Last week, I wrote about the practice of fraudulent psychics. Today, I’d like to introduce Gordon Smith, a psychic medium who is highly regarded in the UK both in the paranormal and the scientific circles. The following quote is from an excerpt of the foreward, written by Professor Archie Roy of Glasgow University for Gordon Smith’s Spirit Messenger.

As a psychical researcher, it has been my good fortune over the years to have known many mediums. Some I have not only watched demonstrating on Spiritualist platforms, but also had sittings with. Others I have worked with in PRISM (Psychical Research Involving Selected Mediums), the organization set up to bring mediums and psychical researchers together in order to study and evaluate mediumistic phenomena. Some, I am happy to say, I regard as good friends of mine.

Gordon Smith is one of those friends. But he is special. Gordon Smith is a medium, a person who, in every other way, leads a normal life, working as a hairdresser, yet who demonstrates again and again his ability to receive information he simply could not have obtained through the use of the five senses. This is precise, detailed information, startling relevant to the recipient, conveyed either at a meeting-place or during a private sitting.

Apart from Spiritualists and psychical researchers, the public knows little about mediums. In films, TV and books, people are invariably presented with grossly distorted caricatures of mediums. In Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, Madame Arcati is a figure of fun, although in due course, Charles, the sceptical husband, is shocked to find that she is genuine after all.

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