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/




Thursday, April 24, 2008

Tuesday 23 April 2008

This tuesday was my first time back in the circle for over 6 weeks now and it amazing to see how things have progressed in that time.
There are now 2 regular communicators each week – Cheung-Li as well as the Chief. Chung-Li is now clearly audible as he’s been able to greatly increase the volume of his speech over the past few months. I have a full recording of the discussions that took place and will post some clips up in the next few days.

The séance started quietly with some sounds that were indicative of further development of the independent voice channel. But these soon stopped and we were left in silence as the first few tracks were played through.
For me, I had one of the most significant personal experiences of the past 12 months. Towards the end of the last ‘quiet’ track I both heard and felt a solid ‘tap’ on the bottom of my chair. I was sitting against the side wall with vacant chairs to either side of me. On my right was the cabinet and to the left, Paul was sitting some 4 feet away. So it was physically impossible for anyone else in the room to reach or even touch my chair.
I’d placed my trainers underneath the chair as normal at the beginning of the evening and the sound and tap ‘felt’ as if someone had hit the underneath of the chair with the edge of one of the shoes.

I was just getting my head around the fact that Spirit has managed to manipulate a fairly solid trainer outside of the cabinet when the energy that had tapped the chair, then got a hold of the cross bar on the bottom of the chair and –just in case I was in any doubt as to what they were capable of- gave it a good shake for good measure.
There were a few more slight judders and then it stopped as quickly as it had begun.

OK, I realise that it may not sound like a big deal to anyone else, but I’ve found that although I have witnessed a lot of events that not only defy the accepted laws of physics, but have proved to me that such ‘laws’ are at best flexible -if not downright broken- everything else has been either ‘after the event’ (i.e. When the lights have come back on, there has been visible evidence such as the twisted metal rings, the snapped cable ties or Brian sitting in the middle of the room and the waist tie still fixed the chair etc), have happened to other people or have been so subtle (such as a light brush of something against an arm or leg) as to easily be questioned later in the cold light of day.
This was none of the above and I found that on the recording, I was even able to identify the tap on the chair.
And having someone shake your chair from beneath is a very real personal experience of spirit’s ability to create physical phenomena.

All in all, a super evening again and some very interesting advice and views were given during the Q&A sessions with both Cheung-Li and the Chief. Many thanks to the spirit team for their work and of course to Brian for continually volunteering to be tied up in a corner of a blacked out shed and sent to sleep for a n hour or two every week.
The audio clips will go up when I get time to sort them out later in the week.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Tuesday 8th April

An update on the seance this week can be found as usual at the Spirit Lodge Diaries.
I've posted 3 new audio clips from this weeks circle (see side bar).

I expect to be returning to the circle again in the next few weeks and will be updating the blog regularly from then.