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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.

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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".

Usually such moments are short-lived as the mind quickly resumes its noisemaking activity that we call thinking. Love joy and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance. But they are not what I would call emotions. They lie beyond the emotions on a much deeper level. So you need to become fully conscious of your emotions and be able to feel them before you can feel that which lies beyond them. Emotion literally means "disturbance." The word comes from the Latin emovere meaning "to disturb."

Love joy and peace are deep states of Being or rather three aspects of the state of inner connectedness with Being. As such they have no opposite. This is because they arise from beyond the mind. Emotions on the other hand being part of the dualistic mind are subject to the law of opposites. This simply means that you cannot have good without bad. So in the unenlightened mind-identified condition what is sometimes wrongly called joy is the usually short-lived pleasure side of the continuously alternating pain/pleasure cycle. Pleasure is always derived from something outside you whereas joy arises from within. The very thing that gives you pleasure today will give you pain tomorrow or it will leave you so its absence will give you pain. And what is often referred to as love may be pleasurable and exciting for a while but it is an addictive clinging an extremely needy condition that can turn into its opposite at the flick of a switch. Many "love" relationships after the initial euphoria has passed actually oscillate between "love" and hate attraction and attack. Real love doesn't make you suffer. How could it? It doesn't suddenly turn into hate nor does real joy turn into pain. As I said even before you are enlightened - before you have freed yourself from your mind - you may get glimpses of true joy true love or of a deep inner peace still but vibrantly alive. These are aspects of your true nature which is usually obscured by the mind. Even within a "normal" addictive relationship there can be moments when the presence of something more genuine something incorruptible can be felt. But they will only be glimpses soon to be covered up again through mind interference. It may then seem that you had something very precious and lost it or your mind may convince you that it was all an illusion anyway. The truth is that it wasn't an illusion and you cannot lose it. It is part of your natural state which can be obscured but can never be destroyed by the mind. Even when the sky is heavily overcast the sun hasn't disappeared. It's still there on the other side of the clouds.

The Buddha says that pain or suffering arises through desire or craving and that to be free of pain we need to cut the bonds of desire.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. As long as I am my mind I am those cravings those needs wants attachments and aversions and apart from them there is no "I" except as a mere possibility an unfulfilled potential a seed that has not yet sprouted. In that state even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don't seek to become free of desire or "achieve" enlightenment. Become present. Be there as the observer of the mind. Instead of quoting the Buddha be the Buddha be "the awakened one which is what the word buddha means. Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons ever since they fell from the state of grace entered the realm of time and mind and lost awareness of Being. At that point they started to perceive themselves as meaningless fragments in an alien universe unconnected to the Source and to each other. Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind which is to say as long as you are unconscious spiritually speaking. I am talking here primarily of emotional pain which is also the main cause of physical pain and physical disease. Resentment hatred self-pity guilt anger depression jealousy and so on even the slightest irritation are all forms of pain. And every pleasure or emotional high contains within itself the seed of pain: its inseparable opposite which will manifest in time. Anybody who has ever taken drugs to get high" will know that the high eventually turns into a low that the pleasure turns into some form of pain. Many people also know from their own experience how easily and quickly an intimate relationship can turn from a source of pleasure to a source of pain. Seen from a higher perspective both the negative and the positive polarities are faces of the same coin are both part of the underlying pain that is inseparable from the mind-identified egoic state of consciousness. There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain - this is what I want to talk about now.

2. CONSCIOUSNESS: THE WAY OUT OF PAIN

Create No More Pain In The Present

Clairvoyance Ayrshire

To a type of clairvoyance such as this and still more fully to that which belongs to the plane next above it the name of spiritual sight may reasonably be applied; and since the celestial world to which it opens our eyes lies all round us here and now it is fit that our passing reference to it should be made under the heading of simple clairvoyance thought it may be necessary to allude to it again when dealing with clairvoyance in space to which we will now pass on. [Page 51]

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CLAIRVOYANCE IN SPACE: INTENTIONAL

We have defined this as the capacity to see events or scenes removed from the seer in space and too far distant for ordinary observation. The instances of this are so numerous and so various that we shall find it desirable to attempt a somewhat more detailed classification of them. It does not much matter what particular arrangement we adopt so long as it is comprehensive enough to include all our cases; perhaps a convenient one will be to group them under the broad divisions of intentional and unintentional clairvoyance in space with an intermediate class that might be described as semi-intentional - a curious title but I will explain it later.

As before I will begin by stating what is possible along this line for the fully-trained seer and endeavouring to explain how his faculty works and under what limitations it acts. After that we shall find ourselves in a better position to try to understand the manifold examples of partial and untrained sight. Let us then in the first place discuss intentional clairvoyance.

It will be obvious from what has previously been [Page 51] said as to the power of astral vision that any one possessing it in its fulness will be able to see by its means practically anything in this world that he wishes to see. The most secret places are open to his gaze and intervening obstacles have no existence for him because of the change in his point of view; so that if we grant him the power of moving about in the astral body he can without difficulty go anywhere and see anything within the limits of the planet. Indeed this is to a large extent possible to him even without the necessity of moving the astral body at all as we shall presently see.

Let us consider a little more closely the methods by which this super-physical sight may be used to observe events taking place at a distance. When for example a man here in England sees in minutest detail something which is happening at the same moment in India or America how is it done?

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