Spirit Knows Best
Thoughts from the Unintentional Medium
Spirit Knows Best
Have you ever felt compelled to do something without having the slightest idea why? Many years ago I met a charming French lady when we stayed at the same hotel every year in the South of France for the last week in July. We got rather friendly and used to have a chat most afternoons when her husband had a siesta to sleep off the lunchtime excesses. One day we got to talking about le destin and she told me was convinced that it was fate that caused her to meet her husband. She had had to escape from a very violent marriage and took shelter with her aunt who lived in Juan les Pins. Every afternoon, she would leave her little son with her aunt and go to the beach for an hour. Every day she would walk to sea and turn right to find a sun bed but one particular time she found herself involuntarily turning to the left. She found a free bed and as she was sorting out towels and sun lotion a man came back from a swim and settled down on the next bed. It was her beloved husband. He came to that same part of the beach every afternoon but they had never met until she made that unexpected turn.
About three years ago, for no apparent reason, I starting watching ghost programmes. Now I’d never been able to watch anything to do with the supernatural as I got much too scared, but I suddenly felt compelled to watch anything I could lay my hands on. It didn’t matter how daft it was, I would watch it. My poor husband did think I’d gone a bit doolally and to be honest so did I, but I sat glued to the lot! Gradually my taste improved and although I still watched a lot of spirit stuff I also began to do quite serious research. Why was I so drawn to this? I just couldn’t make it out although there were a number of scenes that did resonate with my own unwitting experiences with the dark side over the years and so many things to which I could relate.
I know I’m a bit slow on the uptake, but it was only last year when I was deep in my new book The Dark at the Threshold*, which is a supernatural thriller, that I realised my sudden interest in hauntings could have been the spirit world leading me towards this book.
Well, now I have another compulsion. When I lived in England I worked as a French translator and tutor but apart from the odd tourist on the Sydney ferry I haven’t had an opportunity to speak it since I came to Australia. I’m sure you can guess what’s coming. I would say that since October I’ve watched every French series and film that Foxtel broadcast. Again I couldn’t think why it was so important to get my French back on form, but it was only a couple of weeks ago that I twigged. The book is set is rural France! Will I need to go back to France for some reason? Will a kindly film producer chance upon the book and want to film there? Who knows? All I know is that when Spirit gives you a jolly good push towards something, listen. Only they know what they have in store for you.
Love Suzi x
The Dark at the Threshold is now available through my website www.theunintentionalmeduim.c