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On this edition of the show. The Dark Forest Hypothesis
plus three things you can do to easily turn your
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bad luck into good luck. Yes, we're going to get
into that later. Everybody needs some new tips from time
to time, and uh, well, these are some good ones.
But first, the dark forest hypothesis sounds spooky. Some of
you probably know what this is.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I bet many of you do not.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I did one of these shows. Let's see, it was
episode one thirty three of this podcast called Strange Things,
that was called where Are the Aliens? I also, by
the way, uh introduced my Aztec death whistle on that
episode one thirty three. But the big topic where are
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the Aliens? And I kind of dug into how to
reconcile something like the Drake equation with the Fermi paradox.
I'm not going to get all into that again. You
can go back and listen, but basically, just to recap
the Drake equation is this this very precise, respected equation
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formulated in nineteen sixty one by this astrophysicist named Frank Drake,
and he was calculating all the information that we have
about all the things that exist out there in the universe,
and what the likelihood of well, an alien civilization, an
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intelligent alien civilization, being out there, what that likelihood was,
and basically, you know, without getting into the math, and
I don't think the average person can understand it. By
crunching all the numbers about you know, the Goldilock zones
and just all these variables, basically he came up with
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this result that it appears there should be thousands of
intelligent alien civilizations which may currently exist. And of course,
even though that makes sense on paper, it takes us
to what so many people refer to as the Fermi paradox.
And the Fermi paradox is this discrepancy between the lack
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of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently
high likelihood of its existence. And apparently this goes back
to a meeting that Fermi was having sort of a
casual conversation in the summer of nineteen fifty with some
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other physicists, and while walking to lunch, the men discussed
recent UFO reports and the possibility of faster than light travel,
and apparently the guys were kind of open minded to
the fact that this statistically should be the case because
the universe is so big.
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That it's possible.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
But then at one point me blurted out, but where
is everybody and coming that that question that one sentence
coming from a physicist of that stature went down in
history as a paradox. Books have been written about it.
Where is everybody? And I won't get into again all
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the reasons. I went deeper into this in episode one
thirty three, But you know, obviously one of the most
likely explanations is that the universe is just so huge,
everything's just spread too far apart. I mean, you can't
imagine how huge the universe versus and we just can't
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find each other or we don't have the technology to
reach each other. That's probably the simplest one. But then
there are some other really interesting ones that I think
are especially thought provoking, such as the fact that you know,
you and I, we measure life pretty much in terms
of a human lifetime. So you might say, okay, human
life is in the neighborhood of seventy to one hundred
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years right now, and so we have a tendency to
break our lives up into days and weeks and months
leading up leading up to this, you know, the span
of years that we consider a life. But that is
irrelevant when it comes to time and the cosmos, and
so it may just be that it's very unlikely for
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two civilizations to have matured at the same time so
that they can communicate with each other. You know, you're
talking about some incredible synchronicity that these civilizations they thrive,
but they are billions of years apart when they rise
and fall, and it just doesn't match up.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
This is seriously something that many books have been written about.
So I'm not going to try to dig into all
the options here in this podcast, but this is from
a scientific point of view. This is the question, and
in my podcast called where are the Aliens? The point
of that one was the evidence that I have found
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to suggest that many of these UFOs UAP, these types
of beings, they tend to be seen around the water,
around shorelines and including going in and out of the water.
This happens all the time, and so I would say
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there's a higher likelihood than whatever these things are, and
whoever these beings are, there's a higher likelihood that they
are spending more time in the oceans of the world
than they are flying around in outer space up above us.
I mean, space from what we can tell, seems to
be a pretty dead zone compared to the oceans, which
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are absolutely overwhelmingly full of and teeming with life, and
not only life, but some of the most bizarre forms
of life that you can imagine. So it would make
sense that, you know, it's an easier stretch logically to
say that these beings are living in that environment, in
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the aquatic environment, and that that does not mean they
cannot fly up into the sky and travel in that
realm occasionally as well, but that maybe that's where they
are more often than not. And it's kind of interesting
because as I was doing prep for this show, this
article popped up here at Fox News and the headline
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is only one type of alien life form could make
it to Earth's doorstep. This is from a Harvard expert.
It says biological creatures would unlikely survive journey to Earth,
says astrophysicist A vi Lobe, And I'll just read beginning here.
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It says a renowned astrophysicist is calling foul on reports
of alien sightings and Earth's atmosphere, arguing that biological creatures
would be unable to survive a journey to our planet. Quote,
it would take about a billion years to cross from
one side of the Milky Way galaxy to the other.
A Vlobe, A Harvard astrophysicist said during an appearance on
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gb News this week. Quote, given that I don't think
any spacecraft that would arrive to us from another star
would carry biological creatures, and so I think that basically,
what if I gather the if I get the point here,
he's saying that, like, it's more likely if they are autonomous,
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they have an artificial brain, artificial intelligence. We have already
developed that on Earth. We haven't launched it to space,
but that would be the next step.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
End quote.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
You know what, I have to agree, there's something to that.
You know, I have talked about these things I called
oh u fo's and but that stands for organic UFO.
But really what I'm talking about is some of these
things that may be like artificial intelligence, that do have
an organic body and a shape shifting ability. That these
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these things flying around us are not always just so
you know, black and white as being animate or inanimate
or organic or inorganic.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
And so.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I tend to think that, you know, there is a
sound logic there. And so when we start thinking about this, however,
and we start looking into reconciling, well, all these beings
are sub statistically supposedly possibly around us. Where are they?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
When I talked.
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About that in episode one thirty three, I started getting
some messages from people saying, well, what do you think
about the dark forest hypothesis? And I was aware of it,
but i'd never I don't think I've ever really sat
down and talked about it in particular on this podcast.
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So let me explain to you what the dark Forest
hypothesis is. As a matter of fact, let's take our
break first, because I want to dig into this and
it is spooky, it is eerie, it is unsettling if
you really think about the implications of this thing called
the dark Forest hypothesis, because it applies not only to
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the concept of quote unquote, you know, aliens flying around
out there, but maybe other phenomena that we often consider supernatural, paranormal,
maybe interdimensional, all that kind of stuff. Some good news
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Let's get back to the dark Forest hypothesis.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Now.
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Of course, I've been talking about this idea that well,
if science tells us statistically there ought to be the
possibility of intelligent life all over the place, well where
is everybody? You know? If we dig into that question,
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that for me paradox some folks bring up what is
called the dark forest hypothesis, and first off, let me
read to you what it says here at Wikipedia. The
dark forest hypothesis is the conjecture that many alien civilizations
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exist throughout the universe, but they are both silent and hostile,
maintaining their undetectability by humanity for fear of being destroyed
by another hostile and undetected civilization. In this framing, it
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is presumed that any space fearing civilization would view any
other intelligent life as an inevitable threat, and thus destroy
any nascent life that makes itself known. As a result,
the electromagnetic spectrum would be relatively quiet without evidence of
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any intelligent alien life, as in a dark forest filled
with armed hunters stalking through the trees like ghosts. Okay,
for a bit more description, I found this article about
this topic at big think dot com, written by Scottie Hendricks,
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and I'll just read a couple little passages. The Milky
Way galaxy has two hundred billion stars and perhaps one
hundred billion planets. If even a small fraction of those
planets harbored life, and even a pathetic scattering of those
planets had life forms, which became intelligent, our galaxy would
be teeming with alien civilizations. Then, of course we reflect
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back on the Drake equation and all that, and he
says here, many of the solutions aim at one of
the variables in the Drake equation and try to make
the supposed number of civilizations lower. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
But this is.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
The Dark Forest solution, which explains why we have not
heard from aliens because they are purposefully keeping quiet. The
reasoning is laid out in the science fiction novel The
Dark Forests by Leu Schicksen. I guess that's it's pronounced
cixi N. The plot of the book, the second in
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a series, concerns questions of how to best interact with
potentially hostile alien life. So the argument's laid out, like
all life desires to stay alive, there is no way
to know if other life forms can or will destroy
you if given a chance, and that lacking assurances, the
safest option for any species is to annihilate other life
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forms before they have a chance to do the same.
So this all leads to this, you know, radio silence
and fact. Here's a paragraph from the actual novel, quote
the universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an
armed hunter, stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently
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pushing aside branches that block the path, and trying to
tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The
hunter has to be careful because everywhere in the forest
are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds another life,
another hunter, an angel or a demon, a delicate infant
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to tottering old man, a fairy or demi god, there's
only one thing he can do, open fire and eliminate them. Okay,
so I think you get the idea. The hypothesis here
is that maybe these beings. Uh. Let we can just
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start with the aliens, but you can expand this however
you want. There they might be all around you. They
might be in your bedroom, in your closet, in your backyard,
at your kids' school. Uh, they could be anywhere. But
they are hiding intentionally because they don't know what the
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consequences for them and their civilization will be.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
If we know for sure that they.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Are there, maybe they are being hostile towards us and
the people are being kept in the dark. This also, well, okay,
let me just mention this because I have gotten emails
about this. You know, a while back there was a
news story saying that a bunch of people claim that
there are these like ten foot tall aliens running around
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some shopping mall in Florida, and all these police showed up,
and that whole story seems pretty you wishy wash to me.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I mean, look, all I can tell.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You is I have not I've looked at the video
footage and stuff that's come out, and I have not
seen anything that I believe is convincing evidence that that
story is true. Doesn't mean it's not. I just haven't
seen any evidence of it. Maybe aliens are all over
the place. But here's I think the even eerier part
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is that, well, maybe we're we're not just talking about
aliens visitors from beyond. Maybe we're talking about literally this
other realm of reality that overlays our realm. That there
are all of these interdimensional beings that are all around
us all the time, and they're very intentionally keeping quiet.
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And it reminds one, does it not, of the so
called shadow person reports. Because people like my friend Heidi
holl Us, who have spent years studying the shadow person
phenomenon and similar things, they often find that when somebody
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observes a shadow person, as soon as the shadow person
realizes that it is being observed, it darts away. And
if you are brand new to this topic, well, a
shadow person is just a shadowy silhouette. It's almost like
my mom saw a shadow person one time. This is
many years ago. She was in North Carolina and she
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was at home, I think, by herself, and a human
silhouette across like over in the corner across the living
room caught her eye and she saw this shadowy figure
there just very quietly watching and kind of hovering. At first,
she thought it was me trying to play a prank
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on her or something like that, because my mom and
I have been jokesters over the years and we've occasionally
pranked each other excuse me, and.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
So she.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
My mom thought it was me, and she said, Josh,
what are you doing? You know, like your bust that
I caught you. And then this thing turns and very
quickly vanishes. I think it kind of darted down the hallway,
and that freaked my mom out because when she realized
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that she was home alone, she knew that well, she
had seen something there that appeared to be a real
silhouette of a real person. And so the dark forest
hypothesis may explain why that some of these beings, whether.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
They are out.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
There billions of light years away or they're right here, yeah,
sitting next to you, why that they may intentionally be
keeping quiet and maybe even watching us like we're in
some kind of a zoom. Do you think that that
is a good possible explanation a solution to the Fermi paradox.
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When we come back from this break, I'm going to
tell you something about the process that some of these
beings might use when they come here to interact with us,
and it leads, interestingly enough into this topic, three things
you can do to easily turn your bad luck into
good luck.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I'm Joshua P.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Warren, and you're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio
and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I
will be back after these important messages. Welcome back to
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Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM
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this is the show where.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
The unusual becomes usual.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Here's something that's kind of interesting to think about when
you try to comprehend the relationship that we may have
to other intelligent life out there, whether it be always
on the physical plane, like other apes like us out
there flying around that originated from another planet, or if
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we're talking about interdimensional creatures that morph in an out
of our world. Whatever they are, we have to think
about the means that may they may have in order
to interact with us, to reach us both physically and linearly.
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I mean, for example, are they just traveling across vast
distances or are they using wormholes in order to overcome
distances and immediately teleport back and forth?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
I mean all that stuff. Right.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
There is a man that you may have come across
in your studies of the metaphysical world. He's quite popular.
Let's see, he's sixty six years old.
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His name is.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Sad Guru sad Guru.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
That's spelled s A d h g u r U.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
And he is the founder and head of the Esha
Foundation based in India. I don't know if I'm pronouncing
that right Esha, but I think so. I says it
was establish in nineteen ninety two, operates an ashram and
yoga center that carries out educational and spiritual activities. He's
been teaching yoga since nineteen eighty two. He does a
lot of speaking engagements, and hey, you know, he's one
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of these guys. When you look at him, he's you know,
he's got like the robe and the white beard, and
he has the cloth wrapped around his head. And I mean,
he he looks like a guru, but he is extremely
articulate and he's I've I enjoy listening to his videos
even though I really don't know much about the guy,
to be honest with you. Yeah, and I even bought
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one of his books and uh, and he had he
made some pretty interesting points in that. But I bring
him up because the other day I saw he was
interviewed by Joe Rogan, and at one point in the interview,
I saw Guru was talking about that what really makes
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humans special compared to other other animals, other creatures that
we're aware of is our ability to use tools that
you cannot underestimate that one thing. And he said, you know,
to Joe Rogan, he goes, you're a strong man. He says,
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what if I tell you to come over here and
take the screw out of this chair with your bare hands,
and Joe Rogan says, oh, I guess that'd be kind
of tough, and he says, yeah, you know, he says,
you might be able to do it eventually, but you
might lose a fingernail, maybe you'd use your teeth, you
might lose a tooth, But I give you a screwdriver
and boon, that thing comes right out. So why wouldn't
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you take advantage of this tool and make things easy
on yourself? And this extends throughout the entire story of
human development. It has taken us all the way to
the moon. The fact and beyond the fact that we
are master tool makers compared to every other thing out
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there that we see. I mean, there are some creatures
that use tools to some extent, you know, using a
stick for this or that. But I mean it's if
there's any doubt that there's some kind of divine spark
within a human being. I mean, look at our ability
to create things by using tools, and so just because
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there are other possible advanced life forms out there, it
doesn't mean that they are tool makers like we are.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I am I'm not.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Certain that you could actually say that a human is
more intelligent than any other creature. Especially when you start
looking at dolphins and chimps and all that. I mean,
we just live in different worlds. We have a different
set of needs for the environment that we're in. You know,
you may say, well, I'm smarter than a shark, so
you know I'm better than a shark. But okay, let's
throw you in the ocean and see who who comes
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out better in that situation. Well, I think it's also
important for us to realize that tools they can help
us achieve extraordinary things when we go out there and
we explore the world and we experience the universe. But
it also goes for mental tools, and this is something
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that's overlooked way too much. We have a tendency to
only focus on things that are our physical and tangible
that we can literally put our hands on them, and
that we were crude in that way of thinking. I
call it wokie thinking. In my book Use the Force,
and essentially, when I talk about tips for things that
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will help you improve your life by enhancing your mentality,
I'm basing that on some of my own experiences because
I think it's really important to have tools to help
you mentally and spiritually. And it's not a crutch unless
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you just want to be mister tough guy and say.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I don't need it. I can will whatever I walk
I brute force.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Fine, okay, But I'm the guy who like, if I'm
going to drive cross country, if the GPS is available,
I will use it. I like to make my life
as easy as possible by taking advantage of tools. And
so that's why, for example, when you go to say,
Joshua Pee Warren dot com, the Curiosity Shop is full
of some of the best metaphysical tools that I have
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come up with that have helped me. So that's all
there for you. Well, I say that because I think
that I'm about to give you an interesting set of
tools here. And you always need refreshers, and you need
inspiration to and you constantly need to sort of think
about things from different points of view. I was watching
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an interview the.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Other day.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
With Amy new and Amy Newmark is the publisher of
Chicken Soup for the Soul, which is now a big
entertainment company, and Amy Newmark's she's always making really interesting
points and giving really good tips to people about how
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to do little things that can sort of change the
direction of life for the better. And she gave this
tip that I thought was good enough to pass along
to you, and I might have misled you a little
bit because I was saying three things you can do
to easily turn your bad luck into good luck. Well,
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that's let me be more specific. She said, try this out.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Okay, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Going to paraphrase her a little bit. But take out
a calendar, mark whatever day it is is day one,
and go thirty days, and then mark day thirty. So
you want to basically set thirty days aside for yourself.
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She didn't say use a calendar, but I think that
makes sense, so you can keep track of it. And
then every single day for all of those thirty days,
for each day, you write down three things, three things
per day that you are thankful for. And you can't
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write down the same thing twice every day.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Come up.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
It could be the simplest things. In my book, Use
the Force, I have a chapter on gratitude, and I
say start with just the senses that you have, because
not everybody has them. Say I'm thankful to have sight,
or I'm thankful to hear, or I'm thankful to smell
or to taste or to feel. I'm thankful to have
my rational mind. You can be thankful for a family member,
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thankful for the roof over your head, thankful for the
device that you're using right now to listen to me.
Every day, just take a moment and write down three things.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
You're thankful for.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
If you can do that for thirty days, then when
you get to the thirtieth day, stop and look back
on your life and compare your life to how it
was when you started. I bet you it will be better,
much better, And you don't even have to try to
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do anything except just be conscious and aware of that.
This is sort of like counting your blessings. In my
book Use the Force, a Jedi's guide to the Law
of Attraction, which you can read for free if you
go to my website, I wrote this, Let's face reality,
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no matter how optimistic you try to be, every day
can be a struggle. You do not live in a
tiny bubble, and challenges and problems are always apt to arise.
So how can you further convince yourself that you do
live in a friendly universe. You do that by taking
a moment to be grateful. It's often said the law
of attraction is no different from the law of gravity.
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It doesn't matter whether you believe in gravity. If you
run off a cliff, disbelieving in gravity won't stop you
from falling. In that case, the law is a bad thing. However,
it is also the law of gravity that keeps your
feet planted on the earth, so you don't go flying
off into space. Since the law of attraction is constantly working,
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whether you like it or not, it will continue drawing
good things to you. If you feel appreciative for the
good things you already have, try this out and let
me not take an old fashioned calendar, if you've got one,
(37:03):
or if you I'm getting getting to be an older
fellow now, so I got the big wall calendar and
I write things with an old ink pit.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Okay, but if you do everything on your.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Phone, fine, use your phone, do this experiment, and then
email me at thirty days and let me know if
your life is better after thirty days of doing this
writing down three things per day that you're grateful for.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
And so thanks to Amy.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Newmark with chicken soup for the soul for that advice.
When we come back, it is time for some listener emails.
I have a variety of them. I'm not sure what
I'm going to dig into exactly, but I maybe how
about Yeah, I got one on doppel gangers. That's a
(37:53):
topic A lot of people are always interested in that
and more. When we return, I'm Joshua P.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Warren.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Your listen to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be
right back. Welcome back to the final segment of this
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edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren.
And for hundreds of years, many people around the world
believed it was impossible for a human being to run
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one mile in four minutes. And then all that changed
on May sixth of nineteen fifty four when an Englishman
named Roger Banister, at age twenty five, did it. He
ran the mile in four minutes. And you know what,
(39:27):
within a couple of months, two more people did it,
and now thousands of people have done it. As a
matter of fact, I believe the guy who holds the
record right now he ran a mile in three minutes
in forty three seconds. This is interesting because it goes
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back to this idea of mental tools, mental prep, not
believing that something has to be impossible just because somebody
else hasn't done it before. And it's also important to
hang out with the right people that shows you. The
people that you associate with, if they're telling you all
the time this can't be done, this is impossible, and
that affects you, then you're not going to achieve as
(40:12):
much as you might be able to. If you surround
yourself with people who make you feel good and inspire you.
These are little mind hacks that you can use in
your life, and I hope you'll take advantage of them. Okay,
let's go to some emails speaking of people that you're
hanging out with. This is a This is a weird
(40:34):
and spooky one. This came from a man named Tony,
and he said it all started in the historic two
story brick house I grew up in here in Amarillo, Texas.
The year was around nineteen seventy two. I saw the
same female apparition in my bedroom on two different occasions
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when I was probably seven or eight years old. The
first time I saw her, I thought it was my
mother sitting in a chair at the foot of my bed.
It looked just like her. I remember sitting up in
bed and calling out to her mom, Mom, and no response,
just a blank stare slightly to my right. I then
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realized this was kind of a hazy, translucent figure. It
did not take me long to figure out it was
a spirit lingering in the corner of my room. Although
it did not seem threatening in any way, I was
still terrified and covered my head for the rest of
the night. I asked my mom the next morning if
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she had been in my room that previous night, and
she said no. A couple of months later, as I
was lying in bed at night trying to sleep, I
rolled over and that same woman was standing right next
to my bed, looking down on me. She was less
than three feet from me. She was even wearing the
same red, yellow and orange flowery gown from the first
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time I saw her. Once again, I just covered my
head and would not look out until morning. Years later,
I learned that this phenomenon was known as a doppelganger,
and then he writes in parentheses, doppelganger is when a
spirit takes the form of a family member as they
manifest themselves. It is said that if you ever see
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your own doppelganger that you will die soon afterwards.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
End quote.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
That's thank you for that, Tony. And you know what,
I actually did a whole show about the Dappelganger phenomenon.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
It was episode ninety four of this podcast Strange Things,
and it was called do You Have Doppelganger? It's one
of the weirdest topics out there. So I believe that,
you know, sometimes there may be multiple timelines and you
(43:06):
a version of yourself maybe out there doing something that
is not happening on the timeline that you're conscious of.
And also there may be shape shifting entities out there
that are trying to blend in by looking like somebody
that you're familiar with. There's a whole lot of weird
(43:26):
stuff connected to the doppelganger thing. Go back and listen
to episode ninety four. Oh yeah, and then Tony sent
me this other story. Let me read this one to you.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
He says.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Now, fast forward to nineteen eighty two. I was a
senior in high school. It was just me and dad
living at home. My mother had passed away in the
previous year, and my sisters had married and moved away.
It was a high school night and I had been
up late studying for a test before falling into a
deep slumber. I was awakened from my sleep to the
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sound of the hangars in my bedroom clawset rattling and
scraping up and down the walls. I tried to call
out for help, but something had a hold of me
and I was totally paralyzed. I could not move, I
could not breathe, I could not yell out nothing. It
was like there was a dark, unseen presence in my
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room that night and it had me pinned down. And
this went on for thirty or forty seconds, although at
the time it seemed like an eternity. Suddenly the hangers
became silent and whatever had a hold of me released
and I could once again move and breathe. This totally
freaked me out, and it was a long time before
I ever told anyone about that occurrence. It was many
(44:41):
years later that I learned about the sleep paralysis phenomenon. Yeah,
a lot of people have told me about experiencing this,
and some have said that it also is well. They
call it the old hag phenomenon because they see some
kind of like old, raggedy looking creepy, a witch like
figure on top of them when this happens, and there's
(45:06):
like this old tradition that this could be some kind
of I don't know, some kind of a soul sucking,
you know, like I guess, like a Sucubis type of
figure that's trying to take your energy while you sleep.
It goes back into this I guess, you know, I
guess the idea that maybe we live in this dark
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forest and there are things that wait until you're asleep
before they decide to pounce. Right, Okay, well thanks again
for that to Tony, and now let's go to speaking
of dark forest, I did a show not too long
ago saying Beware the Dark Side, and I talked to
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some about how that society can be manipulated by unscrupulous
people using divide and conquer techniques. And I got this
email from Diane and she said, after listening to your
most recent show, I'm wondering if you've heard of Edward
Burnet's last name is spelled ber Nays. He was Freud's
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nephew and is considered the father of public relations. He's
basically responsible for redefining propaganda and revolutionized advertising and marketing
Back in the nineteen twenties by creating campaigns that used
psychological techniques to manipulate consent on a mass scale. His
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campaigns were so successful he caught the attention of politicians
who hired him for their own campaigns and the rest
is history. If you have not seen this BBC documentary,
it's fantastic and explains the history of his influence and
shows how insidious it was and is. We can thank
him for the manipulation that is used today. His name
(46:56):
is virtually unknown, but the power he had is disturbing
and it's had the most profound effect on the molding
of society. This needs to be seen. She gave me
a link to a documentary. I haven't had a chance
to watch it, but I did click and watch the
first few minutes and what I found is if you
just go to YouTube and type in Edward Burnees, there's
(47:19):
a lot of documentary information about him. Again, that last
name is spelled b E R N A Y S
Edward Burne's and boy, you know that kind of thing.
It really does make you think about just the amount
of effort that truly has gone into manipulating all of
us psychologically, especially now that we have computers and AI
(47:43):
working on us. You know that when you when you
walk into a store, they know if you're going to
turn left or right. I mean, look at the targeting
that goes on when you're just seeing ads that pop
up out of the blue on your computer or your phone,
and you're like, are they listening to me? How did
they know that I was going to buy some beakers? Well,
(48:06):
they may not be listening to you. Maybe they are,
but it's like there are patterns that you know, you
fall into, demographics and stuff, and they recognize all that. Well,
as usual, we've jumped all over the place. That's what
I like to do sometimes on this show because there's
a lot happening in the world and so much to
talk about so little time. But I think it's important
(48:28):
for us to remember to focus on the power of
the Augia Tactos Zume and to always relax and take
moments to think about what is positive, what is good
for you, what's going to bring in good fortune for you.
So I'm about to play the one the only original
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good fortune tone. It lasts twenty seconds, and whatever you're doing,
try to pause if you can, close your eyes. If
you can't, that's totally fine, take some deep breaths and
just think about your next week and how we can
make this the best week for you ever. Just think
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about nothing but good things happening to you. Here is
the good Fortune Tom. That's it for this edition of
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On this edition of the show. The Dark Forest Hypothesis
plus three things you can do to easily turn your
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bad luck into good luck. Yes, we're going to get
into that later. Everybody needs some new tips from time
to time, and uh, well, these are some good ones.
But first, the dark forest hypothesis sounds spooky. Some of
you probably know what this is.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I bet many of you do not.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I did one of these shows. Let's see, it was
episode one thirty three of this podcast called Strange Things,
that was called where Are the Aliens? I also, by
the way, uh introduced my Aztec death whistle on that
episode one thirty three. But the big topic where are
(02:41):
the Aliens? And I kind of dug into how to
reconcile something like the Drake equation with the Fermi paradox.
I'm not going to get all into that again. You
can go back and listen, but basically, just to recap
the Drake equation is this this very precise, respected equation
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formulated in nineteen sixty one by this astrophysicist named Frank Drake,
and he was calculating all the information that we have
about all the things that exist out there in the universe,
and what the likelihood of well, an alien civilization, an
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intelligent alien civilization, being out there, what that likelihood was,
and basically, you know, without getting into the math, and
I don't think the average person can understand it. By
crunching all the numbers about you know, the Goldilock zones
and just all these variables, basically he came up with
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this result that it appears there should be thousands of
intelligent alien civilizations which may currently exist. And of course,
even though that makes sense on paper, it takes us
to what so many people refer to as the Fermi paradox.
And the Fermi paradox is this discrepancy between the lack
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of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently
high likelihood of its existence. And apparently this goes back
to a meeting that Fermi was having sort of a
casual conversation in the summer of nineteen fifty with some
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other physicists, and while walking to lunch, the men discussed
recent UFO reports and the possibility of faster than light travel,
and apparently the guys were kind of open minded to
the fact that this statistically should be the case because
the universe is so big.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
That it's possible.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
But then at one point me blurted out, but where
is everybody and coming that that question that one sentence
coming from a physicist of that stature went down in
history as a paradox. Books have been written about it.
Where is everybody? And I won't get into again all
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the reasons. I went deeper into this in episode one
thirty three, But you know, obviously one of the most
likely explanations is that the universe is just so huge,
everything's just spread too far apart. I mean, you can't
imagine how huge the universe versus and we just can't
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find each other or we don't have the technology to
reach each other. That's probably the simplest one. But then
there are some other really interesting ones that I think
are especially thought provoking, such as the fact that you know,
you and I, we measure life pretty much in terms
of a human lifetime. So you might say, okay, human
life is in the neighborhood of seventy to one hundred
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years right now, and so we have a tendency to
break our lives up into days and weeks and months
leading up leading up to this, you know, the span
of years that we consider a life. But that is
irrelevant when it comes to time and the cosmos, and
so it may just be that it's very unlikely for
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two civilizations to have matured at the same time so
that they can communicate with each other. You know, you're
talking about some incredible synchronicity that these civilizations they thrive,
but they are billions of years apart when they rise
and fall, and it just doesn't match up.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
This is seriously something that many books have been written about.
So I'm not going to try to dig into all
the options here in this podcast, but this is from
a scientific point of view. This is the question, and
in my podcast called where are the Aliens? The point
of that one was the evidence that I have found
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to suggest that many of these UFOs UAP, these types
of beings, they tend to be seen around the water,
around shorelines and including going in and out of the water.
This happens all the time, and so I would say
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there's a higher likelihood than whatever these things are, and
whoever these beings are, there's a higher likelihood that they
are spending more time in the oceans of the world
than they are flying around in outer space up above us.
I mean, space from what we can tell, seems to
be a pretty dead zone compared to the oceans, which
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are absolutely overwhelmingly full of and teeming with life, and
not only life, but some of the most bizarre forms
of life that you can imagine. So it would make
sense that, you know, it's an easier stretch logically to
say that these beings are living in that environment, in
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the aquatic environment, and that that does not mean they
cannot fly up into the sky and travel in that
realm occasionally as well, but that maybe that's where they
are more often than not. And it's kind of interesting
because as I was doing prep for this show, this
article popped up here at Fox News and the headline
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is only one type of alien life form could make
it to Earth's doorstep. This is from a Harvard expert.
It says biological creatures would unlikely survive journey to Earth,
says astrophysicist A vi Lobe, And I'll just read beginning here.
(09:00):
It says a renowned astrophysicist is calling foul on reports
of alien sightings and Earth's atmosphere, arguing that biological creatures
would be unable to survive a journey to our planet. Quote,
it would take about a billion years to cross from
one side of the Milky Way galaxy to the other.
A Vlobe, A Harvard astrophysicist said during an appearance on
(09:22):
gb News this week. Quote, given that I don't think
any spacecraft that would arrive to us from another star
would carry biological creatures, and so I think that basically,
what if I gather the if I get the point here,
he's saying that, like, it's more likely if they are autonomous,
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they have an artificial brain, artificial intelligence. We have already
developed that on Earth. We haven't launched it to space,
but that would be the next step.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
End quote.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
You know what, I have to agree, there's something to that.
You know, I have talked about these things I called
oh u fo's and but that stands for organic UFO.
But really what I'm talking about is some of these
things that may be like artificial intelligence, that do have
an organic body and a shape shifting ability. That these
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these things flying around us are not always just so
you know, black and white as being animate or inanimate
or organic or inorganic.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
And so.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I tend to think that, you know, there is a
sound logic there. And so when we start thinking about this, however,
and we start looking into reconciling, well, all these beings
are sub statistically supposedly possibly around us. Where are they?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
When I talked.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
About that in episode one thirty three, I started getting
some messages from people saying, well, what do you think
about the dark forest hypothesis? And I was aware of it,
but i'd never I don't think I've ever really sat
down and talked about it in particular on this podcast.
(11:13):
So let me explain to you what the dark Forest
hypothesis is. As a matter of fact, let's take our
break first, because I want to dig into this and
it is spooky, it is eerie, it is unsettling if
you really think about the implications of this thing called
the dark Forest hypothesis, because it applies not only to
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the concept of quote unquote, you know, aliens flying around
out there, but maybe other phenomena that we often consider supernatural, paranormal,
maybe interdimensional, all that kind of stuff. Some good news
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Let's get back to the dark Forest hypothesis.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Of course, I've been talking about this idea that well,
if science tells us statistically there ought to be the
possibility of intelligent life all over the place, well where
is everybody? You know? If we dig into that question,
(16:51):
that for me paradox some folks bring up what is
called the dark forest hypothesis, and first off, let me
read to you what it says here at Wikipedia. The
dark forest hypothesis is the conjecture that many alien civilizations
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exist throughout the universe, but they are both silent and hostile,
maintaining their undetectability by humanity for fear of being destroyed
by another hostile and undetected civilization. In this framing, it
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is presumed that any space fearing civilization would view any
other intelligent life as an inevitable threat, and thus destroy
any nascent life that makes itself known. As a result,
the electromagnetic spectrum would be relatively quiet without evidence of
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any intelligent alien life, as in a dark forest filled
with armed hunters stalking through the trees like ghosts. Okay,
for a bit more description, I found this article about
this topic at big think dot com, written by Scottie Hendricks,
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and I'll just read a couple little passages. The Milky
Way galaxy has two hundred billion stars and perhaps one
hundred billion planets. If even a small fraction of those
planets harbored life, and even a pathetic scattering of those
planets had life forms, which became intelligent, our galaxy would
be teeming with alien civilizations. Then, of course we reflect
(18:49):
back on the Drake equation and all that, and he
says here, many of the solutions aim at one of
the variables in the Drake equation and try to make
the supposed number of civilizations lower. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
But this is.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
The Dark Forest solution, which explains why we have not
heard from aliens because they are purposefully keeping quiet. The
reasoning is laid out in the science fiction novel The
Dark Forests by Leu Schicksen. I guess that's it's pronounced
cixi N. The plot of the book, the second in
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a series, concerns questions of how to best interact with
potentially hostile alien life. So the argument's laid out, like
all life desires to stay alive, there is no way
to know if other life forms can or will destroy
you if given a chance, and that lacking assurances, the
safest option for any species is to annihilate other life
(19:51):
forms before they have a chance to do the same.
So this all leads to this, you know, radio silence
and fact. Here's a paragraph from the actual novel, quote
the universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an
armed hunter, stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently
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pushing aside branches that block the path, and trying to
tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The
hunter has to be careful because everywhere in the forest
are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds another life,
another hunter, an angel or a demon, a delicate infant
(20:36):
to tottering old man, a fairy or demi god, there's
only one thing he can do, open fire and eliminate them. Okay,
so I think you get the idea. The hypothesis here
is that maybe these beings. Uh. Let we can just
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start with the aliens, but you can expand this however
you want. There they might be all around you. They
might be in your bedroom, in your closet, in your backyard,
at your kids' school. Uh, they could be anywhere. But
they are hiding intentionally because they don't know what the
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consequences for them and their civilization will be.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
If we know for sure that they.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Are there, maybe they are being hostile towards us and
the people are being kept in the dark. This also, well, okay,
let me just mention this because I have gotten emails
about this. You know, a while back there was a
news story saying that a bunch of people claim that
there are these like ten foot tall aliens running around
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some shopping mall in Florida, and all these police showed up,
and that whole story seems pretty you wishy wash to me.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I mean, look, all I can tell.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You is I have not I've looked at the video
footage and stuff that's come out, and I have not
seen anything that I believe is convincing evidence that that
story is true. Doesn't mean it's not. I just haven't
seen any evidence of it. Maybe aliens are all over
the place. But here's I think the even eerier part
(22:22):
is that, well, maybe we're we're not just talking about
aliens visitors from beyond. Maybe we're talking about literally this
other realm of reality that overlays our realm. That there
are all of these interdimensional beings that are all around
us all the time, and they're very intentionally keeping quiet.
(22:45):
And it reminds one, does it not, of the so
called shadow person reports. Because people like my friend Heidi
holl Us, who have spent years studying the shadow person
phenomenon and similar things, they often find that when somebody
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observes a shadow person, as soon as the shadow person
realizes that it is being observed, it darts away. And
if you are brand new to this topic, well, a
shadow person is just a shadowy silhouette. It's almost like
my mom saw a shadow person one time. This is
many years ago. She was in North Carolina and she
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was at home, I think, by herself, and a human
silhouette across like over in the corner across the living
room caught her eye and she saw this shadowy figure
there just very quietly watching and kind of hovering. At first,
she thought it was me trying to play a prank
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on her or something like that, because my mom and
I have been jokesters over the years and we've occasionally
pranked each other excuse me, and.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
So she.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
My mom thought it was me, and she said, Josh,
what are you doing? You know, like your bust that
I caught you. And then this thing turns and very
quickly vanishes. I think it kind of darted down the hallway,
and that freaked my mom out because when she realized
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that she was home alone, she knew that well, she
had seen something there that appeared to be a real
silhouette of a real person. And so the dark forest
hypothesis may explain why that some of these beings, whether.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
They are out.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
There billions of light years away or they're right here, yeah,
sitting next to you, why that they may intentionally be
keeping quiet and maybe even watching us like we're in
some kind of a zoom. Do you think that that
is a good possible explanation a solution to the Fermi paradox.
(25:11):
When we come back from this break, I'm going to
tell you something about the process that some of these
beings might use when they come here to interact with us,
and it leads, interestingly enough into this topic, three things
you can do to easily turn your bad luck into
good luck.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I'm Joshua P.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Warren, and you're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio
and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I
will be back after these important messages. Welcome back to
(26:17):
Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM
Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, JOSHUAPA Warren, and
this is the show where.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
The unusual becomes usual.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Here's something that's kind of interesting to think about when
you try to comprehend the relationship that we may have
to other intelligent life out there, whether it be always
on the physical plane, like other apes like us out
there flying around that originated from another planet, or if
(26:55):
we're talking about interdimensional creatures that morph in an out
of our world. Whatever they are, we have to think
about the means that may they may have in order
to interact with us, to reach us both physically and linearly.
(27:16):
I mean, for example, are they just traveling across vast
distances or are they using wormholes in order to overcome
distances and immediately teleport back and forth?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
I mean all that stuff. Right.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
There is a man that you may have come across
in your studies of the metaphysical world. He's quite popular.
Let's see, he's sixty six years old.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
His name is.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Sad Guru sad Guru.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
That's spelled s A d h g u r U.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
And he is the founder and head of the Esha
Foundation based in India. I don't know if I'm pronouncing
that right Esha, but I think so. I says it
was establish in nineteen ninety two, operates an ashram and
yoga center that carries out educational and spiritual activities. He's
been teaching yoga since nineteen eighty two. He does a
lot of speaking engagements, and hey, you know, he's one
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of these guys. When you look at him, he's you know,
he's got like the robe and the white beard, and
he has the cloth wrapped around his head. And I mean,
he he looks like a guru, but he is extremely
articulate and he's I've I enjoy listening to his videos
even though I really don't know much about the guy,
to be honest with you. Yeah, and I even bought
(28:34):
one of his books and uh, and he had he
made some pretty interesting points in that. But I bring
him up because the other day I saw he was
interviewed by Joe Rogan, and at one point in the interview,
I saw Guru was talking about that what really makes
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humans special compared to other other animals, other creatures that
we're aware of is our ability to use tools that
you cannot underestimate that one thing. And he said, you know,
to Joe Rogan, he goes, you're a strong man. He says,
(29:19):
what if I tell you to come over here and
take the screw out of this chair with your bare hands,
and Joe Rogan says, oh, I guess that'd be kind
of tough, and he says, yeah, you know, he says,
you might be able to do it eventually, but you
might lose a fingernail, maybe you'd use your teeth, you
might lose a tooth, But I give you a screwdriver
and boon, that thing comes right out. So why wouldn't
(29:41):
you take advantage of this tool and make things easy
on yourself? And this extends throughout the entire story of
human development. It has taken us all the way to
the moon. The fact and beyond the fact that we
are master tool makers compared to every other thing out
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there that we see. I mean, there are some creatures
that use tools to some extent, you know, using a
stick for this or that. But I mean it's if
there's any doubt that there's some kind of divine spark
within a human being. I mean, look at our ability
to create things by using tools, and so just because
(30:24):
there are other possible advanced life forms out there, it
doesn't mean that they are tool makers like we are.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I am I'm not.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Certain that you could actually say that a human is
more intelligent than any other creature. Especially when you start
looking at dolphins and chimps and all that. I mean,
we just live in different worlds. We have a different
set of needs for the environment that we're in. You know,
you may say, well, I'm smarter than a shark, so
you know I'm better than a shark. But okay, let's
throw you in the ocean and see who who comes
(30:54):
out better in that situation. Well, I think it's also
important for us to realize that tools they can help
us achieve extraordinary things when we go out there and
we explore the world and we experience the universe. But
it also goes for mental tools, and this is something
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that's overlooked way too much. We have a tendency to
only focus on things that are our physical and tangible
that we can literally put our hands on them, and
that we were crude in that way of thinking. I
call it wokie thinking. In my book Use the Force,
and essentially, when I talk about tips for things that
(31:40):
will help you improve your life by enhancing your mentality,
I'm basing that on some of my own experiences because
I think it's really important to have tools to help
you mentally and spiritually. And it's not a crutch unless
(32:04):
you just want to be mister tough guy and say.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I don't need it. I can will whatever I walk
I brute force.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Fine, okay, But I'm the guy who like, if I'm
going to drive cross country, if the GPS is available,
I will use it. I like to make my life
as easy as possible by taking advantage of tools. And
so that's why, for example, when you go to say,
Joshua Pee Warren dot com, the Curiosity Shop is full
of some of the best metaphysical tools that I have
(32:34):
come up with that have helped me. So that's all
there for you. Well, I say that because I think
that I'm about to give you an interesting set of
tools here. And you always need refreshers, and you need
inspiration to and you constantly need to sort of think
about things from different points of view. I was watching
(32:54):
an interview the.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Other day.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
With Amy new and Amy Newmark is the publisher of
Chicken Soup for the Soul, which is now a big
entertainment company, and Amy Newmark's she's always making really interesting
points and giving really good tips to people about how
(33:20):
to do little things that can sort of change the
direction of life for the better. And she gave this
tip that I thought was good enough to pass along
to you, and I might have misled you a little
bit because I was saying three things you can do
to easily turn your bad luck into good luck. Well,
(33:43):
that's let me be more specific. She said, try this out.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Okay, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Going to paraphrase her a little bit. But take out
a calendar, mark whatever day it is is day one,
and go thirty days, and then mark day thirty. So
you want to basically set thirty days aside for yourself.
(34:12):
She didn't say use a calendar, but I think that
makes sense, so you can keep track of it. And
then every single day for all of those thirty days,
for each day, you write down three things, three things
per day that you are thankful for. And you can't
(34:33):
write down the same thing twice every day.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Come up.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
It could be the simplest things. In my book, Use
the Force, I have a chapter on gratitude, and I
say start with just the senses that you have, because
not everybody has them. Say I'm thankful to have sight,
or I'm thankful to hear, or I'm thankful to smell
or to taste or to feel. I'm thankful to have
my rational mind. You can be thankful for a family member,
(35:03):
thankful for the roof over your head, thankful for the
device that you're using right now to listen to me.
Every day, just take a moment and write down three things.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
You're thankful for.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
If you can do that for thirty days, then when
you get to the thirtieth day, stop and look back
on your life and compare your life to how it
was when you started. I bet you it will be better,
much better, And you don't even have to try to
(35:42):
do anything except just be conscious and aware of that.
This is sort of like counting your blessings. In my
book Use the Force, a Jedi's guide to the Law
of Attraction, which you can read for free if you
go to my website, I wrote this, Let's face reality,
(36:03):
no matter how optimistic you try to be, every day
can be a struggle. You do not live in a
tiny bubble, and challenges and problems are always apt to arise.
So how can you further convince yourself that you do
live in a friendly universe. You do that by taking
a moment to be grateful. It's often said the law
of attraction is no different from the law of gravity.
(36:23):
It doesn't matter whether you believe in gravity. If you
run off a cliff, disbelieving in gravity won't stop you
from falling. In that case, the law is a bad thing. However,
it is also the law of gravity that keeps your
feet planted on the earth, so you don't go flying
off into space. Since the law of attraction is constantly working,
(36:43):
whether you like it or not, it will continue drawing
good things to you. If you feel appreciative for the
good things you already have, try this out and let
me not take an old fashioned calendar, if you've got one,
(37:03):
or if you I'm getting getting to be an older
fellow now, so I got the big wall calendar and
I write things with an old ink pit.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Okay, but if you do everything on your.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Phone, fine, use your phone, do this experiment, and then
email me at thirty days and let me know if
your life is better after thirty days of doing this
writing down three things per day that you're grateful for.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
And so thanks to Amy.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Newmark with chicken soup for the soul for that advice.
When we come back, it is time for some listener emails.
I have a variety of them. I'm not sure what
I'm going to dig into exactly, but I maybe how
about Yeah, I got one on doppel gangers. That's a
(37:53):
topic A lot of people are always interested in that
and more. When we return, I'm Joshua P.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Warren.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Your listen to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be
right back. Welcome back to the final segment of this
(38:45):
edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to
Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren.
And for hundreds of years, many people around the world
believed it was impossible for a human being to run
(39:05):
one mile in four minutes. And then all that changed
on May sixth of nineteen fifty four when an Englishman
named Roger Banister, at age twenty five, did it. He
ran the mile in four minutes. And you know what,
(39:27):
within a couple of months, two more people did it,
and now thousands of people have done it. As a
matter of fact, I believe the guy who holds the
record right now he ran a mile in three minutes
in forty three seconds. This is interesting because it goes
(39:48):
back to this idea of mental tools, mental prep, not
believing that something has to be impossible just because somebody
else hasn't done it before. And it's also important to
hang out with the right people that shows you. The
people that you associate with, if they're telling you all
the time this can't be done, this is impossible, and
that affects you, then you're not going to achieve as
(40:12):
much as you might be able to. If you surround
yourself with people who make you feel good and inspire you.
These are little mind hacks that you can use in
your life, and I hope you'll take advantage of them. Okay,
let's go to some emails speaking of people that you're
hanging out with. This is a This is a weird
(40:34):
and spooky one. This came from a man named Tony,
and he said it all started in the historic two
story brick house I grew up in here in Amarillo, Texas.
The year was around nineteen seventy two. I saw the
same female apparition in my bedroom on two different occasions
(40:56):
when I was probably seven or eight years old. The
first time I saw her, I thought it was my
mother sitting in a chair at the foot of my bed.
It looked just like her. I remember sitting up in
bed and calling out to her mom, Mom, and no response,
just a blank stare slightly to my right. I then
(41:19):
realized this was kind of a hazy, translucent figure. It
did not take me long to figure out it was
a spirit lingering in the corner of my room. Although
it did not seem threatening in any way, I was
still terrified and covered my head for the rest of
the night. I asked my mom the next morning if
(41:41):
she had been in my room that previous night, and
she said no. A couple of months later, as I
was lying in bed at night trying to sleep, I
rolled over and that same woman was standing right next
to my bed, looking down on me. She was less
than three feet from me. She was even wearing the
same red, yellow and orange flowery gown from the first
(42:05):
time I saw her. Once again, I just covered my
head and would not look out until morning. Years later,
I learned that this phenomenon was known as a doppelganger,
and then he writes in parentheses, doppelganger is when a
spirit takes the form of a family member as they
manifest themselves. It is said that if you ever see
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your own doppelganger that you will die soon afterwards.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
End quote.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
That's thank you for that, Tony. And you know what,
I actually did a whole show about the Dappelganger phenomenon.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
It was episode ninety four of this podcast Strange Things,
and it was called do You Have Doppelganger? It's one
of the weirdest topics out there. So I believe that,
you know, sometimes there may be multiple timelines and you
(43:06):
a version of yourself maybe out there doing something that
is not happening on the timeline that you're conscious of.
And also there may be shape shifting entities out there
that are trying to blend in by looking like somebody
that you're familiar with. There's a whole lot of weird
(43:26):
stuff connected to the doppelganger thing. Go back and listen
to episode ninety four. Oh yeah, and then Tony sent
me this other story. Let me read this one to you.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
He says.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Now, fast forward to nineteen eighty two. I was a
senior in high school. It was just me and dad
living at home. My mother had passed away in the
previous year, and my sisters had married and moved away.
It was a high school night and I had been
up late studying for a test before falling into a
deep slumber. I was awakened from my sleep to the
(43:58):
sound of the hangars in my bedroom clawset rattling and
scraping up and down the walls. I tried to call
out for help, but something had a hold of me
and I was totally paralyzed. I could not move, I
could not breathe, I could not yell out nothing. It
was like there was a dark, unseen presence in my
(44:19):
room that night and it had me pinned down. And
this went on for thirty or forty seconds, although at
the time it seemed like an eternity. Suddenly the hangers
became silent and whatever had a hold of me released
and I could once again move and breathe. This totally
freaked me out, and it was a long time before
I ever told anyone about that occurrence. It was many
(44:41):
years later that I learned about the sleep paralysis phenomenon. Yeah,
a lot of people have told me about experiencing this,
and some have said that it also is well. They
call it the old hag phenomenon because they see some
kind of like old, raggedy looking creepy, a witch like
figure on top of them when this happens, and there's
(45:06):
like this old tradition that this could be some kind
of I don't know, some kind of a soul sucking,
you know, like I guess, like a Sucubis type of
figure that's trying to take your energy while you sleep.
It goes back into this I guess, you know, I
guess the idea that maybe we live in this dark
(45:27):
forest and there are things that wait until you're asleep
before they decide to pounce. Right, Okay, well thanks again
for that to Tony, and now let's go to speaking
of dark forest, I did a show not too long
ago saying Beware the Dark Side, and I talked to
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some about how that society can be manipulated by unscrupulous
people using divide and conquer techniques. And I got this
email from Diane and she said, after listening to your
most recent show, I'm wondering if you've heard of Edward
Burnet's last name is spelled ber Nays. He was Freud's
(46:14):
nephew and is considered the father of public relations. He's
basically responsible for redefining propaganda and revolutionized advertising and marketing
Back in the nineteen twenties by creating campaigns that used
psychological techniques to manipulate consent on a mass scale. His
(46:34):
campaigns were so successful he caught the attention of politicians
who hired him for their own campaigns and the rest
is history. If you have not seen this BBC documentary,
it's fantastic and explains the history of his influence and
shows how insidious it was and is. We can thank
him for the manipulation that is used today. His name
(46:56):
is virtually unknown, but the power he had is disturbing
and it's had the most profound effect on the molding
of society. This needs to be seen. She gave me
a link to a documentary. I haven't had a chance
to watch it, but I did click and watch the
first few minutes and what I found is if you
just go to YouTube and type in Edward Burnees, there's
(47:19):
a lot of documentary information about him. Again, that last
name is spelled b E R N A Y S
Edward Burne's and boy, you know that kind of thing.
It really does make you think about just the amount
of effort that truly has gone into manipulating all of
us psychologically, especially now that we have computers and AI
(47:43):
working on us. You know that when you when you
walk into a store, they know if you're going to
turn left or right. I mean, look at the targeting
that goes on when you're just seeing ads that pop
up out of the blue on your computer or your phone,
and you're like, are they listening to me? How did
they know that I was going to buy some beakers? Well,
(48:06):
they may not be listening to you. Maybe they are,
but it's like there are patterns that you know, you
fall into, demographics and stuff, and they recognize all that. Well,
as usual, we've jumped all over the place. That's what
I like to do sometimes on this show because there's
a lot happening in the world and so much to
talk about so little time. But I think it's important
(48:28):
for us to remember to focus on the power of
the Augia Tactos Zume and to always relax and take
moments to think about what is positive, what is good
for you, what's going to bring in good fortune for you.
So I'm about to play the one the only original
(48:51):
good fortune tone. It lasts twenty seconds, and whatever you're doing,
try to pause if you can, close your eyes. If
you can't, that's totally fine, take some deep breaths and
just think about your next week and how we can
make this the best week for you ever. Just think
(49:11):
about nothing but good things happening to you. Here is
the good Fortune Tom. That's it for this edition of
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the show. Follow me on Twitter at Joshua P. Warren,
Plus visit Joshua Pwarren dot com to sign up for
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tell all your friends to subscribe to this show and
to always remember the Golden Rule. Thank you for listening,
thank you for your interest and support. Thank you for
staying curious, and I will talk to you again soon.
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