James Randi Quotes

The process of communication with the afterlife - more of an exchange than a conversation - has always fascinated me.

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.

I believe in spirits, not ghosts.

Seances remind me of cabinet meetings. The spirits give conflicting advice.

I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years.

Ruth Montgomery had a book I was reading called Aliens Among Us. She was an automatic writer. She used to go into a trance, and she would just start typing information, and then she would come out of her trance and read it and go, "Wow," and that was just the way she wrote her books.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance.

Positive minds full of faith and hope produce positive lives.

Make the choice to do something because it engages your heart as well as your mind. Make the choice because it engages all of you.

If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen.

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.

Albert Einstein once reported, "Great spirits have always encountered voilent opposition from mediocre minds." If you want to achieve your own greatness, to climb your own mountains, you'll have to use yourself as your first and last consultant.

Open your mind to all possibilities and believe!

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

I would hope I would inspire kids everywhere to know that you can do anything you put your mind to.

Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.

Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected.