Chatting with Fuzzy Critter

Just Do It!!!!

2012-01-27T00:47:00.000-08:00

This morning I was lazing in bed in a sleepy state when FC's presence became felt. Last nights seance was a good one, as they all are, and I was feeling content to laze. FC asked me to explain in words how I was feeling. He does this sometimes. It seems to me that he, being a spirit form, knows what I am feeling but cannot readily verbalise it. As he supports me when I take my seat as seance host it is his role to offer me guidance, so, as I am more atuned to the physical world, he strives to communicate in a way that I am familar with. It's a two-way street though. I have needed to 'become open' to feeling what he is wanting me to do...but I'm still not much good at it. Basically my mind has always been hoppity skippity so to offer me a thought that I will actually consider seriously is not an easy task! I react to his offered guidence more readily when he uses words.

Lazing still I tried to verbalise what I was feeling...words like 'peace, harmony, love, wamth, affection' didn't seem to be enough somehow. The more I tried to think about it the further into the thought I drifted. 'Respect, honour, amazement, responsibility, devotion'. Still not quite enough. 'Dedication, in-love, one-ness, trust'....all still not enough....

What other hobby, pastime...or relationship evokes feelings like this? Possibly mother and child?

It's almost 5 years since the Lodge project was founded. 5 years ago, over Christmas in fact, my husband and I were building a wooden garden shed within which I intended to sit once-a-week. I can't remember who was present for that first sitting on February 6th 2007 although Jon was in the cabinet that night. We sat on white plastic chairs then and there wasn't any heating...but we actually Loved it...right from the start.

A lady, Elizabeth, sent me an e-mail yesterday. She's interested in starting her own group....

Just do it!!!!

Today I Am Busy Manifesting

2012-01-25T03:00:00.000-08:00

This morning I asked FC about something that had been mentioned by spirit team member Ted, in last night's seance (Spirit Harmony dated 24th January). Ted had described 'dying' and waking in the spirit world. He'd said that memories and personality all continue beyond physical life. So...this morning I asked FC where the memories are kept.

FC was amused by my question. He knows full well that I understand that physical form is not actually solid but appears so due to our physical perception. I also understand that energy is All. However...I automatically asked him where memories are kept...in a manner that suggests that I am expecting to be told of a place where they are stored.

Memories, thoughts and personality are energy and energy is All there is. How energy manifests it up to us. How we manifest ourselves is up to us.

Fuzzy Experiments

2012-01-21T04:32:00.000-08:00

I recently received an e-mail from a trusted friend who told me that he has access to some equipment. He proposed a small exploratory experimental study to see if there are any electro-magnetic effects, or temperature drops, that can be recorded when mediums enter into trance and asked whether any of your mediums in the lodge would be interested in taking part in an experiment like this? It would basically be a normal seance but he would be making recordings using a tri-field recorder. It would also be purely exploratory, just to see if anything can be recorded, because such things have been described in the past. He asked what I thought.

I replied positively to the idea as I'm sure one or two mediums would be open to a sensible study carried out by this known and trusted friend.

Later whilst out walking FC made his presence felt as we walked along together. I mentioned the proposed experiment and asked whether the equipment would 'show anything'. FC appeared amused by it...so I asked him what was funny?

He explained patiently that I am well aware that matter is simply an energy form and that spiritual energy interacts constantly and without boundaries. Basically 'dead people' are 'here' all the time. We, due to the limitations of our physical form, cannot usually see them...unless we develop the necessary senses in order to enable this function to become effected.

He also made it clear that development is most often effected through Intent. Basically if a person wishes to do something...then they will work to do it. Those in the spirit realms work in the same way, except they aren't hampered by physical forces so can effect their Intent more easily than we can.

In simple-to-understand terms....if we Intend to travel from Bristol to London we take physical steps to effect the transportation of our physical form. In the spirit world we will be able to travel more easily...but still...transportation will be the result of our Intent.

Returning to my enquiry regarding the proposed experiment with instruments FC again appeared amused. He said that if my friend sets an Intent to measure changes within an energy field for the purpose of potentially validating the presence of continuing spirit life scientifically...then spirit may cause such measurements to become effected, or they may have better things to do!

FC then brought to my attention the fact that within our opening prayer of Intent at each seance we ask for communication with the spirit world that is evidential of continuing life and consciousness and further, we invite Physical phenomena that may be spoken about to others so that they too may become open towards belief. Some scientists within the spirit world may wish to be involved in the gathering of scientific evidence, as they may consider it helpful in the set Intent to convince others of the continuation of life. It is therefore reasonable for such experimentation to be supported within the lodge. However, as always, the safety of the medium and the positive progress of the lodge project is of paramount importance and so supportive spiritual guidence will continue to be offered in the usual manner.

Pink Pyjamas

2012-01-11T01:01:00.000-08:00

My husband was away overnight, in Scunthrope. I woke at 8am to the sound of the chickens ...overdue for food. Waking 'late' doesn't suit me either...I had a headache!   Grabbing and donning bright pink fleecy pyjamas and monster slippers (I blame George at Asda for opening up opposite my house) I 'ran' to the kitchen for the shed key and then into the garden where I met the hunger needs of hens and ducks before returning to the house. Closing the patio door behind me I turned to glance to my right...
And there stood a small boy dressed neatly in a white cotton roll neck top, pale beige chinos and white trainers, his short blonde hair neatly combed...he looked worriedly at me, as well he might! He glanced behind him nervously and then placed one shoe upon the other. He stood twiddling his fingers. I really couldn't think what to say!

I then noticed an elderly man standing a few feet away, I saw him less clearly but as I looked at him his definition improved. A small slim man with baggy grey trousers, well worn lace-up shoes and a checked shirt. He had a thin line of grey hair around his ears.   Ignoring me, he looked towards the boy "Peter! What are you doing here?"

The boy looked at the floor guiltily and muttered something I couldn't hear, amongst which was "Granddad".    The man replied "How many times do me and your gran need to tell you! You are not to play there!"   By now I was feeling like an actor in a sit-com! I now found my voice and asked "How did you get here?"

Peter said "I came through the castle".    Granddad turned to me "It isn't really a castle he's talking about. It's like an energy vortex...sometimes it appears like a tower to the kids.  They will keep playing there...you know what kids are like, tell 'em til you're blue in the face and will they listen? No! You might as well talk to a cricket, you'd get more response!"   I was just about to ask another question when a third figure started to hazily form. Grandad saw it and muttered "We best get this lad home." The boy and third figure promptly disappeared.

Grandad turned to me and said politely "Pleasant to have met you. Sorry for any trouble...but you know what kids are like. Still...we must keep on top of it or you'll be overun!"   I said "Oh...that's ok..I'm used to it!" He said "You do good things here. Credit to you. Kids though, what can you do, they are too inquisitive for their own good! Well bye ma'am...maybe see you again sometime...not too soon eh?" haha!

The house now appearing cleared I ran here to the computer.

All I need to say now to those that work as psychic mediums and warn of the dangers of Physical...is "You are welcome to your mental state!" but stay away from me! You are really sickeningly nuts!
Give me knocks and bangs and faces that glow in the dark and anything else that everyone else in the place can see, hear, feel...and I'm happy with that! Blissfully happy! But when I start seeing kids and old men in my house when I'm feeding the chickens wearing pink fluffy pyjamas and monster slippers...well...I now feel ready for the loony bin!

Think Again!

2012-01-06T00:46:00.000-08:00

Dave, Pam and Wendy have a home circle in their garden lodge, which they call the Tranquilarium.
This is part of a recent report I received from them:

"A few years back, soon after she died, my wife Yolanda, via a medium, told us that she was looking after young children who had passed, and was counselling them. We now realise, because there is no such thing as time, that she was able to plonk a Victorian child called Nelly into Wendy's lap as her first spirit client. Nelly was the daughter of Dr Frederick Brown from Lewisham and his wife Eliza. Nelly had a badly deformed face, was shielded from the public but loved very much. A son, James, went to sea training as a ships surgeon . Unfortunately he died at sea when he fell from the rigging in a storm when he was seventeen years of age. James communicates regularly with us. The tragedy continued in the family when Eliza remained ill after Nelly's birth and died while giving birth to another child. Dr Brown felt guilt at making his wife pregnant and has suffered with this guilt the rest of his life and this guilt continued through 200 years since his death.

With like minded people, a few of us have debated and compared experiences regarding how we can help each other here and in spirit world. Healing Nelly's face appears to have succeeded now she has parted with her physical body and we have told her it has gone. Through Wendy's mediumship Nellie was able to feel clear skin, which she feels to be hers to feel whenever she likes. This delights her and her doctor father who now watches his daughter frolic with us and other spirits while in trance form here and back in 'our world'.

It was a joy to meet again Dr. Brown's frail wife a few weeks ago.

Todays seance of an explanation by Dr Brown and his wife thanking us for our contribution in bringing them back together. Each now understanding with total forgiveness and now able to enjoy their children in a healed form."

The popular concept of a seance presents it as being a haunting experience, with a group of over-suggestable people calling 'is anybody there?' in the chilly dark of an underground vault..perhaps accompanied by chains rattling and some 'whoo whoo' sounds... the clang of a distant door closing, the creek of bones and the occasional whisp of mist accompanied by the touch of an icy hand.

Isn't it time to reconsider?

Food of the Gods

2012-01-02T00:38:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I mentioned to a friend that teeth are the only bodily part that cannot repair itself...and commented that we must have gone wrong somewhere!

This morning FC made his presence known and the following consideration became offered...

We are all told nowadays about the complex nutritional value of food...but seldom do we regard it more highly. The foods that we see and feed to ourselves is often grown or reared in lands far away. Much comes from Countries where the people that nurture it have little to eat themselves. What do we know of it? I was vaguely aware that a lot of beef comes from Argentina...but was unaware that in the first quarter of 2011 Agentina exported 145,000 tons of fish and seafood. We've all heard of child poverty in India and similar troubles within Vietnam...both Countries that grow and export high quantities of rice. It doesn't take a huge internet search to learn more about the sources of the other foods that we eat.

If we considered just the basic facts...and gave some thought to the way our food is grown, harvested, stored, transported, packaged, prepared and served...we would regard it with awe. Regarding our food with awe and respect would result in us eating less and wasting less. Regarding our food with awe and respect not just at each meal, but with each mouthful, would cause our minds and bodies to react more positively towards it. Our bodies would then become fed as with nectar, and our minds and bodies would become encouraged to heal.

Bath Ducks and Dithers

2011-12-21T13:10:00.000-08:00

I was resting in the bath and could hear the hum of traffic from the nearby road. Occasionally one of the ducks quacked and I suspected that our cat, Dylan was sitting on top of their enclosure again. With my eyes closed I could see red-toned darkness, with a shaded area of grey, that I knew to be the reflected roller blind. As I continued to relax small blue, white and pink ‘electrical’ flickers appeared. I decided that this was probably caused by brain waves or optical glitches or something like that…then I remembered that FC had suggested that I ‘trust’ the colour pink. I couldn’t see any pink!

My mind was a blank as I comfortably semi-dozed. I felt an itch to one side of my head and lifted my hand to scratch it…but became instead interested in a small flower with orange petals…which as I gave it my attention became a small face of an elderly man with pale deep set eyes. I was looking at him and thinking that what I saw looked like a man with deep set eyes…when he smiled and I noticed that he had no teeth! As I thought this, he licked his lips as if to acknowledge my thought. Thinking now that what I was seeing might actually be a spirit sort of thing I thought “hello” but the man didn’t react nor respond. He was still there though…so I continued to look at him. Behind him appeared another face, this time a round smiling face. Then another, followed by another…until there were five faces. As suddenly as they came they went. Imagination? Spirit visitors?

For me, mental mediumship seems seriously flawed. No matter how apparently evidential any offered validation of continuing life appeared to be, I wouldn't ever feel certain that I wasn't imagining things, or cluching at straws, or that the medium wasn't reading my mind, or that they'd overheard a conversation or somehow acquired the information through other earthly means. That's why I am dedicated to Physical mediumship. When others present in the room with also witness what I see...or better still...see who I see....then I feel satisfied that there's a reality to the presented evidence.

Something New...

2011-12-18T04:48:00.000-08:00

Last night I sat in seance with Warren Caylor here in the lodge. As always the experience was fantastic and I loved it! As always too I can't say how good the seance environment feels. Those that have experienced this for themselves know what I mean...whilst others can only be invited to come along to discover it for themselves. But...that isn't what I am wanting to describe right now...

I am used to taking the role of circle host, or circle leader. I take the job seriously, and am in any case keen not to miss anything. So I am not inclined to lose consciousness or awareness when sitting. I have a strong spirit guide that also supports my focus when I am working. Tonight was no exception...but...

During one piece of music Warren's spirit team were quiet and the sitters were singing in a relaxed and easy manner, as was I. I suddenly became aware that FC (my guide) was 'faffing around' near by left shoulder. The 'feeling' is a familiar one and I often find it amusing...but the sensation doesn't usually happen mid way through a seance. I smiled though, and may have lightly laughed at the time, more out of familiar habit than anything else. As a result of my attention FC proceeded to 'play the fool'...with the softness of his 'movement' becoming stronger. It's a little like having a young child tapping you when you are trying to read. Annoying! I remember telling him (I think I actually spoke) to stop messing around! I immediately felt my tongue involuntarily adhere firmly to the roof of my mouth...basically preventing speech. This has happened before, it seems to be a game with him...but it's never been caused to happen within the given circumstances. I panicked slightly, realising that it wasn't the time to lose control. As I thought this, I became aware of Richard, seated beside me, and heard him singing softly. I relaxed...trusting that he would cope in my place if I lost my voice...I have seen FC present through Richard, so there must be a link.

FC familiarly uses what I refer to as telepathy to communicate with me...and I with him. Others may say that this is a psychic ability, or a clair-something. But to me...it is telepathy. As I continued to sit 'struck dumb' in seance we proceeded to communicate:

FC "My dear...you Trust, do you not?"
Me "Yes. But right now I need to host this seance!"
FC "That is understood. My dear, might I ask that you Trust the colour you recognise as Pink."
Me "You mean that bright coloured stuff I keep seeing?"
FC "Indeed."
Me "Ok. Right. Can I have my voice back now please?"

As suddenly as it had begun my tongue then dropped into it's usual position and things returned to normal...I was able to sing along with the others and the seance continued without further ado.

The fact is...that spirit communicate as and when and how they are able...and we don't always know in advance when communication will occur, or why a particular message is given. I don't draw any conclusions from what I experienced within the seance last night. It's just something new...

Everything is Everywhere!

2011-11-27T09:58:00.000-08:00

Due to curiosity I had spent a half hour in the lodge sitting in blackout with music playing softly. Basically I considered this to be an experiment as I always sit in seances with others in the room. I'd been wondering about the dark, and how much of what I thought I could see in seance conditions was objective and how much subjective.   I came away from the lodge without any conclusion becoming drawn.

In blackout seances I have often seen white woolly mist, that almost glows in the dark. I've seen purple fizz that looks almost like electric or static energy. I've seen small twinkles, and some light seeming to come across the room.
I've seen denser black patches. I've seen these dense patches moving. I've seen colours that appear to come towards me, and when 'too much in my face' have seemed to withdraw. I've seen these things with my eyes wide open...and sometimes with my eyes shut. In fact, although blackout conditions can be set, the lodge never seems totally dark and without light.

Sitting alone in the lodge I again saw twinkles, and some dark patches, and some grey mist and some purple fizz. I saw some things with my eyes open and some with my eyes shut. I therefore left the lodge feeling uncertain. I'm not sure what I was feeling uncertain of though!

Setting the experiment aside I was later sitting in bed reading quietly, when I decided to turn the light out. I then looked around my bedroom in the dark...it wasn't as dark as it had been earlier in the lodge, but I could see little lights and what I had thought was energy fizz, just as I had in the lodge setting. I could see movement in the shadows, maybe dust particles, maybe 'anything' really. I could see things with my eyes open...and with my eyes closed I could see things too.

I was thinking that as I could see the same things in my bedroom as I could see in the lodge...although I could see them more clearly in the darker conditions of the lodge...then the stuff in the lodge wasn't evidential of anything abnormal going on at all. What I could see in there, I could see elsewhere!

As I felt FC coming close I said as much to him.  His response?

"...and your point is?"

Wake Up To Negativity!

2011-11-14T04:34:00.000-08:00

A recent issue within the Circle caused negative response. Some heated exchange took place along with some miserable moaning. This morning another issue threatened to dampen my mood, but instead a positive outcome was achieved. So I cheerfully walked to the shops. There I met a friend who was buying some flowers to take to the hospital...she was to visit a friend that she'd not seen for awhile. It struck me then that the friendly visit had become instigated by her friends misfortune.

How often is it that ill health, misfortune and negativity causes an energetic response? Apathy, just everyday ticking along, doesn't carry or evoke much energy does it? Isn't it the 'bad stuff' that causes us to become energised? We at least awaken to tackle it....

I'm not saying that we need to wallow in negativity...no-one benefits from doing that...but certainly by recognising negativity...we could welcome the energy of opportunity it gives us to do something....

Negativity is a wake up call!

Water Wonderful World

2011-11-13T00:42:00.000-08:00

Have you ever seen or felt an invisible energy thing rant? No? Then you haven't lived! FC has been manifesting a rant for the past couple of hours. So intent has 'he' been upon manifesting his rant that he failed to tell me what he was ranting about!

Eventually I got the message. I am dehydrated. He tells me now that had I not been...I would have received his meaning sooner. He has in fact been giving me this message for several years now, but although I do listen (honestly I do) I forget...so again he reminds me....

http://www.indinine.biz/news/news4.htm Water has Memory

http://emotopeaceproject.blogspot.com/ Peace Project

http://www.geocities.jp/emotoproject/english/picturebook/english/cover.html For Children

No...I don't 'go for' it all...I don't know enough about the subject to make judgements...I'd need a laboratory and so on and so forth, and if I was doing that then I'd not be doing this...but...there's more than enough evidence gathered by others to cause me to realise that FC has a valid point to make....

Lots to think about.....

Carry On!

2011-11-12T00:09:00.000-08:00

I had just hosted a seance with a newly developing Physical medium and afterwards felt concerned. Why is that, you may well ask?

As you know, of course, I founded the Lodge circle and within its four walls I host three, four or five, seances each week in support of the stable development and demonstration of evidential Physical mediumship. I've therefore led close to 800 seances alongside a dozen developing Physical mediums. It is my chosen hobby, if I may lightly refer to the subject as such (and why shouldn't I) and I love it! My family say that I live it, breathe it and sleep it. In much the same way that a chef might become entrenched in the glories of choux pastry so I glory in the dulcet tones of direct voice phenomena! And so...

Picture if you will my opening the Lodge door to a medium that comes laden with enthusiasm and anxiety, and is absolutely glowing and shining with a belief in the spiritual wonder that he sincerely hopes will enable him to sit within the cabinet chair to demonstrate glorious Physical phenomena that will astound the world!  I, as is often the case before sitting, felt unaware of his ability. I can, through my personal experience sometimes 'tell' in advance, but not always. In any case...who am I to judge another? An agreement had been made, the lodge door had been opened, and as the medium popped pills to calm his nerves I stood aside to allow him to enter....

Again I reminded myself...hadn't I been carried along by a similar enthusiasm (but without the anxious pill popping) when I founded the lodge? Didn't I have to learn to do the job I wished wholeheartedly to do? Hadn't I make mistakes?  Silence, to those that know of them! And don't I continue to make them?  Of course I do! Isn't that what true learning is all about?  We aren't born knowing everything! So...roll on shiny new PM....and let the play begin...

The pill popping continued until calm filled the mind of the 'star', and as BSL's trustworthy regular sitters arrived the seance began.  With the music and blended energy filling the space the Lodge became, as always, the heavenly place that it is. And yes, some Physical phenomena did become witnessed.  Some phenomena was seen and some cold breezes were felt by all...everyone present was well aware of them.  The witnesses had all experienced similar phenomena during their sittings with other developing Physical mediums and recognise them as indications of greater potential.

Perhaps with a critical eye the evenings Physical evidence might more appropriately be likened to ready-roll than choux...but no matter!  The taste was sweet and the morsel enjoyed by the tasters. No matter that one witness had fallen asleep part way through the mixing and a couple more were browned off through the baking...good will toward men! Glory to what has been achieved and rest in peace to what didn't quite happen!  It was fun!

So...why then, did I say that I felt uncertain? I felt uncertain because Physical Mediumship isn't all choux. A lot of it is more like a sticky mess on the table that needs to be cleaned up. There are many flat sponges and many fruit cakes that need to be turned over before they can be iced. I felt concerned that this Medium, and other developing Physical mediums like him, are likely to experience burned fingers and charred pride as they follow their chosen path...and I am not sure that they are truly aware of how hot it can get.

This site is entitled 'Chatting with Fuzzy Critter' and I am doing so...I am chatting, indeed I am...I am chatting and asking FC and all spirits out there, both those deceased and those living in physical form, to take care of developing Physical mediums, who I feel are treading a path that they are often ill prepared for. Oh yes, and FC has responded! Of course he has! I've received his response loud and clear! Carry On!

Feedback:

Due to concerned feedback I need to make it clear that this particular developing Physical medium is not a part of the Lodge circle and that the sitting was a on-off arrangement. He belongs to another home circle where he feels supported.

Psychic Snot

2011-11-08T00:24:00.000-08:00

I was asking FC whether mediumship is a choice or a gift or what?   In response he offered me a reminder of what occurred last evening whilst I was exchanging e-mails with a friend.

During her e-mail my friend had mentioned concern for her sister. I felt a compulsion to type "sister needs regular sleep pattern and regular meals…". I wasn't particularly impressed when my friend responded to tell me that her sister is inclined towards food fads.  After all, she had herself already told me that she was feeling concern for her sister, so I already knew she was likely to be unwell. The first thing I do when a person is unwell is to advise them to eat and sleep. It's common sense! There's nowt psychic about that!

I was about to respond to my friend by saying this, when I strongly thought-heard "kelp".   So I simply typed the word and asked my friend if she knows what kelp is and what it does?  I then psychically saw a mist within which appeared the small face of a child. I thought-heard FC telling me that the child was pale faced and had a constant runny nose. So I typed this description to my friend...being aware of the possibility that the apparent message might connect with one of her children. By now I was feeling silly though, typing stuff to my friend that wasn't actually 'hitting a spot'. To confirm my feeling my friend responded with uncertainty.

So, of course, I was about to set the matter aside when I felt another 'connection'...this time the words I thought-heard, and the personality I felt, were not typically those of FC: “The child appears pale, and be often runny-nosed…the child would be of the type described as oft sickly”.   By now, still feeling silly, whilst also feeling curious...I passed on this addition. Still my friend responded with uncertainty. I was feeling more than silly by now!

But still...I felt the familiarity of FC's presence and felt myself type impatiently "I can see a pale little kid with a watery snotty nose…it has pale little hands with thin nails…I can’t see its hair….can’t see if its boy or girl…it’s like a picture seen through mist, with most bits of the kid unseen. Is it prone to ear infections?" I then sat back and waited for another reply...but the phone rang...I became distracted and didn't return to my computer.

This morning I received another e-mail from my friend:

"It's Amy!!! Amy is Julies kiddie. She has thin nails... today, Jules had to put a plaster on her toe as she ripped a chunk off (apparently - she's just called!!)... apparently her nose has been running for a few weeks!

AND!!! Also, Julie, today, decided she was going to go on one of her fad diets...she skipped breakfast, had a small omlette for lunch and wasnt going to eat again today.... !!! She's been totally rumbled!!!!

So thank you, who ever it was that popped that through you....it was totally spot on!!!!!!!"

Most people 'pick up' signs of illness in a friend and may respond by offering supportive suggestions.

I think that mediumship, or psychic ability, or whatever...is something we can all develop if we choose to. A few years ago I'd have ignored the 'feeling' that caused me to type 'kelp', let alone persisting to follow this with further apparent irrelevance...but having been involved with mediumship for several years since I followed my instinct and went ahead.

I'm glad that my friend is a medium, otherwise I'd have been met with a far less receptive response from her!

Nevertheless...ever the sceptic...my friend didn't confirm ear infection... and nor do we know where 'kelp' fits in....do we...not really....?

Finally...as with all advice offered by a medium, or by anyone else, personal judgements need to be made. One cannot medicate a child or anyone else without taking personal responsibility for that action. So...to those reading this, I say that if you are concerned for the health of a child make an appointment with your GP to check things out.

FEEDBACK

A friend has supplied this information regarding Kelp:

"Because it has a natural antibiotic synthesized into it, kelp assists the body in fighting off infection, so it is especially helpful during cold and flu season, or for those who are susceptible to sinus congestion due to allergies or who have a lowered immune system."

"... Kelp has been used for decades for strengthening nails and supporting hair growth. "

Further feedback from my friend regarding the child mentioned above:

"Okay... apparently Julie took Amy to the doctors last week, as she has had this constant cold (for about 6 weeks now)... Jules got the Doc to check her ears as she had seem her rubbing them a lot , but they were okay.... so she thought she had got an ear infecton, and they were checked...but they were okay.

Oh yeah, and I've just remembered....kelp..sinuses etc... a persistant water runny nose is a sign of a chronic sinus infection...!"

Psychic Reading

2011-11-07T06:28:00.000-08:00

I was in the garden when FC came through and offered me what would virtually be a whole page of informative reading material, along with accompanying graphics. This information came to my mind in a split second. I was, as usual, amazed by this. It 'happens sometimes' and never fails to shock me when it does. The subject matter was related to something that has been worrying me for a couple of days. I'd reached the point of setting the problem aside and was at the time feeding the ducks (I adopted three ducklings over the weekend).

Standing in the garden having been 'zapped' by FC, I asked how he did it! I mean, I asked how on earth spirit can effectively put so much infomation into my mind in a split second...when it'd take me 5 minutes at least to read that much material.

His suggestion is that reading a book is similar to the way that psychic mediumship is effected. For instance were I to read a novel I would perceive the tone of the words, to the point of almost hearing an accent. I would perhaps create personalities for the characters. The personalities of the characters presented within the book might otherwise be 'passed' to me by the author. The perceived appearance of the characters too might be affected by my own mind, or by that of the author.

FC offers this thought for consideration...that effective reading is an analogy of psychic ability.

Feedback

Ive just seen the post 'Psychic Reading'... funny that you should put that up!!

I experienced this myself yesterday (whilst in the shower). I asked a question, and got the whole reply in my head before i had a chance to realise that I got a reply! Does that make sense!? For the life of me I can not remember what it was about now... but it was like the answer/information had just been given to me, like you say, in a split second... to actually 'hear/think' this info would have taken a good few seconds...

I remember noting that it had happened, not really fully understanding what had happened, and hadn't really thought any more of it until I saw your post!

Dew and me..

2011-10-23T00:01:00.000-07:00

I was experiencing a waking dream at around 6am this morning...I felt myself to be standing in the middle of my own garden, naked. This would have been a shock for the neighbours had it been a reality!
But possibly no more distracting for them than the bright green ASDA sign that has sprung up directly opposite their homes during the last week. Anyway...there I was thought-standing in my garden.

I became aware of my perception of my body...not just the fact that I wasn't wearing clothes, but of how I felt about 'me' and who I am, and how others might percieve me. I felt myself gathering clothing and laying this upon myself. Oddly I felt myself to be younger than my years and slimmer than I am...and the clothes I had 'chosen' were of a style I'd like to wear, but don't. Perhaps then, I should? Perhaps this is 'how' our spirit bodies become? Are we thought-form people when we pass?

As I stood there I became aware of having damp feet. The grass I was standing on was dew covered. I looked ahead of myself and saw, in the distance, swathes of fine mist. Closer to myself this mist was unseen, being too fine. My skin was damp, but I couldn't see the water upon it. Again, the mist that was causing the dampness was too fine. A little ahead of me a tree had leaves upon it that were made glossy by the damp air.

I suddenly became aware of what was actually happening, and felt that this waking dream was probably 'spirit led'. I can't work out for sure whether it is FC (or spirit) or whether it is myself, reacting to interprect my own thoughts through pictures. But I understood the purpose behind it all....

In seance this week I had tried to film transfiguration phenomena within the Spirit Chamber circle:
http://spirit-chamber.blogspot.com/ (see report dated 20th October). The filming was unsuccessful and I felt frustrated by this.

My waking dream caused me to realise that the energy particles that effect the visual phenomena of transfiguration are too refined, they are rather like the fine misty dew that I was experiencing i n the garden. The dew was felt when it became dense upon the grass, and it could be seen when it caused the glossy covering upon leaves. It could be seen clearly in the distance due to its mass. But close by myself it was unseen...it was too fine to be seen....or certainly too fine to be captured on film (unless a very high powered camera was used, as, perhaps, for wildlife filming).

My own body, within the garden, was a rough draft of how things might work within the spirit world.
We are who we think and feel ourselves to be...when not expereincing physical form.

There's plenty to think about.

As for the photography...I will set it aside...until such time as I meet 'by chance' an expert in wildlife photography!

Tongue tied

2011-10-21T01:54:00.000-07:00

I act as circle leader, or seance host within the Bristol Spirit Lodge and last evening we came to the end of the Spirit Chamber seance and it was time for me to say the closing prayer. As sometimes happens I had difficulty both reading and speaking the words of this prayer, which is in fact printed a laminated sheet of paper. I've spoken this prayer about 800 times in the past 5 years so should know it off by heart by now..and in fact I do. However, for some reason I always read it...and when, like last night, I became unable to read it, I wait until I can. This 'pattern' has often puzzled me, but I've never actually given it my attention.

This morning I published last nights seance report on the web site. I then shut my computer down. FC soon afterwards began to 'buzz' and this led to my sitting quietly to allow a connection to take place. I knew/felt that the connection was about the prayer, and felt curious about what I might learn.

FC told me what I already know....which is that many of our regular sitters expereince control by spirit during a seance. Their energy becomes utilised and often they feel a bit woolly-minded towards the end of the evening. Most of the sitters are, FC says, developing mediums and some of them have spirit guides that choose to work with them, sometimes unknown to the sitter, when they come to support of other mediums here. FC says that he is always aware of this situation and it is part of his job to oversee and monitor the conditions, and to cause me to become aware should an action be required to be taken from 'our side'. One such action is the closure of the seance.

When the spirit guides of a known medium, or of a sitter, have not withdrawn fully then it is appropriate to delay the speaking of the prayer until this process has been safely effected. I am therefore 'prevented' from reading the prayer in order to allow for the necessary spiritual controls to take place. In fact my tongue appears to stick itself to the roof of my mouth.
I have 'retained' a compulsion to read the prayer, rather than to memorise and speak it. This gives FC the best opportunity to cause the delay of seance closure. Both my tongue and my reading ability (dyseidetic dyslexia) can be affected by FC he says...if he chooses. I found this information fascinating. I was particualrly interested because last night I attempted to speak the prayer more than once, in fact I tried more than three times...and I remember feeling, at the time, that it was strange that I was able to speak between these attempts...yet my tongue glued itself to the roof of my mouth as soon as I again turned to read the prayer!

My interest was also evoked for another reason entirely. My son was diagnosed with dyslexia when he was seven. I too was diagnosed with this condition at around the same age. The type of dyslexia we both suffered from was the dyseidetic type (although 'mine' didn't have a posh name at the time, due to the fact that I was diagnosed during the age of the dinosaur). As may be evident here, by the fact that I am writing this without the use of a spell checker (always a big mistake to make!).... I am no longer a sufferer, and nor is my son (now aged 26). I therefore asked if FC (or others like him) might have assisted myself and my son? I received no response to this enquiry. Some things, perhaps we aren't meant to know?

Fuzzy Facts

2011-08-12T00:24:00.000-07:00

Last evening before seance Lynne and I were chatting generally about the Circle, and how well the sitters all get on together. I feel this to be very important. After all, from my perspective, I see some of these circle members three times in an average week, and they see each other similarly. Basically, we all need to like each other and be socially compatible. Our present regular circle attendees are from differing 'backgrounds'. There are five males and six females with their age range is from late 20's to 70's...with most being somewhere in between.

In the seance room, so the spirit people tell us, the blending of compatible energies is important, and indeed may be crucial to the success or failure of spirit-enabled Physical experiments.

The seance room meaures just over 12ft square. There are no windows in the room, and the door is locked for the duration of each seance. Three or four seances are held in the room every week, each lasting up to two hours. On average four people sit for each seance (it varies between two and ten). Taking a quick browse around the internet I am informed that there is a 600 grams insensate loss of moisture from the human body every 24 hours...a higher loss occuring during sweating. Skin cells apparently recycle every 15 hours...natural shedding and replacement can take 30 days. A cough projects at between 20 and 50mph. A sneeze can project 32ft at a rate of 80mph.

I guess it's all part of the energy blending process!

PS: Incidentally I vacuum the room and dust (using a new J cloth damped with salt water) once each week, leaving the door open for an hour.

NOTE: If anyone reading this feels inclined to send me more detailed facts regarding the exchange of bodily particles I'd like to receive them. Keep it decent please!

Powerball

2011-07-26T23:49:00.000-07:00

Energy is all there is. Energy blends with everyone and everything, and it affects us all. Just as water (energy) pervades everything upon the earthplane, so all becomes part of the whole that is everything. This fact is of great concern to mankind. How we each use our energy affects everyone else. FC is not talking about gas and electricity. He is talking about the energy that is every one of us. Every one of us is a Powerball. To illustrate when he is saying....

When two friends support each other and enjoy their shared relationship, positive energy is felt between them that is shared and enjoyed by both. However, were this friendship to break how would each react? Each has a choice. Either they can choose to feel thwarted, hurt and upset...and hold malice towards the person they feel has caused the break up...or they can part on a positive vibration, with each appreciating the friendship for all that it was and moving forward holding positive memories. Whether one then moves forward with pleasant memoriesof the past and well wishes for the future...or whether malice remains as a negative energy within....is a matter for each to decide. There is a clear choice to be made. As a being of energy, which type of energy do you wish to be?

It is not easy, sometimes, to forgive a hurt that we feel to have been caused by another. But knowing that all that we do has an affect upon everything around us, we have a responsibility to take a few moments to consider the power of our own energy.

Become aware now of the strong force that is within you, and when things upset you...take time to consider how best to use the energy of your emotions. We are each responsible for the world around us.

A powerball may be used to positive or negative effect...take care...

Communicating with Spirits

2011-07-22T03:20:00.000-07:00

Today Jon called in. He told me that last evening he had been sitting in the pub looking at the rain, and whilst bored connected with the internet through his mobile phone. He typed 'Bristol Spirit Lodge' into Google and was amazed by how many connections appeared. Browsing through the list he noticed a site called 'The Shape Of A Cloud'. He was reminded of his spirit guide, Charlie, who evokes a fond connection with clouds. Jon viewed the site and was surprised to find that it appeared to have been largely inspired by the Bristol Spirit Lodge circle and especially by Charlie and by my guide FC. Jon was both amazed and delighted by this! I am too!

It is wonderful to have discovered that what happens here in the Lodge has had such a positive affect upon someone on the other side of the world.

FC is unimpressed however. He seems surprised at our amazement. After all, we humans are but spirit manifesting in physical form. We, Jon myself and others, meet in the Lodge in order to communicate with spirits that have moved forward to enjoy new experiences. By doing this we have come to understand that life goes on, and that many forms of life have the ability to communicate together. What continues to cause FC some bafflement is why mankind, who can connect so readily one with the other, without need of a medium, most often fail to take the time to connect.

When we arrive at a social event we most often sit as far away from other people as we can. When on buses we do the same. In queues we stand without conversing. We pass others in the street and glance away. Seldom a smile, seldom a word.

If you have been inspired by anything that you have heard or read within the Lodge reports, please do let us know. And, at FC's request, say 'hello' to someone today.

I'm sorry and I forgive me.

2011-07-19T03:19:00.000-07:00

FC woke me yesterday with this offering of thought, which I now share.

Often we do things that we are sorry for doing. Sometimes we feel genuine sorrow for having done or said something that caused upset, and often we are able to apologise to the person we have hurt. However, this is not always possible...or due to anger and resentment we may not have regretted the hurt caused at the time, but only much later wish we hadn't carried out the attack. We may have done something that we actually enjoyed doing at the time, only later realising that our personal pleasure had actually hurt other people. We may, with time having passed, feel that it is too late to say sorry. FC says that this is never the case. He says too that it doesn't matter that an apology is not accepted.

FC describes Thought as having energy, and says that energy affects the world around us. He said that if one feels genuine sorrow for hurt having been caused, then that sorrow too is an energy that is pervasive. I recall many situations when someone else's sadness has affected me. Likewise when others are happy or angry, the vibrations of those feelings can be felt by those around them and may become widely spread. Sometimes anger lasts for many years and reaches far beyond its original cause.

If you wish to change the energy that emmanates from a negative issue FC suggests to sit quietly within a comfortable place and focus upon accepting your regret. Then gradually open your heart and respond to any negative feelings with positive energy. Apologise within your mind. Say all that you wish to say, feel all that you wish to feel. Do not wallow in self pity, but instead accept that you are indeed sorry for the part you played and channel only positive thoughts. Forgive yourself and forgive others that might have shared in negativity of the issue. Warm the seed of positivity and healing...feel the growth of love and forgiveness. Let the warmth of love fill you and surround you, feel the warmth spread far and wide. Heal yourself and others around you will also feel the benefit.

You are who we are and I am someone else.

2011-06-30T23:01:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I enjoyed a day of bafflement.

The first bafflement occurred outside of my consciousness awareness. Basically, I'd shared a cup of tea and a delicious scone with a friend whilst browsing the local market. She'd finnished her scone before I did and as I took my last bite I briefly imagined that I had more ahead, and sat enjoying the feeling of the extended taste. I then forgot about it and we went walkabout.

The second bafflement occurred later in the day. During the afternoon I visited another friend, who has just had a new kitchen fitted. We too sat drinking tea! Whilst we admired her kitchen she told me of some health concerns relating to her son. She described his condition, which has been debilitating for a long time, and told of his pending treatment, which sounded most uncomfortable to me, but I wondered why she considered this operation to be so very worrying. As she had just described her sons long-time suffering to me in some graphic detail, I personally felt that the operation ahead was most likely to relieve his condition. Ok...we all know that operations can 'go wrong'...but why worry about something that may never 'go wrong'? Despite £ cutbacks and rife infections the healthcare in GB is still highly successful. Also...wouldn't worrying in advance cause her unhappiness, and wouldn't her son feel her concern too? Surely both would be better off if they chose to take a more positive approach? We all know, from experience, that health issues seem never so bad if we hold on to a positive attitude and 'make the best of it'...and...basically...get out there and smell the roses.

Later in the day yet another friend, who has some level of psychic ability that surfaces unexpectedly, told me that she had twice felt pain when looking towards a neighbour, who we both know well. The pain, she said, seemed to come from the ladies tummy area. Neither of us knows quite how to handle such apparently psychic revelations. The fact that hers occur irregularly, and are not always confirmed, causes us both to 'say nowt'.

Finally...in the evening I was sitting in seance (I sit in seance at least three evenings each week) and FC seemed busy 'beside and within' me throughout. Basically he began by 'doing' a sort of rolling laugh of excitement beside my left shoulder when the seance opened. I was trying to read the prayer at the time and felt his presence annoying. He then stayed around all evening, describing to me what was apparently happening behind the scenes. He first told me that ectoplasm was being manipulated in the darkened room. He went on to explain that the ectoplasm was being 'brought up from the depths', before being mixed with air within the throat and mouth of the medium. It would, he said, be used to coat the vocal cords...and it was the spirit teams intention for this blended substance to become projected, later on within the mediums development. When the red light was switched on later, FC suggested that I look more closely at the surface of the medium's skin. As I did this I saw a green-tinged substance, appearing as tiny pinpricks. FC said that this was ectoplasm coming through the pores of the skin. My day of bafflement was now complete!
NOTE: FC speaks directly to me ...his communication is not heard by others, therefore the information he offers is not objective. Some of what he tells me has been seen to be true and his reality might then be considered proven.

This morning FC was chatting with me again. He brought all the above experiences back into my mind, and encouraged me to see that I, through choice, had extended my enjoyment of my tea and scone. My friend with the unwell son had extended her own unhappiness by worrying in advance of pending doom, which may never occur. As a result of worrying, she may also affect her sons approach to the operation ahead. With my psychic friend we had discussed her concerns about a neighbours health...so were we then 'feeding' negativity ourselves? Also...was she really picking up the essence of a real health issue? If so, then how does this kinda subtle 'sensing' work? Finally, during the seance FC had fluently demonstrated his ability to blend with my mind....offering information. Now I look back towards the apparently given information though, I realise from having sat in over 800 seances in support of more developing Physical mediums than I could count on two hands, I must have developed the ability to recognise 'green pinpricks on the skin' as being ectoplasmic manifestation surely? I must, most likely, have known this myself...I didn't actually need him to point it out to me. So, did he? Or was it 'me' somehow 'voicing' my own thoughts?

Basically then...'we' affect how we feel. We may affect how we think. My friend can increase her own unhappiness, and may also affect that of her son. Both therefore can have an adverse affect on her sons health, and indeed her own...but this pattern could become changed should she choose to approach the situation more positively. FC may be part of me, or may be an 'interactive' visitor to my mind....I've not worked that out to my satisfaction yet. My enjoyment of the scone became extended. As we can affect so much by the power of thought, by attitude and desire, affecting our own selves and those around us, it becomes obvious that none of us is really independent. We are interdependent...with our thoughts, feelings and perceptions affected by those around us. Therefore, sort of, you are who we are. If you are wearing yesterdays sock please change them as I'm fussy about such things!

Choosing Your Experience

2011-06-27T01:09:00.000-07:00

Those experiencing physical existence upon the earthplane, as when continuing existence thereafter, may choose their experience.

This may seem an untruth...but is so according to FC, spirit friend. With an open mind these things may be considered for example...

The wife who is beaten, may feel helpless as she struggles within a situation that she may describe as being a 'given situation'. In reality, no situation has been given. In reality the lady has choices. She may remain within her chosen situation in order to experience the challenge. Perhaps her chosen challenge is to 'change her man'...and she is determined to face this challenge, regardless of success or failure, and regardless of her own suffering or hurt. Throughout her chosen experience she will learn much.

She may instead choose to redirect her strength and determination. She may then select to set herself towards experiencing further challenges, of perhaps seaking to find alternative accommodation and of moving forward to open further doorways towards alternative experiences, within which she will have further choices to make.

The man who perhaps gambles his money chooses the thrill of the bet. He experiences all that such a chosen life path offers. Always he has choice, always he can change his direction. Sometimes effecting change is difficult, but all challenges are worthy of effort and all challenges lead to further experience.

The outcome of your experience cannot be defined as further choices may become made, each affecting the outcome of the first, and each leading on to further experiences with still further choices to be made...and so life becomes an endless experience created by your own choice.

Choose your experience wisely...but do not be surprised to learn that experience is All there is.

FC

Glory on High

2011-06-24T11:34:00.000-07:00

I was sitting in a chair in the garden when a cloud blocked the sun. As the cloud moved aside the suns rays came through, displaying interesting shafts of light. I hadn’t felt the presence of FC…but clearly ‘heard’ him suggesting that I look towards the shafts of light, considering them to be my ultimate goal in life…my greatest desire to become achieved...the most prized target in my lifetime. I am not much good at this sort of thing, but I attempted to imagine the shafts of light as being a representation of True Happiness…or something like this. After all…he’s a spirit guide…so I guess that’s what he’d be expecting me to think of. I felt relaxed, and as the light changed I followed the changes with some interest, until the brightness of the light caused me to look away and close my eyes briefly.
Looking then to my left, I saw within the pond a small froglet. I scooped him up onto my hand and putting my reading specs on studied him closely. Tiny little hands he had, tiny little nails too. They say human babies are tiny and perfect…but this little creature was really something else! I let him fall back into the pond, where I noticed a leaf, that appeared to have jelly droplets upon it. Picking up the leaf I saw some tiny squiggles inside the jelly. Amazing!

My view next wandered along the flower border…several seedlings, fresh and green. The soil grey and brown, with small bits of black, and a glittery thread of some sort...a snail trail maybe. As I looked more closely I saw that insects were everywhere. One was carrying a tiny piece of leaf. Another was crawling up the side of a twig, as if climbing Everest. My eyes lifted to look at the runner beans, with their bright glow red flowers….and further up towards the trees…and I realised the detail, the mass of life’s intricate detail within my garden. It momentarily felt quite emotionally overwhelming.

FC had returned, if ever he had gone. This time he asked a question of my mind. How important is my ultimate goal. What importance is my ultimate achievement, compared to all that I see around me?

I realised then, why he had brought this matter to my attention. It is because, a few days ago I was bemoaning the fact that something I’ve got tidied and settled comfortably, is likely to become disrupted. I didn’t want the disruption and have been feeling a bit moody about it. Basically...I wanted to be left in peace, to enjoy what I feel to be ‘very nice thank you’. But…what value is that, in actual fact? Achieving what I want…isn’t as interesting as facing a challenge. Getting where you want to go, isn’t anything like as interesting as the journey….as long as you take the time to look around you.

Floral Flourish

2011-06-16T06:56:00.004-07:00

Yesterday I had been wondering whether our newest circle, Spirit Haven, might benefit from having a few extra sitters...and this came to my mind again as I was sitting in the garden just now. FC...seemingly ever alert, and ready to pop in whenever the situation suits, promptly presented this guidance:

If I wished for my garden to grow and flourish in a chosen manner I would first need to set an Intent to dedicate my time and interest to this. Without such dedication, my garden would not flourish. My garden would flourish, in time, as a result of my dedication and interest. However, were another person to share my interest and dedication, our shared garden would likely flourish sooner...and were many to join together, so the garden would flourish even more greatly, and become a floral paradise shared by all.

However...if I wished for my garden to grow and flourish in a chosen manner, and I instead sought to share my garden with those who felt less interest, or were themselves intent on developing a garden for themselves, then my garden would likely fail to flourish. It would then be best to stand alone, and work alone, for my garden would flourish in time.

I took this to mean that the Spirit Haven circle would indeed flourish, due to it being shared with dedication by those involved with its development. Only when others share a similar intent to dedicate their interest should they be invited to share.

A heavy meal to digest...

2011-05-22T10:20:00.000-07:00

"You think that you understand, but you know nothing. How then can you guide others?

They too think they understand, but know nothing. Together, you flounder. To flounder is an experience.

When floundering ceases, you will think that you understand, but you will know nothing.

When you understand that you know nothing then you have gained much from your experience of floundering and may then cease to guide others.

Together you may then experience, without floundering."

FC

" I am, I Be, I am just Me!" Elf

Freedom from Chains

2011-05-19T22:57:00.000-07:00

Within the lodge we have a Medium newly sitting for development towards Physical mediumship. It is very early days for him, although his potential is becoming demonstrated already. As always I feel curiosity about the process of development, of how spiritual communication works, of how apparent spontaneous trance occurs and so forth. Most of my questions will be unanswered and as things progress more questions will arise...which is probably why my interest is still hungry.

This week during a developmental sitting with this Medium seated in a state of deep trance, a witness alongside me, who has developed his psychic ability, was able to offer a suggestion that a spirit guide working with the Medium appeared to be of negroid origin when upon the earth plane, and seemed to be wearing the chains of slavery. As, a few weeks previously, my own guide FC had suggested to me that one of the Guides working with the sme Medium was dark African...I took note.

This morning upon waking I 'felt' FC's presence. As I relaxed warmly in bed I thought-asked him whether this poor slave was actually a spirit guide working with the new Medium (Lee) or whether the slave was earthbound and needed release. FC seemed to be amused by this, and he said that I had been watching too much telly. He remarked that my mind is, naturally due to my present experience, limited by my existence upon the earth plane. He suggested that perhaps I might consider another view of the same coin, so to speak.

FC brought to my mind an illustration, in memory of an experience. The picture shown was of Warren Caylor, physical medium. Warren was seated in his chair within the seance cabinet, preparing for an evening's demonstration. He was tightly restrained by ropes, with his arms and legs securely bound, his body secured to the chair by chains and a gag had been tied across his mouth. The presentation did indeed resemble that of the bonds of slavery. FC led me to developing awareness.

A spirit guide who, within life upon the earth plane, had experienced the bonds of slavery would also have experienced the joy of freedom, either within life, or within the spirit world. The joy of such an experience would be felt again were he to become enabled through invitation to feel the bonds and chains that are used within the demonstration of physical mediumship. Such joy of freedom cannot be felt with clarity within the world of spirit, for only the physical world offers the force of gravity.

Universal consciousness

2011-05-05T06:14:00.000-07:00

Whilst sorting out saved files on my computer I chanced across this. It seems to be an appropriate follow-on from this morning's communiction (see previous post)

Universal consciousness is like the internet. The internet does not exist except as an abstraction. The interaction of computers is made possible by the internet. The internet has no existence of its own, it isn’t located anywhere, and the member computers that constitute it can and do change all the time. The internet is far more a process than a thing. Universal consciousness does not exist except as an abstraction of all the consciousnesses that are interconnected. Interaction is made possible by conscious will, which itself form consciousness. Universal consciousness has no existence of its own, it is nowhere located, the member consciousnesses that constitute it can and do change all the time. It is far more a process than a thing.

There is no way your computer can become the internet. It can be a part of the internet, and you can cause information to flow onto your computer, and from there through the internet to be received by another computer that is also part of the internet. It's the same with consciousness - your consciousness can't "merge" into universal consciousness, but is a part of universal consciousness. Information can flow into your consciousness from universal consciousness…and flow out again, with or without alteration of content, into universal consciousness from your consciousness - but only by that information being communicated to another consciousness which is also part of universal consciousness. Phew!

Interestingly, you can easily ‘upload’ to many other consciousnesses at the same time. For instance you can speak to several people at once. However to make sense of incoming information, you are most frequently restricted to downloading information from one other connection at a time. There are times, such as when in a crowd, that you do download from more than a single consciousness at one time…however…really, probably, you are downloading from the interaction of the crowd of consciousnesses as a whole.

Even when you computer is off line, it is still heavily under the influence of the internet - all those programs, pictures, movies, emails, etc. that you have downloaded are still accessible and can influence the behaviour of your computer while it is off line. It's the same with you - even if you are not actively communicating with any other member of the universal consciousness, you are still heavily influenced by all the ideas, thoughts, emotions and memories that are stored.

Early morning tea

2011-05-04T22:01:00.000-07:00

Most people, probably, wake up to early morning tea. I wake to chat with dead people! It's now 5.34am. I'm sitting here like a puddin' because I felt a compulsion to type...yet right now I forget what it was that was so urgently felt ten minutes ago. Last night, as is my habit three evenings each week, I sat in seance. I recall now that afterwards I chatted with the sitters, before they left for home. It had been a relaxing evening, sitting in support of a developing Medium.

When everyone had gone home I briefly returned to the garden to shut the door of the chicken house. As I came back indoors FC (my primary guide) said "Remove yourself from this place...be gone!" This made me look round to see what he saw. I could see nothing. I thought-said (like telepathy) "What is it FC?". Again I heard "Be gone I say! You are uninvited. Be gone!". I saw and felt nothing untoward. I felt no fear, but as FC was clearly reacting to something, I again asked him to tell me what was going on. He responded to my enquiry with "This entity is uninvited. They will leave!". Feeling a bit silly I spoke in support of FC and said firmly "Whoever you are * off and let me get some peace!" The energy around me seemed to 'adjust'...I was curious then as I'd honestly considered that I'd not felt anything 'there' before. FC then, familiarly felt, appeared to leave me and all returned to 'normal'...whatever that is! Without further ado I prepared for bed and was soon reading before falling asleep.

FC (now with me once again) says that the word 'vessel' and 'medium' imply that someone or something acts as a bridge between two worlds. He says that the two worlds are regarded as being the 'earth plane' and the 'spirit world'. FC says that this situation has long been referred to as Mediumship. Mediumship in practical terms refers to communication with dead people. The intent of Mediumship being to prove that there is life after death.

FC says that what we (he and I) agreed together, is to "faciliate the presentation of evidence that demonstrates the reality of univeral interactive consciousness". This, apparently, is something else. Now...why the heck he felt an urgent need to wake me before 5.30am to relay this clarification is beyond me! Even more beyond my present understanding, is what I am supposed to do about it!
I need a cup of tea!

Energy of Curiosity

2011-05-03T00:40:00.000-07:00

Yesterday the doorbell rang. This is usually indicates that I have a visitor. The only difference, in this case, is that the chime differs from the one set to play, and it happened 'at random'. It's happened before...probably about ten times now, in as many months. My husband (an engineer) and I have investigated, without success, to find the cause. The chime thingy is plugged into the mains, so I've 'blamed' the tone on electrical disturbance...but no particular appliance 'sets it off' and a power cut hasn't caused it either. It's a mystery. Interestingly a visiting Medium implied that it was the result of spirit manipulation ...but each time I've asked FC for clarification he's failed to respond. Typically, he prefers me to make up my own mind.

Last night the bedside lamp switched itself on. It's one of those touch lamps...so I blamed by husband for touching it...but I know that he didn't. On this occasion I told the spooks to leave it alone as I was trying to sleep!

This morning I was busy feeding the cats and letting the chickens out into their run, opening the greenhouse, and so forth...when the doorbell rang. I ran into the house in time to see the bell light flashing, although again, no-one was at the door. We live at the far end of a road...there is no house beyond ours....no-one passes this house. No child lives nearby and my neighbour has already left for work. I stood in the hallway and again asked FC if 'he' could clarify the situation.

I received no response whatsoever!

Wagon load of monkeys...

2011-04-27T22:24:00.000-07:00

Last night as I tried to sleep it felt as if my bedroom was filled with a wagon load of monkeys. Upon waking at 5.20am it seemed there was a troup of small boy scouts playing tag around the room! In all, it seems that there's some sort of spiritual excitement around here. I suspect the culprit to be Elf....a spirit being that communicates through Sandy. Sandy was here last night, sitting in seance in the cabinet with her spirit team around her. It was an interesting evening. At one point in the evening the red light hanging in the centre of the room was spiritually controlled and caused to flicker repeatedly and at length....FC told me that the energy responsible for this was linked to Lee (a developing medium sitter who was present at the time). A loud knock was also heard...FC saying to me then that this was energy expansion within the wood of the small cupboard....again this phenomena was manipulated by spirit. So...in all...it's no wonder the spirits are excited...they've been busy! The problem now is that the perishers aren't going to let me go back to bed for another hours kip and, unlike human children, I can't settle them in the front of the telly with bowls of cereal!
What does one do with a wagon load of monkeys...I am not even sure that spirit chimps get tired. I'll go nuts if this goes on all day! Bless 'em.

Physical appearance IS important...

2011-04-14T23:51:00.000-07:00

Yesterday morning I was siting in the lodge by myself. This was under guidence from FC (spirit guide). I was relaxed within the atmosphere and was listenning to music to my taste. I had been sitting for about 20 minutes when my bare feet seemed to sense a shift within the wooden floor. I asked FC whether I had felt this in fact, but received no response to my question. I returned to the house 10 minutes later and set the puzzle aside.

This morning I was caused (by FC) to remember this occurence as I sat looking out at the garden. Looking through the double glazed patio doors a white pebble placed close to the pond appeared to become displaced. Basically of course the two glass lenses bent the path of light, which caused this effect.

Similarly, when light meets a change in the surface of water it is bent (refracted), causing the prism effect. Thus for instance, when you look at an object on the bed of a pond, it is not where you think it is, but appears slightly shifted. Likewise objects appear larger within water. The path of light is bent by the surface of the water, hitting the object beneath at an angle, which causes a magnifying effect.

The white pebble appeared moved....but when I opened the patio door I could see that it hadn't been moved at all. This was no surprise. However...

The effects of refracted light, offered me a clue as to how, within seances I have been observing changes occuring slightly above the surface of a medium's face, within the process we refer to as Transfiguration. Maybe spirit are using naturally occuring moisture, in a way that reflects and refracts light? Water may be the key element required for the effective demonstration of Transfiguration phenomena, which is after all a visual effect (the Mediums physical face isn't changed).

Within the lodge, in seance with one of the regular Mediums, I was sitting one day, in dimmed red lighting conditions, watching an angled length of wood that had been deliberately placed across level with the front legs of the Medium's chair. The chair at the time of my observation had been tilted (by her spirit team) so that its back rested up against the wall behind her...so that her legs were raised well above floor level. As I watched intently the wood appeared to become moved. I assumed, as I sat, that the intensity of my study caused me to imagine the wood to be moving. As I continued to sit the Medium's chair lowered, and came to rest neatly upon the wood, as it had indeed been moved. Later close study of markings on the floor proved this. This type of phenomena has occured many times within the lodge setting.

One puzzle may be explained, but another remains a mystery....

Weird and Weirder

2011-04-11T02:22:00.000-07:00

I was hanging out the washing when FC made his presence apparent. In order to 'her' what he was saying I put down the laudry basket, sat myself down on a garden chair, and 'listenned'. The best way I can describe this is that, had my husband, for instance, called out to ask where he could find a clean shirt, I'd respond to his enquiry. At that point I would know, beyond doubt, that he had asked for a shirt, and I'd replied. Yet, I would no longer be either speaking or listenning...I would, at that point, just 'know'. This morning this is how FC had communicated with me. His method of communication varies a bit, but this is the best description I can offer for today : )

Sitting in the garden I became distracted by the two chickens, which are new additions to my garden. FC then 'called me back' by saying that they were spirit, the same as me. I replied that I wouldn't eat worms! FC said that, within the spirit world, I may choose to experience this....just as I could, physically, here on the earth plane. I asked whether, if I could potentially run the marathon here on the earthplane...I could actually experience it in the spirit world. He replied that I could, if I decided to.

I asked then, if someone here on earth decided to commit murder, whether they could do likewise, in the spirit world. He confirmed that they could....and added that many of those with this desire, came to live within the physical world so as to fully experience this. Within the spirit world they may be unaware that murder has a negative affect upon others who share the experience, perhaps through losing a loved one at the hands of another.

I asked how...if they can commit murder in the spirit world, how can that be? He said that all things are possible within the spirit world....but that I am looking at the picture with the eyes of physical form, having only physical awareness. There is a much wider picture, I am restricted in my view at the present time.

Just as suddenly as he had come forward, FC then withdrew, leaving me puzzling over this offered piece of information. I know that FC offers me something to think about, rather than teaching me factuality, but although the subject discussed was of negative content it certainly brightened up a boring wash day!

The Big Screen

2011-04-10T00:32:00.000-07:00

This morning FC referred back to a recording made within a seance last November:
http://www.box.net/files#/files/2/f/0/1/f_552486040

FC said that the comment made by the spiirt communicator was to "watch the big screen". It is important that we do this. The communicator did not refer to the widescreen TV , nor even to the cinema screen ...but to the screen that is our world and beyond that, our universe.

Such heavy communication at 6.30am is welcomed, as it always is...but..if he's listenning to me now, would he please make future contact after 7.30am after I've had a cup of tea!

Later in the day FC returned to enlarge upon what he had said to me this morning. Todays communication, he said, had been made in response to something I had spoken to him about yesterday. I had asked for Spirit to make evidential phenomena clear to me, rather than to present phenomena that I felt to be questionable. Such as small spirit lights, which may be seen imaginatively. Or light rapping on walls that caused me to question the actuality of the sound. I asked for Spirit to show me what they were capable of, beyond all doubt.

FC today reminded me of the fact that 'we' are Spirit, living upon the earth plane in physical form. That all that is us, and all that Is, is as One. There is full scale evidential phenomena all around me...that is the Big Screen. This is evidence, beyond all doubt.

Independent Energy Form?

2011-04-04T00:49:00.000-07:00

I experienced a bad dream last night. When I awoke I felt upset, because within the dream I had been sitting around the table after a seance, and had exchanged backchat with one of the sitters. Unfortunately this banter became personal and escalated to mutual discomfort, and we parted at the end of the evening with issues raised and unresolved.

I decided to shake off the 'sick feeling' by going downstairs for a cup of tea. However...FC had other ideas! So, instead, I lay in bed without my tea, to see what evolved.

FC 'led' me back towards my bad dream, in what can best be described as a controlled manner. I felt 'slowly' how the bad dream experience 'built up' within me emotionally. In fact, as I lay there, it seemed that the intensity escalated even further than it had within the dream itself. I wasn't totally at ease with this, although I trusted FC and felt that he was controlling the situation for a reason. As I felt 'emotionally sick' FC suggested that I find a parallel emotion from within my memory...which, although I searched, I was unable to. I kept remembering emotional experiences and connections, but none matched. This puzzled me.

As I lay there 'within it' I was starting to feel 'disconnected'...as if it was no longer 'my feeling'...it felt as if it wasn't connected to me, but was sort of 'on its own'. It seemed to have 'a life of its own'. At this point FC suggested that this offered experience was something that I would recall at some time in the future, and that it was part of what I would come to understand. He explained that the awareness of what he had caused me to experience would 'link' to other things, and become of value to me, as part of the learning I was seeking. I asked him if it had something to do with astral bodies, spirit bodies. He said that a body is something I manifest in my mind, due to my present experience of the physical world. He said that I should not try to understand at the moment, but instead accept all that is, for in time understanding will come. Then he disappeared! I wish he wouldn't do that!

Now I definitely need that cup of tea!

LATER: As I was still trying to puzzle things out for myself FC returned. He referred back to a previous communication, when he'd explained how I might manifest through the energy of a Physical Medium, when I pass over. At that time he had shown me a visualisation of a blurry energy blob (understood to be the physical body of a Medium) which I had sort of pushed into and came out the other side (very odd!). This is one of the many things I have told the spirit teams that I'd like to do one day (it beats sitting on a cloud playing a harp). FC said that what he had showed me this morning would help me to effct this (blending with physical form and/or manifesting as a physical form), if I wanted to. I've had my cup of tea, and have lost interest in this subject now...I've got a lot to do today and whilst I'm living in physical form had better get on with it!

Seeing is believing?

2011-03-30T04:59:00.000-07:00

I was busy doing the ironing when FC 'made an appearence'. Basically my eyes picked up a movement to my far left and as I turned my head in that direction and saw a 'fuzz' of sparky energy...thinly...beside one of the dining chairs. As I acknowledged it I thought-heard a faint 'hello!' which I responded to with a smile. The hazy stuff then vanished. As I continued ironing I was just moving on to thinking I'd imagined what I saw when I sensed FC 'on my shoulder' so I chatted with him familiarly, as I usually do.

I asked what he'd been doing...'fizzing' beside the chair. He responded with some complex waffle concerning energy manipulation forming light-heat-matter that could be seen by the naked eye. I went on with the ironing! Gradually I realised that what he was saying might be relevant to the experiment with photography which had been unsucessful last week in the Spirit Chamber seance.

Ref: http://spirit-chamber.blogspot.com/ Report dated March 24th 2011.

I asked if this was in fact what FC was concerned about. He responded by saying that he is in fact not concerned about anything, but that he, and others within the spirit world, are learning, just as we are, and that he/they will, with us, try to figure out the complexities of enabling the phenomena to manifest in such a way that the camera can capture an image.

He went on to remind me that I have, many times, seen various spirit figures sitting within the lodge. But that all have been non-solid in their formation. I have also seen, in full daylight, a sitter 'poked' by an invisible, yet apparently solid spirit person....this being seen clearly on one occasion as an indentation in their jumper just as the sitter said "Ouch!" FC was clearly meaning me to realise that 'these things' have been factually witnessed. Yet...to capture them on camera would be 'something else' entirely...and calls for further experience and expertise to become developed by the spirit teams within the lodge.

In all...we shared a short but pleasant chat whilst the ironing pile became reduced.

NOTE: I have yet to persuade FC, or any of the spirit team, to prove their reality of continuing existence by doing the ironing for me. Apparently, as I am already appearing as solid form, I am in the most favourable position to carry out this task!

SHARED EXPERIENCE

2011-03-17T09:46:00.000-07:00

Last evening I sat in seance in support of two people who were sitting with intent towards the potential development of trance mediumship. This first-time sitting was interesting, as all such developmental sittings are. For the two people in my focus the shared experience proved to be enjoyable one and we together decided to sit again for further experiment.

This morning, bright and early, I was woken by FC who seemed to be wide awake and chatty!

FC explained that there are many within the spirit world who share our interest in enabling communication between the two worlds. However, many who wish to attempt such communication feel wary about the process. Much in the same way that many people here on the earth plane feel wary of approaching a seance environment. For people in spirit form, as well as ourselves, there can be some fear, concern, regarding the unknown. Spirit people too heard ghost stories when they lived on earth. Now, from their new perspective, they feel wary of approaching their loved ones and of frightening them, when all they wish to do is to say 'hello'. Those spiirts who were shy or who lacked courage within life may still feel such restraints when they pass.

FC went on to explain that sometimes these new potential communicators preferred to make their initial approach through a similarly inexperienced vessel (medium). They feel this to be less intimidating. After all...if they 'do it wrong', or fail in their attempts to push through, a less experienced medium won't know this. FC said that last evenings seance, with the two mediums offering themselves towards a new experience, offered a similar opportunity towards spirit people who share the same interest and wish to learn.

As always, FC offers food for thought....

MOVING MOMENTS

2011-03-10T01:18:00.000-08:00

Last night within a well lit seance a large cushion, that is kept beneath the medium's chair, became moved by the working spirit team. For seance report: http://spirit-space.blogspot.com/ (March 9th).

Prior to the seance we had placed a key upon a keyring, which was then held within the medium's zipped pocket. We did this because the medium, on another occasion, had noticed that a key had been removed from her keyring, and her spirit team admitted to having effected this. Basically...we were now asking them to do it again, within witnessed conditions. Typically...instead of removing the key for us, they moved the cushion.

This morning I asked FC why this sort of thing occurs. FC replied that humankind knows of situations where telekinesis has become effected by concentrated thought. Mass hallucination has also been offered as an explanation for seance phenomena. Basically...within the lodge, we ask for evidential phenomena to be displayed, and the spirit teams set out to meet our request as best they can. They consider it more affective to move an object when we are not focusing our thoughts upon it. Therefore, if we set the control for experiment to be the movement of one object they will often move another.

I asked FC how the spirit team moved the cushion. He seemed to be saying (he used some wording that is unfamiliar to me) that there are several ways of effecting movements of this type. Time is not absolute, and therefore, when we place an object in position, for instance, it is possible to 'replay' that movement, much as a film can be replayed...but with no loss of time, as time is not linear in the way we preceive in upon the earthplane. Another way of moving an object might be to increase vibration, so that it momentarily 'falls' out of our visionary range...it may then appear moved, without the actual movement being seen to take place. Another way is though magnetic manipulation...using earth-based forces. There are, he said, quite simple explanations, and generally spirit enjoys 'playing' with the manipulation of energy...in fact being responsible for lost watches and keys etc.

Obviously...this is all theory...but interesting to consider.

NOTE: Following this communication, a few days later I sat one-to-one with Sandy (Spirit Space) and then asked her spirit team how they had moved the cushion. This was their explanation: http://www.box.net/shared/r5z8aox1qe

I'VE FORGOTTEN...

2011-03-03T00:27:00.000-08:00

Twice yesterday my mind failed to connect with a memory. This is a new version of the more familiar statement 'I've forgotten'. Why the new version?

I was chatting with FC this morning...or more to the point, he was chatting to me. I was, initially taking no part, but was simply laying in bed, looking towards my grey cat who was washing herself whilst seated precariously on the foot of the bed. I was, at the time, more interested in assessing how soon she'd fall off!
FC brought up the subject of Memory. He put forward what I consider, might be, an interesting theory.

FC said that memory is stored externally. This theory has been put forward by other sources. Read 'The Field' by Lynne McTaggart amongst others. He said that it is the physical connections that deteriorate with age, or perhaps as a result of injury or the malformation of the physical. Basically, however, as memories are stored elsewhere, these remain unharmed. Further to this theory, he put forward the notion that all memories are stored this way, from this life experience and others..and that when our physical form loses it's function to connect, we again become as one with all of our experiences and memories...until such time as we decide that we don't need to hold them separately unto ourselves.

FC explained that during the transition, that is, for a time to the latter part of our earthly life and that experienced without physical form...this period he said is adequately and commonly described as 'old age'... our memories may gradually become accessed non-sequentially, as the memories are stored, externally, as experiences, and may be accessed more randomly than we are currently (within the earth plane) used to. At this point he offered no further expansion of explanation. His purpose for todays communication, he said, was to guide me towards supporting of a person whose husband is experiencing non-sequential memory function. My support should, he said, be offered through the publication of this post, and no further is asked of me.

As always I offer guidance from FC with an open mind, I have no way of knowing how 'true' his words are, or whether his words will offer the comfort he intends. I feel that what I have written here comes to me from 'somewhere' outside of myself...it doesn't seem to be 'my thought' or 'my words'. However...I always question the reality...all reality!

YING AND YANG

2011-02-23T00:30:00.000-08:00

This subject was recently brought to my notice by two different people. One person 'Ben' has been happy to live with spirit visitors appearing within his Victorian home. However, after some stress experienced within his home the energy within it seemed to be less than positive for a period of time. This unhappiness appeared to attract a less than happy spirit visitor. A crisis occured when Ben was woken at night and physically flung head first across the room. He sustained grazing and bruising, which had oddly disappeared by daybreak.

The second matter to be brought to my attention was through a gentleman who worked within the area of spirit release work. 'Tom' enjoyed this interest. However, in his own home, when doors began to bang and inanimate objects seemed to display a force of their own he felt less than happy.

I felt some curiosity about these matters. I therefore first brought the subject up with Joseph (a regular spirit communicator within the Spirit Space circle)...and then, today, I asked FC about it.

TOM
FC told me that 'Tom' has free choice. Life on earth is an experience. Tom’s experience is his own and will be a different experience to any experience owned by others. If it is Tom’s choice to experience the concept of ‘spirit release’ and all that this brings forth, then his own spirit guides will support him to do this work. Joe will be aware that some spirits that are unwilling to cross to the light may attach themselves to physical form (or may attach themselves to one form and then another) in order to resist release from the earth plane.

They may attach themselves to the mind of humankind, or may attach themselves to what we consider to be an inanimate object. These spirits have free will, and may choose not to leave the earth plane. Tom’s own spirit guides may resist an earthbound spirit from attaching to his mind, but may not prevent an earthbound spirit from attaching itself to apparently inanimate objects and cause them to appear activated.

Tom may assist his spirit guides by enabling a stronger connection with them through meditation and the invitation of cleansing white light and love to fill the body and mind. This cleansing connection will assist his guides in their protection work. The same technique may be expanded, to cleanse and protect his home. Unwanted and uninvited spirits may thus be encouraged to leave.

BEN
'Ben' has been happy to allow spirit visitors to present themselves within his home. He has allowed them in for many years, and has offered an open invitation without any boundaries set. Until recently, all has been well for those concerned.

Ben is right to feel that a change of energy within his home might have resulted in this negativitty attracting less than happy spirits, who basically feel that they'd fit into his unhappy home easily.
FC offers word of warning here. Thought is energy. To think, to give credence to, to speak about and discuss negativity gives energy to this unwanted force and increases the power and force of the negativity.

Joseph (in spirit) advised Ben that harmful connections with the spirit world be closed, and a period of time allowed to elapse to ensure such connection has been broken. Joseph advised that love and light be encouraged to again fill Ben's home. Only when the heart can offer love and light towards spirit visitors should the door be opened towards them.

NOTE: I have virtually no experience of spirit release work and I do not offer this post in an advisory capacity. Chris Di Nucci

MISTRUSTING TRUST

2011-02-04T01:50:00.000-08:00

A few weeks ago within a seance we received a visual presentation (transfiguration) from a lady in spirit who wished to connect with her daughter, who was a guest sitter that evening. Her daughter, who had always resented her mothers behaviour within life, had no wish to receive communication from her. After the seance, when I asked FC whether the mother should have foreseen her daughter's reaction, and therefore should perhaps not have come forward, knowing that she was not welcome, FC had replied that the daughter, as a result of her mother's approach, might later come to realise that her mother sought forgiveness and through communication better understanding might be enabled.

It has become my habit to Trust the spirit guide that supports my work with the Circle. Without this support, particularly at the beginning, I would not have known how to support the development of physical mediumship within the lodge, in fact I would not have built the lodge in the first place had I not chosen to Trust in guidance I was apaprently receiving from 'a mind' that held more knowledge than my own. Since then I have learned to trust... and it's not been easy to trust in 'whisperings'....one does often question the reality, and one's sanity, at times!

This week I have felt cause to doubt...or to mistrust. This, I find somewhat worrying. I have, in effect fallen out with my spirit guide. Who...according the the laws of physics, is part of me!

Anyway...I live in this world and my reality is as I currently perceive it to be. Therefore, in relation to the Circle, through experimentation, over a four year period I have come to 'feel' that I have a spirit guide, who has been around for about five years, and supports what 'we' do here in the lodge. I have come to trust this reality, as I know it. Part of what 'we' do here involves communicating with spirit guides such as 'he'.   Another part of what we do here is communicate with 'dead' people, in general. FC, my guide, supports this work. I, it has to be said, have a curious mind, and I wish to learn 'everything' through experiment. I can't blindly trust...I trust when trust is based upon a solid foundation. So far...I have come to trust FC.

Yesterday, as is becoming a habit, upon FC's instigation, I passed on a message to a friend. This message was not happily received. The content may have been misunderstood. But, for whatever reason, some anger and upset was caused between a friend and myself....as a direct result of my following guidance from FC. Now I question whether FC 'should' have foreseen the result of what he had instigated. I feel that he should. If he did foresee the outcome...then what is the purpose of the upset that was caused?

Questions become raised. Should I continue to pass on messages received in the future, as I have done in the past?  Taking things to a heavier level...possibly somewhat dramatically...should I trust in spirit guidance at all? On the other hand...if there is a purpose for what occured yesterday, then perhaps, later on, I will recognise this, and become able to forgive FC and trust him again?

As I said....I currently feel that I have 'fallen out' with my spirit guide. Weird or what!

RESPONSE TO THIS POST:

Hi Chris,

This is my take on your post and comes from compassion and respect for those involved.

Regarding the daughter who was unhappy at her mothers visual presence. There are multitudes of parameters of what we define as healing. Anger and resentment have a powerful negative impact both on the physical body and our ongoing thought processes. At times during healing people do experience issues that they are not comfortable with dealing with on an intellectual level but that does not mean that it is wrong to experience them.

From my perspective these issues need to be raised into our awareness for us to work through them effectively. As your post starts on Yin and Yang I think that maybe the concept of duality is being experienced by the sitter. We aim for balance, and this means that sometimes we have to deal with the “dark” as well as the “light” but we know that one cannot exist without the other. Perhaps to polarise yourself to one perspective only is to effectively be out of balance?

Often people have a need to be in control….and this means that they think they can control who can and cant come for communication but as you say, communication is for the highest good and in truth we do not have control of this, nor should we try to control what we think is “right” for others because in truth we do not know…we may perceive…but we do not know.

Regarding your unhappily receieved message. You cannot control how another reacts to your words but mostly it is not your responsibilty how they CHOOSE to react. Remember everyone has a choice in how they react to every life event. No doubt you did the best you could within what you know, maybe there are experiences to be seen in relation to use of words, or tone of phrases that may help you next time to make the sharing of delicate information easier.

We are all here to grow and to learn and it is through self relfection of our actions that we become effective sharers of delicate messages.

As for the purpose of the upset….that is both for the receiver to decipher…and for you to ponder on how things could have been said differently.

We cannot hide from what we need to face, we may choose denial, blame, fear, anger, upset or any other emotional reaction to an event but in such situations as I say to my clients. “You may not get what you want to hear…but you will get what you need to hear”. Our role in sharing information is to take what we are given and translate it with compassion, empathy, love and support to the receiver so that they may face what they need to with compassion and love too, whilst recognising that if they do have a “neagtive” reaction to it then they must own that behaviour, for in it will something that they perhaps may need to work on.

I too have in the past lost trust with my guides, but in reflection it was a lack of trust in myself because as you rightly point out according to the law of physics they are part of me. As long as we lay down boundaries about what information we choose to hear, and what we don’t, then we do our best within what we know to help and support others along this wonderful journey of life.

Kind regards,
Tracy Wilcox

Thanks for sharing this Tracy...it makes very interesting reading. Chris

GUIDANCE

2010-12-21T00:48:00.000-08:00

Recently within one of the séance’s held within the lodge setting a sitter was upset when she witnessed the demonstration of transfiguration phenomena that showed the face of her mother.

During her lifetime the mother had been, within the mind of her daughter, a cruel woman. Therefore the sitter was upset as she had not wished to see her mother again.

As a Circle we sit with dedication to support the development and demonstration of Physical Phenomena that is evidential of continuing life and consciousness beyond what we know as death.

Our opening prayer defines our Intention to this effect.

Heavenly Father and Spirit Friends, we ask that you draw close to us tonight.
We are sitting together in Love and Light and working only for the Highest Good.
Our purpose is to enable communication with the Spirit world that is evidential of continuing life and consciousness.
We invite Physical Phenomena that may be witnessed by us all and be spoken about to others, that they too may become open towards belief.
We thank Spirit for their love and protection and ask for a circular canopy to be placed over us all.
Thank You. Amen.

Only very recently has the quality of the Transfiguration Phenomena becoming enabled within our Circle been such that witnesses are able to recognise the faces of relatives and friends. All such phenomena has been welcomed with delight, until this occasion, when a lady was upset by what she saw.

As a responsible circle some of us were caused to question our motives ,and to ask whether we are doing the right thing. So when we published our séance report we asked for readers to offer their opinion. Happily, all response offered has been supportive of our project.

However, I have personally been awaiting a message from FC. I have since the conception of the Bristol Spirit Lodge circle been guided by ‘him’. In fact it was FC that long ago dictated the words of our opening prayer.

This morning I received this much awaited guidance!

FC noted that Jerry had quoted from our opening prayer of Intent: “Our purpose is to enable communication with the Spirit world that is evidential of continuing life and consciousness.
We invite Physical Phenomena that may be witnessed by us all and be spoken about to others, that they too may become open towards belief”. Jerry feels that as we are working for the demonstration of physical phenomena we can hardly complain when we get what we asked for!

FC now goes further with regard of quoting from the prayer: “We are sitting together in Love and Light and working only for the Highest Good”. If we are to Trust the guidance of Spirit then we should trust that what we are doing IS working for the highest good. The lady that was unable to cope with her mother’s approach did not trust that such communication was for the Highest good. Yet, it was, and she might later come to realise this. Medium’s and sitters who dedicate to working with Spirit should Trust also, and not waver from their chosen path.

I asked FC why he hadn’t come forward with this message sooner! His response was to say that mankind must work through each life experience, and we were presented with the opportunity to do this. We all need to evaluate what we are doing, question our motives and be made aware of the consequences. However, at the end of the day, having been caused to question and reaffirm our Intentions, we need to sit with renewed conviction and enthusiasm. It is this dedication that brings forth the energy required to enable this work to continue.

PS: Once again...FC cause me amazement. I am a reasonably intelligent human being (aside from being female...) but am not given to spiritual imaginings...and to receive messages that are simply 'not me' always causes me a minor shock! There are several regular sitters here that will, no doubt, feel impressed by this same realisation!

THE VALUE OF DISBELIEF

2010-11-25T10:23:00.000-08:00

Sometimes in séance conditions within the Lodge setting, such fantastic physical phenomena and validated evidential communication of continuing life and consciousness becomes demonstrated that it is really difficult afterwards to hear one person or another question what they have clearly witnessed. Such comments as “Why can they only do it in the dark?” and “Of course it’s possible that the medium is a trained escapologist” are typical. This often said despite body searches being carried out and no money changing hands. Those within the Bristol Spirit Lodge circle sit with dedication for the safe development and demonstration of Physical Mediumship and do so for the love of the subject, and have been doing this many times each week for almost four years now. Therefore it is baffling when guest sitters, invited to share our love with us, then question what they see. Today, again feeling frustration…I asked FC some people come here, and go away still questioning….

In response to my concerns FC explained to me that people who come here often do so after much soul searching (pardon the pun). They often discuss their intention with family and friends beforehand. The subject of the séance is therefore ‘well aired’ before they attend. Were they then to be totally convinced by all that they see within the séance room, they would return to their friends and no doubt, as a result of their obvious enthusiasm, attract some negative warnings. We have all experienced the rebuff of the sceptic haven’t we? Therefore, although the attending séance guest would have been convinced, the negativity they might attract as a result could cause them to withdraw from displaying any further interest. However…were they instead to return to their friends and explain the evidence they had witnessed, but also speak of their doubt as to the validity of the phenomena …debate and discussion would be the most likely response. Therefore the waves of interest may become spread further.

I now feel less impatience with guest sitters that do not immediately appreciate the full worth of evidential phenomena. Spirit opens doors, sometimes widely, and sometimes just a little…but entry and welcome is made available to all.

RELUCTANT COMMUNICATOR

2010-11-22T13:03:00.000-08:00

FC was chatting with me last week, following my sitting within the cabinet in blackout seance conditions for the first time. I had felt guided to sit, somewhat against my own choosing, but had not actually disliked the experience...although I saw no purpose for it...and still don't. Therefore when FC was 'buzzing' close to me I took the opportunity to ask him what the purpose of the exercise had been. He didn't offer me a reason...but he explained a bit about the possibility of his communicating through me. As he often, and quite readily, chats with me 'within my head'...I felt it might be possible to talk the words I 'hear'. However, when I tried to do this I found that I couldn't actually 'hear' him when I spoke...my mind simply returned to 'normal' and my thoughts became very much my own. So..I told him that it wouldn't work.

He explained that, sometimes, when I type, he is able to affect the words I form. I have noticed that this does happen sometimes, and I have found myself typing words I hadn't considered at all. Sometimes the words are typed in such a way that they don't even 'sound like me' when I read them back.

I asked, though, how he could manage to get me to talk and hear him at the same time. He said that when I type he actually takes the energy of my thought (when I intend to type something) and alters this in order to encourage different words to become typed. I didn't understand...but as he came closer we tried to experiment further. I found that if I sat still and took steady breaths my thoughts seemed to form themselves and as long as I 'let them' I could repeat those 'random' thought/words if I spoke them very slowly. But I could only keep it up for a copuple of sentences, before losing the conenction. Also...I sounded just like me and afterwards told FC that the communication didn't sound 'right'...it was hardly what I'd call Mediumship...at best itr simply sounded like myself 'rambling on a bit'. As I respect the Circle and the work we all do within the lodge setting...I am certainly not happy to sit in the cabinet and play games like that!

FC said that I should Trust and allow myself to be worked with. I said that I do Trust...but to sit in the cabinet and talk rubbish isn't what I am wanting to do. After all...I can talk rubbish fluently already, and in broad daylight too!

INTRODUCING FC

2010-11-22T12:37:00.000-08:00

A few days ago FC and I were having a chat. Basically...I was reading a book that I was less than interested in, but felt a need to finish. I felt FC to be close and asked what he wanted. This communication took the form of thought, but isn't quite the same as 'just thinking'....although when it began to happen, about four years ago, I felt uncertain each time, until I got used to it. I now take it for granted, and am used to the accompanying 'sort of sick' feeling in my tummy, and the 'emotional warmth' that occurs also. In this way, a few days ago, FC began to explain how he first approached me.

I might remind the reader that I had no interest nor faith or belief in any form of 'spirit' until about five years ago. The very first time I felt interest was when I attended a Physical seance along with a friend who'd wanted to go. At least...I thought that was why I went. I now feel that I was guided to go. However...I am getting away from the subject at hand...

As I sat with my book on my lap FC told me that he had first presented himself to me as an individual personality after I'd been to that first séance. He says 'they' (Spirit) had been 'observing' for several years before this, whilst my life experience developed. He went on to say that as I held no belief in Spirit, and held no faith in any God, nor had I any concept of angels or spirit guides...as a potential spirit communicator, it was difficult for Spirit to 'get through' to me in order to support me towards what I am doing now.
It had, during that first seance, been noted that I had been impressed by the spiritual communication demonstrated through the Medium, by a spiirt communicator named Magnus, who presented as a Victorian gentleman. FC said that, in consequence of this, that 'he' decided to present himself as a Victorian gentleman, in order to 'win me over'. However...this failed to work, as I simply thought repeatedly about Magnus, rather than opening myself to my potential to receive spiritual communication. FC said that, in fact, his presentation as a Victorian Gent wasn't good enough for me!

The next presentation became developed after 'searching my mind' and finding a remembered attraction towards a gent of Latin origin. I do actually remember, several years ago, in the early hours of the morning, being 'shown' the face of a swarthy man...who came very close when I asked to see him more clearly. But he reminded me of a past relationship, which I wasn't happy to re-visit. FC said that his attempt to present himself to me as an attractive Latino male, was therefore also rejected as being not good enough for me!

Finally, after all this effort, it was noted that despite his taking a lot of trouble to present himself in a manner that was credible...I eventually chose to believe and accept the reality of a Guide that appeared to me as a simple energy blob that talked! I chose, of course, to name this energy blob Fuzzy Critter....and so history was made!

SHARING OF EXPERIENCE

2010-10-20T00:39:00.000-07:00

Very recently a friend has enjoyed a spell of good fortune. I myself strove to experience the same opportunity, but my efforts fell short of that target. This was, rather, like two friends applying for the same opportunity of promotion within the workplace, and one being turned down...this is how it felt to me at the time. I admit that I felt jealous. It came about that I enjoyed an alternative experience, but still hankered after the one I'd failed to enjoy along with my friend. I should clarify; I did not wish that I had been offered his opportunity at the price of his loss of it, but rather that I had hoped to share the offered experience alongside him. No matter...I was still jealous!

As my friend and I meet regularly and 'work' in partnership with others within our Circle he and I have come to exchange banter together in our group as he has teased me about his good fortune, whilst I reacted with jealousy that has eased with time. I've gotten over it now! The banter now acts like play fighting, and within the Circle context the energy this causes between us becomes shared within the group setting, with everyone getting involved in the fun, the energy is raised and this benefits the atmosphere within the Circle as a whole.

This morning I was thinking how, within a few weeks, my initial feeling of genuine jealousy had become changed. I feel no discomfort now, my initial jealousy has gone, because I am either seeing things differently, or have shared my feelings openly and in consequence they have 'dissolved'. How, then, might I have come to see things differently?

I have been dedicated to the Circle for over four years. Currently I sit in seance three times each week in support of different developing medium's, each sitting with the Intent to demonstrate stable Physical mediumship. I've not counted, but know that I have sat in over 500 seances since I first founded the Bristol Spirit Lodge Circle. I am extremely lucky to have enjoyed each and every seance, but there is more aside from my own good fortune to explain my dissolving jealousy than this.

From experience I know that Energy is shared. Spirit, both those currently living upon the earth plane in individual presentation, and those continuing to live elsewhere beyond sight (for most of the time) share energy together. There is a natural blending of Spirit. My friends experience is not his alone to enjoy. His experience is shared by all. In the physical context he has written a report of his experience, which has been shared with the world via the internet. Spiritually his experience has resulted in a blending of energy that has been of benefit to all. We do not live alone...we live as part of a whole. No-one can have an experience, however small, that does not affect someone else. Think about it...

This morning I ate a slice of toast. The bread was made from, amongst other things, wheat that was grown is some field somewhere, perhaps in a different Country. The wheat itself has life. The wheat itself has experienced weather changes and interactions with insect and other forms of wildlife...I do not know the lifecyle of wheat but suddenly feel that it might be interesting to find out more. Then there's the element of human involvement. Who planted the wheat, who made the machinery that cut and processed it? Who transported it, who baked and packaged it? And so on and so forth. My eating a slice of toast hasn't exactly caused worldwide employment and changed lives, but there have been other people involved in the process of my receiving it. Other families, with their own experiences.

Today, as a result of my regularly eating foodstuffs, I continue to live in physical form. Today I have a formal meeting to attend. The result of that meeting will affect another persons welfare. It will also affect all those that attend...each will have their own reasons for attending. We will interact. We will be sharing energy. No one person can do anything that does not in some way affect someone else.

SPECIAL FRIENDS

2010-09-22T00:50:00.000-07:00

Within seance last evening whilst sitting in blackout conditions we, a group of now friends, enjoyed a singalong and chat together as our energies became blended and our shared energy rose and became offered for Spiritual purpose. During the evening two sitters saw several light phenomena objectively within the dark..these being the Physical presentations enabled by the energy source. Two Mediums within the group experienced Spirit-induced trance state throughout this period. On a Tuesday evening the Bristol Spirit Lodge Circle has been sitting with group Intent, rather than with focus being exclusively upon one Medium, for a few months now for the purpose of experimentation. We sit without expectation, but with Trust in our intent to work with Spirit for the development and demonstration of Physical Phenomena.

Following the singalong period, as is our habit we turned the red light on and invited communication through one Medium, Jon. Subsequently two regular communicators, first Billy and then Charlie, spoke to us and sitters offered questions towards them...and of course received appropriate and interesting response to such enquiry.

This morning FC made his presence known to me and as I listened he asked that I come to my computer in order to share with others what he refers to as "an awareness":

Friends, when meeting in a group together, habitually enjoy shared conversation and humour. This reinforces their mutual bond of friendship. This 'raises the group energy', which may be felt by those who pass by. There is generally a positive attraction felt towards happiness and joy that others may respond to. Such is the purpose, within seance conditions, of our initial singing and chatting together. As FC reminded me, we are spirit, currently manifesting as physical form. Our purpose, within seance conditions, is to attract communication from like-minded people who are now living within the spirit world.

Later within seance Billy and Charlie came forward to share communication with us. Billy was asked a few general questions and upon reply, in turn received response from the group as a whole. Charlie was also asked some questions, the content of his reply being potentially of more universal interest. The group again, responded to Charlie's communication as a group.

FC, this morning wishes to offer his thanks for the group energy offered forward by the Circle as a whole.

To continue ...

Besides group friendships, between individual friends there are times of exclusivity. When meeting together, just the two together, their bond becomes most strongly reinforced. There is sometimes said to be "a connection" between the two. They may be considered best friends, or described as feeling deep friendship together. Such a bond may stand the test of time. Each being there for the other in times of need. Such deep friendship is most highly valued. FC suggests that this exclusivity be offered with Intent towards our Spirit communicators, and that questions, when asked within the group setting, are offered as if between two bonded friends. The response received from Spirit will then be heard without interuption.

Later this week I am to meet an old friend. I will indeed 'honour him exclusivity' when we meet and will listen to what he says with more attention that I might offer within a group situation. There are many friendships to be enjoyed and many variations upon the theme of friendship. Sometimes we take our friends for granted, and this morning's communication with FC offered me an opportunity to consider the value of all.

WELCOME

2010-09-17T22:56:00.000-07:00

As is known, I host several seance groups each week within the Lodge setting. Together these seance groups form the Bristol Spirit Lodge Circle. This morning FC woke me bright and early, and his communication caused me to consider what a Welcome means to those who receive it.

Within seance several of the Medium's within the Lodge enable the presence of Spirit to manifest through the display of the facial features of 'the deceased' being superimposed over their own faces. This is apparently enabled by the manipulation of energy by those within the spirit world who know how to do this. Often within such conditions many faces become recognised. Some faces are of spirit visitors unknown to the sitters, whilst others are faces of relatives and friends. All, we feel, are deserving of an equal welcome, for all have an desire to communicate and to validate their continuing existence and some may not have friends and relatives who are open to receiving communication from them.

Very recently within seance my mothers face became displayed and I welcomed her by name. Shortly afterwards another face, of a stranger, was clearly seen and I welcomed this spirit person also. However, I was aware that the presentation becoming formed by the second spirit person had in fact begun to manifest whilst my mother's face was still in place. This morning I was caused to realise that this second visitor had been struggling to make their presence known whilst I was feeling the excitement of meeting my mother. In fact this second person had probably felt less welcome. This situation, although quite naturally caused, was unfair.

Last week within seance a similar situation occurred. On this occasion a face was presented towards three sitters, who were seated close together. Two of these sitters, with excitement, recognised the relative of one of them and spoke of this. The third sitter felt similar excitement as they felt recognition of a relative also, although she did not voice this at the time. This, by its very occurence, meant that the spirit visitor may have, in fact, been the relative of either of the sitters who felt recognition towards them. Or, equally, the visitor may have been someone else entirely.  Although the three sitters were offering welcome towards our spirit visitor, whoever it may be, they were each feeling a 'restrictive welcome'. It was rather like us running to open the front door with a smile on our face to welcome 'Jill'...then to find 'Mary' standing on the doorstep. Mary might, in such a situation, feel less welcome than Jill?

Last week also, and within this same seance, towards the close of the evening a new communicator was struggling to come forward. The experience of making such communication was new to him, and as he was not familiar with the process, his presentation remained highly unstable. In fact, again, as he began to 'grasp a foot hold' one of the sitters felt that he may have been a friend of theirs, and spoke of this fact, although still feeling uncertain. As the gentleman in spirit continued to struggle to come through, the energy waned and he lost his hold and was gone. I feel sad to think that he may have felt less than welcomed, simply because we sitters may have been hoping for him to have been someone else.

FC this morning wished me to realise that by the mere voicing of a welcome to a known friend, we sitters may be causing other potential spirit visitors to feel less welcomed. Within the seance room, as within the world as a whole, people that approach us in a friendly manner offer such friendship towards us with equal good will. Does the lady who smiles a cheery welcome deserve less of a cheery response from us than if the smile had been offered by 'Jill' or 'Mary'?   As FC's communication suggests, I think I will set out to welcome all positive energy, from wherever it comes.

Note:   All spirit communicators come through within seance come in the hope of having their continuing existence acknowledged. All need to made equally welcome. FC

ABLE DISABLED

2010-08-27T01:11:00.000-07:00

I have, for many years, been interested in the way the brain functions, and my interest includes neurological disorders, amongst other things. The number of people who have conditions that are diagnosed as being within the autistic spectrum are increasing. As yet no-one knows whether their conditions are rooted in genetics, or occur as a result of food additives or polution...or whatever.

Meanwhile the increase of such 'cases' is on the up. Parents, in any case, worry about what the future holds for their children. Parents of children who are experiencing an apparently adverse neurological condition are more concerned about their offsprings future than most. Are they right to feel such concern?

Those with conditions diagnosed to be within the autistic spectrum are often sound sensitive. They avoid noise. They often prefer to live within subdued lighting conditions. They are often less academic, but have practical skills. Their needs are often simple. They often avoid conflict and fear violence. They often process thoughts quickly and react immediately (early man found this a necessary asset for survival).

This morning FC reminded me of all these things and suggested that the qualities displayed by those with conditions diagnosed to be within the Autistic spectrum might be exactly what the world needs right now.

EFFECTING EXPERIENCE

2010-08-24T00:54:00.000-07:00

This morning FC began by pointing out that I feel a loving acceptence of certain loved ones that extends to and applies to others when I am sitting within the Lodge. He then indicated, and I agreed, that this fails to apply when outside of the lodge. Quite simply I am aware that I 'see faults' in most people, that has an affect on how I feel about them. Whereas I love some people 'as a whole'...unconditionally. FC then 'sent feelings' to illustrate the differences clearly to me...and seemed to suggest that I try to be more accepting of everyone when I am outside of the lodge setting. However, when I said I'd try to be more accepting of others he said that I would, by trying, cause myself to carry expectations of myself that might result in disappointment, and I might also, through the exercise of focus upon them, negatively escalate, and become more acutely aware of, the differences that I percieve.

Interesting though this was, I didn't see where it was leading. However...all became clear when he gave me the 'feelings' again. Carrying expectations, and trying to like everyone, would cause me to focus on their 'negative' aspects...even though this was something I was actively trying not to focus upon! Whereas the true loving feeling accepts the whole picture, without any focus being applied to negative aspects at all.

It became apparent that by accepting everyone 'the love way'...the 'edges' of their 'perceived faults' blur, blend, and there's just a 'blob' of feeling with less definition within it. Sort of. I'd not analysed this before. FC went on to show me that the true loving feeling is the same as that which we all feel when sitting together within the lodge, and it's what 'they' (spirit) refer to as the blending...which it's unconditional acceptence and love, and which is the energy they (spirit) use with us, in order to blend and communicate with us, within the lodge. Fine...but this was only part of it:

FC went on to say that were I to 'actively try' to alter my feelings for other people, outside of the lodge, I would perhaps cause myself to focus on the negatives, or else I would 'blur' and become less aware of the differences through 'accepting the whole' person. Either way, I would cause a 'change' to occur...through simple thought and intent.

This showed me that how we think brings energy into play. Energy is 'put into action' simply through our thoughts.

Today I need to make a decision about something. Within the content of this mornings chat FC has helped me to make my decision. If I feel that something I do may prove to have negative consequences I will, by simply giving this my consideration, go a short way towards focussing energy upon this negative possibility. If I go ahead and assume, with confidence, that no harm will be done, then I am presenting positive energy towards the situation, so am best placed to achieve a positive outcome. Either way, as the result of my own thoughts and actions, I will cause myself to effect an experience.

CHIT CHAT

2010-08-20T07:51:00.000-07:00

Interestingly I am not the only one to chat with their spirit guide or team. Sandy, a long term friend and more recently a regular Medium sitting within the Bristol Spirit Lodge Circle, experiences similar communication with her spirit team. More interestingly Sandy and I meet regularly within my home and appear to mix socially at this time with our respective and respected spirit guides.

On this occasion I was chatting with Sandy about why spirit communicators 'bother' to communicate with those upon the earth plane...what are their reasons for doing so? Also...why are some people so scared of all things 'spiritual' ...and seem immediately to take fright, without even considering the reality of the subject content. As we discussed these things together Sandy's spirit team explained their points of view through her, even mentioning her mother's fear of thunder and lightening:

Audio file: http://www.box.net/shared/eexf4k8kdi

SHRUGGING HUGGING

2010-07-11T01:36:00.000-07:00

This weekend I met a friend I'd not seen for a few weeks and we hugged upon meeting. After chatting for a while we parted. As he walked away I felt a need to hug him again, but social boundaries caused me to refrain from either chasing after him or calling him back. The man is married, as I am myself. My feeling a need to hug was not connected to any physical attraction, but was felt by myself to be a spiritual need. But would onlookers misunderstand my intent, or would the man himself misunderstand? I therefore shrugged away from hugging.

A few days later I realised that the 'missing' hug was still within my mind, and as I lay in bed relaxed this morning I shared my interest in the subject of psychological and social boundaries with FC.

FC explained that mankind has evolved within a system of restraints and that our natural connections with the earth and other living beings is becoming further diconnected as time goes on. We are allowing this to happen. As we continue to deny the positive connections that we feel, we continue the negative cycle. We consider ourselves to be the most highly evolved of all species, but as we continue to deny our spiritual connections we are moving further away from the natural order that sustains our own healthy existence and the healthy existence of all that is around us.

We could bring about changes should we wish to do so.

My interest in spirtual matters is fed by Love. I hold seances that open and close with a prayer of Love and Light. Yet social restraint prevented me from sharing a hug with a friend.

FEELING TOUCHED

2010-06-24T00:04:00.000-07:00

Within seance, for the past few months, Margaret and myself have experienced touches to our hair. Both of us have put this down to imagination...or, if accepting the reality, have considered that 'we need more than this' before we declare it 'real'.

Last week I felt a push/touch to the back of my chair and a second to the side. Although wondering if these were caused by my own movement (despite my sitting still at the time, and the fact that the feeling of being pushed is not the same as any caused by one's own movement) FC later told me that what I had experienced was "significant" and that I should report it, so I did (see 'Spirit Sanctuary' dated June 16th).

Yesterday within exchanged e-mail I learned that Jon is experiencing unexplained touches (within his home) also. These he described as light touches to his legs.

Last night, in bed, I felt 'twitches' around my left knee. I was awake and fully aware of this. I was also aware that FC was around and had something to do with what I was experiencing. However...to me...a twitchy knee is simply what it has always appeared to be...so I stretched my leg, rubbed it, and then lay in another position! Within a second the twitching was back...and was extending out and around the original area. I smiled and told FC to do it on the other leg then! Again, almost instantly, the same feeling occured around the other knee. I was shocked, to say the least!!! After demonstrating that a similar sensation could be demonstrated in the centre of my back upon my request...I told FC that I was satisfied and thanked him. Frankly...I was both delighted, and doubtful (despite the evidence!).

In the early hours of this morning FC came forward to chat with me. He explained that Ectoplasm is not being used within the Spirit Sanctuary seance. He went on to tell me that 'touches' were becoming enabled through the manipulation of the energy field around the body...much in the same way that the spirit team is enabling the facial presentations we call Transfiguration. The techniques learned by the spirit team (who are themselves learning through experimentation) can now be applied outside of the specified Medium. The energy around sitters can now be effectively manipulated. In simple terms, whereas the facial presentations are being projected, or are convex, the presentations of being touched are becoming demonstrated by using the technique 'the other way around'. This is causing the skin to experience a similar feeling, and to react in a similar manner, to when it is being touched or pushed.

I was interested in what FC had to say. I understand the concept that he explained. I await further evidential experience of the phenomena.

I started the Circle in order to learn about Physical Mediumship through personal experience. FC offers guidance, he does not 'tell all'...and I'm hungry to learn more : )

U OK?

2010-06-20T00:28:00.000-07:00

When FC and I first 'met' he appeared as a slight fuzzy haze within the corner of my dining room. At that time a Medium was seated in a chair in that corner of the room. FC's initial purpose, he told me, was to learn my language. As he conversed with me (telepathically) in English, I failed to understand what he meant...although I have language idiosyncrasies that are pretty obvious to everyone I meet!

Time has passed...indeed almost four years have passed since then.

This morning I was laying in bed, watching my husband wandering around the room sorting out his clothes. He had, last night, detached the various sections of our wardrobe (in preparation for our house move). As he opened one door the wardrobe tiled forward (now being unsecured from the wall) and he showed me how easy it would be to tilt it further. He turned to me and said "I ain't putting hardly no effort at all into that!"

FC 'beside me' laughed and showed me 'ROFL'. I recognised this to be text shorthand for "Roll On Floor Laughing". FC was clearly amused by my husband's Bristol accent! At the same time he was explaining to me that THIS is what he had meant, about learning my language, when we first met. Each person has their own personal language...their own specific habits of form and placement of words, as well as intonation. Each person's method of communication is unique. In earthly life, as within spirit, in order to develop true understanding one must become blended.

Those who wish to communicate with us effectively, and who wish to understand us, and work with us, have a lot to adjust to. We, in turn, must best adjust ourselves in order to understand them. It is no wonder that in this two-way process confusions and misunderstandings occur so readily. Communication is indeed a complex structure.

FINDING A NEW LOVE

2010-06-20T00:07:00.000-07:00

As the reader will know..I am in the process of moving house. In fact I am moving at the end of this week. An earlier Post told of my puzzle over which property to choose, from a spiritual perspective. Shared communication with FC led to to understand that explained that, from a spiritual perspective, life experience would be gained whatever my choice.

As my search for a 'lovable' property has progressed, I have been led away from my initial personal preference. I have a liking for 1930's properties, particularly the 1930's semi-det...which is the type of house I lived in when a child, and is, in fact the type of house I live in at the moment. I was born in Clevedon, and most of my childhood was spent in Coleridge Vale South. From the outset I knew that my hope of finding a 1930's house in Coleridge Vale South was unlikely to be met. I therefore gradually became accustomed to looking at other types of property...and my original hope became replaced by hard reality, although it remained a guiding light.

As time passed I found the house I am to buy. It is a 1980's 4-bed detached property...which sounds posh but isn't! The house is no bigger than my present house, the rooms are each smaller. 1980's houses lack character, and mine is no exception. But it's in good structural condition, is located within easy walking distance of shops, the beach and river walks, and it has a summer house in the garden.

Interestingly...this morning I received a property alert from an on-line Estate Agent. The alert led me to viewing a 1930's 3-bed semi-det property, of attractive appearance, situated in...would you believe it...Coleridge Vale South! My heart leaped, as I realised that I we have not exchanged contracts yet on the purchase of my new home. In fact, as fate would have it, we were supposed to exchange contracts on Friday, which process, due to legal chaos, was postponed. We have been assured it will now happen on Monday. So...I have time to divert my current plans!

I am of clear mind. And with clear mind I know that the house I am planning to buy is indeed the house that I will soon feel able to love.

LIVING IN THIS WORLD

2010-06-16T00:22:00.000-07:00

Today FC and I had a bit of a 'run in'. I was struggling with the web site at the time and was frustrated because there was a software glitch that was proving difficult to control. I was becoming uptight...to say the least. At the point FC suddenly asked me why I am moving house. My frustration with the web site caused me to tell him to 'go away' because I was busy!

His question persisted in my mind, resulting in my becoming unable to consider anything aside from it. So...I told him that I had chosen to sell my house, and move to live in a small town, seaside, area because I need fresh air, and need to walk and cycle in my free time.

He then asked me how much time I spend on the computer. I laughed and said "Probably too much!". This led to his suggesting that I might not, in fact, need to upgrade and further extend the web site, in the manner I was intending to do. I felt shocked by this, as he has always encouraged the promotion of the information we gather within the seances here. Now, he was explaining that we have had thousands of visits to the web site, and more people will continue to find it and discover all that we offer. We have also had two books published, and articles have been written in magazines. The subject of the Circle has formed part of a lecture, and more are planned. Our web site links to others, and visa versa. The awareness of our support of Physical Mediumship is therefore spreading. There is, now, no need for me to update the web site daily...there is no need to expand it further. In fact, the site already offers extensive information.

FC suggested that my time would be best spent enjoying my life, enjoying my new home, and in continuing to enjoy the Circle work to which I am dedicated. He is, of course, right. It is easy for one particular interest to cause the neglect of other experiences. My work with the Circle is indeed my central focus, and there's nothing wrong with that! But I do, physically, need to breathe some fresh air, to walk and to cycle, and to enjoy all that this physical existence has to offer. I do not need to sit at my computer day in and day out. I have created the web site and it does indeed offer a mass of information on the subject I love. FC is right.

Now I shall move on the enjoy my new home. The Circle will, of course, continue. Our new venue is slightly larger than our present lodge, and there is room there for guest sitters to visit more regularly. All is as it should be.

MIND OVER CLUTTER

2010-06-07T00:18:00.000-07:00

Last evening I read several chapters of my bedside book. Currently I am reading 'The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene'...recommended and lent to me by Jon. The book offers of itself the description "Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory". I am not sure why I read such books at night, but know that the habit helps me to unwind. Although I understand the subject and consider it to be brain food...I often feel frustrated that when morning comes I have forgotten most of that I have read and considered of interest, despite having been fascinated at the time of reading.

This morning I was buzzing around with the vaccuun cleaner and wondering why on earth I can remember so little of what I read last night. I then felt the familiarity of FC's presence and before long heard "My dear...you feel some concern for your mental health I feel." I agreed...feeling that the likely cause of my failed memory was age related, or that I am simply thick of course!

FC went on to tell me that my processing is fine...that I simply have no need to remember what I have read...that my reading habit is akin to a person performing the exercise of crossword puzzles and Suduko. Those who enjoy these pastimes enjoy the process...they do not recall the puzzle itself. I have never looked at it this way before. It's good to know that I am not as daft as I think I am...but the fact remains...I am still capable of wondering why a CD player doesn't work..when I have placed the CD into the machine upside down!

SPIRITUAL CLEANSING...

2010-05-17T01:42:00.000-07:00

Currently my house is on the market. I have recently received an offer to purchase, and have had my offer to purchase another property accepted. Therefore, last week, I was happy! This week, as systematic progress is made towards the proposed exchange of contracts, I am looking towards the arrival of a 'bloke in a hat' who will effect a full structural survey of my property. Suddenly as my nerves kick into action, my home, which has been substantially protective of myself and my family for the past nine years, appears to me to be as flimsy and unstable as a paper castle. Basically..I panic!

I am aware of the reality of the existence of those within the spirit world who wish to guide us. I am aware that spiritual healing takes place. I am aware that a close friend has been supported throughout a recent ordeal...and that her experience proved to both of us, yet again, that there is a power greater than ourselves, that can support us in times of trouble. However...I am also aware that we are living in physical form upon the earth plane in order to learn lessons...and that 'my lesson' might be to experience the failure of the sale of my house, and subsequent loss of the property I wish to purchase. I am proposing to move to a smaller town, where there is a limited availability of property to buy.

This morning I woke with worry in my mind. I proceeded to bath and wash my hair, feeling no less strained afterwards. As I now regularly exchange communication with a representative of Spirit I asked for his assistence. I seldom do this...because...frankly...he doesn't seem to respond to such requests. Apparently I am to learn by my own mistakes and achieve through my own efforts. Whatever!

On this occasion however, whilst sitting at my dressing table, I asked for guidance from FC, and almost instantaneously received the familiar feeling that indicates his 'presence'. I spoke aloud, as if to a friend, explaining my concerns. As I'd expected, there was no immediate response ...and I reached for my packet of baby wipes (I use these to remove any residue of make-up)...and found the packet empty. I then heard clearly "My dear...please calm your mind, there are more tissues in the drawer beside you. You shall move to live in another place before the supply of tissues is exhausted." Although these words were clearly heard, I felt somewhat disappointed...as I already knew that there was likely to be a replacement package in my drawer. When I opened it, and took out the packet, I read that it contained 64 tissues...which is effectively enough to last me for a month to six weeks. I felt little comforted by this though...as within the drawer I had seen three more unopened packets and a voucher offering me another! FC has a sense of humour!

EVERY SWALLOW BRINGS A TASTE OF SUNSHINE...

2010-04-27T00:30:00.000-07:00

Within seance on several occasions, I have asked members of various spirit teams working with the different Medium's...how the phenomena known to us as direct voice might become developed.

Joseph, who is Sandy's main spirit guide, has been particularly helpful in his description of the work being carried out by his spirit team. Joseph has explained how their work includes the creation of a separate voice channel within the Medium. This channel has been described as being created through the exercise and manipulation of her internal structure. Sandy herself feels some internal manipulation with subsequent alteration to her breathing channels being carried out sometimes when the spirit team are working with her. The spirit team intend to use the created channel for the demonstration of independent voice and sound.  There is no way of knowing the truth of this description. As circle leader within the Spirit Lodge circle, I listen to the spirit people with interest, and then simply await further evidence. All seance work is carried out on an experimental basis.

One evening recently whilst watching 'Britains Got Talent' I saw an act, called 'The Regurgitator'. Such acts, usually magicians, are often seen on TV, and I was prepared to feel bored by this one, as with the others. However...as the act began I felt FC close to me. This, frankly, is unusual in such circumstances. Then, during the act I felt his 'guidance'. This is best described as 'independent thought'. I was consciously wondering how the artist performed the act (as a magician) and was thinking about it, whilst FC was saying that this man was demonstrating his creation of a separate physical channel within his body, that had been created through Intent. This being in much the same way as a separate voice channel might become developed with a Medium, through an Intent to work to enable the demonstration of the phenomena known as direct voice.  This was certainly a suggestion that was worth thinking about. However, I felt more inclined to believe that the act was that of a magician...whilst FC seemed to wish me to consider otherwise.

Basically it seemed, that, through Intent, a person might become able to change the internal structure of their physical body. This may or may not be aided by 'other' (considered deceased) spirit people. After all...this may be the reality of spiritual healing or of self-motivated physical healing. There's plenty to think about!

A few days later Sandy and I were sitting together in my living room and, as is often the case here, Joseph and the spirit team were obviously present as Sandy and I were chatting.  As we were alone and could spare the time, I invited invited the spirit team forward to exchange social pleasantries. Graham immediately came forward and after a few minutes chat on other subjects, the conversation turned towards the TV programme that I'd been watching:

Social chat: http://www.box.net/shared/p7cvfb2yz5

The Regurgitator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4D2Y1cILyI

The sun is shining and I shall now go into the garden to enjoy the warmth and to consider all that is and all that may or may not be.

A TOAST TO POLITICS

2010-04-11T10:58:00.000-07:00

This morning I was chatting with FC. This occurred as I was eating toast whilst watching TV. The election was the subject of focus on the screen...but I wasn't really interested, as I feel no inclination to support any of the main parties involved. I have a son with specific learning difficulties, and whilst within the education system his needs were unmet, due to the educational needs assessment guidelines set by the then Conservative government. The present Labour government has caused a huge increase in the National debt, which I feel I cannot condone. Therefore, I sit on the fence and the upcoming election is something I feel apathetic about. I am unlikely to vote.
As I ate my toast FC was 'perched upon my shoulder'. So, as a matter of interest, I said out load " So...what should I do then Spook? Is it best not to vote at all, rather than to vote for a Government that I don't approve of? Or should I vote for one of the more obscure parties...knowing that won't change anything at the top?". FC replied that I stand by my support of Physical Mediumship regardless of the beliefs of others, and with disregard for any ridicule I might receive as a result of my adherence. He went on to say that many religions are supported by many millions of people. Yet I stand firm in my focus in a minority belief , and I promote awareness of these beliefs whenever possible. I stand firm in order to offer an alternative view towards others, who may then become interested in sharing, and through sharing to further increase awareness.
I asked FC what I was supposed to do about voting for a Government then! He replied that I am not supposed to do anything at all...but that what I do will have consequences. To make a localised statement will cause ripples of effect. To look to myself, rather than to look at Central Government. To stand by my own family and friends, to stand by what I feel is right for the local community. I argued that this is all very well...but local Councillors cannot carry out their policies if Central Government prevents funding for this. FC replied that there is no central funding for Physical Mediumship...yet I stand by my beliefs with tenacity.
FC continued "A flame from a furnace may stand alone, and although may return to the furnace at any time, it might otherwise continue to stand alone and gather further flame towards itself in order to create a greater furnace. There is always a choice" Still argumentative, I said that a flame, standing alone, could become more easily extinguished! FC said that this is so...but to consider...should my focus upon Physical Mediumship become extinguished, would the energy I have given to my subject be lost? Or would the energy have reached others who might, perhaps, continue to fan the flames?

MOVING HOUSE

2010-04-11T10:55:00.000-07:00

Regular followers of the Bristol Spirit Lodge web site will be aware that I am intending to move house during 2010. My wish is to return to my Clevedon, the small town where I was born. In consequence of my intention my house is now on the market and the usual stresses, hopes and concerns apply to me as to any other person whose home is being viewed by potential purchasers.

The 'other side' of the coin is that my name has been added to the list of prospective buyers for properties in Clevedon. Three such properties caught my attention a few weeks ago and very early one morning FC's apparent presence caused me to ask him for some assistence to make the best choice from these three...were I to receive a satisfactory offer for my house and then become in a position to buy another.

One of the houses had a large garden and a double-sized free-standing brick built garage, that would make a perfect lodge. This garage building would, if divided in half, offer an opportunity to create a healing sanctuary as well as allowing the second half to be used specifically for physical mediumship! The house itself, however, was smaller than I hoped for, to the point of being seriously inconvenient.

The second house of my choice was larger, with four double bedrooms and a small integral garage, that could be used as a lodge. However...this one had a very small garden. On the other hand, the extra spare bedroom in the house would be useful should a family member require an offer of housing. In the present financial climate this might prove useful. I have a disabled son, and my husband has elderly parents.

The third house was older, and offered itself as a renovation project. I have worked successfully on similar projects in the past and felt a thrill at the prospect of tackling one more, with the expected bonus of enjoying the £ profit.

Therefore I asked FC for advice. Which house should I choose?

At first FC gave no response to my question. Then gradually the feeling of his presence increased, before finally a reply was offered for my consideration. Quite simply FC made it very clear that I was upon the earth plane to experience the learning offered through exercising my own free will. This response didn't satisfy me. I told him that people go to see medium's and receive advice and support. In fact I have a friend who goes to have a 'reading' twice every year and thinks it's wonderful! FC seemed unimpressed by my challenging attitude and asked me to sit quietly for a moment in order to receive his guidance:

Choosing the first house, he said, might indeed offer me an opportunity to expand the Circle. I may be able to offer the potential of healing towards those who might benefit from the positive energy offered by Spirit within such an environment. Were I to offer healing, this might affect the lives of others. One who is healed may enjoy life more fully. However one might also hope for healing and feel the disappointment of apparent failure, were such healing not to be experienced. Their families might be affected by their pleasure or their pain. No decision can be made that does not affect another.

The second house might offer me an opportunity to support a family member or friend at a time of need. However, such an offer may hamper the progress of their independence, were they to accept too readily my offer of shelter and to consider this an easy solution to their unfortunate predicament.

The third house may bring me the benefit of financial security. Yet again there is always an alternative possibility, for all is not known. Perhaps the investment might fail to yield bonus.

Each of the houses therefore offer me learning experiences. The choice, is mine to make.

Since exchanging this communication with FC all three houses cease to be of interest to me. I now fancy another, that has four bedrooms, a garage, and a wooden lodge within a large garden! If I buy this one, I wonder what the consequences will be! It no longer matters...I shall enjoy whatever lies ahead.