James Van Praagh – Next-Level Mediumship

Air Date - 05 March 2025

Is it possible for anyone to connect to the spirit world and deliver messages of healing to others? Returning to Destination Unlimited this week is one of the most renowned, respected, and accurate mediums practicing today, James Van Praagh. For 40 years, he’s appeared on stage, television, and radio, has written numerous bestselling books, and has helped thousands upon thousands heal through his work as an “evidential medium” — providing proof of life after death through remarkably detailed messages from the spiritual realm.

He joins me this week to share his path and a new seven-week course he will be teaching with The Shift Network starting March 18th, “Next-Level Mediumship.” https://theshiftnetwork.com/course/01JVanPraagh03_25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
My name is Victor Furman. Some call me the Voice.
I've always been fascinated with human nature, spirituality, science and
the crossroads at which they meet. Join me now and
we will explore these topics and so much more with
fascinating guests, authors and experts who will guide us to

(00:28):
Destination unlimited. Is it possible for anyone to connect with
the spirit world and deliver messages of healing to others?
Returning to Destination Unlimited this week is one of the
most renowned, respected and accurate mediums practicing today, James von Prague.

(00:52):
For forty years, he's appeared on stage, television and radio,
has written numerous best selling books, and has helped thousands
upon thousands heel through his work as an evidential medium,
providing proof of life after death through remarkably detailed messages
from the spiritual realm. He joins me this week to

(01:13):
share his path and a new seven week course he'll
be teaching with the Shift Network starting March eighteenth, Next
Level Mediumship. Please join me in welcoming back to Destination
Unlimited James von Prague.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Welcome back, James, Thank you, Victor, thank you very much
for having me on your show and your podcast and
appreciate speaking with you again.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
It's been a few years since you last joined me
on Destination Unlimited. You were discussing your New York Times bestseller,
The Power of Love, and today we will be sharing
your seven week online program starting on March eighteenth with
the Shift Network. It's entitled Next Level Mediumship. Now, before
we discuss this exciting new program, let's do a little

(01:55):
bit of a catching up. Okay, please share with our
listeners your early path and how Mediumship came into your life.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Wow, you know that's a very funny victory. I'm right
now writing my autobiography because and it's a really good
exercise and take your memory back. It's great. So I
get back to the childhood, and in that space, I
can tell exactly when I was a baby, when I
was a toddler, I'd say I used to my parents
and I'm just literally literally writing this chapter right now,
and my parents would be in the bedroom on the

(02:25):
crib when it was very nine thirty eight night, and
they were in the living room, and I wanted to
be with them. So I cried my eyes up every
single night. And I remember that I calmed down because
there was always a I saw these blue eyes in
a corner of the room, and it was a man
with white hair and blue eyes. And he used to
come over to the crib I believe it was a crib,
and he used to play with this mobile wooden mobile

(02:46):
thing above me, and it fascinated me. It was probab
when I was probably two years old than most, i'd say.
And I remember years after that, my grandmother was going
through a photograph album and she came to this photo.
I said, wait a minute, who is that? Said, well,
that's your grandfather, who died before you were born. So
that was my very first awareness of a spirit. And
as a child, I used to see spirits quite a bit.

(03:08):
My mother used to say when I say prayers at
night were very Catholic, and I say, Mommy, who are
those people around the bed? But the lights around them said, oh,
those are God's angels. You see them too. I used
to see them a little girl. It runs on both
sides of our family, so it's very normal. And I said, okay.
So that was my reference was it was very normal.
It didn't think anything strange to it, and it really

(03:29):
just built and built, and I could see ours, colors
and I know a new thing about people. As soon
as they met too, I felt who they were. And
then in my around puberty thirteen fourteen, w whatever that was,
it stopped. And that ability came back to me in
my early twenties when I went through a meditation and
sot of meditation, and it came back full force, and

(03:49):
there they were clearer. I could hear them very clearly
and see them very clearly. That's my backgrounds.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
That's a blessing. And the fact that your mother is
sort of gave you the permission to go ahead and
share what you were experiencing is so wonderful. And it's
a rare gift because many people, as children report things
and their parents tell them they're imagining things. And to
have someone really support you through that process, what a
gift that was.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, And I think, of course, because she was that way.
I think it's funny writing this whole thing about imagination
right now. I think if children could keep their imagination
going and at the age of six, seven, eight, when
they become programmed by teachers and parents and doing this
and doing that, and you know, I often say that
teacher will say get an AA, do this, and in
some way I think the child interprets said as, oh,

(04:36):
that will give you more love. If I please this
person and they approve of me and do the right thing,
I get more love. And I think that we keep
that sometimes a lot of people keep that sense of
trying to get approval from others through through a major
part of their life. And I have found in my
experience and up in mid thirties, I work with people
and so when pointing in their mid thirties, they say,

(04:57):
wait a minute, my life isn't working for me. I
don't feel connected. And the reason why is because they're
living somebody else's life, not their own life, and a
lot of become dormats and trying to get approval, and
once they take back their power, they begin to live
their own life and so much more happy and fulfilled.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Very interesting that you share that, because one of the
things that happened to me is a child. When I
was eight years old, my father took ill and prior
to that time, I never felt loved by him. And
I became part of his caretaking team with my mother,
and I started feeling loved by him, and that programmed
in my young mind if you care for others you
will be loved. And of course, becoming a people pleaser

(05:37):
and running around and taking care of everyone else until
my mid to late thirties, well, was just not the
best thing because it affected my health. It affected my
emotional and physical health. And I finally learned to use
the N word to say no when appropriate, and that
changed my life. That really changed my life.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
So I say most people, most people haven't do that,
and I'm part of my work now with past ten
years is reminding people who they are, that they have
the power within their own soul. What other people think
of you as none of your business. Because everybody is
unique and different in their own distinct way. And if
we are our own selves in a distinct way, that

(06:14):
is really important because we can teach others, you know,
I guess I could say the vibration that we are
and not. It's so funny when you try to be
somebody that you're not, it never works, that works. So
it's true.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yeah, you are a fact based medium. What does that mean?

Speaker 2 (06:32):
A fact or based or in evidential medium, which means
my job, my job, my mediumship has always been it's
called evidential mediumship, which I am for the past forty years.
The way I work as a medium is I'm able
to bring through evidential details such as names, addresses, places, memories, relationships,

(06:58):
even going down so far as the might say, you
know you have my gold bracelet, and the person might say, well,
I don't have the great gold bracelet, so well, you
know this lady here is telling me your mother tell
me you have a gold bracelet. So let me let
her show me. And if you're very very interesting victor
that the mother will. And every spirit is different with
their communication, but then Mother will take my mind's eye,

(07:19):
the third eye, and she'll bring me on a journey.
I've got up staircases, gone down the hallway and say,
it's a second bedroom on the right. We walk in there,
and I just Mother's giving this this vision. So I'm
describing the hallway, I'm describing the carpet, and they go
into the room and said, there's a dresser room on
the right side against the wall. The bed is of
the left. I want to go to the second drawer.
I want to open it up into the left side

(07:40):
as a little wooden box. And the person would say,
that's exactly right. Oh my goodness, I've forgotten that. So
it's those details that the spirit people are creating in
my mind to prove that consciousness survives, that there is
indeed no death whatsoever. And that's the most important part
of my work as an evidential medium, that is to
bring a proof that the conscious survives. That's the goal

(08:03):
for evidential mediumship.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
You are also a prolific author with many best selling books.
In Wisdom from Your Spirit Guides, a handbook to contact
your soul's greatest teachers, you share that every soul experiencing
a physical incarnation is in constant although subconscious contact with
their spirit guides. How may we develop a more direct

(08:26):
and conscious relationship with our guides?

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Well, you know, I've put into this new course as
part of it and because as part of my development
as a medium was to become mindful, to become aware
of the space around us. So the space is around us,
and in the course is going to talk about a
little bit, but in my own development there's a sense
of being very open and aware to the subtleness of energy.

(08:51):
So I could describe it, and I have people sit
in the quiet, and they sit in the quiet or
the stillness of their soul, and it's very interesting when
one does that and they go from the head to
the heart that bring their sense down to their heart
self and they begin to have no warners to who
they are as a soul being right, and it's really
a soul where here are souls having you an experience,

(09:11):
not the other way around. And I really talk about
as you become aware of that soul self and that
space within you and then around you, you become aware
of the different subtle energies that are in that space
or spaces I should say. Many people call it the
oric field or the ore of the oric fields. I
want to say, because I sense over and see areas

(09:32):
in different levels and colors all around us. And within
that space we become aware of loved ones, guides, teachers
who have been some have been with us for many lifetimes,
some are family members. There are our team, our spiritual team.
So the more we sit in the quiet, and by
doing that, we're opening up the door to the awareness

(09:52):
of the team, the guides and be able to have
them influence us, communicate with us. And it's more energetic
than than words. Sometimes you get words in your mind,
but you first have to become aware of that space
in the quiet of yourself, and it's amazing that the
silence is very loud, and but one has to have

(10:13):
the patience because it's a process. You know, in this
age right now, people and things doing very quickly, very fast.
They want a spiritual bypass, and that is not worth
it because you want to be able to sustain that space,
the energy around you and have, if you will, that
real connection with your guides, with your teachers. For instance,

(10:34):
I'll talk about, you know, what is a healing guide
feel like? And I give exercise is about you know,
I'm going to sense what that healing vibration is. And
you can sense what an inspire is, you can sense
what a healing guide is. You can sense what a
philosophy guide might feel like. And the more you open
yourself up, if you say, open the door to that,

(10:55):
the more they will come to you. It will be
they'll more be part of your self. And we have
to remember that, and this is very important that we
have this awareness. The perspective is that and my percentages
might be off crypture, but I think I'll appreciate this.
So I say, like, thirty percent of your soul is
within the confines of the physical body, while seventy percent

(11:17):
is outside the physical body, so this is just a
big toe to the soul. And if you can get
into that space around you that seventy percent, well, your
life opens up and your experience right and new beautiful
things and become more aware of who you are as
a soul.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
It's interesting that you shared that and talked about the
oric field because I shared with you that my wife
and I witnessed one of your sessions in the early
two thousands at a huge theater in Manhattan, and during
the time that you were bringing through the information, there
was this beautiful purple aura around you, and as the
information was being transferred to you, we saw a flex
of golden light and we confirmed this to each other independently,

(11:56):
so we were absolutely seeing that. What a beautiful thing
to see.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
You're not the only one to say that to me,
So the many many years have been doing this, and
it's called the demonstration. I remember that that place that
I did that as well, and because I just come
from Schenectady and I was very ill, it was sick,
and I did a really good demonstration well being sick.
I am not forget it. But there are a lot
of demonstrations that have been around the world where the
people in the audience and I'll come up here, so

(12:21):
I have to tell you this. I have to tell you.
I said, beautiful purple colors around you when you're communicating
and when do I bringing through spiritual awareness or education,
there were these gold flex or gold light or rays
coming to you. So I've had that quite a bit.
So thank you for the confirmation in that.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
One of the things that you've touched upon in many
of your works is how we may create sacred space
for these experiences. What are some of the techniques you offer, Well.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Some of the things I do with a sacred space,
which is really important. I think. I think that's true
just in everyday life. I think that we have to
have a space where we can rejuvenate and recharge. You know,
there's so much going on in the world, and there's
so much energy being thrown out there. And I often say,
you know, you walk into a sea of thought, because
thoughts are things, and everyone sends their thoughts out there,
and you know, sensitive people impasted have to be mindful

(13:10):
of whose energies around them or they're holding on to.
So I think that a space sacred space, a space
you create in your house or apartment where you live,
and I would just say, reserve that for your spiritual
work or for you to get back to yourself. So
what I do is, it's funny. I sit in a
space of a closet, it's a walking closet, and I

(13:30):
sit there and I make sure it's dark, and I
just sit down and I become aware of the space,
myself and my breath and you know, inhale and exhale,
and I really become aware of my soul self. And
that's specially earlier about becoming the of the ork field.
So that's a space, a reserved for that work if
you will. Now, if first people do spiritual work or

(13:52):
they want to endeavor and to open up their soul self,
I would say reserve a space. You know, a close
but I mean a corner in your room is really
reserve just for the work of your soul. It looks
what your soul space. And within that space, one should
put things that enlighten them, that bring them up, that
bring higher energy. So things they enjoy, whether it's some flowers,

(14:14):
whether it's incense, whether it's gentle music, things that speak
to their soul and I think when they sit in
that space, whether it's because of your meditation or do
spiritual work or a course, if you will, you're it's
almost like amplifying your soul self. And one will know
then the day of to day that if they go
into that one space, that's where it's kind of it
opens them up, it becomes amplified. So that's what I

(14:35):
would say sacred space is for me.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, in your book The Power of Love, you emphasize
the importance of keeping our hearts open in daily life
and a world filled with stress and chaos and intolerance.
How do we do this?

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Aren't we being tested right now?

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (14:55):
I mean, and we've all chosen it, Which is interesting
because as souls, we've chosen to come back to this
part good time, this particular space, in this particular school earth,
to experience a lot of these things and to really
I feel, to influence others with love. So I think
that one can never forget who they are, and I
think it's a wonderful opportunity. I think many things are

(15:17):
opportunities for us, and these are rich, rich opportunities to
really connect with who you are as a soul and
to realize what's important to you, you know, assess what's
really important in your life. And I've done this now
for years, Victor, but I do it every day. I'm
aware of it every day. Is that I'm aware of
my interaction with people. So I'm aware of my heart

(15:39):
space and I call it my heart light. And I
become aware of it before I leave my house, opening
up that space, just just being I when we say
opening up, being aware of it, so i'mwhare of that.
I call it a green light the heart and opening
up that space. And I say, live a heart forward.
So every place you go to, you know and energetically
you're making imprit in this space. I want to bring

(16:01):
the highest level of love possible. How do I do that? Well,
let's say I'm going to a grocery store or a
pet store and there's someone trying to find something. I
somebody will help them as it can help you, and
that I work you right, more than happy to help you.
Or a cash register personal say how are you today?
Just giving a little validation, a little bit of an acknowledgment,
because every single person needs validation, and it's just reminding

(16:25):
them the world connected that we're all heart people. No
matter what happens around us, within us, we are our
own loving beings. So it's very interesting. I often use
the analogy that there could be a tree on a
mountain and all the seasons change. The tree will go
through changes, but the tree is rooted to the mountain,
so you're still there. Same with us. We're always going

(16:47):
to be us, but the conditions around us may shift.
But it's how we are able to be stable and
be ourselves within these conditions and demonstrate that vibration, that
frequency of love. And part of doing that is also
being patient, right, being patient and having a big compassion
with passion and realizing, here's a good one. This opens

(17:09):
the doors quite a bit. That non judgment is a
way so many humans feel like they have to judge another.
And I think they judge another because they want to
feel empowered. They want to feel better than that person.
So if they put the other person down, they'll feel better.
And I just have to realize, you know, I try
to tell people, you know that soul is on a

(17:31):
certain level. We have souls. Here are many different levels
we have. Baby souls are just coming into the world.
Will be the money and power and war or whatever
is the way it is. We have post graduate souls.
I believe that healing, compassion and lights and happiness and
you know empowerment is a way and the middle souls
which you want to figure out both ways. So because

(17:52):
you have those three levels and maybe there are more,
it creates scenarios and that particular soul has to go
really within themselves to figure out the solution to a situation.
And I just say, you know what, everybody comes to
a different place. Everybody's theirerent background. Who are we to
judge another We don't know what their background is. You know,

(18:13):
you don't know another person you walk around their shoes
for a while. So we have to bring that sense
of love and vibration to them. And I think it's
important as we share this space that we help any
person we can every day to be the best they
can by again bringing some sense of validation to them,
assisting them, letting them know that you thank you for

(18:36):
meeting me today. The space is enlightened because of you.
You know, some imprint. And I always say make the
person make sure that when you live your life and
that the people that you meet in your life, that
everyone you meet their lives are better having that too.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Absolutely. I call them the simple gifts, the kindness. Being
on a line in a supermarket, a grocery checkout line
with about ten people, and this elderly woman walks over
carrying her small basket, and she looks and has such
distress on her face that the long line that's waiting there,
and I get out of that line and make sure
everybody can see me do this and say, madam, please

(19:13):
take my space. And she thanked me, and she had
tears in her eyes, and I clarified that I was
giving up my space, and then no one got upset
about the fact that I was allowing her to take
my space and get into the line.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
And it's so great that you let people know that
that they see you doing that, because by your example
you teach others. It's really really important. I was. I'm
writing a book right now, and one of the things
I'm talking about is my friend Olivia, who I was
in development with for a long time with the healerism
sitting development circles, and we had an agreement that whoever
goes first will come back and tell the other what

(19:49):
experience was like. And about seven eight years ago, Olivia
passed and she came to right away. I said, what
was it like? And she said, oh, it was lovely.
She said it was like I moved into a theater,
and she goes, I looked, I walked right into this
movie screen, and I looked back at the audience and
they were over a stoned faces like staring up. And
she goes, they weren't alive. They were kind of like

(20:09):
just existing. And I walked in the screen and their
beautiful flowers blooming as high as it could with these
beautiful tones of perfumes, and every time they grew, there's
a more beautiful perfume, and so forth. And the people
that came to greet me, she said, we're not my
family members right away, but these people that I really
didn't know, And she goes, this one lady came to
me and she looked into my eyes, and I immediately

(20:31):
was remembering how I met her. And it was one
incident where I opened the door for this woman and
helped her with a package, just the little act of kindness.
She came back to thank me and to welcome her home.
So as you saved her, those little acts of kindness
that mean the most, have the most impact.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Absolutely can we be loving without having our hearts broken?

Speaker 2 (20:54):
Well, I think the experience is learning more about your heart.
You're that emotional part of ourselves. I think you know again,
if one knows who they are, and really, to me,
it's a really good secret in that one should know
who they are, you know, be empowered and to the
control of their life. More one knows who they are,
the more easier it is because you have that relationship

(21:17):
with self and not looking outside yourself for someone to
fulfill your heart and fulfill your experience because you have
who you are. I think part of the human experience
is to go through those emotional ups and downs. And
I think that you know anything that we go through, right,
I think it's all lessons that we learn from. So
I think the heart being broken, if you will, I

(21:38):
think that's just another way of us knowing more about
our own hearts, our emotional selves, how to treat others.
And what is it someone said, have broken heart? What
is it about that experience? What is it that's broken
that you feel broken? Where does that come from within yourself?
What aspect of yourself feels broken or not in fullness
of being? In order to have that experience so it's

(21:59):
all learning.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
You know, the wisdom of my wonderful guest, James von Prague. James,
please tell us about this program you have starting on
March eighteenth with the Shift Network.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Well, I've done work now for forty years, and one
of my favorite things in this lifetime my passions is teaching.
I love to teach and I love to share this insights,
the wisdom that experiences I've been through in my mediumship development.
And the hardest part Victor for me, when I do
messages for people, it's not necessarily talking to dead people

(22:33):
that I can do, and you teach others about that
quite well. The part that I have the hard time
with is I see their possibilities for themselves around their
org field or their abilities, and they don't see it
for themselves. That's really hard. So in this teaching, in
this course and in the course they've done, I really
want to emphasize once again they get it connected with

(22:55):
their soul self and bringing through various exercises meditations where
they number one connect with that relationship with their soul
and from that space we begin to be aware of
the spirit people and how they should let themselves be
open to spirit take that journey of the spirit world.
Understand the spirit world. Understand that it's really a sense

(23:16):
of it's not aggressive, it's subtle. It's a passive activism.
So when you connect with the spirit world, which is
the course is all about, how do you connect in
a very subtle way, very but a very real way,
and that you feel your way through to connect with
the spirit world. And it's really designed as a mediumship

(23:38):
course that really takes you to the next level. So
people have done mediumship basics of mediumship. It brings you
a little bit further on your path to really amuse
exercises and insights that you can use to further your
connection with the spirit world. Getting more details like I
mentioned earlier about the lady with the bracelet, how do

(24:00):
use your clairvoyance with your clarecentience or the clair audience,
how do you become aware, how do you go further
with it? How do you get further insights? And then
we get into a lit of philosophy too, that your
soul is here to teach others or be aware, so
I get into that too. As a mediumship course. I
wanted to do it with Shift Network because they're such
a great organization and online because they really care and

(24:24):
they really are doing a quality job, and I don't
do with everyone, so I just it's a very limited
so they have done a great job. It's going to
be an advanced Mediumship course, which I have the techniques
that I've used over the many years. But it's so
funny but there because over my years of teaching, it's
so interesting because I noticed basic beginning and then to

(24:45):
the next level, and there's such a similarity or commonality
to the second level, the advanced medium Ship. So I
use those many things I learned over the years. All
those students have told me certain things happen, and I'm
using those to help with the advanced. So that's really
what it is. It's honing in, it's being mindful, it's
being aware, and when we begin to work with mediumship

(25:07):
and an advanced level, if you will, it really also
forces ourselves in a higher level too. And just like
we're talking about demonstrating love using love and everything you do,
so I go into that further in the course as well.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
And that can be found at Shift Network, theshiftnetwork dot com,
Forward Slash Course, forward Slash one, J von Prague and
Prague is pr AA g H zero three, Underscore twenty
five and simply you can go to Shift network and
James von Prague and you'll find the link to the
course with all of the information. It's a huge, huge

(25:42):
description of everything that James offers. A lot, wonderful program.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
There's a lot in that course, a lot.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
And we'll be back with more of James after these
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Speaker 1 (27:19):
Back on Destination Unlimited, my guest this week, James von Prague.
We're going to be talking about the work he's going
to be doing at the Shift Network, of course, for
seven weeks starting on March eighteenth, and we'll give you
more details as the interview ensues. James, how may we
attract health, success and happiness through the power of love?

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Wow, that's a good question, and it's all available to us.
We just have to be willing to do the work.
When I say the work, it goes back to number one,
knowing who we are and understanding our own soul, personality
and understanding really what's important to us and what's not
important to us, being mindful of what influences us and

(28:02):
what doesn't influence us, and and and the power we
give to certain things. So again it goes back the
sense of loving self. Everything goes back to the love
of self. When one has that sense of loving self,
it you know, love is the highest frequency, of the
highest vibration there is. So when you have that sense
of loving yourself and really part of Victor I said

(28:23):
earlier too, and I love this mantra. Wayne Dyer used
to use it, Terry Cole Whittaker did, and I've used it.
What other people think of you is none of your business.
And it's really really true because our energy is very different.
It's very distinct and individualized. So when we have that
relationship of self and love self, what happens is we

(28:44):
are magnetic beings. We're constant magnetic and the natural law
of like attracts like, and you will attract in your
in your sphere of influence that it's around you that
higher vibration of love, and and really it's it's it's
so funny because the human has to get out of
the way. I talk about this a lot in my
course too. It's always about the human part of us

(29:05):
getting out of the way, stop critiquing, stop being so
left brain, stop analyzing, and just be. And that takes
a little bit of a process and a little bit
of a discipline, but there's so much freedom in that
when you let go and let God. There's many ways
of saying it, and God to me is pure love.
Let go and let God and you will attract you
in your life that which is important that you need,

(29:27):
and it may not come to you the way you
expect it. Don't try to control it, but it's almost
like universal ordering. Put it out there and put it
out to what you would like, and you just put
it out there and let the universe take care of
that and then relax and let it happen. But we
humans try so hard to control things. Control, that's the

(29:48):
hard one. Control, and really we have no control. You know,
you can't control another person, you can't control a situation. Well,
you control how you respond to someone, and really work
on your own self, your own awareness of things. And
since it's really very very true, things will come to
you if you're clear and and your pro cure of

(30:10):
heart and it'll come to a way you don't expect.
It's like the spirit world will take care of you.
They pull strings. Listen. I'm someone forty years doing this work,
and I first came to the Los Angeles in the
early nineties to be a sitcom writer. I know nothing
about mediumship, and I always do. It'd be well known,
and I thought it'd be through sitcom writing or the
writer or that, and the twists and turns and tons

(30:32):
of temporary jobs, not knowing anybody in Los Angeles. Things
fell apart, and you know, it's all those little curves,
ups and downs all rounds that bring us to where
we're meant to be. And I just think having a
sense of you know, someone's you know, someone else is
at the wheel. We're just following up and that's how
we do it. It's it's very interesting, and I think

(30:52):
if one can stop and go back and observe, I
think observation is really important. How this worked, how this
came about. Person meant that to happen, so all this connection,
but it never happens the way we want think it's
going to. It's not linear, right, So it's all these
different ways that it comes to us. We have to
have that faith that once we put it out there

(31:12):
and we keep up with that sense of let's say
I want a new job or I got to keep
that I want that job and you can describe what
it is. Or I want love in my life. Now
I would say, keep loving your life. Bring love to you.
What does it mean to you? You have to it's
all in a way. You've got to write up the
description of it and send it to the universe. But
everything is available to us if we're willing to open

(31:33):
up and be there for in the right way.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
And you call this moving from ego to soul. What
do we do with those demanding egos exactly?

Speaker 2 (31:43):
So ego yes or fear? I often talk about it.
We've talked this before, Victor that I always think life
is a series of choices, and choices are either in
throughout life when we're born today we leave the body.
It's a series of choices. So you choose, you know
what school you went to, someone he really ship with college,
whatever jobs you are, and it's either based on love,

(32:04):
You'll love to do it and it feels great, it's
a fulfillment or fear which is inadequacy. Fear fe a
r false ego appearing real, and we've got to be
able to separate the two. And if you'll just tune
into that limited consciousness, which is fear, things won't come
to the way you'd like them to and they'll be

(32:24):
I guess we would say half baked. So that's why
I look at it absolutely.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
You've shared that death is an illusion. Please explain.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Yeah, so death is an illusion. And my brother recently
just passed over three weeks ago, and he came and
it was just he was young. And I think that
we have first understand that the soul is temporarily in
this physical vessel or we called the meat suit, if
you will. It is just a covering for our soul.
You know, it's not real. It's a covering. We need

(32:55):
this vessel vehicle to get around this three dimensional phys world.
But as a soul, we come in out of the
body all the time and it's not a big deal.
It's just we do it all the time. Every night
we go to sleep, the soul leaves the body through
the crown shop grow at the top of the head
and it just very natural goes out and we visit
the astral world. We see our loved ones and guides,

(33:17):
and we work on things that we're going to experience
in the physical in the future. So we really spend
most of our time in the spirit levels. So when
we at the end the physical death, when the time
is for us, everything is moving, you know. The one
constant is change, and we're changing every day. We're moving
every day. But when it's our time to be finished

(33:38):
a school here, when time to graduate, and by the way,
time to graduate. Sometimes there are souls that choose to
be ill and have others take care of them, and
they're they're limited, like my brother was. And many times
we could say that that soul is it's a final
lesson to teach others about compassion or to really feel
receive from others maybe their life th we receive, this

(34:00):
is the way they're receiving. So it's interesting because my
brother said to me, he goes It was funny because
as his soul, you know, we come in and out
of that body all the time. When he was ill
and a terminal, he would come to me. He lives
in New York and I'm in California, and we came
right to me. He says, you need to cut the cords.
I need to go. I need to go. I say, well,
we got to let things be natural as it's going

(34:21):
to be. But I'm sending up good thoughts. And finally,
probably about a month later, he was able to leave. Well,
this is very funny. His ex wife came from I
think it was a Seattle and can you see him?
And he didn't really care for her, but she felt
obligated to sit there with him. Now, I didn't know
this the night that he passed, but he came to
me the next day, right before I heard boy passed,

(34:42):
and he said, James, and he has such a New
York personality, because what are you doing my ex wife?
I see my ex wife there? What do you think
pushed me over the edge? So it was very funny,
and I said, well, he goes, Yeah, I just popped
out of the body. And I love that expression. I
just popping out because it's just the shift of conscious
you know, you let go of the heaviness of this

(35:03):
physical vibration, this unnatural if you will place this body,
this physical world, and you go back home and it's
all available to us. And again we do it every day.
We go to the side. I was getting a massage
and massage once a week, and the other night I
had one and it was quite incredible, and I think
maybe because of my brother's entrance to that level. But

(35:25):
around me, I was just surrendering and I didn't expect anything,
but I was immediately brought into the circle of light
above me and all old friends and my family were there,
and I didn't expect it. But it's like, oh, this
is all very natural. I feel very natural about it.
And that's how I described when we pass out of
the physical vibration, that's a natural. We go back home.

(35:45):
That's our home, this is only our school.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
Beautiful. What would you offer to those who are grieving
right now?

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Number one, that there is no death. So I realized
there was no death whatsoever, and that their loved ones
are indeed around them. And there are many different you know,
there are manyferent types of grief. I wrote a book
years ago, book called Healing Grief, and it's all the
different situations of grieving. Whether it's moving to a new house,
whether it's empty nest syndrome, whether it's getting a new job,

(36:14):
and whether it's losing a loved one, whether it's a
child or a partner, or a family member. Grief is real.
It's part of the human experience, and we really have
to go through that. If you will again a lesson,
if you will, And I just say that number one,
they're always arounds it. It's a grief that's what passes over.
That there is no death there around you. And I

(36:36):
often say to people to help them with their grief,
I say, number one, keep a journal and write down
ways that they influenced your life. How have they made
your life better? And because of their influence in your life,
how would you now move forward and bring that positive
energy or those aspects to another person? Right? And another

(36:57):
page week What did they teach you? Which is a
really good one. What do they teach you? And the
importance of it. And they'll get caught up in the
sense that you know, not there anymore, because they're more
there than they were when they are physically around there.
They're more there in your mind. The mind is the
soul's mind, so you can communicate with them in your mind.
And I often say, do it a certain time of day,

(37:18):
So keep a little journal a pad and it will
say seven o'clock at night, sit down and open your
mind up in meditative, in a meditative state, in all state,
and just be still and ask them come close to
you and let them and feel them in your heart,
on your head, in your heart, and that will be
the way they'll come in. And it's really those things work.

(37:41):
And another technique which works extremely well also is to
write a letter to them. Write them a letter and
everything you want to say to them, and I say it.
Two weeks later, write down to your calendar. I'm right
back writing another letter. Back, what did you write? This letter?
You fold it up to your way, and then two
weeks later you look in your calendar and there's another

(38:01):
time to write a letter. So same thing, seven o'clock
at night. Whatever, gets an altered state, all the piece
of paper, a pen, and now it's going to be
a letter from them to you. So they're responding to
a original letter. And I've done this for years with
clients and it really works. It's really wonderful. It brings
them back their life and it helps them with their healing.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
Beautiful, beautiful. In many of your books and programs, you
share the importance of a meditation practice. Why is this
so important?

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Well, so, as I was just saying, a meditation is
really is number one, giving you a sense of a
new direction, a different perspective, and I think it really
assists us and having that sense of self, it brings
us to an altered state of consciousness, and in that
altered state of consciousness, you're kind of away from the physical.
You get more into the mind or at different levels

(38:53):
of awareness if you will. And I think if we
hear in a regular basis of training our mind to
be in a space which is not a human but
aware of everything, it just opens us up. It opens
us up to all the experience we have, the meaning
behind these experiences. It helps us to have, if you want,
an awareness of our soul, of our soul self and

(39:14):
the choices that we make. And it really is, gosh,
it's just so much there when we open ourselves up
to those altered states of consciousness, because we begin to
it also helps you to begin to feel energy and
sense energy. And you know, the more one is dedicated
and disciplined to it, you really will begin to on

(39:36):
those levels be able to sense energy, and not those
are passed over, but those living the living world. And
when you go out, you'll give the sense the energy
of a person. We do it anyway we go into
like it meets someone, we feel a certain way the
meditation or altered state, but enhance the energy. It enhances
that connection. And one thing too, Victor, which is really important.

(39:56):
Through I've noticed the meditative practice that brings in that
sense of oneness, that we're all connected and that whatever
that means. You have a sense of oneness of life
force in all things, and you become appreciative if you will,
and all yourself, all life forms. And I can just
tell you from my experiences that's what it's about for

(40:18):
me and for others that I've taught. And it's really
interesting because my teaching is such a passionate person about it.
I love to see others progress. I love to see
them have that sense again of themselves. Many of my
students say, wow, I can't believe I'm doing this is
so great. I forgot who I was, and I've taken
your courses and I remember now who I am. Oh wow,

(40:40):
I've taken a lot of courses, but you really nailed
it for me. And that's true. You know, every teacher
is different, I say to students, you know, everybody is different,
a speaker, an author, someone you see you know, if
what happens, if they give you information that resonates to
your soul, take it, use it. They're feeding your soul.

(41:00):
And if it doesn't, it's not ready for you, it's
not right for you. So I've had a lot of people,
not everyone, but a lot of people have said, Wow,
that really speaks to my soul what you've said in
your courses and your meditation practices.

Speaker 4 (41:12):
Though.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
That's that's why I think it's important.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
We are so excited about this seven week program you
have coming up on the Shift network next level medium Ship.
Is every person capable of developing their mediumship skills?

Speaker 2 (41:27):
That's a great question, great question. So I'm going to
answer that by saying, everybody is a soul, right, So
we have a physical world, we're a soul incarnate. We
have soul with a physical vessel around us, but we're
still a soul, and those souls that leave the physical
they're still a soul. So the only difference is we're
in the physical vibration, the physical skin, and they're outside

(41:49):
of that. So how do we do that? Well, we
have to open up our minds and be more aware
of that subtle energies around us. So every single person
is a medium for one point to an other, and
it can be developed and the skill set can increase. Now,
I will say often the analogy I like to use
is that it's like a concert pianist. Everybody has the

(42:10):
ability to play the piano, but not everybody's a concert pianist.
So you can maximize, if you will, that energy, that
sense of your soul self, that aspect of yourself. But
you know, some people have more of it in they're
born that way, you know, because they're born like I
wasn't a kid. I was born that way. But there's
certainly because we're souls in the physical we can communicate

(42:32):
with other souls. That is definitely possible.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
My guest is the amazing James von Prague. Will be
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Speaker 1 (43:28):
On Destination Unlimited. My wonderful guest this week, James von Prague.
We're talking about his program coming up on March eighteenth
on the Shift Network, where he'd be teaching regular folks
like you how to connect with the spirit world and
deliver healing messages to others. We'll be talking a little
bit more about the offerings during the show. You say
that mediums receive and psychics perceive. Please explain.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
Yeah, So, so everybody is psychic from another and what
is psychic, Well, that is a part of your soul.
So it's a language. Intuition means into the soul. So
the language of soul's intuition, it's that sense of knowingness.
So we perceived, we perceive, we look in, we feel
sense energy of another right and if they're right there

(44:13):
at that time and let's say we're working on someone
or with a person, we really sense or perceive what
the energy feels like, uh, for around that person or
and we can say that past person, future or if
you will, if you have an awareness about a certain situation,
you perceive it, you become aware of it, you observe it.
In other words, it's really an observation. But how this

(44:36):
is going to work out, how that feels to you,
How that you sense that, sometimes clairvoyantly, sometimes clear oudiently.
So everybody is psychic, every medium is psychic. That every
medium not every medium is a psychic. That every psychic
is a medium. So everybody senses that's that's perceiving things
and the medium which is in the of course we're
talking about a lot of this is learning how to

(44:58):
receive and you bring yourself to a space of surrendering.
That's really important in mediumship. One has to learn to
just surrender and receive impressions from the spirit people where
they will transmit thoughts and feelings and memories and emotion
from their mind to your mind. Because the mind is
the soul is a mind. So when we're in a

(45:20):
state of receptivity and you just sit to receive and
not push it. Right, there's an opening and you're able
to pick up, if you will, transmissions from the spirit
world as you receive them. It's so funny because if
one pushes it and tries to get it, it will
never happen. And the analogy I always use, which I love, is,

(45:41):
let's say there's a feather floating down from the sky.
If you try to receive that feather, you go after
it and push it to you know, trying to grab it.
Trying to grab it, it won't happen. But if you
just put your hand out, it's more likely to come
on your hand than it would be if you try
to try it. So far it's being receptive. So that's
the difference between the two.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
What do you share with those studying with you about
delivering perhaps difficult messages with compassion.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Oh, it's a good one. So I love that questions.
It's very important in mediumship, and I talk a lot
about ethics and responsibility and as a medium, one has
life of another in their hands. I hope it describes
a sheet of thin glass and you can destroy someone's
life or you can empower someone's life, and you as
the medium, that's your responsibility, so it might be a

(46:29):
very hard subject. For instance, reading I once did in
New York was a lady whose son came through and
he died of a drunk driver hit him and killed him.
And the driver lived and he died, and the mother
and the father and the audience and they the son said,
you know, Mom, you need to forgive him. And she
was furious, how could you say that. I'm just saying

(46:52):
what he said. And you really have to get to
the heart of the matter. And I teach that a
lot gives the heart of the matter. Your job as
a medium is to heal that person, bring them to
a fullness of being in their heart. So there may
be reasons why that person can't forgive. The son said,
right away, Mom and dad, I've forgiven him. You need

(47:15):
to forgive him. And part of the reason you're saying
that because energetically it's really important, he said. If you
don't forgive him, you're putting up a block. You're putting
up a wall and it'll block life. And it's like,
what does that mean? He said, Well, he said, certain
life experiences can I happen to you because you're blocked
off because you won't forgive. This's blocking off a part
of yourself and every experience in your life. You're limiting it,

(47:39):
you're limiting God, you're limiting the energy. The right thing
to do is to forgive. And also because we don't
know what the higher lessons are here to learn between
those two souls, between a soul group, so one has
to be from what I do Victor is I have
a point of view of love, that everything is whole
and healthy and a whole and oneness of life. Love.

(48:01):
And again, as a medium, we have to find that
the heart in every person, and we got to do
it sometimes in a very sensitive, compassionate way because we
don't know their background. We don't know they're abused or
hurt or something. We just don't know. And so we
have to be that instrument, that example of compassion and

(48:23):
understanding and love to that person, the recipient that's getting
the message. So I often say as a medium, we're
ambassadors to the other side, and for me, the other
side is on conditional love and joy. Now there are
other mediums that are out there who don't know that
they can be great technicians but not be spiritual, and
that happened quite a bit. So for me when I

(48:46):
took on this position, this job, but over my career,
I knew I had to be responsible. I knew I
had to have integrity because I knew I had people's
lives in their hands, and I'm to change people for
the better and for me. I don't and say to everybody,
all my students, I say, listen, if you look at
your life one of the most successful aspects of your life,

(49:06):
if you will, when you leave this world and you
go to other side and you have it's called a
life review, and you see everything you've done. If you
go a where every energy you've sent out of your thought,
you've sent out of your word, if you can make
the world a better place than when you found it,
life is successful. And that's why I tell everybody that's my.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
Goal as an ambassador of love. Do you need a passport?

Speaker 2 (49:34):
I just think I think you know. The funny thing
with that is that we're all so connected, and this
human vibration, there's such that took meest illusions. We have.
Number one, there's death, there is no such thing as death.
And number two, this sense of separativeness when really we're
not separate. We're all quite together. We're all one. These
are What does one meanings that one love? Love is one?

(49:55):
To me, love is one, one is loved? What does
that mean? Change?

Speaker 5 (49:58):
Love?

Speaker 2 (49:59):
O n e omnipresent nurturing energy.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
I've met people for the first time and immediately since
a familial connection. Do we have soul families?

Speaker 2 (50:11):
We have sol families, we have sol groups. We've lived many,
many lifetimes and other souls who may pop into a
life at a different time, maybe your midlife, in childhood. Yes,
we have very much so. And I don't believe those
things just spontaneously happen. I think it's a divine plan
that come on tropath at a particular time and they
influence us, so we influence them. And I think that

(50:33):
exactly what happens. Yeah, for sure, one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
For seven weeks, starting on March eighteenth, with the Shift Network,
James will be teaching regular folks how to connect with
the spirit world and deliver healing messages to others. It's
going to be Tuesdays at five pm Pacific a pm Eastern,
and James, you're going to be giving your pro level
mediumship toolbox that you'll share during the course. Tell us

(50:57):
about that gift.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
Well, it's just you know, over the years and many
years of teaching, I've become aware of a certain aspects, insights,
exercises that people relate to and that people it's easy
for people to understand and attain and it's like the
aha moments. So in this I go a toolbox with
all these different exercises and mind journeys, if you will,

(51:20):
are ways of people to getting into the sense of
mediumship and the sense it's hard to say because some
of the things well mediums by just talking to dead people.
Now there's more of a sense of your own soul
self and your soul changing and being open, and that's
part of this toolbox. As far as course is having
the relationship with your soul self. That's really important. So
a different exercises, different ways I have people tune into

(51:44):
their own souls and then turn tune into their loved ones.
So funny with a lot of the students, we'd say,
you know, I got so much out of this course
in a different way than I expected. I never expected this,
I expect just this. So that's really what happens. So
in that tool box, different extras sizes, different mind journeys,
different ways in and really a sense of attitude atmosphere.

(52:08):
It's all in there. So you know, as I said earlier,
I'm so passionate what I do. I don't want to
waste time. I think time is really precious, It's a
gift we have. So I made sure I put included
in this those moments as exercises, those insights that are
really been successful in many years to get people out
of their way and get into the heart of the matter.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
Do you share techniques for both personal and group readings?

Speaker 2 (52:34):
I do, I certainly do. Personal is you know, one
on one readings if you will, and then groups also,
like how would you handle many people in one space?
And there are many different energies, so how would you
work for a larger group of technical demonstration? Then you
went from one on one that's really important. So yes,
I just I work. I cover that as well, and

(52:55):
it's very interesting because the energy is a little bit
different than dnamica is a little different. Again, remember that
we are the heart, we are the heart of the matter.
And again I'm repeated that you know, when you come
to someone's life, you have to make a difference. And
so if you start having that relationship that you're a
soul here as an ambassador of the spirit world, and
I'm just tuning the energies around me. There's a different

(53:18):
dynamic from a group that is a one on one. Yeah,
and I cover that.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
I understand that those enrolled in the next level Mediumship
also get access to many extras, including the core teachings
from the seven module program. Cultivate your Mediumship skills. That's
your foundation program, right.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
That's correct, That is exactly right. I have a school
online for that four or five maybe six years now,
the JVD School Mystical Arts. And what I've done is
I've taken the most successful actions that those the course
they have there brought them into this. So that's exactly
tried and true.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
If you will and anything else you'd like to share
about the program.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
It's going to change your life. It'll change people's lives
if they're willing to and if they're willing to take
the time and develop properly and really begin to understand
their soul self, it will change their lives and change
their perspective. It'll change the way they're living, it'll change

(54:14):
the changes in their lives. So all of that is
really really important and that's what they will experience when
they step into that.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Space, and they're going to have fun too, right, Oh.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
My god, me, you know me, I'm all about the fun.
You've got to have fun, You've got to have joy
is part of the journey, jay o you or any why.
Joy is part of the journey, and I make it.
One of the things about mediumship which I teach a lot,
is don't take it so seriously. Stop. You know, you
have to have fun when you realize that there's no death,
that makes you fat and fun and enjoy, fun, happy.

(54:46):
So let's bring that into this mediumship. And also when
the spirit people come close to you, they certainly don't
want to go to a depressed down person. They want
to have fun. They come through because of that higher
vibration of love. So I often say, let's have a part.
Pretend you're having a party with them as you invite
them in, because that's the vibration and frequency they want
to come to. They want to be in that space.

(55:07):
So part of the safe that's sacred space also is
opening up that to a higher vibration of fun, love
and joy. That's what's about.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
So you can learn and party with James von Photograph
Week for seven weeks starting March eighteenth on the Shift Network.
These programs are going to be Tuesdays at five pm
Pacific eight pm Eastern and to find out more, you
can type in Google shiftnetwork dot com and James von Prague,
or you can go the shiftnetwork dot com forward slash course,

(55:38):
forward slash one, j von Prague V A N P
R A A g H three Underscore twenty five. James,
have I left anything out?

Speaker 4 (55:49):
I no.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
I think you've done an incredible job and I look
forward of being with people on Tuesdays and changing their lives.
So thank you for your assistance and your help and
being who you are.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
James. Thank you so much for joining us and sharing
all of this wonderful information, this positive information that we
need in a world that needs an open heart and positivity.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
It's true. Thank you. Thank you, Victor very much appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
And thank you for joining us on Destination Unlimited. I'm
Victor the Voice Firman. Have a wonderful week