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and let me know that she was OK. She continued to tell that every summer she visited her Grandmama in at her house
in Idaho and my co-worker mentioned the colors of her house said that the last thing they did together was make a
needlepoint for a footstool cover together.
So I freaked out and I ran out of Paramount Studios and never went back again! And I ran back to my apartment and I
was freaking out because I saw a dead person! That was in the early 90s and stuff like that was never talked about. I
really had no idea what to do about seeing dead people. So I went back to see that medium who said I was a medium.
His name was Brian Hearst. So I told him of what happened and he said, "CALM down James, Calm down. Remember
I told you of that the spirit world predicted that your talents would be revealed AND that was two years ago today.
Jewels: Wow. Goosebumps!
James: My life changed. Brian taught me about metaphysics for many years. Every Tuesday night for 7 years I would
sit in the quiet to open myself up to how to use and develop my mediumistic powers. This helped me to expand and be
able to discern between spirit voices and my own, which is the hardest part of mediumship. Is it coming from within
self or outside of self.? Then after 7 years, I started doing readings for people. I got very busy by just word of mount
and no advertising.
Then a producer from "Unsolved Mysteries" came and had me on their TV show. Then I was on a show called "From
the Other Side," on NBC which was a morning TV show. This was the first big paranormal show out there with Will
Miller as host on NBC every morning at 9 AM. Although it was a national show, it was a bit before it's time but I was
number one guest. After that things got a little bit crazy. That brought me to Larry King which mentioned my very my
first book "Talking To Heaven."
I remember my Publisher at first said... "NO one wants to talk to the Dead," and of course, he was dead wrong! His
thoughts were that that humans are born and then die, but they don't yet know about death. But I knew people wanted
to know more information and my book sold over 600,000 copies which really catapulted me onto the world stage as
well!
Jewels: And not only that, but I was very surprised to learn that you created the
TV Show, The Ghost Whisperer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. I loved that
show, but I didn't realize that you created it!
James: Yes, I did!
Jewels: Were those real experiences of yours that was portrayed on the series?
James: Some of those were real experiences or based on actual experiences. We
brought in a specialist Mary Ann Winkowski who was basically a G'hostbuster'
(cleared houses of earthbound spirits). Now personally I don't believe Spirits
showing up so readily like they did in the show. But, there might be some
emotional blockages that instigate a visit, like for instance, there might be a
young man passed who was 24 years of age and he grew up in a very religious
household. And he was taught that he had to do things a certain way or he would
go to hell. So after he passed, he was afraid to go into the light. That's
understandable. Or let's say as a man on his way to work was hit by a train and he
pops out of the body and thinks... Oh! I don't think my wife will know where to
look for the insurance papers! He may have tried to get her. And just like the movie goes in "Ghost" with Patrick
Swayze, he stayed around just to make sure his girlfriend was safe. So those sort of things do happen, and that was the
basis for "Ghost Whisperers."
At the end of every show you may have noticed my thumb-print. I did do about two or three movies for the TV and one
starred Ted Danson who portrayed me (it was a biography) called "Living with the Dead." Danson was picked because
we look so much alike, right? So then CBS asked if I could come up with a series and that's was what "Ghost
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