May 2012 saw the first sitting of a new mediumship development circle in Eastbourne, East Sussex.

We sit in Liz's fully blacked-out converted garage. I sit as the medium with Liz as sitter and we are sometimes joined by other guest sitters.

We treat each sitting as an experiment with no expectations from us and ask our Spirit Team to work with us in the most efficient way to produce evidential mediumship to help us understand ourselves and the bigger picture.

Each sitting is recorded, I transcribe the recording verbatim and include in the final report of the transcript any additional unrecorded experiences that Liz and myself remembered from the sitting.

I publish these reports to give people the opportunity to read or listen to the communications and hopefully increase their own understandings.

I welcome any comments or questions and my contact email is nickp7871@gmail.com

It's up to the reader to make up their own mind as to the source of the communications and phenomena reported and hopefully be inspired to set up a development circle to get their own experiences...


...Nick Pettitt


85th Sitting 24/02/2014


We had the room set-up as usual.

Liz opened at 8.30pm in prayer, turned off red light and put the music on.

Five minutes later a few voice noises started from the cabinet.
They got louder and Liz muted the music.

Liz… ‘Welcome, welcome friend…’

‘Just a minute, just a minute…’

There was a period of tuning in/stabilizing.

‘…is it, is it… is it okay, is it okay?’

Liz… ‘It is okay, I can hear you’

‘All coming, is all coming through, we all come, working on voice, la, la, la… oh yes, oh yes… compatible…’

Liz… ‘Keep trying, you’re doing well’

‘All the work is all correct, it is all correct, it is all overlapping each, each time we come, all correct, in place for us to introduce ourselves. It is all in place for us to introduce ourselves for we all need to come in our own way. We are all waiting for the opportunity to introduce ourselves…’

Liz… ‘That would be wonderful. Do I understand correctly then that you’re nearly there? So you’re going to be able to do that?’

‘All is in place, all is in place we are, we just need, we need to come through individually. All is available for us to do this… All capable, each person capable of introducing. We will, for this evening we will come individual, time, each time we will slowly individualise our self, we will come through individual…’

Liz… ‘That’s really good news. Is one of you going to introduce themselves tonight?’

‘Let us draw back for a while. We will, we will come through in a later time this evening. Please play your music’

Liz turned up the music.


Liz felt a cool breeze round her face.
She felt a lot of vibration in the room and got very hot.

There was some lip-smacking from the cabinet then a voice.

Liz muted the music.

Liz… ‘Hello?’

‘Desmond, Desmond, Desmond…’

Liz… ‘Welcome Desmond… Is that you Desmond?’

Desmond seemed to be having trouble stabilizing…

‘Say hello, hello… Welcome, Desmond, Desmond…’

Liz… ‘Desmond, Welcome Desmond, I’ve spoken to you before, yes you’re an old friend’

‘Yes, yes… Well, well… Where have I been, where have I been… I have been here all the time, all the time I am with this link, I come through and I have helped with the others, with the communication. We now, we now are beginning to individualise ourselves. You will become, you will start to recognise our personalities as they are presented to you. We will slowly introduce new members of the team, old members of the team, all the members of the team. We are already working with you, with you both in this circle. We have so far made ourselves felt by you; you feel energy that we bring forward. It will become more apparent to you as we come through on an individual way. We will be able to bring our individual energy through into the room…’

Liz… ‘That’s good, very good to hear you again Desmond. We met upstairs before when we were sitting upstairs, you came through the link before…’

‘Yes, yes, yes…’

Liz… ‘Can you talk about yourself at all?’

‘Take, take it, take a…’

Liz… ‘Are you still with me Desmond?’

(It sounded like a different communicator was now coming through)

‘You will, you will receive information, it will come through, we will, it will, it will…’

Liz… ‘How will the information come through?  Hello Desmond, are you still able to come through?’

Liz thought the communication had faded so put the music up but then muted it again when the communication continued.

‘All, all will come through, all will come through when the time is correct. Yes we all wish to tell of ourselves, not only what we have, what we remember from your side but we wish to tell you of the wonders of where we reside now. It will build each week, it will become easier each week, we are all excited that we are able to come in our individual way. That is a step, that is a first step for us at this time. Yes we will build on this and we will be able to bring our information, our memories through which we will share with you. So you will find, you will find that at times we still need to combine our energies to be able to speak in this way. It is still, it is a good step forward for us to be able to do this and we are getting so close, so close’

Liz… ‘Are you able to come through without too much being affected by the medium’s mind?’

‘There is always, there is always the obstacles of the mind to negotiate but we are getting clearer. It is still a joint process. We use part of the medium’s mind, we use some of the knowledge in the mind to build our own thoughts around. We can take a thought from the medium’s mind and we can attach our own thoughts, our own memory, on that thought, on that, the memory of the medium, we can bring our own memories to cloth that memory to present it in a different way, a way that we wish to bring forward an idea, it can, sometimes it can come through very easily, we can achieve this very easily. There are still times when we need to still the mind of the medium. It is a situation which we can deal with in our own way. But it is, each time that we do this we can overcome the obstacles in an easier way for us’

Liz… ‘It would be brilliant if you were able to bring through some information that’s in neither of our minds, something we can check and validate, that would be really evidential’

‘This is what we are working towards but in the meantime you will receive snippets of information which we have talked about before, which is building a puzzle for you, a picture is slowly forming’

Liz… ‘Yes we have so far, really exciting, yes these things are really helpful’

‘But it is a build-up each week, each week something new will be introduced’

Liz… ‘That’s wonderful because it’s important for us to keep our faith and our…’

‘You need to keep your interest. You don’t want to have the same things, the same type of communication which will not interest you. We try to engage in conversation that we feel most interests you at this time. As the weeks go by you will find yourself, you will find your interest changes somewhat as you get answers to some of your questions’

Liz… ‘That’s good, and what I’m aware of as well is, at the moment for us where we have faith and a recognition of the reality of spirit, opening up to other people outside it will take something quite dramatic in the way of evidence or quite substantial to actually have the confidence to open up to other people without fear of ridicule’

‘I understand what you say, it is still a slow process and small snippets of information will build. Do not worry at this point about spreading to others. We are after all a development circle at this stage’

Liz… ‘Thanks for reminding me, yes that’s true’

‘We work with you and you sit with a commitment each week and you will have your reward, your reward will come but you must understand we are very much at the development stages at this time’

Liz… ‘Yes it’s good that you have stabilized the link now that you’ve stabilized the contact’

The communication faded and Liz put the music up.


After a few minutes Liz reported a little ball of light floating around in front of her.
She felt a breeze.
It got sparkly in the centre of the room and Liz saw shapes there as well.
She became very cold and picked up an acrid smell.

Just as the last two tunes came on there were some lip-smacking and voice tuning-in sounds from the cabinet.
Interestingly it sounds at first like the usual closing words were starting but then another voice came through and took over with a long message before the closing words resumed at the end…

‘…yes once again, once again… Open your eyes, open your eyes to the world beyond, open your eyes to the world beyond, see us as we are, see us as the light that we are, see us as the person within each of our lights. We stand, we observe, we see how you are developing your light, your ring of light comes towards our… No more do we have to realign ourselves to your… Create a vast love within you. Heal the world with your love and let it spread around. It is seen by us, we see how you reach out into your world, into your universe and you touch the very person who you direct your light towards. You can reach whoever you imagine in your world, your universe. Allow, know that you are reaching out, you are healing those who call out to us. We have your energy which we can rebound towards those who are in need now’

Liz… ‘So you can help to direct it, can you amplify it?’

‘It is multiplied by your intention; your thoughts of love multiply. As it reaches out it can expand, it has no limit, no limit is imposed on the love, on the healing that is emanated from this place. We do not need to amplify, we just need to direct. We just need to hear from those who need your love and we will direct towards’

Liz… ‘Okay, that’s good to know’

(Communicator change)

‘So… once again we come to end of our session’

Liz… ‘Yes the music’s finished now I think’

‘…we have overrun again, we need, we will need to increase our time with you if this is okay, if this is…’

Liz… ‘We could add some tunes’

‘Yes, or we think maybe when a communication is… Is it possible to pause your music? Yes, yes we believe you can touch your switch and pause your music when we come through. This way we will be directing the time period from our side. We know that in the past it has been beneficial to have a set time each week from your tunes but we feel now we can take more control of your, of the time which we take, we can come through and we will finish when we feel that the time has been used in a correct way. We will try this next week as an experiment initially. We do not want to upset the way things are progressing but we feel that this will be a beneficial addition to the way we run the circle’

Liz… ‘Okay, we’ll try this next week then’

‘Try it next week and we will see how we get on in this way’

Liz… ‘Okay but for now I guess as we’ve come to the end of our session. Perhaps we should ask you to draw back so that the medium can come back’

‘Yes this is in place already; we know now when the time has come for us to draw back and all that remains is for us to say, take a piece of our love, take it out into the world. Take it with you and place it in your pocket and release when you feel you can be of benefit to your fellows, your fellow man, your fellow woman, those who you meet in your life, your daily life. We now slowly draw back. It may take a little longer this week. We are pleased with the way it has come forward this week. We will continue with what we have started this week, we will continue to bring individuals through but it will maybe, one at a time each week so we can slowly integrate all the team to you, okay, okay, thank you’

Liz… ‘That will be very welcome; I look forward to meeting you all as individuals, wonderful, good night friend’


Liz waited while I slowly came back.

Liz did the closing prayer, sent out healing and did our closing exercise by which time I was feeling totally back with it.

I’d felt something around my right ear again this week and also something on the back of my neck. I also felt a pressure against my chest at the end while I was coming back.

When the first communicator came through and said the team were going to introduce themselves tonight it took me by surprise and certainly got my attention!!! I found it difficult to still my mind after that and had a stream of names and images passing through it. I didn’t want to colour any information they were planning to bring through about themselves and eventually got myself into a calmer state of mind. As always my consciousness remained aware throughout but this week at times I got the feeling something was being placed over my head like a large helmet which seemed to help quieten my mind and take me a little deeper. As it happened only Desmond introduced himself at this session. Desmond has been with me since I started developing trance but we haven’t heard from him for a while. He brought with him a warm feeling like two hands were gently touching each side of my head.

Both Liz and I look forward to finding out a bit more about the various members of our team but as I’ve found out from my own experience working with other developing circles the spirit teams never seem to be in any hurry and will let things unfold when the time is right. It’s only us that become impatient and want to hurry things along. I guess the team have a different view of time and sometimes see more benefit to us in the development process of a circle rather than us getting quick answers.  

It will be interesting to see how the session goes next week with Liz pausing the music as each communicator comes through. This means our spirit team will now be in control of when the sitting ends… let’s hope they let us go home before midnight!!!
This is actually how we operated with the Mercury Circle and we found it worked well with the sittings usually lasting one and a half hours but sometimes stretching to two hours...