Medium James Van Praagh Is On A Quest
By Jesica Davis
It took James Van Praagh some time to accept the words of a medium that he would “change the consciousness of the planet.”
But the chance encounter sprung Van Praagh on a path that has led to the publication of nine books, several TV shows and live performances around the globe.
Before becoming successful, he left New York for California to work in broadcasting and attend San Francisco State with dreams of becoming a sitcom writer.
Van Praagh eventually got an informal job offer from a producer and hit a crossroads when his mother had a stroke.
“I had a decision to make, whether I should stay there with her when she was ill, or should I go follow my dream in California. I knew that she would want me to follow my dream. I literally drove across the country with a heavy heart, of course,” he said.
He called up the producer at Mary Tyler Moore (MTM) Productions, but the man never called Van Praagh back, and when he called the studio they would not give him a job.
But Van Praagh got a job at another studio, and eventually met a woman who directed him to a medium named Brian Horst in Manhattan Beach.
“As soon as I walked in, he told me, ‘You’re a medium,’” Van Praagh recalled. “He said you are going to work in the spirit world because they have plans for you. They are going to help to change the consciousness of the planet.”
After leaving Horst’s apartment, Van Praagh began meditating and honing his skills as a psychic, meeting with small groups of people and channeling “messages of love.”
He began doing his spiritual work on the “Joan Rivers Show,” “Unsolved Mysteries” and “The Other Side” before landing on CNN’s “Larry King Live” in 1997 to talk about his book “Talking To Heaven.”
“I did Larry King on a Friday night. The CNN bureaus around the world did not stop getting phone calls until Sunday. The book went from 6,000 copies to 600,000 copies in less than three months,” he said. “Then it was worldwide and a worldwide phenomena.”
He said people began accepting death and the “medium phenomena” began. (Who hasn’t seen Psych, The Mentalist?)
“Now it’s everywhere. Everyone has experiences like this and now it is OK to talk about. I think it did change the consciousness of the planet,” he said.
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“Long Island Medium” Full Episode 4: This Isnt Working
Watch “Long Island Medium” in its first season, with full episode 4 – “This Isnt Working”.
In this episode Theresa helps two men connect with a friend who died suddenly. Meanwhile, Theresa’s newly retired husband is tired of having to leave the house so she can meet with her clients.
The popular new TLC series “Long Island Medium” follows the daily life of Long Island New York Psychic Medium Theresa Caputo is documented. Theresa is a typical Long Island mom who has a very special gift. She talks to the dead. While Theresa helps other families find closure and peace, her own family occasionally get annoyed by her inability to turn this gift “off”.
Fox Interview’s Clairvoyant In Baby Lisa Case
Fox recently Interviewed the Texas Clairvoyant in the case of missing baby Lisa Irwin.
Fox News’ Megyn Kelly sat down with the Texas Clairvoyant Stephanie Almaguer who’s Psychic visions recently sparked a renewed search for the missing baby.
Texas Clairvoyant Stephanie Almaguer claims to have had visions of the whereabouts of baby Lisa, which she then made a drawing of which was posted on a blog which she regularly writes on. Residents recognized the drawing as being an area near baby Lisa’s residence and a renewed search began.
Recently reported by examiner.com, Clairvoyant Stephanie Almaguer believes that baby Lisa is dead.
According to Almaguer, who has worked with law enforcement officials in a number of high profile missing persons cases, she has received visions that offer her insight on what really happened to baby Lisa on the night she went missing from her parents home this past October.
Based on the visions she claims to have received, Almaguer believes that baby Lisa drowned in the family bathtub and was then placed on the parent’s bedroom floor as attempts were made to revive the infant’s lifeless body.
After attempts to bring the baby to failed, Almaguer believes that the baby was buried in a shallow grave not far from the family’s home. “She’s in a hole, and it was a hole that carried water,” said Almaguer.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the relatives of Baby Lisa.
Psychic Medium John Edward “Infinite Quest”
Psychic Medium John Edward’s latest book Infinite Quest further helps readers on their quest to build their own intuition and psychic powers.
Book overview as reported by johnedward.net.
Best-selling author John Edward has captivated audiences worldwide with his unique and powerful psychic skills. Now, in his long-awaited new book, he shows people how they too can tap into their psychic selves.
Infinite Quest will help readers to develop their intuition and renew their own latent powers, so they can confidently take chances and make choices. By following certain guidelines and intuition-building exercises, we can learn to get in touch with our Spirit Guides and identify the psychic energy around us on deeper levels. Edward also discusses how technology can work with our “sixth sense,” and explains how to use divination tools. Like his new eponymous website, Infinite Quest is truly a “portal to all things metaphysical.”
Scandal Erupts Around Clairvoyant Sally Morgan
A scandal has erupted surrounding famed “Star Psychic” and Clairvoyant Reader Sally Morgan in the United Kindom, after Clairvoyant Sally was accused of using out-of-sight helpers during a recent performance.
According to telegraph.co.uk, the popular clairvoyant who promotes herself as “Britain’s best-loved psychic”, has been accused of using help during shows.
Psychic Sally, who is really Sally Morgan, has angered some of her fans who heard voices behind the audience saying words which were then repeated a few moments later by the star on stage.
Around 2,000 people had paid to witness Mrs Morgan’s “gift”, which she says she has had since she was a child, and which she claims led the late Diana, Princess of Wales, to consult her regularly before her death.
The show was at Dublin’s Grand Canal Theatre on September 11 and fans were surprised and then angered when they heard a man’s voice giving what sounded to be prompts to the psychic.
A woman called Sue said: “Everything he said, the psychic would say 10 seconds later. It was as if she was having the information relayed to her.”
The audience member said a number of people in her row heard the man speaking, but when an usher heard him, the window closed and the voice was silenced.
Mrs Morgan wears a headpiece which features a microphone but she insisted that the equipment was not able to be used to pass messages to her as it was not two-way.
Clairvoyant Sally Morgan wasted no time in refuting the audience members claims as those of skeptics.
She said: “I totally respect cynics and sceptics. However, I will not stand by and be accused of fraudulent behaviour from inaccurate sources of information. It’s completely and utterly balderdash.”
A spokesman for Sally Morgan Enterprises also said: “There are absolutely no plants on Sally’s show. This is her gift and she has been sharing it for years with audiences and doesn’t need to do that.”
Stephen Faloon, the theatre’s general manager, said the voice belonged to one of two lighting technicians, adding that no one at the theatre would be “a part of any scam”.
Are you a fan of Clairvoyant Reader Sally Morgan? What do you think about this recent scandal, could this a case of Skeptics planted in her audience?
James Randi And The $1 Million Dollar Psychic Challenge Scam
Recently written by Martha Jette for examiner.com, this excellent article explores James Randi’s Million Dollar Psychic Challenge and why this challenge is widely thought to be a Psychic Scam itself due to the highly subjective nature of the so called testing which many think is essentially designed to promote failure in the eyes of Randi.
James Randi, also known as the ‘Amazing Randi’ for his skill as a magician and escape artist, is still hoping psychics, mediums and others in the paranormal field from around the world, including Toronto, Ontario will take up his offer of $1 million Paranormal Challenge to any person who can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that his or her powers are the real deal.
The offer was originally extended in 1996 via the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) and since then, countless psychics and others who claim to have paranormal abilities have tried but failed to win the money. This time, however, Randi has directed his request to such well-known celebrity psychics as Toronto psychic to the stars widely known as Nikki, James Van Praagh and Allison DuBois, although anyone can submit an application.
On his web site it states: “At JREF, we offer a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event.”
So far, a long list of Psychic and Clairvoyant Readers have attempted to take James Randi up on his offer, but have found that to be akin to convincing a Skeptic.
However, those who believe they actually possess special powers claim that Randi’s restrictive and extensive protocol for proof under laboratory conditions leave no room for anyone to give the man sufficient proof.
Exorcist Irwin Sparks stated that he would “cast a demon out of a person.”
The JREF response was, “In order to ‘cast out a demon,’ you must first prove that demons actually exist, which has never been proven. If you believe that you can provide such proof, please advise.”
Needless to say, his application was rejected.
In response, Sparks asked: “Are cowardice and ignorance words that describe James Randi? …What are you afraid of? Finding out the truth? That there really is a spirit world out there and that Almighty God is the head of it? …Are you afraid that you might have to actually give away that million dollars?
Sparks has even offered to sign a release saying he does not want Randi’s money.
“Randi will never accept proof” Says Psychic’s Assistant.
It doesn’t matter what psychic James Van Praagh or renowned Toronto, Ontario psychic Nikki provide as proof of their psychic abilities, James Randi will never be satisfied, says Mary Mehan, assistant to Toronto psychic Betsey Balega.
“No matter what James or Nikki present to Randi, he will never accept their proof,” Mehan said. “He likes to keep all his bases, his butt and bank account covered.”
Balega has experienced clairvoyant visions since she was 4 years old. Today she is considered to be one of the best psychics in Toronto, Ontario. In her readings she claims to receive information from her angel and guides, and is known for providing specific details to her clients.
Randi on the other hand, is known for his skills as a magician and escape artist as well as an active debunker of anything paranormal. He extended an offer of $1 million through the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) in 1996 to anyone who could prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that his or her powers were the real deal.
Many people have taken him up on his Paranormal Challenge but so far, no one has claimed the money. Mehan said that is because Randi “has never accepted their proof of survival after death or any ‘proof’ that the psychic information they contributed was real.”
Clairvoyant Val Hood Back In The UK
Clairvoyant Medium Val Hood will appear in Weston UK in July, fresh from a sell-out tour in Australia.
Clairvoyant Medium Val Hood will be at the Arosfa Hotel in Lower Church Road for a demonstration evening at 7.30pm on July 21.
Then, from 10am-4pm on July 23, she will lead a workshop at the Eveneza Hall, in Lawrence Road, Worle.
From Clairvoyant Medium Val Hoods Website Bio.
A CLAIRVOYANT medium from Redhill says she discovered ghosts in an old manor house when she took part in a television programme.
Mother-of-three Val Hood, 51, says her first sightings of people from the paranormal world was when she was eight.
Now she could get a higher profile after recording an episode of the television series Most Haunted last Tuesday (January 16), for Living TV:
Presented by ex-Blue Peter presenter Yvette Fielding, the programme invites psychics and mediums into historic buildings in an attempt to feel the presence of ghosts, with spooky consequences.
Val said: “I had to wander around the house and see if I picked up on ghosts, which I did.
“I didn’t know the date of the house, but I was picking up information from the 1500s, when it was in the country. I picked up on upstairs/downstairs situation, and that there had been lots of beds and a teacher. The house had been used as a boarding school
“A para-psychologist confirmed a lot of information that I gave, and checked it over to see if was right.”
The episode, which also included an appearance from Lee Ryan, an ex-member of pop music band Blue, was filmed at Sutton House on Homerton High Street in Hackney.
National Trust-owned, the Grade ll-listed Tudor manor is the oldest house in East London.
Val said: “It was very exciting, I haven’t come down yet. They have invited me back for projects later in the year.”
She added that aged 12 she saw her sister being tucked into bed by her grandmother, and at 16, her grandmother walked into the bathroom behind her and gave her a fright.
At 35, she visited a spiritualist church, and has been putting people in touch with the deceased -during public demonstrations and private meetings in her South Mead home -ever since.
Psychic Spirit Medium Concetta Bertoldi Connects Audience to Other Side
In this video Psychic Spirit Medium Concetta Bertoldi connects her audience to their loved ones who have passed.
From Psychic Spirit Medium Concetta Bertoldi’s website bio.
Highly respected spirit medium and author of “Do Dead People Watch You Shower” & newly published “Do Dead People Walk Their Dogs?”, Concetta Bertoldi is the real thing: sensitive, gifted, and down to earth in spite of her other-worldly talents. Now, Concetta is hoping to bring her unique message about the afterlife to millions of believers and skeptics alike, with a new television show currently in development. She has over 3000 clients, and is endorsed by renowned medium and author James Van Praagh.
Concetta consults regularly with members of Britain’s royal family. American celebrities, politicians, and everyday people looking to alleviate grief and find closure over the death of their loved ones.
Psychic Lisa Williams Video Appearance: YOU, ME AND TV
Watch this excellent older interview with Lisa Williams on You, Me and TV, where she talks about her Psychic abilities and how she first came to realize how she was different.
Lisa Williams is a world renowned Psychic Medium. When she was a girl she realized her amazing abilities and how it could shape peoples life’s, now she travels performing to large audiences on her new TV Show, Lisa Williams: Voices from the Other Side and also Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead.
Steve Holbrook Clairvoyant
As reported by maidenhead Advertiser, the Clairvoyant Steve Holbrook will make an appearance to support cancer.
A psychic will be charming audiences at an event hosted by the Maidenhead Advertiser and the Express next month.
Steve Holbrook (pictured) will present a psychic evening at the Holiday Inn in Shoppenhangers Road on June 14.
The figure who will be giving public demonstrations of his powers, describes himself as a “telephone exchange between this world and the next.”
He claims that he has used his psychic powers to help police on a murder investigation.
From Steve’s site, he talks about his Spirit Guide:
All the people who attend my demonstrations will have noticed that my left arm and hand is held in a rigid position while I am demonstrating. Sometimes I forget to mention to the audience what is happening to my arm, as it has become so natural to me – so for the benefit of those who haven’t seen what happens and would like an explanation, please read on.
One of my guides is called Archie May, who is constantly with me during the demonstrations and he shows his presence by altering the state of my left arm and hand. I cannot use my hand as it becomes very cold, stiff and sometimes blue in colour, in fact a sort of paralysis takes over. My psychic impression of who Archie May was, has always been that he would have been a sergeant in the first world war, either killed in action or seriously maimed.
One day, James Christie was talking with a friend of his who had taken up geneology and James mentioned Archie May, wondering if she might be interested in trying to find out more about him. James has written in my third book ‘Survival’ about the extensive search that produced three people called Archie May and one of them proved, by a long process of elimination, to be most likely the gentleman who is now my guide. He used to be a hairdresser and came from a family of Spiritualists – talk about coincidence, although as you know I don’t believe in coincidence! So Archie May helps me in my work and I find it very comforting to know that he is around – and he shows me that he is, by using my arm as his confirmation that he is with me.