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
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/
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