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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nordy with you.
Speaker 2: John Russell has more than forty five years of expertise
Speaker 2: as a professional psychic and a worldwide client teles with
Speaker 2: him as a paranormal investigator. He has witnessed more than
Speaker 2: eight hundred supernatural manifestations. He's also been an avid motorcyclist
Speaker 2: for over fifty years. John, Welcome back.
Speaker 3: Have you been George. It's so good to be back
Speaker 3: with my Coast family. I thank you. I appreciate you
Speaker 3: so much. I'm doing pretty good. I'm hanging in there.
Speaker 3: How about yourself, my friend?
Speaker 2: All good? The Coast family simply adores you.
Speaker 3: Oh, bless your heart. I thank you. I appreciate it
Speaker 3: so much. It's just such a delight to be here.
Speaker 3: And I get so much wonderful feedback from the listeners,
Speaker 3: and I just just appreciate it. Holl Lo.
Speaker 2: How did you get involved in the psychic mediumship?
Speaker 3: Oh goodness. That started when I was a child, and
Speaker 3: when I was about five years old, I had an
Speaker 3: experience where an old black ghost woke me up and
Speaker 3: terrified the hell out of me, and it went from there,
Speaker 3: and after that experience, he came to open up this
Speaker 3: portal and to the other side and for me to
Speaker 3: begin to have these physical paranormal manifestations that I experienced,
Speaker 3: And these were things that other people saw and experienced
Speaker 3: as well, So this was happening in the physical realm.
Speaker 3: These were events that were actually happening, and being such
Speaker 3: a small child, I didn't understand them, but I intuitively
Speaker 3: knew that somehow they were extremely important. They were important
Speaker 3: to me that were going to help my spiritual growth
Speaker 3: and down the road, somehow it was going to help
Speaker 3: me help other people, which of course they held. And
Speaker 3: then shortly after that manifestation, shortly after that occurred, I
Speaker 3: began to be aware of my psychic gift. And that
Speaker 3: happened when some friends of my parents that I didn't
Speaker 3: know came over to our house and I had this
Speaker 3: vision of where they had been on vacation, and I
Speaker 3: described it to them exactly, and I'll never forget the
Speaker 3: woman's eyes bugged out or her shaw drop, and she
Speaker 3: looked at my parents and she said, how the heck
Speaker 3: can he possibly know that? And my parents were like, oh,
Speaker 3: you know, kids in their imaginations, you know, kids will
Speaker 3: say anything. And she was like, no, no, no, this
Speaker 3: is not kids in their imaginations. She said, how the
Speaker 3: heck could he possibly know that? She said, this is
Speaker 3: what we were coming to tell you today about the
Speaker 3: vacation that we just went on with, John totally completely
Speaker 3: accurately described how was it possible? And so that was
Speaker 3: when I learned that I had this psych a gift
Speaker 3: that I could see in the people's lives where they
Speaker 3: had been, what they had been doing, what was going
Speaker 3: to happen in their futures. And went on from there.
Speaker 2: Then, John, did your parents support your bis?
Speaker 3: You know they did. My mother especially supported my abilities.
Speaker 3: Her side of the family had a long and rich
Speaker 3: history with the paranormal and were believers in the spiritual realm.
Speaker 3: My father experienced it, but he was a little bit
Speaker 3: afraid of it. Had kind of scared him a little bit.
Speaker 3: And that was funny because he was a rough and
Speaker 3: tumble guy. He had been a stock farmer, and he
Speaker 3: owned a bar and he was the bouncer for his
Speaker 3: own bar, a real tough guy. But when the paranormal occurred,
Speaker 3: it was something he couldn't control. He couldn't lay hands
Speaker 3: on it, he couldn't fight it, he couldn't resist it.
Speaker 3: It kind of had its way with him, and that
Speaker 3: kind of spooked him a little bit. So he had
Speaker 3: to acknowledge the reality of it, but he didn't want
Speaker 3: anything to do with it directly. But he didn't discourage me,
Speaker 3: and of course my mother encouraged me a lot. So
Speaker 3: that was a real blessing to grow up in that
Speaker 3: environment where my gift was acknowledged, recognized, and encouraged.
Speaker 2: Did you have a human teacher to help you?
Speaker 3: You know? I talked with a few people here and there,
Speaker 3: and I was able to learn at an early age
Speaker 3: that I had to evaluate everything that I was told.
Speaker 3: And so I begin to in this quest for the
Speaker 3: truth about the paranormal. I began to examine everything that
Speaker 3: I read, everything that I was told, everything I witnessed,
Speaker 3: And it was like, Okay, is this real or not?
Speaker 3: Is this somebody you know pulling one over on somebody,
Speaker 3: This is an old teaching goes way back. Is it
Speaker 3: really true? Does it really work? And so that was
Speaker 3: my criteria for everything, whether I read it, whether I
Speaker 3: took a class, whether I learned it from someone, whatever,
Speaker 3: whether I saw a demonstration. It was like, Okay, is
Speaker 3: this real? Is it really happening? And if it is,
Speaker 3: can I it is? It's something that I can incorporate
Speaker 3: into my life to make my life better and to
Speaker 3: help other people as well. So there were a few
Speaker 3: people along the way that provided smin Putt in guidance,
Speaker 3: but mostly it was just the other side coming to
Speaker 3: me directly and guiding me and teaching me and helping
Speaker 3: me and lightening me as I went.
Speaker 2: John has several books out, including Writing with Ghosts, Angels
Speaker 2: and the Spirits of the Dead, A Knock in the Attic,
Speaker 2: Twenty Ways to Increase Your Psychic Abilities, and his latest
Speaker 2: book is called The Crying Tree and the Magic Rock.
Speaker 2: What is that title all about?
Speaker 3: I had not a great title, George. I love That
Speaker 3: book is just out and you can go to Amazon
Speaker 3: and get it right now. You can go to Barnes
Speaker 3: and Noble and get it right now. The Crying Tree
Speaker 3: in the Magic Rock the title literally references the crying
Speaker 3: tree that I met when we moved our new home
Speaker 3: here in Florida, and there was the spirit in the
Speaker 3: tree that produced these incredible manifestations that readers will read
Speaker 3: about in the book, so that's part of the title.
Speaker 3: And then the other title is this magic rock that
Speaker 3: I found here when we moved our new home and
Speaker 3: all the different manifestations and exhibitions that this rock has
Speaker 3: done since I found it. And that's not the only
Speaker 3: magic rock I've had in my life. There have been
Speaker 3: several others, but some of the most dramatic manifestations from
Speaker 3: rocks have been from the rocks that I found here
Speaker 3: when we moved our new home. So that's the Crying
Speaker 3: Tree and the magic Rock.
Speaker 2: We're getting close to Halloween, John, Any great horror stories.
Speaker 3: Oh, I've got a funny story for sure, Hallowaite. Nothing
Speaker 3: as you know, as we've talked about before, George, that
Speaker 3: you know, nothing on the other side really scares me.
Speaker 3: And I don't do the ghost hunter shows on TV
Speaker 3: that type of thing that's not real, that's not reality
Speaker 3: and dealing with the paranormal roilment and having real psychic experiences.
Speaker 3: So nothing horrifying. But there was something really funny that
Speaker 3: I write about in the book that I'll tell everybody
Speaker 3: that occurred. When I was a kid, we lived about
Speaker 3: about three blocks from this beautiful park and my parents
Speaker 3: used to take me there when I was a kid,
Speaker 3: and this park features in my books and in the
Speaker 3: book to Come, which is another book coming out next year.
Speaker 3: We can talk about a little bit. But when I
Speaker 3: was young in elementary school, you know, we had the
Speaker 3: Halloween carnivals at school, and so my parents took me
Speaker 3: and picked up a friend of mine that lived a
Speaker 3: few blocks from us and took him with us. So
Speaker 3: we went together, went to the school carnival. We got done,
Speaker 3: and we had hatched the splot to talk my parents
Speaker 3: into letting us go trigger treating, and then he was
Speaker 3: going to go home. He only lived a few blocks.
Speaker 3: Somebody say he's going to walk home the dark, and
Speaker 3: it was a big deal, and his parents agreed to that.
Speaker 3: So unbelievingly, my parents agreed to it as well. We
Speaker 3: couldn't believe we got away with it. So when they
Speaker 3: came home from taking us to the school carnival, they
Speaker 3: brought us to our house and said, okay, y'all can
Speaker 3: trig or treat the neighborhood and then your friend can
Speaker 3: either come, we'll drive him home where he can walk
Speaker 3: over whatever. It was like, okay, So we were like
Speaker 3: just monkeys let out of a cage man. We were like,
Speaker 3: oh my god. And we were running through all the
Speaker 3: houses that had light, phone and getting their good soon
Speaker 3: and so forth. So they told us, you know, stay
Speaker 3: within a couple of blocked area, but we were like,
Speaker 3: they're not going to know. So we got down to
Speaker 3: the park and we were like, oh, man, as anybody
Speaker 3: this age, our age, elementary school kids, has anybody ever
Speaker 3: had such power and such an adventure and such excitement.
Speaker 3: And here we are in the park and it's dark,
Speaker 3: and we're like what do we do now, you know?
Speaker 3: And we're standing there and I see this glowing red
Speaker 3: orb floating through the air and I grabbed my friend.
Speaker 2: And I go, oh my god, look look what is that.
Speaker 3: What is that? And he's like, I don't know it.
Speaker 3: I said, is it a ghost? It must be a ghost.
Speaker 3: And we're like what don't we do? And he goes
Speaker 3: there was this big clump of ornamental grass there, I remember,
Speaker 3: and he goes, let's hide behind this, watch it and
Speaker 3: see what happens. And it's coming towardoise, It's floating toward us.
Speaker 3: I'm like okay, So we hide behind the grass and
Speaker 3: it gets closer, and it gets closer and we can
Speaker 3: see that it's not a floating, blowing orb. It's to
Speaker 3: lit glow from a cigarette. And this guy is walking
Speaker 3: through the park in the dark smoking a cigarette, young kid,
Speaker 3: and so we figure, holy cow, anybody that is brave
Speaker 3: enough and tough enough to walk through the park at
Speaker 3: night smoking a cigarette, we don't want to be around
Speaker 3: for this guy. And this guy's going to be worse
Speaker 3: than a ghost. I was like, what do we do.
Speaker 3: He's like, we got to run, We gotta get out
Speaker 3: of here. We're going to go back to your outh.
Speaker 3: So we jumped up, screamed at the top of our loafs,
Speaker 3: and this god nearly had a heart attack. He threw
Speaker 3: his cigarette, jumped, cursed, and we rent like crazy. And
Speaker 3: so that was our That was our little Halloween horror experience.
Speaker 2: There a story you'll never forget.
Speaker 3: A story I'll never forget as long as I live.
Speaker 3: And I put that in the book and all of
Speaker 3: my books, there are some some humorous things, just to
Speaker 3: remind everybody we can't be dead serious all the time.
Speaker 3: Life has to have a little humor. Life has to
Speaker 3: have a little laughter. And I get the feedback from
Speaker 3: our readers that say, I love that there's humor in
Speaker 3: your books, that there's some some joy to go with
Speaker 3: these stories. So that was that was my Halloween story.
Speaker 2: In spite of the supernatural and the paranormal and the unusual,
Speaker 2: you have looked at humankind and you've got techniques to
Speaker 2: help people alleviate ups and downs in life, don't you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I do. And that's one of the things
Speaker 3: that I teach people, especially in my third but twenty
Speaker 3: waist increase your psychic abilities. One of the main things
Speaker 3: I tell my clients, George, is that if you focus totally,
Speaker 3: fully and completely on something that's positive, it's not positive
Speaker 3: to have something negative in your mind as well. Now,
Speaker 3: if you're just sitting just being normal, you can you
Speaker 3: can weigh the pros and cons of anything. You can
Speaker 3: have my Bible of Feelings. You can say, well, you know,
Speaker 3: Uncle George died and that makes me sad, but I
Speaker 3: inherit it as a state and I'm rich. That makes
Speaker 3: me happy. So you can hold two opposing thoughts if
Speaker 3: you're just sitting around just just acting normally. But if
Speaker 3: you're depressed, or you've got issues to overcome, or you've
Speaker 3: got problems to do with, things are encroaching upon your
Speaker 3: mind and it's weighing you down. You can push those
Speaker 3: out of your mind by forcefully forcing yourself to think
Speaker 3: only on something positive and uplifting. It could be a
Speaker 3: favorite Bible verse, it could be a favorite spiritual quote
Speaker 3: of a motivational quote. It could be the memory of
Speaker 3: a favorite time in your life. It could be a
Speaker 3: song that you like or whatever that uplifts you and
Speaker 3: makes you feel good. But the key is you've got
Speaker 3: to focus on that to the exclusion of everything else.
Speaker 3: And it's like if you've got a selection of colors
Speaker 3: before you on pieces of paper, red and yellow and green, whatever,
Speaker 3: and I tell you to focus on the red to
Speaker 3: the exclusion of everything else. That means you're gonna put
Speaker 3: your face down to that piece of paper and you're
Speaker 3: gonna stare at that red, and you're gonna block all
Speaker 3: the other colors out. You're not gonna look at them
Speaker 3: even through your peripheral vision. You're gonna stare at that red.
Speaker 3: Let that red consume you. That's going to be the
Speaker 3: only thing you see. So it has to be likewise,
Speaker 3: when you're working with some positive or motivational thing or
Speaker 3: whatever it is, that lifts you up. That has to
Speaker 3: fill your mind. You can't allow anything else in. You
Speaker 3: can't allow anything else to come in or encroach. You
Speaker 3: can't allow yourself to waver back and forth between yeah,
Speaker 3: this makes me feel good, but you know poor uncle
Speaker 3: Jim in the hospital, or this and the other or
Speaker 3: blowing my cars moping out that. You can't do that.
Speaker 3: You can't allow that other negativity in. You've got to
Speaker 3: hold that positivity to the exclusion of everything else. And
Speaker 3: the more that you do that, the more that's going
Speaker 3: to allow you to receive inspirational guidance, help, input from
Speaker 3: the other side, solving the problem, solving abilities from your
Speaker 3: own intuition, getting intuition intuitive help the other side that
Speaker 3: you might not normally get flashes of inspiration coming to
Speaker 3: you that say, hey, you know, here's a way out
Speaker 3: of this, here's a way to help solve this problem,
Speaker 3: so on and so forth. So that's the key. You've
Speaker 3: got to focus on that to the exclusion of everything else,
Speaker 3: and you have to continue to do it until you
Speaker 3: get those that inspiration that helps you to solve that problem,
Speaker 3: overcome that difficulty, that shows you a way out or
Speaker 3: at least a way to deal with it, because if
Speaker 3: Uncle Joe's in the hospital and he's going to die,
Speaker 3: there may not be any way to change that, but
Speaker 3: there are ways to change your emotional reaction to that
Speaker 3: so that you can bring something positive to the situation
Speaker 3: instead of letting it weigh you down. Maybe you can
Speaker 3: go to Uncle Joe in and encourage him during his
Speaker 3: final days if that's going to be the case. That
Speaker 3: type of thing. So there's not always a solution, but
Speaker 3: there's a way to react to that issue that will
Speaker 3: be more meaningful, more helpful, more positive to you. And
Speaker 3: sometimes there is a solution, but you're not going to
Speaker 3: find it by being down in the molligrubs, by letting
Speaker 3: things overwhelm you, by letting things overtake you. You've got
Speaker 3: to be positive. You've got to find that positive key.
Speaker 3: You've got to find that positive thing that lifts you up,
Speaker 3: and you've got to focus on that to the exclusion
Speaker 3: of everything else.
Speaker 2: John, what is the world supernatural mean to you?
Speaker 3: You know that we say supernatural, and like a friend
Speaker 3: of mine pointed out, George, he said, you know what
Speaker 3: we call supernatural is probably just natural. This is the
Speaker 3: state of the earth, you know, But the real deal. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the real deal. But for me, supernatural has always meant
Speaker 3: the realm that goes above and beyond what we see
Speaker 3: with our physical eyes and here with our physical ears
Speaker 3: every day, the normal routine that we go through every day.
Speaker 3: For me the supernaturalist, when you get that guardian angel
Speaker 3: guidance or that protection or that intervention, when you see
Speaker 3: the door slam in the home and there's no one
Speaker 3: home but you, and there's no drafts, there's no air
Speaker 3: conditioning on, no fans, anything like that. When you hear
Speaker 3: those footsteps in your house and you know you're alone.
Speaker 3: When you see an object move by itself, so you
Speaker 3: know it's moving from some type of spiritual influence, some
Speaker 3: being able to influence that and move that. To me,
Speaker 3: that's supernatural. We connect with a realm that's greater than
Speaker 3: we are, that's different than our normal day to day
Speaker 3: routine and enables us to connect with things in such
Speaker 3: a way that it shows us that life continues beyond
Speaker 3: the grave, that there are spiritual beings that see things
Speaker 3: no things see from the down the road that we do,
Speaker 3: and they can give us guidance, help, an inspiration. There
Speaker 3: are realms that we can tap into that will solve
Speaker 3: problems for us. I write about in my third book,
Speaker 3: when he wasted to increase your psychic abilities. I had
Speaker 3: a friend that worked for the NSA, the National Security Agency.
Speaker 3: He was a code breaker, and he told me, said,
Speaker 3: Johnny said, we had this code. We had all our
Speaker 3: computers on it, our best minds on it. I'm working
Speaker 3: on this thing, and we can't crack it. And he said,
Speaker 3: I became obsessed with it. And I worked on this thing,
Speaker 3: work on this thing, trying to crack this code, trying
Speaker 3: to break this code. And he said. I went home
Speaker 3: one day and he said, I walked into my bedroom
Speaker 3: and I stood at the foot of my bed, turned around,
Speaker 3: placed my cabs in the back of my legs up
Speaker 3: against the foot of the bed, and just fell back
Speaker 3: into the bed with my shoes on, my suit and
Speaker 3: tie and everything. That's all I saw it. I was
Speaker 3: and I immediately went to sleep. And he said, in
Speaker 3: my dream, I started dreaming about this code. And I
Speaker 3: it was a lucid dream because I was aware I
Speaker 3: was dreaming, and I thought to myself of my dream,
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I can't even get away from this
Speaker 3: thing here now. And he said, like the ticker tape
Speaker 3: things on Wall Street or in Times Square where you
Speaker 3: see the messages running across the lighted you know, the
Speaker 3: lighted boards. He said, here came one of those boards
Speaker 3: lit up with the characters of the code running across there,
Speaker 3: scrolling across there, and he was like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: I can't even escape this in my dreams now. And
Speaker 3: he said below that, another lighted board appeared and the
Speaker 3: letters in English and clear appeared under each character of
Speaker 3: the code. And he was like, oh my god, the solution.
Speaker 3: And he said, I woke up. He said, I always
Speaker 3: kept pen and paper handy and pin paper by my
Speaker 3: bed and everything, and he said, I remembered enough of
Speaker 3: it that I wrote down the characters I saw, and
Speaker 3: I wrote down the letters in English that I saw,
Speaker 3: and I raced back into the office, and he said
Speaker 3: that was the solution to cracking the code. I literally
Speaker 3: got in my under em So we connect with the
Speaker 3: side in positive ways to get these flashes of inspiration.
Speaker 3: It's just like musicians. I was inspired to write the song.
Speaker 3: The song came to me out of the blue, like
Speaker 3: writers like myself. The this side gives me inspiration and
Speaker 3: guidance and brings things to mind and my writing to
Speaker 3: write for my readers. So all of this is out there,
Speaker 3: we'll tune into it. So to me, that's the supernatural.
Speaker 3: It's a very positive thing, a very affirming thing, and
Speaker 3: it's something that we should see daily and listen to.
Speaker 3: Listen to the guy that's listen to that inspiration.
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