John Edward hasn’t had a show on TV in 8 years–he now does everything online as he prefers it.
He was brought up Catholic. Before he started his first show in the late 90’s, he consulted with a number of Catholic priests…who gave him their blessing to do what he does.
(I know this because I’ve interviewed him and at the time, I interviewed the priests as well).
I don’t think he attends mass much, but he does the rosary a lot–probably every day. He wrote a book in 2005 about the rosary called: *
Practical Praying: Using the Rosary to Enhance Your Life*
I thought I would follow you for a while to see what you are up to.
I’m a science researcher.
He appears to be a quack. His real name is John Edward McGee, Jr. (1) He isn’t a practicing Catholic according to World Religions & Spirituality Project VCU • Virginia Commonwealth University. Here is an excerpt from that website (2):
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*While John Edward was raised in the Roman Catholic tradition, he reportedly began to question his religious identity from an early age. Throughout his childhood, he attended weekly mass and was encouraged to participate in church activities; however, he recalls approaching religion with a sense of skepticism, conducting independent research on religious traditions outside of his own. This sense of separation was, to an extent, both fueled and intensified by Edward’s psychic abilities. As his abilities began to play a larger role in his life and he started to interpret them in a paranormal sense, he felt distanced from the faith of his childhood which renounces the paranormal. While Edward never fully dissociated himself from the Catholic faith and continues to identify himself as a Catholic, his professed religious beliefs diverge from traditional Catholicism and Christianity in several fundamental respects, primarily in that he does not consider Jesus Christ to be the son of God (Edward 2001). While he does affirm the existence of a God, he regards the divine to be impersonal. Edward’s experiences with the supernatural have led him to adopt a pluralistic stance toward religion, considering different religious traditions to be different paths to the same ultimate reality. Therefore, while he does consider Jesus a prophetic figure, he proclaims Christ to have been “‘one of many’” (Quoted by Hallowell 2013).
Furthermore, Edward has incorporated Eastern and Native American religious ideals into his personal belief system. Edward began alluding to belief in reincarnation as a child, claiming not only to have lived multiple lives, but to have retained memories and knowledge of his past lives. In addition, Edward has professed a belief in Spirit Guides, or evolved spiritual beings, which he claims have played an influential role in spiritual matters and growth throughout his life. According to Edward, while he had been aware of the presence of these guides since he was a child, he failed to interpret their identity until age sixteen when he underwent a past life regression under the guidance of Shelley Peck. Apparently the regression went in an unexpected direction, and Edward’s spirit guides appeared to him. He claims to have a total of six guides: five “regular” guides, including a teenager and a monk, and a “master guide,” who appeared to Edward as a Native American. Master guides, as Edward has described, are assigned at birth to follow someone throughout the course of his or her life until crossing over into the spiritual
realm (Edward 1998). According to Edward, every person has Spirit Guides and is capable of communicating with them; however, most people must first undergo training in order to become sensitive to their presence and able to understand their messages.*
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- thefullwiki.org/John_Edward
- wrs.vcu.edu/profiles/JohnEdward.htm
I’d like for you to give me a link (url) that I can see of the book he wrote that you state, “Practical Praying: Using the Rosary to Enhance Your Life.”
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