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James Van Praagh and other practitioners of so-called “channeling”—communicating with deceased people—have consistently avoided James Randi’s Million Dollar Challenge test to prove their psychic abilities.
I can't say I think James Van Praagh is a total fraud, because he came up with things I hadn't told him, but there were moments on the show when he appeared to be coming up with fresh information that he got from me and other researchers earlier on.
James Van Praagh and other practitioners of so-called “channeling”—communicating with deceased people—have consistently avoided James Randi’s Million Dollar ...
Michael Shermer explains how psychic James Van Praagh appears to talk to the dead by using such mentalism tricks as cold reading and hot reading.
Van Praagh was temping and minding his own business, which is to say he was a writer, when a woman he knew invited him to visit a medium in Manhattan Beach. “I said, ‘I have enough trouble ...
Who does James Van Praagh say he is? According to his own web page, "Van Praagh is a survival evidence medium, meaning that he is able to bridge the gap between two planes of existence, that of the living and that of the dead, by providing evidential proof of life after death via detailed messages." Van Praagh
Van Praagh, Shermer says, is “a fake, a fraud.” Shermer understands that Van Praagh’s preachings follow a long tradition.