“Haunted” by the medium’s suggestion, van Praagh bought and studied dozens of books about mediumistic development.
In the early 1980s, a professional medium told van Praagh that he was “very mediumistic” and would one day “give readings” to people. A strong disillusionment with institutional Christianity (he attended Roman Catholic schools) paralleled a number of psychic episodes he experienced, which, he writes, gave him hope of God’s existence in a way that the Catholic Church never did.
Van Praagh’s route into spiritualism is a typical one. The other is that if such proof can be found, then it would put to rest their own fears of death, especially if the departed are happy. One is the undying interest many people hold for finding any kind of “proof” that their loved ones live on after death. Two main factors contribute to the book’s success.
He’s been a guest on Larry King Live and Good Morning America, and one of his more unusual psychic readings has been re-enacted on CBS’s Unsolved Mysteries. In the pop publishing world’s ongoing reinvention of spiritualist literature, medium James van Praagh’s book, Talking to Heaven, is the latest to top the New York Times best-seller list.
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