Natalie's new lecture 07 on the 13th of July 2007

Spirit: Good afternoon.

Me: Good afternoon and who may you be.

Spirit: My name is Lydia.

Me: Welcome Lydia.

Lydia: I have much to say, but am I right in assuming that you would like to know about me before I lecture.

Me: Yes I would.

Lydia: I was a lady of very wealthy means in 1700 and I was very unusual in that I was an educated lady in a very open family. I lived in the countryside in North England in a lovely manor. But even then I was aware of how incorrectly I was treated and also the ladies that were around me were treated and it is a concern of mine that I wish to speak of. Even though we no longer wear the long dresses, no longer denied books and work, ladies are still often seen as they were in my time.

I was very interested in the arcane and I had some lady friends and we used to dabble in what we thought was magic, but was really Spirit; we were just a silly gaggle of girls. But in my dabbling and in my books that I read about history and of the horrible barbaric peoples of Africa and of the past I saw something, I saw how women had changed and how they’ve been treated differently and I started to question. It was very unseemly and many of my friends left. They were willing for a bit of silliness but they were not willing to be serious. But I never wanted to teach with what I knew and what I had learned from my books and from my experiences with Spirit for I was with child and as many women in my day, I passed away while giving birth.

It has taken me a great time to gather up the courage again to say what I have learned is worth teaching and what I feel about history and what it can teach us and what I feel about how women are treated as it needs to be said. So I request that I be allowed to teach.

Me: That’s good. I am now going to ask you a question, why am I picking up a Russian influence with you.

Lydia: My father was a Russian diplomat at court, though not officially my father but he was fond enough to teach me the language and to care for me as a girl perhaps feeling slightly guilty. It was an unusual sort of behavior.

Me: I am picking up incest with you is that right, because I do not want to upset you.

Lydia: Yes, it was not unusual.

Me: I understand that, I can understand that side of it as I don’t have no opinions as it goes on more than what people realise. It was just these things that I was picking up as you were talking and I needed to clarify them, because I think sometimes that it is important to discuss those things so that people out there understand.

Lydia: It was simply the time; it was simply how we were to behave which was another thing that inspired me to say that we should not have too.

Me: I totally agree.

Lydia: It was in moments of retrospection that I said to myself, WHY, and in doing that I felt myself very isolated from the other ladies of the court who just accepted their lot in life. What was one lady to do?

Me: I can understand where you are coming from.

Lydia: But it is lovely that today I can ask my question and say how I feel even from beyond (Spirit world) and have people listen, to have people say “your right” rather than be in fear of being arrested or burnt.

Me: That’s true, definitely true, well done.

Lydia: Thank you. I am not to sure that I can do a full lecture today, but I would dearly like to come back another time.

Me: I’d appreciate that one, definitely.

Lydia: Thank you.

Me: Just take your time and build yourself up slowly.

Lydia: It is difficult.

Me: I can’t remember being on your side so I haven’t got a clue really but I think that I can understand.

Lydia: The language has changed and I must change my language so that you can understand.

Me: That’s always been a problem.

Lydia: It is so interesting.

Me: You are more than welcome, more the merrier

Lydia: Thank you.

End of Lecture