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.