James van Praagh is just no ordinary person as he was born as a gifted child, he was gifted with a very rare talent of the powers of a psychic and he realised it all only at the age of 8 when his prayers to God had got answered. He wanted to see and feel God, and all this got real when he saw a hand appearing with radiant beams of light from the ceiling. This did not scare him at all because this was God’s very presence and this very presence was blissful and balmy. He was born in Bayside, New York on Aug 23rd 1958 and happens to be the youngest of four children to his parents and was an average student. He was fascinated about the phenomenon of death from this very young age. Raised as a catholic he entered the seminary at the age of 14 and had served as the altar boy.
He passed out from the San Francisco State University with a degree in Broadcasting and Communications, as James van Praagh could have ended up getting involved in the profession of communications but his destiny had something else in store for him as he became more and more involved in metaphysics and psychic Phenomenon. When James had reached the age of 24 he became confident of becoming a medium, a psychic to help the living world communicate with the dead.
Defining between a medium and a psychic is very simple as, a psychic is a person who can sense or identify energy around living things while a medium has the added power of bridging the gap between the spiritual world and the real world.
James Van Praagh has now become a very popular name as he has featured on top television chat shows hosted by some of the big wigs of the small screen such as the Oprah Winfrey Show and also along with Larry King in Larry King live. He has also been the co-executive producer for the CBS primetime series “The Ghost Whisperer” starring Hollywood heartthrob Jennifer Love Hewitt. He has also appeared on the NBC talk show The Other Side.
His skill does also lie in telling the world about his personal experiences, skills and knowledge through many books that he has penned. Some of the well known and top selling books are Talking to Heaven (1997) and Reaching to Heaven (1999).