Thomas John - Never Argue with a Dead Person: True and Unbelievable Stories from the Other Side

Praise for Never Argue with a Dead Person

I've been to many mediums. Thomas is by far the most accurate one. Spot on!

Jenny McCarthy, actress

Thomas John's way with words will hit home with everyone! His loving memories of his father especially made me smile and I could relate. Living with this ability is what you make of it and Thomas has chosen to use his wisely!

Concetta Bertoldi, author of Do Dead People Watch You In The Shower?

Reading Thomas John's Never Argue with A Dead Person is like having a best friend who's a great storyteller and happens to be able to commune with the dead; endlessly fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable.

Monte Farber & Amy Zerner, authors of The Soulmate Path, The Enchanted Tarot, and Quantum Affirmations

Thomas John is one of the most gifted psychic mediums working today. His book is a lively, entertaining, and informative account of his work with the other side. I recommend it highly.

Paul Selig, author of The Book of Knowing and Worth: A Channeled Text

No one has consistently amazed me more than the young and gifted Thomas John. His details are so acute and his information so accurate, that my listeners never cease to be astounded, comforted, and healed.

Laura Smith, WABC radio host and media personality.

I've written a great deal about psychics over the yearsfor W magazine, Womens Wear Daily, and for The Hollywood Reporter. Thomas John is very simply THE REAL DEAL. You don't come across that too often, Not only is he a miraculous channelerknowing so many things from my family tree I'd forgotten myselfhis psychic abilities are so accurate. They used to scare meuntil I just stopped questioning them and became co-dependent. He's also warm, empathetic, a great combo of spiritual and secular, funny, and a wonderfully natural writer who penetrates deep into the souls of both the deadand the living.

Merle Ginsberg, The Hollywood Reporter

A wonderful introduction to the Other Side. His stories delight, entertain, and inform.

Echo Bodine, author of The Little Book of True Ghost Stories and Echoes of the Soul

In his meticulously researched yet delightfully readable Spirit tell-all, John shares healing messages from the Other Side, producing an often humorous but always authentic guide showing us how we, the living, can focus on unconditional love, gratitude, and forgiveness to manifest greater meaning, purpose, and joy in our everyday lives.

Kathy Eldon, author and film producer

Copyright 2015

by Thomas John

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Hampton Roads Publishing, Inc. Reviewers may quote brief passages.

Cover design by Jim Warner

Author photo on cover by Daniel D'Ottavio www.danieldottavio.com

Interior designed by Deborah Dutton

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To Ritamy grandmother, role model, biggest fan, and best friendthank you for your eternal love. May we be reunited over the rainbow.

This book has been thirty years in the making. There are many people to thank.

Most importantly, I must thank my clients, who are loyal, thought-provoking, and have allowed me to hold space for them over the past seven years in my private practice doing my work as a spiritual medium. I am blessed to know each and every one of you. This is your book, and your stories, so thank you for letting the world hear the whispers of your soul. I am especially thankful to my spunky Michigan women, whom I affectionately call The 248 ladies, especially my dear friend Annewho five years ago told me her reading so moved her that she was going to send me one hundred new clients. Anne, I think you surpassed that number a while ago!

To my family, my mother, who has always been there for memay you relish in the fact that you are the original helicopter parent and loved for it. To my sister Kelly, and her fianc David, and my sister Kara, thank you for supporting me with love, friendship, and laughter. To my stepfather, Gerard, I am thankful for the love that you have bestowed on my mother and my familyyou are a gentleman.

To my dear friend Laura Jean Smithwho has served as a loving second mother, has helped me manage and develop my career, and gave me one of my first opportunities to be in the media, I am eternally grateful. What a great bond we have shared in this lifetime and many others. May your spirit continue to be bright with wisdom and love.

To D, you are very special to me, and may we share many laughs, kisses, and beautiful memories for many years to come. Thank you for accepting me as I am, but also challenging me to grow. To my friendsones of a lifetime and ones recenthow blessed I am to share in so many friendships that are supportive and filled with unconditional love. I hope I am half the friend you have all been to me. Humor is the great thread that brings us together. Without Steve Kopp, Josh Garcia, Daniel D'Ottavio, Marcy Cole, Jimmy Floyd, Lynne White, Joel Schnell, Francky L'Official, Chilli Pepper, Marisa May, Christina Carathanassis (and The Family), Jason Scarlatti and Trey Watkins, Debbie Nigro, Jennifer McCrea, Joelle Soliman, Pam Linehan, Eileen Brown, and Heide Banks, I'd have a lot more dead friends than I do living friends. Thanks for allowing me to have one foot in this world. To my great spiritual teachers, and those in the community that I deeply respect, I hold so many of you on such a high pedestalincluding Jodi Serota, John Edward, Jeffrey Wands, Rita Berkowitz, Zenobia Simmons, Donnaleigh de La Rose, Paul Selig, Terry and Linda Jamison, Monte Farber, Amy Zerner, and Echo Bodine. You have all taught me either directly or by example.

To Bert Cohler, my first teacher in many ways, thank you. Your memory lives on.

To my tireless assistantsDonna McDine Barbie Schassler, and and my sisters Kelly and KaraI am not sure where I would be without you. Likely in a very disorganized state. Thank you for always keeping me on track. Thank you also to Giselle Ross who has always been willing to lend a helping hand.

To my professional relationships with my publicists, who have worked fearlessly and tirelessly to support my career and gain me access to opportunities to share my work with a broader audience. I am thankful to Lisa Schneidermann, Norah Lawlor, and Nancy Kane. I am also especially thankful to the many writers, producers, and celebrity clientsincluding Merle Ginsberg, Celeste McLaughlin, Carla Pennington, Michelle Wendt, Eileen Cope, Adam Block, Jenny McCarthy, Sonja Tremont-Morgan, Courtney Cox, and Anne Radecki. Thank you for putting me on the map.

To my team at Hampton Roads Publishing, especially Greg Brandenburgh and Bonni Hamilton, thank you for giving me this opportunity. Also, thank you to Margaret Santangelo and Alix Strauss for reading multiple drafts of the book.

And last, but not least, thank you to the dead people. For where would a medium be without dead people? Thank you for your continual guidance and words of wisdom. I'm always listening.