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GORDON M HIGGINSON was born on 17th November 1918 and started sitting in his mother’s development circle at the age of three. For as far back as he could remember he was able to see and experience things mediumistically. At the age of five he was a member of the Longton Lyceum and took his first service at Longton Spiritualist Church when he was twelve.
In the Second World War he served in the armed forces. Perhaps it was because of his experiences in such a time of bitter conflict that he recognised the need for all people to overcome the barriers that separated them and find unity with one another. After the war, he was the first British Spiritualist to work abroad in Belgium and France and demonstrated with Madame St Clair, who held the highest award for bravery for work done in the Resistance, as his translator.
Gordon worked with many of the greatest names of the time and singularly filled venues to their maximum capacity throughout the UK, including several solo demonstrations at the Royal Albert Hall. In 1970 he was elected the President of the Spiritualists’ National Union - a position he held for more than twenty years. He also became the Principal of the Arthur Findlay College (a college for the study and advancement of transpersonal phenomena) for fourteen years, and widely respected for a variety of mediumistic and teaching work, which encompassed the insights of many of the world’s great wisdom traditions and great seers.
In some ways, he could also be looked upon as an English mystic, because of the experiences he had and his teachings on both the spirit and the Divine. He past to spirit on 18th January 1993.
As well as honouring the name of Gordon Higginson and the great work he did, the fellowship also basis its key teachings and views on an inclusive, integral, holistic and interspiritual understanding about growth, which are summarised in its principal Seven Reflections and Nine Unfoldments.
References:
The Spiritualist’s National Union centenary programme for the Wembley Conference Centre (1990) and original notes taken from an interview with Gordon Higginson for the programme by Santoshan (Stephen Wollaston). |
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