Episode 287: REINCARNATION

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On this show, I'll be bringing a brand new my
blowing content, news exercises and weird experiments you can do
at home, and a lot more on this edition of
the show Reincarnation. Reincarnation, I have never talked about this

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publicly before.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
But.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Throughout most of my life, I have had this memory
that I was a soldier fighting in the American Revolutionary
War in the seventeen hundreds. I was fighting for the Americans,
and I have these frightening memories of being in Massachusetts

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and some kind of a battle and shooting men until
finally I was shot and killed myself. And obviously that
I really don't even like thinking about it because it
has that kind of an emotional impact on me. Now,
why would I feel that way? As a matter of fact,

(02:24):
growing up, I mean, I didn't really even know that
much about the American Revolutionary War. My dad used to
talk a lot about the Civil War, the war between
the States, but not so much about the Revolutionary War.
But I felt that, I mean, I had this memory
and it really shocked me. When I became an adult

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and I finally went to Boston for the first time, Boston, Massachusetts,
and I went into this old tavern that had a
bunch of decor devoted to the Revolution sitting at the bar,
and I looked up and above my head, written on
this bar was j. Warren. And I can't even express

(03:15):
the bolt of electricity that went through me. I was like,
what is happening right now? And for some reason, despite
the research that I'd done into the Revolutionary War, I
was not familiar with this man named Joseph Warren born
seventeen forty one, died in battle in seventeen seventy five.

(03:37):
Says here he was a founding father of the United States,
an American physician who was one of the most important
figures in the patriot movement in Boston during the early
days of the American Revolution, eventually serving as president of
the revolutionary Massachusetts Provincial Congress. They talk a lot about

(03:57):
the stuff that he did. Says he had been commissioned
a major general in the colony's militia shortly before the
June seventeen, seventeen seventy five Battle of Bunker Hill. Rather
than exercise his rank, Warren chose to participate in the
battle as a private soldier and was killed in combat

(04:19):
when British troops stormed the redoubt atop Breed's Hill. And
says Warren has been memorialized in the naming of many towns, counties, streets,
and other locations in the United States by statutes and
in numerous other ways. He was thirty four when he
was killed in battle. Now I'm not saying that I

(04:40):
was Joseph Warren, but that's a heck of a coincidence,
and it was shocking to me, and I have wondered
if it is possible that I was reincarnated at all,
or could this be some kind of what they call

(05:02):
an inherited memory. Now, this is fascinating stuff right here,
the idea that memories, just like genes, might be passed
down through the ages. And again, I'm not saying I
was Joseph Warren, but I still feel like I was
somehow involved with that, with that incident. But let's start

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from scratch here. What is reincarnation, all right? Reincarnation known
as rebirth or or transmigration. You have to excuse me.
The allergies are terrible. I mean Las Vegas and the
dust and the allergies are terrible this time of year. Reincarnation,
also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or

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religious concept that non material essence of a living being
begins a new lifespan in a different physical form or
body after biological death. In most beliefs involving reincarnation, the
soul of a human being is immortal and does not
disperse after the physical body has perished. Upon death, the

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soul merely transmigrates into a newborn baby or into an
animal to continue its immortality. The term transmigration means the
passing of a soul from one body to another after death,
and of course this is prominent in various religions, Hinduism,

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to some extent in Buddhism Seekhism.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
So on.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Here's what the term means. The word reincarnation derives from
a Latin term that literally means entering the flesh again.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
So just to.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Just emphasize, it refers to the belief then an aspect
of every human being or all living beings in some cultures,
continues to exist after death, and that this aspect may
be the soul, the mind, the consciousness, or something transcendent
which is reborn in an interconnected cycle of existence. The

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transmigration belief varies by culture and is in envisioned to
be in the form of a newly born human being
or animal or plant even, or some kind of a
spirit a being in some other non human realm of existence.
Now right off the bet, let me just tell you
why that I believe that reincarnation most likely exists, and

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it has nothing to do with spiritualism or having a
metaphysical or mystical mindset. It has everything to do with
hardcore physical science. Energy can be neither created nor destroyed,
simply conserved, transferred on from one form to another. All right,

(08:08):
that's that is a every everybody who studies science knows that.
Now the question becomes does that energy also retain consciousness?
That's where the controversy is. I think it does. That
is a personal belief. And of course, maybe a little
bit later I'll talk a little bit more about some

(08:30):
of the stories related to like the Dali Lama and whatnot.
But I guess I guess the idea. You know what, right,
let me let me tell you something right now about
about the Dogar. A lot of people think that that
the Dalai Lama is supposed to be the reincarnation of Buddha.

(08:52):
That's not actually what they believe. Apparently that it says
here the Dalai Lama is not considered the reincarnation of
the historical Buddha. Instead, Tibetan Buddhist believe that Dali Lama
is an emanation of Okay, here's a big word for me,
folks iv alukateeshvara I a lukkateha.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
It's a good thing I have been drinking.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Let's see the one of the leaders of compassion who
vows to be reborn to help humanity. He is revered
as a high ranking lama and a spiritual leader. Have
you ever seen the movie Kandune that Martin scour says
he made. It's about the life of the current Dali
Lama and it starts out with him being this little

(09:38):
kid and then all these or a little group of
guys go to his house and they're trying to figure
out if he is the reincarnation of this figure. And
so what they do is they take out all kinds
of objects that used to belong to him or in
his past reincarnation, Like the old guy who died I
can't remember, he had like some eyeglasses in a walking

(10:01):
stick and a book, and I know there are things
that belonged to him. And the kid was able to
say like, oh, yeah, this is mine, this is mine,
this is mine, and that allowed them to say, okay,
this is him reborn and condune. By the way, in

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the Tibetan culture it means the presence or presence. And
I was reading about the fact that at some point
Carl Sagan, who considered himself a skeptical scientist, he asked
the Dalai Lama what the Dali Lama would do if
a fundamental tenet of his religion, reincarnation were definitely disproved

(10:46):
by science, and the Dalai Lama answered, quote, if science
can disprove reincarnation, Tibetan Buddhism would abandon reincarnation. But it's
going to be mighty hard to disprove reincarnation quote. And
Sagan considered claims of memories of past lives to be
worthy of research, although he considered it unlikely.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
But like I.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Say, energy can be neither created or destroyed, simply conserved.
Does that do your does your consciousness retain some type
of form? We're coming up on a break. But when
we come back, before I get into these examples of
people who may literally be reincarnated, I want to spend

(11:30):
some time telling you about this idea of inherited memory
or genetic memory, that maybe, just like you have genes
that were passed down to physical genes that have been
passed down to you, maybe your ancestors had memories and
those memories got passed down to you as well, and
you think that you were there in that battle or whatever,

(11:51):
but you're just you just have that memory and you
weren't actually there.

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This is kind of deep.

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Gietato Zoue. Yes.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
It's called the law of conservation of energy. Energy cannot
be created or destroyed. It states that the total amount
of energy in an isolated system remains constant, meaning energy
only transforms from one form to another, such as chemical
energy converting to mechanical energy in a car. It's so fundamental.

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It's the first law of thermodynamics and applies to all
natural processes, including the entire universe. So if you're a
strict scientist, that has to give you pause and make
you think maybe there is something to this reincarnation thing.
We know that your energy is going to be around forever,

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the question becomes, does it retain some essence of your personality,
your memories, your consciousness and your spirit and all that.
That's the question, and I say why not?

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (15:01):
But again, that's just an opinion, And I think that's
sort of one of the reasons I haven't really done
a reincarnation show up until now, because it really boils
down to a lot of opinions and anecdotes. And I'm
going to get into some of those anecdotes in a minute.
But when I was, you know, I can't remember if
this was my high school biology teacher or my college

(15:22):
biology professor. When I went to UNCA, my biology professor,
he was quite renowned. He discovered a new frog in
South America and named it, so it might have been
him who was talking about this story that supposedly some

(15:42):
experiments were done and that some scientists took some flatworms
and taught him how to run through a maze. And
then later some other worms hate those flatworms, and they

(16:03):
were able to go through the maze because they had
consumed the worms who knew how to go through the maze.
Reminds you of those cannibals that you've heard about in
New Guinea and whatnot that say. You know that people say, oh,
they used to eat a warrior, so they would inherit
the warrior's spirit. And I was like, is that is
that true? I looked it up and it says In

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the nineteen fifties, experiments suggested that cannibalistic flatworms could inherit
the maze running memories of other worms, but this finding
was largely discredited and considered controversial due to potential research flaws. However,
modern research shows worms can pass environmental memories like fear

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or pathogen avoidance to descendants or peers via are inna transfer,
effectively sharing genetic memory. Okay, so what exactly does that mean?
It says, modern memory, modern memory sharing. Recent studies on
these worms see elegance show that worms can transfer memories

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about dangerous foods to other worms and their descendants, lasting
up to four generations. This is done through are in
a transfer. It also says, studies on flatworms have shown
that they can regenerate a new brain, like if they're decapitated,

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and this new brain retains memories from the original brain,
and this suggests that memories in these worms might be
stored outside the brain in the nervous system. It goes
on to say worms can also pass on long term
memories to their offspring through modifications. Okay, all right, there

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you go. That's what the latest science is saying that
there's there's something to that, and that makes us question
just in general, what the heck memories are all about.
And I was reading this story about a kid in Japan.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
And let me see if I can find that story.
I think he was ten years old.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, ten year old boy, Japanese boy named Joe Nagui.
And my understanding is that he was really into butterflies.
So he got a bunch of caterpillars and basically they
were his pets. He would play with them all the time,
he would feed them. They loved him, and then they

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went through their cocoon stage, and he wondered if they
after they came out of that cocoon, if they were
going to still kind of remember him. Because without going
too deep here, because this is a podcast, I just
toss ideas out there and you can look up the
details if you want, but I believe what happened when
these caterpillars they get in that cocoon, their whole body

(19:03):
kind of liquefies, and then and on they turn into
a butterfly and.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
They come out. And he said, lo, and behold that.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
The caterpillars that were his pets would fly and hang
out with him all the time, and that therefore they
retain their memory through that transformative process. And this was
He wasn't the only one who figured this out.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
There is a.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
There's a scientist Georgetown University professor. I'm actually on their
website right now. Commonhome dot com, dot Georgetown dot edu
article published twenty twenty two, A Flutter of Memory Georgetown
professor explores how insects learn and why it matters. And
they're talking about a woman named doctor Martha Weiss, and

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she also was studying butterflies and these little caterpillars, and
she said the same thing that you know, they can
retain this memory. But I bring this up because this
kid he took it a step further and he he
took some of these butterflies and caterpillars and stuff, and

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he trained them once again to do a maze, and
he found that their offspring could find the way through
the maze as well. This is called genetic memory or
inherited memory. And uh, this is no joke. Butterfly genetic
memory enables behaviors such as a monarch migration route or

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avoidance of specific plants, to be inherited across generations despite
no direct training. Research indicates that larval or even ancestral
experiences like scent avoidance could be passed down and influence
adult butterfly behavior. Recent studies even show that memory can
survive the metamorphosis process. So I was like, well, well, okay,

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how many other creatures can do this. Turns out many
creatures display genetic memory. Notable examples include European robins navigating
migration roots for the first time, Rodents inheriting phobias of
scents like aromas you know, linked to trauma, Various animals

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like chickens adapting to environments based on ancestral history. I
have a whole list of them right here. Honeybees show
genetic memory regarding how to locate food sources, evaluate their quality,
and navigate back to the hive. And it even says here.
Research suggest humans may inherit certain predispositions for fears, anxieties,

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or phobias, potentially as survival based instincts passed down through generations.
What's that, peak, Floyd song, Mom is going to pass
down all her fears into you or something like that.
So look, the idea of you remembering a past life

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that was lived by one of your ancestors has some credence.
It really does have some credibility. And you know, you
always think about you hear stories about like like Mozart.
For example, Mozart he began composing music at the age
of five, and his earliest compositions consisted of small pieces

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and minuets. He composed his first symphony when he was
eight years old. He composed his first opera at the
age of eleven. How does a kid do this sort
of thing? You know these stories? I was looking into
some of these cases of like kids, compelling cases of

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kids that may illustrate some kind of evidence of reincarnation.
For example, Shanti Devi, she was born in nineteen twenty
six died in nineteen eighty seven. She's considered one of
the most compelling, well documented cases of reincarnation. She was

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born in Delhi, India, and she began describing a past
life there at age four, ended up correctly identifying her husband,
home and personal details, including hidden money, leading to formal
investigations that confirmed her memories. She told her parents that
her name was Lugdi Devi, who died in nineteen twenty

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five in Mature, India, just over a year before she
was born. She provided specific details about her past life,
including the name of her husband, the layout of her house,
her husband's physical appearance. When her husband visited, she reco
him immediately and started talking to him and recounting intimate

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details of their life together, again telling him where she
had hidden some money in the home, which he later confirmed.
They say the case was so widely reported that a
government commission was formed and a Swedish author later confirmed
the veracity of her claims. James Leninger, a Louisiana toddler
born in nineteen ninety eight, had vivid nightmares of being

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a World War Two pilot. He ended up identifying a
plane a friend a specific battle, leading his parents to
the family of James Houston Junior, a pilot killed over
Ewa Jima. We got to take a break, we come back.
I'm going to tell you more examples of this. And
then now you might say it is how do we

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know if this is true or not? Well, there's another
interesting thing I want to bring up. It just reminds
me of this that some people are wondering is this
real or is this a fraud? And it has to
do with all the UFO stuff that's happening. So we're
gonna change pace, change gears a little bit here in
a minute. But I'm Joshua pe Warren, and you're listening
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I'm your host, Joshua P.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Warren, and this is the show where the unusual becomes usual.
I have some books here on reincarnation. One of them
is a classic, they say, Journey of Souls Case Studies
of Life Between Lives by Michael Newton, PhD. And apparently
the actress Shirley McLain is a big fan of this.

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She says that this is one of her she has
one of the most fascinating books I've ever read. Shirley
McClain is ninety one years old, and she's actually in
one of my favorite movies. She's in a couple of
my favorite movies that I can think of, but she
was in a movie called Being There that they filmed
at the Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina in nineteen

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It came out in nineteen seventy nine. I think it
was the last major production that Peter Sellers was in.
Talk about a cerebral film. They call it a satirical
comedy drama. It's a deep movie. If you're into watching
deep movies. I've talked about it before. She likes this
book and the guy who wrote it, let's see, I'm

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looking through it right now. He's talking. He was a hypnotist,
I guess, and he said that, you know, hypnosis was
a good way of helping people to tap into their experiences.
And he's talking about this young man who complained of
a lifetime of chronic pain on his right side. One
of hypnotherapy's tools to manage pain is directing subjects to
make the pain worse so they can also learn to

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lessen the aching and thus acquire control. In one of
our sessions involving pain intensification, this man used the imagery
of being stabbed to recreate his torment. Searching for the
origins of this image, I eventually uncovered his former life
as a World War One soldier who was killed by
a bayonet in France, and we were able to eliminate

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the pain altogether. Okay, that's interesting. Later on of the book,
this guy says, my subjects tell me that soul migration
is quite easy. When they die, there is a tunnel
effect they experience when leaving Earth, and that is the
portal end of the spirit world. All those souls leave
their bodies swiftly. It seems to me entry into the

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spirit world is a carefully measured process, and later when
we return to earth in another life, the root back
is described as being more rapid. And he's got people
there telling him stories about going through these tunnels and such.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
Tunnel out tunnel in.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
I got this other book here, Return to Life, Extraordinary
Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives by Jim B.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
Tucker, MD.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
And it's just more of these stories. I mean, whether
you believe them or not, I mean they're anecdotes.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
It's up to you.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Let's see, he says, I know this is a long
way from children's past life memories.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
There was a little boy who relives the exact detail
of the terrible death of a young World War two pilot,
And it challenges the mainstream understanding that consciousness is always
created by and confined to a physical brain. So a
lot of these people, they have memories of war or

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being killed, and that includes me, And I guess it's
because it's such a dramatic thing. I was not in
the military, so I can't tell you that I've ever
been in combat, but I imagine that there's probably nothing
that's more intense than being in the middle of some
serious combat, and you remember that it sticks with you.

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When I was a teenager, I was working in the
bead Aalton bookseller bookstore there at the Asheville Mall, and
one day somebody came in and bought a book and
it was called The Search for Bridie Murphy, and I
paid attention to it. Bridie Murphy is a purported nineteenth

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century irishwoman whom a US housewife named Virginia Tai. I
don't know it's spelled tigh. How would you say that
Thai claim to be in a past life. So there's
this woman who was born in Virginia in nineteen twenty
three and died in nineteen ninety five, and she claimed

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that in a past life she was this irishwoman named
Bridy Murphy. And Bridy Murphy was born in seventeen ninety
eight and died in eighteen sixty four. And a lot
of people have said that researchers think this is the
term this is the result of cryptomnesia. Cryptomnesia you know
what that is.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
I didn't know. I'm going to tell you in.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
A minute, though. It's interesting but here's the gist of it.
So in nineteen fifty two, this Colorado businessman, an amateur hypnotist,
put this housewife Virginia again. I'm just gonna call her Thai,
I don't know of Pueblo, Colorado, in a trance that
elicited revelations about her past life as a nineteenth century irishwoman,

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and this hypnotist, named Bernstein. He used a technique called
hypnotic regression, during which the subject is gradually taken back
into childhood, and then he attempted to take Virginia one
step further before birth and was astonished to find he
was listening to Bridie Murphy. The woman's tail began in
eighteen oh six, when she was eight years old and

(31:27):
living in a house in Cork. She was the daughter
of Duncan Murphy, a barrister, and his wife Kathleen. At
the age of seventeen, and she married barrister Brian McCarthy,
who she claimed taught at Queen's University, Belfast, which she moved.
A barrister is a lawyer, by the way, she said.
She told of a fall that calls Bridie's death in

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eighteen sixty four, watching her own funeral. Describing her tombstone
and the state of being in life after death, she
said it was neither pain nor happiness. And somehow she
was born in America fifty nine years later, unclear about
how this happened, born in the Midwest originally, and she

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had never lived in Ireland, did not even speak the
slightest hint of an Irish accent. However, Murphy spoke with
a heavy brogue and used Irish expressions, and so basically,
you know, you go looking into this and they say that, well,
some researchers said that this actually goes back to repressed

(32:31):
memories from her childhood. That she was brought up by
a Norwegian uncle and a German Scottish Irish wife, and
that her birth parents were partly Irish, and she lived
across the street from some house in Chicago there where

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there was there was some Irish people, and she may
have heard of Irish brogue, and that she had used
an Irish brogue and theater plays as a teenager. And
that they think maybe she was having some memory issues
which they blame on cryptomnesia. So let's get back to that.
What is that It says cryptinesia occurs when a forgotten

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memory returns without it being recognized as such by the subject,
who believes it is something new and original. It is
a memory bias, whereby a person may falsely recall generating
a thought, an idea, a tune, a name, or a joke,
and they are not deliberately engaging in plagiarism, but are
experiencing a memory as if it were a new inspiration. Well,

(33:39):
you know, I can kind of understand that because as
a guy who composes music, sometimes I come up with
the piece of music and I'm always worried, this may
be something that I heard years ago and it's not original,
and I'm just you know, it's occurring to me, and
I think it's original because I don't know where.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
It came from.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
You don't know, there are only so how many notes
in the musical scale. So look, there are all kinds
of weird discussions we can have about this stuff. I
guess the bottom line is, like, look, nobody knows. That's
why this show is called Strange Things.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
We don't know.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
I don't have all the answers. I believe in reincarnation,
and supposedly, according to some religions, you know, if you
reach finally a certain point where you don't have to
reincarnate anymore, and that's called nirvana, and I look forward
to that. But to me, it really goes back to

(34:35):
the law of conservation of energy. But there are other
people out there who say, like, look, this is all
these people who say they've been reincarnated.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
They're frauds. So they always say I was Catherine the Great,
or you know, I was Alexander the Great, or I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
What do you believe? Well, I've told you what I believe.
You can take that for what it's worth. But it's
funny because when you start thinking about people who tell
amazing stories and you're trying to figure out whether or
not to believe them. I recently watched this new documentary
that came out about Bob Lazar called S four, And
Bob Lazar is the guy who came out in the

(35:21):
nineteen nineties, actually I guess it was more like maybe
nineteen eighty nine, and he went to George Knapp here
in Las Vegas. George Nap, of course, is an investigative
reporter here who also does some hosting on Coast to
Coast a m and he told he told George Nap
that he had worked at Area fifty one and he

(35:42):
was like the big whistleblower who spilled all the beans
on that. And my wife Lauren and I were I
was speaking at a conference in Scottsdale, Arizona UFO conference
a long time ago, and Bob Lazar was there and
we sat in the audience and we watched George Knapp

(36:02):
interview Bob Blazar in person about his experiences, and Bob
Blazar seemed so genuine that night. Was I believe what
the Academy awards were that night? And I said to
my wife, I go, if that guy is making this up,
he deserves the Academy award. But there's something that's always
bothered me about him. You know, it's funny if you

(36:24):
go to groc. I went to Grok and I was like,
is Bob Blazarre fraud? And Rock says yes, And it
gives me. Look, I don't know what to believe. But
one thing that I will tell you is that and
this is something. This is the one thing that I
just Okay, I want to make sure I'm getting this right.

(36:49):
Bob Blazar says that he has degrees from MIT and Caltech.
That's my understanding. Okay, if I'm wrong, I apologize, but
it says right here on Google. Yes, Bob Blazaar claims
to hold master's degrees in physics from MIT and in
electronics from Caltech. However, neither university has any record of

(37:11):
him attending, and investigations found no thesis, faculty or fellow
students to verify his claims.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
How do you explain that.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Did the men in black go in and delete this? Okay,
We're going to take a break. When we come back,
I'm going to play a song for you. This is unusual.
You'll understand why though. I'm Joshua PE Warren. You're listening
to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be right back.

(38:16):
Welcome back to the final segment I of this edition
of Strange Things, Oh the iHeart Radio and Coast to
Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
I am your host, Joshua P. Warren.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
And you know when I just graduated from high school,
I mean there were lots of pictures of that. And
you know I went to college and there I'm sure
I could find professors that would tell you that I was,
you know, an annoyance because I was always giving them
a hard time and students I went to school with.

(38:48):
I don't know how you can go how you can
graduate from Caltech and MIT and not have any pictures
or people who remember you. I mean, look, I am
not here to cast dispersions. What I will, however, is
that if I had degrees from MIT and Caltech and
people were saying, you're no, you don't, You're lying, I.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
Would be so ticked off.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
I mean that would really I'd be really really mad
about that. He doesn't seem to mind Bob Bazaar. So
I look, if he has these degrees and there's no evidence,
like no pictures, and nobody's come forth to say I
remember him in class, it literally is like that the
men in black have gone in and deleted certain data

(39:33):
from the matrix, the kind of thing I wrote about
in my book called The Secret Wisdom of Kukl Khan.
So I don't know what to believe. I really don't.
S four is a very good movie, though you should
watch it. And I mean, like the guy knows what
he's talking about. I mean, I've bought a couple of
things from him, scientific tools, and he he understands engineering.

(39:55):
You know, the stuff he says makes sense, it really does.
So I don't know, I just figured I mentioned that
in case you're interested in because in these Bob Blazar
movies they always kind of gloss over that part, like, well,
let's just forget about that and let's move on to
him working as a scientist at Los Alamos.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
Because we do have some evidence of that.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Well, listen, I'm going to do something special on the show.
I've been talking about my hometown of Asheville, North Carolina.
I brought it up several times, and I have had
a project in the works for a while. For many years,
I have played music for fun as a hobby, and
I've decided to create a contest. And here's the press release,
Ashville Song Contest with Big Prizes Ashville, North Carolina. If

(40:38):
you perform music, you can win a lot of prizes
if you record the winning cover version of this new
song called Ashville by the Joshua Pee Warren Band. Contest
is produced by Joshua Pee Warren and the Haunted Ashville
Ghost Tours, and the winning performer will receive ten thousand
dollars worth of national promotion A free Haunted Ashville Ghost Tour,

(41:02):
one hundred dollars of jewelry from the Lucky Butterfly Traveling Boutique,
a handcarved turquoise laden walkingstick from Ridgehoppers dot com, a
restaurant gift certificate, and other surprises. This song is at
Ashville soong dot com and all radio stations are encouraged
to freely play the song as often as possible, and

(41:23):
everyone in the world is welcome to freely share it
on social media. Ashville native Joshua P. Warren, owner of
the Haunted Ashville Ghost Tours, wrote the music and lyrics,
and he says, quote, I created this song as a
love letter to Ashville. It's absolutely free for everyone. There's
no need to ask for permission for me. Just play
it and share it whenever you'd like, and if you

(41:44):
want to be in the contest, just send me your version,
your interpretation. I can't wait to hear all the creative
versions that are submitted. Somebody might get famous from this.
I recorded this original version of the song as an example,
and now it's out there for everyone to play around with.
This is pure fun for me end quote. So the
contest deadline is August fifteenth of twenty twenty six, and

(42:09):
MP three's can be submitted through the website ashvillesong dot
com Asheville has an E in the middle of it,
ash E the I l e Ashville soong dot com.
Go there and you'll get all the details. But here
it is. I wrote the music and the lyrics. I
did not sing it. However, I hired a singer to
perform it for me. A lot of people think I'm

(42:30):
the singer, but no, that's this is not me. If
I could sing well enough to pull off the singing part,
I would do it. But he goes by the name
of DLP. And here is the song, the new song
that I wrote, And this is what the contest is
all about. It is called simply enough.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Ashville, Ashville, dreaming of Ashville, rash Fill, purple and blue
ash Fool, dreaming of aash full rash fool, purple and

(43:18):
blue ash fill, dreaming of ash Fool, ash Frill. But
I always knew there is no world sumer like you.

(43:44):
It's all please and local, grow, the bosses greener, and
the air is always cleaner. The icy stream leaves wash
over you, and you and you and me Ashpool dreaming

(44:08):
of vash food I shpool purple red and blue.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
H stool.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
Dreaming of vash food, ah fool. I always do a

(44:50):
cardinal flue above my head. The sky is blue and
the wings are and I feel the wind ancient eyes
upon my skin. I am within the mystimistic mountains move

(45:16):
my soul Shill dreaming of ash wool Swill purple and
blue as still dreaming of ash feel a smill. I

(45:43):
always a cardinal flu above my head. The sky is

(46:32):
blue and the wings are resting. I feel the wind.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
Aging eyes upon my skin.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
I am within the misthemistic mountains moves my soul ash Phil.

Speaker 5 (46:55):
Dreaming love ash Fiz, ash Philo blush, screaming.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
Of Ashpool.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
Ash Fill.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
I always knew, all right, So there you go.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
I I'm looking forward to getting your submissions again. Anywhere
you are in the world, you can just be one
person with one instrument and that's fine, and you can
just record it on your phone or whatever you want
to do. It doesn't have to be some big fancy
recording session. Obviously you'll be able to make the most
of the prizes if you live in western North Carolina,

(47:43):
but it's open to everybody. So just go to Ashville
Soong dot com and uh listen to it. You got
the lyrics there some other information and you can you
can send it to me and maybe you'll win a
nice prize package. Before we are at a time, I'm
going to tease you a little bit, and I'm going
to tell you that if you've been listening to me
for a long time, you know that I have this

(48:05):
haunted ventrilocust. You're supposed to call him a ventrilloqual figure,
but it's a ventrilloquist dummy. Okay, don't tell Kennedy. I
said that. That's the name of the dummy. The nummy's
name is Kennedy. It's a haunted ventriloqual doll that I have,
and I have been trying to figure out who made

(48:27):
him and where he came from. And I had a
fascinating phone call yesterday and I believe I now know
where he came from. And on maybe the next edition
of this show, I will tell you what I have discovered. Okay,
the clock, scottis now take a deep breath. If you

(48:47):
can close your eyes, let's all meditate together on the
good Fortune tone.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
That's it for this edition. Of the show. Follow me
at Joshua P. Warren.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
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(49:41):
always remember the Golden Rule. Thank you for listening, Thank
you for your interest and support. Thank you for staying curious,
and I will talk to you again soon. You've been
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Speaker 4 (50:16):
Well, if you like this episode of Strange Things, wait
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