The Gayatri is an ancient greeting to the rising sun; the sun which gives us life and provides the sustaining power throughout our long journey from mass to individual to group consciousness as we spiral around the Circle of Life:

O Thou Who givest sustenance to the universe,
From Whom all things proceed,
To Whom all things return,
Unveil to us the face of the true Spiritual Sun
Hidden by a disc of golden Light
That we may know the truth
And do our whole duty
As we journey to Thy sacred feet.

Let us join together to call forth fiery solar blessings upon our group which is humanity. Together, let our light touch everything in the Circle of Life so that it becomes a Circle of Liberation that releases the kingdom within us, and all creation.

If development work is carried out without this understanding of the importance of the soul connection many problems can follow. We have often come across stories of development groups that have been sitting for years without much real progress on the part of those sitting in them. Frequently they are led by a strong-minded personal who lacks the esoteric training to understand that the soul connection is crucial to the progress of group members including themselves; or who is firmly embedded in old style techniques and training and is unable to let them go.

In the 21st Century we are working within very different energies to those of the 19th and 20th Centuries and we have to leave behind many of the techniques and approaches of those times. They were extremely useful in their time and place but things have definitely moved on and it is time to embrace the new. This does not mean that we should just reject everything that has been taught before, not at all, this would be crazy. But it does mean that we need to revisit and review how we go about our spiritual development work and consider carefully whether the techniques being taught really fit with the present energies.

We have chosen a particular ability in response to a question recently asked by one of our students, which was ‘How do you set about developing the ability to scry using a crystal ball?’
This lady had been trying to do this without any success and remarked that all the books seemed to suggest was that by spending fifteen minutes a day gazing into the crystal ball the ability to scry would just develop. It is our observation that success in most things comes from honest and concentrated effort. However, it can be helpful to have some sort of programme of work to adhere to as you begin this psychic development work.
Remember that some people are just naturally clairvoyant and for them crystal gazing is easy. It may be that you are lucky enough to possess the power of clairvoyancy without yet being aware of it and by following these exercises this will be activated enabling you to find your mission in this lifetime. But there is another possibility – you may not be naturally clairvoyant and however long you gaze into the crystal nothing happens. However, if this is the case, you are not wasting your time because following a programme of work of this nature develops your ability to control the mind and focus your thoughts at will, rather than being distracted by every passing thought or change of mood.
The term clairvoyance originally came from the French meaning ‘clear seeing.’ It is also sometimes referred to as second sight. This form of sight though is little to do with your physical eyes, it is developed through the spiritual eyes. One form of clairvoyance is crystal gazing or scrying. Pictures are seen in the crystal ball, they come and go rather like dream images, that is to say the gazer cannot choose what to see although the scryer can sometimes focus on a particular subject. Ideally you can use a clear quartz crystal, although you can get good results using a clear glass ball as well. You will probably find that a ball of about 3 to 5 inches will be easiest to use as there is a wider range of vision and therefore your eyes will not tire so easily.
It is essential that the ball is absolutely spotless before use. So begin by cleansing your crystal. Traditionally these balls were only exposed to moonlight and not to sunlight as it was thought that there was a magnetic link between the crystal and the Spiritual Realms which was facilitated by the moon’s influence. For this reason the crystal was only used when the moon was waxing and not when waning and it was kept wrapped, usually in velvet and only taken out when it was to be used.
After cleansing, dedicate your crystal to scrying and use it only for that purpose. If you have taken Reiki 2 with us, use the programming technique given in that class. If not, then you will need to tune into the crystal and ask the intelligence which dwells within it to work with you develop the ability to scry through gazing.
You should be the only person to handle this crystal apart from those you read for. Should you want to read for another person then ask them to hold the crystal before you begin. After the reading, cleanse the crystal again.
Now begin to gaze, have the crystal about 20 inches away and find a comfortable position so that there is no strain as you let your gaze just rest on the crystal. It is said that the best times for this work are at sunrise, in the middle of the day or at sunset and whilst the moon is increasing. Do not gaze just after a heavy meal or you may find you just go to sleep. Obviously do not take alcohol or drugs before gazing. Your mental posture is very important during the gazing, you must cultivate three qualities: calmness, patience and persistence. To develop clairvoyance you will need to pay attention to your lifestyle – taking sufficient exercise in the fresh air, eating healthily, sleeping regularly. If you are ill do not attempt to gaze. Choose an airy room where you will not be disturbed, preferably with a restful decor with subdued lighting. It is best to be alone, sitting facing to the North. Start with about 10 minutes per session for the first ten days and realise that developing this power may take some time.

 Lita de Alberdi 2003.

I feel compelled to write to you today to thank you for the most wondrous weekend – feel free to use this as a testimonial too.

Every so often in life, you get blessed with a software upgrade and I really feel Tom v3.0 got installed this weekend. Eternal thanks for being catalysts in that process.

I’ve done quite a bit of development work but I have never experienced it with this level of professionalism combined with such a warm welcome in such wonderful surroundings. You have created such an amazingly blessed space.

One of the biggest surprises I got this weekend though was how connecting with your guide was so therapeutic. The transformations all around were astounding – as well as being instant and lasting. What a lovely group of souls you attracted.

Keep shining and spreading the Unlimited Light and looking forward to the next upgrade.

luv, luk and lux

Tom xx
The Bookwright

The retreat centre is in Northern France, very secluded and beautiful. Ideal for walking and relaxing. Pilates classes will run twice each day led by Lita de Alberdi.

Here are my top five tips for becoming a clear channel for the highest possible spirit guide.

1. Relax! Connecting with your guide is not as difficult as you think. If you are tense and trying too hard it is difficult to get into the right frame of mind for connecting with your guide. Let go of fear, tension, worry and anxiety about channelling your guide. Channelling is a natural and easy.

2. You are probably already channelling. This may sound surprising, but most people I work with are already connecting with their guide. Think about times when you found the words just coming out your mouth without even thinking about it. Words that were exactly what the other person needed to hear at that moment. When you are with someone who needs help or guidance your guide is usually with you. Guides are loving and wise and they want to help others, so they find a way to put the ideas into your mind and the words into your mouth.

3. Learn to meditate. If you do not already meditate, then now is the ideal time to begin. When you are in a light meditative state it is easiest to connect with and channel your guide. We do not teach deep trance states as a way of connecting, instead we focus on being calm, open and receptive. A light meditative state is the way into these ways of being.

4. Many of our students are concerned that they might connect with an entity that is not focused on their highest good or the highest good of those they are with. The key to this is to set your intention to only connect to the highest possible guide every time you set your self up to channel. If this is your concern then you can also use our techniques for psychic protection (click on the products section on the bar at the top of the page and then onto the psychic protection category on the right). We have two lovely channelled meditations that you can use to set up the highest light energy to protect you day and night. We have also recorded meditations for clearing negative energy and for connecting with your guide based on the meditations given in Lita de Alberdi’s book on channelling.

5. Read Lita de Alberdi’s book, Channelling: What it is and how to do it. This little book if full of information about channelling based on years of channelling and teaching channelling. It has been in print since it was first published and has just recently been translated into Dutch. Not only is there a lot in the book about guides and connecting with guides but there are lots of very practical exercises that you can follow directly from it to help you to connect with your guide. There is information on chakras, the aura, psychic protection, guides, meditation and lots more in the book.

Working with my spirit guide Ortan I have been privileged to connect to all sorts of angels. Together, we have channelled some wonderful meditations and processes for connecting with angels so that it is easy to sense their energy.

I believe the reason that people are so interested in angels and are seeing and communicating with angels now is because more and more people are becoming attuned to a spiritual view. The angels can help us to open our hearts and to expand our capacity for love, this is the most important step you can take on your spiritual path. By turning to your angel for support you can steady yourself, by spending a few moments making that connection you can avoid reacting perhaps in ways you might regret later.

What are angels? Angels are very simple beings, they are very pure and very focussed. Every angel has a particular vibration or task or mission. So, for example, there are angels of healing, their work is to assist those of us who are working in the healing area to do our work. Healing angels are often sensed by spiritual healers as they work, they are often seen as distinct colours and they can guide the hands of a healer as they work. There are angels of courage, of truth, of discernment and lots more.

Everyone has a guardian angel just like the one I saw all those years ago as a child, many of the angel stories are about how these wonderful guardians protect and help those they watch over.. When we teach people to channel we often have at least one person in the group who is channelling an angel, this may be their guardian angel or it may not, but the energy of angels is very distinctive and very different from the energy of guides. Angel energy is very light and sparkling and uplifting.

Angels often do not speak a great deal, they communicate telepathically and through the frequencies of love. They are often described as God’s messengers because they are so pure and unblemished. I remember doing a reading with my guide Ortan for a lady about a couple of years ago now and she was put in touch with an experience she had had in a past life when an angel had come to her as a child. At that time she was very sad and lonely and one evening she looked out of the window into the garden and was astonished to see an angel standing there. The angel smiled and reassured her telepathically that all was well and in that moment of remembrance the blessing of the angel was increased because she both received that reassurance as an innocent child in that past life, and she received that reassurance in this life again as the memory of that past life connection came flooding back to her. It was a lovely experience, as angel experiences always are. It is their joy to help us and to bring us help and comfort.

How do you connect with angels? Become more sensitive, meditate, ask, experience. Angels say that one way they communicate with us is through what we think of as intuition, by making what seemed at the time as a chance decision. For example, when you think of someone and call them. Later you find that this was exactly the right time to call for one reason or another. Angels also communicate with us through dreams at night, bringing ideas to the subconscious mind whilst the conscious mind is unguarded. Another way they communicate is through revelations, such as when you are really working on something and you get stuck, the ego’s control of the mind can be weakened and then you can have a flash,an inspiring experience or idea. But the key thing is that you need to be open and allow such angelic communication. Angels are trying to help you, they want to help your soul move through its growth as efficiently as possible. The easiest way to connect with angels is to meditate regularly and to focus on your spiritual growth especially on working to open your heart and to become loving and open hearted. Some people say that they feel the angels’ encouragement through a sudden sense of well being, of calm, of feeling embraced and frequently they say that they smell their angel – suddenly a wonderful fragrance comes out of nowhere and disappears quickly.

Above all – lighten up, remember angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Please feel free to copy this article but please acknowledge Lita de Alberdi as the author and give the link to our website. Thank you so much
Copyright Lita de Alberdi 2009

Intuition can be consciously developed. One way to think about intuition is to consider the following proposition: deep within each one of us is the Real Self. This Self is wise and loving, kind and thoughtful, compassionate and patient; this Self is connected to the Higher Self and beyond to the Soul. When we come into incarnation the Real Self becomes hidden beneath all the armour we create as our personality and our ego. To live as the Real Self is part of the challenge of any spiritual path. One technique for doing this is the ‘as if’ technique. Hold a vision of your Real Self and then live your life ‘as if’ you are that Real Self.

So how does the Real Self live? The Real Self looks out onto the world around without making any judgements, without wishing things were one way or another way. It is the Personality Self that is riddled with wants and desires, the Real Self just is. Many traditions talk about the ‘Monkey Mind’ – it seems to be a very apt term, this Mind just flits from one thing to another, it is wily, cunning and uncontrolled. It resists discipline, it has opinions, it makes judgements, it chatters on and on.

Because the Real Self is not involved in that internal conversation about how things should be or could be or might be, it is able to be in the moment, simply observing, simply being. In the absence of the internal dialogue a space is created into which a real knowingness can develop and grow. Imagine that the internal dialogue of the Personality Self is like a veil covering the radiant being underneath. When you stop the incessant chatter of the Personality you become your Real Self and you open the very real possibility of connecting with your Soul. When you do that you immediately develop that ability we call intuition, because intuition is the small voice within that comes from the Real Self. That Real Self is the part of you that could be described as the Divine Spark, the consciousness that is eternal, all-knowing and deeply loving; a true reflection of the Soul.

The ‘As If Technique’
If we are using the ‘as if’ technique then, we simply observe everything that happens around us during the course of a day, we pretend that we are the Real Self living this life and act accordingly. This does not mean that you have to be false in the way that you live when you do this, actually you are being more sincere because this Real Self is who you really are when the personality shuts up! When you do this you may notice that thoughts come thick and fast at the beginning, especially thoughts about how silly this is, how it won’t work. These are the thoughts that come from the Personality Self, just notice them and try very hard not to get involved. Perhaps visualise these ongoing thoughts as being like a river, endlessly flowing. The river flows past you but you are not carried away on it. This technique is a form of ongoing meditation, because if you just let the thoughts arise without actually pursuing them, after a while they slow down and disappear. This gives rise to a delightfully authentic state of being in the moment.

Some easy to follow suggestions –

1. Keep some haematite with you, carry it and cleanse it often. This crystal can absorb negativity, especially useful when the problem comes from those who are critical of you or who belittle you or undermine you.
2. Use pure incense or white sage to smoke out negative energies in your environment. Light the incense or sage and make sure that the smoke is wafted in every room of your home or work environment. As you do this set the intention that the smoke is dissolving the negative energies here. Follow this by sounding a tingsha or sweet sounding bell or singing bowl seven times in each room you want to clear. Let each sound last for a count of seven before sounding the next.
3. Shower or bathe, set the intention to clear your energy. Use cleansing oils like lavender and tea tree in the bath.
4. Give away object that are unwanted gifts or that no longer seem to enhance the energy of your home.
5. Listen to lovely uplifting music, dance and move to the music, let is flow through you, enjoy it.
6. Go out into the sunshine, close your eyes and let the sun shine fully onto your face for at least two minutes.
7. Make a delicious supper and share it with someone you love.
8. Black tourmaline can send energy back to the sender, keep some in your right pocket or hold it in your right hand. You can also put it under your pillow when you sleep.
9. Fill your environment with beautiful flowers and plants, love them and nurture them.
10. Love is your best defense. Stay centred and loving, love yourself, love your enemies and forgive them from your heart.

To clear your energy and counter such attacks, we have made a CD which gives two meditations that will help you in clearing your energy and re-balancing, grounding, shielding and cleansing yourself. You can find it in the Products section of this website, under Starting Meditation.