James Van Praagh

I’m ready to launch.

James Van Praagh

It is very true.

Thank you first for having me, I appreciate it.

The book The Power of Love came out about a week and half ago I think. It’s really about a book that’s been in the process for 35 years. From the beginning of the work that I do as a medium, which started 35 years ago. Because it’s really that energy of love, which it’s that energy, that vibration, that frequency, that is the reason why a medium work.

James Van Praagh

It’s because the bonds of love created by the loved ones on the earth continue on. Love never dies and it is through that the using of that energy that I’m able to be a medium. I’m able to bring through messages to loved ones because of that undying force, which is love.

As you said, love is the greatest healing force in our universe.

Life is really a series of choices. Choices are either love or fear and that’s really what makes up our life.

When we use fear, we’re stepping out of our source of who we are because we are loving-beings. We are souls having a human experience and the soul’s energy is love. Fear is not our energy.

Fear is really a stranger to us if you will. It’s not part of who we are. It’s very earthly. It’s the ego self. F-E-A-R falls ego turn real and it’s the illusions. It’s part of the illusionary world which to this earth world is the illusion.

James Van Praagh

So love is the only thing that’s real.

If you use the power of love through your thoughts, actions, and words, you can create the life that you want and the world that you want.

That’s why the book had to be written. I really just channeled the work from the spirit world. They wrote this book.

I’d sit for about a year and half ago. It was just me going through the series of sitting down in different times in a meditation circle. And bring it through this information different parts of it.

Like every book I’ve written, I just open myself that I would be the vessel and this book comes through. This time was The Power of Love, which is a great timing on their part considering what the world is going through right now.

James Van Praagh

It’s very much that more than likely, it’s probably 99% that she’s your guide. She left then to become a guide. Many times, what happens, our loved ones who leave us from the physical will become our guide. They will become our teachers on the other side, can help us, and help to influence us because the love never dies.

James Van Praagh

Just like you said earlier, you said something about the oxygen around us. If we have oxygen around us and we don’t see it but yet, we breathe it in everyday, every moment. Same thing with love, with that energy, that energy of love is all around especially from a mother or a father or family members. Part of them is with you because they’re part of your soul group.

So we experience things from the physical but she’s experiencing it from the spiritual. She’s just really giving you and to your soul what’s best for you from her point of view, from her perspective, and why she wouldn’t.

She would want you to continue your soul journey. She wants you to help you with your soul journey. As she helps you through your soul journey, her soul journey is also evolved.

We work together with the spirit world all the time. It is that energy of love that has brought you where you are today. Because you wouldn’t be here today doing this type of work that you’re doing. Having all these listeners, and doing this program if she wasn’t influencing you in some way to do it.

It’s interesting how things work but there are no accidents. I always say there’s always a divine intervention in everything.

James Van Praagh

When I first started doing the work many years ago. I was working a 9 to 5 job in a nice big corporation in the U.S. I had a very important job as manager in a contract department for a television shows. It was big job. There were lot of benefits. Everything was great about it. I remember bringing messages through to some people and it was just incredible.

The sensations of these people came to you who depressed. Whose lives were over and after a session with me, they were walking on clouds. Their whole lives had changed. It was that energy of love that their loved ones came through and let them know they’re still with them. They’re still around them. I just knew there was no greater purpose for me to do than to bring forth this loving energy, the power of love. That’s what’s really my work has been about is that healing power.

It’s so interesting because through the work I’ve learned so many things. How can you love another person if you don’t love yourself? You have a relationship with yourself.

So my book would be talking about loving yourself, having a relationship with yourself, and learning how to be responsible for loving yourself.  It is also about being aware of the space that you’re in, and the space around you. Also about what people are drawn to you. How to work with the energy of love or the energy of fear, which one do you go toward.

It works hand in hand with the work I do as a medium to always expand love.

James Van Praagh

That’s a great question. It’s a common question that allowed people ask. Because a lot of us were raised in organized religions or belief systems that say the supernatural is evil. You can get possessed and it’s all these dark staff which are not necessarily true.

We are first of all souls having a human experience.

We’re not humans having a soul experience. We’re souls having a human experience. A soul of natural vibration is love. That’s who we are.

James Van Praagh

I think that the unknown can be scary to people. Knowledge is power. You have to become more aware of the world of synchronicity. Have awareness about how to feel love, how to feel the emotions, how to feel intuitions, the soul’s voice, and how to use intuition.

Baby steps is great. Baby steps knowing that you’re always loved. There’s an evil per say. I really don’t. I think evil is a human concept. I think there could be yes, someone who doesn’t realize love or they live in fear. But I think per evil is human made. I really do.

The work that I do is quite the opposite but for people that are just starting out, just use your hunch. Just use your soul’s voice. Become aware of your connection with your soul. Your own relationship with your soul is very important.

James Van Praagh

Listening to your soul’s voice is essential. Those little glimpses of intuition where like, the phone rings and you feel it’s a certain person. Sure enough it is. That’s your intuition. We have this little intuition hits every single day and that’s our soul’s voice.

The first step I’d say is really have a connection with your own soul. Have a relationship. Expand that relationship. Learn as much as you can about intuition. Learn about awareness, and take it that we read as much as you, as many books as you can. Programs like this are important and really never measure yourself to anybody else. That’s why I say take baby steps.

I have a great school. It’s an internet school. It’s called The James Van Praagh – School Of Mystical Arts. I put together about 9 or 10 courses and one is on intuition. One is on medium ship. Another is on transformation. All different types of things that people are interested in on their own journey.

Something like that might be very good to people. Just to look at, to see what resonates as true. We have to remember that all those belief systems usually aren’t ours. They’re usually our parents’, our society’s or someone else’s belief systems. We got to be true to ourselves. What feels right for us might not be right for somebody else.

I also say in that relationship you have with yourself and your soul. One has to realize that whatever people think of you is really none of your business. Because nobody knows you better than you know yourself.

James Van Praagh

Many people get caught up in the illusion. They care what other people think or we have to do this to be successful. I have to do this to have a relationship or after this I’ll be financially free. Not necessarily.

Don’t follow other people’s way. Don’t let other people tell you who you are. You have to know who you are to live to inspire.

James Van Praagh

Sure. I got couple of things I could tell you to live to inspire.

What you can do daily:

1. Mindfulness.

Be mindful. What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is really very easy. Mindfulness is just having an awareness of the moment we’re in.

Right now, we are speaking together. This is the moment that we’re in. I’m trying to live the best of this moment right now. The past has already happened. Yesterday’s gone. Our childhood has gone on. Yesterday is yesterday. Things happened. That’s happened and that’s what brought us to today.

The future is yet to be so there’s no reason to waste the energy worrying about the future. No reason to use that energy in a fear mode. You can look far to tomorrow and what tomorrow brings, that potential of tomorrow.

But truly to be mindful, living in this moment, living in the current moment, that is mindfulness. Being mindful of how you feel the moment, knowing that you are in control of the moment. That’s the first thing. Being mindful and being mindful of the moment. That’s it to live to inspire.

James Van Praagh

2. Everybody is God. Everybody is light.

Whatever words or labels we want to use, we have an energy of pure loving light energy. I believe that every single person is God. Certain belief systems, that’s not God. That’s usually humans. However, we have that source energy within each one of us.

People can go about living their day not only being mindful but also trying to see the light in each person who comes upon your path.

Try to see that God person.

Even though the person might be really horrible to you and treat you really badly. There’s something going on deep within, which is love and light.

A lot of people especially on the holiday period, act out their stuff. Act out their insecurities.

Don’t stop when you interact with someone. If they’re throwing something at you, stop right there. You stop. Pause. Take a couple of breaths and observe what they’re saying. Don’t have a knee jerk reaction where you’re going to go back and emotionally go back at them. No, no, no.

You want to stop and observe. Why are they behaving this way? Why are they saying the things they’re saying? It’s obviously something that they’re projecting from themselves that they’re seeing. That’s their reality. Not mine. That’s fine.

But you can just say, “I understand what you’re saying. That’s your point of view. That’s fine.” But then, throughout that stuff, try to know that within that, they are God. They are light. There’s a reason why they’re there, and there’s a reason why they’re on my path at this moment.

James Van Praagh

Everybody who comes upon your path each day is either a teacher or a student. That really helped but we have to realize that we each are connected. That God light is the same with every single person whether the person is political figure or a person who’s homeless. We all have that same God light, that God love.

It’s matter of recognizing, uncovering, and finding out with each person to live to inspire. So those are the 2 things that I really would say for the Thriving community to start doing.