One Last Time [Hardcover]

John Edward (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1998

As seen on "Larry King Live," "The Leeza Show," "Roseanne,"and "Maury Povich"--John Edward's remarkable account of how he came to be one of the most popular psychic mediums of our time. Now with a brand new workbook section written specially for this edition!

His television appearances have made millions of people believe in the afterlife--and in his ability to reach it. Now John Edward's legion of fans can read his remarkable true story and compelling accounts of his most important readings, how they helped heal the scars of grief and gave way to more fulfilling lives for the living--lives where loved ones never cease to love you, and never really die...

In an all-new chapter, written especially for this paperback edition, he also empowers readers to tune in to their own psychic abilities--and read and understand signs of spiritual contact they may be experiencing every day without even knowing it.

* Includes new, first-time-in-print material--the trade edition will be published with an all-new workbook section to help readers tune in to their own psychic abilities

"Compelling...poignant...like James Van Praagh (Talking to Heaven) tempered with the down-to-earth appeal of Caroline Myss."--Publishers Weekly

"Astonishing."--Raymond Moody, Ph.D., M.D., author of Life After Life and Reunions

--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Looking back, John Edward now sees the early signs that he was destined to become an acclaimed psychic and medium. "There were times when I knew things I shouldn't have known," he writes. "Simple things like who was coming over, or who was on the phone." He knew events in family history that no one had told him about. He was inexplicably fascinated with television characters that possessed supernatural powers. He'd see auras around schoolteachers and hear voices that whispered true information in his mind. Eventually his gifts expanded into hearing the names of spirits "who'd gone to the other side." Finally, as a teenager Edward began to claim rather than question his psychic abilities and committed his life work to pursuing and learning about his gifts. Now that he has become a renowned medium (appearing on numerous talk shows, including Larry King Live), Edwards has written an entertaining "my life as a psychic" type of autobiography, packed with fascinating true stories. At the same time, Edward offers an engaging self-help book, teaching readers how to visit a medium and even showing seekers how they can recognize and develop their own psychic abilities. --Gail Hudson

From Publishers Weekly

It's easy to distrust those who claim to communicate with the dead, to dismiss them as charlatans who take advantage of the bereaved. Psychic medium Edward himself urges readers to "be skeptical, though not cynical." But it is not so easy to reject Edward's compelling tale of gradually accepting his psychic abilities (seeing auras, astro-traveling, premonitions) and acting as a messenger between spirits who have passed over to "the Other Side" and their loved ones left behind. With a college degree in public health and administration, and "rising within the ranks" of a large hospital, he finally gave in to the "constant yanking feeling" he had experienced since he was a boy. In several poignant stories of connecting people with their deceased family members, Edward tries "to demystify spirit communication" by explaining exactly what he sees, hears and feels during a "reading." The spirits, he says, speak to him in voices, sounds, images, sensations, smells, tastes and feelings, mostly in symbolic form (for example, a father who always signed things with the numeral "4" fills the psychic's head with images of golf swings?"fore"), to convey a message to loved ones. Usually, beyond identifying the senders in verifiable ways, the messages are simply that those who have passed on are all right and that "they're still with us." Coming off like James Van Praagh (Talking to Heaven) tempered with the down-to-earth appeal of Caroline Myss, Edward offers an intriguing collection of anecdotes that may not convince the cynical but that can both comfort and fascinate the merely skeptical. Author tour.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 220 pages
• Publisher: Berkley Hardcover; 1st edition (December 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425169081
• ISBN-13: 978-0425169087
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (293 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #89,111 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #41 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > New Age > Channeling

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139 of 142 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helps with grief, July 3, 2001

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This review is from: One Last Time: A Psychic Medium Speaks to Those We Have Loved and Lost (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is great. It help people overcome the lose of love ones. I recommend it highly along with the book an Encounter with A Prophet.

78 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spiritually Uplifting, September 6, 2001

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This review is from: One Last Time: A Psychic Medium Speaks to Those We Have Loved and Lost (Mass Market Paperback)

I have to admit that I watched his show, Crossing Over, only once. It was strange, watching a psychic pick people out of a crowd. The show left me wondering how he kept himself focused and how he managed to single out one person at a time.
That one episode intrigued me enough to buy the book, and I was glad that I did. He comes across as down to earth in his book as he does on his show. That makes the book very easy to read and understand.
One Last Time touches everything about his life--his relationship with his family, his healthy skepticism about talking to people from the Other Side, his career in the medical field, his religious faith, and the cases he has experienced. I almost felt like I was there as I was reading the pages, he writes so well.
I was especially touched by Andrew and Mikey, who both died in accidents. Their cases resonated with love and caring for their families. I felt empathy for Mr. Edward when he worried about how his mediumship would affect his standing in the Catholic faith. What impressed me the most about One Last Time was that it wasn't filled with the typical "harps, chariots, and beyond-beautiful" picture of the Other Side like I've read in other celebrity psychic books. He talks about the Other Side as being an infinite place that is full of love and a place where souls can evolve.
He explains what happens to people who commit suicide. Being a survivor, that was especially comforting. At the end, he tells us how we can tap into our own spiritual awareness.
I highly recommend this book for anyone who has an interest in spirituality and anyone who has lost someone close to them. One Last Time is a message of hope.

62 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Reading - believable and dynamic, October 11, 1999

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This review is from: One Last Time: A Psychic Medium Speaks to Those We Have Loved and Lost (Mass Market Paperback)

I bought this book after seeing John Edward on the Larry King Live show. He impressed me as he didn't come off as being "above" the rest of us. I found his book to be almost just like you were sitting in the room with him and discussing the subject. I found him to be a fascinating person - and at such a young age; he has many years to go and to assist people who have lost loved ones suddenly to give them the peace of mind that they have reached the other side and are fine. I also

found his experiences with his mother here and beyond to be interesting. I'd recommend this book to anyone who is interested in psychics to read this book.