Dick Sutphen’s Road Diary
London, England & Barcelona, Spain
November 2003 (continued)

Friday, November 7: London is having a heat wave. We sleep with our bedroom window wide open, and it’s still too hot for covers. The sun is shining for the fourth morning in a row. This doesn’t happen here.

As with most UK accommodations, our apartment bedroom offers two twin beds opposed to a double. We went to sleep in twin beds, but Tara joined me sometime in the pre-dawn hours. I awaken to find us spooning together on the narrow space. Today, I’ll move the stand separating our beds and shove them together. We can take turns sleeping on the crack.

Our festival appearances start today. The “Group Psychic Reading Workshop” will run two-and-a-half hours from 1 to 3:30 PM.

Sharon Adams bounces out the front doors of the Royal Horticultural Halls to welcome us as we pull up in a cab. Big hugs. Sharon is managing director of the festival and has become a personal friend.

Inside, all appears as usual for a Mind Body Spirit Festival as founded 28 years ago by Graham Wilson. Graham is now retired in New Zealand, but remains a consultant to the festivals here and in Sydney. He has just asked us to appear in Sydney next November.

The festival offers a thousand things to buy, experience or investigate.

The festival booths offer every kind of New Age service and product. We find Lani Foulger, another friend and my primary contact for festival preparation. It is like old home week here.

During a 15-minute workshop break, I spot Patti and Ajamu on the stairway. They’re confused by the European idea of the ground floor being zero, the second floor is one, third floor  is two ... and so it goes. I keep telling the Brits they’ve got it all wrong, but no one listens.     

Patti’s first workshop will follow ours in the same room at 4 PM. We will have dinner together. While she’s on stage, we explore the festival offerings, have frozen fresh-fruit yogurt at Cheyenne’s favorite booth and tea with festival friends. 

Dinner is at The Albert -- a favorite bar-restaurant on Victoria Street. All remnants of our raw diet are obliterated here. There is nothing green on the menu. We decide upon a three-course Christmas-like feast offering on-the-spot carvings of beef, pork and turkey.

Over dinner we share stories about karma. Patti tells of a woman she knew who planned, for the first time, to lead a group tour to the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid in Egypt. To take this journey, you must get a medical exam and inoculations. Using her intuitive abilities, Patti also found the woman to be perfectly healthy.

But upon the woman’s return from Egypt, Patti noticed a large spot on her lungs and psychically perceived the image of something in the pyramid that had waited for thousands of years for the woman’s return. Patti saw it emerge from the corner of a room and enter the woman’s body. The spot was cancer, which quickly ravaged the woman’s entire body. She died within a month of her return home.

Ancient karma?

Saturday, November 8: Lani asked us to come to the festival an hour early to meet a TV producer who is planning a psychic show. We arrive at 2:30 PM. The producer doesn’t show. We enjoy an hour with friends in the cafeteria.

Our four-hour workshop is “Answers from Spirit.” I do my standard intro talk and process. Tara created a new session in which her spirit guide Abenda helps each participant connect with someone in spirit that can answer their questions or deal with their concerns. The group responds positively.

Patti and Ajamu have volunteered to keep Cheyenne with them tonight at their hotel in Westminster. Ajamu wants to go dancing and they will take Chey to a techno club, if she can get in.

At dinner Saturday night with the festival team, Sharon, Lene, Lani, Tara and myself.

Tara and I have dinner with Sharon, Lani, and a friend of Lani’s from Denmark. None of our personal friends in England are English. Sharon is Irish, Lani is Canadian. Other friends are from Australia or New Zealand. We don’t know why this is, but it is what is.

Sharon and I talk about festival attendance and the current direction of the New Age. She has some interesting insights. I share information. We talk about the Para-World Expo to be held in late October 2004 in Los Angeles. Tara and I have agreed to appear. I’m told the sponsors have secured the Los Angeles Convention Center and the Staples Center -- the two largest venues in LA. Elton John may perform.

The main stage of the Healing Arts Festival offers a continuing program of demonstrations and musical presentations.

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