Chapter Seven - The Circle

If you feel that you may benefit from sitting with a group of people rather than being by yourself in development, then look for a place that teaches meditation, or find a circle that is operating in the area where you live.

Circles provide a wonderful way to learn and experience the many facets of energy development. You may also meet some great people!

If there are no circles around you, maybe you can coax a few friends into coming and sitting with you, it’s really a no brainer when setting up a group. Circle consists of a group of people who sit and wait for the guides to build the energy to a point that some type of manifestation may occur. Those types of circle are for committed people  and may take months if not years to develop.

Development circles for mental mediumship take on a different format, they can be started quickly and up and running in no time. The usage of guidance cards and tarot cards can be used for psychic reads, and each person within the group gives readings, this allows each of you to build your focus and develop the psychic portion of self.

If a group of people are sitting for “physical manifestation” then the circle structure may look like this:

·  Circle leader

·  Medium (who isn’t the circle leader)

·  Sitters (members of the circle)

Sitters can be developing their own abilities as they go along and a medium can also be the circle leader, but this is not a wise path to follow, as I will explain later in the chapter.

Here are some of the different states that a medium may find themselves in as they start to work with guides and energies.

Over shadowing:

The medium becomes over shadowed by spirit and in some form any type of spirit reading is partially overshadowing. This is the process where spirit link into the energy of the medium and using mental mediumship they communicate via the medium.

Over shadowing can be from light to very heavy, to the extent that you will feel spirit or guides strongly, even to the point of feeling them breathing as you are allowing then to speak. As you can imagine to get to those levels requires a strong level of trust in yourself and in guides and spirit.

Independent Direct Voice:

In this process spirit create a voice box out of ectoplasm, placed somewhere near the medium and spirit then speak through the voice box, the medium is in deep trance while it happens, (Leslie Flint was completely conscious when spirit were speaking.)

 Another form of Independent Direct Voice is used with Photoplasm, “energy voices” from spirit are able to manifest into the room of the séance and speak. It’s been said that no one needs to be in an altered state for this process to take place, but it helps. The energy is created and taken from the sitters  and basically brought together into the center of the circle and mixed together. This energy is not given back to the sitters as ectoplasm is given to the medium it’s taken from, but any residual energy left after the séance can be sent as healing energies if needed.

Direct Voice:

This form of mediumship is practiced widely around the world. When a spirit is able to enter the etheric body of the medium, the voice box is coated with various form of energies, including ectoplasm. Spirit then manipulate the vocal chords of the medium and this then become the spirits voice box in the physical vibration.

Channeling:

This can be the same as overshadowing or trance, but when spirit and guides come through they use the mediums voice to communicate with the sitter.

Circles:

There are many diverse types of circles and what you expect to happen in one circle may not, it depends on the intent of the sitters, and what they are prepared to give in service. Some people use Ouija boards to communicate with spirit as they may or may not have developed the vibrational process of communicating as yet.

So can a Medium be a Circle leader? Of course, but let me give you a scenario. The medium is in trance and is channeling guide or spirit, after a while they don’t come out of the trance, but spirit has left, at some point in time the circle leader will be required to “do something” (possibly cough loudly) to bring the medium back to consciousness. It’s always best to have a trained first aider in a circle. Another benefit of having a circle leader is that the pressure is taken of the medium to perform every task.

So how does a typical development circle run?

There is the opening prayer and grounding

·         This is dependent on your belief system and understanding of who your guide is.

Meditation (if needed).

Development Games (optional).

·         Psychometry.

·         Tarot.

·         Remote viewing.

·         Colour reading – read a person’s colours.

Give a symbol (Telepathy) – you see a symbol in your mind.

Give inspired words – possibly words from a guide.

Closing Prayer.

Before any circle starts, it’s up to the sitters to balance their own energies. If the circle is to be held after work, then the stresses of daily life may have caused your energy to become unbalanced, we normally have a 15 minute chat before we begin to allow people to unwind before we start.

Generally, any energy that we use in a circle is either the same or greater given by spirit. It’s my feeling that there is much background work done by spirit before a circle actually starts.

One thing we have to understand, that going in to a circle we become a battery. Spirit utilizes all of the energies of the people in the circle. If you come to the circle and you feel your energy is down it’s critical that you raise your energy during a meditation session at the beginning of the circle, so that spirit are able to fully utilise the energy of each circle member.

It’s also possible that when people sit in the circle if they have a Ouija board and are with a competent medium, they can link to spirit but be aware that the subconscious can interfere in the movement of the plenum and this will then cause you to get results which are erroneous.

If a person who desires mediumship is to develop, the circle leader should be someone else, the medium is needed to focus on spirit and be taught by spirit. When a medium is the circle leader the management of the circle becomes the main focus and spirit second. It seems that keeping things running smoothly takes precedence over spiritual matters.

This also allows people who are sitting back in the circle to step forward out of their comfort zones and to grow into spirit. This may be an uncomfortable process, but I doubt the medium ever had the process run smoothly. Every time there has been frustration in spiritual development it has been when people compare themselves to others. As words are spoken pictures form in another’s mind and they then compare their walk with another’s, it can be very frustrating.

One interesting process that a circle can undertake is sitting for altered states or trance. This is achieved by sitting in circle, and just allowing guides and spirit to develop the energy. You can sit total darkness or a red light may be used.

Trance is allowing spirit or guides to move you to various states of consciousness, from slight to deep trance.

Some circles develop quickly in complete darkness; if ectoplasm is being used to create a manifestation then it will need to be a fairly dark room.

 If Photoplasm or combined energies are used in the circle (this is dependent on what the guides can manifest and the energy of the sitters) then a dim red light can be used.

Some circles sit in full light. In the end it comes down to the sitters, the guides and what energy can be produced.

I have decided to place the circle transcripts in here so you can get a feel of what actually took place in a few of the circles.

Circle 1 – The guide is speaking via the medium that is in a trance state.

Guide: Turn the lights on please.

Guide: Each time the circle sits the members change too so we have to change the energy to accommodate the circle members.

Sitter:  What do you mean the members change?

Guide: It’s always interesting to note the physical manifestation of each of the sitters when energy is being gathered for the process, especially now as it’s used in gathering energy for the circle.

Guide: As guides are working as a team and guides are standing behind you, energy is needed to balance, like a vibrating ring above the top of the circle.

Different guides at different times, require different types of energies. In the circle there are different guides speaking and there are different energies and sensations.

Realise you are in contact with spirit being in circle, the energy is strong, you have access to higher self who is who you are when you pass. It’s not uncommon to get this information filtering into the conscious mind, ask yourself what this means.

Each person is different, you can’t have one answer that fits every one. A lot of things that come to you in relation to your growth is via intuition, this is a hard thing to teach a person, it’s their path.

At some point in time you have to understand that in integration of spiritual and physical there are different signs that  are associated with higher self. What you seek is not to raise the physical, but to move closer to spiritual self and become that energy.

There is nothing in the physical that can be raised beyond the physical range. Many questions are not something that can be explained with words. In meditation you have felt close to higher self, when you awake you walk in that energy and then it fades, you wonder how to get back to it. This is because you have moved closer to higher self, the physical body is an illusion and will perish.

Each one of you has, an individual pathway, one of comparison is never a good thing.

The barriers that you carry as a group are in your mind. Thoughts become energy, energy then becomes action, they create disturbances in the field, you must come and be prepared, and be open and give.

This state will depend on a person’s ability to allow, so in themselves, people cause their own blockages and guides cannot come through.

We want you to be safe in the knowledge that nothing can harm you, that guides are in control, but there is also work that you must all do within the circle and take responsibility for the energy you hold.

We cannot step in and change your energy for, you this is your own life you are your own creator. we can only advise on the process for you to follow.

There is healing energy in this group.

You must avail yourself of this, it’s not just a physical being that requires healing, on an energetic level, the energy in which you filter in and out all information to other and self can be rejuvenated.

In circle use this time whilst here to open yourselves up in the knowledge that you are being healed.

One thing before we go, the next time you wish to help someone make a conscious note to turn your mind towards the  energies that surround you and ask what advice you can give to another in  that situation. If you block your own intuition, no one can help except yourself.

We are going now.

Comments:

The energy in the circle is likened to a ”soup in a pot” and depending on the granularity, consistency and the type of soup will determine the connectivity between each other, guides and the circles energy. This is why people should settle and ground before they move to sit in circle.

Prior to going to circle, set the intent for contact, start to recognize that you are going to commune with higher energies; this sets the background for contact.

Ask yourself what you are going to input into the process. Some sitters reported feeling a pulling in their solar plexus whilst in circle. This was an indication of energies being drawn from them and being held in use for manifestation.

Unless people use their intuition in circle this becomes a barrier for guides to move past.

What we initially decide we are going to do in circle changes over time. We may have music playing for a few months to settle the sitters and to bring in guides, but after a year or so, it may be that the music isn’t required; this will depend on the medium and the sitters.

Energy is always in flux, everything changes and is transmuted to another form.

Sitting in circles can change who you are, change the energies around you, you may become highly sensitive to people around you and the energies people carry may somehow affect the way you feel.

You become like a cosmic sweeper and seem to be affected by everything around you, it seems the more you sit the harder it becomes.

It’s all about balance, always finding the balance.

Being responsible for your energy, these actions that take place, these change the creative processes you hold. You then have the possibility of moving faster through the creative process and as you think. so it is!

The underlying responsibility you have is to your vibrational state, the current ability you hold. This creativity you hold is a one on one basis to the level of energy you hold. You can’t expect to say I am aware, my intuition is building, I’m walking at a better level, my psychic ability is growing, and not realize the ramifications of the statements you make.

 By the defacto relationship you hold by being in relationship with others in circle and guides, you have this critical responsibility.

A lot of circles collapse when the energies get to a point where there are fine values. People have high expectations, there is manifestation in the circle and they are suffering in their relationships with others. We throw up our defense systems but we should know better, we can always deal with situations differently.

We all want to see, we all want experience, but with experience comes responsibility.

What are we giving to the universe, what are we creating. We have great intentions, but the physical reality often defines what we do, it will not step back for the spiritual being you are becoming. This is where perspective becomes a critical issue, see the information that’s coming to you via a different point of view. Imagine a football field, the problem is in the middle, move to the other end of the ground and you see it from a different perspective.

Take the time to sit back, relax, and breathe.

End of circle:

Let it be said here, you need to practice, have patience with yourself, be gentle and kind.

Learning about the spirit realm is not an easy task, even if you are spiritually, naturally inclined and feel it is all very easy there will still be many times when you feel stretched, or that you may have lost your way a  little.

Find the time to sit and breathe, relax into it, and never rush.