Pathway to Spirit
7 Princicpal of Spiritualism

Clairvoyance Rutland

Belton In Rutland - Braunston In Rutland - Edith Weston - Great Casterton - Little Casterton - Market Overton - North Luffenham - South Luffenham - Stoke Dry - Thorpe By Water - Upper Hambleton - Langham - Oakham - Belton -

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.

Notice Board for this Area

Nothing to post for this area as yet.  In the meantime here is an extract from one of my favorite books "The Power of Now".

It means to inhabit your body fully. To always have some of your attention in the inner energy field of your body. To feel the body from within so to speak. Body awareness keeps you present. It anchors you in the Now (see Chapter 6).

The Esoteric Meaning Of "Waiting"

In a sense the state of presence could be compared to waiting. Jesus used the analogy of waiting in some of his parables. This is not the usual bored or restless kind of waiting that is a denial of the present and that I spoke about already. It is not a waiting in which your attention is focused on some point in the future and the present is perceived as an undesirable obstacle that prevents you from having what you want. There is a qualitatively different kind of waiting one that requires your total alertness. Something could happen at any moment and if you are not absolutely awake absolutely still you will miss it. This is the kind of waiting Jesus talks about. In that state all your attention is in the Now. There is none left for daydreaming thinking remembering anticipating. There is no tension in it no fear just alert presence. You are present with your whole Being with every cell of your body. In that state the "you' that has a past and a future the personality if you like is hardly there anymore. And yet nothing of value is lost. You are still essentially yourself. In fact you are more fully yourself than you ever were before or rather it is only now that you are truly yourself. "Be like a servant waiting for the return of the master says Jesus. The servant does not know at what hour the master is going to come. So he stays awake alert poised still lest he miss the master's arrival. In another parable Jesus speaks of the five careless (unconscious) women who do not have enough oil (consciousness) to keep their lamps burning (stay present) and so miss the bridegroom (the Now) and don't get to the wedding feast (enlightenment). These five stand in contrast to the five wise women who have enough oil (stay conscious). Even the men who wrote the Gospels did not understand the meaning of these parables so the first misinterpretations and distortions crept in as they were written down. With subsequent erroneous interpretations the real meaning was completely lost. These are parables not about the end of the world but about the end of psychological time. They point to the transcendence of the egoic mind and the possibility of living in an entirely new state of consciousness.

Beauty Arises In The Stillness Of Your Presence

What you have just described is something that I occasionally experience for brief moments when I am alone and surrounded by nature. Yes. Zen masters use the word

satori to describe a flash of insight a moment of no-mind and total presence. Although satori is not a lasting transformation be grateful when it comes for it gives you a taste of enlightenment. You may indeed have experienced it many times without knowing what. it is and realizing its importance. Presence is needed to become aware of the beauty the majesty the sacredness of nature. Have you ever gazed up into the infinity of space on a clear night Yes but only as seen from the limited perspective of the manifested universe. In the Bible God declares: I am the Alpha and the Omega and I am the living One." In the timeless realm where God dwells which is also your home the beginning and the end the Alpha and the Omega are one and the essence of everything that ever has been and ever will be is eternally present in an unmanifested state of oneness and perfection - totally beyond anything the human mind can ever imagine or comprehend. In our world of seemingly separate forms however timeless perfection is an inconceivable concept. Here even consciousness which is the light emanating from the eternal Source seems to be subject to a process of development but this is due to our limited perception. It is not so in absolute terms. Nevertheless let me continue to speak for a moment about the evolution of consciousness in this world. Everything that exists has Being has God-essence has some degree of consciousness. Even a stone has rudimentary consciousness; otherwise it would not be and its atoms and molecules would disperse. Everything is alive. The sun the earth plants animals humans - all are expressions of consciousness in varying degrees consciousness manifesting as form. The world arises when consciousness takes on shapes and forms thought forms and material forms. Look at the millions of life forms on this planet alone. In the sea on land in the air - and then each life form is replicated millions of times. To what end? Is someone or something playing a game a game with form? This is what the ancient seers of India asked themselves. They saw the world as lila a kind of divine game that God is playing. The individual life forms are obviously not very important in this game. In the sea most life forms don't survive for more than a few minutes after being born. The human form turns to dust pretty quickly too and when it is gone it is as if it had never been. Is that tragic or cruel? Only if you create a separate identity for each form if you forget that its consciousness is God-essence expressing itself in form. But you don't truly know that until you realize your own God-essence as pure consciousness. Awestruck by the absolute stillness and inconceivable vastness of' it? Have you listened truly listened to the sound of a mountain stream in the forest? Or to the song of a blackbird at dusk on a quiet summer evening? To become aware of such things the mind needs to be still. You have to put down for a moment your personal baggage of problems of past and future as well as all your knowledge; otherwise you will see but not see hear but not hear. Your total presence is required. Beyond the beauty of the external forms there is more here: something that cannot be named something ineffable some deep inner holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present. Could it be that this nameless essence and your presence are one and the same? Would it be there without your presence? Go deeply into it. Find out for yourself. When you experienced those moments of presence you likely didn't realize that you were briefly in a state of no-mind. This is because the gap between that state and the influx of thought was too narrow. Your satori may only have lasted for a few seconds before the mind came in but it was there; otherwise you would not have experienced the beauty. Mind can neither recognize nor create beauty. Only for a few seconds while you were completely present was that beauty or that sacredness there. Because of the narrowness of that gap and a lack of vigilance and alertness on your part you were probably unable to see the fundamental difference between the perception the thought-less awareness of beauty and the naming and interpreting of it as thought: The time gap was so small that it seemed to be a single process. The truth is however that the moment thought came in all you had was a memory of it. The wider the time gap between perception and thought the more depth there is to you as a human being which is to say the more conscious you are. Many people are so imprisoned in their minds that the beauty of nature does not really exist for them. They might say What a pretty flower but that's just a mechanical mental labeling. Because they are not still not present they don't truly see the flower don't feel its essence its holiness - just as they don't know themselves don't feel their own essence their own holiness. Because we live in such a mind-dominated culture most modern art architecture music and literature are devoid of beauty of inner essence with very few exceptions. The reason is that the people who create those things cannot - even for a moment - free themselves from their mind. So they are never in touch with that place within where true creativity and beauty arise. The mind left to itself creates monstrosities and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.

Clairvoyance Rutland

In the same class we may put those - chiefly Orientals - who gain some temporary sight only under the influence of certain drugs or by means of the performance of certain ceremonies. The ceremonialist sometimes hypnotizes himself by his repetitions and in that condition becomes to some extent clairvoyant; more often he simply reduces himself to a passive condition in which some other entity can obsess him and speak through him. Sometimes again his ceremonies are not intended to affect himself at all but to invoke some astral entity who will give him the required information; but of course that is a case of magic and not of clairvoyance. Both the drugs and the ceremonies are methods emphatically to be avoided by any one who wishes to approach clairvoyance from the higher side and use it for his own progress and for the helping of others. The Central African medicine-man or witch doctor and some of the Tartar Shamans are good examples of the type.

Those to whom a certain amount of clairvoyant power has come occasionally only and without any reference to their own wish have often been hysterical or highly nervous persons with whom the faculty was to a large [Page 47] extent one of the symptoms of a disease. Its appearance showed that the physical vehicle was weakened to such a degree that it no longer presented any obstacle in the way of a certain modicum of etheric or astral vision. An extreme example of this class is the man who drinks himself into delirium tremens and in the condition of absolute physical ruin and impure psychic excitation brought about by the ravages of that fell disease is able to see for the time some of the loathsome elemental and other entities which he has drawn round himself by his long course of degraded and bestial indulgence. There are however others cases where the power of sight has appeared and disappeared without apparent reference to the state of the physical health; but it seems probable that even in those if they could have been observed closely enough some alteration in the condition of the etheric double would have been noticed.

Those who have only one instance of clairvoyance to report in the whole of heir lives are a difficult band to classify at all exhaustively because of the great variety of the contributory circumstances. There are many among them to whom the experience has come at some supreme moment of their lives when it is comprehensible that there might have been a temporary exaltation of faculty which would be sufficient to account for it.

In the case of another subdivision of them the solitary case has been the seeing of an apparition most commonly of some friend or relative at the point of death. Two possibilities are then offered for our choice and in each of them the strong wish of the dying man is the [Page 48] impelling force. That force may have enabled him to materialize himself for a moment in which case of course no clairvoyance was needed; or more probably it may have acted mesmerically upon the percipient and momentarily dulled his physical and stimulated his higher sensitiveness. In either case the vision is the product of the emergency and is not repeated simply because the necessary conditions are not repeated.

There remains however an irresolvable residuum of cases in which a solitary instance occurs of the exercise of undoubted clairvoyance while yet the occasion seems to us wholly trivial and unimportant. About these we can only frame hypotheses; the governing conditions are evidently not on the physical plane and a separate investigation of each case would be necessary before we could speak with any certainty as to its causes. In some such it has appeared that an astral entity was endeavouring to make some communication and was able to impress only some unimportant detail on its subject - the useful or significant part of what it had to say failing to get through into the subject's consciousness.

In the investigation of the phenomena of clairvoyance all these varied types and many others will be encountered and a certain number of cases of mere hallucination will be almost sure to appear also and will have to be carefully weeded out from the list of examples. The student of such a subject needs an inexhaustible fund of patience and steady perseverance but if he goes on long enough he will begin dimly to discern order behind the chaos and will gradually get some idea of the [Page 49] great laws under which the whole evolution is working.

It will help him greatly in his efforts if he will adopt the order which we have just followed - that is if he will first take the trouble to familiarize himself as thoroughly as may be with the actual facts concerning the planes with which ordinary clairvoyance deals. If he will learn what there really is to be seen with astral and etheric sight and what their respective limitations are he will then have as it were a standard by which to measure the cases which he observes. Since all instances of partial sight must of necessity fit into some niche in this whole if he has the outline of the entire scheme in his head he will find it comparatively easy with a little practice to classify the instances with which he is called upon to deal.

Clairvoyance Rutland

82

Belton In Rutland-Rutland (Near Uppingham) - Braunston In Rutland-Rutland (Near Oakham) - Edith Weston-Rutland (Near Oakham) - Great Casterton-Rutland (Near Stamford) - Little Casterton-Rutland (Near Stamford) - Market Overton-Rutland (Near Oakham) - North Luffenham-Rutland (Near Uppingham) - South Luffenham-Rutland (Near Uppingham) - Stoke Dry-Rutland (Near Uppingham) - Thorpe By Water-Rutland (Near Uppingham) - Upper Hambleton-Rutland (Near Oakham) -

Clairvoyance Birmingham  Clairvoyance Bristol  Clairvoyance Edinburgh  Clairvoyance Glasgow  Clairvoyance Leeds  Clairvoyance Liverpool  Clairvoyance London  Clairvoyance Manchester  Clairvoyance Sheffield

Angel reading