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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".

Don't get attached to any one word. You can substitute "Christ" for presence if that is more meaningful to you. Christ is your God essence or the Self as it is sometimes called in the East. The only difference between Christ and presence is that Christ refers to your indwelling divinity regardless of whether you are conscious of it or not whereas presence means your awakened divinity or God-essence. Many misunderstandings and false beliefs about Christ will clear if you realize that there is no past or future in Christ. To say that Christ was or will be is a contradiction in terms. Jesus was. He was a man who lived two thousand years ago and realized divine presence his true nature. And so he said: "Before Abraham was I am." He did not say: "I already existed before Abraham was born." That would have meant that he was still within. the dimension of time and form identity. The words Iam used in a sentence that starts in the past tense indicate a radical shift a discontinuity in the temporal dimension. It is a Zen-like statement of great profundity. Jesus attempted to convey directly not through discursive thought the meaning of presence of self realization. He had gone beyond the consciousness dimension governed by time into the realm of the timeless. The dimension of eternity had come into this world. Eternity of course does not mean endless time but no time. Thus the man Jesus became Christ a vehicle for pure consciousness. And what is God's self-definition in the Bible? Did God say "I have always been and I always will be?" Of course not.

That would have given reality to past and future. God said: "I AM THAT I AM." No time here just presence. The "second coming" of Christ is a transformation of human consciousness a shift from time to presence from thinking to pure consciousness not the arrival of some man or woman. If "Christ" were to return tomorrow in some externalized form what could he or she possibly say to you other than this: "I am the Truth. I am divine presence. I am eternal life. I am within you. I am here. I am Now." Never personalize Christ. Don't make Christ into a form identity. Avatars divine mothers enlightened masters the very few that are real are not special as persons. Without a false self to uphold defend and feed they are more simple more ordinary than the ordinary man or woman. Anyone with a strong ego would regard them as insignificant or more likely not see them at all. If you are drawn to an enlightened teacher it is because there is already enough presence in you to recognize presence in another. There were many people who did not recognize Jesus or the Buddha as there are and always have been many people who are drawn to false teachers. Egos are drawn to bigger egos. Darkness cannot recognize light. Only light can recognize light. So don't believe that the light is outside you or that it can only come through one particular form. If only your master is an incarnation of God then who are you? Any kind of exclusivity is identification with form and identification with form means ego no matter how well disguised. Use the master's presence to reflect your own identity beyond name and form back to you and to become more intensely present yourself. You will soon realize that there is no "mine" or "yours" in presence. Presence is one. Group work can also be helpful for intensifying the light of your presence. A group of people coming together in a state of presence generates a collective energy field of great intensity. It not only raises the degree of presence of each member of the group but also helps to free the collective human consciousness from its current state ofmind dominance. This will make the state of presence increasingly more accessible to individuals. However unless at least one member of the group is already firmly established in it and thus can hold the energy frequency of that state the egoic mind can easily reassert itself and sabotage the group's endeavors. Although group work is invaluable it is not enough and you must not come to depend on it. Nor must you come to depend on a teacher or a master except during the transitional period when you are learning the meaning and practice of presence.

6. THE INNER BODY

Being Is Your Deepest Self

You spoke earlier about the importance of having deep roots within or inhabiting the body. Can you explain what you meant by that?

The body can become a point of access into the realm of Being. Let's go into that more deeply now. I am still not quite sure if I fully understand what you mean by Being. "Water? What do you mean by that? I don't understand it." This is what a fish would say if it had a human mind. Please stop trying to understand Being. You have already had significant glimpses of Being but the mind will always try to squeeze it into a little box and then put a label on it. It cannot be done. It cannot become an object of knowledge. In Being subject and object merge into one. Being can be felt as the ever-present I am that is beyond name and form. To feel and thus to know that you are and to abide in that deeply rooted state is enlightenment is the truth that Jesus says will make you free.

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But although there are several cases on record in which some well-remembered scene has thus come through from one life to another a considerable development of occult faculty is necessary before an investigator can definitely trace a line of incarnations whether they be his own or another man's. This will be obvious if we [Page 112] remember the conditions of the problem which has to be worked out. To follow a person from this life to the one preceding it it is necessary first of all to trace his present life backwards to his birth and then to follow up in reverse order the stages by which the Ego descended into incarnation.

This will obviously take us back eventually to the condition of the Ego upon its own plane - the arûpa level of devachan [the highest levels of the mental plane] the highest levels of the mental plane; so it will be seen that to perform this task effectually the investigator must be able to use the sense corresponding to that exalted level while awake in his physical body - in other words his consciousness must be centred in the reincarnating Ego itself and no longer in the lower personality. In that case the memory of the Ego being aroused his own past incarnations will be spread out before him like an open book and he would be able if he wished to examine the conditions of another ego upon that level and trace him backwards through the devachanic [lower mental] and astral lives which led up to it until he came to the last physical death of that Ego and through it to his previous life.

There is no way but this in which the chain of lives can be followed through with absolute certainty; and consequently we may at once put aside as conscious or unconscious impostors those people who advertise that they are able to trace out anyone's past incarnations for so many shillings a head. Needless to say the true occultist does not advertise and never under any circumstances accepts money for any exhibition of his powers. [Page 113]

Assuredly the student who wishes to acquire the power of following up a line of incarnations can do so only by learning from a qualified teacher how the work is to be done. There have been those who persistently asserted that it was only necessary for a man to feel good and devotional and "brotherly" and all the wisdom of the ages would immediately flow in upon him; but a little common-sense will at once expose the absurdity of such a position. However good a child may be if he wants to know the multiplication table he must set to work and learn it; and the case is precisely similar with the capacity to use spiritual faculties. The faculties themselves will not doubt manifest as the man evolves but he can learn how use them reliably and to the best advantage only by steady hard work and persevering effort.

Take the case of those who wish to help others while on the astral plane during sleep; it is obvious that the more knowledge they possess here the more valuable will their services be on that higher plane. For example the knowledge of languages would be useful to them for though on the mental plane men can communicate directly by thought-transference whatever their languages may be on the astral plane this is not so and a thought must be definitely formulated in words before it is comprehensible. If therefore you wish to help a man on that plane you must have some language in common by means of which you can communicate with him and consequently the more languages you know the more widely useful you will be. In fact [Page 114] there is perhaps no kind of knowledge for which a use cannot be found in the work of the occultist.

It would be well for all students to bear in mind that occultism is the apotheosis of commonsense and that every vision which comes to them is not necessarily a picture from the âkâshic records nor every experience a revelation from on high. It is better far to err on the side of healthy skepticism than of over-credulity; and it is an admirable rule never to hunt about for an occult explanation of anything when a plain and obvious physical one is available. Our duty is to endeavour to keep our balance always and never to lose our self-control but to take a reasonable commonsense view of whatever may happen to us; so shall we be better Theosophists wiser occultists and more useful helpers than we have ever been before.

As usual we find examples of all degrees of the power to see into this memory of nature from the trained man who can consult the record for himself at will down to the person who gets nothing but occasional vague glimpses or has even perhaps had only one such glimpse. But even the man who possesses this faculty only partially and occasionally still finds it of the deepest interest. The psychometer who needs an object physically connected with the past in order to bring it all into life again around him and the crystal-gazer who can sometimes direct his less certain astral telescope to some historic scene of long ago may both derive the greatest enjoyment from the exercise of their respective gifts even thought they may not always [Page 115] understand exactly how their results are produced and may not have them fully under control under all circumstances.

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