James Van Praagh, a "media psychic," explains spirits exist in higher-frequency energy states, verified through evidential readings like names and objects—e.g., a lung transplant recipient’s dream of her donor’s name. He frames hell as reliving harmful deeds until forgiveness, reincarnation as soul growth (humans and animals alike), and NDEs like Crystal Gale’s demonic visions as rare, downward-pulling experiences tied to unresolved trauma or karma. Skeptics like Art Bell question his methods but acknowledge precise details, such as Sherry’s father Jack’s death in a daylight crash near mountains or Judy’s suspected suicide involving a dark-haired man in a brown jacket. Van Praagh’s 1997 book Talking to Heaven and Bell’s The Quickening (NYT #22) suggest mainstream curiosity about afterlife claims, though skepticism persists amid anecdotal evidence. [Automatically generated summary]
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I'm Mark Bell.
Good morning.
You've got quite a treat coming up.
James von Frag, the long-sought-after James von Frag, is going to be my guest.
There was, however, an incident that occurred last night during the program, and after this commercial break, I'm going to do a replay of that incident for you.
And for those of you who did not hear the last hour of the program, we brought our engineer on at the network who explained that GE Americom, that is, you know, the satellite, the big one in the sky, that carries this program, that GE Americom had said that satellite GE-1, the one we use on KU-Band, actually lost Earth track.
Absolutely unheard of.
Absolutely unheard of.
Lost Earth track.
In other words, did not know where it is and began to move or tumble or, you know, in some way move out of its proper orbit.
And it happened at a very, very strange moment indeed.
I, in all my years of broadcasting, have never heard of such a thing.
And GE AmeriCom affirms that they too have never had such a thing occur.
Other networks went down as well.
Talk America Radio Network was down for a great deal longer than we were.
But the timing of what occurred with regard to the content, Area 51, and the particular call, is just simply beyond belief.
So if you didn't hear the last hour, that is the explanation that was given to us by GE Americom, that the satellite actually lost what they call Earth track.
And I went into the other room and looked at my transmitter, and it looked dead.
And it looked dead.
Under normal circumstances, you would not imagine the problem to be the satellite in space.
You would imagine the problem to be the transmitter.
And to all appearances, the transmitter was dead as a doornail.
But it wasn't the transmitter.
It was the fact that the transmitter didn't have a satellite to talk to.
It was one of the more incredible nights in radio history.
As a matter of fact, James Vaughan Frog's online.
He'll get to hear it.
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coming up in a moment you Now we take you back to the night of September 12, 1997 on Art Bell's Somewhere in Time.
In all my life, I mean, I went in the other room and I looked at the uplink transmitter and it was like it was dead as a doornail.
I mean, everything was uns there was no sync light, there was no anything.
It lost everything.
My transmitter lost everything.
And the network using the same satellite to transfer it to New Jersey did not lose it.
But it wasn't because of anything that happened here.
It was because the satellite itself, they say, lost the link to Earth, didn't know where Earth was anymore, or at least a portion of it, and took about a quarter of the totality of the channels, 250, off the air.
Now, is that weird or what?
Okay, that's it.
That's what happened last night, and I can only assure you that GE AmeriCom told us exactly as I just reported to you, that the satellite lost Earth track.
Totally unheard of, totally weird, and that it should occur during a call of that sort beyond all reason.
I believe in coincidences, but it's beginning to get a little brutal out there, I would say.
Listen, one item before we bring on James von Prague, and that is Hurricane Linda.
Now, you know, I've talked to you about weather changes, right?
There is a massive category 5 hurricane, and when I say massive, I mean really massive.
They were reporting 180 to 90 mile per hour sustained winds.
They're reporting over 200 mile per hour gusts.
Well, here, let me read you a facts, one of Zillions Art.
Here's an El Niño quickening update.
ABC News reported tonight that the strongest Pacific hurricane on record has formed off the tip of Baja with sustained winds in excess of 185, actually 200 miles an hour.
The storm is moving north, northwest, parallel with the coast.
They claim it may weaken somewhat.
If it stays on its present course, it could easily move east and slam into Southern California, anywhere between San Diego and Los Angeles.
If this happens, it will be the first hurricane or tropical storm to hit California since 1939.
Now, I've got to tell you this.
They are depending on this storm getting weaker as it moves north.
And of course, the waters north would normally be quite a bit cooler.
What they may not be calculating is the 10 to 12 degree hike in the water, which would be fully capable of sustaining this storm, if not at present levels, at very, very serious levels.
And so everybody in Southern California, I would say, be prepared is what I would say.
Be prepared.
The prevailing weather patterns, once it gets up that far, are west-east, and it might move that storm right into California.
These, ladies and gentlemen, are strange times we live in.
James von Prague, I am told by Daniel Brinkley, who continues to get better, is the real McCoy.
I know that Daniel Brinkley is the real McCoy, and so I trust his word regarding James von Prague.
He has received, James has, over 10,000 letters after appearances on NBC's The Other Side.
He's been featured on Unsolved Mysteries, Strange Universe, Paranormal Borderline, and countless others.
His book, his upcoming, is titled Talking to Heaven.
And we will talk with James von Prague about that beginning right now.
I spoke last night with Daniel, and as I said, Daniel said in the whole country, there may be two or three people who are real, and James von Prague is one of them.
In the case of most people who have your sort of talent, James, either they had it from birth or, like Danion, they acquired it through some incredible occurrence like lightning striking them or whatever.
Well, the only way I can base it on really is my experience, isn't it?
I mean, that's how we go through life based on our experiences.
You bet.
And I would just have to go based upon the readings I've been in, the sessions I've been in, information, which just blows me away half the time because many, many times people will still see me doing sessions at public demonstrations.
And I bring things through, and I get exhilarated.
I'm excited.
I just say, that's amazing.
It still amazes me because it's a miracle each time.
The reason is because what I do is I'm known as a survival evidence medium, which means my specialty is really bringing through evidential details, names, places, events, things I would know nothing about.
And many of the times when I'm reading the person, they don't know certain information.
It's not in their consciousness.
They have to go home and ask a relative to verify.
It's really just a doorway, as Damien has mentioned also.
It is really just a doorway.
It's like having a worn-out pair of shoes and leaving them and you're free.
I mean, it's very simple.
And it's wonderful.
And the people come back and they'll bring through their personality and things they like, their dislikes, how they passed over, things that the person would only know, which really is wonderful.
what can you tell me about the nature of death in other words In other words, do we live once and die and remain dead across that line, or do we come back?
I think it's been translated so many times, and there's been so much of men's influence in there to help to control, using their own, for their own selfish reasons, their own greed, their own egos to be settled, that unfortunately it's changed.
But I do believe there are definitely places in there where the essence is still around, still alive.
I have one also who's very much a lady and very human in many, many respects.
And they have a wonderful sixth sense, don't they?
They know exactly what's going on, animals.
Right before earthquakes happen, you look at your animals and you'll see they get very strange.
They'll hide or they'll be away.
And look at the cows before it rains.
Sometimes there's a approaching storm.
They will lie down in the ground.
The animals know.
They are very aware.
Or when someone walks into a room who doesn't have whatever, you want to call it bad vibration, bad energy, the animal will walk away or go near their master to protect them.
If you become more aware of the inner world instead of the outer world, when I teach my classes, I always tell people to go into the inner world, the inner you, that you which was very real when you were a child, that unfortunately around the age of six or seven closed down.
Because you, and you become more sensitized.
If you can train yourself, becoming more sensitized and knowing yourself better, then you can feel these things and know things, become very wise with the human condition.
Now, I'm going to preface this by saying all of my answers for the past 12 years have been based totally on my experiences with spirits that have come back and also many books which I've read, hundreds and hundreds of books on the subject.
So that's where I get my background from.
And from that, I must start with that in the Bible, it says, my Father has a house with many mansions.
What that means is the various spiritual levels which exist, of which there are many.
And you go to that level which you created on the earth based upon your thoughts, your words, and your deeds.
The love that you make is the love that you take.
There was always that little saying about God writing his book, writing down everything that we do.
It's very true in many respects, in that every experience we have, it is recorded in what's called our aura, the electromagnetic field around us.
And at the time of death, as Damien will also attest to this, we go through a review of our life.
And we see what we did good and what we did bad.
Or if you want to call it that, we judge ourselves.
There is no God that sits in judgment and says, you go there, you go there.
If we were mad at someone at a store, perhaps, and we yelled at them for no good reason, and they in turn it upset them, and they in turn turned to another storm mate and yelled at them and so forth.
And the energy was transferred that way.
When you pass over, you see how your one word, your one thought upset that person, and in turn how it upset the other person.
And we see the crippling effect and how we are all one.
Many people will come back, and they talked about a first level they go to, what's called the astral level, which is a very real physical level, where they will experience things like they had on the earth.
They have houses there, they have trees, they have lakes.
It happens quite, you know, quite this is what I hear all the time.
And hell, like I said before, there are many mansions.
What you give out, you get back.
Like I said, you have to review your life, all the thoughts, all the things you did.
If you lived a horrible life, if you killed someone, if you were mean to someone, you have to relive that life, the thoughts, the words, and you feel everything that that other person felt, how you treated them.
And that's hell.
Forgiving yourself.
Reliving it over and over again until you forgive yourself.
And one of the hardest things I have found for people when they pass over is to forgive themselves.
And that's many of the readings when they come through, spirits come through, where the first things they will say please forgive me I'm sorry please forgive me because they want to move on too and many times they're almost chained to the earth by their loved ones because how they treated them and they want you know this is what comes to most most often James what is a ghost what is a ghost well I would say a ghost is someone which could be number one a person who didn't realize there was no such thing as death you see death is a very natural state we
And what happens is sometimes the death occurs very quickly, and the person doesn't realize that they've passed over because they're still very much in a physical body.
It seems like they're in a body, because the spirit body is exactly up to the physical body.
And if someone, if their mind was set on the physical world and the physical physicality of this world, they were greedy, they liked things their way, they wanted their things, their house, this will draw them down.
If they have no consciousness about moving to a higher level, no spirituality, it certainly doesn't help them.
It seems like poltergeists, ghosts, that sort of thing, occur around very specific incidences people who die suddenly who are not expecting to people who die with some incredible passion that was not completed on earth it was all cut short and somehow they just can't go on totally correct that's exactly right exactly many times i've brought through um uh.
I've had many times I've had murderers, people who have been murdered, and they were upset about being murdered that their life ended so quickly at the hand of another.
The measurement of time really only relates to the physical world.
And then we get into quantum physics, which I'm not an expert at.
But the time is only relative to the physical world because of the sense of measurement of growth.
In the spirit world, there is no growth.
You measure growth by your experience, your experiences.
See?
That's what it is.
People realize, the spirit people realize, that it's your birthday, or there's a holiday, because they come and see all the, you're running to stores and buying things.
Right.
And Christmas here, that's how they know, because they're seeing you running around.
When you experience contact with somebody on the other side, I guess you've been doing it so long now that it's, I don't want to say ho-hum for you, but...
Well, it's never ho-hum, because each experience is a miracle.
It really is a miracle.
Each, it really is.
And the energy of love, which comes through, I can't even give you in English the language here that we have, because the feelings are just incredible.
Do you believe the time will ever come, and how will it come, that we actually establish contact other than, you know, through somebody like yourself or Danion or others?
Well, right now, actually, as we speak, there are organizations, and they have Mark Macy, who's a fascinating man, works with Contacting Spirit, and Luxembourg is a whole society, where they contact Spirit through electronics, through the computer, through the telephone.
They've done these things.
I've seen it.
I've heard it.
I've actually had that with an experiment, and we've had the Spirit come through, and they work with the white noise of the band radio.
Well, I think the more we do know about the spirit world, I do believe it will help us to have a much better life and world here on this earth and learn how to treat each other better.
I believe that, and forgive me because I'm not an expert in the field, but I have had several experiences with students of mine who have been doing remote viewing and have had wonderful successes, and I believe that there's a sense that a part of their
consciousness which leaves the body and does go to that place and they view things so they could be in the in the same realm I don't know if it's the exact same realm but you mean that spirit the astral plane they could be seeing things that spirit would see oh yeah and there are people that leave um you know Robert Monroe's book for journeys journeys out of the body sure teaches yeah uh how to leave the body and they've had many people who leave the body and have experiences with spirits on the astral level, and then meeting them.
Many people have them through meditation, actually you see your guides and do see spirit people.
James, we were talking before the top of the hour about the possibility of interaction between this side and the other side.
And you told me they were doing research with respect to electronics, computers, something that would actually establish contact with the other side, almost like you could watch TV.
Well, however the interpretation went, you know, what the interpretation can be, many times I've found that spirit will go into a sleep or a slumber, and they wake up during the anniversary of the death and they relive the entire thing again.
And many times I've brought through spirits who are on that level and begging, begging for forgiveness.
There's one about a boy in the book that wrote a story that he came through, and I said to the mother, I said, there's a man here, and I said, this is very strange because I see a man, and he goes to the backyard of a house, and I said, I see him hanging on the tree.
He's hung himself.
And he actually showed me him leaving his body and the realization that, oh, my God, what have I done?
Let me just also say, though, there are many spirits who tend to, they pass over and they see what they've done with their life, and they're in such a rush to get back into the incarnation that they come back before everything is set and rhythm.
And then many times they will be walking around this earth feeling as though they do not fit in.
They just, their timing is off.
They don't feel like they belong here.
And I have found many suicides to be a result of that.
People felt they did not belong here.
As far as AIDS and cancer and terminal illnesses, well, again, it's up to that individual soul to decide for themselves.
But maybe they had to go through that experience for whatever reason.
Maybe through that experience, they were helping to teach other people how to love, other people taking care of them, who have, you know, come out of their, who started loving them or loving more because this person was ill.
Maybe that person is ill is teaching these people how to love.
There are valuable lessons in that, perhaps.
Once you realize there is no such thing as death, it doesn't really matter.
And I opened myself up, and I got that these were beings from the Pleiades.
And all they said to me was, we do not understand how the human being has an element known as love all around them, everywhere with them, around them, and they do not use it.
It simply says that in every single aspect of human endeavor, economics, politics, the environment, I could go on about that forever, every single social behavior, every aspect of human behavior, things are beginning to move at a faster and faster clip, exponentially faster, and that we're headed toward some sort of an event of some sort.
The only sense that I get, really, Art, is that people will be definitely becoming much more aware of the world around them, of the people around them, and themselves and how to treat people.
I do believe there's going to be a very strong spiritual consciousness, more overwhelming, and we're going to see more phenomena like you had last night.
More things like that are going to occur.
Much, much more.
I believe that within the next 10 to 15 years, our government's going to come out and talk about UFOs openly.
They're going to have to, because it's going to become quite obvious and evident.
They're all around us.
And things that we thought at one time were just stories are real.
During his last few years, he treated my mother and myself horribly.
Only in his last week of life did we find that the cancer had spread to his brain and probably accounted for the things he did.
When he died, he took his cats.
Each time we took his cats, each time when I found myself thinking about him and what he'd done, his 18-year-old cat would stand up and stare into space.
At one point, I took a picture below, which he includes in the facts, and captured a white ball of light.
Well, you see, we learn from these things, and we learn more about ourselves through these things.
Many times cancers come out of imbalance.
Imbalance, and it could be from the spiritual, the mental, the physical, emotional.
Maybe that man had learned to be more balanced with his emotions, and maybe next time now he'll come back with that recognition or that memory, that soul memory, because he went through this heavy experience, that he'll come back next time knowing he has to be more in balance of his emotions or physical.
I feel psychically, on a psychic level, that this man's emotions were totally out of balance.
I really do.
And that's why I feel like that might have, again, that's how I feel.
And he might have come back next time to equal that out.
Have teams from parapsychological units ever come and actually brought instruments and tried to measure changes in magnetic field, changes in temperature, changes that could be documented in some way?
It'd be really great to have me just hook up to a machine and see my brain waves, if they would change before I would go into an altered state and what was as I was in the altered state.
And it was not done.
I didn't do that.
But no, I've never been tested that way.
And I just don't know if they have the right machinery to measure this sort of thing.
I do believe in some ways that they don't have it yet.
All right, my guest is James von Brock, widely respected by everybody I've talked to as being the real McCoy.
He's a medium.
And we'll talk about the status of mediums with him in a moment, but I have got something I want him to hear and I want you to hear.
This just came to me.
Thank you, David, for sending it.
It's entitled Patience Near Death, See Visions of Hell by Robert Matthews, science correspondent.
It ran in the United Kingdom, UK News, and reads as follows.
Terrifying accounts of gravely ill people who claim to have been dragged to the gates of hell by demons are to be studied scientifically for the first time by a British psychologist.
The existence of so-called near-death experiences, NDEs, in which dying people report having mystical sensations before being resuscitated is now widely accepted by doctors and scientists.
Their cause, though, unknown.
They typically involve a feeling of deep peace, followed by a sensation of floating up through a tunnel toward a bright light and into a beautiful kingdom.
But it is now becoming clear that for some people, NDEs are far from blissful.
Instead of feeling of floating upwards, they report being pulled downward toward a pit inhabited by demons.
The experiences of Evelyn Hazel, a London-based art historian, as she fought for life against meningitis are typical.
Quote, I had reached a critical stage in the illness, was hovering between life and death.
I was aware of being involved in an intense and very real struggle for my life, she told The Telegraph.
Quote, a three-legged being, rather like the Isle of Man symbol, was pulling both my legs down to infinite depths.
I knew without a doubt that if I relaxed and I gave in, I'd be dead.
I believe this struggle went on for some considerable time, and I eventually managed to break away from whatever it was pulling me down.
Mrs. Hazel went on to make a full recovery, but she has never forgotten her terrifying ordeal at the very threshold of death.
A similar experience continues to haunt another named Jane, a woman who fought for life after a miscarriage.
She said, quote, it was an awful feeling, like I was going down a big hole and I couldn't get up.
I was going into this big pit.
I was going further and further down, trying to claw my way back up, and I kept slipping.
Similar accounts are now being studied by a psychologist at Coventry University who plans to use science to probe the negative nature of NDEs.
All right, please ask James, assuming that a soul is reincarnated, is there any particular time in which this curse, for example, upon death, is a soul immediately reincarnated, or is there a sort of waiting state?
If there is a waiting state, what do you believe determines which soul gets reincarnated to the new life?
Well, he's a good friend of mine, and we do seminars together.
And we did one recently in Ensonada, Mexico.
And it was quite profound because he regressed the group and I also went along with it.
And I don't think I'm very easy to hypnotize at all.
But I saw myself, and I knew it was me, in military uniforms, one right after the other, general, corporal, all of these uniforms flashing from one war to the other.
And all I saw the uniforms, but I knew they were mine.
And I knew it was me, and I was there.
And I knew that I was responsible for sending in troops or soldiers, whatever I call it, for killing hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and thousands of people.
I called the shot.
And I knew that that was six lifetimes that that happened.
And I knew that I came back in this incarnation to alleviate all that karma for those people and bring in love instead of war and hate.
no one should be dictator to what how a person rules their life I don't believe that that's I think everyone's have the freedom to decide for themselves all If a husband or a wife or a family member comes to you as a medium and asks you to talk to somebody who has passed on.
My agreement with Spirit, when I first did this work, when I got myself involved in it, I want to tell you, I was working at Paramount Studios in a wonderful position over there, and I should have stayed there, it would have been great, but I gave up that top job to do this full time.
Now, at that time, when I made the agreement with the Spirit world, and that's much I believed in this work and the faith that I had in it, they said to me, I said, we made an agreement where if they give me the information, then I am able to give it out.
And that's how we've worked it.
Of course, I do, certain things will come through a certain way, and I say it nicely.
I won't hurt someone.
But if they give me the information, I will definitely give it out.
Well, you know, it's very interesting because when I used to do private readings every single day, it became much more of a burden, you know, changing the frequencies here and there.
And you have to realize that once someone realizes you can contact their side, they start thinking you're the Savior and whatever you can do and performing, you know, you're the deity and all this sort of thing, which I don't like that at all.
That's not me.
People put you on a pedestal.
People make out you what you're really not.
They really expect me to be something different than I am, and I'm just this normal down-to-earth kind of guy.
If anyone has ever meditated before or put themselves in a deep relaxation state by doing breathing exercises, concentrated breathing, anyone can do it now.
I mean, they can just close their eyes and just concentrate on their breathing and the rhythm of the breath and just keep it to a nice, low level and concentrate on one thing like love, the word love, and just see the word printed and so forth.
Well, eventually, you know, you will put yourself into an altered state very easily.
Actually, we do it every day.
When we go driving, we go to an altered state.
We hypnotize ourselves constantly throughout the day.
It is very much like that.
I become, or you know that little feeling we have right before we fall asleep?
That's very much the state.
I become very, very receptive.
It's very funny because my frequency of my body speeds up, but yet I have a sense that I'm slowing down my mind because I become open and very receptive.
And it's at that point that the Spirit is able to fill my mind, it's really soul-to-soul communication, with information.
When the personality of the individual comes through, they come through with their personality exactly the way they were when they were on the earth.
They bring through their likes and their dislikes, their prejudices and their loves, their hates, everything.
Many, many times people say, oh my God, that sounds just like her.
Oh my God, he used to say that all the time.
That comes through.
At the same time, I say that because there are people on this earth now who are more visually oriented, and there are those who are more feeling.
And when they come back and communicate, many will either, some will show me things.
It will be much more visual.
So they'll give me visual evidence.
Like, they'll show me what the house looks like, or what they used to look like, or the dress they used to wear, and then I'll give that information out.
If we were to receive word from one of these research projects, like the one you talked about, that actually there's been a path of communication electronically established with the other side, and the world were to suddenly, collectively, realize there absolutely is another side.
I say that because when they come back down, when they communicate with me, many times they will bring back the earthly memories that they had and the earthly personality.
I will say that I'm not sure they might drop that after a while.
They've been there for a while.
They do evolve there.
And those little petty things will fall to the wayside.
Once they forgive themselves, they see themselves as a total being and what they're really made up of, then that earthly, last life, earthly personality would drop by this wayside.
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I haven't, no, I haven't had that, although I have had guides that have come through and other relatives of people have come through and said that that soul needed to go through that experience and that person who was carrying that being, that baby, had to go through the experience as well.
That it was a shared agreement between them.
And, you know, you have to remember, not every soul is supposed to have experiences of 70, 80, 90 years.
Some only need 10 years, 20 years.
Some only need to go through that birth experience.
You know what I'm saying?
So we can't measure things just by our 70 or 80, 90 years of longevity.
Well, the way I, you know, now you have to remember how this thing works is the individual, yourself, you think about someone and you send out the thought to that loved one.
And the thought, they receive the thought that you want to contact them and they try their best to come down and be with you.
And then if they send a message to me, that's how I do it.
So that's how I work.
So if you have someone in mind that you've been thinking about, then you just let me know who that is and we start from there.
Okay, because he keeps on saying when she was young, when she was young, when she was young.
And it's a strong memory he has with you and the kids about going to the water.
All right?
Like an outing of some sort.
He's with a grandmother of yours, who's telling me, which must be his mother.
And there's also someone there, a lady, I don't know who she is, it could be the grandma, whose mind was not her own, she says, before she passed over.
She was out of it.
It feels like she was in a coma or she was just out of it.
Do you understand?
She was blanked.
She was out of it.
You might not be aware of this.
Do you know how your grandma had a coma or she was unconscious for a bit?
Yeah, who had a stroke or a problem with the brain?
Because what I tell you, well, getting here is this woman, the sense I get is that she was totally unconscious, very unconscious, and she wasn't in control of things.
But, you know, the thing which gets me is I get this information, and the person doesn't understand some of what I'm saying, and I know what I'm hearing, so it's like some of the interpretation is messed up.
Now, many times it happens, they go home and they ask someone, and they'll think about it later, oh, my God.
I've talked a great deal with people like yourself about the nature of the other side, but I don't think that I've ever sat and listened to somebody nearly go into instant communication with the other side.
Somebody writes, please ask more about the structure of the other side, such as you were talking about astral, the astral plane houses other physical things.
No, it's harder because they're on such a high frequency, very, very high frequency.
So it would be much easier for me to contact someone who's closer to the earth level.
So, for instance, then if someone just passed over two months or three months ago, much easier for me because, number one, the memory is still so real to them and the conditions are still very close.
Also, I should add that in the readings that I do, I'm really a slave to the spirit.
If they were not very emotional, they won't be very emotional when they come through.
If they didn't think in terms of detail, they won't do it this time.
I find the best results come with people who are the person who wants to hear from someone who is emotionally attached to that other person.
Don't tell me details like that, because that's what I'd like to bring in for you if you want to contact him.
But thank you to tell me he died that way, but otherwise, just definitely need to say, and then I would like to, you know, see if he can come up with anything.
You know, I'm going to be absolutely honest with you.
I sit here wavering between thinking, you know, here is James telling somebody something that he could just be pulling out of the air and telling them and testing for a reaction and sort of pursuing what seems like the more likely path.
But I'm hearing you say things that seem to go beyond that in knowledge.
Because I have a son, this man has been a long time in the spirit world, and that he's, I'm going to give an expression to you that his feet no longer touch the earth.
Because this man is very happy to be on the other side.
unidentified
Yeah, but unfortunately, I carried the burden that I didn't really get a chance to get home and at least say goodbye.
I really wanted to, but as Art knows, in the military, you've got to do what they say or else.
I was very fascinated when you mentioned this thing of people returning very quickly before they had a chance to set up those vibrations or energies which would be more suitable for the lessons or the experiences they need in the next lifetime.
As I feel in some ways that resonates with my experience, especially when I was younger.
And I was wondering, you know, taking into consideration that people have different experiences that they need to go through in life, and if you're making an effort to get back on track, you know, do you have any specific advice or is there some sort of procedure to help that along if you feel like the timing was just way off?
You know, I do believe that there are those souls that come back much before their time.
And I think if you are here and that's happened to you, because, you know, it's so interesting we get over there and we're so ashamed sometimes of what we did, we want to make the wrong, you know, we want to make our wrongs right.
And we just rush right in there without thinking sometimes.
If it's seeming to be impatient, the more you know yourself, the better you'll be.
I would strongly suggest, you know, getting more into inner knowledge of yourself, knowing how you tick, and really getting in tune to what you have to do in this life.
What is your mission?
What can you do to accomplish certain things?
Because, you know, you don't have to waste your life here.
It's not a waste.
You can accomplish many things.
So I would say learning to know yourself better, whether through meditation or prayer or however you can do that.
Was there a chest problem or a heart problem or chest to do with her?
Because when she comes in her death condition, the first thing they sometimes come up with is a death condition because that's the last member they have, the urine.
And did this lady take pills also before she passed?
Like medicine, you understand?
Because she's telling me that she had to take pills or something, like medicine.
Because your mother is telling me that there's been some concern lately with you about the weight.
And there's been, I don't know, somebody made a comment to you about it or some talk about going to see a doctor about it or even that you wanted to do something about that.
He's very good with textures of things, too, like fabric and the different colors of texture of fabric.
I don't know what this means.
He could put things together nicely.
I feel that he also gives me that he's around you a lot, but he's telling me about other people that you know also that are over there too, that he knows and you know that they are also there, mutual friends.
Do you understand that?
Yes, I do.
Okay.
Because he gives me, it's so funny.
It looks like a choir of these people who are friends of both of you, and he's met them again.
There's also some named John he's talked about, very strong.
And do you own something of his?
Did you get something of his after he died?
I kept a white rose for his funeral.
I was a pallbearer for him.
You were a pallbearer of his.
But I also ask you, was there a funeral with a lot of pictures?
There were a lot of his photos and stuff there.
Because he keeps on showing me his funeral with the photos or pictures.
And this is what he's talking about.
He also likes the outdoors, by the way.
He talks about going outdoors, like hiking and things like this.
Yeah, we used to go when we were younger.
We used to go a lot.
Okay.
Because he keeps on giving me pictures of hiking.
He's much better now.
He gives me much, much better, much better, much better.
Did he have any trouble with his breathing at one point, do you know?
Well, we were childhood friends, and I don't really remember anything about that.
Okay, now before he passed over, do you know if there's any trouble with his breathing?
Well, he died of cancer, and he had a very long bout with it.
He had about a two-year, three-year bout.
Ask someone who knows if he was on a machine or if they gave him oxygen, because he keeps on telling me he had trouble with his lung breathing.
So see about that, would you please?
I will.
It could be in the lung area.
I don't know.
I'm not being told that, but he's giving me trouble with breathing.
James, may I ask a question?
Sure.
After he passed away, I had a dream.
And in my dream, he came to me and we were walking together, we were holding hands, and he said that I had to drive a car, and as I let go of his hand, he said to me, I'll be back for you.
And then that was the end of my dream, and I woke up and I was very distressed, and so I was just wondering.
He doesn't mean you're passing over.
Oh, I know, but I was just like, will he be waiting for me as I go over?
He has a very funny sense of humor, but he's a very dry sense of humor.
You understand what I'm saying?
It's a dry wit this man has.
Do you understand what I say?
Dry wit?
He has a dry wit.
His sense of humor is very dry.
He's a wise acre.
You understand?
But in a dry sort of way.
He said, your time isn't now.
Your time is now.
Your time.
He said he's going to have to wait a while, a long time for you.
That's a good thing.
He's given me this.
He's telling me that when he said, I'll be back for you, he meant that he would see you again in the dream state.
There's another marriage for you, and your father's helping you with this other marriage.
You had to learn more about yourself, who you were.
And you did, you see, and then the marriage broke up because you've grown.
And you're going to meet another man, and the initials are the first part of the alphabet, like A to D, like I don't know if the David or in the B's, but between A to D. And your dad is giving me a very strong indication he's helping you and looking out.
He also showed me a boat.
I don't know what the boat means.
Who went sailing, or was there a boat that he liked or something?
unidentified
Yeah, he was in the Navy, and before he passed the lab, I was going to take him fishing.
I just say that I'm able to reach a higher frequency of energy and that when there's a lot of love available, I'm able to bridge the living with the so-called dead, that there is no death.
Number one, that there is no death, there's only life.
How we treat each other on this earth affects what we move on to, when we pass over, and how to deal with the grieving process when you're going through it here on the earth.
So many people urged me to have him on the program.
And I don't know.
I'm going to have to sit back, and I'm going to have to think very hard about what I just heard, or about the last hour and a half as we were taking calls.
While you went on vacation, they were doing the best of Art Bell, and on Friday, I believe, they had a recording of someone who flew in Area 51 and was shot down.
You can view that as a fraud, a joke, or the real thing.
anyway if it was a real thing you wouldn't hear anything it's not like So you're not exactly going to get a press release saying we shot down a private plane invading secret airspace over Area 51.
You're not going to get that.
unidentified
Well, I got to say, I heard that, and it just, it scared the heck out of me.
We're going to do more of that when I go to Egypt.
They did a really bang-up job of putting together, and it's a very labor-intensive thing for the network to do, but they take segments from shows that were particularly intriguing and weave them together.
And they'll be doing more of that when I go to Egypt.
We're just entering spring, bud, and we've had a very, very ordinary winter.
We've had about two days of rain, and all the farmers are spewing, and we're going to be having water restrictions this summer because there just hasn't been any rain, mate.
I think we're all in for some pretty hard times before they get better.
unidentified
That's it.
That's really it.
And the reason I'm reading it, it's something that I've never been able to find anyone on a level that I'm on.
I've read a book once upon a time by Michael Desmarai, or Desmar Kay.
It was called Addition to the Ninth Planet.
And it's a book that totally shocked my whole view of life because I had an idea about life which was based on we come from outer space and I don't believe in God and I've spent my whole life believing in this principle and once you believe in something and you devote your whole life to it and you actually preach it to people that their way is wrong,
which I'm now dislike, and you find a book of this nature that claims that a man who's been to another planet and seen God in suspended amino and has been told by this superior race of people that he actually witnessed the dividing of the seven sea,
sorry, the sea, I forgot that you can see my knowledge of the Bible, but a man that actually witnessed the departing of the sea to let the Jews escape from the Israelites, so to speak, whatever they were called, so thus the planet Earth would have some type of spiritualism left on it, so that the barbarians of the time wouldn't totally devoid this planet of some format of spirituality.
Part of what I really like is your eclectic taste in music.
It's great.
I enjoy all of it.
And I had a question, in fact, a couple questions.
Are you going to be having more, now that it's getting closer to Halloween, have more shows on the spirit world and ghosts and witches and things like that?
Yeah, and I had always wanted to do another party like that one, but now I am afraid.
And as much as I enjoy hearing, like I would have liked to have gotten through tonight and talked to James, because I do believe in this stuff, as much as I would like to hear about myself, I'm afraid to put friends through the same thing.
And I am told this by people that I trust and believe in.
I have a hard time with it, as I do with channeling.
And a lot of people out there say I have not given channeling a fair shake.
And my only problem is that, and I'll, you know, I'm trying, but there's too much room for fraud.
Just flat-out fraud.
And I'm not sure how one separates the wheat from the chaff.
In the case of James on Prague, I did it by listening to many of you and by listening to a lot of people that I have respect for say, look, he's the real thing.
Actually, I talk to the people who manage it and run it, and they write a lot about me, so I know a lot about it.
unidentified
I know they haven't been too complimentary, but they stop short of denouncing you because I think they allow room for the fact that you are very open-minded.
And they come at me like a pit bull, and that's fine.
And I just, I sort of slow them down.
I say, look, it's my way.
I allow people to say what they want.
Well, how can you do that?
Well, why don't you do this?
Why don't you go after them?
Well, because that's not the way I do things.
And so, yeah, I provide them with a lot of material.
And that's good.
And it's good that they would write that sort of thing.
But again, if they're going to really live up to their name, skeptical inquirer, then they have to be skeptical about the debunking side of things as well.
In other words, evenly look at things skeptically.
That's what I would say to them.
I am going to do something on Dreamland Sunday that I have been doggedly pursuing, sometimes without a lot of luck.
I am convinced that communication with animals is possible.
And I've had some guests that did not quite perform to expectation in this area.
But I'm not giving up because I think it's an incredibly important subject.
And I think that I've got the right guest this weekend.
Her name is Gail Isozi, or something close to that.
D-E-S-C-I-O-S-E.
I'm not sure.
I'm probably slaughtering her last name.
But Gail will be here Sunday.
She's very articulate.
And she's going to be here on the subject of animal communication.
So I will.
It's kind of like getting hurt, I guess, you know, when you're riding a horse.
They say, get right back up and ride again.
And I am doggedly going to pursue this subject until I get the guest that I'm pleased with.
And that may well be this coming Sunday, this Sunday on Dreamland.
And for that matter, not just that color, but a whole array of colors who called about Area 51.
Very articulate, very provocative.
And so, yes, of course, of course, of course, of course, of course, we'll get that reversed.
And again, if you want a copy of last night's program, so many people contacted the network that I got a call from the network saying, yes, we'll make it available.
Very unusual that we would do that, but we're going to make it available.
You can get it by calling 1-800-917-4278.
You want to ask about the Area 51 program.
1-800-917-4278.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello, Art.
Hello.
Since you had some time to think over what happened last night and conduct your investigation with your web server, Ken, what is the theory as now what caused your web server to crash website?