Author: thelifeandtimesofstevieboy

I am a 64 year old Spiritual Healer and Spiritualist Platform Medium, I wrote my first blog in December 2016 about my diet, I really enjoyed writing it so have been writing about my spiritual journey and realisation since then, also adding poetry when inspired I hope you enjoy reading

Northern Light Church Tour 2024

Sitting here casting my thoughts back to 30th June 2023, the night I served Connections of Light Spiritualist church Darwen. from that service two other churches in the Lancashire, and one in Yorkshire, asked me to serve them, I suggested to those churches that I was booked to serve Connections of light 14th June 2024, if they had services that week I could serve them, as I live approximately 250 miles from them, my petrol expenses would be to much for them to book me, but as I would be staying in the area, I would charge for petrol from my hotel in Blackburn, and I was happy to extend my stay to serve them, the churches agreed. I was telling medium Kate Green about the other churches booking me, and she suggested I call it the northern light tour. Why not I thought as her suggestion rang a bell with me, and it would highlight the great service the spiritualist churches, in Lancashire and Yorkshire are doing for their communities.

PURPLE LIGHT SPIRITUALIST CHURCH 13/06/24

I had a quiet day spent at the premier inn I was staying at, a good breakfast and a walk to the local shop, gave me some much needed fresh air. As the day progressed, I was getting more and more nervous about, serving spirit for the first time at Purple Light Spiritualist Church. I sat down to meditate at 5pm, to raise heart and mind out of my material aches pains and woes, to connect with spirit. The good thing about this process is you can put your problems to one side, to raise your vibration high enough for connection with spirit, it was a wonderful meditation, with my spirit guides cleansing and clearing my chakras to prepare for service, at 6pm it was time to dress and prepare for the journey to church.

I arrived at the unitarian meeting hall 6.45pm, the church was starting to fill with people, there were sandwiches cakes tea and coffee being served. I thought this is lovely, the lovely Lorraine Mackenzie gave me a hug and a warm welcome offering me a hot drink, I presented Lorraine with a framed copy of my poem Rainbow as a gift for the church, as a thankyou for booking me, I took my coffee and sat down in the healing room, healing energy is always lovely to sit in and prepare for service. Karen James introduced herself to me as she was going to be chairing for me, I went to the platform at 7.25pm, the church was full of people, I said to Karen ” I was not expecting this lot”, Karen told me that this amount of people was normal, and that the church was growing in numbers every week. I said to Karen it is lovely to see a spiritualist church so well attended, the energy within the room was high, due to the friendly and good nature of the people within. I opened the service in prayer, spirit communicated with love and evidence of survival, to finish off the service I read my poem Rainbow to the congregation, my poem was well received and I closed the service in prayer. After service I ate the egg sandwiches that were put to one side for me, Lorraine gave me my expenses, I can honestly say it was a real pleasure to serve Purple Light Spiritualist Church. As there is a real sense of community service and belonging within the church. If your in the Chorley area, I highly recommend a visit to Purple Light Spiritualist Church.

CONNECTIONS OF LIGHT SPIITUALIST CHURCH – DARWEN 14/06/24

I have been looking forward to serving, Connections Of Light Spiritualist Church – Darwen. Since I served there last year 30/06/23, connections is a beautiful church filled with high spirit energy. I can honestly say it is a humble honour to work within that high energy, I had a lazy day at hotel relaxing, I sat for meditation once again to prepare for service, my spirit guides once again gave me much needed healing, as in recent weeks my emotional self has been all over the place. The healing given allowed me to balance myself, and focus on the demonstration of mediumship I was about to give, I have served connections online doing Zoom and Facebook Live demonstrations, of mediumship for their online spiritual group Eternal Spirit Online Team. When I arrived at connections it was really a meeting of old friends that warmed my heart, was lovely to see again Andy Ash and medium Kate Green who run connections, and the lovely Karen Burchill who chaired for me for Zooms, as I walked into the church I was filled with the high energy of spirit.

Inside the church I met the lovely medium Victoria Cowell ( Giggles), who has worked with me online doing coffee time chats and demonstrations of mediumship, also there was Denise and Tony Bull, fellow mediums who I have met on Zoom. Tony was going to be my chairperson for the demonstration of mediumship. I presented Kate Green with my framed poem Rainbow, as I really feel the words of the poem suit connections and the service to the community connections provide along with their charity fundraising, Kate placed Rainbow on the platform. The high energy of spirit did not let me down, spirit communicated through me with love guidance and evidence. After demonstration I had a lovely chat and a cuppa with all concerned, Kate gave me a booking for next year 06/08/25, which I can honestly say I am very much looking forward to returning to connections next year.

Victoria Cowell
Tony & Denise Bull

BANKFOOT SNU CHURCH DIVINE SERVICE. 15/06/24

Although I slept well I awoke mentally tired, for me four services in four days is mentally challenging, running the risk of becoming mentally drained, as with mediumship we have to concentrate and focus to higher levels, than in everyday life, with this in mind, today it is important that I recharge mentally. take a little walk to be in nature and just to relax my mind. Tonight’s service is a fundraiser for Bankfoot SNU Church, to raise funds for church repairs, so I needed to be on form for spirit. So spirit can bring through me their love guidance upliftment and evidence of survival, to all in attendance tonight.

I had been aware of a nun spirit guide around me all day, as I sat down to meditate she drew closer to me. I remembered seeing her as a child in infant school, she used to tell me off for being lazy at school, but here she was today soothing and recharging my mental state. Allowing me to concentrate at the required level for service, I arrived at Bankfoot SNU Church 6.20 pm to prepare for service at 7pm, I was given a lovely warm welcome by Steve who would be chairing for me. I was given a coffee myself and Steve went through the order of service, I met the lovely Lena Hunt, who booked me to serve that night, I presented her with my poem Rainbow, to thank her for booking me, Lena gave me a woolen worry bear as a keepsake, for me to remember my visit to Bankfoot, then it was time to sit quietly and open my channel to spirit, five minutes before service the lovely Tracy Young came to say hello, I had not seen her for years, I remember her from my early days of platform mediumship, at Hayes Spiritualist Church, and White Arrow Spiritualist Church Hillingdon. in the 80’s 90’s and early 2000’s it was great to see her and it gave my energy a boost meeting her again.

For the philosophy part of the service. I read out my spirit inspired poem Far Away, which was well received, I gave philosophy about how grief teaches us to let go and move on, and that as spiritualists, we know that we are connected to all things, and that we know we are still connected to our loved ones far away, and that we can still connect with our loved ones through, thought emotion and prayer, even though our loved ones are no longer physically with us. I gave examples of the signs my dad gave me of his presence after his passing to spirit. For the demonstration of mediumship the energy of spirit gradually grew and deepened over the course of the demonstration, with the messages being given gradually grew more evidential and deeply spiritual, I feel very blessed to have been able to give those messages. After service it was time for coffee and cake, and to chat with people, I am pleased to say Lena booked me again for next year 09/08/25, I wish I had taken more photos, because Bankfoot SNU Church is a lovely old church, with dedicated spiritualists running it, and it was a real pleasure to serve there. I highly recommend to anyone a visit to Bankfoot SNU Church.

CLITHEROE SPIRITUALIST CHURCH RIBBLE VALLEY. DIVINE SERVICE 16/06/24

Today is fathers day, as I sit typing this blog, I am contemplating tonight’s inspired address, I am going to read out my poem Reflections, I was inspired to write about a moment of grief, for my dad who passed away in 2015. I am an advocate of spiritualist churches not only providing evidence of eternal life, but also giving comfort and support to grieving people who have loved ones passed away, and the knowledge that we can connect with our loved ones passed away, and that our loved ones are still with us and connect with us, to guide us through our earthly lives until we meet again. I very much feel that will help comfort and take a lot of the pain of grief away. I am mentally tired but Mother and Fathers Day services are very special, I am honoured to be doing this service tonight

I arrived at Clitheroe Spiritualist Church at 6.15pm. I was given a warm welcome by the lovely Gilly, who had also booked me for the divine service, I clicked with Gilly straight away a bubbly friendly lady, who told me I spoke foreign because of southern Slough accent, there is a lovely energy within the church very light and welcoming. Gilly asked me to pick the first hymn to be sung in the service, as it was fathers day I picked How Great Thou Art, my dads favourite hymn. There were pictures on the wall of the pioneers of spiritualism, Emma Hardinge Britten who chanelled the seven principles of spiritualism, Maurice Barbanell channel to spirit guide Silver Birch, Harry Edwards spiritual healer. Hannan Swaffer journalist and promoter of spiritualism through his reports on physical mediumship circles. I am in good company I thought to myself, I presented Gilly with my framed poem Rainbow, Gilly said that’s beautiful I will hang it on the wall, I was very honoured that Rainbow would be hung on the wall of such a beautiful church. I asked Gilly if I could take my shoes off for earth power during service, Gilly refused my request saying we are not that sort of church. I was a bit miffed by this as in forty one years of demonstrating mediumship, I had only worn my shoes twice, once because Hayes Spiritualist Church had been flooded and the floor was wet, and at Cavendish Spiritualist Church because the chairperson objected to me taking my shoes off for a divine service.

I went into the mediums room to meditate, still miffed about having to wear my shoes for service, my nun spirit guide stepped forward and said to me why are you making such a fuss about wearing your shoes. It will not effect the way we link with you, I felt a bit silly about feeling miffed about my shoes, I said to my nun guide let’s rock she smiled and stepped back. It was time for the service to begin, I joined Gilly on he platform and she introduced me to the congregation, asking me to open the service in prayer, the lovely thing at Clitheroe Spiritualist Church is the medium lights a candle before giving the opening prayer, as I lit the candle I said in thought to spirit, may the light and love of spirit fill this church. I gave the opening prayer, for the address spirit asked me to change the poem to Far Away, The Poem I had read out at Bankfoot SNU Church, I gave virtually the same address as I did at Bankfoot, I thought it will be fine as this is my first time here and they have not heard this address before. The spirit energy of love had been gradually building throughout the service, it was time to give the messages, spirit communicated with a lot of heart and love as well as evidence of survival. I closed the service in prayer. A gentleman thanked me for the service, I thanked him for coming to the service, as spirit and me cannot do what we do without people turning up to services, as spirit would have no one to communicate too. I had a coffee and drove back to my hotel, and enjoyed a glass or two of sauvignon blanc, feeling very blessed to be a channel for spirit for the four services.

THOUGHTS

I can honestly say the light of spirit shines brightly in the northern churches I visited, very friendly people, the most refreshing thing there were open and closed circles in the churches I visited, that are very well attended, it is great for me to see that people are wanting to learn about eternal life and how it works and to connect with spirit, through this we can help to make the world a better place. Also the strong sense of community and service within the churches is a true example of the practice of the teachings of spirit. I feel very blessed to be asked to serve the four churches, although the trip cost me personally £500.00 the churches covered my fuel expenses, it was worth it for the experience, and the lovely people I met, and for the deep connection with spirit I felt during the services, I feel that mediums should travel as far and as wide as they can, to share the love teachings and communication of spirit. In this day and age of the spiritual industry and celebrity mediumship, where fame and money are given more importance than service to spirit and others, my trip up north reminded me of my early years when I used to spend a week in south Wales serving churches, and all the other mediums I met on the church circuit who like me would travel all over the country, giving spirit teachings and evidence of survival. Spirit need we mediums to bring their teachings and evidence of survival after physical death, to the people in the churches and centres around the country. I drove home the next day mentally drained but truly blessed and humbled by what spirit had communicated through me, today 18/06/24 I returned to my work with meals on wheels, although mentally drained I hope I get the chance to tour more churches like I did up north, as it was such an amazing experience for me, plus fulfilling my purpose as a spirit messenger.

Stephen Rowlands 19/06/24

Transfiguration & Trance Zen Broughshane

13th November 2023. My Friend Lisa Ann Horner contacted me, to ask if I would travel to Northern Ireland , to give a demonstration of transfiguration and trance, at her friends spiritual holistic shop called Zen in Broughshane Northern Ireland. Her call came completely out of the blue, as I had not seen or heard of her for a good eleven years, when I last visited her in Plymouth in 2013. Lisa told me that she had moved from Plymouth to Northern Ireland, remarried and settled down, she was running spiritual awareness courses at Zen, and my name had come up in conversation, we caught up on old times and I accepted Lisa’s invitation to demonstrate transfiguration and trance. we agreed the date for the demonstration to be 30th January 2024. Lisa also kindly invited me to stay at her home. I booked the time off work three days, one day for travel and rest and to visit Paul Mccormick in his Zen shop, a day to set up build energy for transfiguration and trance, and to give the demonstration, and to travel home on the third day.

29th January 2024, the day had come for me to fly to Belfast City Airport. I could not take all my trance equipment with me, as my chair and red light was to big to go into my small suitcase, and my luggage would have been over the weight restrictions for the flight, so I had to improvise. I bought a small clip on light fitting to house my red bulb, the idea being we could put a cardboard box with a hole in it over the red light, to focus the red light into the cabinet. My cabinet is a wolfwise privacy tent which folds in a bag, and I could take that onboard the aircraft as hand luggage, my germanium crystal which I hang in the cabinet to conduct spirit energy. My black chair cover fitted nicely in my suitcase, total weight of my luggage was 12kg so well within flight weight limits, it was an early flight 08.45am. I had to be at Southampton Airport 2 hours before flight, my wife dropped me off at the airport for 06.30am, I checked my bags in and went through security with no problems. In the departures lounge a costa coffee shop was open, I treated myself to an americano and a hot sausage roll. I am nervous of flying, I usually have a couple of drinks to fortify me for the flight. A bar was open a few people were having a drink, I thought shall I but then the realisation came it was to early in the morning for a drink even for me. I did not want to meet my friends at Belfast City smelling of Bells whiskey, this thought made me chuckle as it was good to let go of my old ways.

My flight was delayed by 25 minutes, we took off at 09.10am. As the aircraft climbed with me staring out of the window, I could not see anything due to cloud, but looking out of the window when in flight gives me a sense of control, daft I know but it helps. I remember feeling so very blessed and grateful, that I was taking this journey to give a demonstration of transfiguration and trance in Broughshane Northern Ireland. It took me back to 1983 when I started demonstrating mediumship in spiritualist churches, I remember saying to my spirit guides at the time, let’s see where this journey takes us. Throughout all the highs and lows of my life my spirit guides have stood by me, I felt truly blessed that my spirit guides are guiding my path of spiritual service, to where I do not know I have no expectation on my path, as I had no expectation in 1983. I am happy to be a leaf on the spirit breeze, landing I know not where, but wherever I land it is where I am meant to be. I still get the same sense of excitement when I get invited to demonstrate somewhere new, as I did in 1983.

We landed at Belfast City at 10.40am I collected my luggage and met Lisa and her husband Mark who drove me to their home. It was great to catch up with Lisa and reminisce on old times, Lisa advised me that the 20 people who had bought tickets for the demonstration, where all spiritual seekers who had sat in her awareness circle at Zen. Lisa advised that most of them had never seen transfiguration and trance, as trance mediumship is something that is not done in Northern Ireland. I have friends In Ireland who are Trance Healers, but trance mediumship is not known in Ireland. This is a shame and I hope my visit will inspire people to develop trance mediumship, in Ireland as a whole, because it is a unique form of spirit communication, where spirit guides and loved ones can be seen and spoken to.

30/01/2024 After a good night’s sleep and breakfast I felt rested, I sat in Lisa’s dining room where she gives readings, the energy in the dining room was high vibrational, a great place to sit and discuss spirit and allow my spirit guides to draw close to prepare for the demonstration that evening. I felt a sense of excitement from my spirit guides, this lets me know my spirit guides are looking forward to communicating to the earth plane. I had forgotten to bring my business cards to hand out to those in attendance, through the power of microsoft publisher and Lisa and Mark’s kindness, new business cards and question cards for the sitters were made up using their printer. We found a cardboard box and customised it for the red light. I had a light lunch as it is always best to have an empty stomach for trance, as a full stomach can create a block for the spirit communicators. We loaded Lisa’s car with trance kit and headed to Zen in Broughshane.

Arriving at Zen at 17.30pm. I must say I was impressed with Zen the energy within was warm and welcoming, the shop was full of crystals of every description and spiritual items, I met Paul Mccormick the owner and introduced myself, thanking him for allowing me and my spirit team to demonstrate at Zen. Paul is a Reiki Master who channels Reiki Healing at Zen, his energy is of a powerful loving kind vibration a man who is dedicated to the upliftment of others, through healing and teaching. We had the cabinet and red light set up by 18.00pm, we played Enya’s greatest hits to help raise the energy for my spirit guides to communicate in. All attendees had arrived by 19.05pm, I gave a little talk about myself the do’s and dont’s of trance. I asked people to switch their phones off. As any sudden noises could bring me back to quickly and rip the spirit guide from my aura, sure enough as I had just spoken of the dangers of noise to me and spirit, a ladies phone went off she apologised, I repeated the dangers of sudden noise to me and spirit. As twice people have made noise, and twice the spirit guide has been ripped from my aura, and I have come back hard. Making me feel physically ill and I had to take a week off work each time. My spirit guides have advised me, that when this happens it is very unhealthy for them, as they are vibrating at a more physical level and it hurts them, and have to recover themselves after being forcibly removed from the mediums auric field. I gave an opening prayer and did my internal countdown to a trance state. When I returned to my consciousness when my spirit guides had stood back, I saw many attendees sat open mouthed and I thought yes they have not witnessed transfiguration and trance before. I answered questions from attendees, and I must say I enjoyed answering their questions.

Transfiguration & Trance Report Zen Broughshane Northern Ireland 30/01/24

Last evening Stephen demonstrated too an audience of 20 people. It was an evening of unexpected remarkable experience which non of us had come across before. Stephens physical form changed, his face became elongated more defined and hair was black.( he’s grey as a ghost). Questions  where delivered to the entity /guide and answered with direct concise response. Lights were witnessed around Stephen whilst he channeled. It was very apparent to all present that an Entity/Guide sat before us. Each member of the audience remarked afterwards what an awe inspiring experience we had just witnessed.

We hope Stephen will take up the invite to revisit.

Lisa day Medium

Transfiguration & Trance Report Zen Broughshane Northern Ireland 30/01/24

On Tuesday I was grateful to have the opportunity of watching Stephen Rowlands at his demonstration in Broughshane , Northern Ireland. Before Stephen began his demonstration, he took the time to explain how he worked with spirit, gave us the opportunity to ask spirit a question. I was very lucky to be right at the front with a fantastic view. As Stephen began his demonstration you could slowly see changes in his appearance. As the demonstration continued you could see the transfiguration and spirit working with Stephen, the changes in his appearance, especially his face. I could see the build up of spirit mist flowing outwards from the tent Stephen was sitting in. Spirit was also moving within the tent and room, you could feel their energy, I felt spirit touch my leg. Spirit began to give much healing, I went very warm and could feel the love and warmth within my heart as spirit surrounded us all with love and healing energy. It was a pleasure to get to watch Stephen not only did he explain in detail the whole process before he began his demonstration, he also took the time after his demonstration to answer questions and help others with any guidance they needed. I have to say such a lovely humble gentleman, spirit very much shone and so did Stephen, if you get the opportunity to go to one of Stephens demonstrations, you will thoroughly enjoy it.

Thank you & spirit for a wonderful evening Stephen.

Judith Millar, Medium and Spiritual Guidance Coach.

Stephen Rowlands 02/02/24

ETERNITY IS NOW