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http://portanycircle.blogspot.com/2011/11/portany-circle-at-bristol-lodgde.html[/postlink]
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Chris Howarth of the Portany Circle joined the Bristol Spirit Lodge Circle for an experimental seance
There is more to a Physical seance than might immediately meet the eye.
The seance this evening was of great value to the
Bristol Spirit Lodge Circle for several good reasons.
Those within the lodge set out to support the
development and demonstration of Physical mediumship.
Therefore it is appropriate to share some of
the finer detail of this evenings experience
that we felt were of great value to us. First,
a quick resume of the lodge set-up.
The Bristol Spirit Lodge was founded
by Chris Di Nucci as a personal experiment
to ascertain whether mediumship,
and in particular Physical mediumship,
was achievable by virtually anyone.
The base theory being that mediumship is natural
and that we humans have lost the
ability to attune to vibrations of consciousness
other than our own. Chris, at the time,
felt herself to be less spiritual than a brick,
so felt ideally suited to carry forward this experiment.
Since this theory became proven to Chris’s
satisfaction within twelve months, and
within two years phenomena that was
evidential of continuing life was offered forward,
the purpose of the experiment then became to
support like-minded people to make their own discoveries.
The Bristol Spirit Lodge Circle currently
regularly supports the development of four
Physical Mediums and offers seats to guest
sitters whenever developmental stability allow.
The Lodge is not generally open to be used by
Mediums outside of the Circle. However circumstances
culminated in this experience being effected tonight.
Chris Howarth of the Portany Circle came along
to the lodge, along with his friend Tom Kerr.
Chris took to the cabinet this evening supported
by Tom Kerr and regular sitters of the lodge circle.
Amongst the regular group were Jerry of
'Spirit Chamber' and Richard of 'Spirit Harmony'.
The Lodge is of course necessarily set up to support
the development of Physical mediumship.
There is a cabinet, music player, red lighting,
blackout facilitates and so forth.
The lodge, on the previous evening,
had supported a strong séance with one of the regular
mediums within the Spirit Harmony circle:
http://havencircle.blogspot.com/ .
This seance was heavily ectoplasmic based.
It is interesting therefore to note that tonights
seance was successful, although the energy
used differed greatly from the previous evenings.
Chris Howarth's seance was based upon the 'new' energy.
It should be noted that the Bristol Spirit Lodge
mediums are predominantly ectoplasmic mediums...
although one or two blend with the 'new'
energy none have yet worked totally with 'new'.
Therefore from Chris Di Nucci's perspective this
evenings seance offered a valuable experience from
which she hoped to learn. Chris has only sat in one
'new' energy-based seance previously and that
was many years ago.
And so...we get on to the setting up of this evenings seance.
Chris H is a recognised and widely proclaimed
trance medium and has developed his own routines
and preferences. Tonight he preferred to use his own
music centre, which has two speakers that were placed
one each side of the cabinet. Chris H also brought his
own small table which has a few luminous tabs on it,
a couple of trumpets, a drum and a tambourine.
Aside from this the lodge fixtures were unchanged.
Two digital recorders were used tonight, one
belonging to Tom and the other to the lodge.
The evening began at 7pm as sitters arrived
to gather around the dining table within Chris's house.
This social setting allows energies to gently
blend prior to sitting in the lodge itself.
The sitters tonight were Christine Di Nucci,
Jerry, Richard, Margaret, Pat and Tom.
Warren and Lucy had been invited to attend
the seance but as the clock reached 8pm
without their arrival we all trouped out the the lodge.
Chris H entered the lodge first, supported by Tom.
Chris H was seated in the cabinet with the curtains
closed when the other sitters entered to quietly
take their allocated seats.
As Warren and Lucy weren't present the sitters
moved around to fill their spaces. Unusually,
as Richard moved to a chair beside
the one originally allocated, FC (Circle spirit guide through Christine)
insisted for him to return to his allocated seat.
This chair being diagonally placed to Christine's.
We have yet to discover why this positioning
was considered important....and we may never know!
When all was settled, Christine (seated in her usual
chair with Tom beside her, opened the seance with the
prayer and blackout was set. Tom took control of the music,
the volume of which would be adjusted at the spirit teams
request throughout the seance.
As an aside, when the music began Christine became
aware that the position of the speakers caused the
room to be filled with sound. This later affected her
ability to make judgement upon the position of the
spirit voices and of other sounds caused by the spirit team
(i.e. stamping and shuffling feet). The lodge circles
own CD player as a single-directional sound quality
(or lack of quality). Basically sitters recognise that the
player from which music emanates is positioned to the
left of the cabinet and can better judge the position of
other sounds accordingly. This is a small issue, and
had little affect upon tonights presentations in fact.
Note that the communication is trance based and
therefore in some instances the medium's accent
affects true voice presentation. This is not at all unusual.
White Feather comes through to open the communication:
http://www.box.net/shared/ymcrcydpj874ghjp1zev
Smithy comes forward for a chat before the familiar
personality of Quentin Crisp becomes presented:
http://www.box.net/shared/52nj4rnhiuhteygmle1l
Christine noted the breathy quality heard as the
spirit communicators enter and leave the vessel
and wondered if this might be typical of other energy circles.
Rather like the heavier rasping energy of
ectoplasm during direct voice.
This is something she will consider as a possibility...
Louis Armstrong introduces himself and
an experiment takes place that is witnesses by Jerry and Christine:
http://www.box.net/shared/pap3c3lifqfcf5dlmvmu
By now Christine was well aware of the coldness
of the energy being used by the spirit team to effect the phenomena becoming presented. Within the ectoplasmic seances she
has experienced both heat and chill.
Tom Pepper comes forward for a chat:
http://www.box.net/shared/8m1ajcgpy0tjevvp0zfe
Yellow Feather introduces himself (with the mediums accent)
and apologises for Warren's absence:
http://www.box.net/shared/ob7fcgzq1hbnvh4nn9zn
Walter socialises with sitters:
http://www.box.net/shared/eje7sd0pg38jq9grrhc2
Ted comes through. Ted is a much loved spirit
visitor and key team worker that visits the lodge through Richard's mediumship:
http://www.box.net/shared/4s569syhkhktc52kfnv2
Sitters watch as transfiguration phenomena becomes demonstrated.
The black patches of energy seen to move
across the mediums face were true presentations of Physical phenomena.
http://www.box.net/shared/0ze2gg7giqo49pqgncoz
Christine was interested in the manner in which
the display of transfiguration phenomena was becoming effected.
The energy mass was dark, if not black.
It formed in 'puddles' over the mediums face,
forming deep areas of shadow. Ectoplasmic transfiguration
seems to smooth over the face, forming a mask.
She has also seen faces morph within an energy fizz,
that seems to reflect and create light. Clearly
many types of energy are becoming developed...
the detail of the subject being of interest to her
she was pleased to have been given this
opportunity to gain further experience.
When Margaret mentioned that one transfigured
face seemed familiar to her the spirit team indicated
for her to approach the cabinet. The spirit team then
effected a scent within the medium's palms.
The scent was of herbs. The face that Margaret
had felt she might recognise was of a gentleman in
spirit who had been keen on herbs.
As the transfiguration demonstration continued
Tom was drawn to the cabinet by the appearance
of his wife. A short but joyous reunion was then shared.
Private recording made.
At the spirit teams request 'One Vision' by
Queen was then played and a representation of Freddie
Mercury was effected as the medium stood up to present a
similar the appearance of the famous star.
Spirit share a fond farewell as the seance draws to an end:
http://www.box.net/shared/1msudioicqs5zgex8uxz
A thoroughly enjoyable evening with lots of smiles being shared.
Thank you Chris Howarth, his spirit team and all the
sitters present for sharing their energy within the Lodge tonight.
Christine Di Nucci[endtext]
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