George Anderson - An example of his gift

Dr. Gschwendtner had served on the faculties of three New York City area colleges, including Columbia University.  He had earned his doctorate in physics from the prestigious University of Vienna in 1940.  Dr. Gschwendtner then asked George if he might demonstrate his ability, with himself as the subject.  As always, there was no way for us to know what to expect.  The doctor said nothing about his personal life, and there was nothing in his manner to indicate that he was particularly eager to hear from anyone on the other side.

     "There's a spirit of a woman standing behind you, doctor,"  George said.
     "Is there any reason why she would appear in a nun's habit?  It looks like the type worn many years ago."
     "Yes."
     "Has your mother passed on?"
     "Yes."
     "Would the woman in the nun's habit have any reason to say she is your mother?"
     "Yes."
     "Your mother was a nun?" George asked, thinking it highly unlikely.
     "Yes, before she left to marry and raise a family."
     "Doctor, there's a also a man standing near your mother. Your father has passed, because that's who I feel it is."
     "Yes."
     "Is there any reason why he would be wearing the garb of a priest or a brother?"  It was obvious that George found it hard to believe that both parents would have been involved in religious orders prior to marrying."
     "Yes."
     "Your father was a priest?"
     "A monk,"  Dr. Gschwendtner replied.
     "Both your parents are standing behind you in the dress of the Roman Catholic clergy," George explained.
     "Yes."
     "Your father is saying that you turned out well. He's not disappointed in you at all."
     "Thank you."
     "Your mother is urging you to go to church."
     "Okay," he replied, seeming to understand the message.
     "Were you in the military?"
     "Yes."
     "Because I see military symbols."
     "Yes."
     "The German military. I see the swastika," George explained.
     "Yes."
     "Were you an officer?"
     "Yes. I was an officer during the Second World War.  Who is telling you this, George?" Dr. Gschwendtner inquired.
     "I see two spirits behind you.  They appeared as soon as your parents' spirits left.  One is wearing a green uniform; the other is in a brown uniform."
     "Yes,"  the doctor responded instantly.
     "Do you take the name Hans?"
     "Yes."
     "He's one of them. He's blond, nice-looking.  In his early twenties, I would say.  He's wearing the green uniform.  The other spirit shows himself in a brown uniform.  But, he's got a darker complexion and darker hair."
     "Yes."
     "Is there any reason why they would be apologizing?  Hans is. But he's saying you have no reason to feel guilty about what happened," George said. "They're saying it wasn't your fault."
     "I understand."
     "Do you feel responsible for their passing?  Because they're saying not to feel guilty."
     "Thank you."
     "Now, the soldier who identifies himself is holding something up for me to see.   It looks like a drawing or a shape of some kind.   He says you'll understand it if I draw it for you."

A few seconds later George held up a sheet of paper on which he had drawn an upside-down triangle.  Dr. Gschwendtner looked at it for a second, then acknowledged it. 

At that, George was bouncing up and down in his chair. "Hans is telling me it's a code of some kind.  It's a code.  I never got a code before, " George said excitedly.   "Doctor, does the code have something to do with your military service?"

     "Yes."
     "They're telling me that you got out of the military."
     "Yes."
     "I hear dogs barking. Vicious dogs."
     "I understand."
     "Did you try to or ever escape from the military service?"
     "Yes."
     "Hans is saying the code has something to do with your escape.  The dogs are related to your escape also."
     "Yes."
     "They're telling me you made an escape over a border to safety.  It looks like a miracle that you escaped."
     "Yes."

The reading continued for a while longer, and George provided other accurate details. I was amazed to learn that the man whom I had known only as a scientist and teacher had escaped from the Nazis years before.

Dr. Gschwendtner corroborated George's reading as he gave us and the listening audience an incredible account of his early life.  He was unwillingly conscripted into the German military early in the war, but because of his scientific background, he was assigned to the meteorological service of the German air force, the Luftwaffe, where he achieved the rank of Captain.

In 1942 he made a bold but dangerous escape from Germany to neutral Switzerland.  His treacherous journey took him through the heavily guarded and fortified German border patrolled by soldiers with attack dogs.  Capture, of course, would have meant certain execution as a deserter.  That he eluded the Nazis was miraculous.   However, once in Switzerland, Gschwendtner was not a free man.  The Swiss detained and interrogated him.  To prove that he had nothing to hide Gschwendtner revealed to the Swiss certain technical details about the German military, including some secret codes.  The inverted triangle George had drawn was part of that code, the meteorological symbol for a rain shower.  "What George referred to was not a secret symbol in and of itself,"  Dr Gschwendtner said, "but where it happened and its context were secret."  The Swiss authorities' acceptance of the codes and other secret information became, in Dr. Gschwendtner's words, "my passport to freedom."

Gschwendtner then clarified the roles of the two soldiers George saw psychically.  Hans, the blond officer in the green uniform, was accidentally killed when he failed to follow Gschwendtner's flying directions.  The darker-complexioned soldier George saw was an Italian whom Gschwendtner met in Switzerland, who was killed trying to escape from the Swiss, which Gschwendtner refused to do.  He told us that he had long felt responsible for both of these deaths.

John Gschwendtner acknowledged that there was no way George could have had prior access to the information he brought forth during the reading.  For example the chances that not one but both parents had been in religious orders before marrying were infinitesimal, especially in those days.

     "He finds out things no one else is aware of except the person he is doing the reading for," Gschwendtner said. "There is no way he could have known these facts about my life.   They are not the kind of memories one talks about readily.  I can tell you there were things George told me that no one in the United States ever knew, things I never told anyone since I came to this country in 1960.  The probability of escaping from the Nazis was rare. The probability of George's knowing is even more rare."

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