Category: Spirituality

Northern Light 2025

Sitting at home awaiting Julie my girlfriend to arrive, thinking of the drive to premier inn Blackburn south. Contemplating my third visit north to serve spirit, as previous blogs will testify, knowing I am honored and privileged to be invited to serve northern churches three years in a row. Knowing I want to be the best medium that I can be for spirit, and reminding myself we mediums are nothing without spirit, we mediums all to often get caught up in the hype of showbiz spiritualism, leading to exaggerated expectations and ego, I love to travel in my service to spirit, I was told by spirit years ago that I would demonstrate all over the country. It is great to serve new churches and to meet so many dedicated people who run spiritualist churches.

This years visit is bitter sweet as in the last ten months I have separated from my wife, final order of divorce due in late August, now I have a girlfriend and a new home, it has been a rollercoaster of upheaval change and emotions. It was as if I fell asleep in one world and awoke in another, the last ten months have been a time of adjustment for me, adapting to my new world whilst saying a long slow painful farewell to my old world, throughout the last ten months whilst serving spirit in churches. I have found that my mediumship has got stronger and more evidential, I realise that as my marriage was coming to an end I was in a state of inertia, now out of that state of inertia energies are rising and my mediumship is becoming stronger. I have struggled to adapt to my new world as I loved my wife deeply, Julie has been very patient and understanding with me, it still feels strange at times not having my wife around anymore, and not sensing that beautiful togetherness I thought we had.

Sitting at breakfast this morning. with memories of bringing my wife here in 2023, it hit me like a freight train that I had got my life back my life has been reset back to as it was before I met my wife in 2017, when I dwell on my memories of my wife I am living in a past lament. My life has been reset for a reason so now I must embrace it, there must be much to do, for my life to be reset in this way. This thought is very empowering, as I have always felt I am a leaf being blown by the spirit breeze to wherever spirit need me to be, the sense of freedom and purpose I feel right now is indescribable, last year northern light 2024 I grieved for lost love, it was very hard to raise my vibration out of my grief to spirit somehow we managed, this year northern light 2025 is a journey of development discovery and service.

It was great to be serving Clitheroe Spiritualist Church once again. Myself and Julie received a warm welcome from Angela, the new president of the church and her husband Mark, Angela asked me to pick a song or a hymn for service, I picked the hymn Open My Eyes, a traditional spiritualist hymn and one of the first hymns I sang in a spiritualist church 47 years ago, Open My Eyes is still my favourite hymn, I was delighted when Angela told me she was very happy that I had picked a traditional spiritualist hymn. The energy within the church was warm and friendly, a good energy to open to spirit. I took my coffee into the mediums room to meditate and open my channel to spirit, as I opened heart and mind to spirit. I felt the presence of an angel, and George who always calls out his name when I open to spirit, and a black cat.

I was asked to light a candle on platform before I opened the service in prayer, I asked for the light of the candle to bring healing to all in need, opened in prayer followed by the lords prayer. We sang Open My Eyes, then it was time for me to demonstrate mediumship, I see this as a time to connect loved ones in spirit to loved ones on earth, it is a privilege to pass on messages from loved ones in spirit, and I am so very humbled to be a part of that connection. Not only for evidence of survival after physical death, this is secondary to me what is more important is the love, healing, comfort, upliftment, and guidance. A message from a loved one in spirit can bring to a loved one on earth, I was taught that evidence should be given purely for recognition purposes only. This became apparent, when I was connecting a grandmother in spirit to her teenage grandson, she gave her grandson evidence, that his mother sitting next to him did not know. The grandmother in spirit gave her grandson on earth a birthday cake, he confirmed he had just had his seventeenth birthday.

After service he came to me and thanked me for the message, he told me the reason he comes to Clitheroe Spiritualist Church is to talk to his grandmother. I was humbled by this, as yet again it reminds me of why we mediums do what we do for spirit, the heart to heart connection from spirit communicators to their beloved on earth, messages from spirit should always be given through the heart, as they bring upliftment comfort and healing to the bereaved. There is great purpose in spirit communication, to bring not only upliftment comfort and healing, also to bring teaching to raise the collective consciousness of the human soul. Towards the end of service I was giving a lady a message from a spirit lady who came with a black cat, as I mentioned the cat, a dog who had been sitting quietly throughout the service, started growling and barking at something behind me, Angela said this was the best evidence of the night. Another example I would like to share with you 30/07/25 I was serving Cadoxten Spiritualist Church, I gave a message to a young man from several of his loved ones in spirit, after service he told me he walked into church as a sceptic, but messages I passed onto him from his loved ones in spirit, were on point and accurate, and that he would attend church every week to learn more about life after death. The path of spiritual service is so sacred and divine, to be able to bring enlightenment and healing to all who seek through heart to heart connection is beyond words and earthly reward.

Clitheroe Spiritualist Church

My third visit to connections of light Darwen. I must say I love to serve connections, as it is a opportunity to meet old friends, from when I used to do zoom demonstrations for them in lockdown. was lovely to see Andy, Sylvia, Karen, Alice, and Stephanie again. Connections is a high energy church and it is a privilege to open to spirit in this high energy, I am often telling people you get out of spirit communication what you put into it. There is the loving power of spirit within connections of light, because the energy of love has been created within the church by those who run it and also the people who attend. I wish more churches and centres understood, that the building they are in is a medium for spirit, and it is important that the energy of love must be created within the building, to create the right environment for spirit to communicate in. As spirit reach out to us from a realm of unconditional love. Connections also serve their community as a spiritual hub, running workshops and demonstrations from many spiritual disciplines, also raising money for local people and charities and social events. It is an honour for me to serve connections of light. As for the demonstration of mediumship, the love flowed between the spirit and physical realms, evidence was on point and accepted. As always I look forward to serving connections of light next year.

Me with Stephanie Darlington
Me with Andy Ash

It was originally intended, that I should demonstrate transfiguration and trance at Wigan SNU Church, unfortunately Wigan had a flood and they have builders in repairing flood damage, and they would not be open in time for me and my spirit team to demonstrate. Tina the booking secretary for Wigan suggested that she would offer my demonstration of transfiguration and trance to local churches to see if anyone of them would like to host transfiguration and trance. I was delighted when Horwich National Spiritualist Church, offered to host transfiguration and trance the same night, as the Wigan demonstration would have been. Chris the president contacted me and arrangements were made.

Horwich National Spiritualist Church, is a large church with a hundred and twenty six years of history of serving it’s community, it is an honour and privilege to serve there, I was met by the committee who opened the church. I set up the cabinet the lovely Janet agreed to work with me, and guide people who wanted to ask my spirit guide questions to the chair next to the cabinet. Janette told me they have trance demonstrations at Horwich, but this would be the first one with a cabinet and red light. I advised Janette that I wanted to demonstrate transfiguration and trance in the old traditional way, using the cabinet to harness spirit energy, and red light to help people to see spirit easier.

Janet introduced me to the twenty sitters in attendance. I gave a short talk about how transfiguration and trance works, what may happen within the cabinet, as I explained to the sitters something or nothing may happen, as each transfiguration and trance sit that I do is experimental and developmental. Also the safety rules the do’s and dont’s, I sat in the cabinet giving the opening prayer asking for protection and inviting my spirit team to use me as a channel for transfiguration and trance, going into my countdown meditation to trance state.

When I returned back into my physical consciousness, sitters told me they had seen my spirit guides in transfiguration describing them accurately, also some of the sitters had witnessed loved ones appear in transfiguration, the ladies who asked my spirit guide questions told me their questions were answered and now they have a greater understanding of eternal life. Many of the sitters said they experienced the healing energies from the cabinet. I left Horwich National Spiritualist Church, feeling empowered and energised that my spirit team had touched hearts, also a invitation to return next year.

Horwich National Spiritualist Church
Sitters for demonstration of transfiguration and trance

I am very much looking forward to serving Bankfoot SNU Church this evening, my last service of this years Northern Light. This will be the second time I have served Bankfoot, it is a large friendly spiritualist church in Bradford, tonight will be a divine service, with a inspired address and messages from loved ones. I will meditate to receive inspiration for the address from my spirit guides, inviting them to choose which of my poems to read out before I give the address. Today I will rest and meditate as I intend to drive home over night, as I am serving Bognor Regis Spiritualist Centre tomorrow evening.

Arriving at Bankfoot SNU Church around 6pm, I had plenty of time to prepare for service, spiritual healing was being given in the main church, a lady made myself and Julie a cup of coffee. I relaxed as the church began to fill with people, I went to a quiet room to meditate, Steve who chaired for me last year again chaired for me this year, Steve asked me if I was going to give philosophy. I said yes as I see philosophy and teaching as a integral part of raising consciousness, spiritualism with just evidential mediumship is just a glimpse of the truth of eternal life. Knowledge should be given to allow people to put the way of eternal life, into their spiritual practice. The service began I gave the opening prayer followed by the lords prayer, then a meditation to receive spiritual healing was given by the lovely Christine, a lady read out a reading teaching us that everything happens in it’s own time. and that we are all loved and guided, I followed this with an inspired address, stating that we should be aware that we are eternal now, and that we have chosen life on the earth plane, to evolve our eternal soul and the collective consciousness of the human race,

We sang a hymn then it was time for me to connect loved ones in spirit to loved ones present in the church. The energy within the church suddenly uplifted, the messages flowed and evidence was accepted, the laughter of those in attendance really raised the energy, one message I was blessed to have given from a Jewish professor in spirit, to a Muslim lady in the congregation, showing me himself so I could give a full description of him, he also gave her a Menorah Candelabra, the lady was overjoyed to receive a message from him, as he was a very close friend and they used to share deep conversations about religion. That was the last message I closed in prayer we said the vesper, after a cup of coffee and a big slice of Victoria sponge it was time to drive home, as I am serving Bognor Regis Spiritualist Centre 10/08/25. I have come away from Northern Light 2025, feeling empowered and truly blessed, hoping to do it all again next year.

Bankfoot SNU Church
Menorah Candelabra
Me and Julie x

Stephen Rowlands 10/08/25

Consciousness = Thought = Vibration = Energy

We often talk about how life is treating us, we never ask the question of how are we treating life. I live in the knowledge that life is a state of heart and mind, we create our lives from our vibrational state of heart and mind, life is a inner creation rather than an outward experience of perception. All life forms on this planet are conscious with their own distinct vibrational frequency, we should not underestimate the power of our thoughts and emotions, as they are powerful vibrations, with the energy to change life around us like attracts like, as spirit teaches us thought is the most powerful thing in the universe.

To Be Or Not To Be Tis The Question, Whether It Is Nobler In The Mind, To Suffer The Slings And Arrows Of Outrageous Fortune, Or To Take Up Arms Against A Sea Of Troubles, And By Opposing End Them.

Hamlet.

All consciousness has freewill, we must be respectful of this powerful freedom of thought and emotion, and be mindful of the choices we make, as we are creating our lives, life moves forward in a constant rhythm in our world of physical matter. I realise that within the natural laws governing our planet, we must always be moving forward. One door closes another door will open, this is not just an old saying. I have realised this is a truth within natural law, the problems begin when we are banging on the closed door, rather than moving forward and preparing to go through the open door. Life in our physical world of matter, is about change for the evolution of our eternal soul.

We chose to live this life on earth for the evolution of our eternal soul, when we think in terms of eternity, our short life span on this earth is less than a blink of an eye. in this life we experience many changes in mind, body, and spirit. Such as growing young to old, relationships come and go, our beloved passes away, jobs and homes come and go. These are all times of change that cause us hurt and pain, yes we must embrace our hurt and pain, and ask the questions as to why we feel the way we do, what attachments have we formed, to give us greater insight to the spiritual truths, to help us to become aware of how to conduct our lives within the flow of natural and universal law. If we are constantly banging on the closed door, this will lead to our lives to stagnate and become a state of inertia.

Rather than preparing to walk through the open door to a new life and reality, nine months ago my marriage ended, when my ex wife told me she no longer loved me. Yes I was devastated as I loved my wife deeply, I moved from a comfortable home with a beautiful willow tree on the green, to a room in a shared house, 15/10/24 sharing the bathroom and kitchen. I left with my clothes and boxes of dvd’s. As I told my ex wife this was not my first rodeo I knew exactly what I must do. Whilst embracing my sadness I looked forward, knowing I must not go down in heart and mind as I needed my job to be able to afford to live, I had registered for social housing I was bidding on homes every Wednesday, this was creating energy going forward for my new life. this was a time of preparation of letting go of my marriage, and opening the door to a new life.

Myself and an old lady friend Julie, who contacted me to see how I was during my separation, became close as she supported me through my heartbreak. A Mazda salesman contacted me to see if I wanted to rent a brand new Mazda 3 as I could not afford a brand new Mazda 3. I picked up my new Mazda 3 05/03/25. I feel my spirit guides were working with me to create a new life, as myself and Julie had separately wanted to become closer, also I needed a car upgrade as I was travelling further afield in the service of spirit. I was becoming claustrophobic in my small room in a shared house, and resentful of my ex wife for putting me in that position. I knew this was negative energy to feel and it would hold me back from moving forward, I had to change this into a positive energy as positive balances negative in universal law, so I focused my thoughts and emotions into visualising myself in a new home.

In late May I was contacted by Winchester council offering me a flat, as I had a local connection through my job with meals on wheels. On 12/06/25 I signed the contract and got the keys to my new home, my new home was a blank shell with nothing in it. I was worried that I did not have the funds to create my new home, as I am retiring next year, pension companies were contacting me to see what I wanted to do with the money within the pensions. I thought they were worth around a £1000.00, I looked at one pension and to my total surprise and delight, this pension was worth £16,300, so I cashed in this pension after tax it was worth £12,400. this gave me the funds to decorate and buy everything I need for my new home. White goods, furniture, a bed with chaise longue, carpets, the whole kit and caboodle costing me around £11000.00. I moved into my new home 15/07/25, now I am looking forward to spending the rest of my days here. Life moves forward in a constant rhythm, we must become what we need to become, in heart mind and our actions, accept the door to the life we thought we wanted has closed and prepare to go through the open door to a new life. All this was achieved through the practice of spiritual teaching, and going with the flow of universal and natural law, our lives are what we are within.

Stephen Rowlands 30/07/27

Welsh Light

I was very happy to receive a message from the lovely Angela Brigenshaw, who runs Aberaeron Spiritualist Church, with her husband David. Angela asked me if I would like to serve the church, for a divine service on the Saturday, and for a demonstration of trance on the Sunday. I agreed to serve as I love serving Welsh churches, my late father was Welsh. So in my own little way serving Welsh churches, is my way of remembering and paying my respects to my dad. Myself and Angela agreed the dates for both demonstrations to be the 3rd and 4th August 2024. Angela also invited me to stay with her and David whilst I was in Wales, this was a welcome invitation as it would save me the cost of a hotel. Angela also asked if I would like to serve The Ray of Light Spiritualist Church, up the road from them in Llechryd, I said I would if they would like me to serve. During the following week the lovely Linda Mulvey contacted me from The Ray of light giving me a booking for a demonstration of mediumship 6th August 2024. Angela told me I was welcome to stay with her and David until after the demonstration at The Ray of Light. Angela told me they have trouble getting mediums to travel that far to serve them, the least they could do was put the mediums up, who are prepared to travel to them, I thought this was very kind of Angela and David to accommodate we circuit mediums who serve their church.

I arrived at Angela and David’s home at around 4.45pm 02/08/24, after a nearly 6 hour journey from my home near Winchester. I encountered traffic jams on the M4, which delayed my arrival, I was glad to not be driving, I was given a warm welcome, we had dinner and caught up as I have not seen Angela and David for several years. The next morning the sun was shining, it was a beautiful morning, enhanced by the beautiful welsh countryside and mountains. I took a picture of the landscape as I felt blessed to be there, we had breakfast and I relaxed then meditated to prepare for divine service at 2.30pm. Aberaeron Spiritualist Church is around 200 yards from the seafront, the energy of the sea provides beautiful energy, we arrived at church and Angela and David set about preparing church for divine service, apart from the church they have a separate hall adjacent to the church, which they use as a tea room with table and chairs and a kitchen area, they also use the tea room for workshops which is a great use of the space, and helps promote the family and community of spiritualism, the energy in both buildings was amazing. I felt very comfortable to be working there, to my surprise and delight the church was well attended, also present were Ray and Tina Abbot who I had been Facebook friends with for several years, it was great to meet them in person.

At 2.30pm the service began, for the inspired address I read out my poem far away. talking about grieving for the loss of a loved one, and how we as spiritualists should not hang on to the pain of grief , but to let our loved ones go with love to continue their eternal journey. but also to remember the blessing our loved ones in spirit were to us to help ease the pain of grief and the physical loss of our loved ones. A lady said to me before service, that they talk about some strange things at church but at 2.30pm they will be spiritualists. I added in the address that spirituality is a 24/7 thing not just when we are at church, and that I have the same human frailties as everyone else, but as a spiritualist I know that I am connected to something far greater than myself, that guides me in life, and that I endeavor to put the teachings of spirit into practice in my daily life, to turn my negatives into positives and the through the teachings of spirit. I had been on a journey of self discovery, which to me is true spiritual development, and that all people are in a state of spiritual development whether they are aware of it or not.

It came the time for me to demonstrate mediumship to bring messages from loved ones and life guidance from spirit. I must say I felt my link with spirit was not as strong as it usually is, and felt like I was struggling to connect, note to self do not dink a bottle of wine the night before service. but as the demonstration went on the energy of spirit got stronger and stronger, to my relief and the mediumship flowed, I still felt that I had not worked very well. David told me after service that people enjoyed the way I presented mediumship and were impressed by some of the evidence given, after a cup of coffee and a slice of gateaux, myself and David set the church up ready for my demonstration of transfiguration and trance the following evening. Angela and David very kindly took me out for dinner at a local restaurant, we had a lovely meal, then went back their home and a early night was had by all. Aberaeron is a beautiful welsh seaside town and Aberaeron Spiritualist Church has a beautiful energy within, and I must say the congregation were lovely, with the sunshine I feel truly privileged to have served there.

With Ray and Tina Abbot

Transfiguration~Trance Aberaeron Spiritualist Church 04/08/24

It was a lazy morning rising around 10am we had coffee and toast , myself and Angela and David were sharing stories from the platform circuit. I enjoy talking with other mediums, about our experiences on the circuit, I could feel my spirit guides energy building around me I knew it was time to be quiet. So I went to my bedroom played my farm town game, and watched a couple of documentaries on YouTube. I always get apprehensive before a trance demonstration, as it is a step into the unknown and very experimental, it was good to be in my own little world for awhile, Angela cooked a marvelous Sunday lunch, then it was time to meditate and shower to prepare for service. We got to Aberaeron Spiritualist Church at 5.15pm, myself and David had set up the cabinet the day before, so all that needed to be done was play my Enya greatest hits CD and switch the red light on to build spirit energy for the demonstration. Angela made me a cup of coffee, I sat in the tearoom quietly and asked Angels, Spirit Guides, and Loved Ones. To draw close to me to prepare for trance, it came the time to walk across to the church, to my surprise and delight the church was full of people 48 in total, David had to put out extra chairs to accommodate everyone.

I gave the sitters a brief spiritual history of myself, and I explained how transfiguration and trance works, then I discussed health and safety rules with them. 1. please turn your phones off as loud noise, will bring me back to my consciousness with a thud, I told them noise had happened before in three previous trance sits, Each time I was ill taking me a week to recover. 2. please do not touch me as it will bring me back into my consciousness hard. 3. if you need to leave for any reason, or you feel ill please raise your hand, and David will ask my spirit guides to step back, when I am back you can leave. 4. Please use the loo now as you will not be able to use the loo during the trance. I opened in prayer and began my countdown into trance state, as I began my countdown, I heard a voice clearly within my mind saying the name John, my spirit guide Li said to me their is a lady here who needs to hear from John. I continued my countdown to trance state.

My consciousness had arrived within my sacred space, a place of unconditional love, it was time to enjoy the peace and connection of this sacred space, awaiting my spirit guides to bring me back into my physical and material consciousness. After awhile I found myself half in my physical consciousness and half in my sacred space, David had asked my spirit guides to step back and allow me into consciousness, as a lady was feeling claustrophobic and wanted to leave, once she had left and David went back to his seat. I was taken back to my sacred space, in no time at all I was back in a half in and half out state, this time a young man was spooked by the church being in darkness except for the red light upon myself and needed to leave. Once the room had settled again I was taken back into my sacred space. and then a third time I was called back because a medium needed to use the loo and several ladies joined her. This time I was not in a half in half out state, I was more or less back into my physical consciousness, I could feel the spirit of a man on the outskirts of my aura, I told the congregation that as I was going into trance I was given the name John, and spirit guide Li had told me that there is a lady here that needs to hear from John. A lady at the back of the church put her hand up saying my husband is John, I endeavored to give the lady a message from John but his energy was very weak, I invited the lady to sit in front of me. As I knew John was desperately trying to communicate with her, but I could not go back to my sacred space, as by this time through the disturbances to the trance, had greatly weakened the energies and my spirit guides with John stepped back, I apologized to the congregation for not being able to continue, explaining why I could not continue, also that I had never before been called back out of trance state before. I closed the meeting in prayer.

I really felt that I had let people down by not being able to continue the trance, but it ended due to extraordinary circumstances by people needing to leave, due to sickness, becoming frightened, or a medium having a weak bladder, the feedback given from some of the people in attendance was largely positive, they witnessed transfiguration, felt the healing energies being generated from the cabinet, saying they felt better than when they walked in. some gaining insight from the teaching given through me by spirit guide Li. All in all I am happy with what was given by spirit through me in trance state. I am very aware that I need to learn the lessons from that trance session, as demonstration of trance to the general public is fraught with danger, and I think spirit made those lessons apparent in that meeting. In future my trance demonstrations will be ticketed to a maximum of 20 people, they will also be vetted as to their physical and mental health, and they are not of a nervous disposition. Also that they are genuine seekers of spiritual truth. I thank spirit for the lessons learned.

Divine Service Ray of Light Spiritualist Church. Llechryd 06/08/24

Another lazy morning with a lovely breakfast, with spiritual discussion with Angela and David. I went to my room to play my farm town game, and to watch YouTube videos as a way of relaxing before service, I had done most of my packing as I intended to go home after service at Llechryd, as there were road works on the severn bridge causing several miles of tailback, leaving Wales at night time I would avoid the tailback at the severn bridge. Angela cooked a marvelous lunch of lemon chicken pasta and salad, it came the time to shower meditate and load the car ready for service and my journey home. It is only a shot drive to the coracle hall Llechryd, I followed Angela and David in their car, arriving there at 7.10pm, there is a petrol station opposite the hall I took the opportunity to fill up with petrol for my journey home, and parked at the coracle hall. The Lovely Linda Mulvey who runs The Ray Of Light Spiritualist Church, welcomed me to her church, which is a small room within the coracle hall, to my surprise and delight the small room was full of people, most of whom I recognised from the two demonstrations at Aberaeron Spiritualist Church.

The lovely Tina Abbot introduced herself as she was going to be the chairperson for the evening, a gentleman was handing out small scrolls of paper, my scroll read, “Live your life like a candle burning bright with love, so others can see the love in themselves. AR” I thought I must include that in my address, for the address I read out my poem Go I, talking about freewill and grace, and that we should have grace for others as we all make mistakes and do bad things. Having grace for others to me is all about true spiritual development of the soul, I read out the spiritual saying I had been given, I spoke about self love and how spirit need us to shine our inner love light to all. It came the time to give messages from loved ones guides and angels, the messages were positively received, the mediumship was called to time, after notices and closing prayer, I chatted with a few people thanking them for coming to my services, the feedback about the services I am pleased to say was positive. I gave Angela and David my heartfelt thanks for their amazing hospitality and spiritual chats. Without them the three services could not have taken place, as going home after each service would have been logistically impossible and expensive. I can honestly say it has been a real privilege, to demonstrate at Aberaeron Spiritualist Church and Ray Of Light Spiritualist Church. The hospitality I received, the warmth of the welsh people I met, and the beautiful welsh countryside, I left Wales 9.30pm and arrived home 02.10am.

With Linda Mulvey Angela and David Brigenshaw
With Rosyn Deksnis

THOUGHTS

It warmed my heart to see the high level of dedication that Angela and David Brigenshaw, and Linda Mulvey, have in running the Aberaeron and Ray Of Light Spiritualist Churches. It was refreshing to be in the company of dedicated spiritualists, spirit need dedication and commitment not only from we mediums and healers, but also those dedicated and selfless people who run the churches, who keep the doors of the churches open. to facilitate the spiritual seeker, through these dedicated people welsh light shines brightly for all who seek spiritual truth. It was also refreshing to see a mixture of age groups in both churches, hopefully the youngsters will carry the light of spirit into the future, when we have passed into the higher realms, whilst it was a privilege to serve both churches it was also massive a learning curve for me.

There was discussion about how ignorant people have become about spirit communication, and I agree the most haunted tv program and the ghost hunting business that sprang from it, coupled with celebrity and showbiz spiritualism, has done a lot to damage peoples perceptions of mediums and spirit communication, and spiritualist churches. People are ignorant due to a lack of knowledge being shared, about how spirit communication works, and the spiritual development that is necessary on both sides of life, to achieve accurate and meaningful spirit communication. Not only to provide evidence of survival after physical death, but also to give messages of guidance healing and comfort to those who need it, also allowing spirit guides to share the truths of eternal life, to help us develop new ways of thinking being and doing, raising consciousness to help better our lives and our eternal path.

Every time I demonstrate mediumship now, I ask people not to stare at me with a blank faced, or to start gurning at me with arms folded when receiving a message from spirit. As this is very unsettling for the medium and the spirit communicator, I usually remind them that I have done a days work, and travelled however many miles to be there, and the fact is I am getting petrol money, it is not a celebrity show where they have paid a lot of money to get in, so I tell them there is nothing in it for me I am there to bring spirit to them. All we need from them when they get a message, yes, no, or I do not understand. So I can ask spirit for clarification on what they are giving me, so that the receiver of the message can identify the spirit communicator and the information being given. Once upon a time we did not need to tell people this, but more and more mediums and chairpersons, are having to tell congregations at every service, to turn their phones off and to answer yes or no or I do not understand when receiving a message. Back in the day there were only spiritualist churches, which attracted the genuine spiritual seeker, now mediums are demonstrating in pubs and trying to get theatre gigs, this adds to the showbiz mentality of those who attend right I have paid my money now I want to be entertained, and all this belittles genuine mediums and the development put in by both sides of the veil to achieve good spirit communication.

As discussed above, the transfiguration and trance sit at Aberaeron Spiritualist Church, was a massive learning curve for myself Angela and David, inviting the general public many of whom had never been to a transfiguration and trance demonstration was a mistake. on all our parts. my spirit guides told me that the church would be full, but we did not expect 48 people, Aberaeron is a small church so with 51 people in total the church was bursting at the seams. As discussed above the transfiguration and trance was cut short, due to 3 stoppages in the demonstration, I am pleased the people who needed to leave or use the loo, followed the safety protocols put in place, by raising their hands, David asking spirit to step back, worked but in the end spirit energy was insufficient to continue, I decided the next day after discussion with Angela and David, that I would limit future transfiguration and trance sits to 20 people and make it a ticketed event, to attract the more genuine spiritual seeker to attend. With stricter controls in place, I feel strongly we need to educate people about spirit communication and how it all works, so these problems do not arise again, and to teach people that a demonstration of mediumship, is not Saturday night at the london Palladium. Whilst my time in Wales was a privilege and a total blessing, I am thankful for the lessons learned.

Stephen Rowlands 07/08/24

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