AA asks: “I have a friend who is very into the writings of a medium named Suzanne Giesmann. She’s a retired Navy Commander who was an aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and is a practicing medium. What do you know about her?” A review of Mrs. Giesmann’s website made it quite clear that she is yet another case of a medium who is being played by Satan.
While her military history is true, her website claims that she shares a “21st Century Spirituality” that merges the latest scientific understanding of consciousness with ancient spiritual wisdom. This transformation from navy commander to medium began with the death of her stepdaughter and unborn son who was struck by lightning and killed. This experience caused her to embark on a search for “life’s deepest truths”, her website states.
“After years of meditation, she began to have intuitive experiences, which led her to several classes on mediumship and to an intensive course at the respected Arthur Findlay College of Psychic Sciences in Stansted, England. Her eye-opening experiences there allowed her to develop her contact with the unseen world to the point where she is now in demand for her readings and her classes in evidence-based mediumship.”
Giesmann claims to receive messages daily from her spirit guides, a group of advanced teachers known as Sanaya, which are published daily on her blog entitled The Daily Way, her social media, and Awakened Way app.
These messages are typically vague and don’t tell us anything new, such as: “Expectations. They can build you up and just as easily set you up for a fall when those expectations are not met in the manner you envisioned. Not everything is under your control.”
I was also fascinated by a video she recorded that replies to a question from a Christian needing advice about how to continue to be a medium because of the bible’s condemnation of this practice.
Interestingly, Giesmann asked her spirit guides the question and they replied: “No one comes to the Father except through me.”
She didn’t see this as pointing to Jesus. Instead, she said, “the point they were making to me is that all of us are the Christ. All of us are the expression of the father. All of us are love incarnated. And so the way to give back to love, to come back to knowing oneness with the Source is by realizing I am that expression and anyone who realizes that is a Christ.”
She goes on to say that she doesn’t debate the bible or different religions because all paths lead to the same place. “Spirituality differs from religion in that its experiential [not based on objective truth]. It’s your spiritual path and that’s why it’s good to study with different teachers and read different books. But the best thing is go within to go into the silence, to touch your heart where you have that intimate ongoing everlasting inseparable connection with the Source because you are a part of that, and your soul knows that.”
The conflict arises when people try to tell us what to believe, she counsels, and suggests that we consult our spirit guides for help in holding on to the beliefs that serve you and letting go of those that don’t.
In other words, create your own belief system based on how it feels rather than on whether or not it’s based in truth. This is almost a textbook definition of transcendentalism, a philosophy that began in the mid-19th century and is based on the belief that spirituality cannot be achieved through reason, but only through self-reflection and intuition. It’s something that you feel, rather than learn.
Perhaps the most interesting blog on her website was Giesmann's defense of mediumship and her so-called “proof” that it’s possible to contact the dead. She starts off by relating how she “feeds” off input from her clients during a reading. If the client says a message is true, she knows she’s made a “good connection” with the deceased. If they give no response, “it tells me I need to shift gears and try something different. . .” Clients who sit tight-lipped and skeptical are “putting up an energy barrier” which is “incredibly counter-productive.”
For Suzanne, “proof” that she’s connected with a disembodied soul is when something is revealed that was only known to the deceased and his/her surviving loved ones. The only problem with this is that Satan and his minions know all of these details – such as affectionate nicknames, special moments shared in life, etc. - and are more than willing to relate them to a medium because it ultimately convinces clients away from God and the Christian concept of the afterlife.
For example, Giesmann reveals several cases where the spirits called upon during a session returned days or weeks later to give her additional information even when she didn’t call upon them. (This is a typical experience of mediums who are often plagued by the spirits they call up for clients but who don’t leave when the session ends. This is because these spirits are demons and once given permission to interact, demons will exercise this authority at will until permission has been revoked.)
In one case, an alleged child’s spirit named Carly dropped by after a session to show Giesmann that her teddy bear named Sebastian needed to go for a walk. Not knowing what the spirit was talking about, Giesmann texted the child’s mother, only to learn that she had put Carly’s teddy bear in a closet when they had visitors. “Irene had forgotten to take him out of the closet after the kids left, but Carly knew! Poor Sebastian! Thanks to Carly’s very real visit from the other side, Sebastian is now out in the fresh air once again.” Satan knew exactly where that teddy bear was and used this information to convince Carly’s mother that mediums really can contact the dead to bring healing and hope to the bereaved in spite of what the Bible says.
Because we now live in an age when spirituality is trumping religion in many demographics, the warnings from God against opening ourselves to the wiles of Satan are going unheeded.
“Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God” (Lev 19:31).
“If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people” (Lev 20:6).
We are also warned about those mediums who often portray themselves as agents of closure for grieving families. “And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds” (2 Cor 11:14-15).
Mediums such as Giesmann are often well-meaning people who sincerely want to help the grieving and have constructed their own version of the afterlife rather than accepting the truth. As a result, they are being played by Satan in a way that will inevitably bring destruction to themselves, and their suffering clients.
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