Part of the report from Patrick McNamaras Physical Circle

Physical Circle in West London
 
Group members that night 7 people.
 
The group assembled as usual on the evening of the circle. The room is the same room used weekly and the chairs and table are laid out in the same format each week. The table is a small Pembroke style fold down table with caster wheels. On the table a speaking trumpet with some luminous strips is placed in the centre. The chairs are arranged in the same order around the table each week. The windows are locked and blacked out to prevent any light protruding from the street outside. A glass of water and an empty glass are placed on opposite sides of the room. These are used by the spirit guides. There is a red light in the corner of the room which the medium controls as needs be, and above the circle is a dimmer switch controlled chandelier with red and blue light bulbs. We are not currently using a cabinet for ectoplasm formations. There is a camera setup in one corner of the room to record any activity. It is running on battery power only.
 
The circle is composed of male and female member, the majority being female. There were two extra members of the circle that night. There is one door in and out.  Once the members are seated the doors are closed outside the room and all the lights are switched off. The door is closed firmly and not locked. All members know each other very well. The medium is last to be seated to make sure everything is ready and is seated at the top of the table. The lights are turned off and we are in total darkness. The medium leads the introduction which always starts with everyone joining hands and saying the lords prayer. This is done whether it's religious or not for protective reasons. The circle is totally secular in its approach. Only a closing prayer is said at the end of circle.
 
After the prayer is said, the first part of the circle begins. All lights are off. We have a night vision infrared camera running. There is an electrical charge in the air which people can feel by moving their hands in the air. Some people are felling ectoplasm already as it falls on their face. Some members are feeling cold breezes around them. All windows and doors are shut and the room is warm from the central heating. The first part of our circle is a healing section, this is used for three reasons, a) It helps people relax and switch off from any daily stress's that they may have had. b) It sends out healing prayers to those who need it. c) It harmonises the circle members.
 
The second part begins once the healing is done, and we break hands and stretch for a moment before it begins. The medium continues by asking the members to join finger tips on the table. The speaking trumpet is on the table and the luminous bands around it is the only light to be seen. The new members comment on how the top of the trumpet keeps disappearing as if somebody is walking in front of it. It resembles a lighthouse effect. One member has been touched on the head. On the floor you can feel cold breezes around your feet. This is where the energy is building up. The red light in the corner is switched on. The medium starts to give clairvoyance to the additional members. Ask he gives some evidence to the members he is partially taken over by the father of one and takes on his personality briefly saying in an American accent "Ah I don't care, I'm doing it anyway". The medium regains control and pushes the father back out of his body. The member laughs and says, "it was just like he would have been, pushy and impatient!" We all laugh. Names and personal incidents are given and taken as correct. To be frank, he told the lady that her father was a no good gambling, heavy drinking, womaniser. He had many affairs, loved gambling and talked about Las Vegas.  He was a mans man, which she accepted as being very true.  This was all very accurate evidence, and the member added that his voice that came through the medium briefly was immediately accepted as the way he spoke on earth. She said "that's my dad". Later as the table moved about we asked if the members father could be moving the table, at which point the the table bounced around on two legs even one leg at times to show he was still a very forceful domineering person. This went on for about a couple of minutes and we cheered him on. The member had no qualms about the truth of her father being said as the evidence was given.  Other members including myself, gave clairvoyance to each other, while the medium concentrated with evidential proof on the new members. The energy has built up enough now that the medium is going to try some physical manifestation. As, said earlier, we are not using a cabinet as we want to use a new form of ectoplasm that  can be seen clearly in light. The light we are using is red for the moment.
 
 
On this particular evening, the medium asked us to put all our hands flat on the table. We were told to look at our finger tips. The fingers on the hands then seemed to be growing, in fact lines of grey and blue light could be seen from the fingers of the individual members of the circle, not only could you see the lights, but you could feel the energy coming from it. It seemed to form small clouds. Individual fingers grew longer, some grew shorter. The table jolted beneath out hands and started to move in the direction of the new members of the circle. The medium said, if you look closely at the clouds of ectoplasm  beginning to form, you will see faces in them. The table continued to move under our hands and a charge of static electricity formed on our faces like cobwebs. This was the ectoplasm in the atmosphere. The medium told us to be aware that we would be touched. Some members were then touched. As this was happening, the lower half of our bodies were being submerged in what felt like cold water. Across the surface of the table there were more cold draughts hitting our hands as they lay there touching a members hand each side. The red light was the only light on and no doors or windows were open as we can clearly see what is going on in the circle. The medium then said to observe him closely as he walked over to the corner of the room and switched on the overhead chandelier with the red and blue light. the room was very illuminated. The medium turned and as he walked across the room slowly, a figure rose from the floor bedside him and formed the shape of a man. this was a shadow constructed of light. It seemed to detach itself from the medium and could be seen as he walked around the circle attached to the back of the mediums back. As he approached one side of the room the one of the newer members could see the face of her mother in a cloud that seemed to be issuing from another member of the circle. The medium then gave the name of the person with him, which was accepted as being correct. the medium went back to his seat and the spirit with him seemed to recede slowly as he walked back to his seat. Having sat back down the table started to move quite briskly and the trumpet still sitting on the tabled glided back and forth as it moved. The medium then said that the lights would be turned off completely. The chandelier and corner light were knocked off. He then asked all members to join hands. All members felt a feeling of rest, warmth, and completeness as they sat there. The medium asked us to look upwards to see all the spirit lights above our heads which represented all the spirits who were present tonight. We sat for a few moments as the medium said that we would close for the evening. We were asked one last time to put hands in the table. He went over and turned on the chandelier light again, as we looked up we could see that the metal arms seemed to be moving like waves and shaking above us. We started to close down  individually and a closing prayer was said. Once this was done we had tea and refreshments as normal. A strange thing started to happen when in normal light, the medium said that some members will start to change colour. One by one each person had a different colour on their face, as the spirits used up some of the remaining energy. One colour was a light green, another face was orange, one other was blue. This only last a few minutes. The light was normal white light and the coloured ones were switched off. We then had a discussion about the nights events.