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Death is the Greatest Illusion of All by James Van Praagh & Dr. Diane Hayden I


had the pleasure of sitting down with James Van Praagh last month to talk with him about life, death, mediumship and the state of our world today. James has brought a mind-full awareness to the sub- ject of “communication with the dead” into the public psyche for the past thirty years. James is known as a “survival evidence me- dium,” meaning that he provides evidential proof of life after death via detailed mes- sages from the spiritual realms. I’ve also been lucky enough to attend one of his live events and it was absolutely amazing to see him in action.


He’ll be at the Ridgefi eld Playhouse in Ridgefi eld Connecticut on May 17th for an Evening of Spirit Messages that you won’t want to miss!


DH: I think there is a lot of confusion between the terms medium and psychic – can you help clarify that for me?


JVP: That is one of the most common questions I am asked! The term “psychic” is often used as a catchall phrase for anyone who works in the paranormal. We know what our fi ve senses are – sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell. But we have another sense that is equally as real as the other fi ve. Often referred to as our sixth sense, psychic ability, or our intuition, is the gut feeling or hunch you have that you cannot logically explain. Everyone is psychic to some degree or another, but not everyone is a medium.


A medium is a psychic who has fi ne- tuned his or her extrasensory perception and can interface with the spirits in other dimensions. They are able to feel and/or hear thoughts, voices or mental impres- sions from the spirit world. A medium is able to become completely receptive to the higher frequency or energies on which spirit people vibrate.


Mediumship is much more involved


than psychicism because a medium is opening him/herself to a discarnate energy. Mediumship itself can be broken down into


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two distinct categories. The fi rst and most common type is mental mediumship, which is how I work with my abilities. I commu- nicate with spirits while fully conscious. As the word mental denotes, this form of mediumship utilizes the mind – the intuitive mind, not the rational or logical part. This type of mental mediumship falls into several distinct types which are described as:


Clairsentience – (clear feeling) Perceive


information by way of strong, emphatic feel- ings and emotions from spirit.


Clairvoyant – (clear vision) See with the


mind’s eye objects, colors, symbols, people, spirits or scenes. These pictures are not vis- ible to the naked eye and usually fl ash into the medium’s mind.


Clairaudient – (clear hearing) Perceive


sounds or words from sources broadcasting from a spiritual realm.


Clairempathy – (clear emotion) Sense or “feel” within one’s self the attitude or emotions of another person.


Clairtangency – (clear touching) This ability is commonly known as Psychometry. By holding an object or touching an area you perceive information about the article or its owner or history through the palms of your hands.


In my work I most often utilize the abilities of clairsentience and clairvoyance. In order to attune to the thoughts and feel- ings of spirit, I raise my vibrations higher through meditation and, in turn, spirit has to lower its vibrations somewhat.


The second type of mediumship is


physical mediumship and it differs from mental mediumship. In physical medium- ship the actually physical body is used to get information from spirit. In mental mediumship only the mind of the medium is utilized. Channeling is a well-known form of physical mediumship.


DH: I think that’s a great explanation and helps to differentiate between the two terms. I think people are always surprised


to learn that everyone has the ability to be psychic and even develop mediumship talents. When did you fi rst experience this for yourself?


JVP: Yes, everyone has these abilities,


but many people have closed themselves off to developing them. I try to educate people how to open themselves through meditation and raising their consciousness so the spirit world can communicate with them. Many people are fearful and operating from a very low vibration which makes it impossible for spirit to make a connection.


At my live events, my main goal is to make the experience as comfortable and open as possible because the energy of the audience affects the conditions. I add humor and try to make it fun for attendees so they will relax and just allow events to unfold. As a spiritual teacher, my ultimate goal is to have each individual leave my event as a changed person who now looks at the world and relationships from a place of love and not fear.


A man started appearing to me in the


corner of my bedroom when I was 3-years- old. I later found out that this was my grandfather who died before I was born. At 6-years-old I had a vision, while in my fi rst grade class, that my teacher’s son was hit by a car. I ran up to her and told her and she smiled and told me to return to my seat. Within 5 minutes, the teacher was called out of the class by the principal who told her that her son was involved in a car ac- cident but that he was going to be ok. I be- came very upset because I initially thought that I had caused the accident by seeing this vision, but my teacher (who was obviously very conscious and open) said, “No James, you did not cause the accident. You have a gift and you will help many people.”


As I got older, in my early twenties, I went to a medium in Manhattan Beach who told me that I would become a medium as well and that the spirit world was going to be reaching out to me and using me in a few years. Sure enough I started seeing and


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