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Unusual Names All Confirmed

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This is an article from Psychic News in 1949 which reports on two of Gordon Higginson’s demonstrations. It illustrates the quality of Gordon Higginson’s mediumship and showcases his remarkable ability to get unusual and highly evidential names.  Feedback from the recipients (highlighted in bold) demonstrates the accuracy and relevance of the evidence and messages relayed by Gordon.  Here is the article in full and I hope you enjoy it:

 

Unusual christian and surnames were transmitted with ease and assurance during a remarkable clairvoyant demonstration by Gordon Higginson at the Longton National Spiritualist Church.  Typical of these were the names of Arthur Parr, Granny Mayer, Cain, Ellen Baskeyfield, Hebblethwaite and Goodwin, which were relayed from spirit during messages to two people who were attending a Spiritualist meeting for the first time.

 

Higginson first singled out a young woman and remarked that a Mrs. Parr, dressed in a blue dress adorned with glass buttons, was present in spirit.  “She says she is your mother, thanks you for looking after the family, wishes to be remembered to her husband, Arthur Parr, and sends love to Cain,” he added.   This was immediately followed by the medium referring to a Granny Mayer in spirit, who also spoke of Cain and Phyllis, and “number 14.” “Do you understand this?” Higginson queried. “Perfectly,” the young woman replied, with tears in her eyes.Continue Reading

Young Parkins Recollects

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This is an interesting report about Gordon Higginson’s mediumship.  It is written from the perspective of the spirit communicator who worked through Gordon to reach his mother at a Spiritualist meeting.  It gives us fascinating insight into how Gordon’s mediumship worked and the quality and accuracy of his clairaudience. Here is the article in full:

 

Parkins was a young man of 25 when his earth life was suddenly cut short and he found himself precipitated into the spirit world, to the great sorrow of his mother.  Time passed wearily by until one Wednesday evening Mrs. Parkins visited Birmingham National Spiritualist Church.  Gordon Higginson of Longton, was demonstrating clairvoyance when young Parkins came along.

 

“That person sitting there” he told Higginson, indicating a woman in the audience, “is my mother, Alice.  Mention Wylde Green, Sutton Coldfield, to her, and also the name of Arthur.”  Higginson relayed these words and received joyful acknowledgment from Mrs. Parkins.  Arthur was her husband, she said.  “Remind Mum that I used to live at 42,” said Parkins, “and tell her that I remember Helen and Ada and Mr. and Mrs. Nunn who lived nearby.”  Mrs. Parkins recalled all these people.Continue Reading

Mystery Test For a Medium

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This is a fascinating article from 1959 which gives us insight into the superb quality and also the mechanics of Gordon Higginson’s platform mediumship.  It is the verbatim transcript of a demonstration to test Gordon’s mediumship which was arranged following some accusations of fraud. The SNU deliberately chose a church Gordon had never worked at and he did not know the venue of the service until he was driven there on the day.

 

All of the evidence from the demonstration was recorded and is presented here.  Within contacts given to 12 recipients, he gives 38 names, of which 14 are the full names.  He also gives 20 addresses or place names, including 5 full addresses.  The audience was left gasping in amazement at the quality and depth of evidence, which fully dispelled any accusations of fraud.

 

What is also fascinating is that Gordon gives evidence that is not understood, but practically all of it is subsequently repeated and placed with later recipients.  Gordon had a very strong clairaudient ability, and it is likely he was hearing information from more than one communicator when this happened.

 

I do hope you enjoy this article, which demonstrates why Gordon was held in such high esteem as one of the finest demonstrators within Spiritualism.

 

MYSTERY TEST FOR A MEDIUM – SNU TOOK HIM TO SECRET DESTINATION

This is the record of a remarkable event – the secret testing of a medium, Gordon Higginson, by the president and other officials of the Spiritualists’ National Union.Continue Reading

The Other Side of Higginson

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This is an article from 1964 which provides a fascinating biography of Gordon’s life to that point.  It discusses his development, his time in the war and how he became the medium of choice for the Spiritualists National Union (SNU) publicity meetings.  When people are able to demonstrate mediumship to the very high calibre that Gordon did, there are occasionally those who think that there may be fraud involved.  The article discusses the accusation of fraud which had been made against Gordon and the tests that he undertook to counter the accusations.   There would be other accusations of fraud in the 1970s, but no evidence of fraudulent mediumship was ever proven against Gordon.  The way Gordon dealt with such accusations, by rising above them and allowing his work to speak for itself, is a lesson for all mediums.  I do hope that you enjoy the article. 

 

 

THE OTHER SIDE OF HIGGINSON
By Derek Everitt

 

Debt of Honour

 

See his tense, high pitched psychic demonstrations.  Watch him pacing the vestry floor in restless anxiety before a service, whilst a procession of elderly ladies come “to-have-a-few-words-with-Gordon” and go through a ritual of affectionate hand-patting until he excuses himself on a fundamental pretext, impatiently looking at his watch.  Witness all these and you see a target: a debonair, forty-three-year-old public figure ripe for the smear, the innuendo and the charged question.

 

But the account needs balancing.  For ten years Gordon Higginson’s life has been a round of top-brass public appearances.  Side by side with him have stood, at various times, most of the leading S.N.U. propagandists depending upon him to substantiate their words.  The Movement has availed itself freely of the Longton hospitality where Higginson leads perhaps the most successful Church team ever.  To such a man we owe a debt of honour.   We’ve used him freely, we’ve eaten at his table and been served by his friends.  The time has come to say “Thank you.”Continue Reading

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