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  • wow. you made some excellent points. i really enjoyed your analysis.

  • txathiest u have too much time on ur hands, not clapping not clapping not clapping, fucking loser

  • I stopped watching Doctor Phil instantly when I saw that criminal VanPraagh on his show.:(

  • not clapping not clapping not clapping what are you bored or on drugs maybe they are agnostics that need proof if they ask theyll get it james van praagh is as real as they get i think your just scared of the truth

  • @1937cspicer the truth being you´re stupid

  • @ebrobaru lol !!!!!!!! so is your mom

  • @1937cspicer No, my mom doesn´t believe in this nonsense and these frauds like you.

  • @cathal2011 not even close... I want evidence...

  • @cathal2011 you would so fail... give me a reading then!

  • "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction." -2nd Peter 2:1

  • @MrFabregas1987 try getting out more and stop sleeping in your dead mom's clothes it's unsavoury....

  • @MrSiddeney

    I forgive you for what you said.

    Your words cant hurt me.

  • @MrFabregas1987 well stop quoting the bible obsessively you sound like a nutter, Oh and how you equate kundalini yoga to demonic status is laughable... you ever dated anybody ?

  • @MrSiddeney

    Keep hating if thats what you want. I dont mind.

    You are the one who will be sorry one day.

    New World Order( "The seventh world empire" where 90 % of the worlds population will be wiped out, a cashles slave society with mark of the beast) is coming closer just as the Bible has said and you are talking about dating.

    I pray and hope that you will wake up one day.

    Ron Paul: Obama Moving Us Toward One World Government.

    Peace and respect.

  • @MrFabregas1987 I can assure you I won't be sorry because I don't share the same weird reality you do. I don't hate you just advising you to get help for your obsessive behaviour and stop spouting things you don't understand and reiterating it as though it is the truth

  • @MrSiddeney

    Ok we will see when NWO comes.

  • (Continuing)

    Mr. Praagh speaks continually throughout his book about the body's spiritual energy, and cosmic forces; BUT, he never quotes the Word of God. How can a man sincerely claim to answer one's questions about God if he doesn't even open the Word of God? James Van Praagh is an unsaved Modernist!

  • This is New Age brainwashing. New Agers believe in Karma, and reincarnation. On page 252 of TALKING TO HEAVEN, Mr. Praagh teaches about the body's seven chakras, or seven main energy centers. This is the exact teaching of Kundalini yoga, which is demonic. Each "chakra" is supposedly a pathway to one of the presiding deities ( i.e. demons) over one of the planets in our solar system. This is demonic New Age doctrine.

  • "Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God" (Leviticus 19:31).

  • OH GOD, Stop. I can see they're not clapping.

  • Thank you for posting this video.  Mr. Van Fraud makes a living off of desperate people who want to believe anything because they are grieving. I see him as a comedian because he makes me laugh when I see him in action!

  • @cathal2011 You obviously haven't watched many mediums work. Most of the time they just tell facts which the client recognizes. If "cold reading' is so easy, why are you not out there making your living doing it?

  • @k0smon Mediums just like and perform cold reading on naive people. I have morals and don't wish to deceive people and make money off that deception.

  • What a waste of time. Pointing out that some clap and some don't? What does that prove? Absolutely nothing!

  • @k0smon That some people don't appreciate liars who deceive.

  • @k0smon You said it yourself in the video: Skeptical....the reason they didn't clap is that they were answering Phil by not responding when he asked: "How many of you believe...."

  • @KillerBluJay The skeptics weren't asked that but since they had a chance to not applaud a charlatan they took it by not clapping.

  • James Van Praagh is well known as a cold reader who uses the mind trick known as 'cold reading' to gain information. He shows no clear evidence of any ability to communicate with 'spirits' of dead persons and can not even prove that such 'spirits' even exist

  • what the hell is this? who posted this video and why who tf cares whos clapping or not & who the hell has so little time on their hands that they would post a video about it- I feel really bad for the person who made this, knowing myself 100% that God exists and there is an afterlife as well as spirits, ghosts ect, actually I am pretty convinced as well that they have proven that ghosts exists so that shouldnt even be an issue, I am sorry but atheists infuriate me they are so stupid

  • @kylas124 It's good people don't applaud a man that steals from people because they are too dumb to know it's a charade.

  • Are you saying that, based on your perception of "Dr." Phil's audience's lack of enthusiasm, James Van Praagh is a phony? How does this either prove or disprove his psychic medium abilities? I am truly baffled by your 'logic' on this subject. Honestly, I'm not trying to be insulting, I just want to know what point you were trying to make with your video.

  • @ProudMamaTeddi No, I'm saying that several people were bold enough not to clap for him and his bunk.

  • Why waste your energy on something you don't believe in? I do not understand why folks have to make such a big issue on something that needs ignoring. There are other things in life that are far more meaningful and worth while to focus on than that! Life is too short to focus on stuff like that - don't you have people or things that you could be spending quality time with or doing stuff. Waste of energy and time I say! So what there are folks like that out there.

  • @Innerdepths Do you have anyone close to you that is being taken by one of these charlatans? Maybe that's why I care.

  • @Innerdepths I know this guy is a joke he doesnt have any proof other then People clapping or not its pretty sad thats all he can come up with, hes just a heartless fool who has been jaded and lacks faith in the human race i feel sorry for him

  • @kylas124 You are too stupid and gullible to feel sorry for me and I'm just glad the people not clapping and not all are like you.  It's not only sad, it's plain disgusting.

  • thanks for the upload dude, van pragh is a douchebag. we needs these fuckers exposed as frauds. so thank you

  • Oh lord. so what some didn't clap. He asked if they believe in GHOSTS,not if they believe in james. James is the real deal.And to say he is a charlatan for taking money for his work is ludricious at best. He needs to eat,pay the rent,put clothes on his back.

    It is an honest job as being a mailman. If you are going to discredit him due to lack of prove,GET PROOF,than maybe you have some validity to your statements. You might be shocked to find you are not longer a skeptic,but a believer.

  • James is a con-man, liar, charlatan. He can work at walmart as a greeter or mcdonald's fry station. Ok, tell me how my grandma died. I'll make it multiple choice to make it even easier...chronic heart attacks, cholesterol induced heart failure, cancer, murdered, car crash, plane crash, or suicide.... MAKE ME A BELIEVER.

  • @TXatheist James actually is the real deal, but you are too closed minded to believe in anything, i feel bad for you, you say you want proof i have proof but i doubt you would believe or even listen to me others and I mean many, many others have proof but again you wouldnt believe because that would mean you having to take somebody else word for it and that is something you an most like you are unable to do you lack faith and for that alone i feel really bad for you youll understand someday

  • @kylas124 You can doubt me all you want but you should be doubting con-men like James even more. Your story is not proof, it's a story you believe and nothing more.

  • @TXatheist There is so much proof out there its overwhelming, you just choose to ignore it, maybe oneday you will move into a house thats haunted and be thrown across the room by a ghost, But no i am sure you are right the 87% of human population that believes in the supernatural or have had incounters they are all lying and you are right, have you ever just believed someone, have you ever thought why would people lie, really what is there to gain from it you should research the topic properly

  • @kylas124 Zero proof. Suffering from delusion or cognitive dissonance is the problem. People lie, that's how magicians got started and religion...pure deception.

  • @kylas124 There´s much proof? Like what?

  • I believe in ghosts. :/

    Hey, dude, this is Dr. Phil's show. They probably showed the people NOT clapping because Dr. Phil and his staff think its a funny hoax and want t make fun of people who believe i ghosts.

    But also... I think most people do not believe in ghosts. I don't know why christians, as well, do not believe in ghosts. Ghosts doesn't seem to be the same thing as soul or spirit to people. And ANGELS is just a TOTALLY different thing.

  • quite, it is a funny hoax, ghosts, angels, god, the tooth fairy, santa, easter bunny, elves, and leprechauns.

  • @TXatheist you are only right about the tooth fairy, santa, The easter bunny, elves and leprechauns. As for Ghosts, Angels & God they do exist, i actually saw an angel once when i was 6 she awoke me and spoke to me and saved my brothers life in the middle of the night while we were all sleeping and he was having seizures, because of her and what she told me i was able to go get help, my sons first word was angel he saw a picture in a store when he was 6 months old and said angel not knowing

  • @kylas124 Sure you saw an angel and I saw jesus sitting on my couch too.

  • @TXatheist Good for you, I am so happy that you have finally gotten some proof for yourself now you wont burn it hell:

  • @kylas124 There is no hell except in fairy tales.

  • @TXatheist I think I will remain quite skeptical of your knowledge of anything to do with the spirit world.

  • @k0smon Good, skeptical is a good thing. 

  • @TXatheist LOL even if i had a picture you wouldnt believe because people like you have a hard time believing others because you lack faith, your pointless to even talk too please dont respond, i just feel so sorry for you, i dont know why you would think that i would lie about something but your wrong i actually have seen an angel, i know what i have seen it doesnt matter at all what you think

    

  • @kylas124 If I had a picture of something that might actually prove something but you have faith because you know it's a sham and have to find a word to justify your gullibility so you call it faith. I know you are delusional and that's why you think angels are real and you don't respond.

  • It definitely takes effort to be as small-minded as this person seems to be. Why would one go so far out of the way to try and disprove someone like James van Praagh, unless there is a secret belief being harbored there and a cynic desperate to disqualify it...?

  • It takes no conscience to take money from someone for lying to them like James does and I think it's good to speak out against charlatans.

  • There are people who go out of their way to disprove or discredit a lot of things because they believe that it is causing people harm to not hear someone say "No, that's wrong". Its not small-minded to give people different view points and information. Especially when the ideas we're trying to disprove are taking people's money, lives and minds away from themselves.

  • @byondmyrs I would love to stop confidence men (con-men) like Van Praagh from victimizing people. Some of the people these frauds have "helped" have sunken money they couldn't afford to pay losers like him when they can go to grief support groups for free. Hell, I can tell you for free that your dead loved ones want you to stop grieving, remember the good times and live your life. Free! Not to mention the psychic and faith healers killing people who need real help. They must be STOPPED!

  • You are nuts. You think James Van Praagh can get a tv-show like that from nowhere? He helped the police many times, I don't believe he's faking. And yes, I believe in spirits. Just cos you can be in heaven, doesn't mean you can't be on earth, and just cos you can be in Madrid, doesn't mean you can be in Berlin a few hours later.

  • James Van Praagh is a liar and anyone who thinks he is for real is not only nuts but naive.

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  • James tells the audience about private things, that he can impossibly know by personalities, style or behavior. And as weird as it seems, they confirm that his story is real.

  • Is this James guy... the same dude they make fun of in South Park?

    I don't know if he's real. He looks like a douche to me so I don't pay attention to him. But I do believe there are people who can do what he does and they don't go around being douche bags about it or making money look like their objective.

  • I'm very spiritual.I don't believe in a heaven or a hell. I dnt belong to any church. But i believe in a next life. I can honnestly say that everything happends for a reason and there is something greater than science, proof, and even God. I respect your opinions. I think that churches only limit a persons mind set when it comes to seeing what's really out there. I'm sure many people in this society still have alot more to learn about themselves and how we're all connected somehow on this Earth.

  • @UToobSoup I don't want to be mean, but how can you think everything happens for a reason?

    Did God intend for people to have severe mental retardation, or have babies that are born with just a brain stem who can't even function? There are women who are locked away in basements and raped for decades. Hitler happened for a reason? Do 25,000 children starve to death EVERYDAY because it's God's plan?

    Isn't it more likely these people are a victim of terrible circumstances, not God's plan?

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  • cold readers are making loads a money

  • cold readers ARE making loads of money and their clients are by all accounts, religious believers!! What does that say?

  • I don't get it! What's your point? Are you drawing the conclusion that JVP is a fraud on the basis of whether everyone in the audience is a believer in the paranormal, ie, whether or not everyone clapped. Wow!  That's pretty darned lame in my opinion. Everyone knows there are skeptics; that hardly proves that a certain psychic medium is a fraud. I think you need a few long naps yourself. I'm with Gordondon, a heck of a lawyer indeed.

  • That conclusion was drawn already by Michael Shermer. My point is that some people didn't clap which is a simple way of not supporting him.

  • Bravo bravo Atheist is that all you have to offer. You'd make a heck of a Lawyer lol

  • Thanks but if I had nothing to offer I could be a preacher or VanPraugh

  • well they don't really know like you don't

  • James Van Bullshit! SUCKERS!!!!!

  • Stay away from the people who are clapping, they could pass it onto you

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  • They aren't clapping and encouraging a crook.

  • lol do not worry about this poster on youtube. The footage doesnt show people not clapping. I for one, clap low near my knees when sitting down. try it, you wont see your shoulders move..We can't even see their hands!! LOL. If they were not interested in the topic-they wouldnt have appeared in the audience lmao. :)

  • No and you have no proof they believe this deceptive con artist. I am glad to point out there are people who don't clap for nonsense. Because it makes our general populous more ignorant to believe in bunk. You don't need god to have love and hope. You don't have to go to church to be misled by con-men.

  • what is the damn point? who cares if some don't clap. mind your own.

  • That people don't cheer this charlatan on.

  • jenallo, then don't bother posting here as your points aren't worthy.

  • jenallo, and are you a simpleton or expert in string theory, holograms and quantum reality and secondly what does that have to do with deception?

  • Oh my! there are people who don't believe in ghosts???! i never knew that was possible... -___-''' get a live really, if you're so sure ghosts don't exist why waste time counting how many people clap in a talk show? >.>'' its pathetic, and makes you look like an insecure moron that has to have everyone agreeing with him.

  • lmao true that !!! It's great to listen to all sides of an arguement, but I'd never sit around watching how many ppl contribute to a social norm. Some people don't clap out of shyness as well, and some ppl clap at low levels, near the knees when sitting and it wont be shown if th ecams on their shoulders-which would be why we see ppl clapping at above them*cough*b.c we see hands lol

  • not only does he mention the stains, he starts describing what his friend James is wearing. Remember, this little boy has no idea this his friend James is dead, but he was able to know what James was wearing the day he got killed. Sorry, I don't want to give every detail, but it happens." Kids say the darnest things", I have to say though, after this incident, there was no denying from my behalf.

  • I know I'm about two months behind on your post here, but can you please site your source for this anecdote?

  • I just glanced through your video, but I do believe in the energy that people live behind after they pass away. Explain this scenario which I'm rephrasing but I can testify did happen. : A 5 yr old boy James is killed, his best friend Jay is continuously found playing outside his house claiming he's playing with James who he doesn't know is dead. The catch here is that he asks his mother to get him a napkin to wipe the 'red stains that was over James's clothes.

  • I totally agree wt u. I have had esperiences that I can't explain too and have seen ghosts/the dead.

  • I truly realize ghosts are made up entities just like santa. Anyone who doesn't realize that has cognative dissonance issues and most need pyschological help. Good day and good luck getting help.

  • I agree you believe ghosts exist as neurological concepts in your mind just like santa exists in my 5 year old's brain. Get some pyschological counseling to overcome superstitious beings exist.

  • Some would say God doesn't exist but there are millions of people in the world who believe he does. In fact most of the world's population believes in a higher power of some sort. You can't tell us that you're the only "Sane" person in the world can you? You don't have to be psychologically unstable to believe in such things. Even scientists admittedly can't explain everything. Maybe you should be the one to seek counseling for your morbid cynicism and bitterness.Or don't you like being judged?

  • That is the fallacy known as ad populum. I will gladly listen to you just me about my cynicism(skepticism) and bitterness(unwillinglyness to agree with the majority) but that's fine. I didn't say or shouldn't say that all xians are insane.

  • Im impress theres an atheist in Texas. Lol. And I thought you were all dumb. Or is that just Bush? lol

  • Just because some people don't clap at the word ghost doesn't mean im going to believe what they do. I've seen and heard to many things that i can't explain. I believe in ghosts, doesn't mean i believe someone that says they can talk to them. But who the hell are you to say something isn't real? Believe in God? Believe in the bible? Ever heard of the holy ghost?Look it up even the bible talks about a after life and so many people read the bible so it must be true right?

  • No, the bible belief of an afterlife is just the fallacy ad populum. Ghosts are real? My 5 year old thinks santa is real.

  • LOL. What your whole video was about the medium not being popular with the people watching. You keept saying "people werent clapping" Im not christian, but if your saying to go by things that are popular then i should be christian right? You a sheep? going by what everyone thinks?

  • LOL, ghosts are not real but the majority of the US thinks they are possible, the ad populum fallacy supports your notion of ghosts. I'm in the minority that realizes god and santa and ghosts are fictional.

  • Like i said im not a christian, i dont believe in mediums.. But you can't take away the experiances i've had with ghosts. Thats something you know nothing about and can't touch.

  • Nope, in your head you believe in ghosts and that experience in your neurons is real, ghosts aren't though.

  • How about this. In YOUR head you think ghosts arn't real, but everyone else is lucky enough to have experances that you wish you could have. There was a room full of people that experianced a ghost, people that didn't even believe. So im not taking some 50 year olds opinion that still lives in his moms basement trying to change peoples view on things. You won't be able to change my opinion, sorry. I dont think you've changed anyones opinions. You fail, now leave me alone. Your waisting your time

  • Nope, neither santa nor god nor the tooth fairy exist except in the mind of people with a mental disorder. If they were real everyone could see them. I generally do fail when it comes to people who suffer from cognative dissonance. It is a waste of time when people suffer from mental illnesses. Sorry I failed to help you.

  • *sigh* You didn't fail me. You failed yourself. No mind of your own. I believe in what i want to. Trying to insult people by saying its a mental problem doesnt bother me. So try again. Your just trying to get attention and be cool for once in your life. I'm not religious, but im not like you. Im not a fucking asshole. To each there own. I bet you beat up on little kids with cancer because they think god will help. Never met a atheist. what will they kill your family if you dont agree with em?

  • *bigger sigh*, I failed to educate you. I accept I failed to educate someone that ghosts are fictional. You are no fucking asshole. YOu are a stupid fucking asshole. Beat up on little kids? Never met an atheist?  kill family? You are nuts.

  • Atheists must not only be worthless, but fucking retarded also. How does putting what i say to you, help your defence? It doesn't. You just sound even more stupid and even more of a cunt. Stop beating up on people and kids that don't fucking do as you say. Let me guess. A women says no, you dont like it so you force her? Thats what your comming off as, you fucking rapist. Someone please put a bullet through this fucks head so he stops talking and his mom can have her basement back.

  • Ninn, why don't you do it? Come on, be tough.

  • Someone that lived in your fucking STATE would help, dumb fuck. There's a way you show people what you believe, and theres a way not to. Your going about it the wrong way so no ones going to listen to you. Like i said before someone will knock your teeth out, probably already have. But you won't admit that. Trying to look better then what you really are. Well im done.. At the end of the day im not taking in nothing your saying. So bye

  • Good shut up and don't threaten me in any way when you dare not back it up.

  • lmao your telling a 16-year old too got kill himself thats very rich what your doing is much richer yeah some stuff he says i don't blive cause thats his ponit of veiw but it does NOT give you the right too make a hate-video agiast someone you don't even know THATS wrong. thats fine if you don't bleive if ghosts thats your thought but don't be shoving your probmles in peoples head and a crap load of people hate your ass so do US ALL A FAVER AND GET OFF YOUTUBE

  • no, you get off youtube and the killing yourself was meant as a test to show you are right but we both know you aren't so you don't do it.

  • he is NOT A FAKE all you guys make me sick i want to hear what you say when you die THEN YOU WUD BELINE IN GHOST hes the real deal your not your turning people agaist him you need help big time if your going too waste your time trying too screw with peoples lives why not go kill yourself and see if you become a ghost then put THAT on youtube

  • I'll tell you what harrypotter, you go kill yourself and come back as a ghost and present yourself to me as a ghost and I will believe you and James. If that doesn't happen I 'll continue to realize ghosts are just made up fictional beings.

  • Ummmm. I went to this video because I thought it would debunk James van Praagh (who I believe is phoney), but it only showed a few people from an audience of 100+ who didnt clap. Just because you don't clap to something at a particular moment does'nt mean you don't agree with it. There are plenty of times I hear something I agree to but for whatever reason decide not to clap. It would have been better to see Praagh's phoney guesses than see what a few people in the audience.

  • James Van Praagh has been debunked but people don't care. I'm just happy people don't just clap out of habit. I'm sure there are plenty of videos showing his vague guesses being counted as hits.

  • just because you are stupid does mean you are an idiot

  • I'm pretty much atheist, but the ghosts are a different story.

    I've had alot of paranormal experiences that have no scientific explanation. Yes most of them I have excused as hallucinations and other developed science explanations. A few of them are beyond me in explaining.

  • i'm in the middle. I I'm not sure if psychics/ghosts exist or not. but we cannot claim to know everything. We are only little specks and there is so much unknown.

  • And just because you can imagine it doesn't mean it exists.

  • dear oh dear oh dear. lol :P

  • OMG this is the most STUPID video and what a waist of time!!!! WHO GIVES A FLYING FIG who is or is not clapping!!!! Everyone is different and beleives different things. What are you trying to prove by this??!! STUPID!

  • No, stupid is believing a con-man can talk to the dead.

  • That's what YOU beleive! That's fine! lol So why waust your time on it!!?? NO ONE has ALL the answers.

  • No, it's true you just can't accept it and Van Praugh has no answers, just scamming people out of their money.

  • @butterflybliss0 It's very important because these scam artists who go into a crowd and cold read will know who is more receptive to them and can then train their aim onto the more accepting audience members. If they then only speak to these people who will help them by doing things such as offering information it only validates them more and more and gives credence to their ludicrous claims.

  • So what about the friggin clapping!! I never clap at those kinds of functions even if it does pertain to me. Alot of people do that! Non clapping does not debunk mediums!

  • No, common sense debunks charlatans.

  • you also have to remember that this is television (the industry that i'm actually in) and we dont always use responses from the times the questions are asked, it's no live, it's edited. a lot of times i'll hear in my ear from my director "make sure you get someone smiling for post production" or "make sure you get a kid laughing at some point so we can insert there" so on and so forth...

  • Oh gawd, you cannot base your suspicions on those people. The majority of them are extras (aka, they get paid to be on the show and act like real audience members). Most of them don't even pay attention to whats going on! lol Not to mention that video editing can make it look like the audience clapped/cheered when something was said. For instance, someone instructs, "Okay, now clap and cheer!" WHOOO!! done. Then they edit it. Stop taking the media seriously, especially on shows like this.

  • Extras? Says who? You don't think extras are the ones going to this nonsense and get paid. The people go willingly. I don't take it serious but it's good to know people don't just willingly clap for charlatans.

  • I worked as an extra many times in gameshows, movies, and shows like this :p I know how these things work. I live in Hollywood! lol Extras pick which shows they want to be in. It's totally their choice. Keep your suspicions, but please do not base it on hollywood. It's too unstable. Hmmm...but I do wonder why you make it such a mission spending so much time and energy into trying to prove that something is wrong? I wuv you :p

  • Because this ignorance and deception takes advantage of people.

  • But how do you know? Have you ever experienced those things for yourself? P.S. I left you a wonderful message because I could not comment on your page :/

  • Provide me with the name of my deceased grandfather and how he died. If you can't that's because it's not possible to know unless you were there or read the coroner's report.

  • Um...dude. Calm down. I don't do things like that lol Not everyone can speak to the dead. :p But here I am trying to be nice to you, giving you a nice message, and you're getting all defensive over assumptions of nothing. Relax! Nobody is trying to persecute you here lol

  • I'm calm, educate up. No one can speak to the dead. We all have the same senses and the same brain relatively . Sorry you think I'm defensive.  I'm just saying it's bunk and to think it's real makes someone naive.

  • But what if that medium told them things that no one else would know at all about that someone? How can that person NOT believe anything? Of course, they're gonna feel it's weird and think "no way! this can't possibly happen!", but how else would the medium know? Believing in something after experience does not make a person naive. Have you ever seen a black hole? No, but you saw pictures from a book and heard people talk about it. Would it be naive of you to believe in a black hole?

  • Calm down. It's called cold reading and Michael Shermer has shown how they do it. There's a basis for a black hole, science.

  • There's a basis of spiritualism involving all this, too. It's called Kirlian Photography, Theta DNA Healing, Energy Frequencies, and Frequency Vibration and such. The science is there. It's always there. People are just so stubborn that they don't even want to look at it. Scientists have been trying to disprove these things for years, but...well, they just can't do it! :p Just as people put faith in their preachers, you're putting in faith into Michael. Not much of a difference, eh? :p

  • Can you cite a peer reviewed journal that confirms kirlian photography etc. Some people are naive and believe bunk. Michael admits that there are things we don't know but doesn't make claims that aren't supporters. Preachers do just the opposite.

  • I admit that I cannot find a scientific journal about Kirlian Photography at all. I did find it interesting, however, and I thank you for sharing that with me. Still, experience overthrows naivety. I will continue researching my own things as what I do, is prove to myself and others what is real and what is not. Once again, I say that I am not like others when involved in these things - I actually accept criticism! lol Kirlian photography is just one subject. There are many more to look into.

  • I found this video accidentally while looking at a related topic. I happened to be watching Dr. Phil when this subject was presented. I wrote a comment of disapproval on his message board but it wasn't published.

    I think he used his influence in a very irresponsible way by having this charlatan on his show.

  • i respect your being skeptical but the more skeptical one is comes down to being more engulfed in ones ego to allow the forgetting his or her essence... or never dying energy... the feeling of not having a soul is the trick of the ego... the oldest trick of mankind... you say prove that there is more to the self than just the material body.... energy never dies... you cannot destroy energy... the only knowing is inner knowing... you can't get it from somebody else

  • BTW, understanding and believing in the spirit world has nothing to do woth believing in god. As a matter of fact there is no god as described in the holy books, but there is endless evidence of spirits and the existance of the soul. first you need to learn to distinguish the two and not mix these things with religion. these are scientific facts.

  • Spirit=superstition god=superstition soul=superstition Please provide where on the body anatomy the soul resides so I can verify this as fact.

  • There's a book called 'DMT - The Spirit Molecule' by Dr Rick Strassman. It's a very interesting read. Dimethyltriptamine is an endogenous chemical and there's speculation that it plays a role in certain psychological/neurological states such as dreaming. The Strassman research theorises that DMT is produced by the pineal gland and is released in a massive burst prior to death or near death could be the cause of the near death experience phenomenon; Only speculation, but it's very interesting.

  • Big fuking deal dude. So you think since the majority of young people don't believe in something then hell it must be the reality!

    Do a little research and you'll quickly findout the reality of things. Indeed there is no such a thing as ghosts that haunt people. there is "spirits" and there is no malevolent ones. And the real reality is at the other place not here.

  • There are spirits? Prove it.

  • I don't have to prove shet to you. you want proof, go seek it like I did.

    You're on your own. You living with strict belief in no spirits doesnt harm or benefit me. So live with whatever belief you want. I live according to truth because that is the most rewarding way to live.

  • No, you don't have to prove anything. I accept you don't stand up to charlatans like JVP.

  • It's good to be skeptical but my advice to atheists right now is WAKE THE FUCK UP!

  • I"m awake :)

  • good you are a tool dude, "look no clapping she didnt clap" when dr.phil asked if anyone beleved you could hear the audince loudly appalude. go back to work.

  • Some clapped and some chose not to.

  • Looks like he is blocking and deleting my stuff. I win.

  • I was messing with you...you lose.

  • Whatever. You deleted my videos and my text. So game over. You basically admit you lost the debate.

  • I won. You refused to put up your video that solidified my points against your ability to hold a rational discussion because it exposed the real you, a loose cannon.

  • Right.

  • Right? You didn't put it up because we both know you act exactly like you claim I act. Why are my comments not showing up on your gay marriage video? I know why...you can't the facts.

  • Right. And you didn't add any comments, but good try.

  • Good try? No, that too is a fact.

  • Right.

  • Good job acknowledging that.

  • Uhuh..

  • yep.

  • You can post all you want. I don't delete stuff from other people, expecially when they put time, effort, and energy into it.

  • Right.

  • Well I decided to check into your claim, because I didn't see any comments from you, and you were for some reason in my block list. I think I was trying to do it on one of my old videos (one that you removed from here) and counter-delete you, but it apparently works channel wide. So it is possible you posted and it got blocked. My apologies. Your removed from that list.

  • Folks? Again you are talking to yourself. I told you to put up the old video and you lied that you lost it.

  • he wrote in 1909. And how often, James wondered rhetorically, had such efforts stopped people from seeing ghosts and believing in supernatural powers? Because in the end, of course, the conclusion has nothing to do with science at all and everything to do with how one sees the world.

  • The American psychologist and philosopher William James, also a leader in the Victorian paranormal research movement, remarked even then on the culture clash: "How often has 'Science' killed off all spook philosophy, and laid ghosts and raps and 'telepathy' underground as so much popular delusion?"

  • A major source of information about the spirit world is "near death experiences." Large numbers of persons throughout history have describe the same complex realities, which would not be possible without a basis in objective truth. It is of the nature of such objective realities that there are an infinite number of consistent relationships to surrounding realities, which never occurs with false realities.