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News on Physical Mediumship in your area.

Pathway to Spirit, via Joan Hughes is committed to promoting physical mediumship.  Over the coming months we intend to expand the website to include articles on physical mediums, some well known, for example , and other mediums, less well know.

These county pages will be devoted to local groups where physical mediumship is of interest, and also provide a place for publication of physical circle activity.

Please feel free to send us an update from you circle's activities and let us have any news or articles you think relevant to physical mediumship.  Contact Joan Hughes for advice on sitting in physical circles.  See also information on the development circle at Swadlincote Spiritualist Church..

Create No More Pain In The Present

Nobody's life is entirely free of pain and sorrow. Isn't it a question of learning to live with them rather than trying to avoid them?

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life. The pain that you create now is always some form of non acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind. The mind always seeks to deny the Now and to escape from it. In other words, the more you are identified with your mind, the more you suffer. Or you may put it like this: the more you are able to honor and accept the Now, the more you are free of pain, of suffering - and free of the egoic mind. Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable. Imagine the Earth devoid of human life, inhabited only by plants and animals. Would it still have a past and a future? Could we still speak of time in any meaningful way? The question "What time is it?" or "What's the date today?" - if anybody were there to ask it - would be quite meaningless. The oak tree or the eagle would be bemused by such a question. "What time?" they would ask. "Well, of course, it's now. The time is now. What else is there?" Yes, we need the mind as well as time to function in this world, but there comes a point where they take over our lives, and this is where dysfunction, pain, and sorrow set in. The mind, to ensure that it remains in control, seeks continuously to cover up the present moment with past and future, and so, as the vitality and infinite creative potential of Being, which is inseparable from the Now, becomes covered up by time, your true nature becomes obscured by the mind. An increasingly heavy burden of time has been accumulating in the human mind. All individuals are suffering under this burden, but they also keep adding to it every moment whenever they ignore or deny that precious moment or reduce it to a means of getting to some future moment, which only exists in the mind, never in actuality. The accumulation of time in the collective and individual human mind also holds a vast amount of residual pain from the past. If you no longer want to create pain for yourself and others, if you no longer want to add to the residue of past pain that still lives on in you, then don't create any more time, or at least no more than is necessary to deal with the practical aspects of your life. How to stop creating time? Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation. Always say "yes" to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is? What could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say "yes" to life - and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

The present moment is sometimes unacceptable, unpleasant, or awful.

It is as it is. Observe how the mind labels it and how this labeling process, this continuous sitting in judgment, creates pain and unhappiness. By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be. This will give you a taste of the state of inner freedom from external conditions, the state of true inner peace. Then see what happens, and take action if necessary or possible. Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.

Past Pain: Dissolving The Pain-Body

Phsyical Mediumship Bedfordshire

Don't get the impression that the Unmanifested is separate from the manifested. How could it be? It is the life within every form, the inner essence of all that exists. It pervades this world. Let me explain.

Dreamless Sleep

You take a journey into the Unmanifested every night when you enter the phase of deep dreamless sleep. You merge with the Source. You draw from it the vital energy that sustains you for a while when you return to the manifested, the world of separate forms. This energy is much more vital than food: "Man does not live by bread alone." But in dreamless sleep, you don't go into it consciously. Although the bodily functions are still operating, "you” no longer exist in that state. Can you imagine what it would be like to go into dreamless sleep with full consciousness? It is impossible to imagine it, because that state has no content. The Unmanifested does not liberate you until you enter it consciously. That's why Jesus did not say the truth will make you free, but rather: "You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." This is not a conceptual truth. It is the truth of eternal life beyond form, which is known directly or not at all. But don' t attempt to stay conscious in dreamless sleep. It is highly unlikely that you will succeed. At most, you may remain conscious during the dream phase, but not beyond that. This is called lucid dreaming, which may be interesting and fascinating, but it is not liberating. So use your inner body as a portal through which you enter the Unmanifested, and keep that portal open so that you stay connected with the Source at all times. It makes no difference, as far as the inner body is concerned, whether your outer physical body is old or young, frail or strong. The inner body is timeless. If you are not yet able to feel the inner body, use one of the other portals, although ultimately they are all one. Some I have spoken about at length already, but I'll mention them again briefly here.

Other Portals

The Now can be seen as the main portal. It is an essential aspect of every other portal, including the inner body. You cannot be in your body without being intensely present in the Now. Time and the manifested are as inextricably linked as are the timeless Now and the Unmanifested. When you dissolve psychological time through intense present-moment awareness, you become conscious of the Unmanifested both directly and indirectly. Directly, you feel it as the radiance and power of your conscious presence

- no content, just presence. Indirectly, you are aware of the Unmanifested in and through the sensory realm. In other words, you feel the God-essence in every creature, every flower, every stone, and you realize: `All that is, is holy." This is why Jesus, speaking entirely from his essence or Christ identity, says in the Gospel of Thomas: "Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up a stone, and you will find me there." Another portal into the Unmanifested is created through the cessation of thinking. This can start with a very simple thing, such as taking one conscious breath or looking, in a state of intense alertness, at a flower, so that there is no mental commentary running at the same time. There are many ways to create a gap in the incessant stream of thought. This is what meditation is all about. Thought is part of the realm of the manifested. Continuous mind activity keeps you imprisoned in the world of form and becomes an opaque screen that prevents you from becoming conscious of the Unmanifested, conscious of the formless and timeless God-essence in yourself and in all things and all creatures. When you are intensely present, you don't need to be concerned about the cessation of thinking, of course, because the mind then stops automatically. That's why I said the Now is an essential aspect of every other portal. Surrender - the letting go of mental-emotional resistance to what is - also becomes a portal into the Unmanifested. The reason for this is simple: inner resistance cuts you off from other people, from yourself, from the world around you. It strengthens the feeling of separateness on which the ego depends for its survival. The stronger the feeling of separateness, the more you are bound to the manifested, to the world of separate forms. The more you are bound to the world of form, the harder and more impenetrable your form identity becomes. The portal is closed, and you are cut off from the inner dimension, the dimension of depth. In the state of surrender, your form identity softens and becomes somewhat "transparent," as it were, so the Unmanifested can shine through you. Ifs up to you to open a portal in your life that gives you conscious access to the Unmanifested. Get in touch with the energy field of the inner body, be intensely present, disidentify from the mind, surrender to what is; these are all portals you can use - but you only need to use one.

Surely love must also be one of those portals?

Phsyical Mediumship Bedfordshire

Apsley End-Bedfordshire (Near Shefford) - Aspley Guise-Bedfordshire (Near Milton Keynes) - Aspley Heath-Bedfordshire (Near Milton Keynes) - Barton Le Clay-Bedfordshire (Near Ampthill) - Bourne End-Bedfordshire (Near Newport Pagnell) - Box End-Bedfordshire (Near Bedford) - Church End (Mid Beds)-Bedfordshire (Near Arlesey) - Church End (South Beds)-Bedfordshire (Near Sandy) - Cockayne Hatley-Bedfordshire (Near Biggleswade) - Cotton End-Bedfordshire (Near Bedford) - Dock Acres-Bedfordshire (Near St Neots) - Duck'S Cross-Bedfordshire (Near St Neots) - East Hyde-Bedfordshire (Near Harpenden) - Eaton Bray-Bedfordshire (Near Dunstable) - Eaton Ford-Bedfordshire (Near St Neots) - Goldington-Bedfordshire (Near Bedford) - Great Barford-Bedfordshire (Near Sandy) - Haynes Church End-Bedfordshire (Near Ampthill) - Heath And Reach-Bedfordshire (Near Leighton Buzzard) - Henlow Camp-Bedfordshire (Near Arlesey) - Herring'S Green-Bedfordshire (Near Bedford) - Higham Gobion-Bedfordshire (Near Shefford) - Houghton Conquest-Bedfordshire (Near Ampthill) - Houghton Regis-Bedfordshire (Near Dunstable) - How End-Bedfordshire (Near Ampthill) - Husborne Crawley-Bedfordshire (Near Ampthill) - Ickwell Green-Bedfordshire (Near Sandy) - Keeley Green-Bedfordshire (Near Bedford) - Kempston Hardwick-Bedfordshire (Near Bedford) - Keysoe Row-Bedfordshire (Near St Neots) - Knotting Green-Bedfordshire (Near Rushden) - Leighton Buzzard-Bedfordshire Little Barford-Bedfordshire - Little Barford-Bedfordshire (Near St Neots) - Little Billington-Bedfordshire (Near Leighton Buzzard) - Little Staughton-Bedfordshire (Near St Neots) - Lower Caldecote-Bedfordshire (Near Biggleswade) - Lower Dean-Bedfordshire (Near Raunds) - Lower Shelton-Bedfordshire (Near Ampthill) - Lower Sundon-Bedfordshire (Near Dunstable) - Marston Moretaine-Bedfordshire (Near Ampthill) - Milton Bryan-Bedfordshire (Near Leighton Buzzard) - Milton Ernest-Bedfordshire (Near Bedford) - Old Warden-Bedfordshire (Near Shefford) - Salph End-Bedfordshire (Near Bedford) - Slip End-Bedfordshire (Near Luton) - Stondon-Bedfordshire (Near Arlesey) - Sundon-Bedfordshire (Near Dunstable) - Thorncote Green-Bedfordshire (Near Sandy) - Upper Caldecote-Bedfordshire (Near Biggleswade) - Upper Dean-Bedfordshire (Near Raunds) - Upper Gravenhurst-Bedfordshire (Near Shefford) - Upper Shelton-Bedfordshire (Near Ampthill) - West End-Bedfordshire (Near Bedford) - Wharley End-Bedfordshire (Near Newport Pagnell) - Wood End-Bedfordshire (Near Bedford) -

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