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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.
Gordon's 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 seances 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 demonstrating clairvoyance 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.
Longton Church in Stoke on Trent UK were very lucky to have two wonderful hard working Mediums as members in their church and they benefited from years of service from Fanny Higginson and her son Gordon Higginson.
Gordon has sat as the Medium in seances for royalty but never spoke about it publicly. But many a time at Stansted in some of his lectures he spoke of Prince Charles as being the catalyst for change in the attitude of many in the main religions of this country, Great Britain, it is gradually becoming fact.
I heard Gordon tell these little
parts of his life in Stansted Hall at the Arthur Findlay College and
in the Liverpool Daulby Street Church
Gordon's father was not a
Spiritualist, but Fanny told him that she must remain a Spiritualist
and a Medium. She did not ask him to be one, but knew by the earlier
prophecy that she must continue with her spiritual work.
She also said her children must
know about her religion, which was Spiritualism, but that they would
also know about her father's religion. So they were brought up to
know both Spiritualism and Christianity.
The first child born to his
parents was a boy so Fanny Higginson thought this was the son that
was to be a Medium. The second child was also a boy so she thought,
"Well it has to be one or the other." He was also taken along to the
church to be named. Then came a girl so it was then decided that
three children were enough.
Nearly three years later, they
realised another baby was on the way and were not very pleased, but
along 'he' came. And it was he that was to become the Medium.
Gordon's two brothers and sister
have no mediumistic powers.
The wonder of this story is that
Gordon's mother had been told at the age of 14 she would stand on
the platform at Longton Church, and she would have a son who would
follow her. His mother stayed at Longton Church as their Medium for
70 years. Gordon took his first Spiritualist service at Longton as a
Medium when he was 12 years old and so together they spanned over a
century of time.
There was nothing wrong with
Fanny's mother when she went to the church that afternoon. There was
no reason to suppose for one moment she was about to pass, but she
had a sudden heart attack. This was just in time to give such
marvellous evidence to Fanny to show her the way forward. But not
only for Fanny but for Gordon. This shows that Mediums are coming
into the world not by mistake, but through the influence of a higher
mind, which is in charge of things.
I remember him telling how when
he was a baby his mother had to take him to church with her for his
father would not look after him.
So from the time he was in
'swaddling clothes' he would be placed in the circle with his mother
during the developing class.
His years of training under his
mother's watchful eye helped make him the fine Medium he was to
become.
But in the early days, he was
convinced he was much better than he really was.
He would always work better when
his mother was not present and admitted that he thought he gave
really good evidence:-
"Earnest Oaten was one of the
finest orators of Spiritualism and he was to be the guest speaker
and I was to demonstrate at a very large meeting in Birmingham.
Mr Oaten had given a most
marvellous address and I got up to give clairvoyance.
The hall was packed to capacity,
for in those days our halls were absolutely crowded.
And of course he thought as he
stood up "Oh I'm the boy Medium, and they've all come to hear me.
They don't really want to hear the speaker, its me, the wonderful
boy Medium they've all come to hear.
I was flying all over the place
with messages and everyone was saying "Oh yes luv" to me and I loved
it and thought how marvellous it was.
I sat down and had the applause
after the demonstration and I thought "Now what do you think of
that?"(to Mr Oaten)
But he never spoke to me. He
never came up and said how good I was. And I thought 'and who the
heck does he think he is?'
You know when we are 14 or 15
years old we think we know everything, and I honestly thought I knew
it all!
And as he was going Earnest Oaten
just stopped me and said:
"You know Gordon, one day you
will make a very good Medium"
That really got me. To think that
he had the audacity to say "one day you might make a very good
Medium." What the heck does he think I am now?
I admit that I did not have much
humility about me.
And then Mr Oaten said to me;
"I have given my whole life to
Spiritualism but all my knowledge couldn't cover the head of a pin"
I walked away and did not know
where to put myself. He had said exactly the right thing.
My mother who I didn't think had
been there listening came to me.
I said "Mother I've given the
demonstration of my life tonight!"
"Oh you gave lovely little
messages to people and you told them there was such a lot of love
with them, and their mother was with them, and their father was with
them, and they were carrying a cross, and all that sort of thing."
And I said "Well they understood
it!"
And for two years I had to
struggle hard in the developing class to make my mediumship even
better.
But as I look back I realise I
was not a good Medium.
I thought I was but I really
wasn't."
Over many years Gordon was widely
recognised for his exceptional mediumship.
He shared his training and
knowledge with many, including students who were to follow his lead
and practice his teachings.
They were to share his teachings
with others who were not fortunate enough to have studied under such
a fine teacher.
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