Gordon Mons Higginson.   UK

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 Gordon Mons Higginson

Stoke on Trent. U.K. 1918 to 1993

I feel very very sad that the fact hardly anything has been written in book form about this extraordinary man Gordon Higginson and very little was collated to bring to the notice of the general public the true facts about the phenomena this man produced. Unfortunately Gordon and I only met a few times and saw him demonstrate clairvoyance in Liverpool Daulby St. Spiritualist Church and I saw him at Stansted Hall a few times. I have tried to get as much information about him from the people who sat with him for decades in his Home Circle, sadly a person who has now written a book about him had been there before, and after seeing the book, all people of that Home Circle refused to say anything about Gordon to me only saying "the book is of no person we knew and this is after we gave all our personal information to the author".

All the people I spoke to stressed, "it is not the Gordon that we knew from cradle to the grave and we gave this author details of our Home Circle Phenomena and about Gordon's life and yet very little of what we told her went into the book". A very, very sad situation.

I did manage to speak to Gordon's sister one afternoon, but unfortunately she was very very deaf. What she did say during the cups of tea and biscuits was, "There was many a time after the seance we had in this room finished, I saw that cane table walk back into the corner of the room on its own without anyone touching it" [she was pointing to a light-weight, wicker type, cane table about 2 ft to 2 1/2 feet tall and about  1 1/2 to 2 feet in diameter ]. THAT IS genuine Physical Phenomena with a table, none of this hands on top and rocking it.

In his seances there were Independent Direct voices from the Spirit World, Gordon told me he was 99% of the time conscious, aware of what was going on around him, not like you are in every day life, but in a foggy, distant sort of a way.

Gordon many times produced ectoplasm while walking down the isle between the chairs at either side of him in Stansted Hall library. This is where a lot of his public seances were held. A lot of happy and comforted relations whose loved ones in the Spirit World were reunited by the Mediumship of Gordon, when the ectoplasm formed those in the Spirit World as a human form. His teaching and Mental Mediumship were second to none I have yet to come across. The nearest I have come to hearing someone of his caliber is Gerard Smith from Stoke on Tent, who was incidentally taught by Gordon.

Their mother Fanny Higginson was a very strict woman especially with her last born child Gordon  She was told years before he was born that she was going to have a son that was going to be a very famous Medium.

At a very early age Gordon used to play around on the steps the old Longton Spiritualist Church with Sally Hardings and sit outside, where the gathering of Mediums were having a seance. At 2-3 years of age he was sitting in Fanny's Home Circle quietly playing around on the outside of that Circle. Lots of times Gordon and Sally Harding who were little friends growing up together were both clipped around the head by either mother for making too much noise and dragged into the seance room and told to sit quiet while the seance continued. As Gordon grew up many a time Sally was chased home and only Gordon was taken into his mother's Home Circle. Sally herself in her very early teens went into the seance when her mother was there as a sitter as she was part of the Longton Church Circle.

Gordon while at junior school was being taught by Fanny to give messages, and they were getting very accurate when he was about the age of 10. At the age of about 11-12 his mother allowed him to get up on the platform demonstrating Mental Mediumship in the company of other Mediums as support, from there he went all around the country even in some of the largest halls available. We are told he was then becoming very famous and started traveling the World. What I found out he always returned to the constant developing and continuing Physical Circle each week never missing that special day no matter where he was, and he expected everyone to do the same even expecting them to come home from holiday and not miss one week. That is what everyone should do if they want to be as good as Gordon was. All of his venues were always packed that is how good he was, as was his home church full when he regularly demonstrated his gift to them and take the services, he never forgot where he started.

Gordon was the president of the Spiritualist National Union and Head of the college for the years 1970-1993.

He absolutely loved Stansted Hall Essex U.K. and always said it was like coming home. If you ever go there you will know what he meant, it is as though you belong there and you are part of it, even when you step through the doors for the very first time..

Gordon taught for many years in The Arthur Findlay College, in Stansted Hall, this is a wonderful place of learning for every enquiring person of any development stage, I whole heartedly recommend it to everyone.

At one lecture in Stansted he said "you must remember all the people that have done a great deal for Spiritualism. I know you hear a great deal about Mediums, and people who make their name known, and live, but there are thousands of people who have done a great deal of work for spiritualism and are often forgotten. Spiritualism was started by people of vision, and it must always remain that way. And without these people there wouldn't be a Spiritualism at all. You seem to think very often it depends upon Mediums. It doesn't.

Gordon the Medium the man with vision

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