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Ready to be amazed by the Wizard of Weird Warren.
I am Joshua B. Warren, and each week on this show,
I'll be bringing you brand new mind blowing content, news, exercises,
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and weird experiments you can do at home, and a
lot more on this edition of the show. Amazing happy endings.
Plus what does it really mean to raise your vibration?
You know, you hear people say that all the time.
Become more spiritual, Do this, It's good for you, It'll
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raise your vibration. What does that actually mean? Well, it's
a it's a good, legitimate question, and we're going to
dig into that and probably some other weird things, just
depending on how much time I have, you know, sometimes
I just start talking and just I just see where
it goes. But let's jump into Amazing Happy Endings because
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I mentioned this recently on one of my podcasts. This
is a new book project for me I am putting
together in anthology. I want your stories. I'm talking to you, Yes,
you listening to me. I want your story to be
a part of this collection. It's called Amazing Happy Endings,
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True Stories to make you smile. And there are only
four rules if you have a story that you want
to submit to be in this poot. Rule number one
is your story must be true. Rule number two, your
story must be short, ideally no more than a few paragraphs.
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Number three, your story must be amazing. And number four,
your story must have a happy ending. And since I
announced this, oh, let me tell you what, the stories
have just come pouring in. And I am so excited.
I'm so happy because if you submit a story, and
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of course I have a team of people, some editors
and various people in addition to myself, who are going
to read over everything and we're going to figure out
which ones need to be kind of edited and whipped
into shape and then put into the book. If we
pick one of your stories, well then you get a
free copy of the book. And I'm thinking about maybe
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throwing in some other cool, free little surprises for you
as well. You know me, I like to do that
kind of thing. But a portion of all seals when
the book comes out will go to various charities, and
it's all about helping you feel good, helping all of
us feel good. We need that nowadays, don't we. If
you want to submit a story, go to Amazinghappy Endings
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dot com. Amazing Happy Endings dot com. But let me
read to you some of the story worries that have
come in so far to give you an idea of
what this book is going to be like. All right,
And then this again, I just picked two or three
a handful out of the Giant's tack. So here is
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one from a doctor, a doctor named Mitchell Max Dolnig,
and he he is in Texas, and he's talking about
the incident that happened to him in nineteen ninety two.
He says, after seeing a run of emergency room patients,
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I had gone back to the call room and was
in a deep, deep sleep Suddenly, I literally jumped out
of bed, yelling at myself to run. Damn it, run man,
move it. It was my own self telling me to
run like I never had before. As I slipped my
bare feet into my shoes, I asked, run where my
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own voice answered, just start running, move it. I almost
started running barefoot, but I did not know where I
was going, almost being pulled at every corner, I ran
through corridors and hallways and came out in the er.
The receptionist exclaimed, Doctor Dolnig, there are no patients, and
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why are you here? She likely saw my messed up
hair and my disheveled appearance. As I took three steps forward,
I said, aloud with determinism, I don't know. And I
kicked a metal door open, which revealed the body of
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a man lying on the ground. I called Code blue
and we rushed the lifeless body into trauma. He was flatline,
essentially dead, but after a round of cardiac drugs, intubation,
and defibrillation, he completely awoke, seemingly unscathed. He had been
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experiencing chest pain and decided to drive himself to the hospital,
but collapsed trying to make it in there, and it
was unnoticed one or two minutes later. His chances of
recovery would have been dismal. I had never kicked doors
open in the hospital or acted like that before or since,
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and I don't know how that had occurred. To this day,
the gentleman had a complete recovery. Now, you see, folks,
true short, amazing, happy ending this. You know how nice
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it is to get stories like this flooding in from
real people all over the world. I love it, I
love it. Thank you for that, doctor Mitchell, Max Dolming.
I'm going to read you some more of these, and uh,
of course you know i'll pause when when breaks come up.
But oh, here's this one really made me smile. Okay,
this comes from Molly Ann Kasden, and she is an
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intuitive medium and she lives in Georgia now, but this
incident happened to her when she was living in California
back in nineteen ninety five. I'll tell you something about
Molly Kasden. She when my birthday, it was October twenty fifth,
and of course she's a big fan of the show,
and she gave me a wonderful gift. She recorded a
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private reading and sent it to me, and of course
on my birthday. One of the things I wanted to
do was get away from media and just turn off
my cell phone because I'm always bombarded. But I saw
that she sent me that I go, I better watch this,
and I watched this video and she said some very
strange things that didn't make sense to her or me
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at the time exactly, but I them and before over
the next twenty four hours, it all made sense. And basically,
in a nutshell, I went to spend my birthday in
a big, fancy resort and casino, and she was picking
up on something that was directing me toward a certain
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machine where I hit a jackpot and made a lot
of money. So that gives you a little insight into
Molly Ann Kesden. I'm sure she will be on this
program at some point in the future, but listen to
her story. She said. The line wound around the huge
industrial building at least twice. As I lumbered towards the
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incredibly fit, fresh and youthful five hundred or so competitors,
I stuck out as a fat, sore thumb. Although I
was only about twenty five, I seemed ancient in comparison
to the late teens and early twenty hopefuls, all vying
to be part of the elite cast. Okay, so she's
auditioning here, she says. As we stood around wearing labels
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with numbers on them, mine was five twenty five, I
observed these willowy youngsters stretching, practicing dance moves, and sipping
their bottle bottles of designer water while I sweated in
my frunty jacket and slacks. I figured I'd be mucking
around in a mini mouse costume. Oh I should also,
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I should mention, Okay, this is at Anaheim, California. She's
at disney Land. So like, if we've added this, and
I'm sure we will, we'll point out, like this is
happening at Disneyland. Otherwise you're like, why is she gonna
be in a mini mouse? Anyway, she goes, I figured
she's auditioning at Disneyland, she says. I figured I'd be
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mucking around in a mini mouse costume. But as I
waited in line and overheard the experienced conversations, I realized
this was a bigger deal. We went before a panel
of judges and groups of twenty while they looked at
each of us and said, either you stay or you go?
And I had no clue what specifically they were looking for,
but I knew I was definitely not going to be
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able to compete with these lithe and lovely ladies. I
weighed over three hundred pounds at five feet tall, frumpy, sweaty,
and obviously uncomfortable. And when I stepped forward, the panel
whispered to each other amongst giggles, it's not a good sign.
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But then one of them said, you stay. I wasn't
sure if I was happy or being tricked at that point.
Over the next few days, they triaged the candidates, dismissing
actors at each stage of the auditions. By the third day,
there were about one hundred candidates left, and yes, I
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was one of them. Prepared with snacks and dressed more
up appropriately for movement. I felt positive about the upcoming
portion displaying our dancing abilities. I had little formal training,
but I was always rhythmic and able to boogie. My
confidence disintegrated as they outlined a dance routine with difficult
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ballet moves and waltzing. I was awkward and bumping into others,
becoming the laughing stock of the auditions. Okay, we're going
to take a break. This does not sound like it's
going to have a happy ending, does it. She thinks
she's becoming the laughing stock of the auditions. But there
is a happy ending, and I'll tell you that ending
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when we come back from this break. I also want
to emphasize something to you. I do all kinds of
interesting projects and I give away all kinds of cool
free stuff that I don't talk about on this podcast.
The only way you get to know about it is
if you go to Joshuapwarren dot com. There is no
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period after the P. When you tie in Joshuapwarren dot com.
Right there on the homepage, you'll see a little bank
where you can type in your email address and hit submit.
When you do that, you become a subscriber to my
free e newsletter, and I will keep you informed about
these things that are only for Free E Newsletter subscribers.
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I write each one of these with my own fingers.
And by the way, as soon as you hit that submit,
but you will get an automated email from me with
some instant online gifts to help start making your life
more magical, so you get to see many more amazing,
happy Endings Joshuapwarren dot com and also follow me on
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Twitter at Joshua P. Warren. You're listening to Strange Things
on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network,
and I will be right back. Welcome back to Strange
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Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast a M
Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua P. Warren, the
Wizard of Weird, beaming into your wormhole brain from my
studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day
is golden and every night is silver. And I love
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these amazing, happy ending stories because often you get to
see synchronicity play out, and it reminds you that there
does seem to be some kind of grand design here
that we are all experiencing little by little, bit by bit,
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glimpse by glimpse, and whether it's a bad thing that's
going to happen or a good thing that's going to happen,
it seems like there is a design and you just
never know which way it's going to turn out. But
maybe you can influence it, and maybe you can you
can shape it in your favor a little bit We'll
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talk more about that later, but yes, Strange Coincidences is
one of my favorite books. It's a Ripley's Believe It
or Not book that was published ooh back in the day.
Let's see looks like nineteen ninety and on the front
they have an illustration of a pilgrim standing on a
sh with the Native American in front of him, and
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it says, when the pilgrims landed in sixteen twenty, they
were greeted by an Indian who spoke English. And of
course we recently had Thanksgiving, and so I posted that
on my social media and a lot of people had
a lot of interesting thoughts about that. But you know,
it's like some people are like, well, duh, everybody knew that,
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and then other people were like, is this true. That's
how it goes. But let's get back to some of
these brand new, fresh stories that nobody's ever heard submitted
for my Amazing Happy Endings book project. And again I
hope you'll contribute. I want your story if you go
to Amazing Happy Endings dot com. Let's get back to
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Mollie's story. She's been auditioning here in nineteen ninety five
at Disneyland, and she's dancing, and she said that she's
becoming the laughing stock of the auditions as far as
she can tell. And then she goes on to say
the moment came for my group of ten to perform
the tune from Sleeping Beauty, and I could barely remember,
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much less execute the routine. The music began and I
started out strong. However, as the music swelled to the
more difficult parts, I became lost and clumsy, and at
that point I just said, screw this, and I began
doing silly dance moves disco jitterbug, the Charleston, the bump,
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the Hitgchehiker, etc. I smiled brightly as I died a
small death inside, telling myself to just have fun. Who
cares about the outcome? As the music ended, Drenched, humiliated
and horrified at my compulsive behavior, I scurried back to
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the side and sat down on the floor, bursting into
tears from embarrassment. Then I heard a clap, then applause.
Actors gathered around me, telling me how fabulous, cute and
funny I was in the middle of a sincere group hug.
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The panel deliberated and then asked me up to the
table first, Mollie. Someone said that was the best audition
we have ever seen. Your energy, humor and decision to
let it all out is why we are going to
cast you as the Fairy Godmother here at Disneyland. Congratulations.
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I got to be the first Fairy Godmother in Disney
history to mingle among the guests in the park. I
not only got to work in the happiest place on Earth,
I got to have the happy face on Earth. To
this day, anytime I am feeling unsure of myself, I remember,
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being me is always the right answer. Bibbity bobbity boo.
Did you see that one coming? That's great, isn't it?
Thank you, Molly. You know it's so fun to read
these stories. All right? How about this one? This comes
from James Colonna. I tell you what. He's another fan
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of the show. And he also he's been listening for
a long time, and he lives in Pennsylvania, and he
is a conductor and composer, and he has had tremendous
success using the wishing machines. As you don't know about
the Wishing machines, just go to the Curiosity Shop on
my website and you'll see what I'm talking about. He's
had tremendous success, so I was really eager to see
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what his story was going to be. And here it is.
He says. In nineteen ninety two, I was in college
pursuing my music degree. I just completed my enlistment in
the US Army and was now struggling to pay my
college tuition on the GI bill and student loans. My
parents went car shopping and while at the dealer shop,
they played a promotional game to put for gold. Okay,
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my father, oh, to put I'm sorry, I said, not
put I'm reading this stuff fresh. You know, to putt so,
you know, like you're putting like at minigolf. Okay, So
to putt for gold putt. I guess it's so, he says.
My father sank the putt five times, each time earning
an entry to win a new car. So you get
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to just you have success with the putting, you get
a chance of winning a car, so he said. One afternoon,
I received a call that my name was drawn to
win the car at a promotional event, and my mother
and I talked about what we would do if I
won the car. Well, we had two options. The keep
the car or trade it back in for cash value
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to help pay for my tuition and that of my siblings.
The night arrived and I, along with my mother, attended
the dinner at the fancy country club, and before we
sat down, I was standing on the balcony watching the sunset.
To my surprise, I saw two very large angels on
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both sides of the sun. I put my intention into
the sunset, and a woman's voice sweetly spoke to me.
The voice sib quote, choose the key with teeth on
both sides. We sat down for dinner and I was
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introduced to the other two contestants. One was an elderly
couple and the other a couple in their thirties. Well,
the moment arrived and the three contestants were called outside.
Next to the car. It was a Dodge and Trepid,
and this pretty woman walked out with the trade that
had three keys. The announcer began quote, all our contestants
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need to do is put the key in the ignition
and if it starts the car, they win. End quote. Well,
the woman with the tray walked to the elderly couple
and they chose a key with no teeth. Then she
walked to the next couple and they chose a key
with teeth only halfway up one side of the shift.
And as they chose their keys, I stared down at
the key with teeth on both sides. This is the
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key that remained, and I reached down for that final key,
and that's when the female voice in my head said softly,
you already won. In the same order as we chose keys.
We went to the car to try to start the engine.
The elderly couple nothing, mid thirties couple nothing. Then I
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sat down and started the car up. Yes, I won
the car. We sold the car back to the dealer
a week later and took the cash value to pay
for my and my siblings college tuition. I think I
won because I never thought of myself, but what the
money could do for all of us. The universe is
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a friendly place that wants me to be happy and successful.
How do you like that one, folks? Thank you? Jim Klowna, Pennsylvania. Okay,
let me see if I can squeeze one more in
before this next break. This one's oh, this is somebodys
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get really paranormal like that one had angels in this
is this is a parent more paranormal one. This comes
from Daniel I guess his last name was pronounced Moulinau,
and he lives in Florida. He's a financial advisor and
this is something that happened to him in Washington, DC
in nineteen ninety six. He says, in the fall of
ninety six, my wife and I were living in a
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beautiful turn of the century log cabin and the suburbs
of Washington, d C. One night, she was out of town,
so it was the dog and myself to fend for ourselves.
At bedtime, I let the pump out to take care
of his final business for the day. The house was
surrounded by acres of woods, and the pooch decided he
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was going to stay outside for the night. After calling
for some time, I reluctantly went to bed. At around
two a m. I was awoken by a strange sound.
From my bed, I could see the old wooden front
door of the cabin slowly creak open, exactly like in
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the old horror movies they would portray it so well,
and standing in the figure excuse me, Standing in the
doorway was a female figure in a flowing white dress
with head hung low, time froze. I could not move
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a muscle or speak a word, and after an intense effort,
I managed to croak out my wife's name, and this
got the world moving again. And a split second, the
figure flew from the door and into my room, and
there was a huge pounce on my bed and there
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was the dog on my bed. A ghost had brought
my pet home and opened the door for him. He
was as happy as could be. I was deeply shaken.
We moved out of that house a few months later,
but the event will forever be etched into my mind
and has led me on a life of paranormal research
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and discovery. True story. Thank you, Daniel. People. When we
come back, I'll read one more of these and then
I'm going to get into what does it mean? Why
is this important? Raising your vibration, I'm Joshua Pete Warren.
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You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'll be back right
after this. We come back to Strange Things on the
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iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm
your host, Joshua Pete Warren, and this is the show
where the unusual becomes usual. And this is a reminder
when you are judging your life and the world, look
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outside your own door and see the world as it
really is. Don't be dominated by the fear mongering that
surrounds us that is pure evil, because fear is always
the path to the dark side. Always. And I find
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it refreshing to read some of these stories coming in
that have an amazing happy ending, and they don't necessarily
have to be paranormal. And yet it almost seems like
that when something amazing happens in life, it just kind
of kind of seems like there is something paranormal going on.
You know, you're watching that design, that strange organization materialize
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before your eyes. So here is one more amazing, happy
ending story. And this comes from pam Bert in Salem, Oregon,
and she is retired and this happened in twenty eighteen.
She writes, I was out in the yard doing a
little light yard work on a fall day. The house
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I lived in at that time had a large deck
under several fir trees, so I was sweeping fur needles
off the deck and taking them around the end of
the house. To a bin. I came back from dumping
a load of needles to the back of my house
and I saw my mother, who had died about eight
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years before or sitting on my back deck at the
patio table and smiling at me. Okay, did you get
that she sees the spirit of her mother who died
eight years ago? She goes on to write, I was stunned,
but in control enough to stop and check myself. Was
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I overworked? No, I just started overheated. No, it was
a beautiful fall day. But Mom just sat there smiling
at me, almost laughing. Really, I said Mom, and started
to move towards as fast as I could, but she
just slowly faded away before I could reach her. The
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one thing that made me realize I really saw. What
I saw was that she was holding a drink of something,
a glass in her hand. Now, when I moved into
the house a few months before, I had thrown out
all my mismatched drinking glasses and all new matching blue glasses,
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and my mom's drink was not in one of those glasses.
She brought her own. So you see amazing happy endings.
It covers a wide range, and I'll read some more
of these from time to time as the project proceeds.
But I hope you'll submit a story. And if you
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have a story that's true, that's short, no more than
a few paragraphs, that's amazing, that has a happy ending,
go to Amazinghappy Endings dot com to submit your story
right now. I'm collecting stories right now, and I understand
this is a podcast and by the time you hear it,
it might be too late. But I'm recording this right now.
It's early December of twenty twenty one. I hope that
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you're able to go ahead and participate. And also, of
all the stories we've gotten, one guy said that he
went to the website and he typed his story in
and then something went wrong on his computer or the
website or whatever and he lost it. So I recommend
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when you write your story, you know, write it somewhere
where you can save it, write it in whatever your
word processor is, or write it in an email and
send it to yourself or something like that, so that
if you are going to submit it, if something goes
wrong and you don't just lose your work. But Amazing
Happy Endings dot com or go to Joshua P. Warren
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dot com and currently you will find a link at
the top of the homepage that will take you there
and you'll see all the instructions. I cannot wait till
this is done and this book comes out next year,
and it's just going to be it's going to be wonderful.
We all need this. And again, all of you who
get your story selected, you're going to get a free
book and probably some other cool stuff from me. I
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think it's important for us to focus on these types
of stories because it helps us raise our vibration. And
I got an email from someone a few months ago.
I've been meaning to bring this up, and I forget
who it was, but the person said, you know, I
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really want to be a more spiritual person. And I
read books and I listen to these shows, and everybody's
talking about raising your vibration, but I don't understand what
that means. What exactly does that mean to raise your vibration?
And that's a very good, legitimate question. So I thought
about it, and here is what I came up with.
Is the best way to answer this. I think of
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it in terms of light. So light is an electromagnetic
radiation that's vibrating, that's pulsing. When you have no light,
you have the absence of light, have darkness. When you
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look out into outer space and it's dark, you're looking
at what William Shatner described as death. Okay, that's cold,
lifeless darkness out there. That's death, the absence of light,
no vibration. And it's interesting when you look at this
from a biblical perspective. Of course, the Bible starts out
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with in the Book of Genesis, it says, and in
the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, and
the earth was without form and void, and darkness was
upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of
God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said,
let there be light. And there was light. And God
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saw the light and it was good. And God divided
the light from the darkness. Now, whether or not you
believe in the Bible, just about every religion and tradition
has some version of this concept that light is the
predecessor to life. The absence of vibration is it's just silence,
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it's stillness. Light is a pulsation and a low vibration.
Light appears to our eyes as the color red. And
then if you increase the vibration or the pulsation a
little bit. It goes up to orange, and then you
increase it a little more, and it goes to yellow,
and you increase it a little more, and it goes
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to green, and then you increase it more and it
goes to blue, and then indigo and the violet. And
in fact, I have had some of these, you know,
I've done experiments with parasigmatics two point zero where I'm
able to take a beam of light whether it's a
laser or whatever, and shining at a sensor, and that
sensor will translate that color of light into a sound.
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So move it from red and it sounds like boooooo,
and then you go to orange and goes and then
you go to yeller, and then you can if you
go through red, orange, yellow, green, blue, he goes oOoOO.
You hear that rise? Okay, that rise and vibration and
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thinking negative thoughts condense and lower your spiritual vibration and
closer to that state of darkness, that state of death,
and thinking about positive thoughts expands and increases your spiritual
vibration into the realm of life. So negativity is a
low vibration and positivity is a high vibration. You could
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also think of it this way, if it's helpful. The
higher your vibration, the more you are removed from the
dense physical world, and the more removed you are, the
less you are bogged down by the animalistic fears and
the dense stresses that come from being a spirit in
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the material world. As Sting would probably say, so, instead
of being a spirit that's closely trapped and bogged down
closer to that lower vibration, closer to that state of
darkness and death, you're trying to rise above it. And
you can even look at this very practically when it
comes to brain wave activity that you know you've heard
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me talk about this before, that you know your brain
can go through four basic states of delta, theta, alpha,
a beta, and those states are determined by the frequency
by the vibration at which the electricity is pulsing through
your brain, and at each type of frequency you feel
a different way. If you want to learn more about that,
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go to the Curiosity Shop at Joshua Pwarren dot com
and read the section about the Tibetan emos. The Tibetan
emos and I am very enthusiastic about this because, believe
it or not, I am naturally an extremely pessimistic, negative person.
That's how I was born. And I learned these things
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about how to raise your vibration because I wanted to
overcome it and that does not come naturally to me.
And that is why I share with all of you
the things that I've learned. If it can help me,
then I'm hoping it can help you. It's a choice,
it's a hard won choice to overcome a natural negative state,
and you have to struggle every day to stay optimistic,
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especially when you're bombarded constantly by negative news in the media.
I mean, why do we ultimately feel negative well duds?
Because we know how the story ends. We all get
to die, and that's enough to make you say, well,
what the heck are we doing all this for. Look,
I don't know exactly. I have my theories. I think
it's a big classroom we're all being taught, and I
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think school sucks. But you've heard my theories. But I
try to overcome my logical mind that says we're all
gonna die, so what's the point. And I try to
redirect my thoughts on enjoying the time I have while
I'm here. It's a choice, a mental training exercise. But
if you can do it. If you can do it,
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you'll be able to take a deep breath and enjoy
that ride before it ends. Can you relax and enjoy
the ride. We're going to take a break when we
come back. A few more thoughts on this, and then
some weird holiday stuff. I'm Joshua Pete Warren. You're listening
to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
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AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'll be back after these important messages.
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Welcome back to the final segment of this edition of
Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast I AM
Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren,
and I am recording this December of twenty twenty one,
and I've been telling you about just how weird Christmas
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traditions are, so I want to squeeze some of these
in here before the end of the show. And one
of the great things about being in my position is
that I'm not sitting here talking to you as an
historical authority. This is more like drunk history. I'm just
sort of giving you some of what I've recollected and
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some of what I've looked up. I don't have to
be one hundred percent correct. I can just inspire you
to do your own research. But so many of the
modern day traditions that we have were really based upon
the ancient Catholic Church moving throughout Europe and trying to
convert pagans over to Christianity. And it's my understanding, and
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again I don't have the info right in front of me,
it's my understanding that a lot of the pagan cultures
in Europe used to consider of the evergreen tree sacred
because it was one of the few things that remained
full of life and vibrants all year long, even through
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the harsh dead winter. And so you can see why
that would be a holy thing. And so to say
they worshiped evergreen trees might be going a bit far,
but they definitely helped them in higher regard. And so,
for example, there was one of these Catholic saints who
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basically said, look, I guess he was a priest at
the time, I don't remember, but anyway, but he basically said, like, look,
when you see a bunch of people who are more
or less worshiping a tree. You can cut that tree
down and tell them, hey, you all are wrong. You're
going to go to Hades or whatever, but you're not
going to win over any hearts and minds that way.
You're better off to go up to that tree and
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consecrate it and say this is a part of God's
creation art, you know, Jesus creation, et cetera. And so
then you just they just sort of morph into your
tradition and that's why you see that crossover so often.
And so of course we have this image of Santa Claus,
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and not only is he based in large part on
the Catholic Saint Nicholas, but the idea of Saint Nicholas
is also combined with these old European concepts of Father
Christmas sort of an old man with long white hair
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who brings the snowy season with him. And also the
Dutch version of Saint Nicholas they called him Center Claus.
And again we're talking about just an old man with
a long white beard to represent winter. And also you
know how Catholics, some of these priests they wear these
big pointy hats called miters. So the idea was that
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Saint Nicholas would wear some kind of a miter, a
big red miter, and that's why we end up with
this guy with a long white beard and a big
red pointy hat. And then of course he lives. Well,
this tradition says that he, you know, he was traveling
around the northern parts, you know, up there in the
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old European northern mountains where it was very snowy and
where they also believed it elves a lot, you know,
especially in these Scandinavian countries, and so that mythology just
kind of got morphed in because yes, he's going to
come and bring presents, and he is a magical spirit,
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and so he's got these other magical spirits that work
with him, and now the elves are involved, and then well,
well okay, well how does he get around? Well, what
else lives up there? Reindeer? We got reindeer up in
big northern snowy places, eh. And so it all just
kind of becomes sort of an ad hoc combination of
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traditions that get sort of retold and retold, and you
end up with this image of this magical man with
the long white beard, Father Christmas, who's got the red
pointy hap, and he's got elves helping him make the
little treats for you, and he flies around with the reindeer,
and he comes into your house, et cetera. But one
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thing that's kind of surprising is that I was reading
about some of the unusual traditions that we have around
the Christmas season, and one of them, of course, has
to do with kissing under the missletoe. And of course,
missletoe is the common name for oh gosh, obligate hemi,
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parasitic plants and the order of santalis. I'm sure that
meant a lot to you, didn't I. This is from Wikipedia. Anyway,
Here's what was surprising. I was reading about why people
kiss under missletoe, and it's really kind of dirty. This
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is a family we want this to be a family
friendly show, so I'm not going to get too detailed here,
but it basically says here the missletoe is relevant to
several cultures. Pagan cultures regarded the white berries as symbols
of male fertility, with the seeds resembling this is where
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you can go and look up the rest on your own,
all right, And apparently you know this goes We don't
know exactly how far it goes back, but it says
the Romans associated mistletoe with peace and understanding and hung
it over doorways to protect the household. In the Christian era,
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missletoe in the Western world became associated with Christmas as
a decoration under which lovers are expected to kiss, as
well as with protection from witches and demons. Huh did
you know that? It says. Missletoe continued to be associated
with fertility and vitality through the Middle Ages, and by
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the eighteenth century it had also become incorporated into Christmas
celebrations around the world. The custom of kissing under the
missletoe is referred to as popular among servants in the
late eighteenth century England. So they say, if you know
you're If you approach somebody under the missletoe and you
want to kiss them and they refuse to take the kiss,
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it's bad luck for everybody. Not a very PC tradition. Huh.
But yeah, you can. You can look more of that
up on your own. But you know, again, I don't
want to spend too much time on this stuff because yeah,
right now it may be Christmas time when I'm recording this,
but these podcasts are just going to be around forever
and ever and ever, and so you never know when
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a person's going to be listening. But we've talked about
a lot. I've talked about a lot on this podcast
regarding I don't know, the idea that it's good to
focus on positive things and it's good to raise your
positive energy, and holidays are supposed to help us do that.
And it reminds me of this passage from my book
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Use the Force, a Jedi's Guide to the Law of Attraction,
page seventy five. Listen to this. Your entire body is
so much in sync with the universe that it acts
like a binary vessel, contracting when things feel tense and
relaxing when things feel good and peaceful. There is an
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entire fil devoted to this study. Anyway, these kinds of
reactions can even be observed in the most basic life forms.
I once wrote a rhyming, illustrated children's book called The
Lonely Ameiva. It included colorful characters, characters like Larry the
Hairy Parimesium and Gina Euglina. Anyway, but as I did
research for this playful, microscopic landscape, I realized something interesting
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about amibas. They are just organic sacs without brains or
nervous systems, and nonetheless they are extremely reactive. They tense
up and move away from water with an incompatible temperature
or salinity. They relax, expand and thrive, and even actively
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hunt prey. And though our bodies are much more complex
than those of amoba's, the same principles apply to our
automatic reactions. We also tense up or relax immediately when
faced with a particular scenario. It is this innate, subconscious
awareness of our surroundings that most quickly taps into what
is right or wrong, and that is why throughout the
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Star Wars series, Jedis are asked to search their feelings
more than their minds. Leave it at that. This is
what I mean by vibration. Raising your vibration when you
think about something, when you think about a person, or
a situation, or an opportunity, anything, any idea, does it
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make you feel like you want to contract and pull
back or expand. That's it at the most basic level.
That is what you want. You want to go for
things that make you feel like you're expanding. That is
what raising your vibration is all about. And that is why.
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We need a lot of positivity in our lives right
now to combat the darkness, and so let me raise
your vibration. I'm about to play for you the good
Fortune Tone. Okay, you're ready. This will bring you some
good fortune. Take a deep breath if you can close
your eyes. It's twenty seconds. Here is the good Fortune Tone.
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Ready to be amazed by the Wizard of Weird Warren.
I am Joshua B. Warren, and each week on this show,
I'll be bringing you brand new mind blowing content, news, exercises,
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and weird experiments you can do at home, and a
lot more on this edition of the show. Amazing happy endings.
Plus what does it really mean to raise your vibration?
You know, you hear people say that all the time.
Become more spiritual, Do this, It's good for you, It'll
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raise your vibration. What does that actually mean? Well, it's
a it's a good, legitimate question, and we're going to
dig into that and probably some other weird things, just
depending on how much time I have, you know, sometimes
I just start talking and just I just see where
it goes. But let's jump into Amazing Happy Endings because
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I mentioned this recently on one of my podcasts. This
is a new book project for me I am putting
together in anthology. I want your stories. I'm talking to you, Yes,
you listening to me. I want your story to be
a part of this collection. It's called Amazing Happy Endings,
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True Stories to make you smile. And there are only
four rules if you have a story that you want
to submit to be in this poot. Rule number one
is your story must be true. Rule number two, your
story must be short, ideally no more than a few paragraphs.
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Number three, your story must be amazing. And number four,
your story must have a happy ending. And since I
announced this, oh, let me tell you what, the stories
have just come pouring in. And I am so excited.
I'm so happy because if you submit a story, and
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of course I have a team of people, some editors
and various people in addition to myself, who are going
to read over everything and we're going to figure out
which ones need to be kind of edited and whipped
into shape and then put into the book. If we
pick one of your stories, well then you get a
free copy of the book. And I'm thinking about maybe
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throwing in some other cool, free little surprises for you
as well. You know me, I like to do that
kind of thing. But a portion of all seals when
the book comes out will go to various charities, and
it's all about helping you feel good, helping all of
us feel good. We need that nowadays, don't we. If
you want to submit a story, go to Amazinghappy Endings
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dot com. Amazing Happy Endings dot com. But let me
read to you some of the story worries that have
come in so far to give you an idea of
what this book is going to be like. All right,
And then this again, I just picked two or three
a handful out of the Giant's tack. So here is
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one from a doctor, a doctor named Mitchell Max Dolnig,
and he he is in Texas, and he's talking about
the incident that happened to him in nineteen ninety two.
He says, after seeing a run of emergency room patients,
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I had gone back to the call room and was
in a deep, deep sleep Suddenly, I literally jumped out
of bed, yelling at myself to run. Damn it, run man,
move it. It was my own self telling me to
run like I never had before. As I slipped my
bare feet into my shoes, I asked, run where my
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own voice answered, just start running, move it. I almost
started running barefoot, but I did not know where I
was going, almost being pulled at every corner, I ran
through corridors and hallways and came out in the er.
The receptionist exclaimed, Doctor Dolnig, there are no patients, and
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why are you here? She likely saw my messed up
hair and my disheveled appearance. As I took three steps forward,
I said, aloud with determinism, I don't know. And I
kicked a metal door open, which revealed the body of
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a man lying on the ground. I called Code blue
and we rushed the lifeless body into trauma. He was flatline,
essentially dead, but after a round of cardiac drugs, intubation,
and defibrillation, he completely awoke, seemingly unscathed. He had been
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experiencing chest pain and decided to drive himself to the hospital,
but collapsed trying to make it in there, and it
was unnoticed one or two minutes later. His chances of
recovery would have been dismal. I had never kicked doors
open in the hospital or acted like that before or since,
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and I don't know how that had occurred. To this day,
the gentleman had a complete recovery. Now, you see, folks,
true short, amazing, happy ending this. You know how nice
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it is to get stories like this flooding in from
real people all over the world. I love it, I
love it. Thank you for that, doctor Mitchell, Max Dolming.
I'm going to read you some more of these, and uh,
of course you know i'll pause when when breaks come up.
But oh, here's this one really made me smile. Okay,
this comes from Molly Ann Kasden, and she is an
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intuitive medium and she lives in Georgia now, but this
incident happened to her when she was living in California
back in nineteen ninety five. I'll tell you something about
Molly Kasden. She when my birthday, it was October twenty fifth,
and of course she's a big fan of the show,
and she gave me a wonderful gift. She recorded a
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private reading and sent it to me, and of course
on my birthday. One of the things I wanted to
do was get away from media and just turn off
my cell phone because I'm always bombarded. But I saw
that she sent me that I go, I better watch this,
and I watched this video and she said some very
strange things that didn't make sense to her or me
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at the time exactly, but I them and before over
the next twenty four hours, it all made sense. And basically,
in a nutshell, I went to spend my birthday in
a big, fancy resort and casino, and she was picking
up on something that was directing me toward a certain
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machine where I hit a jackpot and made a lot
of money. So that gives you a little insight into
Molly Ann Kesden. I'm sure she will be on this
program at some point in the future, but listen to
her story. She said. The line wound around the huge
industrial building at least twice. As I lumbered towards the
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incredibly fit, fresh and youthful five hundred or so competitors,
I stuck out as a fat, sore thumb. Although I
was only about twenty five, I seemed ancient in comparison
to the late teens and early twenty hopefuls, all vying
to be part of the elite cast. Okay, so she's
auditioning here, she says. As we stood around wearing labels
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with numbers on them, mine was five twenty five, I
observed these willowy youngsters stretching, practicing dance moves, and sipping
their bottle bottles of designer water while I sweated in
my frunty jacket and slacks. I figured I'd be mucking
around in a mini mouse costume. Oh I should also,
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I should mention, Okay, this is at Anaheim, California. She's
at disney Land. So like, if we've added this, and
I'm sure we will, we'll point out, like this is
happening at Disneyland. Otherwise you're like, why is she gonna
be in a mini mouse? Anyway, she goes, I figured
she's auditioning at Disneyland, she says. I figured I'd be
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mucking around in a mini mouse costume. But as I
waited in line and overheard the experienced conversations, I realized
this was a bigger deal. We went before a panel
of judges and groups of twenty while they looked at
each of us and said, either you stay or you go?
And I had no clue what specifically they were looking for,
but I knew I was definitely not going to be
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able to compete with these lithe and lovely ladies. I
weighed over three hundred pounds at five feet tall, frumpy, sweaty,
and obviously uncomfortable. And when I stepped forward, the panel
whispered to each other amongst giggles, it's not a good sign.
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But then one of them said, you stay. I wasn't
sure if I was happy or being tricked at that point.
Over the next few days, they triaged the candidates, dismissing
actors at each stage of the auditions. By the third day,
there were about one hundred candidates left, and yes, I
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was one of them. Prepared with snacks and dressed more
up appropriately for movement. I felt positive about the upcoming
portion displaying our dancing abilities. I had little formal training,
but I was always rhythmic and able to boogie. My
confidence disintegrated as they outlined a dance routine with difficult
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ballet moves and waltzing. I was awkward and bumping into others,
becoming the laughing stock of the auditions. Okay, we're going
to take a break. This does not sound like it's
going to have a happy ending, does it. She thinks
she's becoming the laughing stock of the auditions. But there
is a happy ending, and I'll tell you that ending
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when we come back from this break. I also want
to emphasize something to you. I do all kinds of
interesting projects and I give away all kinds of cool
free stuff that I don't talk about on this podcast.
The only way you get to know about it is
if you go to Joshuapwarren dot com. There is no
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Right there on the homepage, you'll see a little bank
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When you do that, you become a subscriber to my
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and I will be right back. Welcome back to Strange
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Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast a M
Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua P. Warren, the
Wizard of Weird, beaming into your wormhole brain from my
studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day
is golden and every night is silver. And I love
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these amazing, happy ending stories because often you get to
see synchronicity play out, and it reminds you that there
does seem to be some kind of grand design here
that we are all experiencing little by little, bit by bit,
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glimpse by glimpse, and whether it's a bad thing that's
going to happen or a good thing that's going to happen,
it seems like there is a design and you just
never know which way it's going to turn out. But
maybe you can influence it, and maybe you can you
can shape it in your favor a little bit We'll
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talk more about that later, but yes, Strange Coincidences is
one of my favorite books. It's a Ripley's Believe It
or Not book that was published ooh back in the day.
Let's see looks like nineteen ninety and on the front
they have an illustration of a pilgrim standing on a
sh with the Native American in front of him, and
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it says, when the pilgrims landed in sixteen twenty, they
were greeted by an Indian who spoke English. And of
course we recently had Thanksgiving, and so I posted that
on my social media and a lot of people had
a lot of interesting thoughts about that. But you know,
it's like some people are like, well, duh, everybody knew that,
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and then other people were like, is this true. That's
how it goes. But let's get back to some of
these brand new, fresh stories that nobody's ever heard submitted
for my Amazing Happy Endings book project. And again I
hope you'll contribute. I want your story if you go
to Amazing Happy Endings dot com. Let's get back to
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Mollie's story. She's been auditioning here in nineteen ninety five
at Disneyland, and she's dancing, and she said that she's
becoming the laughing stock of the auditions as far as
she can tell. And then she goes on to say
the moment came for my group of ten to perform
the tune from Sleeping Beauty, and I could barely remember,
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much less execute the routine. The music began and I
started out strong. However, as the music swelled to the
more difficult parts, I became lost and clumsy, and at
that point I just said, screw this, and I began
doing silly dance moves disco jitterbug, the Charleston, the bump,
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the Hitgchehiker, etc. I smiled brightly as I died a
small death inside, telling myself to just have fun. Who
cares about the outcome? As the music ended, Drenched, humiliated
and horrified at my compulsive behavior, I scurried back to
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the side and sat down on the floor, bursting into
tears from embarrassment. Then I heard a clap, then applause.
Actors gathered around me, telling me how fabulous, cute and
funny I was in the middle of a sincere group hug.
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The panel deliberated and then asked me up to the
table first, Mollie. Someone said that was the best audition
we have ever seen. Your energy, humor and decision to
let it all out is why we are going to
cast you as the Fairy Godmother here at Disneyland. Congratulations.
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I got to be the first Fairy Godmother in Disney
history to mingle among the guests in the park. I
not only got to work in the happiest place on Earth,
I got to have the happy face on Earth. To
this day, anytime I am feeling unsure of myself, I remember,
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being me is always the right answer. Bibbity bobbity boo.
Did you see that one coming? That's great, isn't it?
Thank you, Molly. You know it's so fun to read
these stories. All right? How about this one? This comes
from James Colonna. I tell you what. He's another fan
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of the show. And he also he's been listening for
a long time, and he lives in Pennsylvania, and he
is a conductor and composer, and he has had tremendous
success using the wishing machines. As you don't know about
the Wishing machines, just go to the Curiosity Shop on
my website and you'll see what I'm talking about. He's
had tremendous success, so I was really eager to see
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what his story was going to be. And here it is.
He says. In nineteen ninety two, I was in college
pursuing my music degree. I just completed my enlistment in
the US Army and was now struggling to pay my
college tuition on the GI bill and student loans. My
parents went car shopping and while at the dealer shop,
they played a promotional game to put for gold. Okay,
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my father, oh, to put I'm sorry, I said, not
put I'm reading this stuff fresh. You know, to putt so,
you know, like you're putting like at minigolf. Okay, So
to putt for gold putt. I guess it's so, he says.
My father sank the putt five times, each time earning
an entry to win a new car. So you get
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to just you have success with the putting, you get
a chance of winning a car, so he said. One afternoon,
I received a call that my name was drawn to
win the car at a promotional event, and my mother
and I talked about what we would do if I
won the car. Well, we had two options. The keep
the car or trade it back in for cash value
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to help pay for my tuition and that of my siblings.
The night arrived and I, along with my mother, attended
the dinner at the fancy country club, and before we
sat down, I was standing on the balcony watching the sunset.
To my surprise, I saw two very large angels on
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both sides of the sun. I put my intention into
the sunset, and a woman's voice sweetly spoke to me.
The voice sib quote, choose the key with teeth on
both sides. We sat down for dinner and I was
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introduced to the other two contestants. One was an elderly
couple and the other a couple in their thirties. Well,
the moment arrived and the three contestants were called outside.
Next to the car. It was a Dodge and Trepid,
and this pretty woman walked out with the trade that
had three keys. The announcer began quote, all our contestants
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need to do is put the key in the ignition
and if it starts the car, they win. End quote. Well,
the woman with the tray walked to the elderly couple
and they chose a key with no teeth. Then she
walked to the next couple and they chose a key
with teeth only halfway up one side of the shift.
And as they chose their keys, I stared down at
the key with teeth on both sides. This is the
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key that remained, and I reached down for that final key,
and that's when the female voice in my head said softly,
you already won. In the same order as we chose keys.
We went to the car to try to start the engine.
The elderly couple nothing, mid thirties couple nothing. Then I
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sat down and started the car up. Yes, I won
the car. We sold the car back to the dealer
a week later and took the cash value to pay
for my and my siblings college tuition. I think I
won because I never thought of myself, but what the
money could do for all of us. The universe is
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a friendly place that wants me to be happy and successful.
How do you like that one, folks? Thank you? Jim Klowna, Pennsylvania. Okay,
let me see if I can squeeze one more in
before this next break. This one's oh, this is somebodys
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get really paranormal like that one had angels in this
is this is a parent more paranormal one. This comes
from Daniel I guess his last name was pronounced Moulinau,
and he lives in Florida. He's a financial advisor and
this is something that happened to him in Washington, DC
in nineteen ninety six. He says, in the fall of
ninety six, my wife and I were living in a
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beautiful turn of the century log cabin and the suburbs
of Washington, d C. One night, she was out of town,
so it was the dog and myself to fend for ourselves.
At bedtime, I let the pump out to take care
of his final business for the day. The house was
surrounded by acres of woods, and the pooch decided he
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was going to stay outside for the night. After calling
for some time, I reluctantly went to bed. At around
two a m. I was awoken by a strange sound.
From my bed, I could see the old wooden front
door of the cabin slowly creak open, exactly like in
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the old horror movies they would portray it so well,
and standing in the figure excuse me, Standing in the
doorway was a female figure in a flowing white dress
with head hung low, time froze. I could not move
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a muscle or speak a word, and after an intense effort,
I managed to croak out my wife's name, and this
got the world moving again. And a split second, the
figure flew from the door and into my room, and
there was a huge pounce on my bed and there
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was the dog on my bed. A ghost had brought
my pet home and opened the door for him. He
was as happy as could be. I was deeply shaken.
We moved out of that house a few months later,
but the event will forever be etched into my mind
and has led me on a life of paranormal research
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and discovery. True story. Thank you, Daniel. People. When we
come back, I'll read one more of these and then
I'm going to get into what does it mean? Why
is this important? Raising your vibration, I'm Joshua Pete Warren.
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You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'll be back right
after this. We come back to Strange Things on the
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iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm
your host, Joshua Pete Warren, and this is the show
where the unusual becomes usual. And this is a reminder
when you are judging your life and the world, look
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outside your own door and see the world as it
really is. Don't be dominated by the fear mongering that
surrounds us that is pure evil, because fear is always
the path to the dark side. Always. And I find
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it refreshing to read some of these stories coming in
that have an amazing happy ending, and they don't necessarily
have to be paranormal. And yet it almost seems like
that when something amazing happens in life, it just kind
of kind of seems like there is something paranormal going on.
You know, you're watching that design, that strange organization materialize
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before your eyes. So here is one more amazing, happy
ending story. And this comes from pam Bert in Salem, Oregon,
and she is retired and this happened in twenty eighteen.
She writes, I was out in the yard doing a
little light yard work on a fall day. The house
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I lived in at that time had a large deck
under several fir trees, so I was sweeping fur needles
off the deck and taking them around the end of
the house. To a bin. I came back from dumping
a load of needles to the back of my house
and I saw my mother, who had died about eight
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years before or sitting on my back deck at the
patio table and smiling at me. Okay, did you get
that she sees the spirit of her mother who died
eight years ago? She goes on to write, I was stunned,
but in control enough to stop and check myself. Was
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I overworked? No, I just started overheated. No, it was
a beautiful fall day. But Mom just sat there smiling
at me, almost laughing. Really, I said Mom, and started
to move towards as fast as I could, but she
just slowly faded away before I could reach her. The
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one thing that made me realize I really saw. What
I saw was that she was holding a drink of something,
a glass in her hand. Now, when I moved into
the house a few months before, I had thrown out
all my mismatched drinking glasses and all new matching blue glasses,
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and my mom's drink was not in one of those glasses.
She brought her own. So you see amazing happy endings.
It covers a wide range, and I'll read some more
of these from time to time as the project proceeds.
But I hope you'll submit a story. And if you
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have a story that's true, that's short, no more than
a few paragraphs, that's amazing, that has a happy ending,
go to Amazinghappy Endings dot com to submit your story
right now. I'm collecting stories right now, and I understand
this is a podcast and by the time you hear it,
it might be too late. But I'm recording this right now.
It's early December of twenty twenty one. I hope that
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you're able to go ahead and participate. And also, of
all the stories we've gotten, one guy said that he
went to the website and he typed his story in
and then something went wrong on his computer or the
website or whatever and he lost it. So I recommend
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when you write your story, you know, write it somewhere
where you can save it, write it in whatever your
word processor is, or write it in an email and
send it to yourself or something like that, so that
if you are going to submit it, if something goes
wrong and you don't just lose your work. But Amazing
Happy Endings dot com or go to Joshua P. Warren
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dot com and currently you will find a link at
the top of the homepage that will take you there
and you'll see all the instructions. I cannot wait till
this is done and this book comes out next year,
and it's just going to be it's going to be wonderful.
We all need this. And again, all of you who
get your story selected, you're going to get a free
book and probably some other cool stuff from me. I
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think it's important for us to focus on these types
of stories because it helps us raise our vibration. And
I got an email from someone a few months ago.
I've been meaning to bring this up, and I forget
who it was, but the person said, you know, I
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really want to be a more spiritual person. And I
read books and I listen to these shows, and everybody's
talking about raising your vibration, but I don't understand what
that means. What exactly does that mean to raise your vibration?
And that's a very good, legitimate question. So I thought
about it, and here is what I came up with.
Is the best way to answer this. I think of
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it in terms of light. So light is an electromagnetic
radiation that's vibrating, that's pulsing. When you have no light,
you have the absence of light, have darkness. When you
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look out into outer space and it's dark, you're looking
at what William Shatner described as death. Okay, that's cold,
lifeless darkness out there. That's death, the absence of light,
no vibration. And it's interesting when you look at this
from a biblical perspective. Of course, the Bible starts out
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with in the Book of Genesis, it says, and in
the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, and
the earth was without form and void, and darkness was
upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of
God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said,
let there be light. And there was light. And God
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saw the light and it was good. And God divided
the light from the darkness. Now, whether or not you
believe in the Bible, just about every religion and tradition
has some version of this concept that light is the
predecessor to life. The absence of vibration is it's just silence,
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it's stillness. Light is a pulsation and a low vibration.
Light appears to our eyes as the color red. And
then if you increase the vibration or the pulsation a
little bit. It goes up to orange, and then you
increase it a little more, and it goes to yellow,
and you increase it a little more, and it goes
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to green, and then you increase it more and it
goes to blue, and then indigo and the violet. And
in fact, I have had some of these, you know,
I've done experiments with parasigmatics two point zero where I'm
able to take a beam of light whether it's a
laser or whatever, and shining at a sensor, and that
sensor will translate that color of light into a sound.
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So move it from red and it sounds like boooooo,
and then you go to orange and goes and then
you go to yeller, and then you can if you
go through red, orange, yellow, green, blue, he goes oOoOO.
You hear that rise? Okay, that rise and vibration and
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thinking negative thoughts condense and lower your spiritual vibration and
closer to that state of darkness, that state of death,
and thinking about positive thoughts expands and increases your spiritual
vibration into the realm of life. So negativity is a
low vibration and positivity is a high vibration. You could
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also think of it this way, if it's helpful. The
higher your vibration, the more you are removed from the
dense physical world, and the more removed you are, the
less you are bogged down by the animalistic fears and
the dense stresses that come from being a spirit in
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the material world. As Sting would probably say, so, instead
of being a spirit that's closely trapped and bogged down
closer to that lower vibration, closer to that state of
darkness and death, you're trying to rise above it. And
you can even look at this very practically when it
comes to brain wave activity that you know you've heard
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me talk about this before, that you know your brain
can go through four basic states of delta, theta, alpha,
a beta, and those states are determined by the frequency
by the vibration at which the electricity is pulsing through
your brain, and at each type of frequency you feel
a different way. If you want to learn more about that,
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go to the Curiosity Shop at Joshua Pwarren dot com
and read the section about the Tibetan emos. The Tibetan
emos and I am very enthusiastic about this because, believe
it or not, I am naturally an extremely pessimistic, negative person.
That's how I was born. And I learned these things
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about how to raise your vibration because I wanted to
overcome it and that does not come naturally to me.
And that is why I share with all of you
the things that I've learned. If it can help me,
then I'm hoping it can help you. It's a choice,
it's a hard won choice to overcome a natural negative state,
and you have to struggle every day to stay optimistic,
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especially when you're bombarded constantly by negative news in the media.
I mean, why do we ultimately feel negative well duds?
Because we know how the story ends. We all get
to die, and that's enough to make you say, well,
what the heck are we doing all this for. Look,
I don't know exactly. I have my theories. I think
it's a big classroom we're all being taught, and I
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think school sucks. But you've heard my theories. But I
try to overcome my logical mind that says we're all
gonna die, so what's the point. And I try to
redirect my thoughts on enjoying the time I have while
I'm here. It's a choice, a mental training exercise. But
if you can do it. If you can do it,
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you'll be able to take a deep breath and enjoy
that ride before it ends. Can you relax and enjoy
the ride. We're going to take a break when we
come back. A few more thoughts on this, and then
some weird holiday stuff. I'm Joshua Pete Warren. You're listening
to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
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AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'll be back after these important messages.
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Welcome back to the final segment of this edition of
Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast I AM
Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren,
and I am recording this December of twenty twenty one,
and I've been telling you about just how weird Christmas
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traditions are, so I want to squeeze some of these
in here before the end of the show. And one
of the great things about being in my position is
that I'm not sitting here talking to you as an
historical authority. This is more like drunk history. I'm just
sort of giving you some of what I've recollected and
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some of what I've looked up. I don't have to
be one hundred percent correct. I can just inspire you
to do your own research. But so many of the
modern day traditions that we have were really based upon
the ancient Catholic Church moving throughout Europe and trying to
convert pagans over to Christianity. And it's my understanding, and
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again I don't have the info right in front of me,
it's my understanding that a lot of the pagan cultures
in Europe used to consider of the evergreen tree sacred
because it was one of the few things that remained
full of life and vibrants all year long, even through
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the harsh dead winter. And so you can see why
that would be a holy thing. And so to say
they worshiped evergreen trees might be going a bit far,
but they definitely helped them in higher regard. And so,
for example, there was one of these Catholic saints who
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basically said, look, I guess he was a priest at
the time, I don't remember, but anyway, but he basically said, like, look,
when you see a bunch of people who are more
or less worshiping a tree. You can cut that tree
down and tell them, hey, you all are wrong. You're
going to go to Hades or whatever, but you're not
going to win over any hearts and minds that way.
You're better off to go up to that tree and
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consecrate it and say this is a part of God's
creation art, you know, Jesus creation, et cetera. And so
then you just they just sort of morph into your
tradition and that's why you see that crossover so often.
And so of course we have this image of Santa Claus,
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and not only is he based in large part on
the Catholic Saint Nicholas, but the idea of Saint Nicholas
is also combined with these old European concepts of Father
Christmas sort of an old man with long white hair
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who brings the snowy season with him. And also the
Dutch version of Saint Nicholas they called him Center Claus.
And again we're talking about just an old man with
a long white beard to represent winter. And also you
know how Catholics, some of these priests they wear these
big pointy hats called miters. So the idea was that
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Saint Nicholas would wear some kind of a miter, a
big red miter, and that's why we end up with
this guy with a long white beard and a big
red pointy hat. And then of course he lives. Well,
this tradition says that he, you know, he was traveling
around the northern parts, you know, up there in the
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old European northern mountains where it was very snowy and
where they also believed it elves a lot, you know,
especially in these Scandinavian countries, and so that mythology just
kind of got morphed in because yes, he's going to
come and bring presents, and he is a magical spirit,
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and so he's got these other magical spirits that work
with him, and now the elves are involved, and then well,
well okay, well how does he get around? Well, what
else lives up there? Reindeer? We got reindeer up in
big northern snowy places, eh. And so it all just
kind of becomes sort of an ad hoc combination of
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traditions that get sort of retold and retold, and you
end up with this image of this magical man with
the long white beard, Father Christmas, who's got the red
pointy hap, and he's got elves helping him make the
little treats for you, and he flies around with the reindeer,
and he comes into your house, et cetera. But one
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thing that's kind of surprising is that I was reading
about some of the unusual traditions that we have around
the Christmas season, and one of them, of course, has
to do with kissing under the missletoe. And of course,
missletoe is the common name for oh gosh, obligate hemi,
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parasitic plants and the order of santalis. I'm sure that
meant a lot to you, didn't I. This is from Wikipedia. Anyway,
Here's what was surprising. I was reading about why people
kiss under missletoe, and it's really kind of dirty. This
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is a family we want this to be a family
friendly show, so I'm not going to get too detailed here,
but it basically says here the missletoe is relevant to
several cultures. Pagan cultures regarded the white berries as symbols
of male fertility, with the seeds resembling this is where
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you can go and look up the rest on your own,
all right, And apparently you know this goes We don't
know exactly how far it goes back, but it says
the Romans associated mistletoe with peace and understanding and hung
it over doorways to protect the household. In the Christian era,
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missletoe in the Western world became associated with Christmas as
a decoration under which lovers are expected to kiss, as
well as with protection from witches and demons. Huh did
you know that? It says. Missletoe continued to be associated
with fertility and vitality through the Middle Ages, and by
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the eighteenth century it had also become incorporated into Christmas
celebrations around the world. The custom of kissing under the
missletoe is referred to as popular among servants in the
late eighteenth century England. So they say, if you know
you're If you approach somebody under the missletoe and you
want to kiss them and they refuse to take the kiss,
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it's bad luck for everybody. Not a very PC tradition. Huh.
But yeah, you can. You can look more of that
up on your own. But you know, again, I don't
want to spend too much time on this stuff because yeah,
right now it may be Christmas time when I'm recording this,
but these podcasts are just going to be around forever
and ever and ever, and so you never know when
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a person's going to be listening. But we've talked about
a lot. I've talked about a lot on this podcast
regarding I don't know, the idea that it's good to
focus on positive things and it's good to raise your
positive energy, and holidays are supposed to help us do that.
And it reminds me of this passage from my book
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Use the Force, a Jedi's Guide to the Law of Attraction,
page seventy five. Listen to this. Your entire body is
so much in sync with the universe that it acts
like a binary vessel, contracting when things feel tense and
relaxing when things feel good and peaceful. There is an
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entire fil devoted to this study. Anyway, these kinds of
reactions can even be observed in the most basic life forms.
I once wrote a rhyming, illustrated children's book called The
Lonely Ameiva. It included colorful characters, characters like Larry the
Hairy Parimesium and Gina Euglina. Anyway, but as I did
research for this playful, microscopic landscape, I realized something interesting
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about amibas. They are just organic sacs without brains or
nervous systems, and nonetheless they are extremely reactive. They tense
up and move away from water with an incompatible temperature
or salinity. They relax, expand and thrive, and even actively
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hunt prey. And though our bodies are much more complex
than those of amoba's, the same principles apply to our
automatic reactions. We also tense up or relax immediately when
faced with a particular scenario. It is this innate, subconscious
awareness of our surroundings that most quickly taps into what
is right or wrong, and that is why throughout the
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Star Wars series, Jedis are asked to search their feelings
more than their minds. Leave it at that. This is
what I mean by vibration. Raising your vibration when you
think about something, when you think about a person, or
a situation, or an opportunity, anything, any idea, does it
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make you feel like you want to contract and pull
back or expand. That's it at the most basic level.
That is what you want. You want to go for
things that make you feel like you're expanding. That is
what raising your vibration is all about. And that is why.
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We need a lot of positivity in our lives right
now to combat the darkness, and so let me raise
your vibration. I'm about to play for you the good
Fortune Tone. Okay, you're ready. This will bring you some
good fortune. Take a deep breath if you can close
your eyes. It's twenty seconds. Here is the good Fortune Tone.
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That's it for this edition of the show. Follow me
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