This is the sixth session of the eighth series of Lanzarote Sessions, transcribed during a break to the Canary Islands in December 2024. During our frequent visits, I sit in the power of the spirit at least once daily and allow the spirit-connect to share a message with me.
|| This summary written on 26th April 2025
Words are like arrows. Once they are shot, you can’t pull them back. Once thoughts become words, they can shape destinies, and destroy them. Throughout history, great people have said things they regretted later.
British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, signed a deal with Hitler (the Munich Agreement) and declared to the press, “peace for our time”. A few months after, WW2 erupted, Chamberlain was blamed for the appeasement and spent his life regretting his words.
John Lennon once casually said the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus”. It caused outrage and John admitted later in life he’d spent years after clarifying and apologising, declaring he wished he’d been more careful with what he’d said.
Everyone of us are equally as guilty of saying something we later regret. Words are often thoughts with sound, sometimes powered by an emotional state and released without the logical use of a filter. But this extends beyond daily conversation. As mediums, every word we speak that is heard by others can, and often does carry with it a huge responsibility. Of care, of consideration, of concern, and of the consequences to the person hearing them.
One of the greatest tools we can develop as mediums, is the power of silence, before we speak on behalf of the spirit world. The speaker in the following session reminds me of these sentiments and shares with me, and now you, how we powerful our voice can be and how what we say, should be carefully considered before being voiced aloud.
Some people might consider the lesson from this speaker to be one that the most powerful leader of the free world would do well in embracing. Sadly, I can’t see that happening any time soon!
THE SPIRIT INSIGHT
transcribed on Sunday, 15th December 2024, at 2:45 pm
You’ve had quite a collection of speakers already in the past few days. I am looking forward to sharing my message with you and your listeners. But I’m following I’m following some great narrators.
The talking we do is a result of thoughts from the mind that we believe deserve volume! I know that seems rather a strange approach, but tell me, is that not what we do when we open our mouths and create audible thoughts?
But what would happen if each of us were rationed to how many words we were allowed to speak in a period? What if one of your days were restricted to, say, one thousand words. Once you’d used them, you’d be unable to speak until the next day. Imagine that condition for a few moments. Your thoughts would continue as normal.
Would it lead you to a situation where you carefully thought about what you wanted to say? Would you plan in advance the concise communication you wished to make, fearing that you might use up valuable words from your limitation?
As I speak to you now, I sense your mind considering the wisdom and lesson in such a situation. But think more. Would it not result in people not wishing to waste their words on trivial arguments, or nasty comments?
There were people in the past in what you know as tribes that lived this way. They believed it was only the leaders that were entitled to speak. Ask yourself, how long would you survive in such a regime? Would you become frustrated?
There are people around you that, if they were allocated one thousand words allowance, would use them up before they’ve had their breakfast!
Mankind is losing the ability to harness the power of silence. The unspoken word carries more power than the word in haste.
Mediums should have mastered this but haven’t. Instead, they feel they must keep talking, filling in silences with pointless words of no value. Use the silences wisely. Not for thinking of something to say, but instead drawing your inner attention to the power and strength of your connection with us. Do this and the important words will always flow. Do this and only what needs to be heard will be heard. Do this and your standards of mediumship communication will reach new levels of excellence.
You see, my opening statement makes sense now. This could be the greatest lesson you’ve had in a while.
Let me put this to you, before I finish. Create a new habit now. Think more before you put volume to your inner thoughts. Value the words and appreciate the value others will get from them.
I think I’ve covered every thing I wanted to say to you this time.
I’ve enjoyed speaking to you and those who read my words. Each has been given to this medium with value and thought.
Peace is around you, and upon you. this day and forever.
Goodbye.
MY AFTERTHOUGHTS
written at the time of this presentation
🔷 I think I love the notion of being rationed to how many words each of us are allowed to speak every day. Romantically, it sounds such a wonderful concept. The truth is, none of us would be able to manage it. Perhaps if we tried it for a day, we’d learn valuable respect for the power of free speech, from our own voice.
🔷 I did use the internet to see if I could find any such tribes where only the leaders were allowed to speak, and was quite surprised to find a number of possible candidates. The most obvious being found in the monasteries of the world, particularly Trappist monks, who took vows of silence where only the abbot could speak normally. The power of silence, on the other hand, shows strength, respect, creates mystery and a genuine way to express deep emotions. But of course, silence can also provoke some people!
🔷 The underlying message from this speaker is that we need to think before we speak. I know many of us will be able to name others that could do with taking that advise, but that’s not the point. The point is that each of us, me and you, need to adapt the habit of thinking before we speak. We’re blessed with two ears and one mouth. That means twice as much listening as speaking. I’ll say no more!
“Mankind is losing the ability to harness the power of silence. The unspoken word carries more power than the word in haste.”
