Stewart Alexander Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 0977

Staff Only

Finding aid note: Stored offsite at the Library Service Center and requires 24 hours retrieval time. Please contact staff at woodson@rice.edu or 713-348-2586.

Content Description

This collection includes archival material and circa 300 books and journals related to the career of Stewart Alexander, a medium, living in the UK. The primary content is recorded seances led by Stewart Alexander. Formats of the archival material include audio cd's, reel to reel audiotape, audiocassettes, newsclippings, correspondence, videotapes. Books and journals will be cataloged separately and discoverable through the library's online catalog at library.rice.edu.

Dates

Creation: 1970 - 2020

Language of Materials

English

Conditions Governing Access

This material is open for research. Audiorecordings will not be made available online publicly, but can be be requested for research purposes, due to privacy concerns for persons featured in them. Users do not have permission to share the recordings in whole, and may only use a Fair Use portion of the recording in ways that do not violate the privacy of participants featured in the recording. Contact woodson@rice.edu for further information.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish from this material must befacilitated through the Woodson Research Center.

Biographical / Historical

Stewart Alexander is a researcher into Spiritualism and has an extensive personal knowledge of mediumship gained over more than fifty years. His journey as an author and as a medium were both largely inspired by Arthur Findlay and his classic work On the Edge of the Etheric. He studied Spiritualism and attended many séances before making the decision to form his own circle. There his mediumship gradually developed. Decades later, his spiritual capabilities of facilitating communication with the dead have been witnessed and testified too by many.

Alexander's book An Extraordinary Journey: The Memoirs of a Physical Medium combines his own experiences and those of others experiencing his mediumship with the history of Spiritualism. These accounts provide a perspective concerning the greatest of mysteries - whether consciousness survives bodily death. Alexander lives in England and continues his home circle with persons seeking to connect with the next world.