This is the Past Lives podcast episode 26.

I'm your host Simon Bown.

My mission here at the Past Lives podcast is to investigate evidence that demonstrates survival of the human soul.

We look at past life memories, near-death experiences, spirit communication

and other incredible phenomena. You can visit my website at wwwpnosis.co.uk. This week I'm

talking to the medium, Claire Broad. We talk about mediumship and the book she co-authored with

Teresa Chung. Answers from heaven. Incredible true stories of heavenly encounters and the afterlife.

Claire, thank you very much for coming on to the past lives podcast. It's great of you to give us your

time. Thanks so much for having me, Simon. I saw that you did the book with

Teresa Chung. That's right. Teresa's a best-selling author, Sunday Times best-selling author, who's

written over 100 books. So I was very honored that she invited me to collaborate with her on this book,

Answers from Heaven.

There's something you say towards the beginning of your section of the book, is you say that

this book reached the reader with the assistance of unseen hands.

Can you explain what you mean by that?

Yes.

So when I was very young, just out of teenagehood, I went to a spiritualist church for the first time to Hampton Hill Spiritualist Church. And I received a message from a medium from the platform telling me that the spirit world were informing her that I had come to learn

mediumship, but I wasn't here to just do readings. I'd come to write and to share their

message. They had knowledge they wanted to get across out through my writing. And I didn't

pay much attention to it at the time. I thought maybe they wanted me to learn automatic writing at the time, and that never transpired.

But this message kept repeating over and over for 20 years to the point where I'm quite ashamed to say.

I became very dismissive of it.

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