Draft:Glyn Edwards

Glyn Edwards (17 August 1959 – 31 May 2015) was born in Liverpool and worked as a Spiritualist medium for over 40 years. He was a protégé of the medium Gordon Higginson, who Glyn worked with on various projects.

Glyn became recognised within the Spiritualist movement as one of the UK’s finest mediums and teachers. At sixteen, he joined a Benedictine monastic community, which was said to have intensified his mediumistic awareness and influenced him to leave the community two years later. He then began to travel extensively, speaking, teaching and demonstrating mediumship publicly, ran workshops on mediumistic development in the both UK and overseas, and co-founded an organisation called the Gordon Higginson Fellowship.

Glyn was a regular senior course tutor and organiser at the Arthur Findlay College in Essex for more than 30 years, and worked at the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain in Central London. He was a certificated medium (CSNU) of the Spiritualists' National Union, was listed in a book titled ‘The Best of British’ that was released to coincide with the new millennium, and was briefly involved with the research of PRISM (Psychical Research Involving Selected Mediums). He was interviewed on television and radio in different countries he worked in, released several mediumistic development recordings, and wrote articles on psychic and mediumistic unfoldment.

The first two books by Glyn, published in his lifetime, were ‘Tune in to Your Spiritual Potential’ and ‘21 Steps to Reach Your Spirit’ (retitled by the publisher as ‘Unleash Your Spiritual Power and Grow’ in 2007), which were co-authored with a close friend, Stephen Wollaston, who wrote under a given yoga name Santoshan and is the current chair of GreenSpirit’s Publications Committee (both books were later revised and retitled by Glyn and Stephen as ‘The Spirit World in Plain English’ and ‘Spirit Gems’ in 2011). Stephen also brought out a book in 2008 that Glyn asked to him to write on mediumistic and psychic abilities in various spiritual and religious traditions, ‘Realms of Wondrous Gifts’, which included two conversations with Glyn. . Stephen later compiled an anthology of Glyn’s teachings in 2012, ‘The Potential of Mediumship’ (which was expanded in 2017).

In July 2015, Psychic News ran an article announcing Glyn’s passing at the age of 65 and reported how he had devoted his life to teaching, and how he had shared his knowledge and mediumship with students around the world. It also mentioned how he had acquired knowledge of other disciplines than just mediumship and how he had become a close friend of a yoga master, Swami Dharmananda Saraswati Maharaj, who had given him the name Devadasa (servant of God). Other details in the article mentioned Glyn’s wide experience of physical mediumship and trance states, and how he was a trance medium himself, and lived in the small country village Maids Moreton in Buckinghamshire. It also mentioned how in 2003 he had made the front page of Psychic News after being struck down by a mystery virus. After the illness, students of Glyn were reported to have noticed his mediumistic work and teaching moving to a deeper level.

In the spring of 2014, Glyn was diagnosed with cancer and passed a year later on the 31st of May 2015. A private funeral service for him took place on the 12th of June, which was followed by a public service and celebration of his life in the afternoon in Akeley, Buckinghamshire, for which his parents and siblings had invited various friends, students and working colleagues of Glyn to attend. The Arthur Findlay College also held a memorial service for him a year later during its Open Week, which was written about in Psychic News and accompanied by an article about Glyn’s life, loves and mediumistic work.