The Circle

Within a few months of becoming involved with the Spiritualist Church, my friend June and I felt it was time to delve a little deeper and progress our spiritual development.  Getting messages from the dead was all very well, but we both had this need to know more and, actually, what was life all about. 

Now, we were very naïve in those days and impatient to get started.  We found another young couple who were just as eager and, ignoring all the sound advice about having someone who knows what they are doing present, we started a Circle.

We hadn’t a clue about running a circle, although we had sat in a few open circles and read a few books.  We went along with what we thought was instinct, but I know now that we were guided.  We knew that we had to sit with love, pure thoughts and intentions and we had to protect ourselves.  The very first evening we said our opening prayer and settled down to allow the energy to build in front of us.  We saw a lot of orange light in the centre that steadily grew and I actually felt a pulling in my stomach.  That was it for the first night – we gave our thanks, closed ourselves down and came back to reality.  I think we were all a little disappointed really although I am sure if something actually happened we would have all freaked out.

We met the following week and went through the same process of opening up and the energy built instantly.  As well as the feeling in my stomach, which made me feel quite sick and I thought I might have to rush out, I felt the pulling sensation behind the eyes – yup the same one that I was taken to Moorfields Eye Hospital for!!  OMG, what was that all about?

The third week is where it all starts to get exciting.  Same process as before, the energy between us a real tangible thing when I suddenly felt something slam against my left upper arm.  As soon as I finished telling the others what I had just felt, June whispered “Oh My God” and described what she could see.  A door had opened to my left revealing a flight of stairs.  At the top of the stairs was the Gatekeeper and lots of people all waving and vying to be heard.  We had made the connection.

That circle continued to meet every week for about a year.  We had some amazing sessions and made some fantastic connections.  We had all started our journey.