Readers of the authors’ earlier books will be familiar with the communications of the Phoenix Spirit Group. The present book is devoted to the communications of spirit visitors who have made guest appearances to share experiences and learning from their previous earthly lives. Here you will meet scores of these visitors including Isabella who lived in the 18th century who was thought by her contemporaries to have “airs and graces”, liked to create a stir when entering a room and was over attached to her clothes. Some seemed to learn and develop through the very nature of their occupation such as James, a dragoon in the early 19th century who learned calmness and to live in the moment. The anonymous gangster who was engaged in protection rackets reflected deeper flaws in character than Isabella but demonstrates how all may transmute themselves in time. Some learned from difficult life experiences or circumstances such as Elena, living in the late 1700s, who was overcome by grief upon the death of her husband, the pain clouding her vision and extinguishing her hope. She now wishes she could dry all the tears of those affected by grief and give them a “rose of hope”.

Hai’s Message We bring these ‘Guest Speakers’ (spirit visitors) to you to give them an opportunity to share with you their experiences upon the earth plane, for these speakers have had many varied experiences, many varied lifetimes. And through these lifetimes, and the difficulties they faced in them, they have become more aware of the opportunities for growth through the earthly life. They have grown and learnt through the opportunities, which they experienced upon earth and they wish to share these experiences and their reflections upon these experiences with you. But you may learn and take from them what you can, as a way of adding to the experience of your own lives, as a way of enriching your own experience of life. You may learn and take from these reflections things that we hope will be of benefit to you, to your understanding. We hope that it will broaden and deepen your understanding and that through these understandings, your time on the earthly plane may be enriched and indeed you may, through reflecting upon these experiences of others grow more quickly, more comfortably, more easily. Peter The Reluctant Communicator The Message: Be your own accountant each day Peter began by telling us it was difficult to adjust to the human body again. He was asked: You say it’s difficult for you to accommodate yourself in the human form. What form do you take that makes the task difficult? I am spirit energy am I not; therefore, I must reconnect with your physical form in order to manifest myself in your physical plane. And therefore, this is a great discomfort to me for I am not used to it or familiar with it, nor do I wish particularly to do it (laughs). So you may ask, what is this mad-man doing it for (laughs again). So why are you doing it? I was coerced, cajoled, encouraged, misinformed (laughs). So why…. They thought it would be a good idea for me to experience it, to communicate with you for a time. Is there something in particular that you would like to say to us? Not particularly (laughs again). What did you do when you were last on the earth plane, Peter? I was an accountant, yes (laughs) I accounted for much. And when I returned to this plane (spirit) I had to account for a lot (laughs). What did you have to account for? Oh the usual miscreants. It is useful on your plane to be an accountant—for yourself. It is useful to be an accountant day by day; without becoming morbid, I stress, I truly stress, for I would not want you to become morbid with it. But I put to you that it would be a useful practice to be your own accountant, day by day. You don’t mean with money though do you? No. I mean with your thoughts, your deeds, your actions; the degree of pleasantness you create around you, the degree of lovingness you reach out with. I say this as I said before, not that it should be done in a morbid, or an accusing or pessimistic way, but merely as a tool to help you grow in perspective, in balance and in reaching out with your love to others. For is it not a good thing to reflect upon our degree of progress, upon our degree of reaching out to others. Therefore, I feel it is a desirable thing to do, to play the accountant day by day. But I hope you would do it with truth, in patience and tolerance with yourselves too. You see, this will at least make you aware, because without awareness there is the tendency to go on from day to day in the same old ways, not moving forward, progressing. Therefore, I think to play the accountant is an aid and tool to move forward and progress. This is what I bring to you my friends. Did you do that when on this plane? I was a very able accountant, with money and books and figures, yet I did not reflect upon my life as I lived it. I did not reflect upon the impact of myself upon others. I did not reflect upon the general course and direction of my life. And as often happens, it is like the ship on the high-sea sailing along over the waves. If you do not constantly monitor the stars, the sun, and your position across the seas, you may quite likely lose your course and will end up in climes that are not to be desired and far from your true course that you had hoped to steer. And therefore, I say to you, it is important to constantly monitor your course against the stars and sun, to check your true bearing on your voyage. Goodbye my friends, goodbye.

Paul McGlone is a trance medium and has given public demonstrations in Europe, Canada and the USA. Eileen teaches Reiki and co-ordinates the regular meditation/development groups held at their home in Stockport, England.