The Sanctuary


In 2007 a small group of interested people decided to set up a
home circle dedicated to learning and understanding more about Physical
Mediumship.
This circle was named the Bristol Spirit Lodge - as Chris, whose home
hosted the circle and who created the idea, lived in Bristol at the time.
The BSL grew and evolved over time with many sitters and mediums coming
and going. I myself developed my own abilities as a Trance and Transfiguration
medium but the hoped for physical phenomena didn't appear to be on the agenda.
Much of the early development records as experienced by myself are
recorded in this blog up to the point where I really felt I was unable to add
anything new to the record.

In May 2013, some 5 yrs down the line, the BSL has relocated to Clevedon
and gone from strength to strength. Numerous new home circles have spun off and
have set up on their own and links to many others have been created
6 months ago, a young lady, wife and Mum contacted Chris to enquire
about physical mediumship. One thing led to another and she has now been sitting
in her own circle within the BSL for development with some amazing results. The
speed and level of her development has been stunning.

A few months ago, her spirit team who have been communicating through
direct voice whilst Emily has been in deep trance, told us that they wished to
form a small closed circle to sit weekly with a handful of dedicated sitters in
support to start what they called the “serious work”.

Last week was the inaugural sitting of the closed circle and what
follows below will be my own subjective account of my personal experiences
during this and subsequent sittings.
Chris will continue to update her own account of course on the BSL
on-line diary. My own diary in no way replaced these, this is just my own
personal record for my own interest and for anyone else who wants to follow.




To read the full diary and objective accounts of the other circles that meet in the Sanctuary, visit the main site at: http://www.spirit-lodge-diary.blogspot.com/




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!

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