George Tonight: John Edward | CBC

[Applause] how's things things are good like just age like 40 years like watching myself there's kind of your whole life it's always playing that sad nightlife clip I'm real a long time so it's fun funny watch it's like a video you'll achieve a sense isn't it what dumb we can talk with Saturday Night Live's in the end you know that people will spoof you in that context how did you feel when you first saw it you know when you say that you talk to dead people for a living you have to kind of have a little bit of a you can't take yourself so seriously because you know that people are gonna fall on both sides of the spectrum so you know as long as people are polite about it and poking fun it's when they take it to the step of being personal and they would like to find you're attacking you that's not so cool um it is quite a career choice is it like the priesthood and that people claim they don't call it it calls them oh yeah it's more at the Mafia yeah which is not unlike the priesthood in some religions and some i really really say that not so lightly in the sense that you do have a calling to do this and it's not something that you like i'm a few credits show on my master's degree in healthcare and public administration and if you would ask me what i was gonna be doing that's what i was gonna be doing this work exploded on me in a place that i I needed to make a decision and it was very very hard for me to say you know as a married guy like I'm going to quit my normal job that has two and a half to three weeks vacation what a 401k plan because that's what you're supposed to do and then do this which has nothing attached to it and just say like I'm gonna go do what my passion is you know if we do pop psychology on anybody in terms of the things they end up doing in their life somehow charts back to their childhood I suspected this has to for you as well doesn't it I think in some ways you know watching the piece like my mom's side of the family was totally into the subject matter of my uncle's my aunt's my grandmother my dad side of the family was not so parties didn't ate like oh my god they would have like maybe like once or twice a year they would have some psychic person come to the house but my father's rule was I don't want my son around that I want him out so I was never allowed to be around that around the age of like 13 my mom dad split I live with my mom that she would just say look do not discuss this with your father because I don't want to have to deal with him but I had adopted his mindset that this couldn't possibly be real and then when did it occur to you in your mind you thought it might be real it occurred to me there might be real when I went to debunk of one of the women that they had at the house yeah and I couldn't you couldn't if I could at the bunker would you qualified to debunk her or was it just based on yeah I I thought I was I was a smartass sophomore in high school when I was like I'm gonna go in there debunk a Rubik's Cube right that I'm gonna sit there and I'm gonna do all the stuff that people you know I made sure that there was no nobody would know it I just sat there and as I looked at her I wouldn't give her anything the woman did not even look at me she had her eyes closed she was holding my high school ring and she was doing something called psychometry which is where you hold an object and you take the person's energy from the object and the first words out of her mouth was this was what I was to be doing and I remember like looking like okay come on how psyche could she be why would she try to get me to join her quote-unquote group group she has to know that I don't buy this but she just did not she just went right past me and just kept going you you I'm sure you understand why people think this is craziness right I do I do because I think that people think a lot of things are crazy when they don't understand it like I found myself watching stuff and listening to people talk and thinking wow that's like insane and then I find myself stopping going wait a minute you don't have a right to say that listen to what the person saying and then formulate whether or not you subscribe to it or not what's the first time when you feel like you are talking to somebody who's dead what's that for me the first time would have to be in my dreams I used to dream of oh I used to call my little old man friend and it turned out to be my mom's dad my grandfather who I never knew he had been gone for like ten years before I was born did you explore possibilities that maybe it would be a scientific explanation could be hormones in your brain or things firing off and in particular that made you think you were feeling that no because when somebody gives you information that's factual about the future no but I did as a kid they actually would use I get they actually did think that I had a tumor yeah but I didn't I was I was fine maybe I am second according to your book sir I could be absolutely according to many people most people in this audience from watching at home actually are their psychic everybody psychic what a psychic ability in your mind not everybody could speak to the dead right psychic ability is using energy and understanding the trends of energy and that's probably the the thing that I like people to understand is that we're all energy and your thoughts manifest your future so if you can direct your energy towards a future then you can create your outcome so for the people going oh this is I'm the victim has happened to me this happened to me shift that thinking shift the outcome but now take that energy to the other side think about it like Facebook I think it's the original social network that what the dead the dead people floating around yes it's in the house is the original concept of like where inspiration of that would come from it's like you know when I hear like except everybody's profile is very private yeah but every but you can be you know spirited instead of friended insanely you can be acknowledged or you could be somebody could let you know that they're around it's that's how we stay connected do you always do if you found that there are trends in terms of what they tell you it's like do they tell you what it's like even if they try it I probably wouldn't get that and I'll tell you why there's certain things that I believe in that I will I will talk about like I believe we all have spirit guides but I wants to do and tell the client what your guide is because I can't validate that I will tell you what you've already got just Rumer please say yes I won't be able to tell you that okay however I wouldn't be able to tell you what you were in a past life either although I do believe in reincarnation but I can say to you oh by the way somebody there has a son who passed and they were hit by a car that I could say why because it's a fact and it's something that's factual it's coming through that can be supported and validated by the conversation coming from the person who's giving that's weak what are you thinking but when people say that you're taking advantage of those who are grieving I say that they don't really truly understand the process be honest that's what I say because if you're dealing with the parent who's lost a child and they are sitting with somebody who's legitimate at doing this work and you help that person know that their child has survived this physical death and that they are still connected there is no greater reward on the planet than that light turning on that parents face there is man has a parent I can tell you firsthand it is the driving force that lets me do what I do you have two kids right a four and eight roughly for an eight what's that take your dad to work the school day like for you well talks to your dead grandfather I I am not training my kids clear to be psychic but this book will probably be my legacy in the sense that I think many years from now people will not really care who the hell I am but they are gonna care about who they are as individuals and about their own psychic ability and I think this book will be something that can help them tune into their abilities and this is what I live for my kids do you hear the demos voices these knowing his thoughts as thought I I hear them as thought so energy comes in and it's perceived in three different ways for me I see it hear it and feel it and it's like having a daydream it's literally like having a daydream and paying attention to what I'm saying and then describing it I say this with no glibness because they're very curious about this and you when you see people who are battling mental illness and a lot of dealing with schizophrenia they hear stuff too and they have thoughts that pop into the head as well and that we all have some version of mental illness in our life it's just however our physical manifested students between you and somebody on the street who's not getting the proper treatment maybe they are psychic too maybe they're very funny you should say that because a colleague of mine who's now passed and I take this as a sign that she might be around me because this was her classic line talk to me at all no no she's dead so if she did she but that's okay not even she we were driving past the place called Creedmoor in New York which is a psychiatric hospital and I'm she was very very quiet and she said gee I wonder how many of us are actually in there right now and I like looked at I was like in Creedmoor and she's like yeah I think about it she said we just have a better grip on what it is that we're doing we understand the reality upon which we're living she goes some of them are probably then we are what we do because they don't have that grip and I'm looking I'm like so basically you telling me that I'm a nut bag that's what you tell them yeah so potentially right well maybe a little bit maybe we all need to be look razy then you obviously clearly believe in what you believe in as the great spider-man once said in that book with great power comes great responsibility absolutely and then Stanley is a genius for that particular line so you're also picking one of my favorite superheroes but that's my man yeah well yeah I'm gonna you're on a real man spidey-sense when you were a kid did you think you're spider-man your life I just understand why I couldn't stick to walls when I so you believed it to be true so is it a heavy responsibility it's a huge can't be a fun head space to be in no it's a huge responsibility and and you know this book I've taken a lot of flack for because I have a very harsh tone in it I'm very very strict for anybody that's looking to develop their abilities because I wanted to take the responsibility of very seriously because your words do have an impact so yeah it is a huge responsibility but when I don't take lately [Applause] Miss Cleo famed TV psychic ripped her head off in Celebrity Deathmatch Celebrity Deathmatch I was not happy I lost I lost it was Cleo yeah hello do you how do you feel when you get lumped in with people like that not good no not not good there are enough hucksters out there that's why yeah not not good but you know what it's for me I those are listened to be parried on something like that is deaf it means you you know permeated pop culture enough that people would understand who you are so you think Facebook and Twitter or bad for our psyche health I don't think that I don't think that they're bad I personally think that they open you up energetically to allowing that kind of stuff in where it's not having a conversation with somebody they'll make a statement and then it gets put on their wall when it gets tweeted out so how many other people and then it creates so if you're having a bad day and you put on your status I'm having a bad day and you have 200 friends now 200 friends are now thinking about you having a bad day compounding yeah you having a bad day so so it's so fulfilling in a sense it does you believe in the secret I believe in I believe in la retraction I think the secret package you did beautifully Christians can't stand what you do to can they not all Christians I think people who have fundamentalist beliefs or actually more importantly if you just boil it down to people who come from a place of fear that they could yes people like that who are coming from a place of programming of fear than the other have a problem a rapid-fire anthropology favorite movie Ghost or The Sixth Sense ghost have you ever been harassed by a ghost no all right favorite Ghostbuster dan Aykroyd or Bill Murray dan aykroyd and that great that's almost the right answer all right you're you're half Italian half Irish which side of the family are better Catholics Italian Italian ere you go do you play the Lodi a lottery and are you allowed at casinos I have played the lottery and I am allowed at casinos so you'd only be seen if really people tell you what's coming next can't they see if I'm playing no nice true or false you make your wife in a ballroom dance class I did she's my teacher what's harder to learn the cha cha or the merengue cha cha wait what's harder learning to communicate with the dead or learning the cha cha cha cha does the fact that you do what you do for a living suck for your kids because they will never be able to speak drugs by you because you'll know let me just tell you they are screwed okay can you tell what people are up to no good oh yeah yeah I know my song whole time I'm laying the groundwork now like I'll call them up and I'll talk to him I'll be like so what happened today at the school would then how describe it to him and he'll be like were you there and I'm like no but my eyes will always be there can I go like that what are you bullshitting them okay fun no I'm absolutely not how many times have you been mistaken for that douchebag US Senator John Edwards and did his did his extramarital affairs ever complicate your life let's just say that I feel unfortunate for him as well and happy to be compared to me and find a be a politician yeah it wasn't it's not pleasant when you're like walking through your house and you hear your name on CNN yeah no kidding your lady looks like and go excuse me something what do you do yeah Yankees or Mets neither whoa you look Long Island don't you for long valid ID either Islanders or Rangers neither neither do you like sports at all nothing obviously not nothing soccer nothing no that was that fat kid in the bleacher who was like was Mia the girl getting picked for the team the book is called infinite quest John Edward everybody thanks for watching we'll see you next time

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Length: 11min 44sec (704 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 14 2011