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Wizards and Warlocks. Now, what exactly do you think those

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things are? These are words that many of us often use,
but what is the real history behind those names. You know,
in the Bible, of the oldest texts, the Book of
Exodus says thou shalt not suffer a witch to live,

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meaning that you're supposed to kill them, and that passage
in particular was used in the Middle Ages to execute
untold numbers of women arbitrarily, and not just you know,
burning them at the steak. I mean, we're talking about
horrible tortures, pulling out their tongues, that kind of thing.

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And yet if you go back and you look at
the original language in the Bible, the original Hebrew word
used was it wasn't which it was meca sefa mecha sefa.
But what, well, what does that word actually mean it
was written thousands of years ago. Well, it turns out

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nobody really knows for sure. Um. A lot of people
thought that this could mean. You know, experts have come
in and said it could mean mutterings, which of course
might refer to incantations or something along those lines. Um.
Another another expert said it maybe it means to cut,

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like cutting herbs and roots for medicines. They're always just
theories and nobody really knows. But you know, I I'm
a guy who grew up in in North Carolina, Uh,
from European heritage. And so for me, you know, I
just have to go back and look at the base
definition the word origin of certain things from you know,

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my linguistic background, to try to understand the most basic
traditional meaning, because you have to understand the word, which,
since we don't know exactly what originally meant, it means
many different things now in many different cultures. But let's
just start with Wikipedia here. Alright. Let's see what the
almighty Wikipedia says, are you any of course? Which refers

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to witchcraft, And it says witchcraft traditionally means the use
of magic or supernatural powers to harm others, really to
harm others. It's specifically says that. And before I continued, uh,

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when when I was researching this, I thought, well, let's
see what they're saying magic is. And here's what the
article says. Magic, sometimes spelled with the K, is the
application of beliefs, rituals, or actions employed in the belief
that they can manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces. Okay,

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I guess that's an alright definition. But I'm not sure
what supernatural is because isn't everything just natural? But anyway,
let's not split hairs on that. Shall be back to
what they're saying here about, which is they're saying specifically
the word which is traditionally meant to describe somebody who's

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using such powers to harm others. It goes on to
say this, this practitioner A which let's see in in
medieval and early modern Europe where this term originated, uh,
was was accused. They accused, which is uh, who are
usually women who are believed to have attacked their own
community and often to have communed with evil beings. Uh.

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So it's all negative stuff here. Um. And then of
course we go down here to the actual meaning of
the word, and let me just pause by saying, you know,
I think it's kind of interesting when you talk about a,
which is somebody who's using these powers to harm someone.
But let's also consider doesn't that kind of depend on

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the point of view, um, Because for example, when two
countries go to war, uh, they are harming each other,
and yet there are people on both sides who believe
they are doing the good work. They are the good guys.
But if you're going to war and the countries are
killing each other, everybody can't be the good guys. There

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have to be some bad guys in here somewhere, So
you know this, who who gets to determine what what
is harmful? Right? Um? Sometimes is something's perceived as being
harmful even when it's not. You see it, This is
a murky territory. I guess let's go deeper into the
origin of that word though. Um So it says the

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concept of witchcraft and the belief in its existence have
persisted throughout recorded history. It's found in many cultures, etcetera, etcetera.
But in this particular form, the Old English word comes
from wickercraft, and which, of course we all know what

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what wicked is. It's spelled a little differently though, originally
in the Old English. And they say that that word
wick or wika has its English route in the words wit,
which means wisdom. And so a witch in the most
basic sense is our witchcraft is a craft of the wise.

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So when you're saying somebody is a witch, traditionally you're
little literally, you're literally saying this person is a wise
person and they are practicing wisdom. And that's really interesting,
isn't it When you think of it from an etymological
point of view, because you know, going back to the Bible, Um,

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Lucifer was the enlightened being. You know, the the the
children of God here, Adam and Eve are supposed to
be kept ignorant in the garden of Eden, and and
knowledge was sort of forbidden. Don't do not eat from
the fruit from the tree of knowledge. And it was
Lucifer who came along and said, let me give you knowledge,

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and and and this was the beginning of the struggle
between good and evil. And so we have to ask ourselves, uh,
to what extent knowledge is evil? And that analogy are
we talking about? That good is supposed to be naive
and obedient and and all knowledge is somehow inherently inclined

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to make us egotistical and therefore evil in some way. Um.
And yet then you have these other parts of the Bible,
like when Jesus says, and ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall set you free. So these are
just interesting things to think about. But basically, when you're
talking about a which you are really talking about what

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has historically been considered a person who has some wisdom
that that she is not supposed to have and is
using that in a way to harm others, and that
was sort of how that was was always twisted. Now
we have a very different perception of all that. I
think most people do because now when you hear that

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if somebody says I'm a witch or I practice wicka
or whatever, you don't think they're out there casting spells
and hexs and curses on everybody all the time. You think,
maybe this is a person who just believes in a
more natural way of of tapping in to two cosmic powers.

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And and that can go either way. It can be
used for both positive or negative purposes, right that, which
is why you have like the good witch and the
bad witch. Which is really interesting because if I were
to ask you, what do you think the male equal
of a witches? I bet in any of you would

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say a warlock if the female. And I know that
talking about gender these days is it can get into
some complicated side discussions, but I'm talking about historically here,
it was always written a female was was a witch

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if she was dabbling and practicing these things to harm others.
And then but actually the male counterpart is not exactly
a warlock. It is a wizard. And I'm going to
get more into what that means here shortly. But here's
the thing about a wizard. A wizard is basically just

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like a witch, except the wizard as a man. I
think that's about the only difference. And that comes from
that word wizard. It comes from this old English word,
which is a It means a wise ard or a
philosopher's stage. So again we're talking about wisdom. This is

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the root of of this. So these are supposed to
be people who have a level of knowledge and level
of wisdom, but they are using it for some kind
of a bad purpose. Okay, So in that case, well,
what is a warlock supposed to be? When we come back,
I'll explain what a warlock is, and then I'm gonna

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tell you kind of what I think about this whole
discussion really about good and bad. And then boy, do
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studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day
is golden and every night is silver. So what is

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a warlock? A which is somebody practicing magic that traditionally
was doing it for harmful purposes. According to those who
wrote the definitions, a female doing that. A wizard would
be the male counterpart. So what's a warlock? Well, warlock

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comes from the Old English word war laga, which meant
a breaker of oaths or a deceiver. And this, uh
was given a special connection to the devil because if

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you think about it, um, the ultimate sin I suppose
is betrayal. Lucifer betrayed God, and then Judas betrayed Jesus.
And so it's one thing when you have a wizard
out there who might be a bad guy working some magic.
But if that wizard is a betrayer, okay, if this

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is if this is an individual that is is breaking oaths. Uh,
this this trader, maybe somebody who comes in pretending to
be your buddy while he's actually getting you know, uh
insight to stab you in the back. Well, this is
the worst kind, the most offensive form. This is the warlock.

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All right, So a warlock is actually a type of wizard.
But uh, this is like the worst type of wizard
because he is so devilish. He's he will deceive you
and do whatever you can and in those terms. And
so therefore, okay, let's let's step back and look at this.

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It kind of seems like that, um, you have two
forms of which nowadays, which is the good witch and
the bad witch. And then we have two forms of wizard,
which is the wizard and the warlock. And I and honestly,
I think that, um, that those names, uh, to some

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degree are very um well, let me let me put
it this way. I think that one reason that wizard
and which has a more positive connotation nowadays is because
of movies like The Wizard of Oz, where the wizard
is portrayed as this kind of bumbling good guy. And then, uh,
then then of course you have, yes, you've got the

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wicked witch, but then you also have the good witch,
you see. And so what's funny to me about this
whole situation is that historically speaking, the the early Christians
were persecuting so called witches, they were also practicing a
form of magic. Because there is no more supernatural book

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than the Bible. The Bible is full of people interacting
with the spirit world, uh, with trying to manifest things
by praying, uh, with producing miracles, raising the dead. It's
the whole thing is super paranormal and magical. And so
back then, uh, it's almost like that. The only difference

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between the Christians and and they're kind of miraculous magical
mindset versus the witches was that the Christians said, well,
the witches, they're doing this for bad purposes. So this
is just like Star Wars, isn't it. Where you know,

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in Star Wars um you've got this thing called the Force,
and you can master it, but you can do it
for the good side or the dark side, all right,
and when you when you go to the dark side,
well you know you're you, you will become one of
the Sith. And if you stay on the positive side
while you're a Jedi. So if you think about it,

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like in terms of just like the warlock thing, you
could say, okay, if a warlock is a bad wizard,
that means Yoda and Darth Vader are both wizards, but
Vader is a warlock because he turned to the dark side.
And the witch thing would be similar, except instead of

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Jedi and Sith, you have now, oh, the good witch
and the bad witch. Um. And so it's just interesting
when you sort of think about how the perspective on
those things have changed over time. You know, I call
myself the Wizard of Weird, and uh, I don't think
people the look at that and say this guy is

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in league with the devil. Um, Because again we we
have we've applied different meaning to that stuff. But it's
just interesting to go back and think about what it
originally meant and how that What this shift in thinking
has has shown us is that we are actually a
much more magically oriented, open minded culture than ever before.

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Uh in the sense that, um, yes, we still are
fighting like crazy all over the world. I mean not
not nearly as bad as we were a thousand years
ago or even a few hundred years ago, but still,
I mean we we are able to sort of accept
that we are all manifesting things in our own different way.
Everybody is. Unless you are an absolute atheist who is

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a strict materialist. Uh, then you probably are some form
of a magician. Okay, it doesn't mean you're a good magician. Um.
But because and you can be such a sloppy magician,
you're actually sabotaging yourself because you're producing bad things for yourself.
And life and uh, and we all do that sometimes

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and we all know that, hey, this life to a
certain extent does not have a happy ending because we
all have to die and leave some people behind. And
that's sad. It's just gonna be sad. Sorry, but you
know that. In the meantime, however, um, we are all
trying to manifest things, and so uh, it's good for
us to be open minded. And this is all a

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matter of perspective, like everything else. Is this person good
as this person bad? You have to make up your
mind on a case per case basis. But I think
it's pretty a pretty good achievement that we live in
a world now where somebody can come out, at least
in this country, and that's not the case everywhere, but
here in the USA, a person can say I practice

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wika or I'm a witch or I'm a wizard or whatever,
and they're not going to be tortured for it or
you know, or murdered for it. So now you you
can think a little more deeply about where all that
comes from and what we mean when we say it.
And while while I'm talking about some fairly morbid things,
I may as well bring this up because I think

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this is just interesting. Like I say, if you want
to understand more about why we live the way we live,
you have to think about why we speak the way
we speak, and what clues are hidden within our language.
And I was talking to Lauren the other day and somehow,
you know, I mentioned something about somebody dying and I said,
you know, they kicked the bucket. And Lauren said, I
wonder where that comes from, that phrase kicked the bucket.

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And I said, I'm not really sure. So I looked
into it and here's what I found. Now, thank you,
I want you to think about this for a second.
Why would you say that someone who has died has
kicked the bucket? So when I looked this up, what
I found is, once again, nobody knows for sure. This

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is a phrase that has been you for hundreds of years.
Um and there are there are a number of possible explanations,
but here are the two most popular ones. Apparently, uh
it back in the day, but especially when people didn't have,
you know, easy access to guns and various other pills

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and stuff like that that we we have today. If
if somebody decided to kill him him or herself, it
was pretty common to hang yourself. And so a lot
of people would stand on a bucket when they were
tying up the noose because it was lightweight, easy to
kick over, you know, just tall enough. So they would
stand up there and they tie their noose. I know,

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this is an awful thought, but and then they kicked
that bucket, and you know, you'd find a dead person
hanging there with a bucket kicked over next to him. Um.
That's one of the popular explanations. Here is another one, uh,
and this claims that uh and again this is you know, sorry,
this one of those awful things. But they say that,

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uh uh, that a bucket was a beam from which
a pig was hung by its feet prior to being slaughtered,
and that when they slaughtered it, then in the pigs
death throws, it would start kicking the but the beam
called the bucket. So I don't know which one of

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those it is, but um, I guess they both kind
of makes sense to me. Um. Shall we move on
to something a little more a little more positive? How
about this? Uh? You know I I always am talking
about how fascinated I am by liquid mercury. Right, and actually,

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if you have not listened yet to episode seventy two
of this program and which I tell one of the
weirdest stories that I've ever heard, and that's saying a lot.
You should go back and listen to it, and it's
a good overview of why the liquid mercury is so special.
And I got this uh message from my buddy Dean

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Worsening the other day and it's a link to an
article here UH by Duncan Cook of the Australian Catholic University,
and the headline here are the topic titlets is heavy
mercury contamination at Maya sites reveals a deep historic legacy.

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And this is great because I was one of the
first people, oh well over a decade a decade ago,
talking about how remarkable it is that liquid mercury has
found at some of these sites. And when we come back,
I'm gonna tell you more about the questions that are
still unanswered about the significance of liquid mercury to ancient

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cultures and how that may even be applied to what's
happening with the UFO phenomenon. And then I want to
play a really interesting and wonderful piece of music for you,
And then I want to get into a really bizarre
Dreams story. Oh, there's just too much to talk about.

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dot Com and uh okay, let's get back to liquid mercury.
Huh um. This is a fascinating topic for a number
of reasons, but what they're saying here in this article

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mercury is a toxic heavy metal and this is let's
see Australia Science, the austral Australasian. Okay, that's an interesting word,
Australasian science dot com dot au. I've never been to Australia.
I don't know about the word Australasian. I guess it

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has some meaning I don't know about. But anyway, says
mercury is a toxic heavy metal and when leached into
the natural environment, it accumulates and builds up through food chains,
ultimately threatening human health and ecosystems. In the last century,
human activities have increased atmospheric mercury concentrations by three hundred

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to five hundred percent above the natural levels. However, in
some parts of the world humans have been modifying the
mercury cycle for thousands of years. The human caused mercury
use has led to mercury entering places globally it would
not otherwise be found, such as in lakes or soils

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in remote locations. One region with an especially long but
poorly documented history of mercury use is in Mexico and
Central America. Early meso American societies such as the Olmec
had been mining and using mercury in southern Mexico as
early as two thousand BC E. So this article goes

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on to talk about how strange it is that a
lot of these ancient people in that area, we're obsessed
with mercury to an extent that I mean, they're to
the extent that you would find samples of it in
the middle of some of their most sacred spots, for example,

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the court at lamon I, and that I actually went
to lauman I in person and and learned about that.
And they talk about lamon I here in this article.
It's the oldest of the ancient ruins, as I think,
it's like the most remote. That's what they said. It's
been a while since I've been there. That's in Belize.

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But they in this article by saying there are so
many questions. There's the question of, uh, let's see where
and how did the Maya obtain mercury, who exactly minded
traded it and transported it by foot over hundreds of
kilometers across present day Central America. There's the question of

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whether the Maya were affected by mercury exposure. The next
step will be for geochemists and archaeologists to track down
the source of mercury key sites and scrutinized. We also
need to find out what forms mercury takes in the
environment today. So anyway, once again this is intriguing to
me because these places where liquid mercury was found, where

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places uh where a lot of ancient UFO activity was
occurring and pyramids are found, and this is where cucko
Con showed up. And that's you know, I wrote all
about this in my book The Secret Wisdom of couco Con.
You can get an e book version of that through
my Curiosity Shop on my website. And of course then

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you start looking deeper and you see that liquid mercury
was also of great held in great positions of prestige
and many ancient cultures around the world, in China and India,
and they talked about it in the Vedic texts, and
then the Nazis we're working with liquid mercury. And then
now we have this mysterious story about something that's being

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done with mercury here in Nevada around area fifty one. Again,
you gotta go back if you want to know more
about what I'm talking about here and listen to episode
seventy two. But I just thought that was interesting that
now people are starting to look more deeply into this. Uh.
You know, if you go, like I say, to my
website and you find my Curiosity Shop, um, one thing

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that may stand out in your mind is that you'll
find things there that you will not find anywhere else
in the world. Uh. These are absolutely, in many cases
unique things, things that I invent based upon my experiments,
or things that I have exclusive access to. And I've
told you on this podcast that there is a wonderful

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composer who lives here in the US named Jim Kalana.
And uh, I know he lived in Pennsylvania at some point.
I'm not sure if he's still there, but uh, he
was so impressed with my Curiosity Shop and my book
used the Force, a Jedi's Guide to the Law of Attraction,
and the Wishing Machine and all this stuff that this

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professional composer actually created this real piece of classical music.
It's called Joshua's Shop of Miracles and Curiosities. And to
my utter amazement, he had this performed earlier this year

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near Washington, d C. I think it was an Alexandria
Virginia um By a uh like in a big theater
by a big youth orchestra, And I mean I was
just blown away when he told me he was going
to do this. He sent me uh an actual copy

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of the work and the program, and he said that
it was totally fine for me to play some of
this for you on this show. And I don't usually
play music on this podcast. This is, after all, I
talk podcast, but I think I can make an exception.
So I'm going to play just ninety seconds for you

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of this wonderful piece of music that Jim Kalana was
inspired to write by enjoying the mysterious and exotic and
enigmatic things that I like to work on. So here
we have ninety seconds of Joshua's Shop of Miracles and

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Curiosities by Jim Kalanna. All right, now, tell me could

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there be a Could there be a bigger honor than that?
I mean, how fantastic is it to have a man
of that talent contact you and say, all right, Uh,
I was so inspired by the stuff that you're doing
and it's changed my life. And I want to produce
this magnificent piece of music and involve all these people

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in performing it. And you know, I wish I could
have been there for that performance, but I was already
had I was committed to another event. But my friend
c Eric Scott was there and he loved it. And
don't you think that Jim Kalanna should be scoring movies?
I mean, seriously, keep your eye on him. And if
you want to hear the whole thing for free, go

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to his website Jim Kalana dot com. That's spelled j
I M c O l O n n A. Again,
that's Jim c O l O n n A Jim
Kalana dot com and you can listen to all kinds
of samples of his music. But at the top there, uh,
there's a section that says music for orchestra. And right now,

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if you go there, you can listen to the entire
Joshua's Shop of Miracles and Curiosities. I'm expecting Disney to
call me at some point now or or some similar
establishment and say, Okay, if you're so special that this
guy wrote that music, we need to put some visuals

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with this. What's going on here? Wizard? Uh? So, thank
you again, Jim. Uh, it's just you know, uh, it's
I I can't put into words how wonderful that is.
When we come back from this break, I am going
to tell you about an amazing dream experience that I
just had and and how it is timed out with

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these messages I've been getting from other people. I'll read
an email to you, but first I want to remind
you real quick that tis the season. If you're into
ghost tours, I hope that if you're in the Asheville,
North Carolina area, you'll take my Haunted Asheville Ghost Tour.
Just go to Haunted Asheville dot com. If you're around

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Las Vegas, I hope you'll go to Boulder City and
take my ghost tour there. It's called Haunted Boulder City
dot com. And we if you if you're like not
in the walking tours, but you just want to see
a really cool show. I have the Vegas Ghost and
UFO show, which is sixty minutes at this place called

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Beer Zombies. You gotta go read all about it. You
sit there and you have a blast for sixty minutes.
Paranormal Vegas dot com. Paranormal Vegas dot com. I'm Joshua P. Warren,
and you are listening to strange things on the I
Heart radio and Coast to Coast am Paranormal Podcast Network,

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and I'll be right back and welcome back to the

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final segment of this edition of Strange Things on the
I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast a M para
normal podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren.
And a pretty interesting phenomenon occurred when I posted episode

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nine seven of this podcast about dreams and and you
know where do you go when you dream? That kind
of thing? A lot of people started emailing me saying
that when listening to that podcast, the person would enter

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some kind of a dream like state just by listening
to me talk about the subject matter. Here's just one
of those emails from Jake. He says, I am thirty
nine years old in the episode where you were talking
about dreams where you float and abduction of the spirit,

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and when I listened to this, I felt light as
if I was floating, and this was the only time
I had ever had a moment if I couldn't tell
if it was real or a dream. M hmm. Well,
thank you, Jake, And again I could reach you other examples,
but well, what is this about? When you know, here

(39:57):
I am talking about this and dudly it's starting to
put listeners into an altered state of mind. I had
um and and look, and by the way, I don't
really know how to explain that other than when you
start thinking about it, your your brain um starts to

(40:17):
question the moment and whether or not you might be
asleep and you don't know it, because that's sort of
the conundrum there. But it's so weird that I got
that message from from him and all these people. And
then here's what happened to me last night. Okay, I
swear this happened to me last night. Of course, September

(40:39):
two is always going to go down in history as
is a terrible year for hurricanes because of what happened
to the poor people in Puerto Rico and Florida, and
you know, going all the way up that the East
coast there through through of course Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina.
But I I talked to you on a previous show

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about my friend da who was basically, you know, my
best friend. When Lauren and I were in Puerto Rico,
when we were living there, she helped us out tremendously
and she and I were always going on wild adventures
like road trips, to investigate paranormal stuff, and um, she
was just a very fun, vibrant spirit. And she got

(41:22):
pancreatic cancer, and uh, she was doing everything she could,
you know, she wanted to live. She was sixty nine
and she died the same weekend that the hurricane hit
Puerto Rico, and so it was just a really awful, negative,

(41:43):
depressing thing to to think about. But I did get
my opportunity to say my goodbyes to her, and you know,
we had we had that kind of closure. But we'll listen.
Last night, for the first time since she died, I
had this huge dream about her. And in the dream, Uh,

(42:07):
I didn't know that she was dead, and I was
back in Puerto Rico and it was the two of us.
And she used to always talk about how much she
loved our adventures. That was what she would call them,
our adventures. And she and I were just like raised
in all heck, driving around the island, and like, we
went into this bar and there were a bunch of

(42:29):
jerks in there, so we like intentionally started a bar
fight and and then you know, after we got the
better of him, this big group of guys were chasing
us and we ran out and jumped in the car,
were like laughing, and we pelled out and and we're
just like going and investigating all kinds of weird stuff
and just having a blast, you know, eating all kinds
of exotic new foods. And uh So I woke up

(42:53):
and it took me a second to remember that she
was dead. And maybe you've had that experience with if
you have a loved one who has died. But I thought, well,
I believe maybe that was Ida coming back. You know,
there's been enough space here for her to get readjusted
to this new world she's in. Maybe that was her
coming back and and finding me in the spirit world

(43:16):
and having another adventure. Right, That's what I thought. So anyway,
I got up, went through my morning routine, I sat
down and started checking my messages, and out of the blue,
I had this message from a national reporter from BuzzFeed News.

(43:38):
And this reporter said that she was doing a story
about people who were having medical emergencies and stuff in
Puerto Rico when the hurricane hit and took out facilities
and how that has affected the care of those people.

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And she said that she had come across one of
my postings in social media where I had said, I
had this friend named Margarita, and she was wonderful, we
all loved her, and she was dying of cancer right
as the hurricane hit. And this reporter said she had
seen that and she wanted to talk to me more
about that, or at least, you know, like see if

(44:23):
there was somebody that I could refer her to that
would help her with the story. And I was flabbergasted
that this national reporter had contacted me to ask me
about that. Um, while I was dreaming about Ida for
the very first time since her death and having exactly

(44:44):
the kind of dream that she would want me to
to have about her. You know, it was just like,
this is not a coincidence. So I obviously I told
the reporter like, yes, you know, feel free to contact
me at this email address and we'll talk more. I can,
you know, help her and however way I can. But
I mean, like this is just another example. I haven't

(45:06):
told anybody about this yet. I haven't even told my
wife about this. She'll hear it first on this podcast.
I thought that that she would think that was cool
to hear it first on the podcast. UM, But that
kind of stuff which happens to me over and over
and over proves to me that when you dream, you
are in a very very special state of mind, and
your spirit is removed from your body, and dead loved

(45:28):
ones can communicate with you, and they can guide you,
and they can lead you in a direction. And obviously
DA wants me to talk to this woman and there's
something there that needs to be said. So I'm going
to do that. Okay, Uh, next email. UM, I recently
did a show about how anti gravity built the Pyramids.

(45:50):
Of course, I was talking about Nick Redfern's book, and
I got contacted by this gentleman who listens to the
show a lot. He's in Greece. His name is Stavros,
and he said he thinks the blocks were made in
situ in the form of artificial cement. Okay, so like
there's this big mystery about like how are these huge
blocks moved around? And he's saying, oh, no, they weren't moved.

(46:16):
They made them there. And he said the ancient cultures
were aware of this technology. Human hair has been found
within the matrix of a block, and then he gives
some other thoughts on that, um, and he says, your
friend from Greece stuff Ross interesting. I mean, that is

(46:37):
something else to think about, isn't it. Could that be
an explanation? Uh? And you know what, let me go ahead.
And he sent me another uh email that I think
is worth reading because, um, he he was talking about
like this struggle that's going on in the world of
a kind of a spiritual nature right now, and he says,
we are dealing with a highly complex phenomenon on which

(47:00):
is manifested through Earth's time, not only with abductions, but
with communications and possessions. The systems of religions faces them,
not scientifically, of course, but sometimes successfully, and sometimes specific

(47:20):
ancient Greek like the orphic hymn to Apollon or Athena
or specific Latin texts seem to influence these beings. Um,
there are a lot of people right now who are
talking about the idea that there is a spiritual battle happening.
And thank you against a rush, you always have insightful
things to say, Um, that there's a spiritual battle happening

(47:43):
right now on this planet. And you know what, I
believe it. My gut tells me that that's true. I well,
you know, there's always been a spiritual battle, hasn't there?
I mean, isn't that the point? But it's I think
it's coming to a head right now because some of
the well, we're we're a global world. We can all
talk to each other everywhere now and that changes things

(48:05):
and that takes that's what takes it to a new level.
Before it was localized, and now we are living in
this worldwide system of communication and we're exposed to everything.
And so now the spiritual battle is really about to
come to to some kind of a head. And you
have to just think about you know, where you want
to be in there, and what side is right for

(48:26):
you and what seems logical to you. You know, it's
not gonna do any good to preach at you. I mean,
you just have to you. I guess you either get
it or you don't. And I hope that you will
ask the universe to help you with that if you're
having a problem. But here's what we're gonna We're all
gonna do right now. We're gonna listen to the good
Fortune tone and hopefully that will help all of us

(48:48):
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