Witnessing direct voice mediumship with John Sloan changed Arthur FIndlay's life and led to his passion for physical mediumship, particularly direct voice. His brilliant book "On The Edge of the Etheric" sets out his experiences. When he came through Leslie Flint in direct voice in 1975 he made it clear that his wish, when he bequeathed his home Stanstead Hall to the Spiritualists National Union, was that it be used for the development of physical mediumship as well as mental. Listen.

According to Martin Twycross
"It was Gordon Higginson [principal of the Arthur Findlay College from 1979 to 1993] who kept alive physical mediumship within the SNU by promoting courses on physical mediumship and demonstrating such at Stansted Hall and occasionally elsewhere. Many in the movement had no time for physical phenomena in spite of the fact that this was how modern Spiritualism started. It was Gordon and his staunch band of tutors who for decades ignored this mentality by providing regular courses at Stansted on physical mediumship".

As a direct result, of Gordon's physical mediumship, Roy and Christine Wandless were reunited with their two children, John and Valerie, who had died from cystic fibrosis. As a result they donated over two million pounds to the JV Trust which generously supported urgent repairs to the building Stanstead Hall at a time that the College was threatened with closure.
Read Martin Twycross' tribute to Gordon
and read Former Editor of Psychic News Sue Farrow's article
"Why Physical mediumship is no longer taught at the Arthur Findlay College."