Psychic medium James Van Praagh gives a reading to CBS News Chicago anchor

well today we are getting spiritual on the stream psychic medium James Van pra is here with me right now I'm so happy to have you here nice to be here Dana thank you okay first can you tell me the difference tell us the difference between a medium and a psychic sure everybody is psychic or intuitive from one degree or another it's that gut feeling that we all feel that instinct that we all have that a medium is someone who's also very psychic but they're able to raise their frequency if you will energy wise to a

higher vibration or movement and the spirit world lower their vibration and we meet halfway and that's medium so you have to develop as a medium everybody not everybody has that ability I mean they do to a point but you really have to develop it so some people may be skeptical right what do you say to the SK I was skeptical when I started everybody has a right to believe the way they want to believe it's their own Journeys or personal Journeys and we all just got to do be who we are and what other people

think of you as none of your business so right now for those who do believe with all the uncertainty in the world do you find that more people are turning to you where well spiritual things yes they were looking for alternative ways of thinking of being of living and they're finding out that this kind of is right for them resonates with their soul that you know have good good and love in the world when there's a hard time we have to go back to love so I make it a point every single day to smile

at people to say hello especially when they're not smiling and say Hi how are you today and people love that everybody needs validation especially in hard times we got to remember who we are we're loving Souls having a human experience so um I know you're going to give me a reading I want to tell you and everyone else that I've never had a reading before but I do want to say this and I'm going to ask you a very cynical question good you walked over to me we just met and you said your father passed

I said yes and you said well I see him right behind me okay now here's my cynical question did you look my life up before you came in here no I never do that I couldn't do that because um no I first of all I don't the time I had to get up I'm not a morning person I had have a cup of coffee no so I just when I come into the space I just open myself up and become aware okay and he's been trying to get through to you for a long time and

I don't know if you have old letters that belong to somebody you like to collect old historical thingses make sense to you there might be a collection of old historical things where it's newspapers or letters and he's very much a man who would be um not necessarily believing in this sort of thing you know your dad but he's really looking after you okay I got to say that too some way there was a car accident way back I know what that means was some kind of a car accident and he's also just talking about you

with papers and historical things you must have loved to go the library when you were younger or like to read books are you a book reader you like to read books and like all types of different books and um I don't know why comes and he shows me um he's dressed up and he's nice he wants me to tell you he's dressed up finally now you'd say he wouldn't be like that but he is for you okay because there something very special there and also April something special in April and what that is whether it's

an anniversary or birthday or something like that so that's what but he's right next to you and there's a lady next to him but I think is his mother that you would have known as well and I just like her a lot a lot and she wears a scarf very nice um yeah and this change about your position as far as where you're living this some move the changing things around or getting new furniture you've been doing recently stuff like that interesting does that make sense um yes most of it does make sense um yes

well it's just you know I'm absorbing here I'm absorbing yeah a lot of it actually does make sense uh let me ask you this I asked you this off air but um you know love the nail polish oh thank you know I did it myself good uh the other night um did you just wake up one day and you said hey something's not normal compared to other people with whatever normal is so when I was a child right when I was I was a child like 2 years old I remember very well and I was

maybe even younger there'd be a man in the corner of my room and cuz my parents threw me in the crib didn't want to be with me in the living room and I wanted to be in this and I remember this so well and there was a man in the corner of the room used to come to me with a a mobile or some kind and he had white hair and like who is this guy and needs to calm me down years later my grandmother was going through a photograph album and I said wait stop

that's the man that used to come to see me and she said oh that's your grandfather he died before you were born and that's had several those experiences and my mother was very psychic mediumistic and she said I said Mommy what about these people I see at the end of the bed she said oh don't worry those are God's angels I used to see them to when I was a little girl so real quick cuz we're running out of time you know how TV is no no no no it's great to have you why are

you in town I'm here at the Gordon center in Lake Forest tonight doing an event for messages that'll be messages for the audience so that's what I'm doing in Chicago I love Chicago my favorite city and I wanted to come back to I've done a demonstration in before since before Co this is my first time back so it's in Lake Forest the Gordon center wow and if they want to go my website van prg.com let remember I well I have to tell you you know um yeah it's interesting it's our the reading you gave was

very very interesting I'm going to have to think about that and sort of absorb what you said but I really appreciate you being here I hope your event is great and uh tonight and you know um maybe you'll come sometime I'd love to all right James you kind of flustered me James James vrog thank you so much