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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".

The Key To The Spiritual Dimension

In life-threatening emergency situations the shift in consciousness from time to presence sometimes happens naturally. The personality that has a past and a future momentarily recedes and is replaced by an intense conscious presence very still but very alert at the same time. Whatever response is needed then arises out of that state of consciousness.

The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities such as mountain climbing car racing and so on although they may not be aware of it is that it forces them into the Now - that intensely alive state that is free of time free of problems free of thinking free of the burden of the personality. Slipping away from the present moment even for a second may mean death. Unfortunately they come to depend on a particular activity to be in that state. But you don' t need to climb the north face of the Eiger. You can enter that state now. Since ancient times spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this it seems to have remained a secret. It is certainly not taught in churches and temples. If you go to a church you may hear readings from the Gospels such as "Take no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself or Nobody who puts his hands to the plow and looks back is fit for the Kingdom of God." Or you might hear the passage about the beautiful flowers that are not anxious about tomorrow but live with ease in the timeless Now and are provided for abundantly by God. The depth and radical nature of these teachings are not recognized. No one seems to realize that they are meant to be lived and so bring about a profound inner transformation. The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly so completely present that no problem no suffering nothing that is not who you are in your essence can survive in you. In the Now in the absence of time all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now.

The great Zen master Rinzai in order to take his students' attention away from time would often raise his finger and slowly ask: "What at this moment is lacking?" A powerful question that does not require an answer on the level of the mind. It is designed to take your attention deeply into the Now. A similar question in the Zen tradition is this: "If not now when?" The Now is also central to the teaching of Sufism the mystical branch of Islam. Sufis have a saying: "The Sufi is the son of time present." And Rumi the great poet and teacher of Sufism declares: "Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with fire." Meister Eckhart the thirteenth-century spiritual teacher summed it all up beautifully: "Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time."

Accessing The Power Of The Now

A moment ago when you talked about the eternal present and the unreality of past and future I found myself looking at that tree outside the window. I had looked at it a few times before but this time it was different. The external perception had not changed much except that the colors seemed brighter and more vibrant. But there was now an added dimension to it. This is hard to explain. I don't know how but 1 was aware of something invisible that I felt was the essence of that tree its inner spirit if you like. And somehow I was part of that. I realize. now that I hadn't truly seen the tree before just a flat and dead image of it. When I look at the tree now some of that awareness is still present but I can feel it slipping away. You see the experience is already receding into the past. Can something like this ever be more than a fleeting glimpse?

Clairvoyance West London

"On September 9th 1848 at the siege of Mooltan Major-General R-------- C.B. then adjutant of his regiment was most severely and dangerously wounded; [Page 83] and supposing himself to be dying asked one of the officers with him to take the ring off his finger and send it to this wife who at the time was fully one hundred and fifty miles distant at Ferozepore.

"'On the night of September 9th 1848' writes his wife 'I was lying on my bed between sleeping and waking when I distinctly saw my husband being carried off the field seriously wounded and heard his voice saying Take this ring off my finger and send it to my wife . All the next day I could not get the sight or the voice of of my mind.

"'In due time I heard of General R---- having been severely wounded in the assault of Mooltan. He survived however and is still living. It was not for some time after the siege that I heard from General L---- the officer who helped to carry my husband off the field that the request as to the ring was actually made by him just as I heard it at Ferozepore at that very time".

Then there is the very large class of casual clairvoyant visions which have no traceable cause - which are apparently quite meaningless and have no recognizable relation to any events known to the seer. To this class belong many of the landscapes seen by some people just before they fall asleep. I quote a capital and very realistic account of an experience of this sort from W.T.Stead's Real Ghost Stories (page 65).

"I got into bed but was not able to go to sleep I shut my eyes and waited for sleep to come; instead of sleep however there came to me a succession of [Page 84] curiously vivid clairvoyant pictures. There was no light in the room and it was perfectly dark; I had my eyes shut also. But notwithstanding the darkness I suddenly was conscious of looking at a scene of singular beauty. It was as if I saw a living miniature about the size of a magic-lantern slide. At this moment I can recall the scene as if I saw it again. It was a seaside piece. The moon was shining upon the water which rippled slowly on to the beach. Right before me a long mole ran into the water.

"On either side of the mole irregular rocks stood up above the sea-level. On the shore stood several houses square and rude which resembled nothing that I had ever seen in house architecture. No one was stirring but the moon was there and the sea and the gleam of the moonlight on the rippling waters just as if I had been looking on the actual scene.

"It was so beautiful that I remember thinking that if it continued I should be so interested in looking at it that I should never go to sleep. I was wide awake and at the same time that I saw the scene I distinctly heard the dripping of the rain outside the window. Then suddenly without any apparent object or reason the scene changed.

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