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NLS 572: Legendary Psychic REVEALS APRIL 2025 ENDS OLD SYSTEM; Mankind's NEW ERA BEGINS! with James Van Praagh
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James Van Praagh discusses the importance of moderation in life and the transition to a new world. He emphasizes the need for mediums to have no boundaries and work with their guides. Alex Ferrari and James reflect on the success of the Next Level...
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Alex Ferrari
Welcome to the Next Level Soul podcast where we ask the big questions about life. Why are we here? Is this all there is? What is my Soul's mission? We attempt to answer those questions and more by bringing you raw and inspiring conversations with some of the most fascinating and thought provoking guests on the planet today. I am your host, Alex Ferrari. Now, if you wanted to go deeper down the rabbit hole with Next Level Soul, please download the free Next Level Soul app on Apple or Android. All you've got to do is go over to nextlevelsoul.com subscribe, download and get access to Meditations, exclusive interviews, live streams with me, and early access to episodes before they air anywhere else. And so, so much more. So again, head over to next levelsoul.com subscribe disclaimer the views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of this show, its host, or any of the companies they represent. Now today on the show, we welcome back one of my favorite Psychic mediums ever. The legendary James Van Praag. And James came to Next Level Soul Studios fresh off the Ascension Conference. And the conversation we had was not only epic eye opening, but explosive in so, so many ways. We talk about what's going to happen or what April 2025 means for humanity, where we're going, what we need to do, what to look out for for the rest of this year, in the next decade and so, so much more. So let's dive in. I like to welcome to the show returning champion James Van Praag. How you doing, James?
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James Van Praagh
Good, Alex. Thank you for having me here and I'm really honored to be in your studio. I'm very impressed and thank you for those who are involved in watching this, are listening to this as well. He did a lot of work.
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Alex Ferrari
Well, I appreciate it very, very much. Thank you so much, James. Well, you have been an inspiration to me for all the work that you've been doing in this space as a producer and making amazing conscious content. Before it was in vogue.
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James Van Praagh
I think so.
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Alex Ferrari
Before it was in vogue.
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James Van Praagh
Yeah.
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Alex Ferrari
You know, you produced the, you created the Ghost Whisperer with Jennifer Love Hewitt and many other shows as well. So, you know, I think the first time you and I sat down, we. It was like peas and carrots. We just vibed right away. Right away we kind of got it.
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James Van Praagh
Yeah.
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Alex Ferrari
You know, I try to be as authentic as I can. I know you do as well. So I think we could smell our own when we, when we met.
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James Van Praagh
Yes.
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Alex Ferrari
As we're recording this, this is the day after next Level Souls Ascension conference, our first ever conference. And man, wasn't it.
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James Van Praagh
It was wonderful.
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Alex Ferrari
Wasn't it a trip?
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James Van Praagh
It was a trip and everybody should go. Next time.
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Alex Ferrari
Yeah.
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James Van Praagh
Next year we're gonna push that. Yeah. It was an incredible time for people and people came from all over the world, which I was amazed by. All over the world, so.
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Alex Ferrari
And there was tears.
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James Van Praagh
There was tears and laughter and there was insights from a lot of people and change and ascension and ascension opening to ascend. And everybody had an experience. Every single person there, I believe, had an experience. So that's great.
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Alex Ferrari
It's, it's.
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James Van Praagh
And all different modalities. You presented for people to have experiences, right?
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Alex Ferrari
Yeah.
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James Van Praagh
So breathing and channeling and it's comedy.
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Alex Ferrari
Yeah, comedy mediums and mediums and stuff.
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James Van Praagh
Yeah. You presented so many different ways in for people, which is what we try to do and what you try to do. So many different ways in many different types of people. You've effect.
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Alex Ferrari
It was wonderful. And I appreciate you coming down. It was. And I had never seen you work.
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James Van Praagh
I. Well, that's interesting, because I was thinking, Alex, never seen work. Did you enjoy watching?
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Alex Ferrari
Yeah. So, I mean. I mean, obviously you're probably thinking, that's.
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James Van Praagh
Not the James that I know, because they go into a whole other.
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Alex Ferrari
No, you're going to another world.
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James Van Praagh
Yeah.
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Alex Ferrari
Well, I mean, we have your show on a next level. Soul TV Beyond beyond, which is. We have like 140. 140 episodes or something like that. Or that. And I saw it there, you know, what you did there. But I never see so person.
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James Van Praagh
It's a very different.
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Alex Ferrari
It's a very different experience in person where you are actually in. You were on the stage and. And you're like, okay, hold on a second. All right, I see. Okay, there's someone who just lost a business partner who. Who did this and that. And talking about there's checks. I'm thinking it's over on this side of the room, towards the back. Does that make sense for anybody here? And you see a hand, just lady. One hand goes up. You're like, all right, stand up. Yeah, it's. He says, don't worry about the chain in the drawer. It's gonna be fine. You know, like. And she's like, does that make sense to you? Is there a Larry or a Lawrence or something in your. Yes. It was just so fascinating to watch.
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James Van Praagh
Partner's name. Yeah, it's. And it's. What I liked a lot was there was a man whose father came through in the back.
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Ryan Seacrest
Yes.
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James Van Praagh
And I love that spirit comes through and affects that because many times when you get men in your audience, you had a lot of men in that audience, which I've never seen that many men for an audience for, like, in a conference. And I was so honored that, you know, by themselves, it was great. From all over the world. And then the one man. Whenever a spirit comes through and gives a reading to a gentleman. It sounds terrible. It's true. Because men typically don't come to these things, and they're harder many times to get through to.
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Alex Ferrari
Absolutely.
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James Van Praagh
And wow. It was an amazing experience to read that man. And his father came through, and he was. I think he was kind of shocked as a lot of people.
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Alex Ferrari
Oh, no, he was.
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James Van Praagh
But that could help all the people in the audience, especially the men and relationships with fathers. So that was really interesting. One thing I remember I talked at the beginning, which is really true now that you've seen me work. That one message is for everybody.
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Alex Ferrari
Yes. If you're in a group, that message can resonate throughout the entire.
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James Van Praagh
Because we're all having that human experience. So you all can share.
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Alex Ferrari
And also, I think it was that man. If it wasn't, was one of the other ones who you said something like your mother, she. Was she a caregiver to children? I see a lot of children around. Oh, yeah, it might have been another one.
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James Van Praagh
Might have been another one. That's right.
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Alex Ferrari
There's a lot of children around you. And he's like, no, no, there's nothing. All right, just think about it. And then like we did then later in the day, we had a panel discussion where everyone could do Q and A. He walked up and goes, james, I just want to let you know, I just remembered.
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James Van Praagh
Yes.
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Alex Ferrari
Before I was born, my mother was an au pair. She also helped raise children. I never think of her that way because she's just my mom, but that's right. She was. Before I was born, I was like, that's fun. And that happens all the time.
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James Van Praagh
Happens all the time. People forget their first names. I was once an audience with New York, and it was the first row, and this mother came through for her son, and she said, I want to give love to Michael. My Michael. My Michael. And I said, sir, does that mean anything to you? And he goes, and his wife, who's sitting next to him is poking him. And she goes, honey, that's your name. So, you know, it's weird because it's a weird type of thing. You're in this space where you just. They're in awe. They're not sure this is happening. Why was this real? And it kind of like goes a state of unconsciousness. I mean, they forget the names, what they. When they were born, the type of work they do. Yet it happens. And that's where you got to hold the space. You know, I'm responsible to the. Save that space and be. Wait till it hits. And if it doesn't, I'll always say, then keep it. Write it down or keep it for later. Like this gentleman yesterday. Happens a lot. It's part of the experience.
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Alex Ferrari
It's. There was one lady, she was bawling. It was about her mom. She was absolutely bawling. Yeah, I heard later she was like, literally in the bathroom just bawling her eyes. It just released something.
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James Van Praagh
Yes, it happens a lot.
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Alex Ferrari
And that's the thing that's really interesting when you. When. When people have these kind of experiences. I've seen it now live, which is really, really interesting to feel.
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James Van Praagh
There's one thing to talk about when you actually experience it live.
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Alex Ferrari
When you experience it live. It was something really. I mean, I sat there watching this woman. She was just almost inconsolable as you were talking, because it just all resonated so much. And I think we all have this yearning for connection to our past loved ones, people who have passed over, especially if we have unsolved, unresolved issues and things like that.
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James Van Praagh
But that's just it. So. So really, to me, hell people do their heaven and hell. Hell to me is regret. Hell to me is when we pass over and look back at our lives. We go, oh, I should have. What is or could have unfinished business. You know, I should have done this, I should have done that and that. That, to me, is really hard. We hold on to these things in the human life. And if we can let you know, it's very interesting, we could have our life review while we're still in the body. Right. We do things a little bit differently, I think. There are a couple of readings yesterday with messages about forgiveness, which often comes through. That's a subject. And, you know, they made it clear that you don't have to call someone up or just maybe you can write a card or even if you had to just sit in meditation and send the healing, send forgiveness to that person. That's really important that we do that, you know, because we never. We should never judge another because we don't know their background. We don't know where they've come from. So who are we to judge, you know?
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Alex Ferrari
Right. Yeah, there's no. There's no question. It is. It's pretty powerful to see how important these. These souls that have passed are to us, depending on where you who their mom, dad, aunt, you know, son, daughter, this or that. But it was pretty moving to see. Almost a shock. Because I'm assuming in your work over the years, they're skeptics, obviously.
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James Van Praagh
Oh, yeah. I started with the skeptics.
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Alex Ferrari
Right, exactly.
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James Van Praagh
I didn't know what they were. And they said you do cold readings. But what's the cold reading? I know what they're talking about. And then I. How could they say that? They don't even know me, so how could they talk about me? And I didn't understand it. It was just. I was the one that took all the bullets when it first came out.
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Alex Ferrari
I gotta ask you this, James, because, you know, in the space that I'm in right now with the show, you know, there's obviously people who don't like what we do. Like everybody there's always critics of everything. Always critics.
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James Van Praagh
Well, especially. Let me just throw in. Sorry to interrupt you, but when you're shifting the paradigm, when you're changing that paradigm that people are used to, that they're comfortable with, and you're throwing in a whole new way of thinking and you know you're coming up against them, wow, I gotta change my way of thinking. So. But that's real change.
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Alex Ferrari
It Rockstar foundation.
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James Van Praagh
Rocks the foundation. That's real change. You know, you do, you know you're doing your work.
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Alex Ferrari
When that happens, well, then, girl, I guess I'm doing it then.
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James Van Praagh
You are. And it's been more and more and more.
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Alex Ferrari
So it's. No, it's pretty remarkable. But when you were doing this, I mean, you've been doing this now about 40 years.
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James Van Praagh
I was thinking on the way over here how long it's been. It's been close to. I was like 95.
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Alex Ferrari
Yeah.
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James Van Praagh
Close to it. Yeah.
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Alex Ferrari
Close to 40 years you've been doing this.
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James Van Praagh
Yeah.
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Alex Ferrari
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James Van Praagh
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Ryan Seacrest
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Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey, how's it going today it's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do.
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Dan Morgan
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Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
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Dan Morgan
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Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
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Dan Morgan
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James Van Praagh
Wow.
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Dan Morgan
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Alex Ferrari
And now back to the show. And when you started, it's not in vogue or cool. It was not around to be. You know, it's like, you know, you were in that early crop of TV psychics.
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James Van Praagh
The only one. Well, I was the first one out.
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Alex Ferrari
There, actually, and Sylvia Brown was another one.
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James Van Praagh
She was after me.
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Alex Ferrari
Yeah, exactly.
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James Van Praagh
Yeah, I was. I was with her on the Other side. And the first show she did was the Other side for sure. I was what Unsolved Mysteries and the Other side NBC show. And it was very fun because a lot of my clients knew Sylvia. I'd never met her. And it was funny. We're on stage with me, her and all these other intuitive or psychic people, and we're all there. And during the commercial break, I looked down and said, sylvia, nice to meet you. And she goes, it's good to see men doing this job. And our histories began. And, yeah, so that was. But I was the first one out there before John Edward. Really before. I mean, George Anderson was the only one in Long island who had done one TV thing. Just a guest shot, I think. But really was my appearance on the Other side and then Larry King that really kind of opened up everything for everybody and made it like, yeah, made it open for many others. And now you look on television or online, it's like everybody's into it. But when I did it, it was, yeah, I got the bullets from the skeptic. So. And, you know, I was probably Meant to do it, obviously, because it didn't affect me, and it really made me. Wayne Dyer and I were very good friends. Wayne Dyer, myself and Brian Weiss and Deepak, and we used to go around the country, do little conferences around there. And I remember Wayne said something which I, you know, we joke, you know, I used to joke with him. I'm going to use that. And I still do. What other people think of you as none of your business.
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Alex Ferrari
Yeah. He said, if I may quote, if I can quote him exactly, was be free of the good opinion of others.
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James Van Praagh
Oh, yeah, okay.
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Alex Ferrari
That was Wayne's.
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James Van Praagh
That was another one. And I've used that and I taught that, and it's true, because no one knows you better than you know yourself. So I've always. One thing about me, Alex, when I did start doing this work, and since I was a kid, I mean, right now I'm writing my autobiography, so I'm reading, living a lot of this. This stuff. And I've always come in. I think I've come into this world, like, I think you probably have as well. That's why we get along so well. As I believe. I knew who I was. I knew I was very beginning. I was a survivor. I, I, you know, I knew it. And I always had a sense of who I was. That was the only way to do. I just knew it. And when I'd see spirit when I was a little boy, and I'd see lights and colors around people, and in those days, you know, children measure their environment, what they experience. And I thought, well, I see these colors and, you know, no one else did, and my friends will be crazy and you're nuts. And that's. But it was like, that was my experience. My experience was seeing these things. And to me, they were very real. They were more real than many other things. So I had to stay with that. Even though people said, you're mental, you're wrong, you're crazy, you're this. And when my first experience happened, when I first brought through spirit for a girl, I was working with a co worker, and it was almost like the sixth sense with a grandmother's behind her.
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Alex Ferrari
You saw her?
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James Van Praagh
Yeah, she walked into her cubicle. I was in my cubicle. And as she walked her cubicle after lunch, this woman was. Behind her was a spirit. She stared at me like. I'm like. And it was very much a sixth sense, really.
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Alex Ferrari
Did it freak her out?
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James Van Praagh
Freaked me out. Yeah. I said, do you understand about the lady here? She's from Idaho, White house, yellow shutters. And all these details. Oh, yeah, that's my grandmama. She promised me she'd come back when she.
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Alex Ferrari
So she was cool with it. She just.
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James Van Praagh
Oh, she was cool.
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Alex Ferrari
She was cooler than you were.
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James Van Praagh
She was cool than I was. Because then I thought, what's going to happen to me? Because am I going crazy? Because there was no reference again. So there really wasn't this before anything. And I said, wow, this is kind of weird. Am I going crazy? And I ran out of Paramount Studios. I was working. I ran into my apartment and it was just strange because I couldn't call anyone, ask them, because, you know, they.
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Alex Ferrari
Might think there's no podcast, there's no books thing.
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James Van Praagh
So I called up the medium that I went to many years before, and he said, james, the spirit people made the prediction that you're going to be doing this work. And it was two years to the day that that prediction was made. And he took me under his wing and taught me for seven years. And, yeah, that's how it all happened. And then I was just, you know, showbiz was in my blood.
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Alex Ferrari
Yeah.
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James Van Praagh
So I started doing. I really wanted to have. Be involved with productions that would open up the mind. And you were early. I was. I was early. Well, got things going, so now you can just take it away. Fly, my friend, fly. And that's what you're doing in your way. You know, I opened it up the door to change the consciousness. And you're just now going to do it in, you know, the way of these times.
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Alex Ferrari
Well, I'll tell you, I mean, we're all. I think everybody in the space is on your shoulders. And other, you know, other visionaries like you that came out in those early days who had the bravery, you know, like Darlanka with Michelle, like, I mean, and, you know, Abraham and these other kind of people.
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James Van Praagh
Jack Purcell, I remember as a channel.
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Alex Ferrari
Jack Purcell, all these. That came out when it wasn't cool, when it was like, hey, I'm fringe. It was definitely fringe. You're in the back of a New Age bookstore.
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James Van Praagh
Yes.
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Alex Ferrari
On a Sunday afternoon or something like that, doing.
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James Van Praagh
I've done many of those.
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Alex Ferrari
Exactly. That's all you could do, you know, and I'm assuming, like watching you watching what's happening with, you know, the. The awakening of humanity and that, you know, a show like ours, or even the conferences that the conference we went to yesterday, you seeing men in there and all this kind of stuff, I gotta imagine you're looking. I'm like, my God.
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James Van Praagh
Well, to see all the men in that room, I was like so impressed. I've done thousands of conferences and Most said good, 70% women, maybe 75. And the men were usually dragged there by their wives. But to see all these guys there without their wives from all over the world, I was really impressed. And that's thanks to you because you've reached them. And one thing about me, which is interesting, many things about you, many things, sir. I just kind of keep up with myself. One thing about being a teacher that I have, you know, my online school and so forth, I've always been, and I'm going to say it, integrity is big for me. I'm a Capricorn rising all about integrity and responsibility. And I'm just very aware, like when I put some on television that I'm teaching. I'm teaching them masses wherever. I have to open up a mind in a. In a positive way and has to be done for the right intention. And I see stuff on television, stuff out there which is not. Which is not. Which is just to get whatever.
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Alex Ferrari
Yeah.
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James Van Praagh
Money, money, greed and no integrity. And to me it's like it's really teaching, teaching. So when I did Ghost Whisper, the show Ghost Whisper, I remember I an argument with CBS because it was Disney and cbs, but I was. CBS was on my side and Disney, I think wanted to change it. They wanted to change the show, the format and they wanted to make it very fear based. And the beginning was very fear based and at the end they want to keep it very fear based. And I said, I won't do the show. You can't put my name on it if it doesn't end up in a positive light. That. Because you're putting that out to the ethers for people. And I want the show to end in a very healing, positive, loving light. That's who we are. You can bring them in this, you know, circus tent with the fear and say, ooh, the interest. But at the end there's got to leave in love because that's what leave the universe in love. And I think that's responsibility, as you know. And that's the reason why I'm here with you. And because you did exactly that way. Your integrity. You have integrity and you do things of the highest manner. You, you know, as I'm looking in your studio I was visiting today, you do things that really in the highest of. Yeah, yeah. The highest integrity.
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Alex Ferrari
I appreciate that very much. James, when you were saying that like that, you know, your show led with.
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James Van Praagh
A little bit of fear to get.
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Alex Ferrari
Them in and then it Ends healing. It's kind of like what I talk about all the time is like, I'm in the business of selling chocolate covered broccoli. And you know, if you sell it as broccoli, it's going to be a tougher sell. But if you sell this as chocolate, you take a bite of the shop. It has to be dark chocolate. I'm not a savage. And if they take a bite, they get some of the broccoli in with the chocolate and then. Oh, wait a minute. I kind of like the broccoli. And there you go. But you have to kind of, you know, because I'm not. And I think you weren't either. But I'm not going after the converted.
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James Van Praagh
Correct.
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Alex Ferrari
Because they're converted already and they can enjoy the content that we create and everything that we do. I'm looking for the construction worker who just lost their mom.
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James Van Praagh
Yeah.
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Alex Ferrari
And wants to know if they're okay.
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James Van Praagh
Right.
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Alex Ferrari
And they'll watch an NDE and then they'll go, oh, who's this? James Van. What? I can't say his last name. Like, who's that guy? Like, oh, he's.
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James Van Praagh
Oh.
- [23:29]
Alex Ferrari
And what's this over there? Is that quantum physics. And there you go down different rabbit holes. And that's who I'm going after. And I think that's one of the reasons why so many men by themselves showed up. It was pretty. It's pretty remarkable.
- [23:42]
James Van Praagh
Yeah. They're all different, different types of backgrounds, which was like, great.
- [23:45]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah. I have to ask you, though, when you were going through the beginnings of this and you were taking the arrows, like they say, the first one through the door is always the bloodiest.
- [23:52]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [23:53]
Alex Ferrari
The first one over the hill gets the arrows in the back.
- [23:55]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [23:57]
Alex Ferrari
We'll be right back after a word from our sponsor.
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- [25:25]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan.
- [25:29]
Dan Morgan
Hey, how's it going today?
- [25:30]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do.
- [25:33]
Dan Morgan
I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan and Morgan, which is America's largest interest law firm.
- [25:39]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said 20 billion one. 20 billion is an insane number.
- [25:48]
Dan Morgan
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually I think somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
- [26:00]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan and Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
- [26:06]
Dan Morgan
Probably the easiest way is dialing pound law. That's £529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 247 365.
- [26:15]
James Van Praagh
Wow.
- [26:16]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
- [26:20]
Dan Morgan
Thanks for having me. Visit forthepeople.com for an office near you.
- [26:27]
Alex Ferrari
And now back to the show. How did you just deal with. I mean, I know you said it didn't bother me but as a human being it still has to. I mean especially maybe it doesn't bother this version of James, But I imagine 40 year old, 40 years ago, James was probably not nearly as armored and shrapneled as he is now. That like it bounces off you now. But back then I have to imagine there was some sort of emotional toll that even like why am I doing this? Why do I keep going?
- [26:58]
James Van Praagh
Well, I never had that why am I doing this? I just felt I had to do it and I didn't really get involved with. I just didn't. It wasn't like they don't understand what I'm doing. So I didn't. That's something that wasn't what I was doing it for. I was doing for, you know, the healing of people and for the work itself. The only time, like, if I can think back, one of the only times that I. I was upset about it was I did the View with Barbara Walters. And what happened was it was this, probably the fourth or fifth time I was doing the View. And I, you know, love Joy, and then, you know, what love would be. You know, they've changed over the years after that. But I remember Barbara was on that, and I walked into the green room and I saw her Auric field, and I was like, this looks bad. I said, oh, she has dementia. I see it. And I said, her heart's bad, too. Oh, geez. I said, oh. And she slowed down. Her energetic body was slowed down. And I. You know, I first met Barbara years before, and I went to her office and in ABC and I gave her a reading for her father, and he came through and talked about things. And I read her assistant, the secretary, and her mother, who died of cancer, came through. Great, great stuff. And I'd be the first to say, this isn't, you know, right or whatever, but I'm not like that. So, anyway, I did the. I did the View, and I did. I was doing Elizabeth Hasselback. I gotta tell you, I liked her. She was so. We might not have the same politics, but she was so respectful of guests. And I was really impressed. And. And Whoopi was as well. And I'm doing some readings for the audience, and they were, if I could say myself, pretty good connections. I was kind of impressed. And I remember someone was. One of the people were saying, oh, it was Joy. Joy's in the back and. And Joy's a friend of mine. She goes, well, what about. And Whoopi goes, be quiet, let him finish. And it was great. So that was that. Barbara was there, and we sat down at the end, and I said to Barbara during commercial break, if you ever want a reading, I'd be more than happy to, because I could tell she was kind of diminishing. This is three or five, six, seven years before she passed. So I. At the end of the taping, the show was over, and you can give me a read now. And I said, okay. And I should have said, no, but I just thought, okay, I'll do it now, because I can see her state. And we started doing. We're on the side of the Stage I said, you have to take off your sound, your microphone. It's no one's business but your own. And I read her and I said, you, heart's not good. I said something about your heart and your back goes, no, I feel fine. I said, okay, just. That's what I'm getting. And that's what I got very clearly. Well, then the next day or two days later, I think it was, I was at a friend's mother's funeral, and it was at their house having a reception party, and someone came up to me and said, barbara is badmouthing you on the View. And I turned it on, and she was. That same time, Prague, you know, he said, my heart was bad. And I went to my surgeon out of surge, pulled him out of surgery, and he said, you're fine. Your heart's fine. And that James Van Prague shouldn't be doing this and hurting people. Well, I had no. They didn't invite me back to speak to her. It was just like millions of people didn't even hear my point of view, how it worked. And then years later, she dies of a heart issue. She died of her heart issue that years later, and it's like, wow. And that. The skeptics got ahold of that and they put it all over the Internet, and I didn't get gigs on television because of that. Yeah, when you put my name in there, it says Barbara Walters. Yeah. And that was hurtful because, like, you know what? That wasn't fair. You know, I don't mind people criticizing me, but give me a chance to counteract and talk about it.
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Alex Ferrari
Well, let me ask you, James, why do you think that happened to you in the grand scheme of your. Of your. Of your life journey? Because it done. It's happened for a reason. Anything that negative happens to us happens for a learning lesson. But I'm to just going curious because that was a pretty big.
- [30:44]
James Van Praagh
That's a pretty big one.
- [30:45]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah, that's a pretty big punch.
- [30:46]
James Van Praagh
It hurt me because it helped. It held me back from helping more people. It held me back from being on other shows and creating more people, reaching more people. And that was. Yeah, that was. That was tough. So, yeah, that's tough. I mean, it was what it was, and I'm just fine. But it could. I could reach a lot more people. And unfortunately, it was because producers do these shows, they just look you up, and if they see, oh, Barbara Walton said he's a phony, or whatever, then they won't do it. So I've had a lot of it.
- [31:12]
Alex Ferrari
Took you years to come back from, was upsetting.
- [31:16]
James Van Praagh
And then. Well, then she died with a heart issue and dementia. I was like. I felt vindicated. No, but, yeah, that's. That's something. Which was hard because I'm such an honest person.
- [31:27]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah, I know.
- [31:27]
James Van Praagh
And then to have that was like, wow, that's just wrong. But it is what it is, part of this human experience. And I forgive the lady, you know. Yeah. It is what it is. And that's all that it is.
- [31:37]
Alex Ferrari
So you were saying that when you were in that cubicle and you saw this, basically, you know, her grandmother, a ghost behind her. I would. I talked to you. Yes. I think it's yesterday or the day before yesterday when we were like, you know, do you see. Do you see dead people walking around all the time? And then you told me, no, no, I'm closed right now.
- [31:57]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [31:58]
Alex Ferrari
And that's a very important thing for people. It's really important. And I talk to other psychics like that sometimes, because when they first start, they don't know how to put them. The clothes sign on.
- [32:05]
James Van Praagh
That's what I teach my school. Because you have to know. And it's come recently from a lot of the students. They need to know the mechanics of mediumship and the mechanics of mediumship and channeling and mediumship is you need to know when to turn on that sense, that part of the mind to be receptive and to be the vessel. And then when you're done, you have to turn it off, whether it's closing a curtain, whether it's switching a light off. And it's really important because it affects the adrenal system of the body, the endocrine system. And I often say to my students, just think of the analogy of like, a ceiling fan. And the ceiling fan is always on, you know, and it'll eventually burn out the motor. And that's why it has to go off. Same with our adrenal system, because mediums and psychics and channels, just the adrenals are being overtaxed, overused. This is our power pack. And when you're overusing it, it can start breaking down. And that's why it's so important that people who do this work realize you've got to turn on and turn off. You can't be, like, running around again. Here I go again. Not to put anyone down, but Teresa Caputo, you know, lovely lady. I met her once. Lovely. I met her husband, who was nice as well. But the. And this is ignorance of the producers. I gotta say that even With Tyler Henry, this ignorance. Producers don't know the. The mechanics of mediumship. So Teresa, they portrayed it and to the public that she just goes out and she's open. The spirits around her all the time. She goes to the bakery and then someone comes in. Well, I don't know if she's been not taught not to do that, but for me, I'm such a stickler to demonstrate that to the public. It sends misinformation to the public about mediumship that you can't always be on. You've got to be turned off. So I prefer going to the butcher. Stop saying, okay, I'm going to open up right now. And now I feel there's a woman here. That would be the appropriate thing to do. Because, remember, you're teaching the public. They're looking to you for the expertise. And if they don't have the right way of doing it and they're hurt, because they could hurt people. If people start doing that and don't realize they've got to modulate things and integrate things and close down, it could hurt them physically. I've met many mediums who died of internal stuff going on, whether it's a cancer with a certain disease, leukemia, because their adrenals were overtaxed. It's really important.
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Alex Ferrari
So when you. So it's kind of like in Ghost with Whoopi Goldberg's like, sam, I can't. They've come out of the woodwork. They're all over the place. Obviously, Whoopi in that movie, that character didn't understand what was happening. She was playing a fake psychic.
- [34:33]
James Van Praagh
That's right.
- [34:34]
Alex Ferrari
And then she all of a sudden, like, oh, no. Oh, crap. I'm a real psychic now.
- [34:37]
James Van Praagh
So that does happen, Alex, where I go into a space and I'm aware of all these spirits around me. I'm very aware of them. Yesterday, I was aware of them before I even started in the conference, I was aware of them. I'll walk into a space and be aware of them. I will not engage until I'm ready to work.
- [34:52]
Alex Ferrari
So you see them, but you don't engage?
- [34:54]
James Van Praagh
Yeah, I see them. I feel them. I sense them. Yeah, very much. Now. Recently, my brother passed over not too far away, and he has come through me in ways where I'm surrendered in the. I'm getting massage. He comes to me. I'm not thinking about driving. Also, he comes to me, and I allow that only because he's your brother. He's my brother, and he's not taxing me. And. Yeah. So that. That's a little different. But I'm not every day going, okay, let's talk. You just can't do it. And it's part of your development of the medium is you got to know boundaries. You got no boundaries, want to turn on, what to turn off. And you work with your guides. And your guides, you know when you're. They're going to work with the instrument. And to me, an instrument is like a piano. It's going to be properly tuned and worked to its capacity. And if you're not correct in your taking care of the instrument, it could break down. So I want to get the most out of my. My vessel as a Mantu. And I've got to do my responsibility as the human here. I've got to take care of myself. And that means I'm saying you can't drink caffeine or wine or alcohol. Oh, yes, you can. But everything has to be in moderation, even life. Everything is moderation. It should be in moderation. So, you know, I have to.
- [36:08]
Alex Ferrari
You, James, have you ever been drunk and I've been drunk.
- [36:12]
James Van Praagh
Quite.
- [36:13]
Alex Ferrari
So. If you've ever been drunk, what happens to your ability?
- [36:16]
James Van Praagh
Right here?
- [36:16]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah. I mean, that's an Irish coffee. No, but if. If you ever been, like, completely. Not, like, inebriated, but just so, like, you're. You've drank a bunch that night, you're tipsy, you're a little loopy or something like that. What happens to your abilities? I've never asked that question.
- [36:30]
James Van Praagh
It's interesting because a lot of. A lot of mediums, a lot. Some of my students started that. Ask me these questions.
- [36:37]
Alex Ferrari
We'll be right back after a word from our sponsor.
- [36:40]
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- [38:05]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan.
- [38:09]
James Van Praagh
Hey.
- [38:09]
Dan Morgan
How's it going today?
- [38:10]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do.
- [38:13]
Dan Morgan
I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan and Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
- [38:19]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently. It said 20 billion one. 20 million is an insane number.
- [38:28]
Dan Morgan
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
- [38:40]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan and Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
- [38:45]
Dan Morgan
Probably the easiest way is dialing pound law. That's £529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 247365.
- [38:55]
James Van Praagh
Wow.
- [38:56]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
- [39:00]
Dan Morgan
Thanks for having me. Visit forthepeople.com for an office near you.
- [39:07]
Alex Ferrari
And now back to the show.
- [39:10]
James Van Praagh
And, and, and really it's interesting because a lot of people start doing readings when they're drinking and they'll do this with friendly, you know, so and so is coming through with this because they're lowering debt, they're lowering the themselves down. Sure. Opening themselves up. Of course, it just flows right.
- [39:25]
Alex Ferrari
That makes sense. Yeah. Because you now you're taking off the, the ego, the mind, it's all starting to kind of weigh down. So now you're open.
- [39:31]
James Van Praagh
Much more, much more open.
- [39:34]
Alex Ferrari
Dangerous way of doing the business.
- [39:35]
James Van Praagh
Dangerous way in many respects because also, you know, you're just open. You're also when you drink, it slows you down. So you're lowering that vibration and you're lowering it down. And that's why I always say in my books that one should never be Aware when you go into bars, clubs, things that you've really got to protect yourself, your energetic field, because you're going to a vibration which really slow and down and listen. I think there are those beings, spirit beings, if you will, who have passed over, who still are at a lower level. And that they miss the drink, that they miss those places. And they do haunt them. I do believe that. And they will haunt those places, those old hangouts. And they want to have that last bit of the drink. And spirits can actually, if we have a drink, they can get the essence of that drink, plus they have the memory of it. So they get the memory and the essence. They won't get drunk because they're not physical, but they get the essence. So they might. You've heard of hangers on. So they could be hangers on. And I do believe that I don't know anything till I pass over. But I do believe that they can influence those of a weaker nature. If, let's say, they're very mediumistic. That's why a lot of mediums also by the different mediums and so forth, would be alcoholic many times because it couldn't deal with that higher vibration and slow it down. That's very dangerous because I call them Bill, hanging on, hangers on. And not that it happens all the time, but you got to be mindful of your space that you go in. And I mean, I can go into bars and clubs, but I would definitely prepare myself, surround myself with an energy or meditate beforehand, close, seal off my field. I do it every day before I go to the human world. I'll do a shower and I cleanse the physical body. Then I cleanse my mental body. And I will imagine beautiful, golden, loving light coming in and around me. And before I got the shower and I say, and it's very interesting when I do that and bring in that loving light. And then I close my eyes and I imagine out of my fingertips and on my toes like a Hershey's syrup, like a heavy energy that's negative energy or someone else's energy in my space. Because every day we meet people, their energy, particles of their energy stay in our space. So I want to clear that away. And same. And every night before I go to sleep, I go through my whole day and I see where I left my. My voice, my connection. And I bring back my energy and I also send the other person's energy back to them. So before. But before I go my day, I program it. And they say, after my energetic cleanse, the shower Then before I get out of that shower, I'll say, may God go before me and show me the way. So I set that vibrational tone surrounding me and it really works. So like attracts, like in that magnetic sense you're attracting on that highest frequency. I used to do it all the time. Would you hear this one before? I'd go on the Universal lot. It's on the side of the 101 free world.
- [42:25]
Alex Ferrari
I've been there many times.
- [42:27]
James Van Praagh
Yeah. So before I go any lot, I'd always sit and really surround myself and protect myself.
- [42:32]
Alex Ferrari
You definitely have to do that when you walk on any Hollywood.
- [42:36]
James Van Praagh
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
- [42:37]
Alex Ferrari
Can you imagine? I gotta imagine that when you were on like the Universal backlot or Warner Brothers or Disney. I mean, they're ghosts. I mean, literally, like I'm old actors, maybe.
- [42:48]
James Van Praagh
Who have you seen?
- [42:49]
Alex Ferrari
Like, what did you ever see?
- [42:50]
James Van Praagh
Well, I didn't want to open up complete. I didn't at all. Because I was in the middle of the studio and I work with producers who are just horrible and cutthroat and shocking. Well, I hired them in the season. The show became really, really popular. And then they went, they tried firing me. And I said, wait a minute, I'm your boss. So what it was. So it was all like that. It was like, think about. You have desperate actors, actresses trying to get a job. There's all producers about money and trying to get the money. There's. There's so many dynamics going on. Politics, politics. Even on a set. Oh, my gosh, it's crazy.
- [43:25]
Alex Ferrari
If you're on a set and the director even shows a slight, slight weakness, it's like blood in the water. The crew will turn on him, the actors could turn on him, producer could turn on them.
- [43:37]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [43:37]
Alex Ferrari
It's fascinating to see. Like, I've been challenged so many times on set.
- [43:42]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [43:42]
Alex Ferrari
As I came up from first ads.
- [43:44]
James Van Praagh
Sure.
- [43:45]
Alex Ferrari
I'm paying you.
- [43:46]
James Van Praagh
Exactly.
- [43:47]
Alex Ferrari
And you're giving me crap.
- [43:48]
James Van Praagh
That's right.
- [43:48]
Alex Ferrari
It's fascinating.
- [43:49]
James Van Praagh
We had before the show Ghost Whisperer. It was very interesting because so many interesting dynamics there. But I. I predicted the show was going to do this and it happened. And I said, if we can get these Disney and Z in a room together and I'll do readings, we'll sell the show. And to get them together was like, oh, my goodness. What it.
- [44:08]
Alex Ferrari
Oh, no, no, no. Forget it.
- [44:10]
James Van Praagh
Crazy. And it was development season. So literally some guy comes in from Disney at some person's house. How long is it going to take? I got to read some scripts. And I said, well, just see. We'll see what happens. And it changed his life. Something came through, but really, it was wild because it was really, really interesting. We had a lady by the name Marianne Winkowski, and she's a earthbound ghost buster, I guess. So in her experience, she would tune into those spirits that would not go over that they were earthbound. And I deal with them once they're over there. But she was very interesting because she said, well, there are many souls that will not go into that light for whatever reason. She goes, there are many who love their work here, and they'll stay here. We were once having. We once went through the Universal lot and we did a tour. And she would tell us who was there and who was there. And there were these old stagehands over there. There were actors and actresses, some well known ones.
- [45:03]
Alex Ferrari
Stuntmen.
- [45:04]
James Van Praagh
Stuntmen. And she would mention it. And we looked it all up and sure enough, it all made sense. And I remember another time we were at a restaurant in West Hollywood, and we're sitting there and she goes, I said, so just like you're asking me, are they always there? She goes, well, I. I'm aware of them. Many, but not all. They're not all over the place. Certain places they are. A lot of them. And I said, well, a couple of great stories. I might have told you one of these, but I have to go ahead. So she said, they see that man sitting. She goes, there's a man sitting on the steps. I said, there's a man. She goes, he's about 30 years old. I said, and he's going, he's gay. I said, okay. And she said, he doesn't want to go to the other side, so he knows I can see him. I said, okay. She goes, he doesn't want to go over to the other side because he was raised religiously and his mother relayed to him that he's, you know, if he goes, if he's gay, he's going to hell. He's going right to hell, of course. So he was afraid to go into the light because he said, go right to hell. So I'd rather stay behind on Earth. I thought that was fascinating.
- [45:57]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah, because the programming was so. So heavy here that it literally transfers over and to my understanding, James, when. When someone's transferring over or transitioning over to the other side, there is a transition period where they're kind of like decompressing from this experience. And many of them can do it very quickly. Many of them go into the Life review and It's. And they have help. But others are. I've had some near death experiencers who were so like, they were told like hell and all that stuff. They believed they needed to go to hell. So when they went to the other side, they actually had a hellish near death experience until they go, I'm done. I need help. And then Jesus or an angel or someone shows up, a light shows up and all the negative goes away and they're able to ascend. But a lot of times that programming is so hard that they can't leave.
- [46:48]
James Van Praagh
Exactly right. Exactly what it is, it's in their mindset. And that's why it's really important for people to have an awareness of life after death, of what happens after death. That what you carry in your mind will bring you to the other side. The love that you make here, you meet when you pass over. And it really helps to realize that it's a natural occurrence. I'm doing a podcast tonight on my podcast about a man, a friend of mine, who's getting ready to pass. And it's a show about living to dying and how to prepare for death. And we every day can prepare death by doing the right thing. But really there's much, much more than just this physical body. I have one more story I got to tell you about that earthbound thing. So I talked with Marianne Cavsky for our show. She said. Which is really interesting. She goes, well, people got it all wrong. Cemeteries aren't haunted. There's no energy. They can't draw from any energy. No earthbound spirit can draw from any energy. So that makes interesting. So where would they be would be most haunted places? Dentist offices and airports. Huh. And doctors. But mostly it's just the dentist and airports.
- [47:48]
Alex Ferrari
Why dentists?
- [47:49]
James Van Praagh
People are afraid. So it's the fear energy that they hold onto that fear energy to hold them kind of down here to gravitation. It's the fear energy. That's what they hold on to.
- [48:00]
Alex Ferrari
So they're. They're also probably on war zones and things like that as well.
- [48:03]
James Van Praagh
Yes. But it really well established doctors as well. Doctors, hospitals, hospital hospitals for sure. So this is an interesting story. So I remembered that and I was once in Nashville and I think it was the only time in Nashville. And I'm taking a plane back and an hour wait in the airport and I'm walking around and I notice there's this man going back and forth and he's a ghost, he's a spirit. Like huh. Now I'm not really tuned in because I don't want to be. But for some reason, this impression, he's making an impression on in my mind. And he's walking back and forth, his big, thick glasses, he's walking back and forth, back and forth. Like, okay, I see the dude. I'm not going to let him know that I see. I'm not going to put my mind to him. I'm aware of my personal vision of him. And it's not that he's coming over to me, but he's. I see more around me, peripherally. I see him around.
- [48:53]
Alex Ferrari
We'll be right back after a word from our sponsor.
- [48:56]
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- [49:49]
Ryan Seacrest
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- [50:22]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan.
- [50:25]
James Van Praagh
Hey.
- [50:25]
Dan Morgan
How's it going today?
- [50:26]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do.
- [50:29]
Dan Morgan
I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan and Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
- [50:35]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said 20 billion won. 20 billion is an insane number.
- [50:44]
Dan Morgan
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23. After this year and each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
- [50:56]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan and Morgan, what would I do if I got into an accident?
- [51:02]
Dan Morgan
Probably the easiest way is dialing pound law. That's £529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24 7. 365.
- [51:11]
James Van Praagh
Wow.
- [51:12]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
Dan Morgan from Morgan and Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
- [51:16]
Dan Morgan
Thanks for having me. Visit forthepeople.com for an office near you.
- [51:23]
Alex Ferrari
And now back to the show.
- [51:27]
James Van Praagh
So eventually I got on the plane and I'm sitting there in the first class and this beautiful blonde lady's next to me. And all of a sudden I see the ghost, the guy coming to the plane. I'm like, oh, my gosh. The guy with the dark hair and the glass. I'm like, oh, he's on the plane. Oh, geez, what's going to happen now? So as I'm talking, the plane takes off. I don't know where he went, but the plane takes off. And then I'm aware at one point that he's kind of behind me, like, okay, this guy is trying to get to me. What the heck? And as I'm talking, I'm talking to the lady next to me, this lovely lady, we're talking about different things. She's in la and she goes, you know, my husband was in music. I said, oh, was he? She goes, yeah, he was Roy Orbison. And I said, oh, that's who it is. Roy Orbison is a man with the glasses. And book her.
- [52:13]
Alex Ferrari
That's for people. He. He wrote Pretty Woman.
- [52:16]
James Van Praagh
He wrote Pretty Woman.
- [52:17]
Alex Ferrari
Not the movie.
- [52:18]
James Van Praagh
Yeah, the song. I mean, he was incredible, man. But I, you know, then was it up for me to say, guess what? He's right here. I couldn't do it. I couldn't do that. No, no. Yeah.
- [52:27]
Alex Ferrari
And also, you're trapped up in the air. So if anything goes wrong and she starts freaking out or something, you can't go anywhere.
- [52:32]
James Van Praagh
It wouldn't be appropriate. It wouldn't be appropriate.
- [52:34]
Alex Ferrari
And there is something to be said about that. Where mediums, I mean, mediums have a.
- [52:39]
James Van Praagh
Responsibility, a big response.
- [52:41]
Alex Ferrari
Big, big responsibility. Not to just walk up to somebody and go, listen, Grandma just here and she wants to talk to you. Like, if you don't solicit it, it's.
- [52:51]
James Van Praagh
More like the ego is speaking instead of you know, they do it from an ego point of view. Yeah, I think.
- [52:55]
Alex Ferrari
Or.
- [52:56]
James Van Praagh
Or an ignorance. They don't.
- [52:57]
Alex Ferrari
I had. I had. At the conference yesterday, I had a psychic show up. Like, she's one of the. You know, one of the participant participants of the conference. And she walks up to me. She's like, alex, I don't normally do this, but I have a really strong message.
- [53:10]
James Van Praagh
Message for you.
- [53:11]
Alex Ferrari
And I'm like, I'm cool. Like, if there's anyone you could.
- [53:14]
James Van Praagh
I'll. Fine.
- [53:14]
Alex Ferrari
I. I'm down.
- [53:16]
James Van Praagh
You're very open.
- [53:17]
Alex Ferrari
I'm very open. It's solid. I'm not promised. She gave me this message. I was like, I know. Thank you so much. I already knew what she was saying. It was a kind of a message to kind of reiterate the urgency of what I need to do. So I was like, I appreciate that. It's just kind of like a little push. And I was like, okay, so that happens.
- [53:38]
James Van Praagh
She came from a good place. What's the intention behind.
- [53:41]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah, she was very beautiful. She was just trying to help.
- [53:44]
James Van Praagh
Right.
- [53:44]
Alex Ferrari
It wasn't anything crazy. It was just a one message. Very simple, very point, very straight and to the point. And of course, when gentlemen like yourself come on the show, you know, Alex, I have something to tell you.
- [53:59]
James Van Praagh
Like, you know, I wouldn't tell you in public. I would tell you privately.
- [54:03]
Alex Ferrari
Correct? Exactly.
- [54:04]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [54:04]
Alex Ferrari
On public. Yeah. Unless we ask, Hey, I need a reading. James. Can you give me one now?
- [54:07]
James Van Praagh
Really?
- [54:07]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah. Like that. It's different, but, you know, off. Off air, I just get so. I'm used to channels do it to me all the time. So I'm kind of used to that stuff, but I get it. For someone who's uninitiated or has. Is not open to that, it could. It could. It could really destroy their life.
- [54:22]
James Van Praagh
Could hurt them.
- [54:23]
Alex Ferrari
It could hurt them very badly because it just could rock their foundation. It could open up. It's very.
- [54:29]
James Van Praagh
And it's more important for that medium or that psychic than it is for the recipient thing. That's not right. I always think you need permission. I mean, I teach this in my classes about integrity and responsibility. And you really need to be. Remember, you're holding someone's life, a thin piece of glass, and your job is not to destroy them, but to build them up. That's really, really important. But a lot of people don't get that. And that's really important part of the work, you know? And I don't know, Alex, if that's starting to fade away from People, as.
- [55:00]
Alex Ferrari
Far as the responsibility.
- [55:01]
James Van Praagh
Yeah. I don't know. Well, I think only because we see TV shows where they say, oh, I'm coming up to you.
- [55:07]
Alex Ferrari
It's, it's. I think that that this awakening that we're all going through right now and humanity is going through right now is opening up a lot of things.
- [55:15]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [55:16]
Alex Ferrari
And certainly. And just like perfect example, when I was editing back in the days, you'll, you'll understand this.
- [55:23]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [55:24]
Alex Ferrari
I was an avid editor for a long time.
- [55:26]
James Van Praagh
Sure.
- [55:27]
Alex Ferrari
And as an avid editor, and bear with me, everyone, this, there's a point to this story. As an avid editor, it was a half a million dollar editing system. So that alone let only a handful of people do the job. Then the technology got really inexpensive where Final Cut showed up, and when Final Cut Pro showed up, then for a couple thousand dollars, you can have an editing system. Then the technology kept going and going, going to the point where now anyone can edit on their iPhone, on an unprofessional way, or now, or on a laptop, you can do a full movie, all that kind of stuff. And when you open the door, the beautiful thing is now people who didn't have access to it before have access to it now. The problem is people who have. Didn't have access to have access to it.
- [56:13]
James Van Praagh
Right.
- [56:14]
Alex Ferrari
So they muddy the waters. People that shouldn't have access to that kind of information or that kind of power gets it now and it's, you know, does it for the wrong reasons. So I believe that that's happening in channeling, that's happening in secondary, that's happening in the spiritual space now. So many people are channels, so many people are trying to be psychic mediums. And that's awesome. It really is. But there's.
- [56:36]
James Van Praagh
You guys got to come from the right place.
- [56:38]
Alex Ferrari
You got to take the good with the bad. When you open up, the things like when you were coming out, you know, early 40 years ago, there was a. You could count probably in one or two hands how many people were doing it.
- [56:46]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [56:46]
Alex Ferrari
On a public standpoint at least.
- [56:47]
James Van Praagh
Oh, yeah. Yeah. It was George Anderson, myself. And then after me was John Edward and Sylvia Brown. And that was really it for a while.
- [56:55]
Alex Ferrari
For a while, yeah, for a long while. That was, that was it.
- [56:58]
James Van Praagh
I mean, God bless John Edward. He's still out there doing it with his demonstrations and he doesn't slow down. I said, John, really? I said, no, I love it and good for him. And yeah. So it's really interesting. But that's changed over the years. The mediumship has changed because as see now, Tyler Henry, and, you know, that's fine. And Teresa, but more shows I'm with mediums that, I don't know. I just. I'm such a. I'm just really critical in that I hold mediumship to a high standard because we are the ambassadors of the higher form of, you know, to me, it's all about love. And you have to be show that, demonstrate that love. And it's not a sideshow, not a circus act. And it should be treated with respect and. And integrity and responsibility. And when I see that it isn't, it's just like, this is not.
- [57:45]
Alex Ferrari
You're a medium's statesman, if you will. Yeah, you are a statesman.
- [57:51]
James Van Praagh
Well, otherwise, don't do the work. If you're not willing to be responsible for what you put out to the. And build people up and do the work the right way. Don't just throw it out there like you're in a circus, like, oh, I can do this. Be many of my students when I do it, when I talk to my students first, I. What is the reason behind your mediumship? What is the reason why you want to get involved? Well, I want to help people. I want to serve people. And I say there are many ways to help people. You could go into medical work, you go into baking. You can go into accounting. There are many different services. What is the real reason behind it? So they really got to know themselves. And, you know, mediumship takes on many different ways of mediumship. You know, it's all just an energy that we all channel, right? That creative force, if you will. But there are many ways you can do it. Even therapists can be, you know, our media, wherever it's a medium in their own, you know, in their own way, in their own. For their own work. You're a medium. We're all mediums in our own way. But when you do the work, the spirit communication, to me, it's, It's. It's a whole different, you know, game because you're. You're dealing with a higher vibration in that the highest vibration there is is love. And you have to bring that element of love if you're going to work as a medium, especially before people and in the public eye, on television, there's got to be that sense of. At least for me, again, I can't say it for everybody, but I'm a teacher in that I have to demonstrate and teach love. And perhaps it might be had the father never was able to say I love you to his daughter and that's why he couldn't say I love you. But there's got to be, you know, I'm going to say it this way. There are a lot of great technicians out there. You know, as far as many mediums. Not just because someone's a medium doesn't mean they're spiritual. They'd be great technicians, but doesn't mean they're spiritual or that they're good people. They're good people.
- [59:40]
Alex Ferrari
There's a lot of people who have the gift who are not like evolved and have ascended.
- [59:44]
James Van Praagh
Bingo.
- [59:45]
Alex Ferrari
I mean, that's the thing. And that's another thing I love to talk about on the show because people automatically think like, well, God gave you this gift, so you must be doing everything for the right reasons. You're not doing it out of ego. You're not. No. It happens. Even with spiritual masters who are. They might have mastered a certain level of awakening.
- [60:04]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [60:04]
Alex Ferrari
But they didn't master the three dimensional world. And they, they sleep with their students or they are caught up in the fame of it and all that stuff, even though they've reached a certain level, not the highest, but a certain level.
- [60:17]
James Van Praagh
You'd be very shocked. And I'm not going to tell you.
- [60:19]
Alex Ferrari
But who it is off air, maybe.
- [60:21]
James Van Praagh
A lot of them. But yeah, you'll be shocked. I mean, people would be just shocked at what I had. And I was. This is one of the things in my career that shocked me. It's like, huh, that person likes that one. Then on what? And it was really shocking. That was one of the things that in my career really set me back because I was like, wow, how can this person be this way in front of people and then behave a whole different way? And it makes me just lose so much respect because for me, life is a medium. You have to live that. It's a life of service. And it's almost like you can't just put the, you know, put it on when in front of people and close off. I mean, to me, you have to. For me, I gotta live my life as a medium. I had to live my life as a spiritual ambassador in that and all the way I live my principles, I gotta live my principles out. I've gotta bring love to everywhere I can, any way I can do it. And I gotta be nonjudgmental. Not easy. I've had to learn that one. But I had to. Who am I to teach something if I don't do it myself? Right, Right. So it's interesting. But there are people just get caught up in the phenomena of that of psychic or channeling or immediate people phenomena.
- [61:28]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah, they get caught up with the sideshow of it all.
- [61:29]
James Van Praagh
Yeah, they want to be well known. When I say to this, oh, I want to be well known. I want a TV show. No, that's not the right reason behind it. There are hundreds of thousands of mediums out there who no one knows about, but the most, most talented ones around that you don't hear about.
- [61:45]
Alex Ferrari
We'll be right back after a word from our sponsor.
- [61:47]
State Farm Spokesperson
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- [62:40]
Ryan Seacrest
Hey, it's Ryan Seacrest for Albertsons and Safeway. It is hot out there this summer, right? But don't sweat it. We got tons of ways to save on your family's favorite personal care items to keep yourself feeling cool and smelling good. Now through September 9th, earn four times points when you shop for items from your favorite brands like Right Guard, Raw Sugar, Dove Soft Soap, and Olay. Then use your points for discounts on groceries or gas on future purchases. Offer end September 9th. Restrictions apply. Offers may vary. Visit albertsons or safeway.com for more details.
- [63:13]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan.
- [63:16]
James Van Praagh
Hey.
- [63:16]
Dan Morgan
How's it going today?
- [63:17]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do.
- [63:20]
Dan Morgan
I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan and Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
- [63:26]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said 20 billion. 120 million is an insane number.
- [63:35]
Dan Morgan
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting Bigger and bigger as time goes on.
- [63:47]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan and Morgan, what would I do if I got into an accident?
- [63:53]
Dan Morgan
Probably the easiest way is dialing pound law. That's £529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24 7, 365.
- [64:03]
James Van Praagh
Wow.
- [64:03]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
Dan Morgan from Morgan and Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
- [64:07]
Dan Morgan
Thanks for having me. Visit forthepeople.com for an office near you.
- [64:14]
Alex Ferrari
And now back to the show. It's kind of like filmmakers and, and actors and those kind of like, I need to be famous. That's not the way. That's not.
- [64:23]
James Van Praagh
No.
- [64:24]
Alex Ferrari
You can't make a movie for that.
- [64:25]
James Van Praagh
That's right.
- [64:26]
Alex Ferrari
If you walk into the movie going, this is Oscar bound. You're done. You're done.
- [64:30]
James Van Praagh
That's right.
- [64:31]
Alex Ferrari
That's right, you're done. There's no question. With all that said, I see a woman behind you. She's Victorian garb. She's staring at me and she wants.
- [64:40]
James Van Praagh
What does she want to say?
- [64:41]
Alex Ferrari
She has a message.
- [64:44]
James Van Praagh
I don't want to hear from her. Okay. I've had, it's funny, I've had people come up to me and say things like that. Like I said to you.
- [64:50]
Alex Ferrari
Oh, to you.
- [64:51]
James Van Praagh
Oh, sure. Oh, yeah.
- [64:52]
Alex Ferrari
Oh, yeah, I have a message for you.
- [64:54]
James Van Praagh
Oh, gosh. Yeah. You must listen to this message. It's very important that you hear this. Like, huh? Oh, yo, you got to hear it. I said, I don't want to. You have to. I said, no, no, no.
- [65:04]
Alex Ferrari
That happened.
- [65:04]
James Van Praagh
Or I get, you know, books sent to me every week. Say, oh, yeah, it's your karma to get this book published. Oh, wow. I've had a lot of those.
- [65:12]
Alex Ferrari
I get. Oh, yeah, I get those.
- [65:13]
James Van Praagh
You get all this sort of.
- [65:14]
Alex Ferrari
Oh, God, yeah. Spirit. My spirit guides told me to reach out to you. To be on your show, I have to be on your show.
- [65:21]
James Van Praagh
That's right.
- [65:21]
Alex Ferrari
My favorites, My favorites are always the. I have a message only for you. I need five minutes, guys. I appreciate it. I really do. But if I, if I took five minutes for every five minute email, it would just. We wouldn't be able to do a show.
- [65:37]
James Van Praagh
So I'd say, write it down and mail it to me.
- [65:39]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah, yeah, but you want me to what? Mail?
- [65:43]
James Van Praagh
What's that? I don't know where I put the stamp on the envelope. Oh, there's an envelope you need. What's the stamp?
- [65:47]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah, what's an envelope now of a. A friend of ours. His name is Bruce Joel Rubin. I loved Bruce.
- [65:58]
James Van Praagh
Okay, so Bruce Joel Rubin wrote Ghost.
- [66:00]
Alex Ferrari
He wrote Ghost. He wrote Jacob's Ladder. He directed this Is Life Last Mimsy, the Ghost. Well, Ghost is. He won the Oscar for Ghost.
- [66:09]
James Van Praagh
Right. So what I did with Ghost. So just.
- [66:11]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah. Because I was gonna go. There's a scene in there I wanted to talk to you about.
- [66:13]
James Van Praagh
Yes. But my. I've never met the man. I've tried meeting him after Ghost, but I couldn't get to him. I was working at Paramount Studios at the time when they showed Ghost, and they had it in this on the studio. We had a screening, and everyone said. And I was just starting my mediumship or studying it, and I knew the techniques, I knew the ways of doing things, and I. That when the movie ended, I was the only one in the room that stood up. Standing ovation. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Because he got it all right. And to get this out there and to demonstrate. Fantastic.
- [66:46]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah, it was. It was one of the first real. Real kind of expressions of what mediumship is.
- [66:54]
James Van Praagh
Yes.
- [66:55]
Alex Ferrari
And obviously a Hollywood rapper. But he snuck in a lot. But for. He snuck in a lot that they let in.
- [67:02]
James Van Praagh
And he studied the. He studied mediumship before for this movie. He really prepared and learned and read books and you know his story.
- [67:10]
Alex Ferrari
Right. You know how he.
- [67:11]
James Van Praagh
He.
- [67:11]
Alex Ferrari
He became like kind of, you know, he's like a Tibetan.
- [67:14]
James Van Praagh
I know. I do not.
- [67:15]
Alex Ferrari
So right now he. He teaches meditation. He's more in the Tibetan side of.
- [67:20]
James Van Praagh
Didn't know that.
- [67:21]
Alex Ferrari
Oh, yeah. He's. He's gone full. Full like that in his. In his years and in his retirement years. And he's a wonderful, wonderful soul. I had him on the show years ago, and we had this conversation. And I'll tell this story because it's just brilliant. He's in Berkeley in the 1960s, and his friend goes, hey, Tim. Tim has a big vial of LSD that just came in from Sweden or Switzerland, and he wants, can we keep it? He's not. He can't receive it. We'll keep it in the. Can we keep in the refrigerator overnight and pick it up in the morning. Tim was Timothy Leary, so. And he had never tried any drugs before Bruce. So his friend's like, hey, I mean, if we're gonna try some lsd, Wow. I mean, having Tim Leary's uncut LSD from Switzerland, you know, from Switzerland is the way to go.
- [68:14]
James Van Praagh
Wow.
- [68:15]
Alex Ferrari
And he's like, you know what? Let's do it. It's the 60s.
- [68:17]
James Van Praagh
We're in Berkeley.
- [68:17]
Alex Ferrari
What the hell? So they take a dropper. There's like, you know, a gallon of it.
- [68:21]
James Van Praagh
Like, they could drop a liquid.
- [68:23]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah, it's all liquid for me. It's just not anything else. It hasn't gotten into the tabs yet.
- [68:26]
James Van Praagh
Oh, okay.
- [68:26]
Alex Ferrari
So he takes it.
- [68:27]
James Van Praagh
Wow.
- [68:27]
Alex Ferrari
A dropper. So it's raw.
- [68:28]
James Van Praagh
Wow.
- [68:29]
Alex Ferrari
And he takes one drop, and he sits there for like an hour. He's like, man, I don't feel anything. He goes, we should probably take a couple more.
- [68:36]
James Van Praagh
Oh, geez.
- [68:38]
Alex Ferrari
His friend takes the. Takes a dropper. Oh, no. You want to hear whoopsie? The whole dropper. No, 80 doses. Oh, @ once. Which you cannot undo. You cannot pump a stomach. You're done. It's. You're going on a ride.
- [68:54]
James Van Praagh
Both to it. He.
- [68:55]
Alex Ferrari
Well, he got the 80. The other one. I got, like, one or two, so.
- [69:00]
James Van Praagh
Oh, wow.
- [69:00]
Alex Ferrari
He goes, sit down and get ready for a ride. And when he. It finally hit, and it hit hard. His entire body was deconstructed, ripped apart. Like he was in space. Ripped apart. His essence was left. He flew to the center of the universe.
- [69:15]
James Van Praagh
Wow.
- [69:16]
Alex Ferrari
Spoke to God.
- [69:17]
James Van Praagh
Wow.
- [69:18]
Alex Ferrari
And then I. You have to watch the episode. There's a lot more details I'm letting out. And then he came back, flew back in. His body reassembled, and he came out of it.
- [69:27]
James Van Praagh
Wow.
- [69:27]
Alex Ferrari
And that, of course, changed his life.
- [69:29]
James Van Praagh
Of course, I would think.
- [69:30]
Alex Ferrari
And now when you watch Jacob's Ladder, you understand, he goes, that's the closest we ever got to my psychedelic experience.
- [69:38]
James Van Praagh
Well, I gotta watch it over again.
- [69:40]
Alex Ferrari
Now, because Jacob's Ladder, you. When I watched it, I was like, gee, man, what the hell is this guy on? Like, it was the weirdest movies of the time. Adrian Lynn, great director, directed it.
- [69:50]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [69:51]
Alex Ferrari
And. And Bruce was telling me, it's like, no, we. We fought to get that in. And that was the script that got his career started. It was one of Those, like, top 10 best scripts in Hollywood.
- [69:59]
James Van Praagh
That was before Ghost or.
- [70:00]
Alex Ferrari
Oh, yeah, that was before. It was before Ghost. Then after he won the Oscar for Ghost, then he did this Is My Life with Michael Keaton and last Mimsy. And he did. He did a ton of. He did a ton of. Ton of different projects over the years, but that was just so funny. Now, there is a scene, though, in Ghost that you said, bruce, listen. And it's okay. Bruce is. Bruce would be the first to say it's cool.
- [70:22]
James Van Praagh
Okay.
- [70:23]
Alex Ferrari
That he. They got a lot, right? And I used them.
- [70:26]
James Van Praagh
They got A lot. Right.
- [70:27]
Alex Ferrari
They.
- [70:27]
James Van Praagh
The 96.
- [70:29]
Alex Ferrari
96 was. Right. And, like, I use Whoopi as an example all the time with, like, people coming into her and the ghost in the room.
- [70:37]
James Van Praagh
And the funny thing aside is that she's really into this.
- [70:41]
Alex Ferrari
Oh, yeah, of course.
- [70:41]
James Van Praagh
Yeah. She's Scorpio. She loves it.
- [70:42]
Alex Ferrari
And. And, you know, Sam kicking the can and all that, like, the moving of things.
- [70:48]
James Van Praagh
That happens, Right?
- [70:49]
Alex Ferrari
Exactly. Yeah. We all see that happens.
- [70:51]
James Van Praagh
And.
- [70:51]
Alex Ferrari
But now, like, putting, like. You have to think everything. And that whole thing, the. The shadow monsters. That.
- [70:58]
James Van Praagh
That was interesting.
- [70:59]
Alex Ferrari
So the shadow. So the shadows.
- [71:01]
James Van Praagh
Think about that.
- [71:02]
Alex Ferrari
Personally, I think it was. Well, it's a concept of going to hell, to a hellish experience.
- [71:06]
James Van Praagh
Right.
- [71:07]
Alex Ferrari
I can trip the night fandango and kind of explain it away, if you like. But I think it was part of what we needed in that movie because people needed something to grab. You needed it. You needed a Darth Vader. You needed a Hannibal Lecter. You needed a consequence. It can't be all love in a movie, because in a movie, you need all of those contrasts to make it work. If not, if you don't have a bad guy, you have no conflict.
- [71:32]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [71:32]
Alex Ferrari
You don't have a movie.
- [71:33]
James Van Praagh
I thought he did really an exceptional job with that because. Well, how can you have those. This soul is beautiful. That's Dark Souls.
- [71:39]
Alex Ferrari
It was Dark Souls kind of pulling them down. And you could explain it. That that's him. And that he's gonna have to deal with that. And it's his point of view because of what he's done, the bad guy's done. And.
- [71:48]
James Van Praagh
Right. Oh, I thought it was great, actually, how he handled that. The other thing was really great was earthbound spirit. The guy stuck on the subway, I loved it. Right.
- [71:57]
Alex Ferrari
He was stuck in the subway. He just. All he would do is ride around and he got angry.
- [72:00]
James Van Praagh
My train. And then.
- [72:03]
Alex Ferrari
And he kicked off Patrick Swayze out of the train, all that stuff. But there's this scene, a very famous scene where Whoopi allows Demi Moore.
- [72:13]
James Van Praagh
Yes.
- [72:13]
Alex Ferrari
To come in and connect with. Allows Sam to come in. Or Patrick Swayze to come in through her so he could touch.
- [72:25]
James Van Praagh
Yes.
- [72:26]
Alex Ferrari
Demi. And they had this beautiful scene together.
- [72:29]
James Van Praagh
Yes.
- [72:30]
Alex Ferrari
That was the one part you're like, well, tell me, how would that. Tell me. Tell me how that scene. Does that even exist? Or if it did, how could.
- [72:38]
James Van Praagh
I? Might be wrong.
- [72:39]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah.
- [72:40]
James Van Praagh
And. But I'm a purist when it comes to medium. We've noticed that about purists, and that's physical mediumship. So in physical mediumship, and I've been with many physical mediums, it's a rarity. Physical mediumship, I have been with Leslie Finn, most famous of the 20th century, where the voice box would appear in the air and spirit come through and it sound just like the spirit my mother came through. One of my guides came through that way. And I know in physical mediumship, even in trance mediumship, that you go down to such a level of consciousness that you're slipping down. You're always aware of what's going on, but as you're slipping down, you're going down to a lower, lower, lower, lower consciousness conscious state. And that you're allowing that soul to come in to you through you, which is fine, happens, you're aware of it and they can speak through you. And there are many times there are spirits can walk and they can stand up and walk around the room.
- [73:30]
Alex Ferrari
We'll be right back after a word from our sponsor.
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- [74:58]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan.
- [75:01]
Dan Morgan
Hey, how's it going today?
- [75:03]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do.
- [75:06]
Dan Morgan
I'm Dan Morgan. I'M an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan and Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
- [75:12]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said 20 billion one. 20 billion is an insane number.
- [75:21]
Dan Morgan
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
- [75:33]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan and Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
- [75:38]
Dan Morgan
Probably the easiest way is dialing pound law. That's £529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24. 7, 360.
- [75:48]
James Van Praagh
Wow.
- [75:49]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
Dan Morgan from Morgan and Morgan, America's large injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
- [75:53]
Dan Morgan
Thanks for having me. Visit forthepeople.com for an office near you.
- [76:00]
Alex Ferrari
And now back to the show.
- [76:03]
James Van Praagh
Now, I have been taught I might be wrong, but I don't think it is, that when someone is entranced, which in this case, Whoopi was supposedly entranced, that they wouldn't be able to hold a physical person, he goes, and what? It would hurt. The vibration of the. The soul. It would cause internal bleeding. They. I've heard. And.
- [76:24]
Alex Ferrari
And, yeah, I can't imagine physical tolls.
- [76:26]
James Van Praagh
It's a hard one. So that to me was.
- [76:29]
Alex Ferrari
It works for the movie. And of course, you have.
- [76:31]
James Van Praagh
It works for the movie. But I was like, oh, he got everything.
- [76:33]
Alex Ferrari
Creative license.
- [76:34]
James Van Praagh
Yeah. Well, yeah. But overall, again, that's teaching the public. Not the right way.
- [76:40]
Alex Ferrari
James.
- [76:40]
James Van Praagh
James. I know, but I'm in it, so I can't help it.
- [76:43]
Alex Ferrari
I get it. But overall, the. The. I think the positive aspect of this, of the film and the story overweighs the one scene, in my opinion. But you're right. But also, you have to have some creative license. You have to have, like, that. And that mov. That scene was so beautiful, you know, on a creative standpoint, on a story standpoint, it worked beautifully.
- [77:00]
James Van Praagh
I thought it was kind of creepy.
- [77:03]
Alex Ferrari
It was beautiful. Until you realize. Until you realize that it's Whoopi Goldberg. Well, it's kind of like when you watch Back to the Future and you're.
- [77:13]
James Van Praagh
Like, which I've never seen.
- [77:16]
Alex Ferrari
James.
- [77:17]
James Van Praagh
Sorry, James. When you get home this weekend, I've never seen it.
- [77:21]
Alex Ferrari
James, you have to watch Back to the Future. Well, in that movie, his mother falls in love with him.
- [77:27]
James Van Praagh
I've heard that, yeah.
- [77:28]
Alex Ferrari
So there's like that whole creepy. I'm like, right, is this incest? Like what is happening? You know, so when you real. But, but in the story, it makes perfect sense. Now you were mentioning to me yesterday actually at the conference, you mentioned this, that April of this year.
- [77:47]
James Van Praagh
Oh, something. A little coffee.
- [77:49]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah. Drink a little coffee. A little Bailey's with you. That April of this year.
- [77:55]
James Van Praagh
It's a rough time.
- [77:56]
Alex Ferrari
It's a rough time.
- [77:57]
James Van Praagh
Like, apparently, I don't know when this.
- [77:58]
Alex Ferrari
Is going to be. This will probably be aired probably within the month of April.
- [78:02]
James Van Praagh
Okay.
- [78:02]
Alex Ferrari
Okay. So I'm going to try.
- [78:03]
James Van Praagh
So it hasn't happened yet.
- [78:04]
Alex Ferrari
It hasn't happened yet, but I'm going to try to get it out before the month is over. So the, the March, to my understanding, was the end of an era of some sort. Like in the cycle, there was a cycle that ended astrologically, the Yugas.
- [78:18]
James Van Praagh
A lot of things.
- [78:19]
Alex Ferrari
All the things like kind of combined.
- [78:21]
James Van Praagh
I've had seven planets in Pisces.
- [78:22]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah. Like, I had Chinese astrologers, I had Vedic astrologers, I had Western. They all said the same thing about the Yugas and about the cycle. So March ended that. So April is kind of the first, the first month of the new. That's right, cycle. So can you explain what is happening now?
- [78:39]
James Van Praagh
And I'm limited with my astrology, so forgive me for that, but what I've heard and what it feels like to me is there definitely is an end of a cycle and beginning of a new one. And it's going to be a cycle that people have to go within themselves. And so there might be a lot of chaos going on around us in the outside world, which politically is already happening.
- [78:54]
Alex Ferrari
Okay.
- [78:55]
James Van Praagh
In the United States. So it's like, wow, around the world. Around the world. Yeah. I just came from Europe and yes, people looking like you crazy Americans. You know, it's just, it's going to be some conflicts going on and there's going to be some severe stuff happening, not only weather wise, which actually I predicted these weather changes about a year ago and my podcast. And, and there's. April is a month of assassinations. Now when I say that, what I mean by that is. And my good friend Kelly White, who I work with, really was the one who. So mention this astrologically, because you have these seven planets of Pisces, you have the, the moon eclipses. It's, it's, it's, it's really Danta too. From going from water into fire time. There's A lot of stuff going on there. So the exact astrological aspects that happened in June of 1968, which I remember very well, when RFK was assassinated and then Martin MLK, Martin Luther King, we have the exact same, down to the 0 degree, exact degree of that assassination time. We have those planets exactly in April. So for two to three weeks in April. So it should be a rough time. There could be assassinations.
- [80:06]
Alex Ferrari
Really.
- [80:07]
James Van Praagh
I don't know whom, but I'm not.
- [80:09]
Alex Ferrari
Saying, I'm not saying we'll talk off.
- [80:11]
James Van Praagh
Here, but it could happen. Will it happen? Don't know, but it is, it's there, it's a possibility.
- [80:18]
Alex Ferrari
The key thing that you said though is that it's going to. This, these times that are coming are going to force us to go in 100. And I did a talk at the conference yesterday where I was talking like when you start to look inward, it's either happening in a moment of chaos, a moment of great pain, or loss of love or life or something like some close to you or in great beauty. Those are three things that focus, that force you to go inward. It's a trigger. It's interesting because like I always like, you know, when you're in the Amalfi coast on a, on a yacht, drinking champagne, eating lobster, you're not looking for Jesus.
- [81:03]
James Van Praagh
You'Re not find Jesus when I.
- [81:05]
Alex Ferrari
You're not really look, he's not lost, but you're not really looking for salvation. You're not looking for Buddha, you're not looking for. And they're not looking inward because you're enjoying the outward so much. Only when you lose everything or you take a punch or you do, that's when you go, oh, I gotta look. In the pandemic was that. Yes, pandemic shocked the world to like start to look and that started this awakening really like hard. It really like jump started.
- [81:32]
James Van Praagh
It's not over.
- [81:33]
Alex Ferrari
Oh, I know.
- [81:34]
James Van Praagh
We were far from, you know we're gonna have another one as well. And I was like, we're gonna have another pandemic. And sure enough, I read the other day about this fungus that they cannot control and it's all over the world and it's kind of a fungus that's growing. And I think, yeah, lovely. I think another one of these pandemics. And I think that the world's gonna go through some wars. I think it's gonna be a rough time. And I think the world that we knew is bye bye. I think there's a new world coming and I think it's gonna take a lot of changes and people's belief systems and, you know, it's already happening. I mean.
- [82:07]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah, but the old systems are falling.
- [82:09]
James Van Praagh
Well, I predict that two years ago that the institutions. It's on my prediction show, the institution is going to be falling apart. And they already started, you know. You know, Musk has changed things around, move things around.
- [82:22]
Alex Ferrari
So politics, religion, so all of the religions won't.
- [82:26]
James Van Praagh
Well, Hollywood. Hollywood.
- [82:28]
Alex Ferrari
Hollywood.
- [82:29]
James Van Praagh
I also think, though, that, Alex, that I really believe that there's gonna be so much negativity that people don't watch television they don't want to watch. A lot of people don't watch news. I don't watch. And they're going to turn televisions off and go back to the Internet. And so I think studios. It's going to be a hard time for people in the ad industry because people are going to want to watch that. They're going to want to be.
- [82:49]
Alex Ferrari
I mean, our show gets more ratings than a lot of new shows.
- [82:51]
James Van Praagh
Yeah, it's insane.
- [82:53]
Alex Ferrari
It's insane.
- [82:53]
James Van Praagh
But this is real. People want positivity and something that speaks to their soul. Not negative, negative. They don't want negativity anymore. They won't be able to take it anymore, especially when they're living it. They can't have watches.
- [83:06]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah, exactly. And that's why Hollywood's having such a tough time as well.
- [83:10]
James Van Praagh
It's going to be tough. It'll be changed in the industries. It's going to change.
- [83:14]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah. Medical industry, health care, banking, financial, all of them. You see the cracks happening around us everywhere and it's, It's.
- [83:24]
James Van Praagh
And then land changes, too.
- [83:25]
Alex Ferrari
So land changes, meaning. Oh, just.
- [83:27]
James Van Praagh
Oh, land changes with a lot of water, hurricanes, a lot of water. You know, flooding. A lot of flooding happening. Especially the Pisces and planets of Pisces, which is water and. Yeah, you're gonna have a lot of volcanic. You can have a lot of changes coming up next year. Yeah, very true.
- [83:44]
Alex Ferrari
This is April. What's. What do you foresee happening as far as a timeline? Because it's. God, it's moving so fast, James.
- [83:51]
James Van Praagh
It's so fast.
- [83:52]
Alex Ferrari
I mean, from 2020.
- [83:54]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [83:54]
Alex Ferrari
Every year seems like a decade.
- [83:56]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [83:56]
Alex Ferrari
I mean, in the amount of stuff. I mean, you've been on the. On the Earth for quite some time. Yeah, you know, I was born in the 70s, from what I've seen, and.
- [84:05]
James Van Praagh
I was going to discos in the 70s, Alex. Exactly.
- [84:07]
Alex Ferrari
Thank you. I appreciate that. I was.
- [84:12]
James Van Praagh
I live Saturday Night Live. I live that.
- [84:14]
Dan Morgan
Exactly, exactly.
- [84:15]
Alex Ferrari
But Even from the moment when I was born. Yeah. The 70s, the 80s, the 90s, I saw things speeding up like and I always use this example, like VHS shows up and it takes a decade or so before it really starts to hit. Its like, you know, it peaks, you know, probably midway through, but it was about a decade, 15 years. And then DVD shows up and that DVDs. Right, it picks up much quicker.
- [84:39]
James Van Praagh
That's right.
- [84:40]
Alex Ferrari
And then, well, cable was in there somewhere as well. And then streaming kicks in.
- [84:45]
James Van Praagh
And then I gave you some. My DVDs, remember.
- [84:47]
Alex Ferrari
Yes, exactly. And all of a sudden everything just started changing. Streaming showed up, then music changed.
- [84:55]
James Van Praagh
Yep.
- [84:55]
Alex Ferrari
And publishing changed.
- [84:56]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [84:57]
Alex Ferrari
And it's just. And everything now is so fat. AI is speeding things up like crazy. So I can I just. In these last five years, 2020 has been, this decade has been started off literally with a bang.
- [85:10]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [85:11]
Alex Ferrari
This year has been no different. I mean we started off, my God, yeah. Crazy, crazy around the world and things are happening. So what do you foresee like for the rest of this year and just the next five years? Where do you see us in 2030, you know, as like with all the stuff we're talking about.
- [85:28]
James Van Praagh
Right.
- [85:29]
Alex Ferrari
How much of this the system is going to be really brought down and a new one come up in its space?
- [85:35]
James Van Praagh
Well that's what's going to happen right now. As he just commenting on what you said, I feel like I'm in a centrifuge. That means thrown around. Thrown around. And there are times I call some friends of mine to say, do you feel this energy happening? Yes. It's so fast, so quick and it feels as if it's, you know, a tidal wave, you know, waiting to happen. Or when it's a whirlpool and it goes faster and faster and it's gotten to a point now and I know them older but I gave up what day it is, what the time is and I look at my phone to know, you know, I wasn't really a Monday.
- [86:08]
Alex Ferrari
I was.
- [86:09]
James Van Praagh
Because I just can't hold on to it anymore. It's just like I can't retain and people that are young when I say, but you know, Yeah, I can't. 30 year olds, like I don't know what day it is, it just so quick and so fast. So all you gotta do is back, keep on grounding yourself, come back to your own heart, you know, don't get caught up in the speed of it.
- [86:29]
Alex Ferrari
We'll be right back after a word from our sponsor.
- [86:31]
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- [87:24]
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- [87:57]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan.
- [88:00]
James Van Praagh
Hey.
- [88:00]
Dan Morgan
How's it going today?
- [88:01]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do.
- [88:04]
Dan Morgan
I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan and Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
- [88:10]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said 20 billion won. 20 billion is an insane number.
- [88:19]
Dan Morgan
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think somewhere north. Probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
- [88:31]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan and Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
- [88:37]
Dan Morgan
Probably the easiest way is dialing pound law. That's £529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 247 365.
- [88:47]
James Van Praagh
Wow.
- [88:47]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
Dan Morgan from Morgan and Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
- [88:51]
Dan Morgan
Thanks for having me. Visit forthepeople.com for an office near You, You.
- [88:58]
Alex Ferrari
And now back to the show.
- [89:02]
James Van Praagh
I think it's going to be breakdowns. I think, no doubt about it. I think there's going to be a breakdown. I think our government's going to change in a way which is already starting to. But it's going to be a very made. It's going to be brought down and then it's going to. I think what's going to happen, little, maybe more like little communities will start up because things going to be broken and people aren't going to be heard, but they will come back to kind of like attracts, like into the own little communities of what they're into, what their interests are, and that's how it's going to go back up. I just think everything's going to be questioned. I think there's going to be upheaval. I think there's going to be. I'm sorry to paint the negative picture, but I do believe it's a time for us to break down and start up or again. So it's going to be rough. I think it's me depression. I do. I think it's the depression.
- [89:49]
Alex Ferrari
Like depression economically.
- [89:51]
James Van Praagh
And economically. Everything economically. Yeah. I'm already loading up my garage with extra things. I had a vision two years ago of a like a CVS or Walgreens and the shelves were empty. And then I went like two months ago and looking and some shelves were starting to be empty. Oh. So it's going to be, you know, I feel like medical supplies will be limited.
- [90:12]
Alex Ferrari
We went through this with a pandemic.
- [90:13]
James Van Praagh
Yeah. It's gonna even worse. So it's going to be yours and it's just starting. Sorry to be the bearer of. But everybody knows it.
- [90:20]
Alex Ferrari
But the thing is, and the reason I talk about this as much as I do on the show is because I want people to be aware of it, be prepared and because as it happens around them, they're going to be confused.
- [90:30]
James Van Praagh
What do they do?
- [90:31]
Alex Ferrari
They're going to think about the world's coming to an like. No, no, no, no.
- [90:33]
James Van Praagh
But then what do they do? They go in. They go within.
- [90:35]
Alex Ferrari
They have to go.
- [90:36]
James Van Praagh
They have to.
- [90:37]
Alex Ferrari
They have to go within. And it's like when in life, and I think you would agree with me, the universe, spirit guides, whoever you want to call, are guiding you throughout your life. And if you walk off the path a bit, they whisper in your ear, tap you on the shoulder, give you a little nudge and you're like, no, no, I can't. No, no, I can't. Then the sledgehammer comes out and knocks you across the face.
- [91:00]
James Van Praagh
That's right.
- [91:01]
Alex Ferrari
I think that's what we're going. And it's going through where humanity's going through.
- [91:03]
James Van Praagh
I agree.
- [91:04]
Alex Ferrari
And the only way. And what happens.
- [91:06]
James Van Praagh
The values are shift. Gonna shift.
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Alex Ferrari
Exactly. And what happens when you have those dark nights of the soul? When you've lost someone, you've lost your job, you've. You've lost everything. When you have that kind of outside pressure, that's when you are forced to go in.
- [91:21]
James Van Praagh
Exactly.
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Alex Ferrari
So that is what unfortunately has to happen. Because we have not listened to the whispers. We have not listened to the taps. We have not listened to the nudges. And now the sledgehammers are coming out.
- [91:32]
James Van Praagh
Sledgehammers are coming out. And then we got to. Got to go to our next level. Soul. Just saying.
- [91:38]
Alex Ferrari
I had no idea that that name just saying would do what it does, because it's really.
- [91:43]
James Van Praagh
Because I was your higher self giving you that information.
- [91:45]
Alex Ferrari
Well, literally in a meditation. Do you know that?
- [91:47]
James Van Praagh
No, I don't know that. I missed out.
- [91:49]
Alex Ferrari
So when I was. When I was doing the show, when I was creating the show in three weeks because my spirit guide told me my living.
- [91:56]
James Van Praagh
He built a studio in like 3 days too.
- [91:58]
Alex Ferrari
No, I did not.
- [91:59]
James Van Praagh
The studio was like, a little bit long. How many hours was it? I mean, and it's quality.
- [92:05]
Alex Ferrari
So my. I appreciate you, but my spirit guide, Connie, she told me to do.
- [92:09]
James Van Praagh
Wait a minute. Way to slow down. Your spirit guide's name was Connie?
- [92:13]
Alex Ferrari
Her name is Connie. She's alive. She's been with me since I was 23.
- [92:17]
James Van Praagh
My adopted mother's name was Connie, and she was the one who helped me believe in myself. And I wouldn't be here without her. And my first book is dedicated to her.
- [92:26]
Alex Ferrari
And now, you know, now we have another thing.
- [92:28]
James Van Praagh
I gotta go.
- [92:30]
Alex Ferrari
So Connie. Connie, who's been on the show, she was actually released last week of as of this recording, her sixth interview on the show. She's a star now. She is impossible to deal good. She's 89.
- [92:40]
James Van Praagh
Oh, God bless her.
- [92:41]
Alex Ferrari
And. And she's still cooking, still doing one on ones, all that kind of stuff. And she told me, hey, you have to do a show, a spiritual show. I said, you're insane. What's wrong with you? She's like, you got to do it, and you got to do in three weeks, because three weeks is Easter. And that's a good time to launch the show. So I was so dismissive of this whole story. I'M like spiritual podcast. Like, it made no sense.
- [93:03]
James Van Praagh
Right.
- [93:04]
Alex Ferrari
So I kind of challenged the universe before I went into a meditation. I go, okay, universe.
- [93:10]
James Van Praagh
Okay, God.
- [93:11]
Alex Ferrari
You want me to do a show about spirituality? I need a name. I need a name that's trademarkable. I need a name that I have. I could get all the URLs and the social. I need that. I need a name that no one's used in the spiritual world or the New age movement. Good luck, because everything's been abused a thousand times. I went into my meditation and three words popped into my head.
- [93:32]
James Van Praagh
Wow.
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Alex Ferrari
Next level Soul. I was like, that's a pretty cool name.
- [93:34]
James Van Praagh
That's pretty great.
- [93:35]
Alex Ferrari
And I was like, holy crap. And now it's like, you can start seeing people using, like, a next level soul. You have to go to become a next level soul. And I was like, holy.
- [93:44]
James Van Praagh
You started the movement.
- [93:45]
Alex Ferrari
I'm like, holy.
- [93:46]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [93:46]
Alex Ferrari
That's pretty amazing. It's. I understand that I. I have no. I'm nothing.
- [93:52]
James Van Praagh
Nothing about you.
- [93:53]
Alex Ferrari
It's. I'm just like you. I'm a vessel.
- [93:56]
James Van Praagh
Yeah. The instrument.
- [93:57]
Alex Ferrari
I'm the instrument of it all. You know, I do the heavy lifting, but they push.
- [94:01]
James Van Praagh
Yeah. And now you're all over the world. Hello, International.
- [94:05]
Alex Ferrari
Your Spanish episodes. Your Spanish episodes are fantastic. Oh, they do great. Yeah. We translated you, and you've been translated into six languages.
- [94:12]
James Van Praagh
Wow.
- [94:13]
Alex Ferrari
And it's. With it. With AI and it's. People just love it. So.
- [94:17]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [94:18]
Alex Ferrari
And. And we're going to continue to go.
- [94:19]
James Van Praagh
Into Spanish markets, and German markets are very big. Yeah.
- [94:22]
Alex Ferrari
Those are the two markets that we're really going to start focusing on more and more, probably late this year. We have a bunch of it, but we're going to go back.
- [94:28]
James Van Praagh
Let me go there. I'll go there with you. I appreciate it. Well, I. I really believe that your mission is to help evolve souls and go to that next level. And it's going to happen when people are.
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Alex Ferrari
When the other side is trying to talk to us. What are some of the things that we should look out for? Because there's so many people listening right now.
- [94:48]
James Van Praagh
Yes.
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Alex Ferrari
Who want to connect with their mom, their dad, their friend, their dog, whatever it is. What are the kind of things that we should keep an eye out for? Synchronicities, if you will. Right to do it. I told you a story yesterday on stage, you remember, about my aunt.
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James Van Praagh
What's your name?
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Alex Ferrari
Take another shot.
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James Van Praagh
Yeah.
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Alex Ferrari
No, we were talking on stage before you went. When you did your talk, I walked you up and I go on, I gotta tell you a story about my aunt who died.
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James Van Praagh
Yes, keep it going.
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Alex Ferrari
So my aunt died, my favorite aunt died. And then you said, she's very proud of you. She's here.
- [95:23]
James Van Praagh
That's right.
- [95:24]
Alex Ferrari
And Eliza like, okay. And then, and then I said two days after she died, I was doing a project where I was looking at old VHS's and like recording them for something.
- [95:33]
James Van Praagh
That's right, that's right.
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Alex Ferrari
And all of a sudden a video of 2 minute test video I did because I had, I was like in college and I had a new Steadicam Junior that we had and I was testing it out with a HI camera and I recorded Thanksgiving dinner. And she was there with my grandma, my other aunt and my father. My father's still alive, but my father was there. He was a little bit young, a little bit older than I am right now and all that was happening. And I was like two days after she died. And I asked you, I asked you. I mean, the coincidence is so remarkable. There's no reason I would have. I didn't remember shooting it.
- [96:15]
James Van Praagh
Right.
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Alex Ferrari
Only after I was like, oh God, yeah. Oh wow, I remember that now, but I didn't, didn't recollect it, that it was so specific. And you said on stage yesterday, you said that's what they do, they can influence things. So can you explain that?
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James Van Praagh
Sure. I mean, it's hard for a lot of us to understand in three dimensional world, but I will say that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. And the spirit world can pull strings if you want, and they can make things happen and they can influence the animal kingdom, birds and insects. And my brother, who just recently passed over, he said to me the other day, he said, listen, he came to me and he came to me when I was taking a shower. So they'll tend to come to you when you open up your mind. So when people want to talk to loved ones, you got to surrender, you got to soften the mind so they come to you. So like when you're reading a book, all of a sudden you'll get some information or you're driving the car or whatever because you're not thinking, so you're not in the head space. So as I said yesterday, and I always say head to heart, you got to go from your heart. So when you surrender into that space, I'm just opening up and just letting it be. Don't force it. It's easier for them to come through. So my brother came through with the other day and he Said to me, the flag, the flag, the flag. Now very. I was shaving, I think it was after. And he said like, don't forget the flag. Like, okay, I won't forget the flag. And so throughout the day, I'm like, look for the flag. I don't know about the flag. Three days before I was in my backyard and there's, oh, there's a little part of the building here that has termite damage. Kind of funny there's some insect person specialist. So I was like, okay, that was on my mind. And then I'm looking that day for the flag. I pull into a parking lot and right next to me is a van which has a big red, white and blue flag all around it. And it's the insect finder.
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Alex Ferrari
Wow.
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James Van Praagh
Now what are the odds of that happening? I'm sure that was the flag. So because they're outside of time, they can do things with time. Because you remember things happen over there first, then they do here. Here's the last place that things materialize. So they can create things over there in a way and they will materialize here. And the number one way they come through to us is a dream state. That's because we're not thinking. So the dream state. But there are other ways they can influence, like I said, birds and insects and so forth. The other day I'm driving my car and all of a sudden it's stopping at a red light and a bee just went as like cleaning itself. And it's like, oh, hi. Hi, my brother. Hi, Mike. And I was going to. Now could that have just happened? Yes. But of all places to get my attention. They try to get our attention. And they will influence our mind to a point where we look at something, oh, when there's a sign with their name on it or something else. So they can influence our mind in that respect if we're open minded.
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Alex Ferrari
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Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan.
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James Van Praagh
Hey.
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Dan Morgan
How's it going today?
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Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do.
- [100:38]
Dan Morgan
I'm Dan Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan and Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm.
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Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said 20 billion won. 20 billion is an insane number.
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Dan Morgan
Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the, the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
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Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan and Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
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Dan Morgan
Probably the easiest way is dialing pound law. That's £529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 247 365.
- [101:20]
James Van Praagh
Wow.
- [101:21]
Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
Dan Morgan from Morgan and Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
- [101:25]
Dan Morgan
Thanks for having me. Visit forthepeople.com for an offer office near you.
- [101:32]
Alex Ferrari
And now back to the show. Have you ever had things manifest in front of you?
- [101:40]
James Van Praagh
Yes.
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Alex Ferrari
Like bugs or something?
- [101:44]
James Van Praagh
Yes.
- [101:44]
Alex Ferrari
That manifests and there's no natural reason for it to be there.
- [101:48]
James Van Praagh
Yes. Yes. I was talking to a good friend of mine on the phone and we're talking about a friend of hers who lost a partner and that I think he found a ring on the table or something. And as I'm speaking with her, her partner had passed over. And as she's telling me this story, I hear ding. I'm like, huh? And I Said, hold on. And I walked to my washer and dryer in the other room and there was a little ring that was a female's ring, didn't belong to me. Didn't look at my roommate and I told her about it. I said, this is a ring. I said, this looks like kind of your kind of a ring. Sure enough, I sent it to her and it fit her perfectly. And I knew it was from her husband. So that happened. A couple of those types of things happen. Yeah. Weird thing, a lot of coins. My sister passed over. She loved dimes and she used to work with the dimes coming through. She wrote a book about dimes. Well, after she passed, I'm making my bed. In the middle of bed, there's a dime. I go to my truck. In the middle seat, there's a dime. My sister's going, putting her boots on. There's a dime in the boot. So they can manifest these things. Things happens like that. Another experience I had which is really pretty amazing and it's rare. I've had a lot of incredible mediumistic experiences. When I was in Brazil, I used to go to Brazil quite a bit. I used to bring spiritual, well, groups down to go to spiritual centers throughout Brazil. And one of the times I was there, there's a place called the Frey Louise Center. It's outside of Rio. And it's a. There's. I guess. I guess you'll see an agency of adoption for kids. But it's run by 200 mediums and once a month. This is years ago. I know they still do this, but 15 years ago, 20 years ago, when I was there, they called me and said, we would like you to attend a seance, a healing with everybody here. There's going to be what's called the materialization. I said, okay, so I didn't really know, but there's a substance called ectoplasm that everybody has this substance. Ectoplasm, cellular, I guess you could say, the easiest way to look at it. But mediums have more of it than most people and physical mediums have most. A lot, A lot of it. So I was invited to go to this very special once in a month house in the hill in this space called Fre Luis Center. And my group was in another part of Brazil and I had to fly to Rio and I'd be there 5:30 in the morning and wear just white cotton garments. No drinking sex or red meat in 48 hours. So I was good. So 48 hours and you go there at 5:30 in the morning. You just sit and meditate. It's a darkened space, and there's chairs, and then there's, like, a little bit of a stage. And what happens is they bring the sickest children every month. Like, they have cots, five, five at a time. And they bring them in. They put them in the cots. And then what happens is I'm sitting there and I'm watching the vapor. This is vapor starts up from. From all. All. Everyone. I had to wear vapor near me, and I didn't feel anything with this vapor. And it forms into these feet and this legs, and it's building up, like.
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Alex Ferrari
Huh.
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James Van Praagh
And literally forms a materialization of a doctor. A doctor.
- [104:50]
Alex Ferrari
Come on, James.
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James Van Praagh
Yeah, yeah. With a white coat and holding some kind of a crystal that is rainbow color. And it's. You can see it's moving. This light is moving. Sign, the rainbow. And his doctor appears wearing a mask. And it wasn't someone who dressed up because we were watching it. I'm very cynical, you know, not cynical. I was skeptical. And I'm, like, looking at. Saying, oh, my gosh. And they bring up the kids, and this being goes to, you know, each kid and holds this crystal rod and goes to different areas of the body. And then the other kids go. And for the second time, I'm thinking, oh, I'd love to get this done, or I'd love to quit there. I swear to you, within seconds, one of the mediums that were helping out, this person on stage, had a red flashlight. They go, come, you come. So who knows? They must have heard me. I went up to the stage, laid down in the cot, and I'm waiting. And most people probably go up there. They're, like, closing their eyes to receive it. Not me. No. I had to feel up the spirit. So. Because for me, I had to know this was real. Sure, it was solid. I felt its leg. And it took this crystal healing. Oh, yeah. And it took this crystal rod, and it went right to my solar plexus. And then it just happened, like, four seconds, maybe four to five seconds, and it moved on. And then after that, they take you down. And afterwards, we all went and had some cake, some tea and some cakes. And you felt like you had surgery. And that's exactly what it felt like. And they just bring you back. Well, two weeks later, I went back to Los Angeles, where I lived, and I went to my doctor, and she looked at me and she said, what happened to your ulcer? You had an ulcer before you left Brazil. You don't have an Ulcer anymore. What happened?
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Alex Ferrari
I said, you know, Brazilian nuts, Brazilian nuts, lots of Brazilian nuts.
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James Van Praagh
And that was my experience with the materialization of a spirit. And I've also had materialization with the physical spirit with Leslie Flint, who is a very. People go online and he was the greatest medium, physical medium, last 20th century, where, you know, their artificial voice box would appear based upon the ectoplasm and people would speak through the voice box and Rudolph Valentino, Queen Victoria, all these very famous people. And my mother came through and I had this on cassette tape. And she said, I want to speak to James. James, you know my nickname. Then a Frenchman came through and he goes, I need to talk to James. James, can you hear me? And I'm like freaking out. This is before I got into my media. I was just in a development circle. And he said, we are James James. There are many here. It's back in 1990, maybe. There are many here who believe in you. We love you. He's psychic, he's sensitive. And I have this on its height. He said, you are going to do many works, my friend. We are here to help you. You will write a book one day. You will travel over water. What we say now you will not know. But years from now you'll understand this. And I have this on tape and should have happened exactly as that spirit said. So I mean it. Really? Yeah. So when you have those experiences and all the readings I've done and how.
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Alex Ferrari
How far along on your, on your development?
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James Van Praagh
I was just starting to begin my development. I wasn't even doing readings yet. I was still seeing the development circle.
- [107:55]
Alex Ferrari
I've never heard of this voice box.
- [107:58]
James Van Praagh
Oh, Leslie Flint. You should look him up.
- [108:00]
Alex Ferrari
I've never heard of that.
- [108:01]
James Van Praagh
Artificial voice.
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Alex Ferrari
Has that ever been filmed?
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James Van Praagh
Yes, you should look him up. He's online. Leslie Flint Foundation. And you can hear all the voices. There was a scientist, a couple, Betty woods and something green. Mr. Green. And they taped from 1940 probably to 1965, a lot of the sessions. So it's all on cassette tape. You can hear them. And then there was some. He was a guy's most tested medium in the world. They would tape his mouth up like seven times and.
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Alex Ferrari
Yeah, yeah, to try to prove him wrong.
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James Van Praagh
But he was wrong. But he wasn't. And it was just. He used to go as an 11 year old boy into the movie theaters, into the cinema in London and people say, shh, shh, shh. Because the voices appeared in the dark all around him. Yes. Yeah, yeah.
- [108:48]
Alex Ferrari
That's interesting. So has Anyone else? Have you heard of anyone else?
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James Van Praagh
No, I have not heard of anybody else doing it.
- [108:53]
Alex Ferrari
So that was something very. So unique.
- [108:55]
James Van Praagh
That was something so unique and it was very interesting. I was sitting with Leslie before the seance started and was sitting there and I was just, I was working, you know, doing paralegal work and starting sitting in the development circle and there was a television over in the corner of the room. He goes, james, very deep was James. Yes. He goes, you see that box over there? I said, yes. He goes, one day you're going to be on that. He goes, you need to use it responsibly. Yeah, that wild. So that's crazy. Yeah, it's crazy.
- [109:25]
Alex Ferrari
Yesterday you spoke about the Life review.
- [109:28]
James Van Praagh
Yes.
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Alex Ferrari
And anyone who's ever seen a near death experience on the show knows that Life reviews are not always part of a near death experience. There are always going over the other side, but. But a near death experience. Not always.
- [109:41]
James Van Praagh
And every Life review is different, correct?
- [109:43]
Alex Ferrari
Correct. Yeah. Like once you go over, it's different than a Life review, that it's in and out.
- [109:47]
James Van Praagh
Right.
- [109:49]
Alex Ferrari
Can you explain to people from your point of view what that Life review is? Because it keeps you on the straight and narrow.
- [109:56]
James Van Praagh
Well, it's funny you asked me because I was going to do a TED talk about this and I still might. But it's really important that Life review. And I think it's just. Yeah, I said it yesterday to the group. So when we first pass out of this physical vibration, a three dimensional world we go to, first of all, we're free. The sense of weight is gone. You feel your, your memory comes back to who you really are. There's a sense of just complete peace and love and harmony and people that will come greet you. Everybody is met by somebody. There's a reception. Before my brother passed over, they would show me like a village of people coming to meet him in this reception hall. And it was pretty incredible. And so from his point of view too, I could tell you, but when you first pass over, everybody goes to their own memorial service, Right. So usually I'm not saying it happens at this exact time because everyone's experience different. They'll go to their funerals if the memorial services or wakes. Let's say my sister went to her wake. I'm sitting there, raised Catholic, she wanted a wake. We're sitting there and I heard her say, what's going on? I said, well, this is your wake. What do you mean? This is such a waste of people's time. I said, well, this is what you want? She goes, oh, I can't believe I wanted this. So it's very interesting she came right back and said that. But there's a life review. We, we will go to there. So after our funerals memorial service, we go to the other side. We've met our loved ones and we go through it. It can happen in different ways. They say that you can go to a kind of hall where it's kind of like a hospital, but not kind of like our hospitals. It's a place of relaxation. And within that space, remember, there's no time. So you become aware of every situation. You've just lived in the physical life and you see it, feel it and experience it from not only your point of view, but the other person's point of view. So and you see it, feel it and experience from their point of view. So let's say you went and you robbed. Someone went in and they robbed. And this actually was a true story of what my readings. This man, Chris, he went and he robbed a convenience store or he attempted to. And he said when he came through to his mother, you know, one of the things that happens, I remember this convenience store and she gave me the money and the money fell through the bag and I left. And he goes, but then over here, I had to relive that. I really did so strongly. 10 times, 20 times, 30 times stronger from when it really happened. And I became the cash register person. I still money. I felt all of her fear, all of her upsetment and it was so strong. And I was like. And then I felt the co worker who also helped felt that feeling of oh my gosh, this fear and the upsetment and. And then home with the family when she went home, I had to feel all their feelings of oh goodness gracious, it's terrible. And he said it was so strong that it weighed him down for a long time. It weighed him down and that was. He was responsible for all this bad energy and he had to relive it. And he realized he created that. And I said, wow. And it held him back. He said, I was in a living hell that I created and I couldn't get out of it until I just kind of understood things. I just couldn't get out of that. And I said, well, how did you eventually get out of it? He said, well, James, I did some good in my life. And when I was. And it's almost like what you were talking nearest experience when someone said, get out of the darkness, I've lived it. Let me go somewhere else. He had an awareness that or a guide came, said, also look at other parts of your life and the other parts. He did some good things. And they said, concentrate on that. And it pulled him out of that mindset and he was able to forgive himself. Right. So one of the hardest things we pass over is hard to forgive ourselves for things we did and things we didn't do. So my sister recently, my father came through and said to me, my sister. I said, where is my sister Lynn? He goes, well, she's kind of still having a life review, and she's looking at all the opportunities that she didn't take for loving herself and for loving others. Beautiful. So if we can have a life review while still in the physical body, wow, wouldn't we be different?
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Alex Ferrari
That's what nd ears are when they come back. They change.
- [113:54]
James Van Praagh
They change, but they just think, if everybody in the public could have a life review now, not dying for it, you could do it while you're instilling the body and just reflect on your life and realize the things that you did or didn't do and ways you like to forgive and maybe just have it now. Boy, you could change things up and you wouldn't carry that over with you, and you really would start living a different type of life. You'd be living a more responsible life with your thoughts, words and deeds. And like I said yesterday in the conference, if the world leaders could realize that, oh, my God, wouldn't we change? Wouldn't they change if they could just realize the responsibility? You know, they have to go to a certain level to be open to this, obviously, which will happen eventually, not in my lifetime. But I just think that, boy, wouldn't it be a different world if people were aware of their responsibility with thoughts, words and deeds? Thoughts are powerful thoughts. I see thought. I see thought as a color. I see the design, the symbol, the density. I see them, you know, when I walk into a room and I see people, you know, when you say, oh, they're always around you, I'm closed, but not fully. No one's ever fully closed. But I'm much more aware now because I'm getting older or whatever it might be. I live in nature, that I see people's thoughts, I see people's energy to see their auric fields or the energy fields. I see when they shift from word of unconditional love, how it changed the colors around them, the fields around them, Right? And it changed their whole dynamic. And that love again, if we'd send that to someone, wow, imagine how you can influence someone with that loving energy and that opens the other person up in that loving energy. So it's pretty amazing.
- [115:33]
Alex Ferrari
Let me ask you one last question before we finish up.
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James Van Praagh
You're finished already.
- [115:37]
Alex Ferrari
I know. James, you gotta fly back down here.
- [115:40]
James Van Praagh
I gotta go back to San Diego.
- [115:42]
Alex Ferrari
Yes. This whole thing that we're going through, the awakening and this difficult times that we're going to be going through, I call it a rough waters roller coaster. You know, there's gonna be some ups and downs, all that stuff.
- [115:52]
James Van Praagh
I, I just like, hold on, kids.
- [115:54]
Alex Ferrari
It's gonna be a hell of a ride. How long do you see this happening? And when do we start seeing the light at the, the end of, at the tunnel?
- [116:02]
James Van Praagh
Hard to say because we're talking about, you know, not a linear thing. I think we start seeing in April start being. I think we've already started seeing starts.
- [116:09]
Alex Ferrari
On the, on the. We, we know the negative stuff, but when, when's is the positive you think, is it five years, is it 10 years, is it 20 years or. I know it's going to be subtle, it's not going to be overnight, but.
- [116:17]
James Van Praagh
Yeah, I think within five years, within.
- [116:19]
Alex Ferrari
Five years we're going to start. We're turn the corner.
- [116:21]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [116:22]
Alex Ferrari
Okay. So this again, this decade, this is a pivotal deck decade.
- [116:27]
James Van Praagh
It's pivotal decade. It'll be a lot of souls that leave. It'll be an exit point for a lot of souls. Yeah, it's almost like a, you know, it reminds me of. You have a shoe and somebody's gonna. A lot of mud in the shoe and you gotta shake it off in order to write, in order to walk. Clear, easy.
- [116:41]
Alex Ferrari
Right. And a lot of the, A lot of the generations that are not as open as you, older generations that are stuck in the old ways, they have to essentially tie off.
- [116:53]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [116:53]
Alex Ferrari
So the things change, companies and, and governments and all that, because I have hope, because I have kids. And the younger generation is not like my generation or your generation. They look at things so differently. They're so much more tapped in.
- [117:07]
James Van Praagh
But remember, Alex, that those souls chose to come back at this period of time. They chose this time because they're very different than we are. Very different because they're a different vibration, they're different understanding, different soul group. And then the world will change because. And they'll be adaptable to that world change. Me being older, looking down, saying, wow, I can't even figure this out. I couldn't build a studio desk. And you know, it's just, it's amazing. To see, as you get old, things change things faster. And. And there's also a part of. Well, maybe it's because of work. I do this, like, okay, I'm ready to go when the time's right. Because I've been it, I've done it. The world is so different. I mean, not that I want to be here, but I'm like, yeah, I get it. And I get the changes, I think.
- [117:52]
Alex Ferrari
But you're part of that change.
- [117:53]
James Van Praagh
Yeah. And. And so are you. Next level soul. Because you're going to do more work. Your. Your work's gonna be even, you know, much more accessible. I can say it that way. I think there's going to be a whole new. I don't know, a whole new way. I want to say, I said you're gonna have a studio. You are. Bigger movies, more. Another way of doing things. Maybe it's the Internet. I don't know. I think it's gonna be another. Some kind. Another media thing going on.
- [118:18]
Alex Ferrari
We've got a lot of plans. We got a lot of plans.
- [118:20]
James Van Praagh
They'll happen. Yeah.
- [118:21]
Alex Ferrari
And I'm gonna ask you a few questions, ask all my guests. What is your definition of living a fulfilled life?
- [118:26]
James Van Praagh
Living with an awareness of doing the right thing all the time and influencing others with finding the best in everybody and maybe letting them know about. If they don't know for themselves. And I know it sounds strange, that love, that energy of love, making someone else's. Wow. I feel like my life was fulfilled. If I can look back on this life and say, wow, I've left the world a better place than I found it.
- [118:52]
Alex Ferrari
If you had a chance to go back in time and speak to little James, what advice would you give him?
- [118:56]
James Van Praagh
Don't come back. No.
- [119:00]
Alex Ferrari
Buy Apple at $7. You gotta really buy Apple.
- [119:06]
James Van Praagh
I would just say don't be as judgmental and critical and that everybody has a story.
- [119:12]
Alex Ferrari
How do you define God or source?
- [119:15]
James Van Praagh
One. One is oni. Omnipresent, nurturing energy. Beautiful. Thank you.
- [119:21]
Alex Ferrari
What is love?
- [119:22]
James Van Praagh
God, Love, us, you, me, everyone. Everyone is love. Everything is love.
- [119:26]
Alex Ferrari
If you could ask God one question, what would it be?
- [119:29]
James Van Praagh
First, could I believe in God? Even an entity or source, whichever. What would it be? Yeah.
- [119:36]
Alex Ferrari
If you had a chance to ask the. The source of all of this, a question, what would it be?
- [119:40]
James Van Praagh
Why? Why?
- [119:43]
Alex Ferrari
Why is a great question.
- [119:44]
James Van Praagh
Yeah.
- [119:44]
Alex Ferrari
And finally, what is the ultimate purpose of life?
- [119:46]
James Van Praagh
Love, self. Love. Love, I think really love ourself and love of others. I think that's really what it's about.
- [119:53]
Alex Ferrari
Beautiful.
- [119:54]
James Van Praagh
Answer and seeing yourself in someone else.
- [119:57]
Alex Ferrari
Yeah. Stuff that Jesus talked about about Jesus has been around, you know, among other masters.
- [120:03]
James Van Praagh
We're probably walking with them in those.
- [120:06]
Alex Ferrari
Sandals and it was just simple. These are simple core.
- [120:09]
James Van Praagh
The truths are very simple. It's, it's the human being that wants to get caught up in the complexity of the simplicity. That's really what humans do. It's a really, really simple. It's love or fear, but they wouldn't get caught up in complexity. That's really.
- [120:21]
Alex Ferrari
Where can people find out more about you and the amazing work you're doing?
- [120:24]
James Van Praagh
I have a school I online called the JVP School of Mystical Arts with over 41 courses and then I have a website, Van Prague.com v a n p r a h dot com and.
- [120:34]
Alex Ferrari
Do you have any party messages for the audience?
- [120:35]
James Van Praagh
James, be yourself. Everybody else is taken.
- [120:40]
Alex Ferrari
James, it is such a pleasure, my friend. Thank you for coming on the show. I absolutely adore you. I adore everything that you've not only done in the past, but what you're continuing to do in this life and helping away in the planet.
- [120:52]
James Van Praagh
So thank you. Thank you, Alex. Appreciate it.
- [120:56]
Alex Ferrari
I'd like to thank James so much for coming on the show and sharing his knowledge and wisdom with all of us. If you want to get links to anything we spoke about in this episode, including watching his show on next level soul tv beyond, head over to next levelsoul.com forward/572 and if you like this content and want to go deeper down the spiritual rabbit hole, just head over to next LevelSoul TV. And we have movies, series, original shows, live events, and of course all of Next Level Soul completely ad free. Again, just head over to next LevelSoul TV. Available on Apple, Roku, Amazon Fire, Android and iOS and Android phones. And if you've only been listening to these episodes and want to watch these amazing conversations, head over to our YouTube channel at next levelsoul.com forward/YouTube. Thank you so much for listening. And as I always say, trust the journey. It's there to teach you. I'll see you next time.
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Dan Morgan
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Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
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Dan Morgan
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Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
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James Van Praagh
Wow.
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Podcast Host (Dan Morgan Interview)
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Dan Morgan
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James Van Praagh
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