Hello, this is my first post on this site so I hope it works. As a start I wanted to bring  some members attention to the website of Leslie Flint. I find it fascinating, have a read about him and then go to the Listen to Recordings section. The talks given by the not-so-famous people I find the most interesting and some are very funny as well as informative. I'm sure listening to these will lessen the burden of doubt for beginners along the path. I don't know if this has been covered before on any of these forums, so you'll have to excuse me if it has. Anyway treat yourself.....leslieflint.com.

Goldyflocks Is there any way a humble person like myself would be able to attend?

I would be most interested in observing this first hand. I had always thought that phenomena like that had all but gone away since most accounts come from the early part of the last century.