An Extraordinary Journey: The Memoirs of a Physical Medium

Reviews

K. Roberts

This book is not just an account of Stewart’s own life work with spirit, but testimonies by many who have sat with him in circle and in seances and of the many many professionals that have put Stewart’s mediumship to the test over the years and have concluded that he truly does work with spirit. " Yet it is his father's ghost manifesting and delivering what mediums call "evidential communication" -- evidence proving correct -- that renders this assumption false, driving Hamlet’s action. Author, Stewart Alexander, without hyperbole or sensationalism, simply presents us with his and others' experiences of what can only be described as miraculous meetings with "the dead". Reading Stewart Alexander's "An Extraordinary Journey" was like being the man in the well-known Flammarion Engraving, head poked through "the horizon where the earth and the heavens met" to encounter a strange and startling cosmos.

Elizabeth Van Katwyk

And a medium's spirit team is not your disembodied abstractions "channeled" through the medium's utterances. Because it is one of the most fascinating, honest and enlightening books on physical mediumship I have ever read.

What makes this seemingly impossible incarnation possible is that physical-spiritual substance known as "ectoplasm". It's the stuff of which dreams come-to-life are made. Barnett.

The most moving occurrence is when living attendees' hands are grasped by the warm, solid, completely life-like hand of a person long deceased and often beloved by the one so honored. " It's more like silky smoke that can harden like steel.

The physical principles behind these manifestations involve vibrational frequency, the fundamental tenet that matter cannot be destroyed, and concepts in physics that admit of a reality in which death happens only to the body and matter, in "adjacent" realms, has its own tangibility there. Flammarion claimed that this cosmic traveler, "by stooping his shoulders," had "passed under the roof of the heavens". Hamlet, in his famous soliloquy, muses that "Death" is "The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveler returns.

N. Stewart Alexander and other physical mediums are not your typical go-betweens, like U. But one of the most dramatic feats is when "dead" people, intimately known to a guest, converse in their own recognizable voices about matters known only between them-- often across the room from the medium.