About The Lanzarote Sessions

How It Began

Lanzarote is part of a collection of islands known as the Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean about seventy miles off the coast of West Africa. In the early 2000s, I first visited Lanzarote as part of an organized day trip during an island cruise. Our coach took us on a tour of the island, and it was during this brief visit that I first sensed the location possessed a special energy.

After that initial trip, I felt a compelling urge to return. We began booking more visits, each becoming longer and more frequent. As a sensitive person, I felt an energy resonating from the incredible landscape that gave me a profound sense of belonging in this wild and rugged place.

While on holiday there, I had a deep and powerful meditation that connected me to the intelligence of the spirit world as purely as anything I had ever experienced during my time as a student of mediumship. The spirit spoke to me, loud and clear.

In 2022, during another stay on Lanzarote, I became curious about whether I could channel the words of this spiritual connection and write them down verbatim. However, the idea came with hurdles. Would I be able to write fast enough? Would my own mind try to interpret the message rather than simply transcribe it? What would they even want to say?

At the time, I had just bought a digital e-ink notebook with a stylus. I set up a fresh notebook, attuned myself, and began writing word-for-word everything I heard in my mind.

Over the sessions that followed, I devised a clear system for this practice—a set of rules to ensure I stayed entirely honest and pure throughout the communication process. As a result, my relationship with the spirit team grew stronger, and the messages flowing through my mind became more powerful and meaningful.

I set a target to sit for their messages at least once every day during my visits, transcribing whatever they wished to share. It is important to remember that the spirit team was talking specifically to me, not to an audience. Most mediums have their work tested in front of a public audience, as I do with public mediumship. My work with the pen remains untested in that specific way, even though it relies on the exact same principles of channeling.

The Name

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, I retired from my primary work and public mediumship. Instead, I shifted my focus to archiving all the learning notes and articles I had written over my twenty-five years as a medium. Because the messages transcribed on Lanzarote were often more powerful and meaningful than those received at home, I decided to categorize them separately. I chose the name: The Lanzarote Sessions.

While our health still allows us to travel, we continue to visit the island several times each year. To this day, the habit of transcribing these spiritual messages remains a constant in my life.

Automatic or Inspired?

The question of whether this form of communication is automatic or spirit-inspired writing is difficult to answer concisely, as it requires a nuanced approach. Mediumship is fundamentally about relaying a message received in the mind from a communicator in the spirit world. To receive that information, the medium usually prepares themselves in advance, often through a form of meditation termed “sitting in the power.” The amount of time a medium spends in this power often determines the ultimate clarity of their connection.

In doing this, the medium adjusts their state of mind to align with the spiritual connection. Even in standard mediumship, this state of mind is referred to as “altered” or “entranced.” The deeper the trance, the more the medium frees their mind from the ordinary, daily thoughts that endlessly bombard it.

When I transcribe these messages, I do so in an altered state. While I always retain some level of control, I know with certainty that what I am writing does not originate from me. I place great trust in my work with the pen, and I hold myself to a very high standard of accuracy. For that reason, I believe my process bridges the gap between spirit-inspired and automatic writing.

Gifted or For Anyone?

Everyone is creative to some degree. Writers, for example, have a natural talent for penning stories that originate directly from their own minds; this is what we would call “inspired” writing.

Anyone—and particularly trained students of mediumship—can sit in the silence and the power with a pen and paper. If their intent is to write with spirit, they simply write down whatever enters their mind, resulting in “spirit-inspired” writing. At first, it might only be a few words or sentences. However, as the relationship and connection to the spirit world strengthens, the messages naturally become longer, more pertinent, and more meaningful. At the very least, what they write will reflect the thoughts of their own higher self.

The real hurdle is that few mediums trust the process enough. They often doubt their abilities, falsely believing there is little reason to practice this profound method of communication.

When Will I Stop?

The short answer is, when I feel the messages are influenced by my own daily mind too much. When the messages are of my own invention and when I feel the messages are no longer from the higher intelligence we call spirit, I will stop.