Psychic Susy Smith was a prolific author of 30 books on parapsychology and the survival of consciousness. One of those books, The Conversion of a Psychic: The Story of a Long Search that Led to Christ, is the one that will be heavily explored with the questions for Creator for today’s show. In the book, Susy Smith draws a distinct line between her life before her “Baptism in the Holy Spirit” and her life after. This is essentially the “born again” experience embraced by so many Christian fundamentalists and charismatics of various denominations, from Pentecostal to even Catholic. Susy Smith wrote: “[This] is the way it finally was with me, I told the Harrisons I was ready, and at the Glad Tidings Assembly of God Church, on the last Sunday in April (1977), I responded to an altar call and received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. It is true that many people have tried for years without success to get the Baptism. Perhaps it was because I was in such a completely receptive mood that it came to me on my first try. During the time that the minister was holding my hands and praying over me in tongues, I blacked out for an instant. This was the moment I let myself go completely and accepted the knowledge of my oneness with God, with Jesus, and with the Holy Spirit. I spoke in tongues briefly and very hesitatingly, then began to cry and to quiver inwardly as well as outwardly. Even after returning to my seat, I shook for about half an hour and was in a state of complete exhilaration for hours afterward. How can I explain the feeling that has remained with me ever since? I had accepted intellectually for some years my oneness with God but, when meditating on the idea, had never had more than a pleasant feeling of what I thought was His inward presence. Now all the time, I have a glow of happiness that can be switched into high gear by prayer, by reaching up my arms and saying, ‘Praise You, Lord’ or ‘Bless You, Jesus’ or ‘Praise You, Holy Spirit’ or, most especially, by speaking in tongues in the privacy of my bedroom.” What is Creator’s perspective?

This is an honest and accurate description of an individual touched by the Holy Spirit and having a strong emotional reaction as well as a spiritual phenomenon of speaking in tongues take place. This is not the be-all and end-all of spiritual expression analogous to a kind of holy grail where one has not reached the pinnacle unless they can speak in tongues. This has no inherent value except as a physical demonstration of faith and an answering by the divine realm to enable someone to do something unusual. It is analogous to those who exhibit stigmata, a wound opening on the hands or wrists and shedding blood. This is not something we inflict on people, even to be an encouragement for building greater faith, it is something self-chosen and wanted as a personal milestone and demonstration of their belief, and there is a cooperation by the body as well as the divine to bring about such phenomena. But again, this is a personal decision and desire we may participate in, in order to provide feedback, a validation of the connection they not only want greatly to happen but are ready for because of a high level of belief and expectation. This is why many exhibit such a phenomenon that, even when it is a nonsense language, it is satisfying a personal need in a way not inherently dangerous to their well-being. We are not enabling someone to do something superhuman they are not capable of inherently as a proof of faith. We see no value in risking the life or even well-being by challenging physical limits in a way requiring a divine support or rescue to avoid something dire. So the degree in which we can provide something perceptible, in the way of feedback to a request to commune with us, will depend on personal expectation as well as their belief quotient in what can be supported for them to experience whether physical, mental, or emotional in nature.