Susy Smith revealed in her book an episode that has all the earmarks of a walk-in transition. Sometime during World War II, when Susy Smith was a young adult in her early thirties, she worked in Baltimore as a hospital secretary with an extremely arrogant boss. Because the war was in full swing, single young men who were husband material were few and far between. She writes: “Toward the end of that year as a hospital secretary, I was so completely miserable that I tried to kill myself. … Over a time, many worries pile up in the mind until there comes such a feeling of helplessness that there is an inability to endure another moment of life. … Now that I was entirely resolved, I eagerly began swallowing the prescription liquid sleep aid I obtained earlier that day. The bottle’s contents could not be drunk straight down, for it would have come straight up, so I took the potion spoonful by spoonful, secure in the belief that if I got down enough of it, oblivion would forever result. But with each sip I became more and more nauseated, and finally it was impossible to lift the spoon to my mouth once more. I barely made it to my bed to rest a few more moments until the malaise might pass and my deadly chore be continued.” She continues, “The birds were chirping merrily when I awoke to a sunny morning, and I never felt better in my life. I joined them in song, actually dancing around the room in happiness to find myself alive and greeted by such a beautiful day.” This mirrors the transition experience of many, many walk-ins. What is Creator’s perspective?

This was not a true walk-in situation where she was replaced by a different soul coming in as a spirit and taking over her body so she continued as another person, allowing her original self to transition. This was actually a much more common occurrence, often described as "a moment of surrender," when people hit rock bottom and give up a need to struggle. This was facilitated in response to previous prayers wanting an escape from her life because of the hardship and barrenness of her existence. But there are many ways to escape short of having an untimely accident or an act of self-extermination through suicide. What took place was that we were able to work with her deep subconscious mind and with her upper subconscious during the sleep interval following her suicide attempt, and that interchange allowed her to see the breaking dawn on awakening as a kind of new life she had been granted having expected the day before to expire. She remembers vividly her connection to nature in that initial moment of awareness because we were still with her, what you could call "The Holy Spirit," and were singing to her through the birds she still remembers, and was moved with sheer delight. So those moments were a continuation of her connecting to us and she continued following her personal commitment to faith she described in her book, that with her baptism she was able to further let go the distance separating us and, indeed, felt a kind of rapture still recallable because she learned how to open herself up to be a vessel for experiencing it. So that low moment was actually previewing what became a lifelong quest for oneness with us that she has refined over the years and devoted her life to sharing with others.