Sam Hess worked as a forester in a Swiss mountain village for 35 years and was clairvoyant his entire life. When he died in 2025 at the age of 73, he left behind books, documentary films, and a message he carried with quiet conviction: "There is no death."
Born into an Alpine tradition
Sam Hess was born in 1951, the child of a forester family in a Swiss mountain village. Clairvoyance was part of his life from early childhood. Encounters with the spirits of the deceased and with nature beings were not a sensation in his family environment but simply part of the reality he grew up in.
What sets him apart from many other mediums is this root: he does not stand in the British Spiritualism tradition that Paul Meek or Pascal Voggenhuber brought into German-speaking countries via Arthur Findlay College. Hess grew up in the old Alpine line of seers and healers – an orally transmitted tradition that has existed in the Swiss mountains for centuries.
Forester and medium in parallel
For 35 years Sam Hess worked in forestry. The forest was his everyday workplace and at the same time the space in which the deceased and nature beings appeared to him. His mediumistic work remained for a long time within his personal circle: families from the region came to him when someone had died, when a house "would not settle," or when an illness could not be explained.
Only in the second half of his life did he open up to a wider public – through books, interviews, and documentary films. This late and quiet path is unusual. Hess never sought a stage; the stage came to him.
"There is no death – consciousness continues to exist when the body passes."
What he did
- Mediumship readings: conversations with the deceased for the bereaved – with a clear distinction between his own thoughts and mediumistic impressions, a distinction he repeatedly emphasised in interviews.
- House cleansings: freeing apartments and houses from heavy energies or bound souls – a practice deeply rooted in the Alpine tradition.
- Healing work: applying his second sight to questions of health, often within the local healing tradition.
Topics he addressed
In numerous interviews and books Hess took on subjects that many mediums prefer to avoid:
- Suicide from the perspective of the afterlife: with great care and without moral judgement. He spoke openly about the consequences, but also about the hope he brought back from the spirit world – a subject that often helps the bereaved.
- Nature beings: in his book Die Welt der Naturgeister (The World of Nature Spirits) he describes entities familiar to the Alpine tradition that have been almost entirely forgotten in the modern world.
- The soul on its way to universal unity: in the book Verbindung in die jenseitige Welt, co-written with Pier Hänni and Vreny Hess-Kurmann, the transition is described as a path, not as an end.
His legacy
Sam Hess leaves behind an unusually dense, well-documented body of work for a medium who never stood on a show stage:
- Books (AT Verlag): Wanderer in zwei Welten (with Pier Hänni), Verbindung in die jenseitige Welt (with Pier Hänni and Vreny Hess-Kurmann), Die Welt der Naturgeister, Rituelle Hausräucherung.
- Documentary films:Fenster zum Jenseits (2012, directed by O'Neil Bürgi), Die weisse Arche (2016, directed by Edwin Beeler), and a substantial interview in Illusion Tod (directed by Johann Nepomuk Maier).
- Video interviews available on Knowledge: several conversations on Thanatos TV and on the channel Empirische Jenseitsforschung, including his careful contribution on the consequences of suicide from the perspective of the spirit world.
Why Sam Hess matters
- An indigenous root: he represents an old-Swiss line of second sight – not an imported school, but a local tradition with its own language and its own images.
- Credibility through a quiet double life: 35 years a forester by profession, mediumship alongside. A life that does not feel staged but grown.
- Care with difficult subjects: grief, suicide, bound souls. Hess spoke about these in a way that allowed those affected to listen without feeling judged.
- A documented legacy: films, books, interviews. His work remains accessible after 2025 – for everyone who later brings questions.
Sam Hess was not a stage medium and not a TV star. He was someone who quietly and at the same time clearly connected the two worlds – over the course of an entire working life. Precisely this mixture of groundedness and second sight is what makes his work last.
His own website is still reachable via his consultant profile on HeavenConnect – with background on his work, his books, and further information.