Episode 129: The Allegory of the Cave & Dimensions

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you can do at home, and a lot more. On

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this edition of the show. The allegory of the cave
and dimensions and later scientists have discovered that plants make sounds.
How about that? I'm going to play some for you
on this podcast. All Right, dimensions always a tough subject

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to talk about. It's well truly unimaginable. And I'm not
going to go into all of my explanations for how
you might comprehend dimensions. I've talked about it before. If
you want to hear some of those stories about flat
land and how to wrap your mind around other dimensions,

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go back and listen to episode fourteen of this podcast.
It's called Enter Dimensional Monsters. Okay, that's where I get
into the groundwork for that sort of thing. But what
I am going to do is tell you about this
story that was written I believe, almost two thousand, four

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hundred years ago, that gives us insight today and how
that dimensions might play into our lives, you know, other
dimensions outside of the the three dimensions or even the
fourth dimension of so called time, and and how that
people have always been aware of this if they were

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thoughtful enough. These philosophers, and of course most people will
say the all time great philosopher was Socrates and the
Allegory of the Cave. It is basically a story that
Socrates is telling. And before I get into the actual tale,

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let me just point out you know Socrates, the ancient
Greek philosopher. He was persecuted for his teachings and he
was eventually executed when he was about eighty years old.
And they say that there are people who are trying
to rescue him from prison, but he didn't go, and

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he actually drank himlock. I guess at eighty years old
he was ready to see something more a guy of
that intelligence. But when I was reading about this allegory,
it reminded me of something I wrote about and my
book called Use the Force, a Jedi's Guide to the
Law of Attraction, which you can obtain through my website,

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and here is page one fifty four just gives you
an idea of how socrates mind worked. There's a story
about Socrates and his approach to gossip, possibly apocryphal, that
has circulated for years, and here's one version an ancient Greece.

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One day, Socrates the great philosopher was approached by an
excited man who said, Socrates, do you know what I
just heard about one of your students. Wait a moment,
Socrates replied, Before you tell me, I'd like you to
pass a little test. It's called the test of three.

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Before you talk to me about my student. Let's take
a moment to test what you're going to say. The
first test is truth. Have you made absolutely sure that
what you are about to tell me is true? No,
the man said, Actually I just heard about it, all right,
said Socrates, So you don't really know if it's true

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or not. Now let's try the second test. The test
of goodness is what you were about to tell me
about my student, something good? Well, no, the man said.
On the contrary, so Socrates continued, you want to tell
me something bad about him, even though you're not certain
it's true. The man shrugged a little embarrassed. Socrates continued,

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You may still pass, though, because there is a third test,
the filter of usefulness. Is what you want to tell
me about my student going to be useful to me? Well? No,
not really, well, concluded Socrates. If you want to tell
me something that is neither true, nor good, nor even useful,

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then why tell it to me at all. So that's
the story, folks, that's been circulating for a long time,
and whether or not it's true, it seems to be
somewhat in line with what philosophers call the Socratic method
of questioning. And the point is quite clear. Why should

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you develop your opinions about anyone or anything in the
world unless you can vouch for the accuracy of the facts.
I continue writing. Be mindful of this even more as
it's even more important in this age of mass media.
You cannot put yourself in another person's shoes unless you

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have some direct access to the information regarding that person,
and even then you should be careful to ensure it
is worth your effort to do so. Now, that is
all I was going to read to you. But actually
there's another interesting little point that I'm going to include,
since it comes right after this. There is a fascinating

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parallel to this in the Sherlock Holmes stories written by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and his story a Study in Scarlet.
Holmes tells doctor Watson he was previously unaware that the
Earth revolves around the Sun. Moreover, now that he's learned it,
he will do his best to forget it. And when

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Watson protests Holmes and periously interrupts and says, well, what
the deuce is it to me? You say that we
go around the sun. If we went around the moon,
it would not make a pennyworth of difference. To me
or to my work. You see. Sherlock Holmes believes that
the mind has a finite capacity for information storage, and

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learning useless things reduces one ability to learn useful things.
And whether or not this is in fact true, it
is a good lesson for all of us to bear
in mind. We should strive to only take impertinent knowledge,
and even then to only occupy our minds with knowledge
that is relevant to our lives. So I'll stop reading

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right there, and look, I'm a terrible trivia abuff. So
there's no telling how much useless knowledge that is in
my mind. But that's just something interesting to think about,
isn't it. So that gives you a little bit of
an idea, however, of the approach to life that Socrates
was supposedly taking. And one of socrates as students was

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another great philosopher turned out to be one named Plato.
And Plato had a brother, and his brother's name was Glaucon.
All right, so about twenty four hundred years ago Plato

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he wrote that one day Socrates was talking to Plato's
brother Lakhan, and they were having a discussion. Plato liked
to write in dialogues, as they would call them, you know,
where two people are exchanging ideas back and forth. And

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so the allegory of the cave is Plato's presentation of
this story that Socrates was telling that I am now
about to paraphrase for you the best I can, and
I'll get started here. But I think you know, the
clock is gonna get us here, so I'll probably have

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to take Hi right in the middle of this. Okay.
So Socrates says, imagine a cave. Now think, folks, this
is thousands of years ago. Okay, He says, imagine a
cave where people have been imprisoned from childhood, but not
from birth. The prisoners are chained so that their legs

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and necks are fixed, forcing them to gaze at the
wall in front of them and not to look around
at the cave, each other or themselves. Behind the prisoners
as a fire, and between the fire and the prisoners

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is a raised walkway with a low wall behind which
people walk, carrying objects or puppets of men and other
living things. The men walk behind the wall, so their
bodies do not cash shadows for the prisoners to see,
but the objects that they carry do, just as puppet

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showmen have screens in front of them at which they
work their puppets. The prisoners cannot see any of what
is happening behind them. They are only able to see
these shadows cast upon the cave wall in front of them. Okay,
I'm going to stop right there and hopefully this is
making sense to you. These guys, they're chained to a

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cave facing a wall. They can't see each other. All
they know is that they see shadows of things in
front of them. They'll know these shadows are being made
by people behind them with you know, like puppets and stuff.
Shadow puppets. Sounds a little crazy, but this will make
sense pretty soon, I think. All right, I'm going to

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Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day is golden and every
night is silver. So Socrates is telling this story, the

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allegory of the cave. These men are chained to this
chained up inside this cave, and they're facing a wall.
They can't see each other. They don't know anything about
the real world other than shadows that are being projected
from behind them on the walls. Okay, like shadow puppets.

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So the people behind them who walk behind the wall,
so their bodies, you know, are not visible casting these things.
They're like puppet masters. The prisoners cannot see any of
what is happening behind them. They're only able to see
the shadows cast up on the wall in front of them.

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They can also hear the sounds of the people talk
echo off the walls, and the prisoners believe these sounds
come from the shadows. Why wouldn't they now, Socrates suggests
that the shadows are reality for the prisoners because they
have never seen anything else. They do not realize that

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what they see are shadows of objects in front of
a fire behind them, much less that these objects are
inspired by real things outside of the cave, which they
do not see at all. So Socrates then supposes that

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the prisoners are released. Uh huh. So a freed prisoner
would look around and see the fire, and the light
would hurt his eyes and make it difficult for him
to see the objects casting the shadows. If he were
told that what he is seeing is real instead of

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the other version of reality that he sees on the wall.
He would not believe it. In his pain, Socrates continues,
the freed prisoner would turn away and run back to
what he is accustomed to, that is the shadows of
the carried objects. The light quote would hurt his eyes,

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and he would escape by turning away to the things
which he was able to look at, and these he
would believe to be clearer than what was being shown
to him in quote. But then, Socrates continues, he goes
even further. He says, suppose that someone should drag him
out by force up the rough ascent, the steep way

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up and never stop until he could drag him out
into the light of the sun. The prisoner would be
angry and in pain, and this would only worsen when
the radiant light of the sun overwhelms his eyes and
blinds him. Slowly, his eyes adjust to the light of

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the sun. First he can see only shadows. Gradually he
can see the reflections of people and things in water,
and then later see the people in things themselves. Eventually
he is able to look at the stars and moon
at night, until finally he can look upon the sun itself.

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Only after he can look straight at the sun is
he able to reason about it and what it is.
Socrates then continues saying that the free prisoner would think
that the world outside the cave was superior to the
world he experienced in the cave. An attempt to share

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this with the prisoners remaining in the cave, attempting to
bring them onto the journey he had just endured, says
he would bless himself for the change in pity the
other prisoners, and he would want to bring his fellow
cave dwellers out of the cave and into the sunlight.
The returning prisoner, whose eyes have become accustomed to the sunlight,

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would be blind when he re entered the cave, just
as he was when he was first exposed to the sun.
The prisoners who remained, according to the dialogue, would infer
from the returning man's blindness that the journey out of
the cave had harmed him, and that they should not

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undertake a similar journey. Socrates concludes that the prisoners, if
they were able, would therefore reach out and kill anyone
who attempted to drag them out of the cave. Okay, now,

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hopefully you kept up with that. I know it's weird,
but it's actually a very simple story, and it is
profound in a lot of ways, because I believe that
this story that was written almost twenty four hundred years
ago is as relevant today as it has always been.

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Because this is a very simple way of trying to
not explain what other dimensions are, because you can't really
do that in a meaningful way, but you can explain
how that we humans experience them that even though we

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can't directly experience other dimensions because their brains can only
only go so far and do so much, the projections
of activity in those other dimensions are almost like shadows
in our dimension. They're like the shadows that were being

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projected from somewhere else that the men in the cave
could see on the wall. They were seeing the shadow,
the projection, the flat two D representation, but there was
a far cry from the actual thing that was making
that projection, much less the entire world outside the cave

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that was actually the source of everything. So, in other words,
there are some of us who who prefer to just
stay in the cave and look at the shadows and
not adventure outside of that because that's what you're accustomed to,

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and you also might not be able to grasp why
it's necessary to go outside. Furthermore, you may fear it.
There are other other people, however, who have a mind
that works in a different way, and they want to
go out and they go through these transformative mystical experiences.
And it can happen in a lot of ways. It

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can happen through sheer study and thought, or or obviously
sometimes people say certain hallucinogens might help, or maybe a
traumatic experience. I mean, you hear all these stories. I
think that it can be accomplished, however, by some people
just through sheer deep thinking. And therefore there are people

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who are able to reach out and experience these other
the other models or or or phases or forms that
bring you a closer look at the true, behind the
scenes reality. I don't think that we're ever capable of

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seeing it, because you could say that even the most
ironic thing about this allegory is that even when he
goes outside the cave and he's supposedly seeing the real
real world, well he's still he's still in a cave
by our standards. Because now we know there are these
other dimensions that are beyond that. So when it comes

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to these ideas about water phantoms or other bizarre creatures,
or how does consciousness work, or how can we manipulate
reality with our minds and manifest things or see into
the future or the past, it ties into this ability
that that information could well could be retrieved from these

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other dimensions, and that this whole reality that we live
in is kind of a holograph, a holographic universe, or
as I call it, a holosentiate universe, and that we
are simply seeing the exterior edge of some of these

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things that are existing outside of us and beyond us.
And this may be one of the best early examples
of describing other dimensions and interdimensional phenomena and how and
why we interact with it. And I hope you see
that the way I do, which is why I wanted

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to share it with you, because I think that's really fascinating.
And you know, you watch these some of these scientists
today who talk about not believing in all this kind
of paranormal stuff, and then you turn around and you
talk to the best scientist in the world who have
won Nobel prizes studying quantum physics. And they say, oh, yeah,

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it's Alice in Wonderland here. You know, it's down the
rabbit hole, like anything is possible, that there's no such
thing as a set reality, that there are other places
where things are, you know, information comes from and goes to.
And I mean, like, so the best smartest scientist out

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there are telling us that there comes a point where
you can't really differentiate too much between hard core science
and philosophy. Right, Okay, when we come back from this break,
I'll give you one more like finishing thought on that topic,
and then I want to play this audio for you.

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I've never heard this before. It's apparently some pretty new research.
Scientists have discovered that plants make sounds. And this is
another example of what I'm talking about. You may feel
secure that you know everything and then one day, nope,
new discovery. The world is much more complex than we

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can imagine. I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange
Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM parin
normal podcast network, and I'll be back after these important messages.

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Welcome back to Strange Things on the iHeart Radio and
Coast to Coast I am parin Normal Podcast Network. I'm
your host, Joshua Pee Warren, and this is the show
where the unusual becomes usual. Just to wrap up my
thoughts on the allegory of the cave and other dimensions,

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My wife Lauren and I have two little chihuahuas named
Dolly and Lama, both females, and they're both very good natured,
even though we're pretty sure that Lama has got some
chupacabra in her. But you've heard me talked about that before.
And so these dogs, they are never allowed to go

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out our front door because you know, we live in
Las Vegas, and these are the kinds of dogs like
especially Dolly, she's so fast. If she sees something like
a pigeon or whatever, it's like squeak of lightning. She's gone.
And you know, I have this section out back where
we have, you know, a swimming pool and a spa.

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We've had a nice set up out here, so they
get plenty of room to go out back and have
some outside time when we when we're not we're not
taking them for a special walk or something. But we
never let them go out the front door. And whenever
I opened the front door, the dogs especially Dolly. She'll

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run up and she'll stand right there and she'll just
want to catch a peek of what's outside. I gotta
be very careful that she doesn't just shoot right by me,
and I say, get no, get back, get back, get back.
And I'm sure she thinks that I'm just being a
mean old guy, you know, not letting her go out there.

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And she has no idea that if she goes out there,
that there are these zooming cars that could hit her
at an instant and kill her. Right, that's not She's
not able to comprehend that. And that reminds me also
of the allegory of the cave that, um, there are
certain things that we humans are not allowed to do

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and that might make us angry. We say, well, this
is a bunch of bull. And I don't like God
or the universe or whoever you want to blame, because
there are things that you think you should have or
be able to achieve and and and it's just not
happening for you. But you may not realize what you're

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asking for. In some cases, going outside of the cave
might actually be dangerous for you. And I mean, look
at how many astronauts have died trying to go outside
of the cave a little farther. So anyway, just another
way of looking at that. Well, let's move on to

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plant life, shall we. I have always believed that plants
have spirits. One of the reasons that I believe that
now is because a long time ago, and I'm talking,
you know, twenty some years ago, I started doing experiments
along with a Lemur team about our experiments with plants.
We would get plants and we would hook them up

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to biofeedback devices and see what kind of signals they
were producing under different circumstances, photograph them with kearley in
cameras and different types of imaging, and without getting into
all the specific results, I came to the conclusion that
I believe these plants are sentient to some extent, all plants.

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Not to mention the fact that if you can see
auras and you look at a plant, you can see
the aura around the plant, and in some cases it's
quite big and bright. And you know, I hate to
tell you that if you're a vegetarian, I have nothing
against you, but you're you're if you're just a vegetarian,
you're still not completely getting away with not um taking

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a life, because you know, uh, you have to consume life,
I think, in order to continue living. And so even
when you eat plants, you're you're consuming some spirits. But
I never thought to hook up some very sensitive microphones
to see if plants were producing sounds per se, you know,

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like vibrations that could be heard in different ranges. And
I guess nobody else did, and until just recently, because
here is this scientific journal called cell cel l dot
com to put out this report and I first learned
about it through um an article at CNN dot com

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by Katie Hunt, and essentially it says plants are not silent.
They make clicking sounds. A study finds. The actual journal
Highlight says plants emit ultrasonic airborne sounds when stressed. The
emitted sounds reveal plant type and condition. Plant sounds can

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be detected and interpreted in a greenhouse setting. Okay, so
this article goes on to say at CNN, plants make
popping sounds that are undetectable to the human ear, and
they make more sounds when they're thirsty or under some

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kind of stress. The research shakes up what most botanists
thought they knew about the plant kingdom, which had been
considered largely silent, and suggests the world around us is
a cacophony of plant sounds they talk about Hadny, the
study co author, She said she had long been skeptical

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that plants were completely noiseless. Quote, there are so many
organisms that respond to sound. I thought there was no
good reason for plants to be deaf and mute. She
is a professor at the School of Plant Sciences and
Food Security and program head of the George Sy's Faculty
of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University. The first plant

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she recorded using an ultrasonic microphone was a cactus in
her lab six years ago, but she could not rule
out that the sound she detected was made by something
else in the environment. Previous studies had shown that plants
made vibrations, but it wasn't known whether these vibrations became
airborne sound waves. To figure out whether plants actually were

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emitting sounds, she and her team commissioned soundproof acoustic boxes.
They placed tobacco and tomato plants in the boxes, rigged
with ultrasonic microphones that record at frequencies between two hundred
and two hundred and fifty kiloherts, and some of the

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plants had cut stems or had not been watered for
five days. Others were untouched, And they found that the
plants emitted sounds at a frequency of forty to eighty kiloherts,
and when condensed and translated into a frequency humans can hear,
the noises were a bit similar to the pop of
popcorn being made or bubble wrapped bursting. And it says

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that when the tomato the tomato plants were not stressed,
they were very quiet, and a stress plant emitted around
thirty to fifty of these popping or clicking sounds per hour.
So they're saying that they don't know exactly how these
sounds are made, but they believe the noises come from

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this process in which an air bubble in the plant's
water column collapses under some kind of pressure, making a
click or pop. So they say they can't conclude that
the cut flowers in your vase or are screaming at
you in pain, But what they're saying is that these
plants are definitely making sounds that could be communicating with

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other you know, creatures or forms of life. And you
know what's funny, We could just look at that and say, well,
that's that's these are just air bubbles escaping when you know,
or something like that. But on the other hand, you
could probably look at a human and say, if you're
if you're like some giant other being and you don't

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know what a human is, you could be like, well,
they just have sporadic air that pops out of their
mouth when they speak, you know. So I don't know.
Let's just give it a listen, shall we. So this
is what happens when you take the sound of one
of these tomato plants and you candense it into a
frequency that human ears can hear. This is what it

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sounds like. All right, well pretty interesting? Huh what do

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you think? You know? As I was listening to that,
I thought, what if I were to take that and
turn that sound into a parasymatics sigil. What would that
look like? And would it bear any resemblance to the
plant or the DNA of the plant, or you know,

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any of those things. I don't know. Maybe I will
look more deeply into that and see if I can
come up with some experiments. But you know, I've got
some pretty good microphones in my laboratory, so maybe I
will try seeing if I can capture some sounds from
some of my plants. I have some pretty exotic plants,

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like tickle me plants or some column zombie plants that
when you when you touch them, their leaves close up.
And you know, I'm a big fan of playing around
with venus flytraps. I got some pretty weird stuff. So, okay,
when we come back from this break, there's actually another
sound that I want to bring up. You know, not
too long ago, I pulled out a rattlesnake rattle and

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rattled it for you here on the show, and a
lot of people contacted me and they said, you know what,
I have no idea how a rattlesnake rattle even works.
Are there some beads in there? So when we return,
I'm actually going to I'm gonna shake my rattlesnake rattler again.
I'm gonna tell you why it is that a rattlesnake

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rattle rattles, which I find surprising. And then I have
just a plethora of other strange and somewhat random things
that I want to get into. I'll go through as
many as I can. During the last segment of the show,
and including some interesting updates for you. So I'm Joshua

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Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio
and Coast to Coast i AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I
will be right back and welcome back to the final

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segment of this edition of Strange Things all the iHeartRadio
and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host,
Joshua pe o' warren, and I want to let you
know that you can visit an interesting display that I

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just put in place recently. Of course, I own the
Haunted Asheville Ghost Tours in Asheville, North Carolina, So if
you're going to be in that town, we'll go to
Haunted Asheville dot com and buy a ticket and take
the tour. I also created and own the Haunted Boulder

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City Ghost and UFO Tour, which is a walking tour
here in Nevada about thirty minutes outside of Las Vegas.
And if you've never been to Boulder City, Nevada, do
yourself a favor and go there. And that walking tour
is Haunted Boulder City dot com. You can even drink

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a beer as you take that one if you want.
But what a great little charming city. You've heard me
talk a lot about it. But I am a member
of the Boulder City Chamber of Commerce and I was
talking to the staff over there, the wonderful people like
Jill and Madison, and I said, you know, I used

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to have this museum in Asheville, and I have some
pretty interesting items that are not currently on display. How
would you feel about me displaying them for a while
at the Boulder City Chamber of Commerce. And they said, yes, absolutely,
that'd be awesome. So right now, if you go to
the Boulder City Chamber of Commerce, and I think they're

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hours are like, you know, nine to five every day
at least Monday through Friday. You can look it up.
Then you can go in there and see two things
there on display that belonged to me. One of them
is a real alien crystal skull that I attained when

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I was doing my research in the Bermuda Triangle. And
it's big and it's heavy, and it's really cool and
you can learn about it when if you make the
trip to go see it, but you can get pretty
darn close to it. It's in a glass case, but
it's a real crystal skull and some people say that
it telepathically communicates with them. And then also I have

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got there on display some actual rocks from a UFO
crash site that happened in Puerto Rico. I also attained
this when I was down there in doing my Bermuda
triangal research for years, and this was a crash that
happened I think in like nineteen ninety seven, and I

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took this big hike out into this remote area with
a couple of friends and we found this site and
there were still rocks scorched black from this thing, and
I collected some of them and so those are now
there also on display. So go to Haunted Boulder City
dot com. If you're going to be in the Vegas area,

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come take the tour, but if you can go out
during the day, because the tour is usually in the evening,
go out during the day and see what we have
at the visitors Well, it's the Boulder City Chamber of
Commerce there, which I think it's like the Nevada Visitor
Center also sort of combined. But anyway, that's cool. Now.

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I recently did a podcast where I was talking about
rattlesnake tails and just you know, I was talking about
the noise that things make in nature, and I got
this significantly sized rattlesnake tail from this guy in Texas
not too long ago. I have it in my hand
right now and there you go. There there's me shaking

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it back and forth. If you have a pet, does
your pet react to that? Like? Does it scare them
or freak them out? Do they know that something threatening
is nearby? Because as soon as I got this thing,
I took it up to our chihuahuas and was like,
and they did not care on the slightest It's very,
very difficult to phase them. They don't even like playing

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with toys alf the time. So people said, well, you know,
what is there? Like, are there some beads something in there? Well,
let me tell you a couple of things real quick
about rattlesnake tells that are truly are just fascinating. For
one thing, a rattlesnake can rattle its tail ninety times
per second, ninety times per second, and it says that

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is twice as fast as the wing muscles of a
hummingbird sipping nectar. Isn't that shocking? You know? And scientists
are still like trying to study exactly how they do that.
But the thing is, if you cut open a rattlesnake
tail and I've not done this, but you can find videos.

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At least there's one on YouTube of a guy who
does this. The most interesting thing is when you cut
them open that it looks like they're empty. There are
no beads or anything like that inside. But what you
do find is that each little layer of the rattle
is what they call a button, and each button is

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kind of like an exterior button, and inside of it
is like a slightly smaller button, which is a dead
cell or made of dead cells. So basically, every time
a rattlesnake sheds, I think it gets like a new button,

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and some of that dead skin stays inside. So each
button is actually kind of like shells within shells, and
so when when the snake shakes its tail, you're just
hearing those dried, hard shells kind of like banging against
each other. I don't know what much time would you describe.

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Banging is not a good word, but I think you
understand what I'm saying. Like these these crusty, crunchy little
layers are bouncing off each other, and that is what
gives this amazing sound. But there are no little no
little objects or anything. Again, if you cut open a
rattlesnake rattler, it just looks like it's empty, except there

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are two or three layers of these buttons as shells.
So that's pretty wild. In fact, we see what do
they efficiently say? A rattlesnake rattle is made of dead
tissue and its owner shakes it by twitching sets of
small muscles on either side of its tail. So pretty amazing.

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Another example of the wonders of mother nature. Right, Okay,
next thing I want to talk to you about. Oh,
you know I am. I am still collecting stories for
my new anthology called Amazing Happy Endings. And if you
go to Amazing Happy Endings dot com you can submit

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a story. Because I've got so many great ones and
I've been I edited a version of this already, and
I you know, I love it so much. I just
want to make it bigger and bigger and keep collecting stories.
If you can just write one paragraph, that's fine. It
just has to be a story, preferably something that happened
directly to you. That it's going to be short, it's

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going to be true. And it's got to have an amazing,
happy ending. And there's some examples there for you. Because
I'm going to be hopefully putting this book out finally
this year. I've been slowly collecting stories, and I'll tell
you something kind of funny. I took a version of
this just for the heck of it, and I sent

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it to a literary agent that I've worked with before,
and I said, what do you think about this? And
I don't want to tell you who the agent is,
but I will tell you it's not Lisa Hagen. Okay,
So this agent looked at it, and I thought the
agent was going to say, Oh, this is fantastic. This
is gonna be a big stone. Basically, the agent said,

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it's too positive. It's gonna make people feel too good,
and that's not what sells so much these days. And
I thought, wow, that is really said, isn't it. But
I understand this is a sign of the times and
this is the world in which we live, and so

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therefore I have decided that I am definitely going to
publish this myself through my own company, because I would
just absolutely hate to have some editor come in and say,
you know, instead of amazing happy endings. Why don't we
do amazing terrible endings where everything just gets destroyed and

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their world falls apart, and we will put dark clouds
and fire and brimstone on the cover and people and
anguish and say be afraid, and it'll sell like hot kicks. No,
I'm not going to do that. I think we need
the amazing happy endings, and all the endings don't have

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to necessarily be all positive and beautify and angelic. But usually,
you know, an amazing ending is good because that's what
we like. We like good things. So I don't know
how how much longer I'm going to keep collecting those stories,
but you can get a free book if you go
there and just take a few minutes and write yours
for me. Go to Amazing Happy Endings dot com or

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if you go to Joshua Pewarren dot com you will
find a link there at the top. Okay, I have
much more to tell you about, but it's going to
have to wait for another show because I am out
of time. Therefore, speaking of an amazing happy ending, let's
all have one together, shall we. I want you to
make this next week the best one ever. Take a

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deep breath, if you can close your eyes and let
us all listen and meditate upon listen to me and
meditate upon the good fortune. That's it for this edition

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