The spiritualist development circle.

[Papa Bear]

Being an old spiritualist I wonder if there is an interest in discussing the `development circle` at home or within a spiritualist church? To maybe share experiences, thoughts or give consideration to the energy `mechanisms` involved.

Has any members sat in a spiritualist development circle?
And as I have had such experience, I am open to any questions regarding those experiences, for the sake of sharing or learning, or creating creative discussion.

[Native spirit]

Hey papa bear,


I have been to many development circles in my time.i even helped a friend run one for a couple of years.


Namaste

[Papa Bear]

Greetings Native Spirit;

Originally Posted by Native Spirit

Hey papa bear,


I have been to many development circles in my time.i even helped a friend run one for a couple of years.


Namaste

May I ask, did you find any variations in the processes used by those circles, or where they more the same than different, and where there any variations of mediumship being developed?

I had the honour and blessing to have evolved through, and developed into running a Spiritual development circle, over many years in the same spiritualist church.

This supplied me with an abundance of evolutions, members who stayed for years, some three, others six or seven or even ten or twelve years. And having the privilege to develop with others over years was a blessing of Spiritual proportions. So to reach a point of self- Spiritual development to be able to serve in the development of them and others ever-new, created the most productive of my years of being in service to others as the essence of my own Spiritual journey.

I thought some considered shared discussion could surface some insightfulness and creative discovery. Either from reflections of our shared experiences, or in discovery anew for any member who was interested in the development of a Spiritual medium, through a development circle within spiritualism.

[Gem]

Originally Posted by Papa Bear

Being an old spiritualist I wonder if there is an interest in discussing the `development circle` at home or within a spiritualist church? To maybe share experiences, thoughts or give consideration to the energy `mechanisms` involved.

Has any members sat in a spiritualist development circle?
And as I have had such experience, I am open to any questions regarding those experiences, for the sake of sharing or learning, or creating creative discussion.

I never have. I probably never will either. What is it?

[Papa Bear]

Originally Posted by Gem

I never have. I probably never will either. What is it?

Hi Gem, within spiritualist churches there are services, often referred to as `circles`. Traditionally there is a congregational platform demonstration of clairvoyance, but there are also `healing circles` or development circles. The term `circle` I presume derived from the practicality that seating was around the room, clearing the centre of the room to allow for seating for healing, or mediumistic trance activities. This then created a circled environment, thus the term.

A development circle was rarer in my day, as most spiritualists’ churches did not have the required leadership skills or awareness to take on such a responsibility.

The development circle/service was an environment where focus could be directed towards the development of Spiritual mediumship. They could be `open` `closed` or `private` circles, open referred to `anyone` could attend, closed and private versions were more selective of the members in development, to provide the security of controlled or regulated conditions during such services.

The mechanisms of the development circle; seated around the walls of the room, white light changed to a softer red tone, music to soften the conditions in which those seated could meditate.

Those in attendance could just chill, go with the flow. Those who sought interconnectivity with Spirit could communicate that within themselves, during meditation. Fundamental to such a circle was its leader/s as they would accept responsibility for creating a safe and secure environment for such activities. And have the `awareness` and `experience` to be able to support or aid in any occurrence of Spiritual mediumship.

Obviously time, patience and a supportive environment and conditions helped allow for developmental progress to be shared as well as being individual.
I should also mention that the history of the spiritual development circle originated as `home` circles, where a few would sit together in someone’s home, often for years. I also had the pleasure of creating a spiritual development circle, at home.

Is there any other information you would be interested in Gem?

[Gem]

Originally Posted by Papa Bear

Hi Gem, within spiritualist churches there are services, often referred to as `circles`. Traditionally there is a congregational platform demonstration of clairvoyance, but there are also `healing circles` or development circles. The term `circle` I presume derived from the practicality that seating was around the room, clearing the centre of the room to allow for seating for healing, or mediumistic trance activities. This then created a circled environment, thus the term.

A development circle was rarer in my day, as most spiritualists’ churches did not have the required leadership skills or awareness to take on such a responsibility.

The development circle/service was an environment where focus could be directed towards the development of Spiritual mediumship. They could be `open` `closed` or `private` circles, open referred to `anyone` could attend, closed and private versions were more selective of the members in development, to provide the security of controlled or regulated conditions during such services.

The mechanisms of the development circle; seated around the walls of the room, white light changed to a softer red tone, music to soften the conditions in which those seated could meditate.

Those in attendance could just chill, go with the flow. Those who sought interconnectivity with Spirit could communicate that within themselves, during meditation. Fundamental to such a circle was its leader/s as they would accept responsibility for creating a safe and secure environment for such activities. And have the `awareness` and `experience` to be able to support or aid in any occurrence of Spiritual mediumship.

Obviously time, patience and a supportive environment and conditions helped allow for developmental progress to be shared as well as being individual.
I should also mention that the history of the spiritual development circle originated as `home` circles, where a few would sit together in someone’s home, often for years. I also had the pleasure of creating a spiritual development circle, at home.

Is there any other information you would be interested in Gem?

OK. Good explanation.

I did go to a place called 'the healing centre' when I was about 20... a group met at someone's home. They were right into Louise Hay there. I guess that's the extent of what I experienced in this regard.

[Papa Bear]

Originally Posted by Henri

I do recall a time I was waking on a busy street , and suddenly was approached by two Dolphins (in the ocean) who escorted me to meet another Dolphin.
The only time I ever had a vivid vision in such conditions....
I'd read a book about Dolphin communication, and they evidently felt I should meet them

Hi Henri;
Did you associate this experience with your clairvoyance?

[Papa Bear]

Originally Posted by God-Like

Yes Physical mediumship . Also been developing mental mediumship / Trance mediumship / Trance healing . Quite a mixed bag (lol) but they are all interconnected .

Hi Daz,
Have you had any success with your physical mediumship?
And have you an interesting example of the entranced link, while in a circle, you would be happy to share?
And during your trance healing, did you associate to a Spirit healer aiding you during the healing?

Whilst entertaining solitude, mediumship just awakened as other aspects of self were awakening . The mediumship / clairvoyance were tools that enabled me to make sense to that which arised which allowed me to make some sense to a degree of all that came forward that was self related .

This was also my experience and evolution into spiritualism. As I sought out a more direct methodology of reflecting the Spiritual with aspects of my self.

The healing process is a beautiful process if one understands the relationship of healing self in relation to healing others . As I got to know self / heal self there was a inner reflection / transformation / vibrational shift that went in tandem with what I expressed as healing outwardly to what became me internally .

The gap between the healer and the patient became lesser . Difficult to put into words but the space that one entertains when one heals continually changes .

I can also empathize with this process as those I healed over a period of time, evolved into the healers themselves, as they demonstrated an awareness and understanding similar to that which allowed me to heal them in the first place.

For myself I had to entertain a variey of energies so it wasn't just about attuning to the flow I was trying on one hand to put my minds attention to one's side so to speak because I started to become aware of entities that wished to take over .

This eventually became my experience within the development circle conditions, and evolved into many years of entranced mediumship.

For much of my healing work entailed a mental approach by creating my own picture of what I wanted to express at the time of the healing like if I was working on a back problem I would mentally project ways of improving the patients back whilst opening up to the healing rays . So it has been a mixture so far of being in control of my mind and letting the mind go .. No two healings are the same (lol) .

I never sought to `heal` conditions of the body, as the harmonizing aspects of energy balancing in shared flows, seem to `develop` the condition and awareness of the individual I healed.

The practical side to the process of healing others is to be open to a state of mind that is required to allow the right kind of healing to take place . This I would say happens when one gets to know self in the first instance, so the process of healing others is a direct reflection of one's own self process .

I can share sameness with this understanding, but it unfolded more in me when my `healing` became a `tool` of understanding when supporting entranced mediums during the development circle. The energies varied with the conditions produced by each example of interconnectivity, but my own experience with those variations made it a simple harmonization to complete, to aid another enwrapped in those energy transferences.

I found that through my own insightful familiarity with subtle energy flows, that I could recognize in many variations of mediumship and their conditional dependency, what may be required to bring balance if it lacked, or harmony when it was possible, while the observer of that mediumship.
And I understood this evolved from within my own mediumship, as I realized that, that mediumship existed before my arrival in spiritualism.

Originally Posted by Papa Bear

Hi Henri;
Did you associate this experience with your clairvoyance?

Thats what I'd consider it. more or less

I've also been in several, though many of the same folks were there with me
from my church when we visited other places together.

My church generally had an open circle, after the service, and visitors were typically invited-welcome, to observe and have a try at delivering a message or more. Occasionally it was closed to visitors when we had need to focus on spirit rescue or a specific thing the minister needed to teach us.

Our minister meticulously arranged-prepared-blessed the area and opened the circle.
The regulars would give everyone a message, and visitors were invited to try it, or pass if they really wanted to just watch.

On occasion we'd instead pair up for longer solo readings if spirit suggested it.

I'd also taken few classes with a local psychic-medium-healer.
We'd sit in a circle to exchange any questions and pair up for solo readings, as I recall.

She also taught healing as a separate class.