Talking to Heaven : A Medium's Message of Life After Death (AUDIO CASSETTE)

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Summary: Amazing, I would love to be able to talk to Mr. Praagh
Review: This book helped me answer many questions I had relating to the death of my sister. Yet, I have many more. I know Mr. Praagh does seminars and sometimes personal meetings. I would like to know how to get in touch with him for I believe he could help myself and my family heal our broken hearts and answer some questions that need to be answered before we can go on. It has been almost 7 years since her death, and we still have no clues as to how it happened and who was involved. I need his help. My family needs his help.

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Summary: This Book is helping me heal in the loss of my brother.
Review: I bought "Talking to Heaven" for a very simple reason : my brother died suddenly this past December, and I was having a hard time trying to cope with the pain. He was a very special human being, and when he died I felt like part of me died with him. With this book I've found many answers to my questions about where do we go after we die? I always thought we were more than flesh and bones, and this book has brought me that little peace of mind i needed.

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Summary: Amazing Stuff!
Review: I enjoyed this book for several reasons. James seems to have a gift for communicating with a world that is unseen. I believe we all too some degree have spiritual gifts. He talks about how our ancestors still care for us and give us messages. My grandmother died earlier this year and a strange thing happened. A month after her death I wore a suit of hers that was given to me after she died. I work at a Bank. One of the tellers told me I looked like a Porcelain Doll in it. I found myself crying after that because my grandmother use to call me that. I felt it was a message. I remember telling one of my girlfriends that I was so sad that my grandmother was gone and who would ever call me that pet name again. I think it was my grandmother's way of saying - hey I am still looking out for you. James has so very interesting stories to tell. It is too bad we don't have more people with such a gift. I believe it would help a lot of distraught people who have lost their loved ones.

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Summary: Very Interesting but much of the info is basic
Review: Mr Praagh's talents are extraordinary and some of his stories have a wow factor. Still, the basics of meditation was not what I expected. I didn't think this was going to be a "how-to" book when I bought it. He doesn't go into enough detail of what the hereafter world is really like. For instance it's not clear if there is a parallel world where people study, go shopping, etc. I wanted to know more about whathe sees the life of a sprit to be. When someone dies and they are "met" where are they taken, what does it look like. what do they do? I wish the suthor would have spent more time on this than how to meditate. Also the author does get a bit too Christian for my likings. If he is talking about a truly universal source of power or god than Christ would seem important but not the only source. I was a bit confused at whether he meant the hereafter was a christian world or a place wher all souls go? Perhaps he thought most people, in america could relate to CHristianity and so this is the angle he takes. Mind you it is not the totality of the book and garners only a few mentions of "Christlight" but it is perplexing given the author's seeming knowledge of the totality of life and life anter death in place where all souls are equal. Still, his contacts with sprits and the imapct on thos e who come to see him are quite remarkable. It's a very easy read.

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Summary: A very emotional and heart touching look at lost loves.
Review: This book is an inspiring account of the hope that we will be with our loved ones again someday. Dealing with the loss of a spouse is hard enough, this book helps to bridge the gap in a way that words cannot explain. Thank you for taking the time to write a book that helps all of us to deal with life's pain. As a man in his 30's I am not an avid reader however, I would recommend this book to anyone who is struggling with losing a loved one.

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Summary: Best book on this topic that I have ever read.
Review: After reading this book, I started noticing that whatever happened was o.k. with me because I knew it had real meaning. My actions towards others changed forever. I know I can handle whatever comes my way because everything has a reason. If everyone would read this and take just one thing from it and practice it the world would be a wonderful place.

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Summary: Truly comforting and Satisfactory.
Review: I highly recommend this book to everyone interested or intrigued on what your loved one feels,after passing over to a higher dimension. It dissolves all kinds of fear towards confronting death, either in a personal way or accepting it when someone close to us experiences it. It is truly amazing and wonderful how well the spirit world perceives all our emotions and express their loving thoughts to us, by being with us every moment and wishing us the very best. I think everyone should have a good idea of what happens after we depart from earth and this is one special gift from heaven we should take advantage of, and will never regret.

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Summary: This book helped me tremendously
Review: After the recent passing of my father, my sister recommended this book to my mother and myself. My mother read it first and told me that I HAVE to read it. We both loved it! We would highly recommend it to anyone who has lost a loved one. Mr. Van Praagh's words on the ultimate, unconditional love and forgiveness exhibited from the spirit world and how we need to have the same love and forgiveness in our physical world has been a huge inspiration for me and also has been very comforting in our time of grief. As a matter of fact, my mother wants the book back so she can read it again.

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Summary: essentially nonsense and not worth reading
Review: Quite frankly I find this book deathly dull and downright boring. I find it difficult to believe it could be a bestseller, for there is nothing there to hold your interest or challenge the mind. Clearly, people are buying this book not for its quality, but because they have a burning need to learn about death and what happens thereafter. Nothing in the book convinces me the author knows or understands anything about this topic or what the soul does after it departs the body. In fact he makes heaven sound uninteresting and not at all a place I would care to visit. I would much rather travel to the hereafter of Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven of Mark Twain. Van Praagh divides his book into three sections of eleven chapters. In the first section, The Unveiling he describes his background and growing up and tells us how he discovered (not invented!) his gift for talking with the dead and other spirits. He explains in some detail how his gift may be different from other medium's gifts, and enumerates for us the varieties of spiritual powers which exist, (pp. 32-35.) He also tells us how he acquired spiritual helpers and guides. One of whom is, you guessed it, Golden Feather, an American Indian. It's always an American Indian, never an African nganga or Siberian shaman, but a genuine Hollywood movie Indian. The second section, The Sessions, are mostly case description. They focus on how he was able to help, interpret, and console various clients. There is no mention of payment, for all the reader knows this was all done for free. Nor are there any interesting, fresh, or in any way new insights coming from all the spirits. Nothing much seems to happen in heaven. Spirits from hell are not consulted. The last section on Beyond Grief actually gives us some insight into what is going on. Van Praagh indicates his ideas about bereavement, grief, what people actually feel, and how to get over a death in the family. His thought is quite conventional and could come out of any psychology guide for undertakers. He also provides instruction on how to develop you own intuition. This includes advice on the right kind of diet (vegetarian, no coffee, alcohol, or sweets), reading, meditation, envisioning and dreaming practice, and becoming comfortable utilizing the inner knowingness, (p. 164.) It is all a matter of energy, "molecules of a life force surround us and run through us all the time." (p. 165) The chakras are explained, and van Praagh enjoins us to keep an open mind. Eventually the spirits will let you know they are there by many signs, such as by flickering lights, scrambling the TV, turning on a clock radio and playing your song, stopping a clock, starting an appliance, etc. You may get a spirit message over the telephone, from an answering machine, or on your computer. Come to think of it, on Windows 95, various spirits flip around on my monitor. I don't recommend reading this book.

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Summary: that was a great book
Review: The book talking to heaven was one the best books I've read in a long time. The insightes of the author and the tips he gives are very helpful. This man gives you an understanding of the afterlife that I think is refreshing. I give it 5 stars