My title should remind you of my feelings on the difference between spirits coming close, and the images of a traumatic event trapped in time. Those of you who read this blog regularly will know how I feel very strongly that these are indeed two different events. The ghost replaying the same trauma over and again, draws the attention of the public, who seem to become aware of it at the same time of day or night on each occasion.
The spirits however, draw close to prove that there really is a continuation of the human consciousness and therefore, life after death. The spirit will not only bring comfort but will bring advice and give a brief history of their earthly existence. Some more than others of course.
Yesterday we experienced more of the latter, spirits rather than ghostly hauntings.
I am not dismayed or unhappy, as it is what I personally expected. Others of our group were hoping to see ghosts and therefore they are probably a little miffed. For me, being a spiritualist, I enjoyed the contact of spirit and would have enjoyed holding a spiritualist type seance there, as I am sure we would have received greater proof of their existence, if we had.
Overall, it was a very interesting experience, during which we used table tilting and dowsing rods along with tape recorders, cameras and camcorders. We often all picked up similar things along the way around the modern part of the building. But for me, the best part was when we toured the very historical part of the building.
Apart from my spiritual and mediumistic interests, the history of the place really got to me, and I urge you to take a tour of the place yourselves. Especially as the whole historic place may soon disappear, thanks to those concrete monsters which local buiders put in their stead.
Please, don’t let this happen. If enough people take an interest, the city council may decide to have a visitor centre and make the most of our heritage. Meanwhile, a more in depth write up will be posted here tomorrow along with links to websites that have more information about this and other local sites.