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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".

But there shouldn't be any hunger and starvation in the first place. How can we create a better world without tackling evils such as hunger and violence first? All evils are the effect of unconsciousness. You can alleviate the effects of unconsciousness but you cannot eliminate them unless you eliminate their cause. True change happens within not without. If you feel called upon to alleviate suffering in the world that is a very noble thing to do but remember not to focus exclusively on the outer; otherwise you will encounter frustration and despair. Without a profound change in human consciousness the world's suffering is a bottomless pit. So don't let your compassion become one-sided. Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the ultimate illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously. This also applies if you are supporting a movement designed to stop deeply unconscious humans from destroying themselves each other and the planet or from continuing to inflict dreadful suffering on other sentient beings. Remember: Just as you cannot fight the darkness so you cannot fight unconsciousness. If you try to do so the polar opposites will become strengthened and more deeply entrenched. You will become identified with one of the polarities you will create an "enemy and so be drawn into unconsciousness yourself. Raise awareness by disseminating information or at the most practice passive resistance. But make sure that you carry no resistance within no hatred no negativity. Love your enemies said Jesus which of course means have no enemies." Once you get involved in working on the level of effect it is all too easy to lose yourself in it. Stay alert and very very present. The causal level needs to remain your primary focus the teaching of enlightenment your main purpose and peace your most precious gift to the world.

10. THE MEANING OF SURRENDER

Acceptance Of The Now

You mentioned "surrender" a few times. I don't like that idea. It sounds somewhat fatalistic. If we always accept the way things are we are not going to make any effort to improve them. It seems to me what progress is all about both in our personal lives and collectively is not to accept the limitations of the present but to strive to go beyond them and create something better. If we hadn't done this we would still be living in caves. How do you reconcile surrender with changing things and getting things done?

To some people surrender may have negative connotations implying defeat giving up failing to rise to the challenges of life becoming lethargic and so on. True surrender however is something entirely different. It does not mean to passively put up with whatever situation you find yourself in and to do nothing about it. Nor does it mean to cease making plans or initiating positive action.

Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. The only place where you can experience the flow of life is the Now so to surrender is to accept the present moment unconditionally and without reservation. It is to relinquish inner resistance to what is. Inner resistance is to say "no" to what is through mental judgment and emotional negativity. It becomes particularly pronounced when things "go wrong which means that there is a gap between the demands or rigid expectations of your mind and what is. That is the pain gap. If you have lived long enough you will know that things go wrong" quite often. It is precisely at those times that surrender needs to be practiced if you want to eliminate pain and sorrow from your life. Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.

Clairvoyance Bristol

Even the simpler and purely astral operation is a difficult one to describe though quite an easy one to perform. It may be said to partake somewhat of the nature of the magnetization of a bar of steel; for it consists in what we might call the polarization by an effort of the human will of a number of parallel lines of astral atoms reaching from the operator to the scene which he wishes to observe. All the atoms thus affected are held for the time with their axes rigidly parallel to one another so that they form a kind of temporary tube along which the clairvoyant may look. This method has the disadvantage that the telegraph line is liable to disarrangement or even destruction by any sufficiently strong astral current which happens to cross its path; but if the original effort of will were fairly definite this would be a contingency of only infrequent occurrence.

The view of a distant scene obtained by means of this "astral current" is in many ways not unlike that seen through a telescope. Human figures usually appear very small like those on a distance stage but in spite of their diminutive size they are as clear as though they were close by. Sometimes it is possible by this means to hear what is said as well as to see what is done; but as in the majority of cases this does not happen we must consider it rather as the manifestation of an additional power than as a necessary corollary of the faculty of sight.

It will be observed that in this case the seer does not usually leave his physical body at all; there is no sort [Page 57] of projection of his astral vehicle or of any part of himself towards that at which he is looking but he simply manufactures for himself a temporary astral telescope. Consequently he has to a certain extent the use of his physical powers even while he is examining the distant scene; for example his voice would usually still be under his control so that he could describe what he saw even while he was in the act of making his observations. The consciousness of the man is in fact distinctly still at this end of the line.

This fact however has its limitations as well as its advantages and these again largely resemble the limitations of the man using a telescope on the physical plane. The experimenter for example has no power to shift this point of view; his telescope so to speak has a particular field of view which cannot be enlarged or altered; he is looking at his scene from a certain direction and he cannot suddenly turn it all round and see how it looks from the other side. If he has sufficient psychic energy to spare he may drop altogether the telescope that he is using and manufacture an entirely new one for himself which will approach his objective somewhat differently; but this is not a course at all likely to be adopted in practice.

But it may be said the mere fact that he is using astral sight ought to enable him to see it from all sides at once. So it would if he were using that sight in the normal way upon an object which was fairly near him - within his astral reach as it were; but at a distance of hundreds or thousands of miles the case is very different. [Page 58] Astral sight gives us the advantage of an additional dimension but there is still such a thing as position in that dimension and it is naturally a potent factor in limiting the use of the powers of its plane. Our ordinary three-dimensional sight enables us to see at once every point of the interior of a two-dimensional figure such as a square but in order to do that the square must be within a reasonable distance from our eyes; the mere additional dimension will avail a man in London but little in his endeavour to examine a square in Calcutta.

Astral sight when it is cramped by being directed along what is practically a tube is limited very much as physical sight would be under similar circumstances; though if possessed in perfection it will still continue to show even at that distance the auras and therefore all the emotions and most of the thoughts of the people under observation.

There are many people for whom this type of clairvoyance is very much facilitated if they have at hand some physical object which can be used as a starting-point for their astral tube - a convenient focus for their will-power. A ball of crystal is the commonest and most effectual of such foci since it has the additional advantage of possessing within itself qualities which stimulate psychic faculty; but other objects are also employed to which we shall find it necessary to refer more particularly when we come to consider semi-intentional clairvoyance.

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