A recovered 2013 trance recording and the simple image that continued through years of work.
This piece is drawn from Andrew’s recovered records and developed manuscript, shaped into readable article form while keeping experience and interpretation distinct.
An older voice in the archive
Some of the most useful material in this book is useful precisely because it is old. It gives me something I cannot manufacture afterwards: a record of what was coming through years before I knew what the later pattern would become.
A saved trance recording from 2013 is one of those records. I do not want to turn it into proof of where the words came from. The opening contains uncertain words, and even the name near the end sounds like ‘Marion’ rather than being something I can establish with certainty. That uncertainty stays. What matters here is the character of the communication and the way its themes continued to appear in my work long afterwards.
The language is simple. Light. Love. The heart. Connection. A sunflower turning towards the sun. The suggestion is that connection is not something we manufacture by straining for it; awareness can lose sight of it, but the underlying relationship remains. Later in the transcript comes the image I find especially beautiful: a thread of light passing through every heart, joining us as one family.
I am wary of making old trance speech sound grander than it was. There is no need. Its strength is almost the opposite. It does not demand a complicated cosmology. It points back towards something immediately human: when life has pulled the eyes down to the floor, remember that there may still be light above your head. When connection feels absent, turn inward towards the heart rather than assuming you have been abandoned by whatever you understand Spirit to be.
That teaching has become more meaningful to me with age because spiritual life is not lived only during beautiful sittings. There are illnesses, arguments, bills, grief, exhaustion and days when meditation produces very little. There are also periods when inner experience becomes so strong that the sensible response is to rest rather than chase more of it. Connection cannot be measured simply by the amount of phenomena happening today.
The sunflower image gives me a better way of saying it. A sunflower does not create the sun. It turns towards it. In the same way, prayer, meditation, compassion, service and simple stillness can be ways of turning. Sometimes the response is immediate and powerful. Sometimes nothing noticeable happens. The practice is still the turning.
The sunflower does not create the sun
This also links with what I later came to call heart-centred mediumship. If there is a thread through every heart, then the person sitting in front of me is not a target for a demonstration. They are part of the same human and spiritual family. Their grief matters. Their dignity matters. My words matter. The point of communication is not to show how much I can perceive; it is to serve the person and the communication responsibly.
The 2013 voice spoke of tears of joy. I know tears in spiritual work can arrive in many forms. I have sobbed without ordinary sadness. I have been overwhelmed by energy. I have felt love with a force that the polite word ‘emotion’ barely touches. Human beings cry when something reaches beyond the neat capacity of speech. Sometimes the body finishes the sentence for us.
I cannot tell a reader what the 2013 recording proves. I can say what it preserves. Long before the present Inner Worlds manuscript, the same themes were already there: light, the heart, love, connection, service and the attempt to remember what we are when ordinary life makes us forget.
For me, that continuity matters more than a dramatic claim. The thread is not only an image inside the trance. It is also visible across the years of the work itself.
Date: 5 September 2026 | Classification: Trance • voice/language • recorded evidence
THE EXPERIENCE
A thread through every heart
Andrew found or listened to a trance recording in which the voice or language did not sound like his usual speech. The recording matters because it exists outside memory: it can potentially be listened to, transcribed and compared rather than relying only on recollection.
POSSIBLE MEANINGS
Trance speech can involve altered prosody, vocal posture, automatisms, glossolalia, dissociative or creative language production, and in spiritual traditions may be interpreted as communication through the medium. The existence of a recording allows a more disciplined approach: preserve the original audio, date it, transcribe exactly, compare recurrent phonetics and avoid translating invented meaning into it unless there is evidence.
Public use: Book core; future audio/website feature after careful analysis.
Visual brief: A studio microphone in a dim room with a waveform on a recorder display, one section visibly unlike ordinary speech.
The experience comes first. The explanation must earn its place.
Worlds beyond.