Medium Suzanne Giesemann: Cook excerpt #22

Nick Cook writes: The evidential medium I interviewed at length was Suzanne Giesemann, a former US Navy commander, who once served as an aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff⁶⁵.

Suzanne’s capacity to derive verifiable, veridical information from the souls of the deceased has been scientifically scored by Gary E. Schwartz PhD, professor of psychology, medicine, neurology, psychiatry and surgery at the University of Arizona.

Professor Schwartz is a leading afterlife researcher who has conducted multiple exploratory investigations into the continuity of consciousness at the university’s Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health. Having evaluated many mediums using the same process, he has rated Suzanne’s skills as amongst the very best – an endorsement I came across in her book, ‘Wolf’s Message’⁶⁶, which tells of her interactions with the spirit of a young man tragically killed by a bolt of lightning.

In a ‘pre-reading’ she details in the book – a pre-reading entails a spontaneous, unexpected communication with the deceased, without any feedback from relatives or friends about the deceased at the time the information is received (and thus represents much ‘cleaner’ data) – the number of ‘hits’ (i.e. verified pieces of data) about Wolf versus a ‘control’ were 73.5 per cent versus 5.6 per cent for the control.

Professor Schwartz points out that the probability of the difference between the scoring for Wolf versus the control as being ‘explainable by chance’ is less than one in a million. By contrast, he adds, the required criteria for statistical significance used in psychological research is less than one in twenty. He goes on to say that these findings do not in and of themselves prove that Suzanne had been communicating with Wolf but, along with other evidence, they do form a ‘compelling argument that Wolf’s efforts to communicate with Suzanne deserve to be taken seriously’⁶⁷. This, to me, appeared to point strongly to Wolf’s post-material existence as a functioning conscious entity retaining attributes of his personality. I asked Suzanne, therefore, about her conception of reality and our place in it – before, during and after ‘life’.

“(The) computer screen analogy is good,” she told me⁶⁸, revealing that, guided by a team of spiritual helpers she refers to as her ‘A-team’, she has come to use a similar analogy herself. “The screen is limitless intelligence, so we can call it the ‘One Mind’. But it arises as individual minds – and these minds experience life as a projection of stories. We are dense stories in physical form. I know that I, Suzanne, the story, am not the fulness of consciousness which is the screen itself – I am a projection of it.

“When I die,” she added, “my body is just one dense layer of that projection, but without it this pattern of consciousness – that’s my definition of a soul – still exists.”

65 My three interviews with Suzanne Giesemann were on 4.12.20, 10.12.20 and 19.1.21.
66 Copyright © Suzanne Giesemann, www.suzannegiesemann.com
67 From Appendix A, Wolf’s Message, ‘Statistical Analysis of Wolf Pre-Reading with Suzanne Giesemann’, Gary E. Schwartz, PhD.
68 From Suzanne’s first interview with me on 4.12.20.

 

Nick Cook is an author of 20 fiction and non-fiction book titles in the US and the UK. A former technology journalist, he is well-known for his ground-breaking, best-selling non-fiction book, The Hunt for Zero Point. He has also written, produced, and presented two feature-length documentaries for the History and Discovery channels. In 2021, Cook was amongst 29 prize winners in the BICS institute’s essay competition on consciousness. His essay is available at https://bigelowinstitute.org/contest_winners3.php.