Also by Gordon Smith:

The Best of Both Worlds

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First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Coronet

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Foreword

Throughout the twenty-odd years of my work as a medium I have had the wonderful opportunity to help many, many people cope with their grief and get a fresh, positive outlook on life. There must be many thousands who have come to live demonstrations and received messages from their loved ones from the other side; giving them evidence that their spirit has survived after, what we know as, physical death.

What most of these people do not know is that my work as a medium began in a very different way and has developed over the years to become a very different kind of mediumship, not often shared with the public. This other form of mediumship is called ‘trance mediumship’. In this form, the medium goes into a much deeper, altered state of consciousness or trance, and allows the spirit guide, or indeed guides, to come and use his or her voice to communicate directly with people in this world.

The trance mediumship that I developed over the years was only ever used for the people who sat with me in my own private development group. It was always treated by us as a guide to our progression; to learn more about mediumship and the spirit world, and further our spiritual development.

But it so happened that people in the spiritualist churches, where I mostly worked then, would hear of some of the philosophy that was coming through from the spirit world and would ask if I could hold a session for their own private groups and people within their inner circles. This began to happen more often in these private gatherings and it has continued, on and off, now for more than twenty years, and in that time thousands of questions have been answered by the spirit guides on varying subjects which affect our life. Trance is a part of my life as a medium that I have allowed to be used only for those on the spiritual path, but more recently it would seem that more and more people are becoming interested in this type of mediumship and the higher teachings that come with it.

In the course of this work many people from all different walks of life have put forth questions on a wide range of topics, covering more or less the whole human experience. So I have collected many of the answers which Spirit have given from transcripts and taped recordings of the sessions over the years and put them to good use as teachings.

For years these teachings have been in my possession, but I never really did anything about them. Sure, some of the answers are in some of the other books I have written, but so far there has been no book of answers from Spirit standing on its own. Now I feel that the time has come to offer yet another tool to people searching for answers, especially as, for reasons of time, I cannot offer private sessions anymore and even the events I take part in are limited.

It has been the way with all the books I have written; just when I have an idea about something, I get a confirmation from one source or another that proves for me that the time is right to begin writing. With this book I had that same confirmation when I was giving a talk to an audience of about a hundred people and a lady approached to ask me, ‘Gordon, why don’t you write a book with frequently asked questions and answers by Spirit?’

I smiled and told her, ‘Well, dear lady, you might not believe it, but that is exactly what I am doing right now.’ I did not tell her that earlier that week I had been approached by a publisher to do just that.

But I did find it a little bit funny as it was the first time that anyone had asked me to publish a book with answers by Spirit. That shows how the synchronicity of the spiritual world works, once we are open to be in tune with it.

Actually, now more than ever before in history, people are taxed by the challenges of modern life, almost to their max. Many then tend to lose their focus on what they really want from life: how they really want to live, what goals are worthwhile to pursue, and which talents of theirs are calling to be realized.

Most of all, how they can take charge of their own life again, much more fully than before; how they can develop personal accountability and spiritual awakening, how they can manifest more of who they really are.

These are a few of the decisive reasons why this book came into existence. However, it is important to understand one very important aspect of any answer by Spirit to any question: answers are all well and good as long as they help you, as long as they build you up and remind you of both your own spiritual essence and your sovereignty.

If any answers – by Spirit, by a counsellor, by a therapist, a guru, a church person or anyone else – start to turn into dogmas, into iron fetters that confine you, then discard them. Do not accept them any longer.This is what my spirit guides made very clear when they agreed to help the readers, and myself, with this book.

During the course of this book, answers came from several evolved spirits, but mostly from my own spirit guide who I call Master Chi or, in some cases, just Chi. This is not his exact name, but it is what we use for the purpose of the trance sessions. All of the answers which were given were done so as direct responses to direct questions put to him by different individuals who attended the sessions. All the while my conscious mind was in a deep trance state and was not, to my knowledge, affecting any of the answers that came through. I hope you will realize the difference in personality between my offerings in this book and that of Chi and the other spirit guides, who have a much higher perspective of life than I ever could. So, with all that in mind, please read, enjoy and utilize this book in this very spirit: as a direct and useful link to Spirit for your own life!