James Van Praagh, a New York Times bestselling medium and Talking to Heaven author, explains spirit communication as electromagnetic energy, with souls lingering due to grief or attachment—like haunted houses or poltergeists. He ties unresolved guilt (e.g., suicide victims, abortion regrets) to negative afterlife experiences, warning that scientific proof of the afterlife could shift human behavior toward accountability. Van Praagh dismisses religious fear-based constructs, like literal hell or demonic attacks, as projections of personal consciousness, instead framing spiritual evolution across lifetimes. His methods—like mirror exercises for self-love—aim to heal trauma and guide seekers toward higher vibrational energy, emphasizing divine purpose over dogma. [Automatically generated summary]
It means he can communicate with people who have actually passed on.
Now, many times on radio programs, James will communicate for people who have lost loved ones and so forth.
But we are not going to do that.
We are going to discuss what he does.
We are going to discuss life after death.
We are going to discuss his new book, which I'm very jealous about.
He has the number one New York Times bestseller right now called Talking to Heaven.
James has appeared recently on, in fact, he's been all over Larry King Live, CBS 48 Hours, more radio and TV shows than you can count.
He is perhaps one of the foremost mediums in the country, maybe the foremost today, providing evidence of life after death to many.
Those who listen.
His book, Talking to Heaven, has been so popular, bookstores have been unable to keep it in stock, so you might not even be able to find it for all I know.
Well, you know, I think that religion has its place for people.
I think people are here to learn lessons, and people have to learn alternative expressions.
And if it's their religion, if that's their truth, then so be it.
And God bless them, and they should have that truth.
And that's the freedom we have, that freedom of expression.
But I believe when man comes into the picture, and the ego of man comes into the religions and starts forcing people based on fear, based totally on fear, to control them, then there's something wrong.
Oh, listen, I frequently said, James, if you could see microwave energy, if you could see radio and television energy, if you could see all the RF in the air, if it were colored and you could actually see it, they'd begin to pass laws against it.
Sometimes the spirit does not realize they've passed over because it's such a natural occurrence.
They might not realize that this has happened to them.
Another thing that happens is sometimes there's so much grief with a family member, they're subset, they literally will pull the spirit down around them and hanging out on this physical earth.
And also, if there's a spirit that's very obsessed with the physical world or the earthly things, it's harder for them to free themselves, these earthly things.
I think that a lot of science, a lot of physics, a lot of people like yourself are now beginning to talk about multiple dimensions.
And I think that I'm a believer in it, James.
I really think I'm a believer in multi-dimensions.
Now, do you think that science will ever find a way, in effect, to do what you do scientifically, to produce some sort of machine that would produce a frequency that would allow some sort of door to be opened between here and there?
Just as a matter of curiosity, if somebody were to develop a machine that would allow a door to effect be opened and communication to Really be established, or even movement back and forth, what kind of effect would that have on us, you know, poor mortals, physical mortals, here for 100 years or so?
It would have a profound effect on all of the world, wouldn't it?
And that is why what I do comes to such a challenge to most people, because once you realize that there is an afterlife, that there's a world beyond, and that your heaven or your hell is based upon your thoughts, words, and deeds, how you treat one another.
Once you realize that responsibility that you have, my God, you've got to change your whole way of life and living and how you think about someone.
And many times you have to change your paradigm.
The paradigm shifts.
And many people, the majority of people out there, don't want to take responsibilities for themselves.
And I love that explanation that he gives because it is true.
And again, I base this upon thousands and thousands of readings that I have done and heard from Spirit when they come back and hundreds of books that I've read also on the subject from all over the world because I'm a natural researcher.
Many, many times the Spirit will come back and they'll talk about their review.
They have like when they pass over.
And again, they're outside of time when they pass over.
There's no such thing as time in the spirit world.
It's only relative to the physical world.
So I can't say they do it in a day or not, you know.
It's different.
It's an experience.
You're experiencing everything.
And what happens is you see your life almost like movies or some people have explained it like a huge television set which is broken down into sections.
And you will see how you affected someone.
For instance, let's say you were in a very bad mood one day and you went to the bank and you yelled at the teller.
You will feel how that teller felt when you yelled at that person.
And then you'll see how the teller got so angry and turned to the coworker and yelled at the coworker and upset that person and self-worth and so on.
And you see how each person self based upon your one initial word or feeling.
Yeah, I don't know whether I could handle that or not.
James, hold on.
We're at the top of the hour.
Can you imagine that of beginning to call things and say things and realize that you're absolutely correct about those who have passed away, which means you are in communication with those who have gone to the other side, the other dimension, however you want to put it.
And every October, I bring a group of people down to Sedona, Arizona.
And we were once, about two years ago, we were privileged, I would say, to go to this private ranch down there where supposedly there is underneath a beautiful, wonderful, what you call it, an underground facility, if you will.
And I believe, of course I don't know this, but I'm sure that has something to do with they need this for some reason, whatever reason it is, they need these minerals.
So we went to this place, this ranch, and we went with uefologists.
And he was known for taking pictures, and on the pictures you would see the actual spots or colors or something of these vehicles or ships, whatever you want to call them.
And there were about 25 people in a group there.
And we waited.
It was late at night.
And very interesting, and I don't know if you'd be sensitive to feel it or not, but I started hearing like this buzzing around me.
And I started getting very agitated, as most other people.
And then we noticed different lights in the sky.
And different types of lights in the sky.
Some are quicker.
And he had names for different ones.
And they were, you know, I'm very skeptical of this whole thing.
But it's only a small component of what we've got down here because we have hate, we have envy, we have greed, we have, boy, every range you can imagine.
And a lot of them have absolutely nothing to do with love.
So the strongest force in the universe is one we express rather sparingly.
But yet, you know, I think that people have faith with love.
I mean, it's there.
I guess it takes evolution for each soul to evolve on their own, their own path and their own progression.
But love is the answer.
I'll tell you, love is it.
And that's one of the things about why I do the work I do, because the love bonds that we create on this earth with our loved ones, they transcend death.
And I'll tell you, those emotions are so real when I bring them through.
Well, in the book, I talk a little bit about that because I also, in the book, I bring through different sessions that I've done.
And of course, inevitably with a session, the Spirit will talk about where they're living or what they're doing or so forth.
And I have found that, I don't like to describe it as in the Bible it says, my father has a house with many mansions.
And what that means are the various spiritual levels which exist, of which there are many, many levels.
And we go to that level that we create based upon our life on the earth.
Most everyday average people have no problem, no worry, because they'll go to a, they're a decent human being, they'll go to a decent place.
It's a very real world.
It's a very solid world because the energy, the molecules vibrate at a very, very, very fast speed.
So when the spirit body, which vibrates at the same fast speed, leaves this dense, physical, slow-moving Earth and goes to that faster vibration, that is a solid world.
They talk about the symphony playing, and you actually see the notes and the feelings of color coming off the player as they are playing this instrument.
You see all the essence of the love of the musical notes.
You see, because we're so missed with Earth, we're just so limited.
Like when I see someone first sitting or reading, I will scan the body.
What I do is I scan the energy of the body, and I can't explain how I do it except I sit with a pen and a piece of paper.
And I used to do this before I even knew anything about it.
I go up and down the spine, like a Piece of paper, I'll draw a figure, a stick figure of them, and I, believe it or not, will stop at a certain place on their body where the energy, there's an energy block, where the energy is not flowing up and down the spine correctly.
And I'll say, there's something wrong with your heart.
Yes, I have had heart trouble, or I have a vowel problem, or had bypassed, because it's broken in the energy.
It's recorded there, and you can see it in the energy field.
When someone is ill, for instance, AIDS or cancer, the body is depleted, the energy force is depleted, they will wake up in the spirit world, and they usually will find themselves in a hospital setting.
They feel so upset about how they treated someone else on earth, but they have a hard time forgiving themselves, how they treated someone, how they didn't let someone live to the expression of who they were, that they put them down.
Do you remember there was one episode of a guy who passed on, went to this place where he was sentenced, apparently, to live with his horrible, shrieking shrew of a wife who just tore into him every minute.
There was one story I have where this man hung himself, and he actually showed me, and this does not happen that often, he showed me what it felt like with him when he left the body.
Straight out of the top of the head, he hung himself and came right out of the body, and he was showing me himself looking down, and he was so upset at what he did, he tried getting back into the body, and he couldn't get in.
Could not get in.
And then he felt his parents go through their grief and break down, and he felt so sorry for what he had done to them.
What about a suicide of a different sort of nature?
For example, somebody in the final wasted, painful, horrible stages of AIDS or cancer, one would think that under those conditions a suicide would be different in my heaven anyway, or my hell, that the relatives of that person might be relieved to know that person is no longer in a horrible racked pain.
Let's look at it that we are down here to learn certain lessons.
And perhaps, and when you pass over and you realize, oh, gosh, this is just a small little place that we do live on, there is no such thing as death, and there's an expansion of consciousness, and you'll kind of say, well, that wasn't too bad.
What happens if a person chooses to go to the experience of AIDS or cancer?
Because by choosing that, perhaps they alleviate the negative karma of mankind, that mankind has created by their violence, how they treat one another.
You see, there's karma of the planet, there's karma of the country of the planet and so forth.
And these brave souls might alleviate some of that negative karma by sacrificing themselves.
And I do believe, you know, you have to look at it also, that maybe by taking on this condition of this, AIDS or cancer, maybe they're teaching their family and their loved ones unconditional love.
Maybe they're teaching them lessons in love.
And how do we know that that soul who has this disease is not supposed to go through that experience for the whole experience of it?
How do we know that that individual might have, for some reason, maybe something was developed that would stop that death if they waited a little bit longer?
Abortion, usually I find, is a lesson for the mother.
Because you have to remember, the spirit comes in and out of the body anywhere from seven months before it's born, because it can come in and out three months after it's born.
And most of the time, the woman, the pregnant woman, the mother-to-be, the spirit of the baby will be around her, around the midsection, coming in and checking out the new home and going back and forth, you see.
And abortion, I found, is very much a lesson in the woman, her own lesson in growth.
See, I have found many, many women to be very guilty after an abortion.
Oh, God, and I'll tell you a little story that is very interesting.
I work with some Philippine healers, and many times I've seen them open up women with their hands, they'll go right through the midsection, and they pull out yards and yards of this red, sloppy stuff, solid, solid material.
And what that is, is it's the materialization of the guilt that this woman has carried with her all these years.
They said, did you have an abortion?
It was yes.
This is the materialization of that negative charge.
You see, it's a negative charge, and it has to manifest physically in order to be taken out.
And I believe that, like cancers and other disharmonies, they're imbalances, imbalances in the body with our thoughts and the guilts and so forth.
And they will manifest if we do not clean it up, if we do not heal ourselves, if we do not balance ourselves out instead of having the right way of thinking.
Well, you know, every life should be treated with love and respect and all that, yes.
You bet it should.
First of all, we're unleashing an individual.
Let's say they're upset that they're going to be dead, which mostly then they would.
And we release this being, this soul, who obviously is very negative or thinking very negative or upset.
Let's say they were the criminal, they were guilty or so forth.
Instead of educating these people, evolving, bringing up their, opening up them to the spiritual selves of their nature, we unleash this being to a world of spirit.
Now they will go to the lower vibrations more than likely.
You talk about hell, they'll go to a darker level or a slower level because, let's say, the negativity, the guilt that they've done, the crimes that they've committed to fellow people.
What happens is they're pissed off that they're dead, number one.
And they want to get, most of the time, they want to get back.
They want to get back to this earth because they're upset, and they want to relive life.
They will very, very often, and they have no awareness of a spiritual world whatsoever, and they're thrown into it.
And they will many, many times walk on this earth influencing other people of lower consciousness.
To do crime and so forth, to carry on what their consciousness was.
Well, we generally, now, remember, James, we only generally execute the very worst.
I mean, the people who have committed heinous crimes, mutilated people, raped and done the very worst, double and triple murderers, that kind of thing.
Yes, but if we release that individual and we have released them without helping them to progress spiritually, they will be released at a very low, low, low level.
And they will influence those other beings on this earth with like minds, I'll tell you.
And the same thing with people with drugs and alcohol.
You know, many times there are alcoholics who pass over and they miss that drink, or they really want that drink, and they will go to clubs and bars.
And, you know, the aura, we talked about the aura before, the electromagnetic field, if there's someone that's a substance abuser, alcoholic or drug addict, and they drink and drink and drink, what that does, the psychic web or the aura, it puts little pinprick holes in that aura, in that energy field.
And these lower influences, these alcoholics, these spirits, alcoholics, will miss that essence.
What do they need, the source of life, blood they need?
Well, this is the essence of life.
They will attach themselves to these beings at a bar or club, and they will start influencing them to drink, because the spirit can receive the essence of that drink.
It'll taste very real to them.
You know the expression, oh, he's not himself when he drinks.
If they don't know any better, then they won't go anywhere.
You see, it's all about progression and learning.
And one has to be able to have that awareness or want to learn, want to be enlightened.
And there are many souls in the spirit realm who go down to those lower levels, those very low levels, and try to help those souls, to bring them up to a higher level of consciousness.
But some don't want to know anything about it.
They were stubborn on the earth.
They don't want to believe in anything.
They won't go there.
They want to stay tied to that physical, you know, that gratification.
I believe the original Bible probably was, but I also believe that it was interpreted so many different times and so many different ways and translated so many different ways, and everyone had their own take on it, their own gain on it, if you know what I mean.
Didn't we crawl out of some sort of, I mean, a lot of scientists would say, look, there was a muck, there was a gunk, there was an ocean, there was a sudden bolt of lightning, there was life.
And we crawled from the ocean on our little bellies.
Now to James on Prague, and we are having a general discussion with him.
He is fully capable of communicating with those who have passed on, but we are not going to do that on the phone this time.
We are going to rather have a general discussion and general questions when we get to them on the lines here shortly about what we're talking about.
And we are talking about many things on the other side.
James, I want to ask you a little bit about animals.
I've got a story here in front of me, and I've had too many of these lately.
Associated Press from Massachusetts, rescuers struggled in cold, windy weather and rough seas Friday to save dozens of dolphins off of Cape Cod, where more than 50 of the animals have died in the past two days.
White-striped dolphins began inexplicably beaching themselves Thursday morning, many dying from exposure.
Others were euthanized on the spot.
Scientists say nobody really knows why the animals strand like this.
One theory is they move in social groups.
They think in social groups.
And when one or two get sick and go ashore, sometimes the entire group follows them in, committing suicide.
Any thoughts on this?
More and more these days, we are having this really weird thing where dolphins and whales, rare as they are, are killing themselves.
I do believe there's group consciousness there happening.
I definitely believe it.
I know about that.
Telepathically, they communicate with each other.
For the reason why they're doing this, I don't know.
I certainly would, I don't know, but I would certainly think that man should start questioning things about the sea and how their responsibility to the ocean and the life forms that are in that ocean as well.
I can telepathically talk to my wild cat, and he will suddenly just melt down and let me pet him and is suddenly very calm.
And this is normally a wild animal.
And so somebody here, Irene in Montana, writes, Art, please ask James if we will again see pets who have died and to whom we have been very, very attached.
There's another story, which is a wonderful story about this man, and this was done from the story is from an English medium back in, gosh, early 1930s or 40s.
And when my research, I read this story about a man.
He had a horse.
Everyone had died in his family and only had this horse for like, oh, 20 odd years or whatever.
And it turns out it's an old nag.
Well, the man passed over.
The horse died.
The horse died.
The man was heartbroken.
And about 15, well, whatever it was, five years later, the man died.
And the first thing that he saw on the other side when he got there, when he came to consciousness, over this green hill came this beautiful white horse.
And it was not the old nag that he knew.
It was the same horse, but it was as full as could be and healthy and young.
And that bond was so strong.
That's the first image he got of that, you know, the horse.
Okay, then if animals have souls, they have spirit, they have life as we do, just the way we do, life force, and I absolutely believe that, then what about people who eat animals?
It says, this year has seen reports of ghosts from war zones to the bedroom.
Listen to this.
It appears that some of those who have passed over to the spirit world are unwilling to be kept from the pleasures of the flesh.
A black pool woman called in a priest, two psychics, and a Mormon missionary to try to rid her of a ghost that she claimed regularly, sexually attacked her.
The attacks began in 1994 when she felt something or somebody climb into bed with her.
She claimed it pulled off the towel she was wearing about her head and said that it was going to, quote, make love to her, end quote.
She then felt a vile sensation, again, quoting, like tiny needles trying to pierce my skin, end quote.
You know, I often say that, you know, there are some people that work at a job forever and ever and ever, and they have no sense of moving on, advancing.
Again, from the UK news, they're a rich source for all kinds of good things.
Terrifying accounts of gravely ill people who claim to have been dragged virtually 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 NDEs, which dying people report having mystical sensations before being resuscitated now, widely accepted by doctors and scientists and people, of course, like you, James.
Their cause is unknown, but they typically involve a feeling of peace followed by a sensation of floating up through a tunnel towards a bright light into a beautiful kingdom.
But it is now becoming clear that for many people, NDEs are far from blissful.
Instead of having a feeling floating upwards, they report being pulled down toward a pit inhabited by demons.
And they are going to study this.
Now, of course, when people have this, they don't report it.
You don't come back and say, guess what?
I just went to hell and came back.
So you don't get a lot of reports of that.
But apparently, a lot of people are now coming forward and fessing up.
Now, in your own field, I mean, you're at the top of your field and you're very well respected, but let's face it, not all mediums are on the up and up, are they?
Suppose somebody comes to you, James, wants you to communicate with somebody who's passed on, and you do so, and what you find out is so terrible that you've got to consider whether you want to really pass this on to the person or spare them.
For instance, I read with Audrey Meadows when she was, and I said to her, I was the very first person to say this to her, I said, Audrey, your husband here, he had passed over, he tells me if you don't stop smoking, you will pass.
And that's what I told her that he said that.
And she understood that, and two years later she passed because she stopped smoking.
But I mean, I had to say it, but I said it in a way, you see, you have to be very delicate, and there's a way of delivering this.
I mean, if they really believe what you have said, and they really believe the message, and I would assume with the proofs you give that they would believe it, that would constitute, it seems to me, suicide.
Well, they only had, it's pretty amazing because the ones that were on the bestsellers were millions of copies were out there for Angel's Ashes and Midnight and the Garden of Benevil.
And my book only had 250,000 copies and it went up to number one.
Of course, do keep in mind, I think I tried to tell you this when you came in yesterday, that Americans seem to be impressed by things and get all into something.
And then they just brush it aside, so don't be upset when the book isn't number one.
It depends always on the type of death that happens, how the occurrence takes place, you see, the type of death it is.
If it's a death like a sudden death, it's very different than someone who's been ill for a long period of time.
In this situation where this person died in their sleep, more than likely they would kind of have a, they'd wake up and around them would be most relatives or friends who they knew on the earth, who they had a strong love bond with, a love, you know, very connected with.
And they will greet them and bring them over.
Many times it happens when people pass in their sleep.
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It just seems like the adjustment period, even though being ill would be hard, the adjustment period would help you.
Yes, there is an adjustment period because it's a new world in many respects.
Because you see, it's our mindset.
Our mindset is in the physical world.
But then when you get to the spiritual world and you realize it's a very physical world, it's a whole different way of living, you see.
So there is an adjustment period, usually about three months I have found.
When I do readings with people, it's usually three months I say the person should be over there because we don't want to pull them right back down to this earth level.
And I want to tell everybody, my webmaster, who is fast, Keith Rowland, who you ought to vote for, by the way, for the Webbies, now has a link up to von Prague.com.
So if you go to my website, you just go on down to James Von Prague's name, click on it, and over you go to his website where apparently there is a chat room where I'm sure by now many are gathering.
What happens is when they leave the physical earth, they are outside of time.
They are outside of time.
And time is only relative to the physical world.
Therefore, they only know it's our birthdays or holidays by attuning themselves to our mindset or looking at us and observing us running around shopping or so forth.
That's how they know these things.
They can see in their expanded consciousness a little bit ahead and a little bit behind.
So look at it like this way.
If you're in a helicopter and you're looking down at the road, you can see a little bit ahead, a little bit behind, and you may be able to warn them that there's a problem up ahead in the road.
Also, I wanted to just tell you about certain few things that happened to me that I really haven't been able to talk to many people about because obviously they don't understand them.
But you're talking about being more openly psychically or spiritually and having entities all of a sudden coming over and wanting to play to steal energy or whatever that may be for.
He is, without a doubt, the nation's number one spiritual medium, and he certainly has the number one bestseller Right now, New York Times bestseller called Talking to Heaven.
I'm Art Bell, and this is Coast to Coast A.M., talking not to heaven, but to a lot of earth.
We'll be right back.
James, you've taken quite a few hits this morning from those who describe themselves as born again.
I've got a lot of faxes here from those folks.
And I just got one from my friend Daryl that has to be the classic of all time.
It says, I have no problem with those that are born again.
I would simply ask that they keep the afterbirth out of my face.
Have you, as a psychic, as a medium, spiritual medium, have you ever had a glimpse yourself into the apparent future of the globe, of the world, where we're headed?
I think that, again, the majority of the consciousness of the people of the earth, it makes a big deal.
It makes a big difference.
I think there are a lot of people out there, or a lot of negative people, negative energy.
I also believe there are a lot of loving individuals out there.
And I do believe that light workers or healers or whatever you want to call them, were born or are born at certain generations, certain times, to almost balance out the negativity and the negative forces.
But I don't acknowledge that hell exists in a religious setting, like a Christian religion, like there's a devil with a pitchfork and that sort of thing.
I don't believe that at all.
I believe there's torment, but I believe the torment is of the consciousness of the individual.
There was a movie which I can never recall the name of when I want to recall it, about a woman who went out into the desert.
You can probably hit the name of the movie for me with her baby daughter.
And she was determined that the end of the world was coming and that the horsemen were about to ride and she was going to go to the desert and meet God.
And God didn't show up.
And she began to get hungry and blah, blah, blah, blah.
Anyway, it turns out she was going to kill her daughter to send her daughter to God and then kill herself.
Well, she killed her daughter.
And she didn't have it within her to kill herself.
Then she went, at the end of the movie, she went to heaven.
Almost.
She went to some sort of apparent waiting room in between here and that next level.
And she was required to judge herself.
In other words, and her judgment was that she not go to heaven, not be allowed to join her daughter, who was indeed there, but remain forever outside that realm or that dimension.
What I'm kind of curious about is ever since I was a little girl, I've had experiences where I've felt like I'm not alone.
And sometimes I would feel the presence, and actually, like out of the corner of my eye, I would see, you know, things being little girl and stuff.
I would see things like unicorns and things that were fun for me as a child that I could talk to, and they were my friends, because we were real isolated as children.
And then as I grew older, I quit seeing the fantasy type things, I guess you would say.
And then I started not seeing anything, but I would still feel conversations from other people, other beings.
Yes, you didn't lose it completely, I don't think.
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No, I didn't.
I kept that part of it.
And then when I was about, I guess, 25 or 26 years old, another phase, I guess you would call it, started in.
And I started hearing one particular voice.
And I kind of think he's maybe like my guide.
Yeah, you're very meeting my laughs at me a lot because I'm not doing what he says I should do.
You know, it's one of those things where I can hear him laughing at me more than I can hear him telling me to do things, but I still feel his words a lot of times.
And am I ever going to get to the point where I can actually hear him like we're just kind of talking now?
What that is, it's like a meditation circle each week, and you sit with several people who have the same kind of like harmonious feeling of energy around you.
You know, you get along very well, in other words, that you're very well balanced.
And you need to sit the same time every week for about an hour, if you can, work your way up to an hour.
And what that does is, and you let the spirit people, you say like opening prayer, and you let the spirit people work on you because they're working the sensitivity of your body, of your astral body, you see?
And they have to work on your centers.
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Is that why, like, when I go to people's gatherings and stuff like that, where I know there's a lot of psychics and a lot of people around who are gifted, and I can sit there and I can look and I can actually see like the outlines, the silhouettes of beings standing behind people.
Because the energy is at a higher vibration when you're around a lot of psychics, the energy there is at a higher frequency, and you're able to tune in easier.
You know, it's very much like a radio station, tuning into the band, you know, that's the band, and your tuning is at a higher level.
You are a natural-born medium.
You know, you really should work on that if you could.
She said when she was young that she would see unicorns or see, and there's a lot of children that have imaginary, so-called, imaginary friends.
Now, does this mean that when we're born and early in our life, we're open, we're spiritually attuned and able to see these things, and they're as real as real can be then, and we slowly sort of tune them out as we get older?
And I put, again, I referenced my book, it's right in there.
I write all about this in the book, in that children, when they're born, they're closer to the other side than we are as adults.
And they are very open because babies, what do they rely on?
They cry.
They feel things.
They rely on their sensitivity.
And there's actual, I have heard that there is an actual physical mechanism that happens in the brain as a shift around the age of six or seven that closed down.
Sure, because we become conditioned to this world, this earth world, and then we can become conditioned that this is all there is, and this is everything.
And then you have to look a certain way and do a certain thing to be successful.
And listening to all those rules out there.
And unfortunately, we get caught up with them, an outside world, and we stop listening to the inside world.
And that's what I teach people.
I teach people to start listening to the inside world again.
So then maybe when a lot of people get older and begin to slip into a state that we almost might regard as almost catatonic or off into a different world or maybe diagnosed as schizophrenic or who knows, you know, at the end of life, the way people get diagnosed, they may not necessarily be exactly in that condition.
They simply are listening and speaking and hearing and seeing elsewhere.
It's been nine years since we last saw each other.
I had no idea what you've been up to, but I tuned in tonight.
To say that I'm blown away would be an understatement.
So glad to hear your work has come to fruition.
I completely agree, animals have souls, and that we can learn so much from them just by opening ourselves to their form of language.
I live with a wolf.
He's sleeping at my feet now, who's taught me so many wonderful things, truly an angel on four legs.
Two questions.
One, I remember when Brian Hurst, the British medium with whom you once collaborated, would do readings, he'd become physically exhausted during the session, even losing a pound or two.
Do you find your sessions physically taxing or do you take a different approach?
Okay, number two is, I suspect there are many people like myself who want to branch out into more spiritual pursuits, but who find themselves heavily bogged down in material commitments.
Do you have any suggestions on how to begin exploring and breaking loose?
I once did, I used to work with the police, and I had to stop because I used to work in kidnapping cases.
And I would visually, when I tune into it, because I could tune into what was going on with the person, see, I just tune into the person's mindset.
And I can visually see, like in a good sidekick, what was going on.
And I would see these people.
One, for instance, a man kidnapped this girl, the little girl, and I saw him driving her in the car, and she was in the front seat.
And he reached over with his right hand and hit her.
And it knocked me for a loop.
I couldn't handle it.
So that experience, and after seeing him, like, I've seen him kill them, and I've seen him bury them, and put leaves on top and boulders, I stopped doing that.
But that was that, and I stopped doing it.
I couldn't take it.
It was too much for me.
There was one situation I did a reading with, which is very, very interesting.
There was someone that came to me, and it was this lady, and her husband died.
Now, I didn't know this, but he came through.
And I said, you think this is a suicide?
And he says, it was not a suicide.
And she was shocked.
And I said, what are you talking about?
I said, well, your husband is talking to me that there were two men responsible for his death.
And I said, he's talking about diamonds, and there was a fight about diamonds.
And you found him in a field, didn't you?
And she goes, yes.
And there was a gun, yes.
What happened was this man, we found out, was working, he worked in a jewelry exchange, and two co-workers were in some kind of a cahoot, and they killed him, made it look like a suicide.
And the information that was gathered from that, the police listened to it, and they were able to apprehend the two men, and they're now serving jail time.
Hey, I was wondering, I wanted to ask you a guest about a person who is hasn't ever experienced any of the type of experiences that James has been talking about.
What I would like her to do, and people can do this, they write, I love you with their name, okay?
You put that on a mirror in the bathroom.
You say it three times in the morning and three times at night when you're washing your face, brushing your teeth, okay?
What happens is the word love, like I said earlier, is the fastest vibrational word we have.
When you say that, over and over again, it will start changing the energy field around you to one of the higher vibration of love.
And you will begin, I've had people do this, after like two or three weeks, you begin to feel very, very, very different, very self-confident, and it makes a major, major, profound change in one's life.
Wildcard line, you're on the air with James von Prague.
unidentified
Hello.
Hi, James.
I have a question for you.
You were earlier mentioning the seven vibrations or seven bodies.
Seven bodies or however you want to put it.
Sure.
Do you have any idea why they will not publish the complete works of Charles Darwin in this country, why they only publish the one volume called his, you know, Speculations on Evolution of the Species?
Because he wrote about seven bodies and seven species.
And it's, you know, it's the evolution of the spirit body and evolution of the spirit body and all that sort of thing, which apparently exist at different vibrations or on different planes or so forth.
Do you know why that's always been banned in this country?
I just, you know, I have to tell you something in that I think that we always had, and I know the religious, the Catholic Church used to have this, all the secrets, and they didn't want to give them away.
But all the sacred doctrines they used to have, too.
Well, look, I interview a lot of people very high in the church, and they affirm that without hesitation, there are many, many secrets that are held very closely.
And even their little things they do with their, for instance, like the anointing of the dead, the anointing of the body, they will anoint certain areas of the body and with special oils.
And the areas that they're actually anointing are the seven main energy centers in Eastern philosophy, the chakras.
And this is to help release the spirit out of the body.
And in medieval, in olden days, medieval days, around the 17th century, they used to put a candle at the foot and at the head of the body after it was dead.
James, there's a question I've always had that I've tried to answer in philosophical terms, and I was wondering what your insight was on this.
In the realistic concepts of marriage, we're always told how the souls are bonded.
What happens, what do you believe happens in the afterworld in the case of a divorce?
Where someone is in love with someone, for whatever reason they get divorced, and he or she gets remarried to someone that they're in love with for, let's say, the rest of their lives?
And if someone's married to someone else, they will go to the person that is right for them, that's compatible for them.
unidentified
So do you believe just as we're looking through an eternity of experiences, we're perhaps also looking through an eternity of finding the soulmate that we're at the same level at?
When we go down here and we choose to come back on the earth, we come and group souls.
Almost like you say to your friend, let's go take a class in something.
We come back with our friends and our family because we are also learning Lessons with them and also tying up past karma with those individuals as well.
We all come back at one time.
unidentified
But isn't that a little, to a certain extent, a little malice to think that by that, that love really doesn't necessarily mean anything here?
I'm sure that's the case many times, James, that people receive a message or hear something from somebody who has passed, and they think they're losing their mind.
Because they rely so heavily on this earth, they rely so heavily on their rational mind, the rational conditions, the conditioned mind of black and white, that they're not aware of these other sensations that they get, see?
Which is really the truth, which is really the essence of the spirit.