I took a 3 day class with JVP once (this one wasn't so much my fault since the I had missed the writing class I had actually signed up for due to work and had limited options as replacements). He didn't give many readings because it was about teaching us to be psychics - I was amazed how quickly I was able to teach myself cold reading (or is hot? I get them mixed up).
I was actually able to tell a woman that she lived in the country, there were cows near where she lived, she passed them coming and going all the time, and there was one particular cow that she really loved and had given a name to. The only thing I got wrong was the color of the cow. I was gonna try and get the cow's name by saying something like "I see a J or an L," but I didn't have the nerve!
The only thing I had to go on to get this information was a pen of hers that she gave me. The pen was EXACTLY like one my dad used to carry around with him all the time, thus I figured if I started making guesses about her based on my parents experiences, I might get somewhere. Every time she nodded her head excitedly, I just kept going.
At one point James came over to see how we were doing and I told them upfront that no spirit guide had contacted me and I was just making mad guesses. He told me I was wrong, I wasn't used to speaking to spirit guides and it always felt like that at first and he actually wanted me to make wild guesses because that was really the spirits, yada yada. It was kind of tempting to believe him because I felt this surge of (power?)??
He's nicer in person than he is on tv by the way, but still full of it.
Some things I noticed he did repeatedly during the class - He would often tell us he felt an aura of healing around us - Are you working to be a therapist? When he said that to me I almost fell off my chair (psych student), but then I kept asking the same question over and over and I realized that anybody who talks to him is likely to think of themselves as therapists, whether it's aroma or psychic readings or massage or whatever.
Another thing he does is ask a question over and over and over until someone says yes. For instance, during a guided meditation where we were calling our spirit guides, he kept saying he saw Julius Caesar running around the room. Who is he here for? Who wants to claim him? After he asked the question three times, someone said, Oh that's me, he's here for me!
The class was fun but man those people take it seriously. They almost fell over themselves to get him to clean their auras, and yes he actually did that thing where he'd like pinch some bad aura between his fingers and toss it away. It was surreal.
He doesn't like to take no for an answer at all.
Nice work.
