Product Description

"Reaching to Heaven" continues the exploration of the "other world" that began with the bestselling "Talking to Heaven". Complete with van Praagh's famous psychic sessions, this audiobook emphasizes the practical side of his work and engages listeners interactively, with specific exercises to help them realize their psychic potential.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #301236 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04-01
• Released on: 2000-04-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Amazon.com Review
Professional medium James Van Praagh (Talking to Heaven) offers a guidebook for the living, which charts the course of the soul as it journeys through life, death, and rebirth. Beyond his psychic gifts, Van Praagh has a gift for simplifying complex spiritual ideas and writing about them in a conversational tone. Most appealing for Van Praagh fans are his detailed theories on death and the afterlife. For example, when people die sudden deaths, Van Praagh reports, spirits of the dead often linger over their bodies, unable to comprehend what has happened (but still able to see and hear everything that is being done and said around the corpse). This is why spirits of the already-deceased are so useful in helping the dead transition to the other side.

Speaking of the afterlife, or heaven, Van Praagh writes:

In the higher realms everyone is on the same level of spiritual understanding, like a symphony of beings in tune with one another. For some this may mean a reunion with members of their earth family. For others it could be a meeting with former friends and lovers from previous incarnations.

Finally, Van Praagh returns to his fascinating stories of channeling the deceased to illustrate how the living can stay on task with their raison d'être. If we want to help our souls along on their eternal journeys toward enlightenment, then we must remove the emotional obstacles that are blocking their paths, says Van Praagh, who devotes entire chapters to guilt, fear, forgiveness, and love. --Gail Hudson

From AudioFile
Van Praagh begins with some elementary principles familiar to most students of metaphysics. While he relies on these spiritual touchstones and even resorts to aphorisms and basic guidelines for living in attunement with God, Van Praagh seasons his lecture with remarkable accounts of his contact with the souls of the dead. We learn what the afterlife may look like and how one spends time there. A recurring theme is forgiveness by and for the dead, once they contact the living. Van Praagh has been lambasted by some as a charlatan becoming wealthy on people's hopes and fears. But the author seems truly concerned with his listeners' evolution and happiness. D.J.B. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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Customer Reviews

Powerfull!
I am extremely pleased with Van Praagh newest book. I have read both books in just two days!. From the moment I started reading Talking To Heaven I felt like I couldn't put it down, so after finishing that one I couldn't help myself but to read his newest book Reaching to Heaven, which I found to be outstanding!. Before reading this books, I was living a big depresion, and it affected every part of my life. Then something very cool happen. I had a dream with my my Grandfather who past away about a year ago. In the dream he looked much younger, and he told that he was going to be watching me for sometime. At first I was skeptic, but as time pass on, I decided to give it a try to this books related to the after-life. In my search I found James Van Praagh book and while reading it, I found out that a lot of the stuff my Granfather told was also in the book. From then on I have became a more spiritual person, non-judgmental, and all the depression and toughts of suicide that I have before I started reading this book, have completely gone. Thanks to James Van Praagh and his Powerfull book for putting my life in order and learned to live to its fullest.

Excellent, understandable, and makes complete sense.
Last night I read this book in one sitting from about 9 PM till 1 AM with a few breaks. It is absolutely fascinating. I liked it even better than his first book because it was details that I have never read before. He wrote in such a way that I completely understood what he was saying and why things are the way he explains them. The feeling I had when reading this book was the same as I've experienced when reading CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD - Yes! I've always believed that and never had someone conceptualize it and put it into words! But I also gained a great deal of new knowledge. I feel much better about my concerns about some of my loved ones who may act in unloving ways due to mental illness, when I wondered if that way of being would continue on after death. Now I have a better understanding of how they continue their existence. If only the world would read & understand this - and other books which point out that love is all there is - then we would, indeed, have heaven on earth!

Intriguing
It's an interesting book, but I have to say I'm a little disillusioned in James Van Praagh. Years ago, back around early 1994, before he became a nationally known celebrity, my mother would drag me over to her television to watch JVP on some obscure talk show. I was impressed then by his seeming decency. My mother asked me to write to him for a reading; she was willing to spend the time and expense to fly thousands of miles to see him. He wrote back saying he was no longer able to read personally anymore, and was dedicating himself to writing and lecturing. Understandable. Yet my eighty-year-old mother was very disappointed, and would have given anything to hear from my late father, as she had belief in JVP's ability to do so. But then, what's this? I keep reading now that any celebrity from soap stars to Cher can request a reading from him very easily, with no trouble at all, no waiting list, nothing. It bothers me also to see that on t.v. he's lost that compassionate, unstaged quality, and he seems to be going in for silly initial games as other psychics do "Do you know someone with a H? Sounds like an H?" He seems nervous, and too eager to please, and his book reflects this shrewd quality.It's very fascinating but I don't know how much now is entertainment, that of him writing under duress to make money, and how much really comes from a gifted inner centeredness.