James Van Praagh, a medium and bestselling author, describes spirit communication as a "mind meld" where he absorbs emotions, dialects, and even physical traits like a chipped tooth or tattoo, verified by skeptics. Spirits undergo a "life review," reliving their past with amplified guilt or joy, determining their fate across multiple dimensions—including non-human forms like "crawling sludge on Jupiter." He dismisses the Bible’s literal ban on contacting the dead, calling it ego-driven but acknowledging its symbolic truths, and argues phobias (e.g., his fear of water) stem from past-life traumas. Van Praagh insists psychic development is accessible through meditation and intuitive exercises, warning fraudulent practitioners distort genuine connections, while his website offers tools for exploration. [Automatically generated summary]
If you want to see what 500,000 volts looks like when it goes astray at a power station, well, then I've got it up on the website for you this week.
Actually, I had it last week.
It took until now to get it up, but oh, it's worth watching.
These two guys who work at a power plant are obviously on their way home, and the shot is of the grid behind them, and all of a sudden, baby, it lets go with 500 bolts, 1,000 bolts rather, that must go right if you look very carefully right up to the lines above it.
I mean, this is something Tesla would have loved, right?
And then at the end, you hear one of the guys start to exclaim, to put it mildly.
He had been walking the other way.
All of this caught on camera.
It's a little movie file, and so you can see it live.
500,000 volts jumping away.
Really cool stuff.
So there is that, all that to be seen on the website.
James Lawn Prague in the next hour.
And of course, we'll revisit the ghost photograph at that time because it has to do really with the afterlife, doesn't it?
But let us quickly take a look at the news of the day and what's going on out there.
And there is a fair amount.
Libya.
Can you believe that?
What a turnaround.
All of a sudden, we don't want weapons of mass destruction.
Yes, we work on them.
But come on in, CIA, and the CIA is in Libya, and take apart our weapons of mass destruction.
We don't want to do it.
We're coming back into the world community.
So that seems almost too good to be true, doesn't it?
And then some U.S. hospitals are already struggling to deal with the current flu outbreak, but that's nothing compared to what would happen.
I'm reading, by the way, the Associated Press here.
That's nothing compared to what would happen if a powerful new flu strain exposed and exploded suddenly into a worldwide flu outbreak known as otherwise a pandemic.
Patients would overwhelm hospitals.
The current outflow would have to be housed elsewhere like schools, which would already be closed anyway.
Nurses already in short supply could not possibly get to everyone.
And there'd be even fewer doctors and nurses once they too began to get sick.
Well, there's a pretty picture for you.
And that's not a scary Art Bell drawn picture.
That's an Associated Press story running this hour.
A lot of people I know are getting sick, and we are continuing to try and stay away.
What a strange thing this year.
I'm not clear on the whole thing.
Maybe some of you are, but I didn't get a flu shot.
Nor did Ramona.
We heard that this year's flu, this particular variety, wasn't affected by the shot anyway.
Now, there's a big controversy about that, and some say, well, you know, the flu shot will help a little bit, and they're trying to get extras, but if it doesn't affect this year's flu, hmm.
So the publicity on that is a little strange, to say the least.
Now, again from AP this hour, beginning late Christmas Eve, a small armada of exploratory spacecraft are going to get to Mars.
Some attempting to enter orbit.
Others will make risky landings on the red planet's surface.
Together, they represent one of the most ambitious efforts yet to resolve the contradictions that persist in alternately intriguing and beleaguing scientists worldwide.
Prospect of life on Mars has charged the public's imagination for more than a century, ever since astronomers first spied what they thought were canals dug to irrigate the planet's ruddy surface.
So things are about to explode on Mars.
And appropriately Coming up in a moment.
I've got Richard C. Hoagland here, who has devoted his literal adulthood and life to the subject of Mars just about.
And so it would be his moment.
He will, of course, be here on the 26th, but tonight we'll give you a little teaser and tell you a little bit about the mission that we are all hopefully about to observe in a moment.
you you The End Well, the wording used by the Associated Press here is that there is a small armada of exploratory spacecraft on the way to Mars.
Richard, is that the right word, armada, little armada?
Well, it's funny because, of course, Mars is the god of war, so, I mean, maybe the AP is falling into the metaphor.
We have been using the term the fleet, which is a little more neutral.
The Japanese, unfortunately, are not going to be with us.
The Nozomi probe, which ironically meant hope, a few weeks ago, a couple weeks ago, they decided they could not fix what had gone wrong in the long transit from 1998 to Christmas of this year.
They had some misfires on an Earth swing by during their launch back in 98.
It was supposed to be there in nine months, and then they had to go into this long, complicated set of orbits to get them to Mars by the time the rest of the fleet arrived.
But unfortunately, en route to Mars, they got hit by a solar flare, one of your favorite things.
Well, out of curiosity, Richard, even though I know the moon is closer and not as complex a mission, obviously, as going to Mars, how many of our moon probes fail percentage-wise, or launches, or low-Earth orbit endeavors?
Even in the early, early days, in fact, I'm going to get into some of this with some remarkable new information, a la Werner von Braun, and the early days of the space program when we do the post-Christmas show on the night of the 26th.
There was a relatively small percentage of the early probes that didn't work because we were just getting used to it.
Two-thirds of all Mars-bound craft have disappeared in a variety of weird ways.
Now, there are only two possible explanations, given that getting to Mars is really no more difficult than getting to any other place in the solar system.
In fact, it's less difficult than going to the outer solar system.
That because of what is on Mars, there has been a deliberate and consistent effort by the agencies to make it less than easy to take and send back good data from the planet.
Well, to me, it's easier to think that good old humans who are doing what humans do, which is to basically screw other humans when and if they can, particularly if power or control or money or the human future is at stake, are more than likely to have tried to keep these secrets.
And of course, what you have is a balance between the statistics that they're not able to do it every time because it requires stealthy, deft, you know, being at the right place at the right time to sabotage the right thing.
But when you look at statistically, how bizarre it is that we've had such poor luck, we as a planet, we as a species, with Mars.
We have a serious consideration because we now have, for the first time, we have a competition between the United States, between NASA, and one other major player, the Europeans.
And as I said on Coast the other night, I really have high hopes for a whole bunch of reasons that we're going to get some extraordinary, real new information because the Europeans, frankly, hate George Bush's guts.
And they will do anything to embarrass those that know, that are part of this administration.
But maybe the guys on that side know there's a cabal, and they've taken appropriate steps to keep their sticky little fingers from inserting wrenches into the sprockets.
it's called the beagle to all be go to after the famous voyage of the beagle the failing ship on which charles darwin went to the south pacific and made his phenomenal Well, it's the European Space Agency, ESSA, is the power behind Mars Express.
But tacked on to Mars Express as the carrier vehicle, as the mothership, the Brits, in the persona of a gentleman named Colin Pillinger, which I think we ought to work very hard to get on your show, Art.
Who is a professor of astronomy at the Open University in England, which has something like 200,000 students of all ages and sizes and races and colors all over England.
You know, everything from housewives to lawyers can go back for continuing education.
It will land, like Pathfinder landed in a large plane, about a 1,600-kilometer plane to the east of Cyrtus Major, which is the major marking on Mars, which was the first marking ever seen in a telescope a couple hundred years ago.
And it will land at about 7.45 our time, Christmas Eve.
And by between 12.30 and 1.30 on Christmas morning, we will know because the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, the U.S. spacecraft, will fly over the Assidious Planitia site of the landing and will relay the radio signals from the Beagle 2 safely on the surface.
So we'll know all this, you know, like Christmas night.
And we're not going to get pictures, by the way, until January.
And Opportunity, the second rover named, lands on the 24th of January.
So we have three landers, two from the U.S., one from Britain, and one orbiter, which is the Mars Express mothership, all going to Mars and arriving at the end of this month, beginning of next month.
When I was preparing the timeline so that I know what I'm talking about in terms of converting, you know, like 15 time zones around the planet, I went to NASA television because I thought, because the Europeans are going to be doing round-the-clock television of their I was going to ask that.
Well, I don't know how much we're going to see in the middle of a sidestepia of that kind of stuff.
But from the orbiter, from Mars Express, we are going to get some amazing new stuff.
And when we come back from the break at the bottom of the hour, I will lay out some of the goodies we can expect from our friend Professor Gerhard Newcomb, who is the principal investigator on the high-resolution color stereo camera.
And European and American spacecraft silently traversing and covering the last bit of territory between where they are and Mars, with the Earth growing very small, in fact, tiny behind them.
Tiny, as Mars is to us, right?
Pretty much.
And Mars getting red and gigantic immediately ahead.
The End It was at the very last minute that I brought Richard on, because this really is quite exciting.
Now, Richard, do you think that there's more of a chance that we're going to suddenly get great, sparkling pictures of what's really on Mars on the one hand, or do you think there'll be last-minute disasters and fidgeting around with the results?
All right, you're going to scroll down on the main page to the light finally dawns at Sidonia Box, which is below the Godban E.T. Conference on the main page.
And it has that stunning photograph of the eastern side of the face lit pre-dawn from Odyssey a few months ago.
And you'll click on that when you get there.
And there are millions of other people doing this simultaneously.
Anyway, the key thing is, in that article, at the end of the piece, I made a specific call to the head of the European Mission Camera, this German Dr. Gerhard Newcomb, who is the principal.
This article is the analysis of this astonishing Mars Odyssey image, which shows the eastern side of the face to be polished like a brass Martian helmet.
And over toast, I basically said to this audience, please let him know that when his camera gets into orbit On Christmas night and begins taking pictures in its polar orbit, please re-photograph Sidonia at this lighting because,
unlike the American cameras, which are currently orbiting Mars on Surveyor and Odyssey, he has a color stereo camera that he spent the last 10-15 years developing, which can give us two-meter resolution in color and stereo art.
As of December 3rd, to the BBC, and we'll be putting the link up between now and the night after Christmas, he said that he has received, basically because of my going on this show and asking people to let him know what they want, he has received a ton of email from all over the world.
And the message is, please take new images of Sidonia.
NASA is lying to us.
And he said he will be taking new images.
Now, what I intend to do is to post a second article, which specifically lays out the kind of images that we need, because not all images are created equal.
If you take images at the wrong time of day, as NASA's been taking, you won't be able to differentiate artificial things from rocks.
It's only because the Odyssey image, which is in this article that you can't get to, that we discussed before, that stunning, glowing, brilliant eastern side of the face.
It's only because of that unique lighting that we have unequivocal proof.
I mean, as you know and I know, we've discussed the need for what might be called the smoking gun shot for the last, God, how long have I been doing your show?
And the surrounding things aren't glowing like the face is.
And they're just a mile or two away.
So what kind of geology gives you over a square mile of surface which is polished like a mirror, like a skyscraper shining at pre-dawn, and right next door you have things that look like natural desert?
So what I've asked Dr. Newcomb through this audience, and I will reiterate again, I will be laying out in a very specific piece we're going to post between now and the time that the U.S. rovers land, a detailed methodology of when to take the pictures and what we expect them to show.
And we then would expect this audience to take that article and reflect it in their emails to Dr. Newcomb.
It's not just good enough to say you're going to take new pictures.
They've got to be the right kind of pictures for the right kind of analysis.
Now, the other good news is when I went last night to try to find the schedule on the NASA television page and found that they are totally ignoring the Mars Express arrival and the Beagle 2 landing.
Now, the reason this is weird is because every time one of the Russians sends a spacecraft up to rendezvous with a space station, NASA covers it.
Every time the Japanese have done something in space, NASA covers it.
Well, if what you believe is true, then maybe our chariot has, like in the old days, you know, Spartacus, maybe our chariot has one of those spike things on the wheels and we'll go over and we'll zap the European thing and shred it.
We finally seem to have real competition and Newcomb's message through the BBC to us, to this audience, I have heard you, particularly when he included the part about NASA's lying.
Meaning that it can take multiple images in different wavelengths, different bands, which gives you analysis.
It also has very high time resolution.
In order to get stereo, they have to do click, click, click, click, click as the spacecraft flies over.
If we're getting mirror-like reflections from the face, I would expect, and I will put in the new paper, that some of the pictures will show bright highlights, and other pictures taken a few seconds later, those highlights will disappear.
But the analysis is going to be from a completely separate quarter, the Europeans.
And if Dr. Newcomb is going insofar as to take the pictures, my feeling is politically he's got people on his team who are willing then to stand by an analysis of those pictures that's in consonance with the real science and not with the political science.
In other words, Art, I think we finally got a prayer of honesty in this game.
Well, it really would be cool if nothing more than photographs absolutely verify from their point of view that there are artificial artifacts on Mars, that there was a civilization.
And the way you make that decision is you take applied techniques that are used here, you apply them to there, and you basically are comparing apples to apples.
But you've got to have an honest broker to do that.
And the fact that Newcomb is saying in the BBC piece, people are telling me NASA is lying, he didn't have to say that.
I'm willing to give it a little even better than 50-50 that there once was a civilization on Mars.
Really, I am, Richard.
I kind of lean that way.
And you've had a lot to do with that, with what you've shown me.
But again, the realization that there once was a civilization there and isn't now is it's not like aliens walking down the plank in Washington, but it's a biggie and it will cause much consternation in the Brookings tradition.
Well, this is where we come to the conference, and we have not had a chance to discuss what happened in Wisconsin.
And so on Friday night following Christmas, as part of the 12 Days, I will give a reprise of some of the highlights of the conference that happened between myself and Mike Heiser and Hugh Ross.
I agree even that I've seen cities beneath the ground.
i mean you know i've been through some fantastic photographs together but other people don't see that and and so i again i'm asking will we see something cannot be reasonably debated that will be so strong it will prove that the problem I mean, you're well familiar, I'm sure, with the trial of in California.
And what they have in the way of real smoking gun evidence turns out to be one hair in appliers on his boat that they claim, with one DNA test, may be her hair.
And the rest of it is total circumstantial evidence.
And yet they are putting this man on trial for murdering his wife.
Well, the case for Sidonia is built on similar pieces of disparate circumstantial evidence.
Any one piece you can blow away.
But when you take the gestalt of all the pieces over the years.
It depends on who is looking at the photograph, Art.
What you might think indisputable, what I might think indisputable, what the so-called Sidonia Village, to use a term which has been on the web, might think is indisputable, NASA will blow away.
On that note, we'll be back in a moment with James von Prague from the High Desert.
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You know, I think Ross copied, actually went to the movie, watched the movie contact so he could say, want to take a ride just right?
And he did.
The exact tonal qualities in the voice when that was asked in the movie, which is where I plucked that from to have Ross use it.
Same tonal qualities are there, so I have a feeling this time when he recorded it, he went back and got it exactly right.
Coming up in a moment is James von Prague.
Now, James is the number one New York Times best-selling author, arguably, listen carefully to this part, the most famous and successful medium of our time.
James is world-renowned for his extraordinary ability to communicate with the spirits of men, women, and animals who have died.
He's been the host of his own television show Beyond, a featured guest on Oprah Winfrey, Larry King, you know, The Big Circuit, lots of radio and TV over the past 20 years.
He's spoken to thousands of people through his lectures, demonstrations, and spiritual tours, and here on coast to coast, millions at a time.
You know, the big question is, is what James can do and others, the real McCoy, can you really communicate with the dead or is something else at work here?
I mean, that really is a question.
can we really really really communicate with the spirits of the dead The End By the way, folks, on the 28th of December, a Sunday, I'm going to hold it open lines, and then the 31st.
Yes, I'm going to get to do that program, both the 28th and the 31st.
I will take predictions for the coming year.
Now, this is no small matter.
We've been doing this yearly as a yearly event, I don't know, for better than a decade, I guess.
And we lock the predictions away in the Bell family vault, hold them for a year, bring them out, and then discuss the previous year's predictions, which I must say, by the way, in this case, were rather pathetic in terms of their accuracy, but hopefully we'll do better this year.
So I want you to concentrate between now and then on what you want your prediction to be.
Give serious thought to it.
Let your mind go black, blank, and black, a more serious level of difficulty for some than others.
And then try and pluck from that emptiness what you feel will be an ironclad prediction for the year 2004.
And then we'll have two days for you to get it in.
So I wanted to let you know we're going to be doing that tonight, James von Prague, and here we go.
And that's a legitimate charge for them in their belief system.
That's the way they think, and that's fine.
But when there are so many details which they can't eat they can't easily how could someone have known about a chip tooth or how wouldn't someone know about a tattoo?
Well, I don't know, but I mean if you were to try and disabuse me of the notion that you got information about somebody ahead of time, how do you do that?
I also have been I also, the Skeptic Society once said that I was wired to every single house in the nation, which was pretty good because I'm better than the CIA on that one.
You know what, Artist, it's interesting because there's some skeptics, you know, I believe, you know, I think there are many levels, and I believe everybody has a right to believe the way they believe.
But there are certain things, no matter what you do, you cannot change their way of thinking.
And it's almost like teaching algebra to a third grader.
I mean, certain things are beyond their belief system, and that's something which no one can change.
Even if, you know, let's say a spirit materialized in the room, they would have a hard time understanding.
Well, it would be that there would be someone who would decide that the person who's performing the test would be aware of the person that I'm doing the reading for, and they would know certain details, and they would be separate from either a different room or a different location, even across the country.
I was going to be a priest at one time because I felt there was something, a service I had to do for something, for human beings, a spiritual thing.
And of course, now, of course, I realize what it is.
But really, I'd say around 11, 12 years of age, the vision stopped, the feeling stopped.
Went about a regular life, normal life, until my early 20s.
When I myself went to a medium, a lady, a friend of mine, dragged me to see this man who she was told he could talk to the dead.
And I didn't necessarily believe him.
I said, I think that's a bunch of baloney.
And as soon as I walked into that room, he looked at me and he said, you're a medium.
You're a sensitive.
You're energy.
You had light around you.
You were sensitive.
You're going to communicate with the spirit world in several years.
I did not believe this man until he himself brought through information to me that only I would know.
Specific information.
For instance, that there was a dead uncle with my name in the spirit world, which I didn't know about.
It wasn't in my consciousness.
Think about it.
I called up my family the next day and I said, is there a James in the spirit world?
My mother said, yes, a brother of mine was a baby that died with your name.
And she'd never told me that before.
And other specific things.
And I thought, this man is something going on here.
So I began to research it and read as many books as I could.
And I began to meditate.
I really began to meditate just to relax myself, to center myself, to part of that silence, whatever it was.
And it seemed that through the meditation, after a series of months of meditation, and I wasn't trying to get any goals, to go for any attain any goals, it seemed that the more I meditated, the more I became into a place of serene silence, and the more sensitive I became.
And again, the lights, the feelings, the visions started up.
And that was my early 20s.
And it became a point where I could no longer ignore it.
I'd be seeing people and they'd be standing behind someone.
For instance, when we had a thought about, oh, I'm hungry, I'm going to go out, or I have to go to the store and pick up some food, groceries, whatever, there's a thought in the brain.
It's like that.
The spirit people will telepathically send thoughts.
It's almost like spirit-to-spirit communication.
And they will send a thought.
Thought is energy.
They will send that energy to my mind, and I receive it.
I receive that thought, and I spit it out.
Now, along with that thought comes a personality.
For instance, if they're very emotional, it'll tend to be very emotional.
If they're very funny, humorous, if they're very serious, it'll pick up like a sense of being very serious.
Or if there's really even a foreign country, I'll pick up a sense of another language or a sound of another language.
I also pick up very, very often, it seems that one of the first things a spirit will communicate with, especially if they're not experienced with this, is remember the first thing they will try to transmit is their last memory of this earth level, this three-dimensional world, which is in most cases their death condition or how they left the physical body.
And many times when they come back on this level, that's the first thing they remember.
So when they transmit thoughts, it comes along with that feeling of the death condition.
They can't breathe, there's a heart problem, there was an internal condition in the body, there was a car accident, whatever it was, and that's what they will also convey.
Now, it's very, very interesting that each spirit is different, just like we are all different.
We each have our different desires, our belief systems, our emotions, whatever it is, our intellectual capacity.
And the spirits are different.
They all communicate the same.
Some are much more visual, some much more auditory, some much more sensitive, emotional.
So they communicate differently.
There are some that are great communicators, and others are horrible communicators.
Of course, if he listened, if he sent it in another way, I wouldn't be able to pick it up because I'm human.
So we'd have to send it in a way that I would be able to digest it, understand it, comprehend it.
But I do tell you, Art, I will tell you this.
When I receive messages from animals, it comes with an energy of clear purity of love.
I can only tell you that.
The love that they have for this person that took care of them.
And there's a sense of an appreciation and a love.
And it's very interesting because the difference between animals and humans, the humans come with the egos and the dislikes and all the crap that they did, that they didn't do, that they're sorry for, forgive me.
If we look at it that way, and we see it as one big force, of living force, and we just take on these traits of animal or human, and we come back on the physical level, but when we leave the physical level in the spiritual dimensions, fourth, sixth dimensions, perhaps they're all that same thing, the same element.
So why wouldn't I be able to communicate with what I am?
Again, though, there's a lot of your work that would bump into a lot of what the Bible says.
I mean, the Bible, for example, doesn't even think you ought to be able to communicate with the dead because the dead are in some sort of, oh, I don't know, limbo-incapacitated condition until all are risen, right?
If people were given the truth, if people realize that they themselves have the responsibility, that they have created their world based on their thoughts, words, and deeds, and they live that way, they really live that way, I think the world will be a better place.
When you start putting these laws of fear and you must live this way or you go to hell, or whatever it is.
Well, actually, that's one of the questions coming up.
But again, I want to know when you do communicate with spirits from the other side, you not only get a contemporary message from them sometimes, but do you at the same time feel everything they're feeling?
You know, I almost feel like you're a medium because you're describing it perfectly.
It's exactly what it is.
So if it's their energy, it's blending with my energy because they have to transmit this energy to me, this consciousness.
They're throwing this at me.
They want to throw a thought at me with as much as their personality, as their force as possible.
So of course I will many times pick up traits of theirs, personality traits.
I'll pick up dialects.
I'll pick up phrases they would say.
Their personality, their behavior comes through many, many times.
It's like a mind melding, very much that way.
And you know, trance is that way when the consciousness, when you let go and release, and they can really, well, going to trance, it's releasing and letting them come through you into your consciousness.
But it's very much that way.
Even a mental medium like myself, I will somewhat, and I noticed at the very beginning when I first started developing my abilities, I noticed when I sat in my meditation circles that there was a part of me, James, which kind of stepped aside and I felt another energy come near me or through me.
And I still feel that.
Even children, it's amazing when kids come through.
Little kids come through.
And I've had studies done where my face changes.
The actual face will change.
And afterwards people say, my God, you look just like her.
It's both, because, number one, if you have a spirit who's a wonderful communicator, then they know exactly how to Do it precisely where they don't drain you too much.
They come in and they can do it.
They can use the energy and then they're out of there.
If it's someone who is not very good at this, they have to use more of your energy in order to sustain themselves and also to get themselves through and details through, then there might be more draining and more for me to listen more.
It's just like, for instance, if I'm trying to read a skeptic, well, it's very hard because they're very closed-minded.
So I first have to drill through that heavy armor and get through something.
And I'm wasting all that energy, that time drilling, drilling, drilling, opposed to someone who's just very open, who just is open and accepts whatever comes through will come through and whatever.
I would imagine, after so much communication with animals and people who have passed on, that you must know, or should know, or have discerned some idea of what their environment is like, where they are, whether they have a social life, a life at all, how they live, anything about the dimension or place that they have gone to.
So I have found that it seems that when they first pass over, there seems to be, number one, you have to remove in a three-dimensional world.
So immediately the spirit is outside of this three-dimensional world.
So the laws that apply, the laws that apply to the three-dimensional world do not apply to a fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh-dimensional world.
Even the thought, it seems that thought is the way they transport themselves, just with thought.
And thought is very quick, fast.
It seems that there's an opening of consciousness.
There's an overwhelming opening of consciousness.
And it seems as if there's no time whatsoever.
There's nothing like time measured here in this dimension.
That all things are one.
And that there's an immediate realization that we are all connected to the same.
And we're all that oneness.
There's a oneness there.
And it seems that the soul, I compare it to people, and it's really funny because the analogy I use for a lot of people is I will say to them, you know, when you pass over, it's like taking off sunglasses.
Well, it seems that, number one, the first thing that happens with them when they pass over is, of course, they have the traits, the earth mind still, because that's the memory of what they have.
And they still have very much the emotions, and they still have the likes, the dislikes, the prejudices.
And they will, it seems as a life review when they pass over.
First of all, let me tell you, every spirit visits their funeral, every single one.
They will go to their funeral, and they'll see their loved ones, and they'll see what's going on, and they feel the grief from their loved ones very, very much.
It's almost amplified.
Thoughts are amplified.
It's very much a mental process.
When there's a life review, when they pass over, when the first thing that does happen after their funeral, there before, is a life review.
And because there is no such thing as time like we have it here, they can see their entire life, whether it's 50 to 80 to 90 years, flash right before them.
You know, if you want to put it that way, it could be a waiting room.
It could be we can prepare ourselves for the next lifetime.
We can analyze where we've just come from and look at our tests and see if we pass those lessons and what we didn't do this time around.
What we should have done, we could have done.
Oh, gosh, next time I'll be better at it.
If I'm given that situation again, I'll learn from it next time and do better.
For instance, when we're little kids and we're taught that the red light means you don't go across because you'll get hit by a car, well, we've been conditioned to know that.
We've had the experience.
We learn by experience.
And it seems that in lifetimes we have experiences to learn from.
So we perfect ourselves, we perfect our thoughts, our choices in life, our love of ourselves and others, how we behave.
Well, at least if it's an ongoing process with reincarnation and it's a schoolroom and we're supposed to improve, then at least the process has meaning.
Well, then there's always this process of increasing a population.
You know, the people who object to the concept of reincarnation wonder about the number of souls and how we can keep getting new souls and population increases and all that.
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Yeah, and that's because they're looking at it in a very limited way.
For instance, they were only thinking of this is the Earth and that's the only place you can come to, when in reality, there are many, many places to go back to, many galaxies, major forms of life that our soul takes on.
The soul does not just take on just a physical body as we know it on the earth.
Perhaps there are many different places to experience life.
Life is more than just maybe what we know here on this earth.
But I mean, the big public names that everybody would know, is there much of a difference between mediums?
I mean, if there is something to this, then you would think that the mediums that are legitimate would be experiencing very much the same sort of thing.
And it's disgusting, but there are those that are out there doing that.
And I tell people all the time, just because someone's in the spotlight, just because they have a TV show, just because they're popular in the time, does not mean that they have all the answers to the universe.
I don't know everything.
What the person must do, they have to be discerning.
They have to investigate.
They've got to be skeptical to a degree.
They've got to analyze.
They've got to understand.
And I say to people, if what someone is telling you or you're seeing on television or in the movies or whatever it is, the radio even, if it resonates with your truth, and it's for you, if it doesn't resonate with you, even with a book, if it doesn't resonate with you, throw it out.
Yeah, but I've seen people over the years, many years, just because they have this ability does not mean that they're very necessarily evolved spiritually.
And people should always remember that the gurus and all that.
Anyone that puts me on a pedestal or says, I just jump right off that because I don't want to be there.
That's not who I am.
I'm here to learn too.
I'm here to learn my lessons.
It's just maybe a little more sensitive than most people.
And if I can share something or teach people or help people with what I do, then that's fine.
But it doesn't necessarily mean that I'm more evolved than someone else.
There are some people, you know, I've got naming names.
There are people out there that I know that are on television that have an ability, but they don't have any bit of compassion with the work they do or compassion with the people they're working for.
And even the psychics, perhaps some of the ones you're talking about, they also seem to help the living because the living get some information that for them is convincing.
And they become totally believers that they just communicated with their relatives.
Yeah, and they're comforted, and it certainly helps the living.
How frequently are you able to discern, since time means nothing for those who have passed on, how frequently are you able to discern from them what the future might hold?
James von Prague is here tonight, and it's an interesting time in the Bella household.
We've been revamping everything in the house.
New this, new that, you know, that sort of thing.
And Ramona, on myself, is painting the house inside.
And she had this ladder up vertically behind the plasma TV painting for the last half hour.
She did it successfully, but I must confess, this last half hour has been a nervous time for me, contemplating the many disasters that could have happened, but she did it.
So anyway, back to James von Prague, and perhaps what can be discerned from those who have passed into a place where time essentially does not exist, and therefore Would know the future as they do, I guess, the present and the past, with no discernible linear passage of time.
I mean, they might know the future, and apparently, to some degree, they do.
People, I do a chat room with people there, and we have a store where people can buy all my new meditations.
There's four new meditations for people, CDs, and workbooks.
I also talk about upcoming events, lectures and workshops, and how people can see me in person, classes I hold, teaching people, demonstrations I do, that sort of thing.
It's interesting that you would write two teens about the spiritual world because most teens are kind of wrapped up in the material world more than I think older people tend to be.
Well, here is Leah in Vancouver, B.C., who says, look, there's nothing wrong with making money selling psychic services as long as one's real and doesn't charge outrageous prices.
Everyone needs to make a living.
These services are in demand.
There's only so much one can do for charity.
And, you know, that's true.
I mean, if you are being a psychic full-time, you've got to make a living like everybody else in the world.
And so I guess selling books.
And then what, James?
I mean, do you have a schedule of personal readings that you do charge for?
Or how do you scratch out a living beyond your books?
I mean, if you have a bestseller, then great, but otherwise forget it.
I really, you know, I give a private readings many, many years ago.
And I've been offered, I swear to you, I've been offered anywhere from $100 to $1 million from people for private readings.
And people say, you're stupid, you didn't take it, but I haven't.
And I couldn't because it wouldn't be fair to other people.
I just stopped doing the private readings many years ago in order to reach more people.
And the spirit world came through to me and said, you need to reach more people through television, through books, through appearances, and spread the word that way.
Because I did 20, well, whatever, 15 years of private readings.
And sure, I can make a great living doing private readings.
And most of the time when people will learn to meditate and become aware of, if you will, speeding up their frequency, their energy vibration, they will have more experiences of telepathic preconditions.
I said to a friend of mine the night before, the last space shuttle that went to the book, I said to a friend of mine the night before, I said, there's going to be, or I said, excuse me, I said to my sister on the telephone, I said, oh, my God, there's something going to happen tonight.
And she goes, what do you mean?
I said, I have no idea.
There's going to be some kind of explosion above the Earth.
Now, I didn't know there was a space shuttle going on.
I wasn't aware of it.
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And the next morning I wake up, I put on my computer, and there it is on AOL.
But there are other times I'll be doing a reading, and some spirit will communicate to their loved one that, you know, you've got to be careful of Johnny in the car because there could be an accident if he does this or this.
You know, I really want to be careful of, and I've had it for a while, of, it sounds really weird ever since 9-11, but I've always had this feeling of the water, our water, that we've got to be very careful with contamination of water.
Which tells me that the nature of the soul on the other side is very contemporary with all the consciousness or the same kind of consciousness that it had on this side.
So, I want to ask you: do the spirits that you speak with, do you believe they have the ability to occasionally in some way manifest themselves in a physical, sufficiently physical form for living human beings to observe something or even photograph something as they did there?
And I have many, many spirit photographs, many, many, which cannot be disputed.
Yeah, many cannot be disputed.
I mean, they're incredible.
How do they do it?
I do not know.
I do not know scientifically how they do it.
I only know is they can definitely affect something with a magnetic linking, electromagnetic field, and they can impress themselves.
I do believe, Art, there has to be a very strong force emotionally, a physical force, a desire, an emotional desire, whether it's also an emotion of anger or a frustration or love that they come through with.
But that seems to have to be present.
There has to be some kind of a force, an emotional force, along with it when you have these apparitions.
Or when I've seen them myself.
I have done tests where I've been photographed.
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You know, you've heard of auric photographs, these sorts of things.
that they wrote that before they came back to the incarnation that they wrote that on their agreement that this what they have to experience it is there any indication of from any you've ever spoken with that in the day you are suffering some different greater The soul cannot be harmed.
It seems that the people that I've worked with in reincarnation, the ones who come back the quickest, are those who died young or suicides.
And that's not a rule per se, but it seems my experience is of doing my readings over 20 years, that the ones that have come back sooner have been those two.
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You know, when we look at that, and people ask me that question all the time, because, and I say to them, well, you're looking at it once again from a linear point of view, and you're looking at it from a, that's a very three-dimensional question, because we're more than just the three-dimensional beings.
We exist on many, many levels.
So there's a part of the soul which exists on, and let's say part of that soul can come back and have another incarnation.
But that part that you might be aware of, that last lifetime, will not necessarily come back.
There might be more of the essence of that soul in the ethereic, any other dimensional soul.
I would think that by this time in the program, all the people who go, they've already turned it off.
So you're now speaking to, I don't know, I think more than not, a fairly attuned group of people who are willing to open their minds and look at this square on.
And so assume that you're talking to that group, because you probably are.
So let's just go back to frequency and talk about energy and the different levels of energy and frequencies.
I believe that every single person is psychic or to a different one degree or another.
I think that everybody's born with the ability to play the piano, but not everybody's a concert pianist.
Not everybody has the makeup for that extra sensitivity.
You can See things and intuit things, but I think a medium is someone who is able not only to have that sensitivity, but is also able to go, if you will, one step beyond and able to attune to a higher frequency of energy, beyond just the psychic, beyond just the psychic realm, a little bit higher, and able to be the interface between the low energies of the three-dimensional world and those of the higher dimensions, fourth, fifth, sixth.
They've got to go away from the craziness of the physical mind and get away from the fear and, oh, God, I'm not going to hear anything.
Oh, God, it's not going to work.
It's not going to work.
Get away from the judgment.
Because when you're in the judgment, you can't be open to it.
The easiest way, Art, is before they go to sleep at night to put into the consciousness or the subconsciousness, put out there, I want to communicate with mother.
I want to communicate with my father.
And just, that's all they're going to say.
And fall asleep that way.
Keep a piece of paper next to the bed with a pen.
And I guarantee you, within a week or two weeks or even a month, just keep on doing it.
Don't put a time on it, though.
You will get something.
You will definitely get something.
I think, as I said earlier on the show also, they're always giving us signals.
I do believe that you have to reach that condition before you can proceed to either what you're talking about or what I was talking about to make it a valid experience.
the big rap on this is that your your hypnotizing yourself and eventually your mind fulfills your request now Is that your mind issuing a sort of, I don't know, protective group of instructions to make you believe that you just got the communication you've been seeking?
In other words, if it's our own mind, just if you know inside your being, and a lot of people will, they'll get this when they do this experiment, they will know that it's true.
Okay, so let's advise some people in the audience.
No harm in that.
Give this a try.
Night after night.
Blank your mind.
I guess try and open yourself up to the possibility of communication with the person who has left your life and you want to speak with and you want to have a communication with.
Every single person, the more they do it, the better they'll get at it.
Some people, it'll take a little longer.
But, you know, I do an exercise also in my classes and workshops, which if people are interested in sign my websites or the workshops, I do sometimes clips like commentary where people in the audience, complete strangers to one another, will hold an object of someone else's.
You know, part of the idea of myself and my motivation behind doing my own Delhi talk show, which I did for a year, was to bring together practitioners of all different types and disciplines.
It was unfortunate that Hollywood didn't see it that way.
I was lucky enough and fortunate on my show to have remote viewers, and I was fortunate to have some other people on, like Ghostbusters and so forth, and reincarnation specialists.
I think it would be very valuable to do that sort of thing.
During the period that you did that show, was there any one person or anything that happened during the whole show that really hit you hard and remains with you today?
There were so many, many, many different situations.
There were hundreds and hundreds of readings on that show, and incredible things happened.
The lives were saved.
It's funny because it might seem simple, going back to the animals.
I was doing a reading for the audience of 200 people, and there was a dog, a dog that came, and spirit dog, walked right down the aisle and walked right up to this man and jumped on him.
And I told him there's a dog there jumping on you.
His left leg was hurt.
He wants to thank you for bringing him to the pound.
And he wants you to forgive yourself for putting him to sleep.
And the man was crying his eyes out.
And I said, the dog is telling me that you have a picture of him in your pocket.
And sure enough, the man pulls out a picture in his pocket.
And this man was a skeptic.
He was someone dragged to the show.
The dog, he lost the dog two weeks earlier.
And he was hoping the dog might come through if there's any truth to this sort of thing.
And he had his response.
That was great.
But that was one of many.
I had a remote viewer on, Wayne Cara from Seattle.
He was on.
And he was quite, quite good.
We had a young girl go to a place in Santa Monica next to a carousel.
And there was a holiday time.
And there were Christmas trees and Christmas decoration.
The carousel was going.
And he was very, very accurate in the shapes and movements and the decorations.
We call this one Perump in the Middle of the Desert.
Hey, everybody, I'm Art Bell, and my guest is James von Prog, widely believed to be one of the very best psychics in the world and mediums.
And if you have a question for him that does not involve a specific reading, but is a sort of a general question the way we've been doing the interview tonight, then that's what we're looking for.
Everything that you've talked about, I have experienced.
I'm an Aquarius, and my mother was an Aquarius, and we had like a psychic connection between the two of us.
And then when my father, I had a dream one night.
I wasn't thinking about my father, but he came to me in a dream.
It was so real.
And we were all there, and he said something, and a week later, what he told happened.
And then my grandson died, and he appears like the other night, he appeared.
He hits on things like I'm on the phone.
He'll start hitting on something.
And my husband sees him, my granddaughter's mother sees him.
I can't see him, but he does things that you can either hear or see.
And then, you know, what you're saying about God being the force of love, I have felt that because Jesus has appeared to me twice when I was dying and going to surgery.
And the love is so powerful, it almost takes you over.
Well, I don't believe in that because I think, as I said earlier, very early in the show, that I believe the Bible is man-made, and I think it's based on the Bible is based on spiritual belief.
I'm really actually surprised to hear a psychic discuss religion in the ways that you are, especially in what you were saying about not believing in a hell.
I would have to agree with you and the photos that you were talking about showing the auras of you and that a soul cannot be harmed in the sense that we understand harm.
I would have to really agree with that.
With there being no hell, this is the way I've looked at it in all the lookings that I've had in the Bible.
Every time that Satan is mentioned, he's been told by Jesus or by God in the beginning in the creation story that he was put behind God.
He was put out of the light.
And I think that disconnection from the love of being with God, that that's the hell.
It's not being cast in the fiery pit that your flesh is boiling and all that.
You know, if you give people back the responsibility for themselves and that they're responsible for their thoughts, words, and deeds, things would change completely.
But, you know, they need that little bit of, oh, they want someone else to tell them what to do, the right way and the wrong way.
It's much easier for everyone else if someone else tells them what to do instead of making up their own mind.
Well, James, if we were to imagine a world in which millions and millions of American people, we'll take the Christian West here, suddenly ceased to believe in fire and brimstone, how different do you think social behavior would really be?
Well, if they let go of that belief system, but they had another belief system that they knew they were responsible for their thoughts, words, and deeds, and that when they pass in the other spiritual realms, that their own thoughts will meet them, I think they would start changing their tune.
I think they would live, you know, the whole secret here is living with a mindfulness, being aware, being with a consciousness, having an awareness.
But I'm saying, in their current state, if all they lost was the belief in a fiery hell when they died, do you think they would suddenly become reckless with regard to their behavior and rape, pillage, and plunder?
I can say that, and I don't know because I'm not you, but I can tell you that there are some people who before they go to sleep fall into a, if you call a light state, of trance state, if you will, and that they're partly in the body and partly out of the body, and that they, if you like, part of the etheric, they're in the etheric world, but they're also still pretty much aware of the conscious of the physical, which you are because you hear the music.
In other words, you can be in two, it's almost like melding two dimensions, if you will.
So you might be very aware of the etheric world where the music is playing and also the physical.
Happens a lot of the time of death, when right before someone passes over many times, they'll hear voices and they get louder and someone talking to them louder and louder.
But when you can really get a nurse or somebody, you know, into a conversation about this, and really somehow they get past their fear of talking about it, they'll tell you about people talking to others just before they die.
And I guess physicians probably try to write it off as, I don't know, delusionary protectionism from the brain with, you know, whatever.
Yeah, but it's pretty amazing that the people that have out of body experiences can actually see what's going on with the body, the doctors are doing to them.
And when they come back into the body, it tells them exactly the procedure they did to the body.
It's very common.
It's a very common experience that this lady is experiencing.
It does happen quite frequently.
Many times you'll hear people speaking to them also.
Happens quite frequently.
Yes, you are a medium.
If I were you, I'd definitely sit in a meditation circle, a disciplined development meditation circle, and develop that part of yourself.
Don't be afraid of it, because fear closes the door.
My eight-year-old nephew asked me why God put us on earth.
And I thought I could, maybe through your readings, you would come to some conclusion as to what is the most important lesson we have to learn while we're here.
First of all, who's to say how many different levels of consciousness there are?
And then we fall into those different levels as we're falling to sleep.
And as I said earlier, we're leaving the body.
So you're meeting into that spiritual world, and the two worlds, in a way, kind of meet as we go into those other levels.
We go to sleep and we're trance.
We go to it like a trance state.
So I do believe that.
And I've seen it myself.
I've seen spirits there.
And many people have reported that to me as well.
As far as materialization, that happens as well.
Rare, but it does happen.
Where spirits can actually materialize something in the room, whether it's a piece of paper, whether it's a flower, whether it's some kind of an object, I've seen it happen.
Do you think, James, that making something happen, some manifestation, whether it be an apparent physical body to see as in a ghost or something moving through the air, all of that takes a special power and authority from the other side or from?
For instance, I'm able to perceive the other dimensions.
I think it also works with those spirits who have a certain energy or force, and they're able to manifest it or manipulate it, if you will, a certain way.
I think it is also with their makeup.
It's their kind of makeup that they have.
Really, I mean, I've had some scientists come through and they've appeared in certain ways because they understood scientifically how to get through with molecular structures and so forth.
So it does depend on their makeup and their belief system.
They talk a lot with Mark Macy about Constantine coming through, and yeah, and there's a whole time stream on the other side, the scientists who are trying to make it through.
I have heard of something, a little down to go one step beyond this, of Walkins, where there are spirits who will walk into a body at a certain time, and there seems to be some sort of a life review at that moment.
What that entails, I can't go, I don't know.
I don't know what that means as far as a walk-in.
I'm not sure.
I'm not an expert on Walkins.
The only time I've heard of that is in that context, where they've been walking and the actual person was having a life review at that particular moment.
James, I'm noticing that the majority of people responding to this, and they are en masse, that phone lines are jammed, full as always, but the majority are clearly female.
Now, I wonder if that's something that you've noticed in your work.
Are females in some way as a general rule, and I'm not, because obviously there will be specific exceptions, but I mean, are females more likely to be in tune with the possibility of psychic communication and this whole thing than males?
When we're talking about America now, I've made it in India.
Very easy, a very easy technique to meditate for anyone is to, number one, just put yourself in a room that no one will bother you.
Give yourself at least 15 minutes.
And I close my eyes and I concentrate on my breathing.
The breath coming into the body.
And I concentrate like with a light coming in.
And when I exhale out of my mouth, I exhale like a gray mist, a visualize a gray mist, which represents any negative thoughts, any energies which are not mine in the body.
And I do that over and over again.
And after a while, it becomes routine.
And that's really how I, that's the basics.
My book, Meditations, goes in more details about it.
I usually think about my latest computer problem or I'm working something, I don't know, technical out in my head.
I'm always working on that kind of stuff.
But when I'm trying to go to sleep and I'm having a hard time going to sleep, one of the things that really does work, and you all might try this because it really does work, is just stopping and taking two really deep lung-filling breaths.
And after you take two or three really deep breaths, maybe it's the rush of oxygen.
I don't know what it is, but it clears something away.
I'm not talking about the normal breath.
I'm talking about the fill your lungs, take a big one breath, do that twice, and you're sort of in a bit of a different state.
But what I would suggest you do is to keep a pad by the bed and write down your dreams, date them if you can, and then look back at them six months later and see what's happened, or even a year later.
James, you mentioned earlier that you were able to communicate with the spirits of those who had died but had actually reincarnated, and also that in your experience, those who had died young or suicide reincarnated most quickly.
My question was, what do you think is an average turnaround time?
So first of all, don't think of it as just like you have a physical body.
Don't think of the soul as just that physical body, and then it returns into that physical body.
It is the essence of what a soul is, is bigger and greater than we're aware of.
So what I'm saying is that personality that you recently, let's say you lost your father, and that personality of your father that you knew of, that's what you want to communicate with.
Well, that personality of your father that you knew on the earth, that's only one aspect of that person, of that soul.
That's only one aspect of that soul.
So your father is much greater than just that one personality you know.
So that part of that soul can come back and reincarnate, but the essence of what you know, that recent personality, can still exist in that spiritual dimension.
It's a consciousness that in a human form we'd understand, that the personality that we're linked with in this lifetime, that's what I'm talking about, this linking into this lifetime that you've shared together, that's what I'm speaking about, communication.
And I think it's reflective of what's going on within themselves and what's their fear base, what's their loving base, where are they at consciously, where's their awareness.
I have a very interesting attitude about it, James.
I do think that doomsday is always a possibility, but somehow or another, my mind just says, well, hmm, yep, might be, but, you know, I've got to keep trudging along as though it's not going to happen because life goes on until it doesn't.
And so I just, I guess I rationalize that since I can't do anything about it, ho-hum, might as well observe and watch it all unfold if that's the way it's going to go.