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In this video, Arthur Plumpton describes his memories and experiences at a physical mediumship séance with Gordon Higginson at the Arthur Findlay College in Stansted in the late 1980s. He describes in detail how the séance was run and the full form materialisation and direct voice phenomena that took place. This is a fascinating witness account of Gordon’s physical mediumship.Continue Reading
The following article from Psychic News discusses another of Gordon’s physical seances from 1974 held at the Arthur Findlay College. It is particularly interesting as a materialised form walked from the cabinet and spoke in Greek to his wife. This was a language that Gordon did not know so is excellent survival evidence and demonstrates the presence of spirit. Here is the article in full:
MATERIALISED FORM WALKS NINE FEET
Medium seen standing with spirit figure
Outstanding survival evidence came at a materialisation seance last week when four “solid” spirit forms appeared. One, who spoke in Greek moved 9 feet from the medium’s cabinet searching for his wife.
The séance, held at the Arthur Findlay College, Stansted, Essex, was the high spot of the International Spiritualist Federation’s first “fraternal-week”. Test conditions were arranged. Medium and SNU President Gordon Higginson wearing only pants and a jumper was searched before and after the seance.
I was given a first-hand account by ISF secretary-Margaret Wilson. She sat on one side of the cabinet. SNU Secretary Ronald Baker was on the other. As Gordon became entranced, his chair moved to the back of the cabinet. Ectoplasm, said Margaret, did not take long to appear. At one point she had to move her feet as it trailed from the cabinet. A red light was on all the time.Continue Reading
The following article from Psychic News reports on a physical mediumship seance by Gordon Higginson held by the Glasgow Association of Spiritualists in 1972. What is remarkable is that it was an impromptu seance held in front of over 200 people and the room was not fully blacked out which is the norm for such seances. Nonetheless, materialised forms emerged from the cabinet and were observed by many in the room due to the high levels of light. Gordon often remarked that he had demonstrated his physical mediumship to over 200 people and this is the seance to which he is referring.
“I have never seen anything like it in my life. Despite fairly good light, the white, shimmering ectoplasm was clear and bright. Once the medium and materialised form were seen together.” This tribute to SNU President Gordon Higginson’s “superb mediumship ” came on Monday from Dr John Winning. It was this veteran Spiritualist’s verdict on a “surprise” materialisation seance last Saturday at the Glasgow Association’s HQ in Somerset Place.
It was announced as a direct-voice demonstration. A portable cabinet was placed on the platform. “It was an experiment and no one knew what would happen” said Winning. “Higginson had made a tiresome 400-mile journey and was probably not at his best. Nevertheless, a packed audience of between 200 and 300 people witnessed a series of materialisations.”
In the following article from Psychic News written by Maurice Barbanell, he recounts the amazing evidence given at one of Gordon’s materialisation seances held at Stansted Hall. As he recorded most of the seance on a tape recorder, he is able to share an accurate transcript of the evidence provided by Gordon’s guides Paddy and Cuckoo that accompanied the materialised forms. This gives us great insight into the quality of Gordon’s trance and physical mediumship where materialised forms are supported by trance clairvoyance from Gordon’s guides, where they bring forward excellent evidence of survival from the spirit world.
Electrocuted in New Zealand – He Returns at an Essex Materialisation Seance – Full Name and Family Details are Communicated
By Maurice Barbanell
A man who died in New Zealand after being accidentally electrocuted on August 30 returned at a materialisation seance at Stansted Hall, Essex, last week. The medium was SNU, president Gordon Higginson, who demonstrated this rare form of psychic phenomena for over an hour to 60 people. They had attended the “awareness class” he conducted that week. No charge was made for the seance.
They sat in rows in a room at first illuminated by two dim red lights and one over the home-made cabinet. A semi-circle was formed on each side of the cabinet, which I examined so that I could report it contained nothing extraneous.