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.
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.
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.
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.
Stephen Rowlands 10/08/25
Stephen Rowlands 