Stewart Alexander

“For close to fifty years, Stewart has given his life to this task.”

“It all started in 1968 when he was twenty-two.”

“Stewart has always lived his life as only a part-time medium. Throughout the many years of his development, he ran a business with his wife seven days a week and raised two children,”

“and he now spends a great deal of time with his two young grandchildren.”

“He always kept his home and business life entirely separate from his mediumship life—remarkably, his two sons never knew of his deep involvement as a medium until he gave them copies of his 2010 book.”

“He has always been a very private person, and despite the fact that he published his memoir, he prefers to avoid publicity.”

“The next morning I arrived at my office—at the time I was a design engineer at a large international engineering company—and the phone was ringing.”

“Stewart was not looking to become a medium himself; he simply wanted to help create the right conditions for phenomena to possibly occur.”

“I had been sitting for months with a small group, and nothing at all had happened. On one such occasion I was with only my brother and sister-in-law, and we sat with our hands on the table in front of us with a dim red light, as always.”

“one evening, without warning, he was entranced by an entity or presence called “White Feather,” who was to become his principal “spirit guide””

“My longtime guide White Feather was the first to make himself known to me.”

“At the moment the light went out, something approached me from behind. Whatever it was, as it came toward me, everything in my entire body, every nerve, every muscle, began to twitch and jump, and suddenly he was there—inside my body—and I was outside.”

“And then I heard “myself” talking from a distance: “I come, speak, brother, sister.””

“Whenever he did come, the first thing that would happen was that my left hand would become almost deformed. It would curl in on itself. It was as if I had severe, crippling arthritis, except it was not painful.”

“who, over a period of many months, developed the ability to speak through Stewart when he went into a trance state.”

“It took over ten years, but eventually White Feather was able to speak independently through what is called a “trumpet”—a simple eighteen-inch cone made of lightweight materials with one narrow opening and one larger, like a small megaphone—while it was levitated in the air.”

“A second guide arrived, also speaking through Stewart, who called himself Christopher and said he had died as a young boy, so he presented himself as a very lively child.”

“The young and witty Christopher now has the job of relaxing people and making them laugh.”

“arrived as another member of Stewart’s “spirit team” in 1992, and was in charge of developing the physical phenomena.”

“Walter worked with his sister in her séance room after his death, and he intended to continue this work through Stewart.”

“Next, Freda Johnson, a strong and nurturing proper lady who provides evidence from loved ones, completed the team in 1996.”

“Some years later, another “spirit person,” Dr. Barnett, who has been a physical healer for many sitters, was able to regularly speak independently of the medium and materialize fully during séances.”

“In time, the “team” of Spirit People (White Feather, Christopher, Freda Johnson, Walter Stinson, and Dr. Barnett), who are now like close friends, became part of our weekly sittings.”

“In 1988, Stewart’s current home circle was formed.”

“Stewart has been sitting with the same small group—his current home circle—for almost thirty years.”

“He gave his first public séance in 1992,”

“It was during these larger séances that sitters were invited to test Stewart in the light to show that he was really in a deep trance.”

“Also, the physical manifestations rest upon the use of an energy substance (referred to as ectoplasm), which the Spirit People use to manipulate objects and to partially or fully materialize.”

“My persistent doubts would finally be relieved when I attended a séance with the English medium Leslie Flint in the early 1970s.”

“At that time, he was celebrated internationally as one of the finest “direct-voice” mediums in the world, in whose presence the voices of the dead were heard speaking independently of him in another part of the room as if coming out of the air, while he sat quietly in his chair.”

“The unalterable fact is that in that room—in the presence of Leslie Flint, who was a virtual stranger and knew nothing of my mediumistic development—the communicator had uttered just six potent words.”

“She had been like a mother to me, my brother, and my two sisters, taking a central role in raising us following the collapse of our parents’ marriage when I was ten.”

“I had sat alone with her at her hospital bedside. She had been unconscious but I had held her hand, and something had passed between us not known to anyone else.”

“On the day she passed over, just two or three weeks before that séance—a fact entirely unknown to Flint—I had sat alone with her at her hospital bedside.”

“Suddenly, there in that small séance room a few weeks later, she mentioned this to me—something known only to me, on the earth, and to her, on the other side.”

“Suddenly the solution popped into my head, and I said, “Can I ask a question?” He said, “Yes,” and I inquired if, during his earthly life, he had had any kind of physical deformity.”

“Instantly, he replied: “Do you mean my left hand?””

“I attended two séances that week in April 2015, and returned for two more the following August.”

“When the six of us entered the room at 8 p.m., Stewart was secured to the wooden arms of his chair with thick cable ties, which are looped through an opening attached to the arm and can be removed only with a noisy wire cutter.”

“I made sure that the ties were locked in place tightly enough that neither hand could possibly slide out of them.”

“At Walter’s direction, I took my other hand and felt that locked cable tie holding Stewart tightly to the chair. “Do you feel the strap, ma’am?” Walter asked, and I confirmed it.”

““If I can now take Stewart’s arm through the strap I think that would be somewhat impressive!” Walter stated. Then, suddenly, his arm flew upward, with my hand gripping his and riding up along with it, with a quick snapping sound.”

“Walter immediately said to feel the strap on the arm of the chair with my other hand, while my left hand remained in the air still holding on to Stewart. The cable tie remained there, still locked in place, unbroken, just as I had felt it a second before with Stewart’s arm inside it.”

“Walter then passed the intact cable tie, still closed in its loop, through the solid arm of the chair, and said “it is yours, take it!””

“The ectoplasm formed a grayish-black, foggy cloud that moved slowly toward me over the table, coming from Stewart's side opposite me. Gradually, I saw it grow, form into a rounded shape; then it looked more like a hand, then I saw emerging fingers and a thumb, and suddenly it morphed into a three-dimensional, solid human hand that formed a fist and banged three times loudly on the table to demonstrate its solidity.”

“Stewart, his arms still locked to his chair, was too far from the center of the table to reach it.”

“During my fourth séance, on August 20, 2015, with nine other sitters, I was fortunate to experience something else unbelievable but real: the full materialization of Dr. Barnett.”

“Leslie Kean posed this question to me in 2015. She asked if she could videotape the materialization of Walter’s hand using a newly developed small camera that could shoot in the low red light we always have on for this experiment.”

“Knowing the nature of her book, I seriously considered throwing caution to the wind and agreeing to this. But upon reflection, I realized, as I have before, that this would throw my life, and that of the circle, into turmoil that would be destructive to the purpose of our circle and problematic for my family.”

“I have personally witnessed the levitation of “spirit trumpets” during the weekly private séance of British medium Stewart Alexander.”

“One of them lifted off the floor and came right up to my face. When I thought to myself, “This must be a trick,” it proceeded to rub itself against my nose, as if to rub my nose in my doubts!”

“I examined the room and the trumpet both before and after the séance, and I could see it easily in the dim red light that was turned on during the session.”

“It was not connected to wires, and, as it was made of paper, could not have been manipulated by magnets.”

“I would assert that, in fact, Stewart’s séance doesn’t involve trickery. There is no motive.”

“we observed a window shade flapping in a breeze coming in from the open window, and the shade kept noisily hitting the back of a vase of flowers on the window ledge. Inevitably, the vase toppled over onto the floor. We all saw it, and water shot out all over the carpet.”

“Alan immediately got a cloth and crouched down on the ground to wipe it up. But then he sat right up and laughed and said, “Come feel this, the carpet is totally dry!” It was thoroughly and completely dry, despite the pool of water that was there moments before.”

“In 2014, Reville Mohr, a skeptic who did not believe in mediumship or the afterlife, flew from Australia with his sister Leone Holdsworth to attend a sitting with Stewart.”

“Kevin had emailed Stewart early in 2016 to ask his advice.”

“Stewart had never met Kevin and knew nothing about his home.”

“a lady had traveled over two hundred miles to attend. We knew nothing about her other than the fact that she was evidently very sincere. Arriving at our circle leader's home that night”

“Two hours later and just prior to it ending the lady found herself in communication with her beloved partner, who, tragically, she had lost twelve months earlier.”

“Throwing her arms around me, she said the following: "Thank you for saving my life."”

“he has interviewed countless people who sat with Alec Harris, Minnie Harrison, Helen Duncan, Hunter Selkirk, and other great mediums.”

“when I was with a group hosted by a wonderful medium called Kath Matthews (who was to become my first mentor)”

““Apart from the very few and unconvincing accusations made against him by ill-informed individuals,” David Fontana wrote in 2010, “Stewart’s long career has been free from attempts to cast doubt on the genuine nature of the phenomena associated with his mediumship.””