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Clairvoyance Burton

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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.

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".

Make it into a meditation. It needn't take long. Ten to fifteen minutes of clock time should be sufficient. Make sure first that there are no external distractions such as telephones or people who are likely to interrupt you. Sit on a chair but don't lean back. Keep the spine erect. Doing so will help you to stay alert. Alternatively choose your own favorite position for meditation. Make sure the body is relaxed. Close your eyes. Take a few deep breaths. Feel yourself breathing into the lower abdomen as it were. Observe how it expands and contracts slightly with each in and out breath. Then become aware of the entire inner energy field of the body. Don't think about it–feel it. By doing this you reclaim consciousness from the mind. If you find it helpful use the "light" visualization I described earlier. When you can feel the inner body clearly as a single field of energy let go if possible of any visual image and focus exclusively on the feeling. If you can also drop any mental image you may still have of the physical body. All that is left then is an all-encompassing sense of presence or "beingness and the inner body is felt to be without a boundary. Then take your attention even more deeply into that feeling. Become one with it. Merge with the energy field so that there is no longer a perceived duality of the observer and the observed of you and your body. The distinction between inner and outer also dissolves now so there is no inner body anymore. By going deeply into the body you have transcended the body. Stay in this realm of pure Being for as long as feels comfortable; then become aware again of the physical body your breathing and physical senses and open your eyes. Look at your surroundings for a few minutes in a meditative way - that is without labeling them mentally -- and continue to feel the inner body as you do so. Having access to that formless realm is truly liberating. It frees you from bondage to form and identification with form. It is life in its undifferentiated state prior to its fragmentation into multiplicity. We may call it the Unmanifested the invisible Source of all things the Being within all beings. It is a realm of deep stillness and peace but also of joy and intense aliveness. Whenever you are present you become `transparent' to some extent to the light the pure consciousness that emanates from this Source. You also realize that the light is not separate from who you are but constitutes your very essence.

The Source Of Chi

Is the Unmanifested what in the East is called chi a kind of universal life energy? No it isn't. The Unmanifested is the source of chi. Chi is the inner energy field of your body. It is the bridge between the outer you and the Source. It lies halfway between the manifested the world of form and the Unmanifested. Chi can be likened to a river or an energy stream. If you take the focus of your consciousness deeply into the inner body you are tracing the course of this river back to its Source. Chi is movement; the Unmanifested is stillness. When you reach a point of absolute stillness which is nevertheless vibrant with life you have gone beyond the inner body and beyond chi to the Source itself the Unmanifested. Chi is the link between the Unmanifested and the physical universe. So if you take your attention deeply into the inner body you may reach this point this singularity where the world dissolves into the Unmanifested and the Unmanifested takes on form as the energy stream of chi which then becomes the world. This is the point of birth and death. When your consciousness is directed outward mind and world arise. When it is directed inward it realizes its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested. Then when your consciousness comes back to the manifested world you reassume the form identity that you temporarily relinquished. You have a name a past a life situation a future. But in one essential respect you are not the same person you were before: You will have glimpsed a reality within yourself that is not of this world although it isn't separate from it just as it isn't separate from you. Now let your spiritual practice be this: As you go about your life don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and to your mind. Keep some within. I have spoken about this already. Feel the inner body even when engaged in everyday activities especially when engaged in relationships or when you are relating with nature. Feel the stillness deep inside it. Keep the portal open. It is quite possible to be conscious of the Unmanifested throughout your life. You feel it as a deep sense of peace somewhere in the background a stillness that never leaves you no matter what happens out here. You become a bridge between the Unmanifested and the manifested between God and the world. This is the state of connectedness with the Source that we call enlightenment.

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.

Clairvoyance Burton

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.

In connection with this astral-current form of clairvoyance as with others we find that there are some [Page 59] psychics who are unable to use it except when under the influence of mesmerism. The peculiarity in this case is that among such psychics there are two varieties - one in which by being thus set free the man is enabled to make a telescope for himself and another in which the magnetizer himself makes the telescope and the subject is simply enabled to see through it. In this latter case obviously the subject has not enough will to form a tube for himself and the operator though possessed of the necessary will-power is not clairvoyant or he could see through his own tube without needing help.

Occasionally though rarely the tube which is formed possesses another of the attributes of a telescope - that of magnifying the objects at which it is directed until they seem of life-size. Of course the objects must always be magnified to some extent or they would be absolutely invisible but usually the extent is determined by the size of the astral tube and the whole thing is simply a tiny moving picture. In the few cases where the figures are seen as a life-size by this method it is probable that an altogether new power is beginning to dawn; but when this happens careful observation is needed in order to distinguish them from examples of our next class.

3- By the projection of a thought-form. The ability to use this method of clairvoyance implies a development somewhat more advanced than the last since it necessitates a certain amount of control upon the mental plane. All students of Theosophy are aware that [Page 60] thought takes form at any rate upon its own plane and in the vast majority of cases upon the astral plane also; but it may not be quite so generally known that if a man thinks strongly of himself as present at any given place the form assumed by that particular thought will be a likeness of the thinker himself which will appear at the place in question.

Essentially this form must be composed of the matter of the mental plane but in very many cases it would draw round itself matter of the astral plane also and so would approach much nearer to visibility. There are in fact many instances in which it has been seen by the person thought of - most probably by means of the unconscious mesmeric influence emanating from the original thinker. None of the consciousness of the thinker would however be included within this thought-form. When once sent out from him it would normally be a quite separate entity - not indeed absolutely unconnected with its maker but practically so as far as the possibility of receiving any impression through it is concerned.

This third type of clairvoyance consists then in the power to retain so much connection with and so much hold over a newly-erected thought-form as will render it possible to receive impressions by means of it. Such impressions as were made upon the form would in this case be transmitted to the thinker - not along an astral telegraph line as before but by sympathetic vibration. In a perfect case of this kind of clairvoyance it is almost as though the seer projected a part of his consciousness [Page 61] into the thought-form and used it as a kind of outpost from which observation was possible. He sees almost as well as he would if he himself stood in the place of his thought-form.

The figures at which he is looking will appear to him as of life-size and close at hand instead of tiny and at a distance as in the previous case; and he will find it possible to shift his point of view if he wishes to do so. Clairaudience is perhaps less frequently associated with this type of clairvoyance than with the last but its place is to some extent taken by a kind of mental perception of the thoughts and intentions of those who are seen.

Clairvoyance Burton

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