ‘connecting’ with the circle when we were absent from a sitting for whatever reason (I often miss a night or two once every few months due to work/travel) and was interested to hear that depending on our mood and intent, focusing thought and energy into the circle, even when physically absent, could still help build the energy within the séance and assist spirit in their work.
I also asked how the Lodge was perceived from the spirit world, whether the sprit team saw it as a ‘physical’ place with dimensions as we do. The answer was clear, that it is seen as a physical location and that when we sit, a light emanates in the spirit dimension from the mediums and sitters that attracts/notifies the spirit team to our intention and presence.
He also explained that he himself is already ‘with’ Brian before hand and enters the lodge ‘with’ him, just as we do.
There was more detail and the Chief took time to make sure that we clearly understood the finer points and nuances of what was being explained. If you’d like more detailed review, or indeed if there are any particular questions burning in your mind, drop me an email or leave a comment and I’ll answer as best I can.
..and if I can’t, well, I know a man who can!
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Tuesday 30th October
This weeks circle was dedicated to development of the sitters. As I ended up taking an active part in the evening I won’t describe what took place myself, but I want instead record my thoughts and some opinions on mediumship and also.
We should be back to business as usual next week
It was my first time back having missed the last three weeks due to work and holidays and it was great to be back in the familiar surroundings of the Lodge and to see friends again.
Over the past few weeks I had decided that I was no longer really interested in ‘being’ a medium and that to a large extent I felt happy to leave Spirit to the spirit world – We’ll all be there soon enough anyway and the general quality of communication through most of today’s ‘mediums’ is of such a variable standard that I felt that if I was going to do this work I would either do it with clarity and accuracy or not at all.
There are far too many people out there today who claim to be having guidance from spirit and to have the authority to offer that guidance to others. Yet when you look carefully, the vast majority of what is offered as advice and messages from loved ones and from guides, is one the whole predictable and banal. At worst it is self serving and self aggrandising ego flattery.
How many times have I heard mediums telling the attentive listener that Grandma or Mum wants to wrap you in love, or in ‘the colour pink’ or that she’s ‘giving you flowers’ etc etc.
It’s hardly surprising that the sceptics have such a strong platform on which to stand.
It’s easy to be sucked into this kind of comforting advice and believe that you have to act on the advice from Granny. Or that the search for enlightenment is more important than the living of your physical life.
Always remember that you are here in the physical form to live a physical life. Not to be lost purely in the search for the non physical.
Having said all that, I was somewhat surprised as I left work on Tuesday evening to find that I was aware of the presence of a spirit energy with me as I was driving down towards Bristol.
Still, regardless of my intentions not to be a medium for the benefit of others, I was happy enough to feel their presence even if I had no desire to pass on any ‘messages’.
When I finally arrived at the circle I was not totally shocked to hear that Brian (the physical medium) wasn’t able to make it and so with our reduced numbers we were going to have a Trance night. Just Paul, Chris and myself.
As we sat chatting in the house before going on into the lodge, time was passing and we’d not noticed that 8pm had arrived. Oddly enough, at 8pm on the dot, Chris’ phone rang just once. Probably just a wrong number but it caused us to notice that we were about to miss our ‘agreed’ start time with Spirit and we made it into the shed right on time.
Once in, we looked to Chris to see what FC had given to her as instructions for the night. Nothing! Zip!
OK, so it was up to us. I suggested to Paul that he take the cabinet (I was still of the mind that I had no desire to do anymore mediumship work) and I decided to take the north corner to see if I could experience the increased levels of energy that the others had reported feeling there as I’d never sat there myself.
As the first track started on the CD player, I felt myself drifting off almost immediately and I was very aware of the different feeling of energy again as the same presence that had been with me earlier came close again.
I had no problem with this and welcomed ‘him’ to come as close as he wanted -at this point I still thought that Paul in the cabinet was going to be the medium for the evening.
However, it turned out the spirit who was close to me had other plans :-)
After maybe 10 minutes I felt my head –which had been drooping forward as I relaxed and drifted into a kind of meditative state- raise up and sit straight on my shoulders. I was completely ‘aware’ as usual. I felt much as I do when meditating, kind of ‘there’ but ‘not there’, so when Chris started asking if there was a spirit person who wanted to communicate, I was still expecting Paul to finally break his silence and get going.
But as Chris asked the second time, I felt and ‘urge’ to start talking and simply say hello.
I’m actually very new to Trance myself, having only been actually practising for about 6 months now since my very first attempt. However, I’ve noticed the pattern for me is to start drifting off, then feel compelled to lift my head up and say something. As soon as I start to use my voice, I feel the energy increase dramatically around the top and sides of my head.
This evening –maybe because of my position in the north corner- the energy increase was tremendous. So much so that the main focus of my attention was drawn to the physical sensations in and around my body, rather than ‘thinking’ about what was being said.
I think that it was this that allowed me to become much less ‘involved’ in the process.
The details of what actually went on for the rest of the evening are recorded in the on-line journal and I’ll leave you to make of it what you will.
I’m glad to say though that my decision to leave mediumship behind has now also been left behind. I’ll still stay away from any form of ‘readings’ for others as I strongly believe that 95% of mediums today tend to be 70% medium and only 30% spirit. When in Trance, the ratio comes much closer to 50/50. A really top medium (and there are some around) will be more like 70% or 80% spirit and only 30% or 20% human filter.
So all in all, an interesting evening again. Thanks again to the support of the spirit team and in particular the one energy who came forward to work with Paul.
Without their commitment and work, we’d all just be sitting in the dark.
We should be back to business as usual next week
It was my first time back having missed the last three weeks due to work and holidays and it was great to be back in the familiar surroundings of the Lodge and to see friends again.
Over the past few weeks I had decided that I was no longer really interested in ‘being’ a medium and that to a large extent I felt happy to leave Spirit to the spirit world – We’ll all be there soon enough anyway and the general quality of communication through most of today’s ‘mediums’ is of such a variable standard that I felt that if I was going to do this work I would either do it with clarity and accuracy or not at all.
There are far too many people out there today who claim to be having guidance from spirit and to have the authority to offer that guidance to others. Yet when you look carefully, the vast majority of what is offered as advice and messages from loved ones and from guides, is one the whole predictable and banal. At worst it is self serving and self aggrandising ego flattery.
How many times have I heard mediums telling the attentive listener that Grandma or Mum wants to wrap you in love, or in ‘the colour pink’ or that she’s ‘giving you flowers’ etc etc.
It’s hardly surprising that the sceptics have such a strong platform on which to stand.
It’s easy to be sucked into this kind of comforting advice and believe that you have to act on the advice from Granny. Or that the search for enlightenment is more important than the living of your physical life.
Always remember that you are here in the physical form to live a physical life. Not to be lost purely in the search for the non physical.
Having said all that, I was somewhat surprised as I left work on Tuesday evening to find that I was aware of the presence of a spirit energy with me as I was driving down towards Bristol.
Still, regardless of my intentions not to be a medium for the benefit of others, I was happy enough to feel their presence even if I had no desire to pass on any ‘messages’.
When I finally arrived at the circle I was not totally shocked to hear that Brian (the physical medium) wasn’t able to make it and so with our reduced numbers we were going to have a Trance night. Just Paul, Chris and myself.
As we sat chatting in the house before going on into the lodge, time was passing and we’d not noticed that 8pm had arrived. Oddly enough, at 8pm on the dot, Chris’ phone rang just once. Probably just a wrong number but it caused us to notice that we were about to miss our ‘agreed’ start time with Spirit and we made it into the shed right on time.
Once in, we looked to Chris to see what FC had given to her as instructions for the night. Nothing! Zip!
OK, so it was up to us. I suggested to Paul that he take the cabinet (I was still of the mind that I had no desire to do anymore mediumship work) and I decided to take the north corner to see if I could experience the increased levels of energy that the others had reported feeling there as I’d never sat there myself.
As the first track started on the CD player, I felt myself drifting off almost immediately and I was very aware of the different feeling of energy again as the same presence that had been with me earlier came close again.
I had no problem with this and welcomed ‘him’ to come as close as he wanted -at this point I still thought that Paul in the cabinet was going to be the medium for the evening.
However, it turned out the spirit who was close to me had other plans :-)
After maybe 10 minutes I felt my head –which had been drooping forward as I relaxed and drifted into a kind of meditative state- raise up and sit straight on my shoulders. I was completely ‘aware’ as usual. I felt much as I do when meditating, kind of ‘there’ but ‘not there’, so when Chris started asking if there was a spirit person who wanted to communicate, I was still expecting Paul to finally break his silence and get going.
But as Chris asked the second time, I felt and ‘urge’ to start talking and simply say hello.
I’m actually very new to Trance myself, having only been actually practising for about 6 months now since my very first attempt. However, I’ve noticed the pattern for me is to start drifting off, then feel compelled to lift my head up and say something. As soon as I start to use my voice, I feel the energy increase dramatically around the top and sides of my head.
This evening –maybe because of my position in the north corner- the energy increase was tremendous. So much so that the main focus of my attention was drawn to the physical sensations in and around my body, rather than ‘thinking’ about what was being said.
I think that it was this that allowed me to become much less ‘involved’ in the process.
The details of what actually went on for the rest of the evening are recorded in the on-line journal and I’ll leave you to make of it what you will.
I’m glad to say though that my decision to leave mediumship behind has now also been left behind. I’ll still stay away from any form of ‘readings’ for others as I strongly believe that 95% of mediums today tend to be 70% medium and only 30% spirit. When in Trance, the ratio comes much closer to 50/50. A really top medium (and there are some around) will be more like 70% or 80% spirit and only 30% or 20% human filter.
So all in all, an interesting evening again. Thanks again to the support of the spirit team and in particular the one energy who came forward to work with Paul.
Without their commitment and work, we’d all just be sitting in the dark.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Tuesday 24th September.
By 7.45pm the (physical) team had gathered itself together and after much mutual Mickey taking, at 8pm on the dot we headed outside to the shed (sorry Chris, I meant of course the Spirit Lodge!)
Myself, Paul & Lynne sorted out the usual housekeeping –doors, light seals chairs etc whilst Brian settled himself into the chair.
Then just as we were settling down, Brian leant forward and was trying to say something about Paul not sitting on a wooden chair (he was sitting down having been just secured into the cabinet by myself, but then seemed to become quite agitated). Paul was just settling into his chair, one of the plastic garden chairs in the room.
As I’d just completed securing the straps not a minute or two earlier, I could see the change in him quite clearly. Something that the others didn’t pick up on I think.
It was only a small thing, and I was surprised that he seemed to be so ‘out of it’ before we’d even all finished sitting down.
However, once the opening prayer had been completed, the light extinguished and the first music track started, we immediately heard the distinctive sounds of the tie-wraps being popped off, followed by more banging and thumping coming from inside the cabinet.
This showed that even though Brian was physically conscious, Spirit had already started to take him back into a trance state, had noticed the plastic rather than wooden chair (we’d been told some time ago that natural materials were preferable to plastic, but not essential) and was trying to bring it to our attention.
Is this linked to Paul’s tendency to blank out during the séance? Maybe, maybe not, time will tell.
Voice production was really coming on nicely with a very wide range of what can best be described as quite tuneful humming. Almost as if they were at first experimenting and then practising the potential vocal range. I must admit that it did occur to me that it sounded a bit like Brian’s own voice was being used.
Later, when the Chief came through to update us on progress, he explained that what had actually been happening was that they were ‘moving’ the voice creation are, up from the Larynx into the back of the nasal passages. Which explained why the ‘tonal’ qualities were so clear and yet there seemed to be no attempt to create words.
The plan (apparently) is to gradually move the voice creation region up and forward slowly to allow a much clearer and stronger end result than might be achieved if they used purely ectoplasm to build an external voice box.
But as the Chief said himself, it’s all an experiment, as much -if not more- for them as it is for us.
Each week, sets new levels of achievement and new levels of excitement and fun (I’m even starting to enjoy the singing –or I would do if our esteemed leader could drag her music taste kicking and screaming out of the 1950’s and 60’s ;-) )
I’ll be away on business the next 2 weeks, so will have be back at the circle in 3 weeks time. In the meantime, keep up to date on progress via the Spirits Aloud - Journal. The Link's on the left of the page.
Jon
Myself, Paul & Lynne sorted out the usual housekeeping –doors, light seals chairs etc whilst Brian settled himself into the chair.
Then just as we were settling down, Brian leant forward and was trying to say something about Paul not sitting on a wooden chair (he was sitting down having been just secured into the cabinet by myself, but then seemed to become quite agitated). Paul was just settling into his chair, one of the plastic garden chairs in the room.
As I’d just completed securing the straps not a minute or two earlier, I could see the change in him quite clearly. Something that the others didn’t pick up on I think.
It was only a small thing, and I was surprised that he seemed to be so ‘out of it’ before we’d even all finished sitting down.
However, once the opening prayer had been completed, the light extinguished and the first music track started, we immediately heard the distinctive sounds of the tie-wraps being popped off, followed by more banging and thumping coming from inside the cabinet.
This showed that even though Brian was physically conscious, Spirit had already started to take him back into a trance state, had noticed the plastic rather than wooden chair (we’d been told some time ago that natural materials were preferable to plastic, but not essential) and was trying to bring it to our attention.
Is this linked to Paul’s tendency to blank out during the séance? Maybe, maybe not, time will tell.
Voice production was really coming on nicely with a very wide range of what can best be described as quite tuneful humming. Almost as if they were at first experimenting and then practising the potential vocal range. I must admit that it did occur to me that it sounded a bit like Brian’s own voice was being used.
Later, when the Chief came through to update us on progress, he explained that what had actually been happening was that they were ‘moving’ the voice creation are, up from the Larynx into the back of the nasal passages. Which explained why the ‘tonal’ qualities were so clear and yet there seemed to be no attempt to create words.
The plan (apparently) is to gradually move the voice creation region up and forward slowly to allow a much clearer and stronger end result than might be achieved if they used purely ectoplasm to build an external voice box.
But as the Chief said himself, it’s all an experiment, as much -if not more- for them as it is for us.
Each week, sets new levels of achievement and new levels of excitement and fun (I’m even starting to enjoy the singing –or I would do if our esteemed leader could drag her music taste kicking and screaming out of the 1950’s and 60’s ;-) )
I’ll be away on business the next 2 weeks, so will have be back at the circle in 3 weeks time. In the meantime, keep up to date on progress via the Spirits Aloud - Journal. The Link's on the left of the page.
Jon
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Tuesday 19th September
Last night was an excellent evening. Our friends inspirit are making real progress and since the circle was closed for the development of direct voice, we heard for the first time what really sounded like the beginnings of a recognisable voice.
The evening started off well with much Mickey taking and joking around, so the energy was buzzing when we went into the Lodge.
Our two guests, Sylve and Terry joined in easily and soon Brian was strapped in securely to the chair.
Last week (which I’d missed due to work) the wrist strap –electrical cable ties- were secured to the chair through small metal loops screwed into the wood.
At the end of the evening, these small metal loops were found to be long straight and twisted pieces of metal. So, this time, the tie wraps were secured through screwed in brackets to the chairs arms and legs.
The music started and before the second song had finished playing, we had heard the distinctive bangs of the straps being removed.
Once again, these large cable ties were simply undone as if they had never been secured in the first place and left hanging from the brackets on the chair.
Then as the séance progressed, we began to hear spirits attempts at communication through direct voice start to take shape.
Before, we have witnessed lots of choking, gurgling, coughing and spluttering. But this time Brian/Spirit -who has been starting to sound over the last month or so something not too dissimilar from a dog being strangled- sounded relaxed and comfortable.
We could here his breathing, calm and steady.
And then at first a high pitched attempt at voice and then later on a deep, powerful throaty voice. Attempts at speech were clearly audible and at one point, several of us felt we could hear the words “my name is” coming through.
Not long after this, the atmosphere changed an the dark shapes that had been seen and felt moving round the room (remember this was in total blackout and the only light source was the faint glow of the luminous tabs each sitter wears on their lapels) faded away.
Soon, we heard “the Chief” coming through who was in a very jovial mood. We were kept up to date with the Teams’ progress and encouraged to continue the good work.
Both Terry and Sylve were welcomed and the Chief mentioned that he had already met them both back in Feb (confirmation of this will follow) – we think it was when Brian attended one of Warren Calylor’s open séances, of which T & S were close members)
When the lights were brought backup, Brian was found tilted back on his chair with a cushion comfortably placed behind his head.
-just as I was strapping him in an hour earlier, we had been joking together that as the medium, the least he could expect was a nice comfy wing backed chair to relax in (we use wooden dining room style chairs –a vast improvement on the green plastic garden chairs we started off with)
Obviously, spirit had decided to play on the joke as well J
The bells that are attached to the bottom of the chair with a Velcro strip, were found in the middle of the room where we had heard them being thrown about 15 minutes into the séance.
Brian was in good spirits (no pun intended ;-) and was pleased to find himself in a comfortable position for a change.
All in all, a very good evening and we were all delighted with the amazing progress that the Team are making. At this rate, we will be having casual chats over a cup of tea with 200 year old Native Americans by Christmas!
Many, many thanks again to Brian, who gets little personal gain out of the whole experience and whose only reward is to find out afterwards what new levels have been achieved while he’s been away with the fairies.
Next update in 7 days and don’t miss the new addition to the progress reports at Spirit Lights
The evening started off well with much Mickey taking and joking around, so the energy was buzzing when we went into the Lodge.
Our two guests, Sylve and Terry joined in easily and soon Brian was strapped in securely to the chair.
Last week (which I’d missed due to work) the wrist strap –electrical cable ties- were secured to the chair through small metal loops screwed into the wood.
At the end of the evening, these small metal loops were found to be long straight and twisted pieces of metal. So, this time, the tie wraps were secured through screwed in brackets to the chairs arms and legs.
The music started and before the second song had finished playing, we had heard the distinctive bangs of the straps being removed.
Once again, these large cable ties were simply undone as if they had never been secured in the first place and left hanging from the brackets on the chair.
Then as the séance progressed, we began to hear spirits attempts at communication through direct voice start to take shape.
Before, we have witnessed lots of choking, gurgling, coughing and spluttering. But this time Brian/Spirit -who has been starting to sound over the last month or so something not too dissimilar from a dog being strangled- sounded relaxed and comfortable.
We could here his breathing, calm and steady.
And then at first a high pitched attempt at voice and then later on a deep, powerful throaty voice. Attempts at speech were clearly audible and at one point, several of us felt we could hear the words “my name is” coming through.
Not long after this, the atmosphere changed an the dark shapes that had been seen and felt moving round the room (remember this was in total blackout and the only light source was the faint glow of the luminous tabs each sitter wears on their lapels) faded away.
Soon, we heard “the Chief” coming through who was in a very jovial mood. We were kept up to date with the Teams’ progress and encouraged to continue the good work.
Both Terry and Sylve were welcomed and the Chief mentioned that he had already met them both back in Feb (confirmation of this will follow) – we think it was when Brian attended one of Warren Calylor’s open séances, of which T & S were close members)
When the lights were brought backup, Brian was found tilted back on his chair with a cushion comfortably placed behind his head.
-just as I was strapping him in an hour earlier, we had been joking together that as the medium, the least he could expect was a nice comfy wing backed chair to relax in (we use wooden dining room style chairs –a vast improvement on the green plastic garden chairs we started off with)
Obviously, spirit had decided to play on the joke as well J
The bells that are attached to the bottom of the chair with a Velcro strip, were found in the middle of the room where we had heard them being thrown about 15 minutes into the séance.
Brian was in good spirits (no pun intended ;-) and was pleased to find himself in a comfortable position for a change.
All in all, a very good evening and we were all delighted with the amazing progress that the Team are making. At this rate, we will be having casual chats over a cup of tea with 200 year old Native Americans by Christmas!
Many, many thanks again to Brian, who gets little personal gain out of the whole experience and whose only reward is to find out afterwards what new levels have been achieved while he’s been away with the fairies.
Next update in 7 days and don’t miss the new addition to the progress reports at Spirit Lights
Monday, September 17, 2007
The clarity of understanding
The following is extracted from an email I received this morning. I’ve edited a few details in order to maintain anonymity but there are some key thoughts within this that deserve to be shared.
The person relating this true story is a medium –albeit a reluctant one. Who tends to receive guidance and messages from Spirit at the most unfriendly hours (probably because these are the only times the poor spirits can get a word in edgeways!)
That said, as you read through this you will see that she was deeply moved by the visions that she witnessed. I’d also add here that this particular lady is not easily given to hysterical behaviours or seeing ‘visions’ in the dark. This was a very clear message from Spirit which they have asked us to share publicly, and as she had no really suitable forum to do this I’ve posted it here.
This morning I was woken by a friend in Spirit. I was definitely awake as I looked at the clock and saw it was 5.15. I was 'given' a visualisation (with thought-sound) of a little girl aged approx 3...by size. She had pale skin and dirty blonde hair and a faded grubby blue dress, no shoes. She was stirring some grit in a bowl, with a spoon/stick. This was pretend food, because there wasn't enough food to eat. She said all the children did this because it helped. She looked smiling and was chatty and jumpy. I asked what she was doing there. She said "I'm a foundling child." and gave me her name. She said it is ok there, but some of the other children cry a lot for their mothers and fathers, but she hasn't ever had a father and her mother got sick (and died) so she's ok....but others cry.
An older boy, aged about 10 maybe, was dressed in a light brown shirt and dark brown shorts, with brown leather old-style sandals. He sat at a table and was holding a baby, which was unblinkingly wide-eyed and silent and looked almost dead. The boy had tanned skin, maybe multi-racial, or maybe Indian. He spoke with a well educated voice, saying that this was a Foundling Centre. He'd been lucky in life so far as his benefactor had paid for his education, but had now died. He could leave this place, but was staying to help. He worked by begging, taking a sick child with him on the streets so sit near tourists....but this was becoming harder now as the men moved him on. He showed me a non-healed almost-scar across his shoulder and arm, caused by beating. He was calm and matter-of-fact about it. He indicated another child, who had a badly healing deformed leg (it looked as if it was broken and mangled in some way). He said "I will take that one out tomorrow, so he will be fed tonight." I asked how the boys leg was damaged and was told calmly that he had been begging and had been beaten and will probably die when infection catches hold. Apparently none of them were fed unless they were working. He said that the blonde girl was unfed for three days as she was not working, was too healthy to use for begging and was ill-formed for other work (sex). She relied on what food was left by the others and there was none left.
I was then shown another place. There was a 'flat' with three children. This looked to be in a big town, but poor, like typical of what we see on the TV news. The actual flat looked like a very run-down council block. Twin girls (4 or 5)) went to school. Baby, 6 months (actually later Spirit told me it was almost two years old) laid on the floor. Boy aged about 7 was unable to attend school as he was at home with the baby and looked after the twins. He had NO income and lived in fear of the family being taken to the Foundling centre. He was old beyond his years but had the 'knowledge' of a child. These were white kids. The door was open and a woman in a filthy apron came forward and said that she is doing her best to feed the family but hadn't enough food for them all. She was apologetic and seemed to feel that I was blaming her. She was a neighbour. She was doing her best. I asked about the children's parents and she said "No matter. It is done".
The pictures cleared. Spirit said that it was important that I had already forgotten the little girls name. This name has been offered to me with pride, as it was all that this child has to hold as her own and she had offered me this. She wished him to pass her name to me again, it is Ellie. Spirit said she is still of the earth plane. At this point I was feeling 'zapped' and in tears.
Spirit was firmly telling me to stop crying, that crying was unimportant.
Mankind is not meant to be divided, there are no divisions upon the earth plane nor in any other place, other than divisions created by the selfishness of mankind. A child is born to those who feel joy, and should twins be born their joy is doubled. Yet few persons with one birth consider taking into their heart a child born to another who cannot feed it. Homes are plenty, with room to spare, but few consider offering a room to a person who is without a roof. Spirit wish this to change. For it matters not that a person cannot speak a certain language, it matters that a person is suffering and can be helped, but for the selfish thoughts of mankind.
I told Spirit that I understand what he is saying and will not forget. Obviously, this is true.
The person relating this true story is a medium –albeit a reluctant one. Who tends to receive guidance and messages from Spirit at the most unfriendly hours (probably because these are the only times the poor spirits can get a word in edgeways!)
That said, as you read through this you will see that she was deeply moved by the visions that she witnessed. I’d also add here that this particular lady is not easily given to hysterical behaviours or seeing ‘visions’ in the dark. This was a very clear message from Spirit which they have asked us to share publicly, and as she had no really suitable forum to do this I’ve posted it here.
This morning I was woken by a friend in Spirit. I was definitely awake as I looked at the clock and saw it was 5.15. I was 'given' a visualisation (with thought-sound) of a little girl aged approx 3...by size. She had pale skin and dirty blonde hair and a faded grubby blue dress, no shoes. She was stirring some grit in a bowl, with a spoon/stick. This was pretend food, because there wasn't enough food to eat. She said all the children did this because it helped. She looked smiling and was chatty and jumpy. I asked what she was doing there. She said "I'm a foundling child." and gave me her name. She said it is ok there, but some of the other children cry a lot for their mothers and fathers, but she hasn't ever had a father and her mother got sick (and died) so she's ok....but others cry.
An older boy, aged about 10 maybe, was dressed in a light brown shirt and dark brown shorts, with brown leather old-style sandals. He sat at a table and was holding a baby, which was unblinkingly wide-eyed and silent and looked almost dead. The boy had tanned skin, maybe multi-racial, or maybe Indian. He spoke with a well educated voice, saying that this was a Foundling Centre. He'd been lucky in life so far as his benefactor had paid for his education, but had now died. He could leave this place, but was staying to help. He worked by begging, taking a sick child with him on the streets so sit near tourists....but this was becoming harder now as the men moved him on. He showed me a non-healed almost-scar across his shoulder and arm, caused by beating. He was calm and matter-of-fact about it. He indicated another child, who had a badly healing deformed leg (it looked as if it was broken and mangled in some way). He said "I will take that one out tomorrow, so he will be fed tonight." I asked how the boys leg was damaged and was told calmly that he had been begging and had been beaten and will probably die when infection catches hold. Apparently none of them were fed unless they were working. He said that the blonde girl was unfed for three days as she was not working, was too healthy to use for begging and was ill-formed for other work (sex). She relied on what food was left by the others and there was none left.
I was then shown another place. There was a 'flat' with three children. This looked to be in a big town, but poor, like typical of what we see on the TV news. The actual flat looked like a very run-down council block. Twin girls (4 or 5)) went to school. Baby, 6 months (actually later Spirit told me it was almost two years old) laid on the floor. Boy aged about 7 was unable to attend school as he was at home with the baby and looked after the twins. He had NO income and lived in fear of the family being taken to the Foundling centre. He was old beyond his years but had the 'knowledge' of a child. These were white kids. The door was open and a woman in a filthy apron came forward and said that she is doing her best to feed the family but hadn't enough food for them all. She was apologetic and seemed to feel that I was blaming her. She was a neighbour. She was doing her best. I asked about the children's parents and she said "No matter. It is done".
The pictures cleared. Spirit said that it was important that I had already forgotten the little girls name. This name has been offered to me with pride, as it was all that this child has to hold as her own and she had offered me this. She wished him to pass her name to me again, it is Ellie. Spirit said she is still of the earth plane. At this point I was feeling 'zapped' and in tears.
Spirit was firmly telling me to stop crying, that crying was unimportant.
Mankind is not meant to be divided, there are no divisions upon the earth plane nor in any other place, other than divisions created by the selfishness of mankind. A child is born to those who feel joy, and should twins be born their joy is doubled. Yet few persons with one birth consider taking into their heart a child born to another who cannot feed it. Homes are plenty, with room to spare, but few consider offering a room to a person who is without a roof. Spirit wish this to change. For it matters not that a person cannot speak a certain language, it matters that a person is suffering and can be helped, but for the selfish thoughts of mankind.
I told Spirit that I understand what he is saying and will not forget. Obviously, this is true.
Friday, September 7, 2007
Tuesday 4th September
It’s been a while since I’ve posted regularly here. I’ve still been actively involved with the circle but work and other personal stuff has limited the time available to do the write ups –let alone the audio transcriptions that I’ve been promising for weeks!
Mind you, Chris has kept everything running with the introduction of the ‘official’ diary blog which has kept everything up to date.
This week’s events were actually quite quiet by our normal standards. As was predicted by our spirit team a month ago, activity appears to have been much reduced over recent weeks; although we are assured that there is a great deal going on that we don’t have visibility of.
This week, we were much reduced in numbers as David and Brian, were unable to make it to the circle. So there was only myself, Paul and Christine in the Lodge.
It was indicated by FC (via Chris) that we would have a development evening which involved Paul be placed in the North corner with myself next to him on one side and Chris on the other.
The intent was for Paul to go into ‘trance’ and with my support and encouragement allow him to bring through someone to speak to us. Chris was to act as the witness.
The music was started up and almost immediately I felt myself falling away backwards toward the now familiar half asleep/half awake sensation.
I could feel ‘energy’ building up around me but couldn’t really create enough intent to wake up and see where Paul had got to.
-one aspect of this ‘altered’ level of consciousness is that once there, the inclination to come back is decreased. A bit like soaking in a warm bath. You know you can come back at an instant if necessary, but you’d really rather not!
After a while, I was aware again of the increase in energy around and in me and I could feel my body starting to tense up (this happens now much less with each time I practice trance, but it is strong enough still to make me aware that someone is trying to get through. If left to my own devices I’d probably just drift along quite happily until it was time to go back indoors for tea and biscuits!)
Someone came through and after some initial messages, started to speak directly to Paul who was drifting in and out (he later told me) of a kind of trance/meditation state.
With coaching from the spirit who was with us, Paul was able to identify and see for the first time a spirit guide that was with him.
From my own level of awareness at the time, I thought that they were trying to get him to go deep enough into trance for him to allow a communicator to come through but it now seems that the intention all along was to bring him another step forward in his own personal development –which they did with flying colours.
There was some other stuff said I believe, but as the ‘medium’ there’s not much I recall of that part. You’ll have to email Chris and ask for more details if you want them.
Brian’s back next week. I’m off to Eindhoven for a few days for work but will be back again the week after.
See the Spirits Aloud Journal, for further updates next week.
Mind you, Chris has kept everything running with the introduction of the ‘official’ diary blog which has kept everything up to date.
This week’s events were actually quite quiet by our normal standards. As was predicted by our spirit team a month ago, activity appears to have been much reduced over recent weeks; although we are assured that there is a great deal going on that we don’t have visibility of.
This week, we were much reduced in numbers as David and Brian, were unable to make it to the circle. So there was only myself, Paul and Christine in the Lodge.
It was indicated by FC (via Chris) that we would have a development evening which involved Paul be placed in the North corner with myself next to him on one side and Chris on the other.
The intent was for Paul to go into ‘trance’ and with my support and encouragement allow him to bring through someone to speak to us. Chris was to act as the witness.
The music was started up and almost immediately I felt myself falling away backwards toward the now familiar half asleep/half awake sensation.
I could feel ‘energy’ building up around me but couldn’t really create enough intent to wake up and see where Paul had got to.
-one aspect of this ‘altered’ level of consciousness is that once there, the inclination to come back is decreased. A bit like soaking in a warm bath. You know you can come back at an instant if necessary, but you’d really rather not!
After a while, I was aware again of the increase in energy around and in me and I could feel my body starting to tense up (this happens now much less with each time I practice trance, but it is strong enough still to make me aware that someone is trying to get through. If left to my own devices I’d probably just drift along quite happily until it was time to go back indoors for tea and biscuits!)
Someone came through and after some initial messages, started to speak directly to Paul who was drifting in and out (he later told me) of a kind of trance/meditation state.
With coaching from the spirit who was with us, Paul was able to identify and see for the first time a spirit guide that was with him.
From my own level of awareness at the time, I thought that they were trying to get him to go deep enough into trance for him to allow a communicator to come through but it now seems that the intention all along was to bring him another step forward in his own personal development –which they did with flying colours.
There was some other stuff said I believe, but as the ‘medium’ there’s not much I recall of that part. You’ll have to email Chris and ask for more details if you want them.
Brian’s back next week. I’m off to Eindhoven for a few days for work but will be back again the week after.
See the Spirits Aloud Journal, for further updates next week.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Tuesday 31st July.
This was to be a Trance evening this evening but with some experimental aspects although none of us had any ideas what these were to be.
Chris had been ‘advised’ to have us seated in specific chairs. David, who’s been away for a month or so was back and was sat in the infamous North Corner chair –where Brian had been seated at the beginning of the séance last week, and I was in the ‘cabinet’ opposite.
Paul was in his usual place and Chris & Sandy were opposite Paul as witnesses. There was a bell jar on the floor in the centre of the room although our ‘invisible friends’ had not told us why this was to be placed there, just that it should be there.
I think we all assumed that Paul was going to be taken into Trance and would bring though a ‘communication’.
As the music started both myself, Paul and David seemed to drift off. The red light was at some stage switched off, though I don’t know exactly when.
David went in to a deep trance pretty quickly by all accounts and I became very aware of an intense energy coming towards me (cabinet curtains being wide open). To me it felt like sitting in front of one of those Halogen vertical heaters. The heat was hitting me in waves every second or so and felt as though it was top to bottom.
This was quite intense for a while.
Chris had made a new music compilation CD for the evening and it was very relaxing, I pretty much forgot about everything and was just drifting along with the music when I heard her voice (which seemed abnormally loud and harsh) asking if there were any communicators wishing to come through as she and Sandy were getting bored!!
It was then that I realised my head had slumped forward and was on my chest, and at the same time I felt my self being sat / pulled dead upright. And even when I was sitting up straight, it felt as though I was continuing to be lifted even further upright –like being stretched. (I should have measured myself afterwards, I’ve always wished I was a few inches taller!!)
And this is pretty much where my account of the evening ends. As it seems as though my spirit friend (or at least the ‘energy’ that seems to make himself known through me when I’m off with the fairies) then took the floor and held court.
Davie and Paul were quiet and afterwards it was apparent that both were ‘absent’ on and off for most of the evening.
I can recall bits and pieces, although I do remember being completely aware and conscious of what was being said at the time. It’s a bit like a dream state. You’re fully cognisant in the moment, but when you ‘wake up’ it becomes hard to recall the exact sequence or more than a few snatches or highlights.
I do remember though right at the end being very aware of a huge tension in my body and an almost uncontrollable shaking/vibration coursing though me and then ‘Charlie’ making Chris jump by saying ‘Boo’ just as the lights came on. Immediately after this, I felt as though my ‘batteries’ had been removed and every muscle in my body relaxed completely and unlike previous attempts (this is only my 4th or 5th time working with trance) I felt absolutely shattered.
Chris has posted a summary write up on the Spirits Aloud Journal
But whatever ‘Charlie’ had been talking about was obviously amusing and personal as the pair of them (Sandy and Chris) were in fits of giggles and innuendo’s afterwards, leaving the other 3 of us totally bemused. And as they didn’t see fit to share the jokes, we ended up none the wiser and left them to it.
Next week, we’re back to Physical with Brian in Blackout conditions. And although it’s interesting to experiment with trance, being the witness is much more fun that being the medium. At least you get to remember what happened!
Jon
ps..I now have the recording of last weeks session and as and when I have time I will post transcripts here. let's hope it's more generally enlightening than whatever went on last night!
Chris had been ‘advised’ to have us seated in specific chairs. David, who’s been away for a month or so was back and was sat in the infamous North Corner chair –where Brian had been seated at the beginning of the séance last week, and I was in the ‘cabinet’ opposite.
Paul was in his usual place and Chris & Sandy were opposite Paul as witnesses. There was a bell jar on the floor in the centre of the room although our ‘invisible friends’ had not told us why this was to be placed there, just that it should be there.
I think we all assumed that Paul was going to be taken into Trance and would bring though a ‘communication’.
As the music started both myself, Paul and David seemed to drift off. The red light was at some stage switched off, though I don’t know exactly when.
David went in to a deep trance pretty quickly by all accounts and I became very aware of an intense energy coming towards me (cabinet curtains being wide open). To me it felt like sitting in front of one of those Halogen vertical heaters. The heat was hitting me in waves every second or so and felt as though it was top to bottom.
This was quite intense for a while.
Chris had made a new music compilation CD for the evening and it was very relaxing, I pretty much forgot about everything and was just drifting along with the music when I heard her voice (which seemed abnormally loud and harsh) asking if there were any communicators wishing to come through as she and Sandy were getting bored!!
It was then that I realised my head had slumped forward and was on my chest, and at the same time I felt my self being sat / pulled dead upright. And even when I was sitting up straight, it felt as though I was continuing to be lifted even further upright –like being stretched. (I should have measured myself afterwards, I’ve always wished I was a few inches taller!!)
And this is pretty much where my account of the evening ends. As it seems as though my spirit friend (or at least the ‘energy’ that seems to make himself known through me when I’m off with the fairies) then took the floor and held court.
Davie and Paul were quiet and afterwards it was apparent that both were ‘absent’ on and off for most of the evening.
I can recall bits and pieces, although I do remember being completely aware and conscious of what was being said at the time. It’s a bit like a dream state. You’re fully cognisant in the moment, but when you ‘wake up’ it becomes hard to recall the exact sequence or more than a few snatches or highlights.
I do remember though right at the end being very aware of a huge tension in my body and an almost uncontrollable shaking/vibration coursing though me and then ‘Charlie’ making Chris jump by saying ‘Boo’ just as the lights came on. Immediately after this, I felt as though my ‘batteries’ had been removed and every muscle in my body relaxed completely and unlike previous attempts (this is only my 4th or 5th time working with trance) I felt absolutely shattered.
Chris has posted a summary write up on the Spirits Aloud Journal
But whatever ‘Charlie’ had been talking about was obviously amusing and personal as the pair of them (Sandy and Chris) were in fits of giggles and innuendo’s afterwards, leaving the other 3 of us totally bemused. And as they didn’t see fit to share the jokes, we ended up none the wiser and left them to it.
Next week, we’re back to Physical with Brian in Blackout conditions. And although it’s interesting to experiment with trance, being the witness is much more fun that being the medium. At least you get to remember what happened!
Jon
ps..I now have the recording of last weeks session and as and when I have time I will post transcripts here. let's hope it's more generally enlightening than whatever went on last night!
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Tuesday 24th July
Well, true to their word, our friends in Spirit pulled out all the stops on Tuesday evening.
As planned, there were four of us in the Lodge plus Brian (medium). The cabinet was as instructed, left empty and Brian was secured in the stout wooded chair in the opposite (north) corner of the room.
Chris, our audibly challenged circle leader fought her usual battle with technology and eventually managed to get the CD player working in the pitch blackout conditions. (why she doesn’t switch the blessed thing on before turning out the light still baffles me!! ;-) And after much double an triple checking of the tape recorder (Technology is not one of Chris’s closet companions in life) we were underway.
Brian went out like a light almost immediately and within minutes we could here assorted gurgling, crashing and banging in the corner of the room where Brian was secured.
He had been tied in to the chair with heavy duty plastic tie-wraps on both wrists and ankles as well as a soft belt knotted around his stomach.
The chair was heard to be rocking backwards and forwards, side to side for the first 10 minutes or so, and then I suddenly felt something soft land on the back of my hand. I let everyone know and then identified it as being one of the cloth pads we put on Brian’s wrist to offset the tightness with which we’d fastened the straps (not that we don’t trust everybody, but just to make absolutely 100% sure of all eventualities :-)
It was around this time that I saw faint spots of light making rapid up and down movements in front of the chair. The light whizzed vertically up & down 4 or 5 times before making one horizontal sweep and disappeared. “did you see that!” I said to Paul next to me.
“I had me eyes shut” came the reply.
Now, I’m not one to jump to criticism, but… we’re sitting in a séance room, in blackout, for the sole purpose of witnessing physical phenomena. And he had his eyes shut!?
A few minutes later everything seemed to go quiet and I felt very strongly that someone was sitting in the cabinet next to me. I had been playing close attention to the luminous tabs we were each wearing and felt confident that nothing has visibly passed between me and the pair on the other side room.
Then someone moved in the cabinet (I naturally assumed Brian had been moved there by some means) Just at the same time, the chair was moved in the other corner, …in which case, “who the F@#* was that in the cabinet!!!
Within a few more minutes the Chief came through Brian and began what was to become a lengthy Q&A session.
I will transcribe the whole event and post the results here once I have a copy of the audio tape.
Much instruction and guidance for the future development of both individuals and the team players was given, as well as plans for the circle, healing and general information More details to follow once I get the transcript sorted out. ;-]
What was more astounding though was the fact when the lights came up, that Brian's wrist straps were still firmly secured to the wooden chair, the Ankle straps had been physically torn open.
Pulling the small plastic ratchet effect inside out on both straps (you try pulling a cable tie-wrap apart with your bare hands!) And if that wasn’t enough, the belt that was around his waist was still lying exactly where it had been tied, and the knot still secure!
Brian was found sitting cross legged on the floor in the cabinet! See the journal (side bar) for plain facts without the verbal garbage wrapped around.
Next week, will be trance development and then the following week will be Blackout again. Full report next week and transcripts will be posted once they're done.
As planned, there were four of us in the Lodge plus Brian (medium). The cabinet was as instructed, left empty and Brian was secured in the stout wooded chair in the opposite (north) corner of the room.
Chris, our audibly challenged circle leader fought her usual battle with technology and eventually managed to get the CD player working in the pitch blackout conditions. (why she doesn’t switch the blessed thing on before turning out the light still baffles me!! ;-) And after much double an triple checking of the tape recorder (Technology is not one of Chris’s closet companions in life) we were underway.
Brian went out like a light almost immediately and within minutes we could here assorted gurgling, crashing and banging in the corner of the room where Brian was secured.
He had been tied in to the chair with heavy duty plastic tie-wraps on both wrists and ankles as well as a soft belt knotted around his stomach.
The chair was heard to be rocking backwards and forwards, side to side for the first 10 minutes or so, and then I suddenly felt something soft land on the back of my hand. I let everyone know and then identified it as being one of the cloth pads we put on Brian’s wrist to offset the tightness with which we’d fastened the straps (not that we don’t trust everybody, but just to make absolutely 100% sure of all eventualities :-)
It was around this time that I saw faint spots of light making rapid up and down movements in front of the chair. The light whizzed vertically up & down 4 or 5 times before making one horizontal sweep and disappeared. “did you see that!” I said to Paul next to me.
“I had me eyes shut” came the reply.
Now, I’m not one to jump to criticism, but… we’re sitting in a séance room, in blackout, for the sole purpose of witnessing physical phenomena. And he had his eyes shut!?
A few minutes later everything seemed to go quiet and I felt very strongly that someone was sitting in the cabinet next to me. I had been playing close attention to the luminous tabs we were each wearing and felt confident that nothing has visibly passed between me and the pair on the other side room.
Then someone moved in the cabinet (I naturally assumed Brian had been moved there by some means) Just at the same time, the chair was moved in the other corner, …in which case, “who the F@#* was that in the cabinet!!!
Within a few more minutes the Chief came through Brian and began what was to become a lengthy Q&A session.
I will transcribe the whole event and post the results here once I have a copy of the audio tape.
Much instruction and guidance for the future development of both individuals and the team players was given, as well as plans for the circle, healing and general information More details to follow once I get the transcript sorted out. ;-]
What was more astounding though was the fact when the lights came up, that Brian's wrist straps were still firmly secured to the wooden chair, the Ankle straps had been physically torn open.
Pulling the small plastic ratchet effect inside out on both straps (you try pulling a cable tie-wrap apart with your bare hands!) And if that wasn’t enough, the belt that was around his waist was still lying exactly where it had been tied, and the knot still secure!
Brian was found sitting cross legged on the floor in the cabinet! See the journal (side bar) for plain facts without the verbal garbage wrapped around.
Next week, will be trance development and then the following week will be Blackout again. Full report next week and transcripts will be posted once they're done.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Tuesday 17th July
Not much to report this week as I was in trance along with Brian and Paul. This was Paul’s first go at trance and did really well. He (apparently) –at least according to our visitors- is well suited to this form of mediumship and has great things in store.
He certainly reported similar (if a little more extreme) feelings and sensations to those I found on my first few ‘trips’. Nausea, vertigo, spinning sensations.
He also had some weird sensations in his arms and hands and it will be interesting to see how these develop or if indeed they have any significance.
We’re still having problems with the sound levels in the tape recorder, so no MP3 files are available as yet, but once we have this sorted, we’ll be posting the sound files for download.
Both Brian and I brought few some visitors to the Lodge. Brian’s experience and talent for Trance shone through and of the bits that I do remember, his communicators were clear and precise. Showing great precision with their presence and ability to talk clearly and concisely about the work that is going on within the lodge.
If you go to the Lodge journal, you’ll get a better picture of what happened (from someone who was at least was awake for the whole evening.
Next week is the experiment that Spirit are setting up for us. We’ve still no real idea what they are planning to attempt. All we know so far is that Brian will be strapped into his chair as usual but rather than in the Cabinet (placed in the south corner of the room) he will be sat in the North corner.
We’ve been told to keep the cabinet empty and the curtains closed and to keep the floor space between Brian and the cabinet clear.
We will wait and see and I promise to post a full report next Wednesday.
Till then
Cheers for now
He certainly reported similar (if a little more extreme) feelings and sensations to those I found on my first few ‘trips’. Nausea, vertigo, spinning sensations.
He also had some weird sensations in his arms and hands and it will be interesting to see how these develop or if indeed they have any significance.
We’re still having problems with the sound levels in the tape recorder, so no MP3 files are available as yet, but once we have this sorted, we’ll be posting the sound files for download.
Both Brian and I brought few some visitors to the Lodge. Brian’s experience and talent for Trance shone through and of the bits that I do remember, his communicators were clear and precise. Showing great precision with their presence and ability to talk clearly and concisely about the work that is going on within the lodge.
If you go to the Lodge journal, you’ll get a better picture of what happened (from someone who was at least was awake for the whole evening.
Next week is the experiment that Spirit are setting up for us. We’ve still no real idea what they are planning to attempt. All we know so far is that Brian will be strapped into his chair as usual but rather than in the Cabinet (placed in the south corner of the room) he will be sat in the North corner.
We’ve been told to keep the cabinet empty and the curtains closed and to keep the floor space between Brian and the cabinet clear.
We will wait and see and I promise to post a full report next Wednesday.
Till then
Cheers for now
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Tuesday 10th July
Another amazing evening.
A number of different spirits came through, Brian’s hands were released from the cable ties and both Brian and the chair were carried out into the room and dropped (with a particularly) loud crash.
This was all very interesting and makes for an exciting time, however, is this really what it’s all about?
For me, the whole essence and purpose of the circle is not to merely entertain the circle members but to demonstrate to the world at large that Spirit is a very real form of existence.
That life as we know it is not limited to the merely physical. And when we finally shuffle off this mortal coil, it’s not simply a case of game over, lights out, the big goodnight but a change of focus, a shift in the place of attention.
If you knew, with absolute certainty, with knowledge gained from personal experience, that you lived beyond the physical cycle of birth and death. That your friends and relations who have died are not dead. That there is no death!
Would you change anything? Would you still live your life as you live it today? Would change any of your thoughts about what are your priorities in life? Would you change the way you acted, the way look at others, the way you even thought?
Through our circle, Spirit are experimenting, developing and learning how to manipulate the blend of energies from the physical and spiritual dimensions.
Creating physical phenomena that irrefutably prove through physical evidence and experience that life continues without end, and that our life here is only one aspect of our real life.
When we are given the go ahead, we will be able to start inviting guests to also witness and experience spirits' commitment to us all.
In the meantime, this weeks circle also made a significant step forward as the being known to us as ‘The Chief’ not only gave us detailed instructions for a special experiment for next weeks circle, but also for the first time opened up the floor for questions.
Each of us were given the opportunity to ask questions and the answers received were both clear and concise. Interestingly, the Chief didn’t have “all” the answers and on two occasions seemed to be stumped, then “went to ask”, returning moments later with a clear and lucid response.
We were given an explanation for how the bindings on Brian’s wrists were being manipulated and his arms were being freed, also how the chair (complete with Brian in it) was being lifted from the floor and propelled through the curtains into the centre of the room.
We were given advice on meditation and on the nature of twin souls or soul mates.
Also covered were aspects of how individual events were never simply accidents or coincidences. How some meetings and relationships were intended to be made in order to reach a certain situation or set of circumstances.
Later next week I should have the CD of the evening’s communications and I’ll either transcribe the salient points or simply post an MP3 version here on the blog.
& if you’re still interested with keeping up with developments, be sure to drop by next week when I’ll also post the outcome of the new experiment that Spirit are preparing for.
A number of different spirits came through, Brian’s hands were released from the cable ties and both Brian and the chair were carried out into the room and dropped (with a particularly) loud crash.
This was all very interesting and makes for an exciting time, however, is this really what it’s all about?
For me, the whole essence and purpose of the circle is not to merely entertain the circle members but to demonstrate to the world at large that Spirit is a very real form of existence.
That life as we know it is not limited to the merely physical. And when we finally shuffle off this mortal coil, it’s not simply a case of game over, lights out, the big goodnight but a change of focus, a shift in the place of attention.
If you knew, with absolute certainty, with knowledge gained from personal experience, that you lived beyond the physical cycle of birth and death. That your friends and relations who have died are not dead. That there is no death!
Would you change anything? Would you still live your life as you live it today? Would change any of your thoughts about what are your priorities in life? Would you change the way you acted, the way look at others, the way you even thought?
Through our circle, Spirit are experimenting, developing and learning how to manipulate the blend of energies from the physical and spiritual dimensions.
Creating physical phenomena that irrefutably prove through physical evidence and experience that life continues without end, and that our life here is only one aspect of our real life.
When we are given the go ahead, we will be able to start inviting guests to also witness and experience spirits' commitment to us all.
In the meantime, this weeks circle also made a significant step forward as the being known to us as ‘The Chief’ not only gave us detailed instructions for a special experiment for next weeks circle, but also for the first time opened up the floor for questions.
Each of us were given the opportunity to ask questions and the answers received were both clear and concise. Interestingly, the Chief didn’t have “all” the answers and on two occasions seemed to be stumped, then “went to ask”, returning moments later with a clear and lucid response.
We were given an explanation for how the bindings on Brian’s wrists were being manipulated and his arms were being freed, also how the chair (complete with Brian in it) was being lifted from the floor and propelled through the curtains into the centre of the room.
We were given advice on meditation and on the nature of twin souls or soul mates.
Also covered were aspects of how individual events were never simply accidents or coincidences. How some meetings and relationships were intended to be made in order to reach a certain situation or set of circumstances.
Later next week I should have the CD of the evening’s communications and I’ll either transcribe the salient points or simply post an MP3 version here on the blog.
& if you’re still interested with keeping up with developments, be sure to drop by next week when I’ll also post the outcome of the new experiment that Spirit are preparing for.
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Tuesday 3rd July
Firstly my apologies for the intermittent reports over the past few weeks.
I’ve been away from home quite a bit recently and had to miss a few sittings, but I’m sure you’ve kept up to date through the new on-line journal/blog.
But I will still keep this blog going now as it will give a subjective as opposed to the more objective and purely factual reports on the journal.
Over recent months I have also been fairly sparse with the updates as I’ve been somewhat involved in the proceedings myself. I’ve been working with Trance over the past few months and so I’ve not really been in a position to report anything myself as I’ve not really been a witness to anything.
Reports of these sittings can be seen on the circle journal mentioned above.
So, this Tuesday was an exceptionally interesting night.
The evening started quietly as there were a few regular sitters missing. A new guest joined myself and Chris for the evening along with Brian, the physical medium.
Last week, the journal reported that Brian’s wrists had been freed from the restraining tie-wraps that had been used to tie him into the chair. This week, I wanted to make absolutely certain that Brian was secured properly.
I put the straps on myself and made completely sure that the straps were snug. Not so tight they were cutting into his wrists but I can 100% guarantee that there was NO Way that he could have got his arms free.
With Brian safely strapped in –ankles, wrists, chest all secured- and the curtains were closed. The lights were put out and the first songs were started.
Before the end of the second song, we were hearing significant noises, thuds and bangs from behind the cabinet (goodness knows what our first time guest was thinking!)
Then, as the 3rd or 4th song was playing, we heard an enormous crash in the middle of the room. ….it’d fair to say we all jumped through the roof!
There were some more loud noises and the trumpet was heard to be sent flying.
A few minutes later and the noises subsided and ‘the chief (Running Bull) came forward and spoke to us all.
One of the first things he mentioned was that his voice was much loader and clearer than normal, and that the reason why would become apparent once the lights came back on.
Much more was said, mostly encouragement to the sitters and personal welcomes to our guest and myself.
Chris asked if something of a personal nature could be given to our guest to provide further evidence of the truth of what was happening. The Chief said that he would see what could be done.
Later in the evening, a second communicator came forward, giving his name as Lucas. Lucas gave us the name of Sid or Sidney. No further information was forthcoming other than that the name would be relevant to one of us in the room –if not immediately, then in the very near future. – Sidney means nothing to me, so I am assuming it will register with one of the two girls.
Blaze came forward for a brief chat and was (by his standards) very well behaved. Bu he only stayed a short while and then the séance was brought to a close.
When the lights came up we immediately could see why he Chief’s voice was so clear.
Brian, still strapped securely at ankles and chest in his chair, was planted in the middle of the room, a foot in front of the cabinet.
The trumpet was lying on the floor and several of the ‘toys’ had been moved.
In all the previous séances, even though I have been present and trusted in the veracity of what we were experiencing, there was always a small element on uncertainty as to what was happening.
There was always just the tiniest thought that just perhaps Brian ‘could’ have been manipulating the circumstances.
I have to say here and now, that I fully and completely apologise to Brian for ever having held those thoughts. I am completely and utterly convinced that everything we have experienced is and was genuine.
There were only 3 of us in the room, myself and the 2 girls. Each of us were wearing luminous tabs on our lapels, so even if they had wanted to get up and manhandle Brian out of the cabinet, it would not have been possible.
The only way that he could have been moved was via Spirit.
Also, his hand were freed, the cable ties still secured to the chair –which then had to be cut off.
All in all, this was an tremendous evening that confirmed beyond any shadow of a doubt that Spirit is working with us to prove objectively the continuation of life beyond the merely physical.
Next week I will report on what ever follows.
Tuesdays will now be going back to being dedicated to Physical mediumship under blackout, Fridays being given over to Trance in order to allow our members to spend more weekend time with families over the school summer holidays.
All the best to all
Jon
I’ve been away from home quite a bit recently and had to miss a few sittings, but I’m sure you’ve kept up to date through the new on-line journal/blog.
But I will still keep this blog going now as it will give a subjective as opposed to the more objective and purely factual reports on the journal.
Over recent months I have also been fairly sparse with the updates as I’ve been somewhat involved in the proceedings myself. I’ve been working with Trance over the past few months and so I’ve not really been in a position to report anything myself as I’ve not really been a witness to anything.
Reports of these sittings can be seen on the circle journal mentioned above.
So, this Tuesday was an exceptionally interesting night.
The evening started quietly as there were a few regular sitters missing. A new guest joined myself and Chris for the evening along with Brian, the physical medium.
Last week, the journal reported that Brian’s wrists had been freed from the restraining tie-wraps that had been used to tie him into the chair. This week, I wanted to make absolutely certain that Brian was secured properly.
I put the straps on myself and made completely sure that the straps were snug. Not so tight they were cutting into his wrists but I can 100% guarantee that there was NO Way that he could have got his arms free.
With Brian safely strapped in –ankles, wrists, chest all secured- and the curtains were closed. The lights were put out and the first songs were started.
Before the end of the second song, we were hearing significant noises, thuds and bangs from behind the cabinet (goodness knows what our first time guest was thinking!)
Then, as the 3rd or 4th song was playing, we heard an enormous crash in the middle of the room. ….it’d fair to say we all jumped through the roof!
There were some more loud noises and the trumpet was heard to be sent flying.
A few minutes later and the noises subsided and ‘the chief (Running Bull) came forward and spoke to us all.
One of the first things he mentioned was that his voice was much loader and clearer than normal, and that the reason why would become apparent once the lights came back on.
Much more was said, mostly encouragement to the sitters and personal welcomes to our guest and myself.
Chris asked if something of a personal nature could be given to our guest to provide further evidence of the truth of what was happening. The Chief said that he would see what could be done.
Later in the evening, a second communicator came forward, giving his name as Lucas. Lucas gave us the name of Sid or Sidney. No further information was forthcoming other than that the name would be relevant to one of us in the room –if not immediately, then in the very near future. – Sidney means nothing to me, so I am assuming it will register with one of the two girls.
Blaze came forward for a brief chat and was (by his standards) very well behaved. Bu he only stayed a short while and then the séance was brought to a close.
When the lights came up we immediately could see why he Chief’s voice was so clear.
Brian, still strapped securely at ankles and chest in his chair, was planted in the middle of the room, a foot in front of the cabinet.
The trumpet was lying on the floor and several of the ‘toys’ had been moved.
In all the previous séances, even though I have been present and trusted in the veracity of what we were experiencing, there was always a small element on uncertainty as to what was happening.
There was always just the tiniest thought that just perhaps Brian ‘could’ have been manipulating the circumstances.
I have to say here and now, that I fully and completely apologise to Brian for ever having held those thoughts. I am completely and utterly convinced that everything we have experienced is and was genuine.
There were only 3 of us in the room, myself and the 2 girls. Each of us were wearing luminous tabs on our lapels, so even if they had wanted to get up and manhandle Brian out of the cabinet, it would not have been possible.
The only way that he could have been moved was via Spirit.
Also, his hand were freed, the cable ties still secured to the chair –which then had to be cut off.
All in all, this was an tremendous evening that confirmed beyond any shadow of a doubt that Spirit is working with us to prove objectively the continuation of life beyond the merely physical.
Next week I will report on what ever follows.
Tuesdays will now be going back to being dedicated to Physical mediumship under blackout, Fridays being given over to Trance in order to allow our members to spend more weekend time with families over the school summer holidays.
All the best to all
Jon
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Spirit Lodge Diary
Good News, the Spirits Aloud Circle has now launched it's own blog based running journal of events.
This will be a purely objective account of the seances (well, mostly objective anyway). You can now find this at Spirits Lodge Diary .
Chris will keep this up to date each week after each seance.
If you're interested in following our work and development, I'd encourage you to take a look.
I will still keep this blog running however, as this site will reflect my own experiences and will be open to 'subjective' as well as objective accounts from my own personal perspective.
Since I have started to work with Trance Mediumship over the past month or so, I have refrained from placing too much information here as I'd be writing only about myself. And believe me, the personal perspective of Trance work is very different from that witnessed by the sitters.
However, I have been keeping my own records (long hand) which now that Chris has published the 'official' journal accounts, I supposed I ought to balance the books a little by posting my own now. :-)
So please read on, and in the next few days I'll transcribe my own thoughts and views on what has been taking place during the trance sittings I've taken part in.
Cheers for now
Jon
This will be a purely objective account of the seances (well, mostly objective anyway). You can now find this at Spirits Lodge Diary .
Chris will keep this up to date each week after each seance.
If you're interested in following our work and development, I'd encourage you to take a look.
I will still keep this blog running however, as this site will reflect my own experiences and will be open to 'subjective' as well as objective accounts from my own personal perspective.
Since I have started to work with Trance Mediumship over the past month or so, I have refrained from placing too much information here as I'd be writing only about myself. And believe me, the personal perspective of Trance work is very different from that witnessed by the sitters.
However, I have been keeping my own records (long hand) which now that Chris has published the 'official' journal accounts, I supposed I ought to balance the books a little by posting my own now. :-)
So please read on, and in the next few days I'll transcribe my own thoughts and views on what has been taking place during the trance sittings I've taken part in.
Cheers for now
Jon
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Tuesday 12th June
I'm away working this week in th US and will be missing this weeks' and next weeks sittings.
But the overall report was that there were many odd sounds from the cabinet and when the lights came back on Brian had again been moved (rotated) through 60 degrees, plus this time the chair was tilted back against the wall.
The Chief came through towards the end of the seance and passed along messages to the others in the room. Once I get the transcript I'll post some more details soon.
More updates to come
Cheers
Jon
But the overall report was that there were many odd sounds from the cabinet and when the lights came back on Brian had again been moved (rotated) through 60 degrees, plus this time the chair was tilted back against the wall.
The Chief came through towards the end of the seance and passed along messages to the others in the room. Once I get the transcript I'll post some more details soon.
More updates to come
Cheers
Jon
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Tuesday 5th June
No report last week as the circle didn’t meet (for the first time since its inception!). So my apologies for the gap.
This week Brian (our physical medium) was away and so we sat for Trance rather than physical mediumship.
A number of different spirits spoke to us through the trance mediums and this time we recorded the whole hour and a half on a combination of video and audio tape.
This was also a new thing for me as we sat with the electric lights on in order for the video camera to be able to see us more clearly.
Hopefully we’ll get a chance to review the whole evenings’ recordings in the next few days and I’ll have a better view of what was said and what was given by Spirit.
I have to say I am still not completely convinced with ‘Trance Mediumship’ as yet. The whole thing seems to me to be closer to ‘inspirational speaking’ than handing over control of the physical body to a visiting spirit.
But I have been assured that as one of the mediums become more experienced and practised, then this may well change.
Initially I was also expecting a lot more in the way of ‘proof’ that the speaker really was from spirit rather than a figment of an over active imagination.
But then it does seem that Trance Mediums tend to only hand over control to their trusted guides. Which probably makes sense as I know that I for one wouldn’t particularly want “great aunt Edna” to take over my body just so that she could convince someone that she was still alive and kicking –if in spirit rather than body!
She might decide that she quite fancies another bash at life and can’t be bothered with going through the whole birth/death cycle thingy again!
-makes you wonder at the whole “possession” concept.
But then, why is it that the guides can’t relay some kind of evidence? Or maybe it’s just that trance mediums are generally in a home circle where the need for ‘evidence’ has long been passed?
Also, a higher level guide type spirit is likely to be more interested in spiritual teachings and personal guidance, rather than enabling the recently deceased to pop back in again to say Hi.
Lots of questions, not too many answers yet.
I’m not sure what we’ll do with the audio/dvd stuff yet. Our friends kept it up for nearly 1.75 hours. I’m not going to be volunteering to transcribe all that lot into text myself!
I suspect Chris will post the objective review up on the Spirits Aloud Journal (see sidebar link) within a few more days.
I’ll be missing the next 2 weeks séances as I’ll be travelling again with work but I’ll post second hand reports when I get them.
J.
This week Brian (our physical medium) was away and so we sat for Trance rather than physical mediumship.
A number of different spirits spoke to us through the trance mediums and this time we recorded the whole hour and a half on a combination of video and audio tape.
This was also a new thing for me as we sat with the electric lights on in order for the video camera to be able to see us more clearly.
Hopefully we’ll get a chance to review the whole evenings’ recordings in the next few days and I’ll have a better view of what was said and what was given by Spirit.
I have to say I am still not completely convinced with ‘Trance Mediumship’ as yet. The whole thing seems to me to be closer to ‘inspirational speaking’ than handing over control of the physical body to a visiting spirit.
But I have been assured that as one of the mediums become more experienced and practised, then this may well change.
Initially I was also expecting a lot more in the way of ‘proof’ that the speaker really was from spirit rather than a figment of an over active imagination.
But then it does seem that Trance Mediums tend to only hand over control to their trusted guides. Which probably makes sense as I know that I for one wouldn’t particularly want “great aunt Edna” to take over my body just so that she could convince someone that she was still alive and kicking –if in spirit rather than body!
She might decide that she quite fancies another bash at life and can’t be bothered with going through the whole birth/death cycle thingy again!
-makes you wonder at the whole “possession” concept.
But then, why is it that the guides can’t relay some kind of evidence? Or maybe it’s just that trance mediums are generally in a home circle where the need for ‘evidence’ has long been passed?
Also, a higher level guide type spirit is likely to be more interested in spiritual teachings and personal guidance, rather than enabling the recently deceased to pop back in again to say Hi.
Lots of questions, not too many answers yet.
I’m not sure what we’ll do with the audio/dvd stuff yet. Our friends kept it up for nearly 1.75 hours. I’m not going to be volunteering to transcribe all that lot into text myself!
I suspect Chris will post the objective review up on the Spirits Aloud Journal (see sidebar link) within a few more days.
I’ll be missing the next 2 weeks séances as I’ll be travelling again with work but I’ll post second hand reports when I get them.
J.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Tuesday 22nd May
Hi, just a short post this week.
For the first time since the group has been sitting now, we had the first night with no physical phenomena at all.
There were the usual grey foggy effects and several people reported perceiving flashes of light, but no two people saw the same things at the same time (our minimum requirement to record and objective event). Temperatures went up and down but no bangs, flashes or moved objects.
However it wasn’t all quiet. We did get some conversation and guidance from ‘the chief’ who spoke through Brian once his trance state was brought back to a light enough state. The Chief apologised for the lack of apparent activity but explained that there was still a lot going on ‘behind the scenes’.
Both Brian and David are going into deep trance states now for most of the whole evening. And several of the other members of the group are also feeling the pull at various times during circle.
Several ‘communicators’ have now explained to us that there is new work being done and that they are experimenting with new ‘forms’ of energy that can be ‘blended’ with the more traditional forms to create new ways of demonstrating the continuance of life beyond the concept of ‘death’.
Our aim has always been and still remains to be, the proof of continuing consciousness beyond the end of physical life through the demonstration of objective physical evidence.
I believe that we are starting to move to a phase in the circle now where we will soon be able to record some serious evidence. We’re starting to depart from the traditional ‘physical séance’ and beginning to explore previously uncharted areas.
Where it will take us I have no idea. But I will certainly update the blog as and when anything happens every week.
It really is turning out to be fun and exciting. There are new developments almost weekly and everyone within the circle is starting to notice changes in themselves as our work with Spirit has started to move from a notional concept stage into a very real practical reality.
Lots of people can talk a good story about their experiences and perceptions but these are always someone else’s story. When a small group of people start to share the same experiences’ together, then your mind is forced to move into a different state of awareness.
For myself, as a healer first and foremost and a medium on occasion, I was always able to kind of ‘suspend my disbelief’ when and where spirit were concerned. However, my own journey of discovery, my understanding and awareness have been brought into phase with my perception of the physical world.
Now, solid facts are no longer solid. Fundamentals such as the physical reality of green plastic garden chairs are no longer quite so firmly fixed as they once were.
In Christine’s back garden, in a converted 10’x12’ shed in a suburban corner of Bristol, philosophical concepts and practical reality are now colliding on a weekly basis.
For the first time since the group has been sitting now, we had the first night with no physical phenomena at all.
There were the usual grey foggy effects and several people reported perceiving flashes of light, but no two people saw the same things at the same time (our minimum requirement to record and objective event). Temperatures went up and down but no bangs, flashes or moved objects.
However it wasn’t all quiet. We did get some conversation and guidance from ‘the chief’ who spoke through Brian once his trance state was brought back to a light enough state. The Chief apologised for the lack of apparent activity but explained that there was still a lot going on ‘behind the scenes’.
Both Brian and David are going into deep trance states now for most of the whole evening. And several of the other members of the group are also feeling the pull at various times during circle.
Several ‘communicators’ have now explained to us that there is new work being done and that they are experimenting with new ‘forms’ of energy that can be ‘blended’ with the more traditional forms to create new ways of demonstrating the continuance of life beyond the concept of ‘death’.
Our aim has always been and still remains to be, the proof of continuing consciousness beyond the end of physical life through the demonstration of objective physical evidence.
I believe that we are starting to move to a phase in the circle now where we will soon be able to record some serious evidence. We’re starting to depart from the traditional ‘physical séance’ and beginning to explore previously uncharted areas.
Where it will take us I have no idea. But I will certainly update the blog as and when anything happens every week.
It really is turning out to be fun and exciting. There are new developments almost weekly and everyone within the circle is starting to notice changes in themselves as our work with Spirit has started to move from a notional concept stage into a very real practical reality.
Lots of people can talk a good story about their experiences and perceptions but these are always someone else’s story. When a small group of people start to share the same experiences’ together, then your mind is forced to move into a different state of awareness.
For myself, as a healer first and foremost and a medium on occasion, I was always able to kind of ‘suspend my disbelief’ when and where spirit were concerned. However, my own journey of discovery, my understanding and awareness have been brought into phase with my perception of the physical world.
Now, solid facts are no longer solid. Fundamentals such as the physical reality of green plastic garden chairs are no longer quite so firmly fixed as they once were.
In Christine’s back garden, in a converted 10’x12’ shed in a suburban corner of Bristol, philosophical concepts and practical reality are now colliding on a weekly basis.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Friday 18th May
To enable Brian to sit for his own develoment at a minumum of once a week, he now alterantes between a Friday and Tuesday evening every other week.
I wasn't present myself for Fridays circle, so I've included posted highlights of the report below.
It was another good night with Brian being physically moved in his chair again.
May 18th 2007
90 minute séance. Blackout conditions.
Brian in the cabinet. Sitters and witnesses: Christine, Paul, Dave and David.
NOTE: Christine had placed three cat-toy balls with bells inside then, in a triangular position beneath the chair within the cabinet.
Brian was secured to the chair within the cabinet by cable ties to arms and legs and with a cord at his waist.
During the first part of the evening various creaking sounds were heard within the cabinet. For the most part the only sounds heard were our own ‘singing’.
During the latter part of the evening however activity was clearly apparent and this included some interesting communication from The Chief, through Brian, who was in deep trance state.
At the close of the séance David was brought out of trance state, as was Brian.
When the light was switched on it was witnessed that the Medium’s chair had been moved 45deg within the cabinet and, what surprised everyone, was that the balls which she had placed carefully beneath the chair were exactly as they had been put there. They had NOT moved!
The balls, you will understand are cat toys, they move easily, which is why they were being used for experimental purpose.
.....and so ended another great evening. Yet more progress.
Next Tuesday is another blackout night with Brian in the cabinet. I'll post my own account probably on Wednesday.
Jon.
I wasn't present myself for Fridays circle, so I've included posted highlights of the report below.
It was another good night with Brian being physically moved in his chair again.
May 18th 2007
90 minute séance. Blackout conditions.
Brian in the cabinet. Sitters and witnesses: Christine, Paul, Dave and David.
NOTE: Christine had placed three cat-toy balls with bells inside then, in a triangular position beneath the chair within the cabinet.
Brian was secured to the chair within the cabinet by cable ties to arms and legs and with a cord at his waist.
During the first part of the evening various creaking sounds were heard within the cabinet. For the most part the only sounds heard were our own ‘singing’.
During the latter part of the evening however activity was clearly apparent and this included some interesting communication from The Chief, through Brian, who was in deep trance state.
At the close of the séance David was brought out of trance state, as was Brian.
When the light was switched on it was witnessed that the Medium’s chair had been moved 45deg within the cabinet and, what surprised everyone, was that the balls which she had placed carefully beneath the chair were exactly as they had been put there. They had NOT moved!
The balls, you will understand are cat toys, they move easily, which is why they were being used for experimental purpose.
.....and so ended another great evening. Yet more progress.
Next Tuesday is another blackout night with Brian in the cabinet. I'll post my own account probably on Wednesday.
Jon.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Tuesday 15th May
Well, it’s been a few weeks since I made a significant post here I know. My main blog has also been quiet as well as I’ve been working my way through some experiences and answers to some questions that I’ve been holding onto for quite some time.
Last week there was no circle anyway as the ‘team’ were up at Stansted at an open day at the Arthur Findlay College .
The week before had been my first attempt to go into Trance and allow someone in spirit to communicate through me in this way. It was an odd experience to say the least.
Surprising you might say since I am quite happy to ‘receive’ messages mentally and pass them on, but when doing this there is a level of disassociation that sort of allows me to ‘suspend my disbelief’ during the event and then go back to being highly sceptical afterwards.
So merely sitting in a semi trance state should -in theory- be a doddle.
The reality is somewhat harder to get your head round when it actually happens to you.
First off, you have to understand that I am very doubtful of 99.9% of supposed trance mediums that I’ve ever come across. I suspect in most cases there is an awful lot of medium and not much spirit involved.
There is virtually never, ever, any evidence given to prove that it’s for real.
Secondly, when I was in the trance state, I was very much aware of everything going on and (at that moment in time) felt very much ‘there’ and fully conscious of everything going on in the room and within me. I felt I was making it up as I went along for the most part. –except they were not my words coming out.
On the other hand, I was very aware of this other mentality putting/blending thoughts and words into my mind almost in parallel to my own thoughts.
The biggest issue came when one of the circle members asked a direct question –even a simple ones, such as ‘what is your name’.
As soon as I heard the question, the ‘me’ part of ‘my’ mind came to the fore and desperately tried to create and answer. The result was that my voice was in conflict between me and my temporary friend. But then nothing came out and a log jam was seemingly created until I managed to relax enough to allow the visitor to continue.
This was more noticeable when an ‘absolute’ response was required. My visiting friend seemed to then try and find a way around the road block by answering questions indirectly, -which I then felt to be even more evasive. Making my distrust rise to new heights and bringing my own sceptical mind even closer to the surface.
This became even more complicated when I/he/we were asked if there was a message to be passed on to one of the sitters.
‘I’ knew that there was. ‘He’ wanted to pass it on. I, how ever was looking to step back in as the ‘medium’ and see the message as I might do normally. So the harder I looked for the ‘mental’ communication, the less it was apparent.
As the ‘tension’ increased, so did the vibrations in my physical body, I started shaking like a leaf, every muscle in my body was tensed and I could physically feel the energy.
So there was this kind of 3 way battle going on the whole time.
The sceptic doubting that any of it was real and feeling worried that I was duping myself, deluding my friends and betraying the trust I had built up with Spirit.
The me experiencing the energy and vibrations, hearing the words being spoken for the first time, experiencing the ‘knowing’ that it was for real.
And then part of me an almost dispassionate observer, watching objectively the clash of wills between the spirit person and the physical me.
All of these different thoughts, feelings and emotions going on in real time.
…It’s amazing that they managed to get anything intelligible through at all!!!
Anyway, here’s a rough transcript of the evenings events but from the little bits that I do recall, they seem close enough.
They’re not absolute, as there was a technical hitch with the tape recorder. ….someone -who shall for now remain nameless- managed to leave the Pause button down!!
Tuesday 15th May
Red light conditions. 85 minute séance.
Sitters and witnesses: Christine, David, Jon, Paul, Justin, Ollie.
Notes recorded By Chris
David was seated beside the cabinet, with Jon beside him. The intention for the evening was for Jon to experience trance for the second time, either with or without support from David (established trance medium).
Both David and Jon displayed indications of pending trance very soon into the séance.
Therefore Christine decided to simply invite spirit to draw closer for communication through either of the two mediums. The blending of energies between the two mediums was not requested nor was it necessary. Jon worked independently of support from David.
Therefore we now have two established trance mediums within our Circle : )
The first communicator through David was White Eagle. He spoke about the recent vandalism to the sanctuary and gave reassurance about this.
The second communicator came through Jon. This entity was reluctant to give his name, as he feels names to be unnecessary. He spoke of having some difficulty in making communication through the medium, who was not able to relax. Jon’s physical body shaking was mentioned by Christine and assurance given that all was well and that this would pass.
The third communicator came through David. This was Brother John. He gave a loving and supportive message to the group.
The fourth communication came through Jon. This entity was felt by Paul to be an entity known to him as Hussein. Hussein spoke directly to Paul, discussing a previous message with him and giving further confirmation about a young girl who is beside Paul, to his right side. She was described by Hussein as being a friend, rather than a guide. An older man was also mentioned as being close to Paul, said to be a relative of his who had recently passed, on his father’s side of the family.
The fifth communicator was Black Eagle who said that he felt it necessary to come forward as someone within the group felt a need for healing. It was suggested that this person should remove their garments and open themselves to the sun and the beauty and natural energies around them. Chris joked that such behaviour would not be socially acceptable within the Cribbs Causeway area. Black Eagle agreed with this but encouraged us to consider taking time to enjoy the healing benefits of fresh air, the woodland and the countryside.
The final communication was through Jon. An entity who gave his name as Charlie. *This turned out to be a joke between himself and Jon, which included us also. He spoke gently of many things. Particularly, in response to a question by Justin regarding connecting with deceased loved ones, he was very profound with his words.
QUOTE: "It is not the shape of the clouds that give meaning, but the meaning we give the shape that matters." Lovely!
E-mail from Jon:
>> Charlie…...it was a joke. That's not his name.
'We' had a chat on the way home and I was made aware that the name came from me, or more precisely a book I've read. In which God, in conversation with the author, discusses how He doesn't want people to get hung up over his name through various religions across the world. And how some religions get very angry if you mis pronounce his "true" name.
I think the quote goes something along the lines of "Do you really imagine that I care if you call me God, Yahweh, Jehovah, Krishna or even Charlie, I'm still me, and I love everyone of you just the same".
I think that our visitor must have pulled that quote from me, having a joke with you and also with me at the same time. Jon
NOTES:
Christine feels that the ‘Charlie entity’ was also the entity who came through first, and was reluctant to give his name. She also ‘saw’ several entities around Jon as his trance state was initially forming….before ‘order’ was established. None of this is provable of course. Noted purely as a guide for future reference.
The energy within the séance room was excellent. This was Ollie’s first séance experience, and clearly his energy blends with the established group energy very well.
Last week there was no circle anyway as the ‘team’ were up at Stansted at an open day at the Arthur Findlay College .
The week before had been my first attempt to go into Trance and allow someone in spirit to communicate through me in this way. It was an odd experience to say the least.
Surprising you might say since I am quite happy to ‘receive’ messages mentally and pass them on, but when doing this there is a level of disassociation that sort of allows me to ‘suspend my disbelief’ during the event and then go back to being highly sceptical afterwards.
So merely sitting in a semi trance state should -in theory- be a doddle.
The reality is somewhat harder to get your head round when it actually happens to you.
First off, you have to understand that I am very doubtful of 99.9% of supposed trance mediums that I’ve ever come across. I suspect in most cases there is an awful lot of medium and not much spirit involved.
There is virtually never, ever, any evidence given to prove that it’s for real.
Secondly, when I was in the trance state, I was very much aware of everything going on and (at that moment in time) felt very much ‘there’ and fully conscious of everything going on in the room and within me. I felt I was making it up as I went along for the most part. –except they were not my words coming out.
On the other hand, I was very aware of this other mentality putting/blending thoughts and words into my mind almost in parallel to my own thoughts.
The biggest issue came when one of the circle members asked a direct question –even a simple ones, such as ‘what is your name’.
As soon as I heard the question, the ‘me’ part of ‘my’ mind came to the fore and desperately tried to create and answer. The result was that my voice was in conflict between me and my temporary friend. But then nothing came out and a log jam was seemingly created until I managed to relax enough to allow the visitor to continue.
This was more noticeable when an ‘absolute’ response was required. My visiting friend seemed to then try and find a way around the road block by answering questions indirectly, -which I then felt to be even more evasive. Making my distrust rise to new heights and bringing my own sceptical mind even closer to the surface.
This became even more complicated when I/he/we were asked if there was a message to be passed on to one of the sitters.
‘I’ knew that there was. ‘He’ wanted to pass it on. I, how ever was looking to step back in as the ‘medium’ and see the message as I might do normally. So the harder I looked for the ‘mental’ communication, the less it was apparent.
As the ‘tension’ increased, so did the vibrations in my physical body, I started shaking like a leaf, every muscle in my body was tensed and I could physically feel the energy.
So there was this kind of 3 way battle going on the whole time.
The sceptic doubting that any of it was real and feeling worried that I was duping myself, deluding my friends and betraying the trust I had built up with Spirit.
The me experiencing the energy and vibrations, hearing the words being spoken for the first time, experiencing the ‘knowing’ that it was for real.
And then part of me an almost dispassionate observer, watching objectively the clash of wills between the spirit person and the physical me.
All of these different thoughts, feelings and emotions going on in real time.
…It’s amazing that they managed to get anything intelligible through at all!!!
Anyway, here’s a rough transcript of the evenings events but from the little bits that I do recall, they seem close enough.
They’re not absolute, as there was a technical hitch with the tape recorder. ….someone -who shall for now remain nameless- managed to leave the Pause button down!!
Tuesday 15th May
Red light conditions. 85 minute séance.
Sitters and witnesses: Christine, David, Jon, Paul, Justin, Ollie.
Notes recorded By Chris
David was seated beside the cabinet, with Jon beside him. The intention for the evening was for Jon to experience trance for the second time, either with or without support from David (established trance medium).
Both David and Jon displayed indications of pending trance very soon into the séance.
Therefore Christine decided to simply invite spirit to draw closer for communication through either of the two mediums. The blending of energies between the two mediums was not requested nor was it necessary. Jon worked independently of support from David.
Therefore we now have two established trance mediums within our Circle : )
The first communicator through David was White Eagle. He spoke about the recent vandalism to the sanctuary and gave reassurance about this.
The second communicator came through Jon. This entity was reluctant to give his name, as he feels names to be unnecessary. He spoke of having some difficulty in making communication through the medium, who was not able to relax. Jon’s physical body shaking was mentioned by Christine and assurance given that all was well and that this would pass.
The third communicator came through David. This was Brother John. He gave a loving and supportive message to the group.
The fourth communication came through Jon. This entity was felt by Paul to be an entity known to him as Hussein. Hussein spoke directly to Paul, discussing a previous message with him and giving further confirmation about a young girl who is beside Paul, to his right side. She was described by Hussein as being a friend, rather than a guide. An older man was also mentioned as being close to Paul, said to be a relative of his who had recently passed, on his father’s side of the family.
The fifth communicator was Black Eagle who said that he felt it necessary to come forward as someone within the group felt a need for healing. It was suggested that this person should remove their garments and open themselves to the sun and the beauty and natural energies around them. Chris joked that such behaviour would not be socially acceptable within the Cribbs Causeway area. Black Eagle agreed with this but encouraged us to consider taking time to enjoy the healing benefits of fresh air, the woodland and the countryside.
The final communication was through Jon. An entity who gave his name as Charlie. *This turned out to be a joke between himself and Jon, which included us also. He spoke gently of many things. Particularly, in response to a question by Justin regarding connecting with deceased loved ones, he was very profound with his words.
QUOTE: "It is not the shape of the clouds that give meaning, but the meaning we give the shape that matters." Lovely!
E-mail from Jon:
>> Charlie…...it was a joke. That's not his name.
'We' had a chat on the way home and I was made aware that the name came from me, or more precisely a book I've read. In which God, in conversation with the author, discusses how He doesn't want people to get hung up over his name through various religions across the world. And how some religions get very angry if you mis pronounce his "true" name.
I think the quote goes something along the lines of "Do you really imagine that I care if you call me God, Yahweh, Jehovah, Krishna or even Charlie, I'm still me, and I love everyone of you just the same".
I think that our visitor must have pulled that quote from me, having a joke with you and also with me at the same time. Jon
NOTES:
Christine feels that the ‘Charlie entity’ was also the entity who came through first, and was reluctant to give his name. She also ‘saw’ several entities around Jon as his trance state was initially forming….before ‘order’ was established. None of this is provable of course. Noted purely as a guide for future reference.
The energy within the séance room was excellent. This was Ollie’s first séance experience, and clearly his energy blends with the established group energy very well.
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Tuesday 1st May
Brian -the one of us who is best suited to physical mediumship- was in the cabinet tonight and within 10 minutes there were some very weird sounds coming from within.
We had (because of the previous phenomena with the shoes etc) moved on from buckle straps to using plastic tie-wraps to secure him in the seat (this was his idea, to ensure no one would accuse him of cheating -he said he felt better if there was no possibility that he could do anything physically, even when in trance)
So arms tied to the chair (a common green plastic garden chair from B&Q for £5) and ankles tied to the legs. A belt was tied round his chest to stop any upper body movements and a pillowcase over his head (I’m still not quite clear about this as to why, but it seems to be common practice in physical circles).
To cut a long story short, the séance lasted nearly 2 hours with a seriously large amount of creaking, groaning and banging going on and when the lights eventually came up and the curtains were opened, The pillowcase had been taken off, the balls (cats toys with little bells inside) which had been heard jingling several times, were at opposite ends of the cabinet and…..
This is the biggy…
Brian had been lifted, chair and all, and swung round just short of 180 degrees.
I'm not sure who was more gob smacked, him or us…!
I got in the chair myself and tried to move it without releasing my arms and legs and there is no way that he could have done it whilst restrained the way he was.
And given the way he was strapped in, it'd be even more impossible to shake the pillowcase off his head.
We have decided that for the next few weeks at least, we are going to take before and after photo's to keep as evidence and post on the websites.
We had (because of the previous phenomena with the shoes etc) moved on from buckle straps to using plastic tie-wraps to secure him in the seat (this was his idea, to ensure no one would accuse him of cheating -he said he felt better if there was no possibility that he could do anything physically, even when in trance)
So arms tied to the chair (a common green plastic garden chair from B&Q for £5) and ankles tied to the legs. A belt was tied round his chest to stop any upper body movements and a pillowcase over his head (I’m still not quite clear about this as to why, but it seems to be common practice in physical circles).
To cut a long story short, the séance lasted nearly 2 hours with a seriously large amount of creaking, groaning and banging going on and when the lights eventually came up and the curtains were opened, The pillowcase had been taken off, the balls (cats toys with little bells inside) which had been heard jingling several times, were at opposite ends of the cabinet and…..
This is the biggy…
Brian had been lifted, chair and all, and swung round just short of 180 degrees.
I'm not sure who was more gob smacked, him or us…!
I got in the chair myself and tried to move it without releasing my arms and legs and there is no way that he could have done it whilst restrained the way he was.
And given the way he was strapped in, it'd be even more impossible to shake the pillowcase off his head.
We have decided that for the next few weeks at least, we are going to take before and after photo's to keep as evidence and post on the websites.
Tuesday 24th April
I haven't posted this one up yet as it's taken me a while to assimilate what happened that night.
The objective record is fairly straightforward and can be found as usual on the Journal (actually it's not been posted yet, but should be there soon)
The subjective view of what took place has taken a bit of time to get used to. But I will post a detailed review of the evening from my own perspective in the next few days.
I was taken into a light trance state and communication came through me to the rest of the group and a back complaint I have been experiencing for several weeks was spontaneously healed - and has remained healed for over a week now.
But more of this later. Read instead the report of what happened last night (Tuesday 1st May).
:-) J.
The objective record is fairly straightforward and can be found as usual on the Journal (actually it's not been posted yet, but should be there soon)
The subjective view of what took place has taken a bit of time to get used to. But I will post a detailed review of the evening from my own perspective in the next few days.
I was taken into a light trance state and communication came through me to the rest of the group and a back complaint I have been experiencing for several weeks was spontaneously healed - and has remained healed for over a week now.
But more of this later. Read instead the report of what happened last night (Tuesday 1st May).
:-) J.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Tuesday 17th April
It’s Wednesday 18th April today and last night was the first time I’ve been back in circle for 3 weeks. I wasn’t disappointed.
Brian, who has previously been sitting with the Friday group but who as shown that he is made of the right stuff for physical mediumship, joined the Tuesday group for the first time last night.
Once we were in the sanctuary, he was secured in the cabinet and I checked his straps personally so I can guarantee there was no room for any shenanigans. In particular (having heard that he had lost a shoe on the last two occasions in the chair) I made doubly sure his legs were locked together as tight as was reasonable -without causing too much discomfort.
We each wore a little badge with a small fluorescent tab on our sleeves so that any untoward movements could be easily noticed by the others. Not because we don’t trust each other, but at some point in the future we hope to invite guests into the sanctuary to witness what’s going on for themselves. (…we already have a small waiting list!) and having these precautions in place from the start should remove any unnecessary doubts or thoughts of fraud.
I was sitting right next to the cabinet in my usual spot and was surprised to hear a lot of creaking sounds and bumps and knocks coming from behind the curtain within the first 10 minutes or so.
At one stage these seemed to becoming quite ‘energetic’. Being so close to the sounds was both exciting and unnerving. Having sat in that chair myself on a few occasions, I knew that the sounds I was hearing were not 'natural' sounds. You couldn't make the chair sound like that if you wanted to ...and we have tried!
Then without warning there was a very loud double thud and a bang as the trumpet (a 24 inch long cone made of aluminium) was violently knocked to the floor under the table.
I jumped more than most, because I had been looking at the two luminous tabs just at that moment, trying to decide if it was just my imagination or if the thing really did seem to be moving.
Plus the thing was only 10” away from my right foot!
Things were calmer for a while after that and later we decided that perhaps a round of “10 Green Bottles” might boost the energy in the room. Just as we finished the last green bottle, a voice very quietly greeted us from behind the curtain.
This was the spirit that communicates through Brian in trance who we know as 'the chief'. He went on to ask us to ask Brian (who he rather un-endearingly referred to as “this one”) to please remove is shoes before the sitting in future, as they were having to work hard to remove them themselves in order to ‘ground’ the energy in the cabinet.
I asked if it would help if we all removed our shoes as well, and at first he seemed to be saying that it was not necessary, but then decided that it ‘might’ help and it would be a good idea for the future.
So next week, Brian and the circle will all be sitting without the aid of footwear –must remember to buy some fresh socks in time for our next meeting!!
There was much more creaking and groaning in the room and both Paul and myself saw a sudden flash of light appear at one point. However, Justin, Christine and David didn’t see it so it wasn’t recorded as an objectively witnessed event in the journal. The journal is the formal public record of any objective phenomena that is witnessed in the sanctuary during a sitting.
My notes here are merely my own subjective account
When the lights eventually came back up, both Brian’s shoes were lying on the floor next to the upturned trumpet. They must have both been thrown out simultaneously to create the double thuds we heard and must’ve hit the trumpet, causing it to be knocked for six and for me to very nearly embarrass myself I my underwear!
On Friday week, Brian will be sitting again for physical development. This Friday and next Tuesday will be given over to Trance development. This will allow Brian to sit once a week for his own development and also allow a circle to meet once a week for Energy/Trance mediumship work.
The fun continues …and it sure as hell beats watching Coronation Street on the telly!
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Friday 13th April
I've yet to sit with Brian in circle myself -although I look forward to next week when he'll be joining the Tuesday group.
So the following report is again second hand but as it was quite eventful, I thought I'd include it anyway.
I've cut and pasted this from the Friday circle's report.
Sitters and witnesses: Christine, Helen, Dave and David. Sitters all wearing small glo-tabs so that any movement can be detected. This is not from mistrust of our sitters, but to help us confirm to sceptics that all phenomena is genuine.
The first sounds from the cabinet were of Brian coughing (heavily). Then about a third of the way through the seance, to the background music of 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' we all heard sounds indicative of attempted contact from a spirit communicator.
Further communication was made a little later on.
Note that this is Brian's second sitting within the cabinet and independent voice has not yet been achieved. Spirit has told us that his diaphragm is being worked with to aid his breathing during deeper trance. Also his voice box is being manipulated.
During the seance sounds similar to footsteps were heard, this included a series of small running steps. Other sounds were also heard....like coin spinning or a zipper sound.
When the light was switched on at the end of the seance Brian's trainer was outside the cabinet and his ankle restraining strap was removed. He was sitting on his left leg. This wouldn't be an easy movement to make, with his waist and arms firmly strapped to the chair. Brian isn't the athletic type!
So the following report is again second hand but as it was quite eventful, I thought I'd include it anyway.
I've cut and pasted this from the Friday circle's report.
Sitters and witnesses: Christine, Helen, Dave and David. Sitters all wearing small glo-tabs so that any movement can be detected. This is not from mistrust of our sitters, but to help us confirm to sceptics that all phenomena is genuine.
The first sounds from the cabinet were of Brian coughing (heavily). Then about a third of the way through the seance, to the background music of 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' we all heard sounds indicative of attempted contact from a spirit communicator.
Further communication was made a little later on.
Note that this is Brian's second sitting within the cabinet and independent voice has not yet been achieved. Spirit has told us that his diaphragm is being worked with to aid his breathing during deeper trance. Also his voice box is being manipulated.
During the seance sounds similar to footsteps were heard, this included a series of small running steps. Other sounds were also heard....like coin spinning or a zipper sound.
When the light was switched on at the end of the seance Brian's trainer was outside the cabinet and his ankle restraining strap was removed. He was sitting on his left leg. This wouldn't be an easy movement to make, with his waist and arms firmly strapped to the chair. Brian isn't the athletic type!
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Tuesday 10th April
Again, nothing much to report this week.
Justin tried out sitting in the cabinet but after 10 minutes, asked to be ‘let out’. I don’t know, some people just don’t seem to enjoy being trussed up like a chicken and shut in a cupboard in the pitch black for an hour or so…
So once Justin was back to his normal self again, David sat in the cabinet for an hour. There was some cold draughts, Justin felt he could sense perfume moving from one side of him to the next, though no one else was aware of this.
There were the usual foggy hazy patches from time to time but this was all for the evening.
Through trance communication we have been told that this is to be expected for some time yet as the energies are balanced and built up.
Next week we are going to do some experiments with trance and see if perhaps some one other than David is suited for this form of mediumship. We’ve been told through the Friday circle communicators that we are to start to mix the two groups together and work with both trance and physical and ‘universal’ energies over the coming months.
Watch this space…
For readers not familiar with the concept of the ‘universal’ energy, it’s sometimes referred to as Scole Energy. See http://www.thescoleexperiment.com/ for more details.
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