The original ghost whisperer, James Van Praagh, is known as a psychic/medium who has made a career of talking to the dead and reassuring the living.He talks about what he claims happens to people after they die, about ghosts attached to Britney Spears and about his own Heath Ledger experience.He created and co-produced CBS's No. 1 drama "Ghost Whisperer," starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, and has written several books, including the best-selling "Talking to Heaven."His latest, "Ghosts Among Us" (HarperOne, $24.95), being released this week, is meant to serve as a practical guide to the spirit world. For more information go to www.vanpraagh.com.Q: You say in the book that spirits regret not knowing the truth of life when they were alive. What is that truth?A: It's very, very interesting because that is like the No. 1 message that comes back when they come back to communicate with loved ones. They regret that they didn't realize how important it was to love themselves, love another person, and they took many, many things for granted. So that is the truth we are talking about.Q: You talk about everything being energy, even thoughts.A: Love is the strongest force there is, so positive. Loving thoughts (are a) healing force. Love brings together and fear separates.Q: If we are recycled from past lives, then why does the population continue to grow? From where are the extra souls coming?A: That's a good question. The answer to that is this Earth is not the only place to come back to. There are many galaxies and other forms of life on other planets to go to. Unfortunately, the Earth is one of the most unevolved places to come back to.Q: So why is it so popular?A: Because here we have free will. There are a lot more opportunities here for growth.Q: At one point in the book you describe two teachers who had passed and were still teaching children on the other side.A: When you pass over there is an astral world, which is a replica of this world. It seems like a waiting station. It helps you to adapt. It seems over there you are able to experience everything of the Earth and more. Once you become adjusted to that you have a second death and move to a higher level.Q: More death?A: Right. It also seems like if you always wanted to play the piano, but didn't, then in the spirit world you are able to do those things. Everything your heart desires. That's why it's called heaven.Q: Some people are perfectly good but their lives are continually plagued by problems. Is that karma?A: All it is, is cause and effect. The energy you create .... You are creating, creating with your thoughts, conscious and unconscious. Look at it this way: This is a school room and we come here to learn. The hardest lessons for people who are the most difficult to deal with (usually family), those are the ones that we grow the most from. I believe that we choose the lessons. My mother was an alcoholic when I was a child. I hated it and wished she was dead. But that was one of the greatest lessons of my life because it taught me compassion and patience and unconditional love.Q: Do you think your own death experience will be different?A: No, not necessarily. I had a near-death experience and that was interesting for someone in this work. In 25 years of doing this, I have never been afraid of death, but the suffering part, that's hard. The actual leaving of the body is not painful.Q: So, is the suffering part a necessary evil for spiritual growth?A: Yes, yes it can be. These are very good questions because there is always a lesson in everything.Q: Did you ever give much thought to those who call you a con man, a charlatan?A: I believe that anyone who effects change there will always be people who are naysayers. There are people that are living in fear, and they are afraid to step out of their paradigm. You don't have to believe me, fine, but just listen to what is being said because a lot of my teaching is how to live life in a spiritual way. That means taking responsibility for your thoughts and actions.Q: But weren't you a little kid when you started seeing ghosts?A: Yes, and that was real to me. Children measure the world around them by what they experience. Also, I wanted to mention to you this thing with Britney Spears. She has two ghosts attached to her. I don't know if you read about that. Very, very clearly I saw them. One guy with a beard and another guy with tattoos. They are not the good ones, and I don't know where she picked them up, but they attached themselves to her. Also, Heath Ledger appeared to me after he died. I was shaving in my bathroom and he appeared to me, and I heard him say "I (messed) up." Then he had a thought about his daughter. He knew of my work, but we had never met. We had mutual friends. His wife has been having visitations from him. Furniture has been moving in the house.E-mail Patricia Sheridan at psheridan(at)post-gazette.com(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.)
Chatting with original ghost whisperer James Van Praagh
Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 13:48
A couple of questions.
Hi.
James stated that other planets are less interesting than Earth because people don't have Free Will. Does this means that F.W. is a -not for all- gorgeous gift from God and that some living beings who don't have it are predestined?
More. How could we love ourselves without being too selfish? This looks to me like an oxymoron...
hi he didn't say they were
hi
he didn't say they were less interseting, he said people like coming here more because there's more room for growth, there's more free will.
other planets are highly evovlved, structured, orderly, etc.
loving yourself is not selfish. loving ONLY yourself is selfish.
About Loving yourself
The previous comment states... "How could we love ourselves without being too selfish? This looks to me like an oxymoron...".
I fully believe in the "Love yourself" concept and feel it means loving who and what you are as in total acceptance of self inside and out from head to toe as you are, and as you were built from birth. All the while striving for growth and self improvement in any and all area's along life's grand and mysterious path.
Not as in loving yourself in a vain way, I.E. arrogance, ego (being impatient and judgemental), feeling your better than others, world revolves around me first and everything else is secondary frame of mind.
Love yourself for who you are, learn from your mistakes, forgive those who have wronged (unless your a murderer or rapist because society is far better as a whole without those types), and try to make the world a better place one day at a time. Whats the ol' saying "Your either part of the problem or part of the solution". All we have is each other, and each other is all we will ever have.
Speaking to my daughter
I want to so badly to communicate with my daughter who was suddenly taken from me. I want to learn if she is with me. I have been told before she sits on the end of my bed. I need to know the truth about her murder and if she suffered. I need to know if heaven exist and if she is in God's hands
safe and at peace. I cannot rest until I know these things. I beg you for your help.
Yes she is in heaven
I can't tell you anything else, but she is in heaven and very happy and at peace. She misses you.
i would like to no if my mum
i would like to no if my mum is ok and that she misses us.i would like to no if she is around us and that she sees the new babies.i also would like to no if she has seen my friends daughter who died recently and if she has a message for her mum and dad. thank you.
i would like to no if my mum
i would like to no if my mum is ok and that she misses us.i would like to no if she is around us and that she sees the new babies.i also would like to no if she has seen my friends daughter who died recently and if she has a message for her mum and dad. thank you.
Interesting thoughts! Just
Interesting thoughts! Just makes me more lost!!!
Military Car Sales Reports
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The death of my Son
I bought your book on line the other day I heard about it while listing to you other day on Dr.Phil Show. You talked about it and other things. I would love to have a reading also and I'm a big fan of your show "Ghost Whispers". I lost my Son a few years ago and I think of him oftenand miss him alot. He has a daughter who I love alot but lost something since he died and I really don't know how to get her love back I 've tried but always seem to miss out on how to get it like once was.Maybe you can fill in the gaps for me. ask her Dad. Thanks You Linda
nightly visitations and ghost sightings
My mother started seeing "people" about a year ago. Mom is 82 and in perfect health.
Mom lives alone and sleeps in the same room she has for 50 years. My father passed in 1973 and she has never had a visitation from him. Also, we have lived in the same house since 1957, and there was only one other owner before us – who moved and no one has ever died in the house that owned it. My moms friend died in the house but that was back in 1987 and she never had any sightings from that either.
So now mom is having sightings probably monthly. They always come between 1a-5a. They look like real people-you can’t see thru them. They come alone and never the same one twice. She has only recognized one – a friend of mine that is still alive. Then mom has seen a nurse try to squeeze in between her bed and the wall, a small boy playing with a ball, a tall man in a hat in her hallway last night that was so real she was waiting for him to touch her and she was getting ready to press her “Life Alert” button as she thought he was an intruder! Actually right before she went to bed she heard footsteps upstairs but didn’t pay too much attention to them, then she saw the vision. They never come around when I am visiting her. She does not recognize them. They don’t resemble anyone, they are not transparent. They don’t speak. And when I have taken pictures at her house I see orbs in every room in the picuture. So what are these people, who are they, why are they there?
Drink
You're mother is more than likely dehydrated. Tell her to keep a glass of water by the bed. This happens a lot with older people.
Skeptic
I was starting to buy into this stuff up until the talk of going to other planets. I'm glad the question about more souls being here was asked because it clearly must have put this guy on the spot to give such a silly answer. His meditation tapes are fine, but beyond that it's just ripping people off. It's almost like telling someone they have curse on them but for 50 bucks I'll lift it for you.
Is my friend Phillip Eugene
Is my friend Phillip Eugene Warren Jr also known as PJ around here at my house? He passed away in March 2008
Two Ghosts In Screen Window Looking At Me
Last year, I photographed two ghosts in a screen window (by accident) on my grandparents 104 year old farm. I was at the cemetery visiting my deceased grandmother and older relatives (children) when I had wished that I could have seen how the children looked "years" ago. I then went and visited the family farm where the house sat abandoned. I took several pictures outdoors. A twister had just ripped through the property and knocked down an 80 year old tree. One of the images in the window is that of a young girl (I believe I have identified her); the other is of an older man (I have no idea who he is). Both looking right at me. I did not see them at the time when I took the picture. If you are able to help me - please contact me so I can share with you this remarkable picture. Thank you.
James
I am a psychic and really am facinated by James. I want to believe his every word but It is hard to believe all of his statements.
I am sure of his gift.. but I think some of the things he says are his own opinion or conjecture. For example the other planet stuff.. that is hard for me to buy. But I am convinced he has the ablity to see and communicate with spirit energy..I admire him...
I would love to read with him.. I know he is not doing that anymore.. but I am sure he could impress me and I am not easy to impress...
father's dying comment
When my father was dying of heart failure in his home, and I was attempting to give him medication, he suddenly opened his eyes, looked directly at me, and said "You will suffer". I have wondered about this statement often....was he talking about in this life or the next? Is he around me...or my mother?
Was my mother really dead?
I had moved to AZ with my husband and Kids. After a wonderful visit from Mom and her husband,(from Mpls,MN.) She went to the hospital a while after she went home when a annerism bursted in her brain. I flew back home to Mpls. and was told she was brain dead. Along with my sister and two brothers we gave the o.k. to take her off life support. We said they could take from her all they could to help others. I was holding her hand and felt it move. I was told it was involuntary moves and she was not alive and was not feeling anything. This has always tortured me and I cry thinking she may have been still alive and suffered. I need peace and want to know one way or the other. Please reply. Thank you.
is there a spirit around me
my friend died 9 years ago just want to know if he is ok and recently i have been seening a ghostly figure at the end my bed. could u let me know who it is.
my friend
I work in a nursing home. I was out for about a month. I have a pt that became more a friend. She and I got a long wonderful. we use to joke that she addopted me. The last day I worked I did her hair and make up and told her that as soon as i could I'll be back so she could meet my mother who was coming for a visit from maine.
My friend had recently lost her mother and was devestated by it. I would do what I could to make her feel better but, I knew she missed her. When i left she was great had nothing wrong with her. Only the ms. I was looking forward to getting back to work and talking with her again. The 2nd week I was out she passed unexpectedly. I didn't find out until a week later. On the night she passed I couldn't sleep i was very restless. For about 5 days after I kept thinking about the 5th and couldn't figure out why that date stayed in my mind. I knew it was the aniversary of my grandmothers death. I've acepted that. So why was i so bothered.Well, a few days later a friend from work called and told me of this friends passing. My question is I am wondering if shes mad I never went back to see her right away. I am so sorry for not keeping my promise. I would also like to know if she found her mother and if she is at peace. I miss you Janice.
my friend
I work in a nursing home. I was out for about a month. I have a pt that became more a friend. She and I got a long wonderful. we use to joke that she addopted me. The last day I worked I did her hair and make up and told her that as soon as i could I'll be back so she could meet my mother who was coming for a visit from maine.
My friend had recently lost her mother and was devestated by it. I would do what I could to make her feel better but, I knew she missed her. When i left she was great had nothing wrong with her. Only the ms. I was looking forward to getting back to work and talking with her again. The 2nd week I was out she passed unexpectedly. I didn't find out until a week later. On the night she passed I couldn't sleep i was very restless. For about 5 days after I kept thinking about the 5th and couldn't figure out why that date stayed in my mind. I knew it was the aniversary of my grandmothers death. I've acepted that. So why was i so bothered.Well, a few days later a friend from work called and told me of this friends passing. My question is I am wondering if shes mad I never went back to see her right away. I am so sorry for not keeping my promise. I would also like to know if she found her mother and if she is at peace. I miss you Janice.
lost
hi, I just recently lost my father from a sudden heart-attack. Two weeks later I lost my grandmother. The problem is my mom, she was married to my dad for 45 years. She is not adjusting to losing my dad. My brother is a 42 year old alcoholic. He was living with my parents, and in a huge argument with my dad when he died. I went to court and had him put in rehab for a month. I try so hard to feel my dads presence. I'm so worried I will lose my mom next. My dad was only 64 years old. He always took care of my mom like a princess...a man of action but not too many words. He was born oct 3 1944. please help.
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