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WORKSHOP 1  - TRANCE MEDIUMSHIP

This entire one day workshop took place in red light conditions.

Circle
We sat first in one circle to still the mind and induce trance conditions. Those who were not experienced in trance were talked through the process. I was away with the fairies pretty much instantly. I remember looking down and seeing the whole group seated, I then came down to stand by the side of where I was seated and witnessed a fire build up n the centre of the circle. Out of the middle rose an eagle looking totem style bird with wings out and the head facing to the left. This then disappeared and I noticed nothing else apart from complete darkness. I was afterwards informed that spirit had drawn close and could be seen.

Groups
We sat in small groups watching each person in turn try to induce the trance state and ask spirit to draw close. I felt my usual guide (Michael) draw close as I could feel my leg moving and my left hand hold a heavy ball. I relaxed and just went with the flow. This then changed and I had the distinct feeling of a new spirit wanting to come through. This felt like a man who was wanting to contact a specific person in the group. After a small struggle of him wanting to talk, but not managing, it was time to come back.

One on One
We sat in pairs and watched each other work in trance. Michael came back immediately and was making loads of clicking noises and getting very frustrated as he wanted to talk to everyone in the group. The energy built up well and I felt very much at ease, but I was also very aware of others trying to work next to me. Due to this, and not wanting to disturb others, I maintained control and refused to allow him to talk, it was like a bit of a power struggle. The person watching me picked up on this, and saw him as a large man, with lots of energy and power.

Trance Talk
Following the experiences we watched one person do a trance healing demo in the cabinet, this was most impressive and you could very easily see the changes across the face and body as a whole. I was asked to let my spirit come through to talk to the group, utilising the cabinet for energy build up. Michael came through, once again noticeable due to the movement of right leg and the holding of a ball in the left hand. I was aware of talking happening, but at the same time wasn't really interested and couldn't really say what had been talked about. It was like 'in one ear and straight out the other'. When I returned, I had a distinct knowing that someone had wanted to ask a question and they hadn't asked it. When I mentioned this there was someone who confirmed this.

He was asked the following (along with others to which I am not currently aware) :-
What was he holding in his hand? - A ball of light. This is an energy source that has been developed over time to work with Karen
What was his name - Michael
We feel privileged to have spoken to you - You should not feel this way, I am the one who is privileged.

Conclusion
This was a thoroughly enjoyable workshop, and was an excellent experience. The new person who wanted to contact someone was a new experience, and the practise of talking to a group was a wonderful opportunity. At one point I did think it may just be me making up the words and talking, but since I have had it confirmed that my voice does sound different when Michael is talking through me. I was also very hot after the session.

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Group Séance

We sat as a collective circle  in the dark (or as much as was possible in the room) a slight light from under the blinds in the windows, and asked spirit to draw close and let us know they were present in the room. We increasing energy in the room with the use of singing and laughter.

Some expressed seeing shadows or movement in the room, a blue mist above the circle, purple swirls and various lights in the centre.  I did not experience anything at all of this nature.  I did get very hot and my palms were wet with sweat - however - it was extremely hot and the fans had been turned off as well, so not really evidence to me.

The light was changed to a dim red. We then placed a table in the centre and four people touched the 4 sides of the table lightly with their fingertips and we asked spirit to move the table.  The table did wobble a bit, but again nothing that I could see.

Following this I placed by fingertips on the table along with 3 others.  The table then started to rock from two legs to the opposite two legs.  This started as a small movement and then grew in intensity and range of movement.  At one point it was even so far over that in normal circumstances it would have fallen over completely.

We worked on trying to get the table levitated and asked spirit to lift the table.  This was not achieved.

Transfiguration

Following this experiment, we broke for a while and then sat to watch some transfiguration.  Often this is as a mask which comes over the face - however there can be a sort of moulding.  I did definitely experience seeing a moulding over both faces, and the chance to see darkening of faces and changes around the jaw-line and also eyes appearing to look across the room.  These are termed spirit eyes.

We worked in two's to sit for transfiguration.  When I sat I did feel very relaxed and let spirit draw close and gave permission for them to use my body and energy to show themselves to the group.  I felt very warm but not a very deep trance state, but very light.  I was aware of whispering, but didn't know at all what was being said.

Afterwards I was informed that 3 spirits had shown themselves through, what I believe to be, moulding of the facial features. This included an oriental man, and a large man with dark skin - I'm not sure who they said the third one was.  My hands had moved to hold the usual ball of energy and the right hand had moved so it looked almost as if I was holding a machine gun! The other had moved my hands as if I was piloting an aircraft.  I was not aware at all of these movements and felt as if nothing much was actually happening.

Watching the others as well, I experienced slight moulding and changes, but nothing that I would term as true transfiguration.

Group Séance 2

We went back into the original circle condition again with 4 people sitting in the centre as the mediums to channel the energy for the spirits to work.

Once again we sat in the dark with the use of asking spirit to draw close and singing to create extra energy.

When singing the blinds at the windows would move creating a sweep of light around the proceedings.  There was not much draft as the day was very still and warm, and all the windows were apparently closed.  Some mentioned once again the shadows and lights - none of which I can say I experienced. Just before the end I saw a brilliant white flash of a round light in the top corner of the room (would be about 5cm in diameter) and this was the end.

Conclusion

I'm not sure I experienced anything new within this workshop, but I did get confirmation that we are headed in the correct way in the home circle.  Also that we should be recording each of our meetings.

This was my first hands on experience of table movement and was the most impressive things I personally saw all day.

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WORKSHOP 3 - TRANCE MEDIUMSHIP

After opening up we went into a trance session.  My main trance guide was ready to blend, but as this was a new workshop to me I was wanting to listen to the instructor who was talking people down.  This meant a real struggle and slowed down the process dramatically.  We did blend and sat observing the going's on and energy within the room, until told to return.

We then watched the other group do their trance session, some spoke and another helped a spirit cross to the other side who was lost.

After a break we sat to do one 2 one trance sittings.  I was quite nervous about this, although I'm not sure exactly why.  I was told about cleansing the aura and keeping it in check daily.  I was also instructed about diet and watching what I am eating to help spirit work.  This has be a bit of a recurring theme recently!  The spirit then talking to me used the mediums fingers to outline my aura and cleanse it, and tidy it up.  Can't say I felt anything while this was happening though.

My main guide, Michael, came through me for the sitter and she appeared to be very happy with the guidance he gave her about her development.  He also pointed out a couple of things I had been concerned about - i.e. ego and balance, and explained that I had nothing to worry about.

For the final part of the day we worked in the dark (or as much as could be achieved in the room).  I again blended very quickly and was slightly aware of my guides working with the energies in the room.  Something didn't feel quite right and one of the other sitters was having a bit of a time of it!  Things got a bit heated and my guide shouted very forcefully for them to leave and that they were not wanted there, he was then joined by a couple of others, everything then became much calmer and we worked on creating lights a voices, who came through to speak.  I'm not too sure what was going on as I was quite out of it!

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WORKSHOP 4 - TRANCE WORKSHOP

This was a lovely small group workshop with some great energies and wonderful people.

We started with a blending with our spirit friends and getting them to draw close, sort of warming up for the rest of the workshop.  We were also advised about trying to come out of our comfort zones and be willing to let new spirits come through and blend.

Moving

We did a sitting where we asked our spirit friends to come forward, blend with us and let us move our bodies in whichever way they wished to.   I felt quite relaxed with this, but it did feel slightly strange, as with my trance I had started to move quite a lot with Michael coming through.  He was often wanting to stamp and quite often would also bang his hands on his lap as if in agitation.  We has since settled down quite a lot to work together and have become much more relaxed - hence quite a bit less movement.  I was aware of some movement - but not an awful lot!

One 2 One

A one 2 one sitting was on the agenda, something I have to say scares me more than a platform sitting - strange really!  This was a bit of an odd experience for me as I felt my usual friend coming forward and blending and ready to start talking to my sitter, but then I was much more aware of a younger man blending.  We talked about not knowing where he was and what was going on and felt quite confused.  The sitter thought she might have recognised him but he gave a name of Andrew which wasn't his name.

 

Trance Dance

We did what is termed as 'trance dance' where trance state is achieved in a standing position.  I have never been able to achieve this and my immediate thought was - here we go, standing and looking like a lemon for a while!  After a short while I being aware of spirit being very close I decided to try a different tack I had learnt on the last trance workshop I had been on.  Instead of asking them to blend from behind I asked spirit to stand in front of my and then walk into my aura.  This seemed to do the trick!  Although I never felt quite as deep as I normally do when sitting in trance and was certainly more than aware of a gentleman (another new one for me) who stepped forward and was getting used to the feel of a physical body again.

I was very aware of him being very excited and asking his other spirit friends - of which there were many - to look at him with his new body!  At first he seemed quite uneasy but this would certainly have been my uneasiness as well.  He was certainly interested in trying to move my hands and feet but seemed very unsure (again him or me??)  Once he got a little more confident (and I also heard the tutor speak something to do with it being OK to walk) he started to talk to his wife about how they would be able to dance together again as they used to do in the physical body, and the wanting of him to dance was quite overwhelming.  I think I was stopping a lot of this from happening as I then became quite self-conscious of dancing round the room looking like a bit of a loony!  If I had been alone or with my usual sitters I might well have just gone with it - something I would certainly love to try again!

Trance Healing

We tried some trance healing as well.  This again is very new to me.  Not being that into the healing side of things and only really sending out healing thoughts to hose in trouble I do find this quite scary. I had tried this previously about a year ago on another course and so had a good idea what it was but this was all.

I remember thinking, well I have no idea what I'm meant to be doing so they better do it for me! With this I just blended and let them get on with it basically.  I was very aware of loads of chanting and moving beams of light around which seemed to appear out of nowhere.  These had to be placed around the body.  It was almost like we had to try and align the big main light directly over the patients head to re-address the balance??

I do remember feeling them wanting to sit down in front of the patient, but I then became very much aware of looking as if I was doing something else so stopped this from happening.  I have since been told that I should have just gone with it - so maybe next time!  I was really not sure whether this would have done anything, and I think as I feel it is such a powerful thing to be able to heal a person physically and mentally that it is something I don't feel as if I would be capable of.

The patient did say that he experienced warmth and feeling as if things were happening.  The tutor also talked about seeing shimmering lights over my chest whilst this was happening - but wasn't sure whether this was energy or something else.

I was very lucky to have healing carried out on me by two people at the same time.  They both had quite different energies and I was very aware of feeling cold down one side and hot down the other.  After a short while they then seemed to almost blend together and start working more as one. Then a really worrying thing happened for me.  I felt as if I had had my memory blanked.  it was like seeing a TV screen when there are just the fuzzy black and white dots but with something going straight across my mind.  This was a really strange sensation and I'm not really sure what it did, but I do still have my memory I happy to say!!!

Conclusion

This was a wonderful workshop and one of the best I have ever had the privilege to attend.

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WORKSHOP 5 - TRANCE MEDIUMSHIP

This was a very different experience for me - once again!  It just never seems to stay the same.  We started with a blending and just sitting, and although I could feel spirit come close and surround me, I was completely unable to distinguish any facts about the type of person drawing close.  I couldn't even say if they were male or female! It was pretty much like this for the rest of the day.

I did experience, whilst in trance, seeing a group collected in a circle though.  We were instructed by the Indian chief sitting in the centre to hold hands and starting from my right we went round the circle holding hands one at a time.  There was six other spirit people with me , male and female, various times and country's - although I couldn't now tell you who each of them were - for some reason it just didn't seem to be important.  We got round to the sixth person and there was then a gap.  We were instructed that we were still waiting for the seventh spirit to join us.  Bit weird - but perhaps in time I will find out more about this.

The rest of the day was quite uneventful.  I didn't feel it was working too well - some of this could have been down to feeling uneasy around other people on the workshop.  I do find that this makes more and more of an impression on me each time I attend one of these.

I was informed on two occasions that people could see a distinct change in my facial features as a young man was trying to show himself, and my skin would pull back at the sides as if looking thinner faced.

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WORKSHOP 6 - TRANCE AND PHYSICAL WEEKEND

From Friday to Sunday in Eastbourne on the Avalon project.

FRIDAY

On arrival we split up into our groups, and I felt very lucky to be put in with a wonderful medium and tutor.  We watched one group of 4 go into the trance state, and it was wonderful to watch.  Each person had a spirit guide who came forward to say a few words of wisdom, mainly about being pleased to be there and that there would be good things to look forward to throughout the weekend.

In the evening I was very lucky to be in with another group.  We started the evening by doing some planchet work.  This involves spirit moving a pencil placed in a triangular shaped board on wheels across a piece of paper to write messages.  We were very privileged to watch as two people received messages written on the paper from their relatives.  Following this we did a short message using letters written on the paper with the planchet moving to each letter at a time instead of writing the message.  After this we did some table tilting.  The table certainly moved in big motions rising on 2 legs and then the other 2.  When asked to go up onto one specific leg it also managed this.  The strange thing was every time the tutor left the room the table stopped and would start again immediately upon his return.  This happened 3 times.

After this we sat in séance conditions and the tutor went into a trance.  I felt very excited as I watched 2 amazing trance readings, as people came through, transfigured onto the mediums face and talked to their loved ones.  It was a very special and heart warming moment!

SATURDAY

This morning was spent in the blacked out room with the cabinet for us to be able to sit for physical mediumship.  A number of people sat with varying successes.  We experienced lights and energy movement more than anything else.

I was very happy to get a chance to sit in these conditions.  I had never sat before in a physical sense with more than 2 sitters, to sit with 14 sitters was quite an experience.  I had never before felt such a surge of energy as all the sitters started to sing.  I normally work with a gradual increase in energy and spirit presence, this was like a thunderbolt and I was straight into a trance state.  It was a new experience and I moved around a lot - this apparently is to do with the power of the energy and comes more from me than the spirit world, adjusting to the power.  I really am not sure at all what happened there, but it was strong.  I understand the sitters could feel the energy to and purple mists were seen - but I think that was all.  A man came through and talked to the group and although I could hear and was aware for the talking, I can't recall anything that was said.  This was a new guide for me and one who had never talked through me before  or else an old one who just felt different??  Who knows.

It was a wonderful day as I watched many people developing their wonderful gift of mediumship and watched the passion and dedication so many people had to work with spirit.  Most of it was very touching and really pulled at the heart strings!

SUNDAY 

I had been out all night on an investigation in Michelham Priory all night on Saturday so was feeling a little energy depleted on Sunday (didn't get back to the hotel until 6.15am!)  We tried to get as many people to sit as possible on this last day and were lucky enough to have 2 cabinets and a pyramid with 3 people sitting at a time.  This was with red light and more looking at trance development.

Lots of people in the group managed to have another sitting and the energy and abilities of people in the group was quite amazing.  One spirit person after another showed themselves and/or spoke.  For the last session two groups had to join together so when I got to sit for the last time in the pyramid there was 28 sitters!  I found this very daunting and I must say my heart was beating like mad when I wet to sit.  This was a very odd experience for me - but it taught me a lot about the importance of the sitters.  My usual guide came through and spoke and this was a lot stiller sitting - more like those I was used to.

CONCLUSION

A fantastic weekend which went much too quickly.  It was fascinating to watch so many other people working and the many differences.  I am also starting to see even more that everyone has differing opinions as to the ways to work, and hence following your own intuition - or spirit guidance - seems ever more important!

For anyone looking at working in trance or physical, whether a complete beginner or advanced medium - I would thoroughly recommend going along.

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