TV Psychic John Edward Tunes In To The Net & Tells You To Watch Your Tweets

Most people know Long Island-born psychic John Edward from his TV shows Crossing Over with John Edward and Cross Country. In each episode, he finds a ’spiritual connection’ between ordinary people on the show and their dead relatives. “I call it DNN,” he explains, “dead news network.” John’s television odyssey was sparked by his New York Times best-selling new age/spiritually themed books, the most recent of which is Practical Praying. Whether you share his belief system, the 39-year-old former healthcare worker undeniably hits a chord with mass audiences. Non-believer Larry King once even dubbed him “TV hottest psychic phenomenon.” This month John Edward will parlay his TV cache to the web with a new metaphysical one-stop shop “of Internet resources for the soul” called InfiniteQuest. We caught up with him last week before his anticipated appearance on The View this week, with Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and the gang to demonstrate the site.

Watch John Edward’s appearance on The View right here

Here John Edward takes time to share his new venture with Fancast and wants you to know that those Tweets may be bad for your psychic health.

What is most memorable moment for you from your TV shows Crossing Over with John Edward and Cross Country?

There’s a woman that stands out very clearly for me from Cross Country. Her name is Kathy. She had lost her son. She didn’t come to the show, but her husband did. And her little boy came through. We wound up calling her. She was just the voice of the PA system calling in. And she was so eloquent. She verified things [said about the boy]. The loss of the child is not just the normal order. And she said the most profound thing “always blessings, never losses.” If there had to be one memorable experience for even the audience, it was a very, very powerful day.

Did you opt not to do another season of Cross Country?

Yeah. How did you know that? I’m surprised you asked me that because most people think that when a TV show goes away or is not in production — that it got canceled, which actually was not the case. I have a phenomenal relationship with the folks over at WE network, and they’re a great bunch of people to work with. We did it for three seasons, but I felt like I had to do something different and new. I felt like I had to take my work in a more teaching direction. To have to say to the staff on my show ‘by the way, we’re not doing this,’ everybody thought I was kidding. Nobody really knows that, nobody has ever asked me that.

How do you think your TV audience will adapt to InfiniteQuest, will they follow you to the web?

I hope they adapt to it. I brought other people that I worked with or met, but sometimes people are like ‘we’re here to see you.’ I think I am going to lose a lot of people, to be honest, because they’ll say ‘oh, he’s not just doing readings?’ But I hope they stick with it because as a member of the site, they’re going to have the opportunity to be randomly chosen to be on the site or get a reading with one of the facilitators. Hopefully the audience will come over and say ‘oh that’ll be cool to watch.’

Do you think there is going to be an outcry like ‘you left us’ to get you back on TV?

You know it’s funny — are you psychic or what?! I just got like six emails in a row that literally said that — one of them was ‘you left us!’ I’m not opposed to doing conventional TV again. Now that the site is launched, I’m not opposed to doing something television-wise that ties into it.

Can you tell us about Alan Oken, and the psychics you assembled for the site?

Alan Oken happens to be in Portugal, which is really funny because this is where my wife’s family is from, so I took it as a sign. I hooked up with him, I didn’t tell him who I was. I signed up to study (astrology) with him. We made it to the fourth class, he realized who I was and right in the middle of class he said “do you know you are supposed to launch this metaphysical community, this website thing?” The ironic thing is that I had thought about 18 months before. Then I literally pulled a team together and the rest is launched.

What about the feature called “The other side of celebrity’?

The first celebrity we have on the site is Tom Bergeron (Dancing with the Stars). He talks about how he has used transcendental meditation over the years as a major force in television. The producer sat down with him and did an amazing interview. He talked about his belief, his lack of belief. I never would have thought Tom Bergeron did TM. Any celebrity who sits in the chair with us will be able to really depict a different side of them, dispel some things about themselves. That’s what’s happening for July; we have Denise Richards. She’s talking about her show on the E! Network. What I thought was really interesting was to watch some of the women in the office after her interview. After the interview, all the women in the office like her now, whereas before it was ‘why are we doing Denise Richards?’ I said ‘this is exactly why I wanted to do this.’ It is going to give people a different window on celebrity.

What kind of things did you pick up from Denise?

I actually wasn’t there. The production crew did it, they worked with me on all my stuff TV-wise. The amount of response we got from the footage of Denise was literally insane.

How come you didn’t do her interview?

This is probably going to be an issue with some celebrities down the line — I don’t want to be that person [interviewing]. Because I don’t want it to get translated into, you know, talking to the dead all the time. If I sat with Denise it would almost only relate to her dead mom.

So you’re the guy who can only talk to the dead, like a reflex, like you don’t branch out?

That’s the funny thing. When Crossing Over first went on the air, when I heard the promo, I was like ‘are they serious with that’? The promo was “John Edward, a man with a singular gift.” It was like ’singular gift,’ what is that about! So when they asked me to do other things, I was like ‘no, I can’t I only have one gift.’

Which celebrities have come to you for readings?

That I can’t say either. I have a number of A-List clients that I work for, but one of the reason I have A-List people is because I don’t talk about it.

What are the funnier aspects of what you do, like ’should I tell this person about their life’?

For me, some of funnier moments happen when I’m flying. People will be walking down the aisle and passing me on the plane, and they start having this very loud conversation about the guy who talks to the dead on their plane. I want to be like, ‘hello, I can hear you.’ They’ll say ‘he looks younger in person.’ I’ve gotten ‘he’s shorter.’ I had someone actually say to me ‘you look like John Edward, but you’re better looking.’ I have people say ‘I hate to bother you but –’ there’s always the ‘but.’ Usually it’s the moment of they’re walking past me on the cellphone talking about me and don’t think I can hear them.

What is the most important (psychic) issue, or one of the most important issues, for people at the moment?

The net. When I think about the metaphysical connections to Facebook or MySpace, things where you are opening yourself up in such a major way — your thoughts, energy and feelings. What I mean by that is, when Crossing Over first when on the air, I was so tired. Even though the shows were already shot. When I talked to Sandy Anastasi (a mentor now on his site), she said ‘are you practicing psychic self defense in a much greater way now?’ She said ‘you need to step up your protection because every night you are opening yourself up to all these people.’ So when I see people Twittering, they are opening up a channel of energy that’s really very taxing on their energetic self. When people hear stuff like this, they go ‘oh, that’s insane.’ It’s not though, because thoughts create reality. It’s like reality shows, like on Jon & Kate Plus 8 — they watch the lives of these people unravel. I wouldn’t trade places with any of these people. I don’t like that voyeuristic thing from an energy standpoint.

Do you think Twitter is dangerous?

No, I’m not saying twittering is dangerous, I think that people don’t have an understanding of how people open themselves up to the world of energy. Say you have your house, and you left the doors and windows open all the time and not shut them — you would have the elements of outside effect what happens on the inside. Your life is the house, those doors and windows are blogging and MySpacing. Email is different because it has an ending to it. But when you go back and forth, you leave yourself open with ‘I was just here’ (twittering); you are literally giving someone access to where you are at energetically. And you are a source for people to plug into.

Do you teach psychic self-defense on the site?

Not yet, but we will. Psychic self-defense is one of the things I am very passionate about. Anybody who does any type of this work, a psychiatrist, counselor, hair dresser, massage therapist, where there is a touch physically, you have to be very careful — you take on the other person’s energy.

Is that really why you tuned into the net because of all the issues surrounding how people use the technology?

When people ask me what the other side is like, I say ‘what’s the internet like?’ It’s dimension, right? An electronic dimension. Well, the other side is like a spiritual dimension. It’s a destination, a place. You can’t go there with a physical body, but you can go there with consciousness. Like anything else, there is a duality of energy — positive and negative — the internet is not bad, it is just a thing, a tool. It’s no different than a camera or a scalpel.

John Edward’s site new site is www.InfiniteQuest.com. Tom Bergeron is June’s celebrity guest, to be followed in July by Denise Richards.

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