Lecture - Sunday 3rd November 2024
Presented by Ann Mason
Good afternoon
Life is like a Highway: so many different routes and ways to get to your destination! On your journey you may find the lights suddenly go red and it means stop and that may be a challenge in your life to look and deal with. But at other times it may be amber; so maybe there are opportunities. Are we willing to step into those opportunities or do we allow fear in and say we can’t do it?
That word ‘can’t’ should not be in our vocabulary. Then you get the green light which means everything is go, and everything is going along well in our journey. Each of you have your own story within your life.
If you think of yourself like a book, then within the book there are so many stories about your life. If you look at a book the cover look can be pretty or nice. But you can open up the book and find the story is completely different and that’s how people can be. We perceive people, but we have no idea how their life has been. It is interesting having dreams and learning to work with spirit when you get these roadblocks. Let me give you a snapshot of my life. You may be surprised how things happen.
When I was an 11-year-old I lived in the U.K. then, do you know I had a dream to come to Australia? Now what 11-year-old wants to come to Australia? That dream stayed with me. In my late teens I applied to Australia House (this was going back to the early 1970’s); I went up to London and applied and guess what I was rejected. I was surprised! Do I give up and stay in the UK and let that dream go? But I said I needed to do something at that time.
Australia didn’t have a visa system, and it was brought in after July 1974. This was December 1973, and I had to think how could I do it. But you know I did it and I came to Australia with only $100 to my name and I was lucky I had an Uncle here in Melbourne and I stayed with him for a couple of months. But I do think I have become a good Australian citizen in the end.
I did all the usual things got married and had 3 children and I was with my husband for 28 years. Then suddenly it was like my soul was saying: “I wasn’t right where I was”. We had changed completely from when we met and, in the end, I decided that I would end the marriage. He was a lovely man, but it wasn’t right for me. That took big courage to step out and start again.
He had a really good job, and I didn’t have to really work if I didn’t want to, and I was able to do my spiritual stuff and run my spiritual classes. But guess what, I had to go back to full-time work, and I had to build up a business and I did my spiritual stuff, and I had an accounting background, so I did a bookkeeping business.
It shows how the Spirit world works with you all the time if you learn to listen. So many synchronicities happened. One thing that happened: we decided to sell the family home and 3 weeks before settlement, I still didn’t have anywhere to live, and you can imagine having all the furniture etc. and thinking what was I going to do.
I trusted Spirit so what I did I was in a shamanic workshop journeying to the spirit world and asked for help. An eagle came in and the eagle flew over Melbourne showing me the Ivanhoe area and said there is a house there! Anyone listening to this would think I was crazy. But I trusted the spirit world, so I looked in that area for a rented property and guess what: it wasn’t in Ivanhoe, but it was Eaglemont. It was the eagle and the street the house was in was called ‘The Eyrie’ which is the nest of the eagle! How can you have that! The Spirit world were definitely giving me everything.
Then I ended up meeting someone and marrying and then we moved to the UK to live in November 2008 during the financial crisis. We should have stayed in Australia where things were a bit better. But no, we still went, especially as my parents lived in the UK. My husband Rick was 54 and a bit younger than me, and do you know on the 1st of August 2010, he went to the gym and they rang me to say he had had a heart attack. I went to the hospital, and he had already passed away. I felt it on the way, and I prayed to everything. It was 1.00 o’clock I had that feeling and that was the time he passed. I spent two years trying to get myself back together because divorce and losing somebody are two often different energies: they are endings, and both are difficult.
I needed to come to the light, but all the time I was going through my grief I used to write to my husband in my diaries. I would say “Dear Rick – things aren’t going well; you should be helping me!” Then other times I would tell good things. I also spoke and wrote to the spirit world all the time. Then I got back into doing spiritual stuff in my mediumship and seven years passed. I kept saying to the spiritual world “When am I going to have a relationship.” You know we ask this question but there was part of me holding back because I felt guilty that I was going to have another relationship after Rick had passed.
The Spirit world said in “6 days you will meet someone”; I was surprised as the Spirit world never gives me just a few days! They say “sometime.” So low and behold I met Adrian in 6 days. We had met online. He was 2 ½ hours away in Bristol and I was down on the South Coast. We lived miles apart, but I call this synchronicity.
However, I still felt guilty honouring Rick because I loved him and now, I loved someone else as well, so how does that work? I was again in another shamanic workshop, and we were journeying, and Rick came in and he said, “You haven’t scattered those ashes. They are still in the wardrobe. That’s a fine place to put them!” He said, “You remember we went to Dartmoor in the UK, and there was a stone circle there. I loved it there.” And he asked that I scatter the ashes there and to take Adrian and in a way that was giving the approval that Adrian was okay.
Adrian and I did marry and eventually got out to Australia three years ago. We were in Howard Springs in Darwin in quarantine as we had to get in by a certain time because of Adrian’s permanent visa. What I am trying to show you, is that through life we have to live. I know we all have things happen to us, but the whole point to soul growth is to live and relive even if you do hurt at times. Your loved ones and the spirit world want you to be happy because life is eternal, and we will meet them again.
Presented by - Adrian Noyse
Spiritual Awakening
Good afternoon, everybody!
It’s both a privilege and a pleasure to be able to say a few words to you this afternoon.
You know, if someone had said to me ten years ago that I would be standing here and talking to you like this and later demonstrating before you, I would have thought they were mad! Churches? I didn’t do them, didn’t particularly like the teachings! “Spiritualist”. I wouldn’t have understood what they meant even. “Spirit” to me meant what came out of a bottle! “Demonstrating” I understood as a form of protest by a group of people against something about which they felt anger, disappointment and so on and they wished to make their views known publicly.
Back then, I was in the UK, running my Accountancy practice: to say the least a very grounded, material type of activity that had absolutely nothing beyond what you could see or hear. It was all about money on this earth and in this time, nothing else.
To say that my life was satisfying would be miles from the truth, however! Accountancy, dealing with the same clients, the same people with the same problems, the same issues for the over 30 years had becoming incredibly boring. Quite frankly, there were better things in life!
On top of that, there were challenges in my personal life: an alcoholic wife had ended our marriage. I was at a dead-end. Something just had to change!
So, I had the impetus to plan a new life. My intent was to just to walk away from it all and that is what I did!
And, in the space of a couple of months, I’d got a new partner, a new home, and was planning the closure of my practice.
The move to Australia followed, as we planned it.
I t was all a big gamble, of course. But it shows what you can do, if you set the intent clearly and firmly.
My “Spiritual Awakening” came after I met Ann and went with her when she attended a weekend course, the last of a series of courses in mediumship development, in Ashford in the UK. There were 2 demonstrations of mediumship on the last day, the second to the public. I’d never seen anything like this before!
It was extraordinary: a person standing in front of 40-50 people saying they “had someone with them” (where? I couldn’t see anyone!); getting information from this “person” and asking if anybody could understand it as evidence of someone “in Spirit” whom someone in the audience had known. Evidence from where? Somewhere, presumably. Hands went up indicating the information was understood, more information followed about the one in “Spirit” and a message from this “person” was given.
This was amazing and I was impressed! My background before Accountancy in ancient Greek and Latin literature had taught me that, at least before the Christian era, there were discarnate beings who could make contact with mankind and vice versa and who could influence events on earth. That was long ago, but now? Perhaps the ancients were right after all!
I wanted to learn more, and Ann and I went on a Shamanic course over a long weekend. There during a group session I physically felt the presence of “someone” walking behind me; no-one there when I looked round and then a few seconds later the same sensation again, but again I could see no-one there and a few seconds later still I now felt a push in the back on my right shoulder and when I looked round, I saw a pinkish-orange mist where the push had come from.
This was proof that someone or something existed usually beyond our normal senses that could have an effect in this world.
I was now convinced that the Spirit world existed and wanted to know more.
My next encounter with Spirit was at the Arthur Findlay College on a mediumship development course. Ann was in another class. There was a students’ night held in the Sanctuary where students could do public speaking or demonstrate mediumship. I decided to have a go at mediumship. As I was sitting at the front waiting for the previous student to finish, I was aware that someone was pressing my shoulders around my collar. I looked round and to my utter surprise there was no-one there! I then heard in my head a lady say, “Get up next. I want to speak to my daughter!”. Images and a voice came through mentally which I knew was evidence of a person’s existence in Spirit. I got up and gave what I got and made contact with a young lady in the audience right at the very back of the hall: at least 30 metres away! She could take what I had been given as evidence of her mother in Spirit.
This was amazing for me! I now knew I could do this: getting good evidence – it was so clear! It was heartening to know that the Spirit world was literally only a thought away; that they are always with us. The firm almost “physical” energy (the push I had had and the pressure on my shoulder) they can use in contacting us shows they want to encourage us to work with them.
But of course, we are basically spirit beings who have chosen to incarnate, so it perhaps not surprising we can be in contact with Spirit: that’s what we really are!
Because, too, this material world is a creation of the Divine consciousness and we are also Divine it is by our thoughts that we create our own reality. With our thoughts we choose from the infinite number of possibilities those outcomes that we might like. These become probabilities. But because we are also incarnate, we have to act on these to make them materialise; we have to do something, take some steps towards what we want.
Sometimes, there will be a lot of steps to take making for a considerable time-delay between the mind’s intent and turning it into matter. But all we need is faith that it will happen, and we will get there.
To a large extent in the last few years that has been my story. I hope that you found it interesting, encouraging and useful to you.
Thank you Adrian
