Afterlife Research and Education Institute (AREI)

AREI is pretty well known over here in the US but I'm not a big fan.  It seems a lot of glitz but no real meat on the bones.  As a response to my question "what next" I'm pretty sure it ain't the AREI.    (It gets occasional mentions on ALF and a little bit more attention when its Scottsdale shindig happens in early AZ autumn.  I don't generally arrive until November and the event doesn't encourage me to get here any earlier.   )

As for whether it will provide a medium (pun intended!) for our unseen friends 'over there' in the etheric to use, only time will tell what they make of matters this side of the divide.     It won't be that long before I'm able to check things out from their side of things, see where trans-dimensional communication will be happening in the decades ahead.  Maybe I'll get back to you when I make it.  

That's assuming I do actually care by the time I get there or can recall that I once used to care ....

My thoughts regarding AREI are very much in tune with Mac's. I do not actually see the involvement of Zammit and the recent conference involving both Scott Milligand and David Thompson, neither of whom will work within the accepted Physical Medium Protocols which even Banyan Retreat supposedly (but may be not for their friends, Scott is doing private seances for decent money with n0 films appearing) accepted by them.

I cannot imagine how a cyber seance would work. Much of what happens is as a result of the energies which are developed within the room. I am well aware how this impacts on events because I am running an open seance to see what we can get in dim halogen and red light (easy to see what is ocurring). The variations in attendance has a very great effect. Our last Christmas Tree seance was very well attended. So many I had to split up the activities which people tried and spread my own involvement. The first series with two tables and seperate small groups on the writing planchette and the Spirit Talking Board was not very satisfactory but when we broke for transfiguration some faces were clearly seen, then as we swapped the people over the tables took off and messages came through the planchette and talking board.

It was a very salutary lesson of the impact of different energies. My experience this year shows how hard it is to get people to attend regularly so every seance achieved different things. I also noted that some attendees appeared to (possibly imagined) more that they thought was happening than others, I certainly take a very critical view but in honesty in a seance which is running so far out of the "rules" modern PM's have established ther is a lot going on with enough proof of Spirit involvement.

In a cyber seance with attendees in different places I have no idea how the reality of success can be moderated.

Well that made interesting viewing! Work in progress. The proof of the pudding......

At the present stage it all seems somewhat clunky but who knows? Never say never.

True Mac. Now if we had a world wide circle that did create the correct energy where would the phenomena be centred if it appeared, it could be quite possible it would not be at any one participants place but somewher entirely different.

As an example of what could be achieved maybe the Beacons of Light project I ran in Adelaide could be teh best example. Agree a time and create a central group in one place, the core and everyone focus their energy on that place which should be equipped with all the necessary recording and filming devices. ( https://www.spiritualismlink.com/t122-beacons-of-light-project )

With world time differences adopting a suitable time may be a challenge. The SNUI useed to run on line tutorials which wer not  a great success because they were in the middle of the night in Aus (not a lot of forethought from the international section of the SNU. Thoughts to myself I would like to revisit the Beacons of Light project nexy new years day the beacons are still intact and teh energy is dowsable.

Admin wrote:True Mac. Now if we had a world wide circle that did create the correct energy where would the phenomena be centred if it appeared, it could be quite possible it would not be at any one participants place but somewher entirely different.

As an example of what could be achieved maybe the Beacons of Light project I ran in Adelaide could be teh best example. Agree a time and create a central group in one place, the core and everyone focus their energy on that place which should be equipped with all the necessary recording and filming devices. ( https://www.spiritualismlink.com/t122-beacons-of-light-project )

With world time differences adopting a suitable time may be a challenge. The SNUI useed to run on line tutorials which wer not  a great success because they were in the middle of the night in Aus (not a lot of forethought from the international section of the SNU. Thoughts to myself I would like to revisit the Beacons of Light project nexy new years day the beacons are still intact and teh energy is dowsable.

interesting points, Jim Who knows if it might work better another time? It's gotta be a challenge, though, finding a suitable time, one that would work for folk spread around the globe. Even those not working might find it hard to 'attend' and for anyone who does work it's gonna be even harder. Better, perhaps, if participants were on just one continent but would you get enough?

An interesting note with ref to cyber seance, Uri Geller performed a TV experiment asking viewers to sit quietly at home and to choose a kitchen utensil IE, fork, knife, spoon and to all concentrate with him to try and bend the item. Many archived good results. Obviously it was there own psychic energy/essence causing the result. So I can't see any reason why spirit can't use this same energy to experiment with a cyber seance and in fact they do in physical seances when they draw the essence from the medium to produce the phenomena only difference is with a cyber seance the person will probably be sitting on their own. If the aim is phenomena then of course the more people the better, IE more energy available. We need to remember we are spirit in material form and possess the same energy as spirit in spirit world, no different but only difference is spirit have developed techniques to manipulate on a subatomic level the very fabric of the universal mind/energy of which we are made and part of, this is the core of our spiritual essence and am sure spirit would be able to achieve communication via a cyber arrangement.

Jesus! The last posting in this ancient thread was mine in 2019 - five and a half years ago! Hasn't it died a death by now and surely if there's any more to be said - anything new that is - wouldn't it be more appropriate to start a new thread to encourage a fresh discussion?