James Van Praagh: The Power Of Love
JAMES VAN PRAAGH: Exactly right. You took the words right out of my mouth. Mindfulness and awareness. Just being aware that you are a soul having a human experience. Yes, we are in linear time, but really there is no such thing as time. When we say goodbye to this world, whether it is 50 years or 90 years or 10 years, we step outside of time and from the soul’s point of view the time we are on this earth is very quick. 90 years of human life seems forever, but to the soul, it is a blink of an eye.
So, when you go back to the spirit side of life, and you have a life review, you re-live and re-see the experience you had in human form, and you feel it and see it and experience it 10 times or 20 times or 30 times stronger than you did originally in the human world.
So, I often say to people treat others as you want to be treated. Live a life that you will be very proud of when you have your life review. You do not want to be in the spirit world going “Oh no, what did I do?” In the physical life, we say something or do something that later you say “I should not have said that or done that.” Imagine in the spiritual dimensions it is a mental world. All our thoughts are realized. Can you imagine if you step over to the other side and you regret a certain behavior? You regret what you said to somebody? Over there it will go over and over again in your mind. Can you imagine that? There is no time, so you have to relive that in your head over and over again.
To many people, I say that could be heaven if you try to live the best life you could. Demonstrate compassion and helpfulness and forgiveness. Or it could be hell if you have hurt somebody, went out of your way to hurt somebody, got over on somebody in some way. That can be your hell. So live accordingly, humans.
VICTOR FUHRMAN: Can we help those who are on the other side with prayers of forgiveness? Can we help them?
JAMES VAN PRAAGH: Yes, you bet we can, because they hear our thoughts, they hear our prayers. When we think of them, our thoughts go to them very loudly. So, we can send prayers of love, forgiveness, and healing. You know, many people have a hard time forgiving a loved one that passed over who did not treat them well on the earth. Like I said earlier, maybe they did not know any better so you should be the better one, and they will hear your thoughts. Many times, with suicides, not all but some suicides, there is a lot of regret from the spirit world. They are a little regretful because they are not dead, they are very much alive, and they feel bad for the ones left behind. The best thing we could do for a suicide person’s soul is to forgive them, to send them love and help them because if we love them, it helps them to love themselves and forgive themselves. Not all suicides, but some suicides.
VICTOR FUHRMAN: You know what fascinates me is we talk about loving kindness; we talk about the golden rule. A lot of people do not realize that the foundation of every faith on this planet that is now or has ever been extolling that principle. Love one another. Take care of one another. Pardon me for saying this, but the man-made rules and regulations that are put on top of those fundamental truths that sort of mask and create the fear, create the dissension.
JAMES VAN PRAAGH: I really do not have to do the interview because your responses are exactly what I would say, so it is exactly true. I always say no one religion has all the truth, but all religions have bits of the truth and that truth is the golden rule. That is exactly what you said. Then the human gets on top of that, and the human tries to put their own power and control people, and that is not what it is about. It is about treating others in the way you want to be treated and making people’s lives better. It is very true.
VICTOR FUHRMAN: How can we still love if someone hurts us?
JAMES VAN PRAAGH: So, forgiveness is really the first step in unconditional love, and I believe it is the keystone in unconditional love.
It is forgiveness, and it is getting that sense of, you know, just because we forgive somebody does not mean that we have to accept that behavior, that the behavior is right as it might be a wrong behavior. Not holding on to it, not giving those charges to it, do not give it life, because when we give that, we hold on to that. By forgiving others, we are giving ourselves a gift because, again, blocking it becomes toxic in the body if you are holding on to it. There is disharmony, there is an imbalance, and it will manifest eventually in the physical. So, it is a gift we give ourselves, and we have to remember that perspective, that if somebody did something we do not accept, it does not mean that everything is great.
What can we do? Well, maybe we can help to educate, maybe we can help to let the person know that is not the right type of behavior, that it is unacceptable. You have to respect people, you have to respect certain things they do, and you cannot do those things, that it is not right. How would you like to treat another person like that? How would you like to receive that? So, we have to be conscious, we have to be mindful; we have to have a certain perspective about certain behaviors and belief systems.
VICTOR FUHRMAN: Please tell our readers about the James Van Praagh School of Mystical Arts and where they can find out more about your book and your work.
JAMES VAN PRAAGH: That took me about six or seven years to get together. It is an Internet School, the JVP School of Mystical Arts, and it is a school on the internet where you have a six-week course in mediumship, on psychic abilities and developing intuition, a 20-day transformation. I have a day in the spirit world where I actually guide people to take a visit to the spiritual dimension. So, all these different classes and courses that people can take, and it is on the internet. For the book, they can go to a Facebook page which is James M. Praagh, the public page, or my website http://www.vanpraagh.com
About Victor Fuhrman
Victor Fuhrman, MSC, is a healer, spiritual counselor, and author whose deep, rich, compassionate and articulate sound inspired the radio handle, “Victor the Voice”. Victor is the host of Destination Unlimited, Wednesday 8 PM on OMTimes Radio.
