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Joshua Invented His First Wishing Machine!

Enjoy this week’s show as Josh demonstrates the mystical properties of this very cool and practical item born from the Wizard’s thoughts and imagination!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:34):
your own research and discover the subject matter for yourself.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Ready to be amazed by the wizard of weird. This
is Strange Things with Joshua P. Warren. I am Joshua
pe Warren, and each week on this show, I'll be
bringing a brand new mind blowick content, news exercises, and

(01:17):
weird experiments you can do at home, and a lot more.
On this edition of the show, I invented my first
wishing machine. I yeah, I've never done that before. Amazingly,
a lot of you are going to be surprised to

(01:38):
hear that, but I have created the official, one and
only Joshua P. Warren Wishing Machine. People they think that
I create wishing machines or I created the wishing machine
because I've been talking about wishing machines for thirty five years.

(01:58):
I discovered this technology and I believe it is a
technology when I was a teenager started studying it and
talking about it, and then I finally bought my first
machine from a man in California when I was in
my early twenties. And since then, you know, my interest

(02:20):
in them has just grown and grown, and I've talked
about them a lot and I've provided access to them,
but I've never actually sat down and built my own machine.
And now that I've done this, I am going to
explain to you why I did it and how it works.

(02:42):
There's nothing hidden here. Everything is transparent, and I mean,
really we don't know exactly how these things work, but
I'm going to tell you the exactly what I have
in mind for why this thing works, in my opinion,
and then how powerful it is. My goal was to
create something that was extremely simple to use, that solves

(03:07):
all the problems that I've heard about from people who've
used wishy machines traditional ones over the years. Also something
that is portable, small, something that is easy to travel with.
I mean, I'm talking about this machine that looks different
than any machine you've ever seen. Is about three inches

(03:30):
in diameter, and yes I say inches because it's circular,
it's round. If you want to see what this thing
looks like right now as you listen to the show,
go to jpw Those are my initials jpwmachine dot com.

(03:50):
Jpwmachine dot com and it will help you to look
at the pictures. And there's a video there as well,
so that as I explain in detail what I've created here,
this will make more sense. And you know when it
comes to this idea that there are people who think
that I created the wishing machine. Well, these types of

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devices as we know them, they originated with a doctor
named Albert Abrams who was born in eighteen sixty three
and died in nineteen twenty four, and he was a
very well known physician born in California, died in California,

(04:33):
and he was trying to create these machines in order
to heal people. And of course he got into a
lot of trouble for that because to this day, I mean,
any attempt made to heal somebody that is not strictly
embraced by the latest scientific medical community is frowned upon

(04:56):
considered quackery, but that's what he was trying to do. Now,
whether or not it worked for some people is beside
the point, because even after he died, people started experimenting
with these devices and they realized that it has many
many uses as a psychological tool. Maybe it's the world's

(05:17):
greatest placebo. Whatever happens, whatever makes it work. As long
as it works, it seems fine with me. But this
whole branch, you know, wishing machines, deriving from radionics, it's
really under a much larger umbrella called psionics. And psionics
is really all about mind machines. And what I mean

(05:38):
by that are devices, tools, physical tools that sort of
help you to achieve what you want. They in some
form interface with your consciousness, with your attention, with your focus,
and they help you, even if it's only psychologically, to

(05:58):
transmit what whatever energy is needed in order for you
to create and manifest positive things, and hopefully positive things.
We do know there are people who use them to
do negative stuff. But these are mind machines. You're the
person in control. And you could argue that psionics being
mind machines, goes all the way back thousands of years

(06:22):
to very organic things like well, you know, a magic
wand or a crystal ball, but also religious items that
are revered to this day. I would argue that to
this day, if you wear a necklace that has a
religious symbol on it, that is a psionic device. That
is a version of a wishing machine. And I say

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that because this is a physical item that you are
using as a tool to symbolize your focus. And you
might say, well, this is not for me. This is
to symbolize to other people something about me. Fine, it's
still serving a purpose by interfacing with that other person's mind.

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That's what these things are, their tools. If you take
a wishing machine or a similar device, but let's just
stick with wishing machines. If you take a wishing machine
and you put it in the middle of the desert
all by itself, it's worthless. It does nothing. It sits
there and does nothing unless at some point a human

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has come into contact with it, and maybe a human
could charge it, store some memories within it. Maybe that
would work. But if no human ever comes into contact
with that machine, the machine is meaningless. You connect it
with a person, However, the machine, you could argue, is
still to some degree secondary in the whole process, because

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it's really all about helping the person envision what he
or she wants to manifest, and it's a tool for that.
And you know, I have I've often said it's kind
of like walking from town to town. You have two
legs that God gave you, and if you want to then, yeah,
you can get up and you can throw your knapsack

(08:13):
over your back and you can walk to the other
town in a couple of days maybe, Or you can
get on a bicycle, very very simple thing and you
can maybe be there in an hour or two or whatever.
Now is the bicycle worth anything without you writing it? No,

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it's just a machine that sits there, does nothing when
you get on top of it. Does it become some
type of nefarious device that you're tapping into. No, it's
a tool. It's a tool that was put there to
help you. And if you want to know more about
sort of the history of radionics and psionics and all
that kind of stuff, I'll just that's not I'm not

(08:57):
going to dig into that on this show. Have to
Here's something that you can do though, if you go
to JPW machine dot com and you end up on
the page there for my brand new official Joshua P.
Warren Wishing Machine. You'll see in the description there's a
link at some point that says, for FAQ on wishing
machines in general, click here, Because there are many different

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types of wishing machines, and I'm proving that right now
by inventing my own. But a lot of the general
guidelines and rules apply not just to wishing machines but
to manifestation devices in general. So go to that faq.
You'll find answers to a lot of questions. You'll find
fantastic movies there. Hour is worth its content, and that

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should that. That's all I can offer you if you
have questions about how you know the sort of the
history of this and some thoughts on how it works.
So let me tell you why that I decided to
create the new Joshua P. Warren Wishing Machine, because you know,
for one thing, I it's true that when I was

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a younger man, I used to build things all the time,
and occasionally I still do. I mean, last year I
built a device called the Psionotron to open a portal
on my property next to Area fifty one. So I
still build things from time to time, But I always
I never built a wishing machine because I always felt

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like it helped me to have some mystery there, because
usually there's a circuit inside of a wishing machine that
doesn't make a lot of sense, and it's glued or
sealed in this box and you don't open the box,
and that sense of mystery helps you. But as I've
gotten older and I've learned more about how these things work,

(10:45):
I've decided that, you know what, I think that transparency
might be more powerful. And so I sat down and
I said, Okay, I'm going to know every nook and
cranny of this thing. Let's see if that makes it
more or less powerful. And lo and behold, it made

(11:08):
it much more powerful. And when we come back from
this break, I'm going to tell you specifically why I
made this. I'm going to tell you about each one
of the components. I'm going to break down for you
different ways it could be used and give you sort

(11:28):
of I'm taking what I've learned over the past thirty
five years and I'm going to try to condense it
down for you best I can and explain to you
why I created the official, one and only Joshua pe
Warren't wishing machine. And you know what, if you like
this show, let me tell you, there's only so much

(11:51):
time I have to talk about things, So I highly
recommend you sign up for my free and spam free
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hit submit. When you do that, you will instantly receive

(12:11):
an email from me, an automated email with some free
online gifts that can help you start making your life
more magical today. And there are many different ways to
manifest positive, wonderful, miraculous blessings in your life, and this
is just one of them that I'm going to tell

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you about when we come back. I've got it sitting
right here next to me. At least during the break.
Go look at this thing. Joshua Pwarren dot com has
a curiosity shop. There's a link there as well. I
am Joshua P. Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on
the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast. I am Paranormal Podcast Network,

(12:53):
and I will be right back. Welcome back to Strange

(13:30):
Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast am Paranormal
Podcast Network. I am your host, the Wizard of Weird,
Joshua P. Warren, Me and Me and your worm old
Brain from my studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada,
where every day is golden and every night is silver.
I'd zietato zoom. And you have to understand, over the years,

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I have acquired and experimented with every kind of wishing
machine you can imagine, starting with the one I bought
when I was a teenager. All over the world I
have collected and purchased. There's no telling the money I've
spent on these machines, studying them, seeing how they work
in different ways. And of course for many years I

(14:19):
have worked with doctor Brad Mulder on the Wishing machine project.
And the arrangement that we had was that doctor Moulder
would build these machines and then I would go out
there and educate people about them. We would make them available,
and then we would keep track of feedback and experiences

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and try to learn more and more about how they work.
And doctor Moulder is probably the most prolific maker of
wishing machines in the world. And Brad because you know,
he's been a great friend for so long. I'll just
call him Brad. He is one of the most ambi

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vicious motivated people I've ever met. So he'll build something
and then he just can't stand it. He has to
keep on improving it. Now he has the two point oh,
now he has the next version, and he just keeps
coming out. He has a whole line of these things,
and I have them all and I love them all.
And he and I have worked together on creating machine designs,

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for example, the Apex machine, but he has always made them.
And I realized at a certain point that you know,
if you are somebody like me who likes to experiment
with all kinds of psionic devices, then it's great to
always have some new version coming out. You know, some
new twists, some new advanced two point oh. And now

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this one's here's one of the hooks it to a computer.
Now here's one that has a special antentne I mean,
that's wonderful. You can continue expanding your experimental adventure. But
most people out there are not like that. The average
person out there there would like to buy one thing
that's simple, that works, and then that's it. You don't

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need a two point oh. And that's the thing about
what I've created. There will not be a two point oh.
There is not going to be a better version of it.
This is the version that's simple, that works, that you
will use the rest of your life. This is the
version that you will be happy with. So don't worry
about getting this from me and then having me turn

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around and say, oh, now I've come up with the
new and no, this is this is it. It works.
What more can you ask for? And it works quickly.
And I'm going to tell you why I created it
and why I believe so much in it. Now, for
one thing, I must say you, if you listen to me,
you know that I make it very clear I am

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not a doctor. I have no medical advice to give you.
If anything, I am creeped out by the medical field.
I don't even like thinking about medical So do not
take anything that I give you as medical advice. Even
though the story I'm gonna tell you has to do
with something that happened to me healthwise. You may or

(17:12):
may not know that I recently took a two week
trip out of the country, and I'll tell you more
about that trip on a future show when I have
more details to share with you. But at some point
during that two week trip, I picked up a terrible bug,

(17:36):
and when I got back home to my house here
in Las Vegas, I was already getting sick, but I
didn't know how bad it was going to get. It
started as an upper respiratory kind of thing, and eventually
it gradually turned into pneumonia, and it got worse and worse,

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and I could feel it in my chest and I
started getting that the death rattle one. And I was
just trying to sleep it off because I didn't realize
how bad it was getting. And so one afternoon, actually
I was trying to sleep this off. I was lying
there in bed. I think it was afternoon, maybe it
was the morning. Anyway, I was lying there in bed

(18:17):
by myself. Lauren was downstairs, and I was feeling just horrible,
you know, having nightmares and everything. And then all of
a sudden, the house started shaking. There was a freaking earthquake. Yeah,
here in Las Vegas there was an earthquake. It was
in the news, of course, four point something, but it

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was enough to rattle. And I got up after the
earthquake and I walked downstairs to Lauren, and I said,
I think I need to go to urgent care. The
last thing I wanted to do was to even get dressed.
So we went to urgent Care and they said's a
good thing you came here. They gave me some extremely

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They gave me a whole bag of drugs, but they
gave me some extremely strong antibiotics. And those antibiotics started
just tearing my stomach to pieces, just making me feel nauseate.
It was like I was not feeling better. But once
you start taking antibiotics, you have to keep it. So

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in other words, I had reached a very, very low
point where I kind of thought to myself, all I
want to do is go and lay in bed. But
I had a bunch of components, because you know, I
have my own laboratory here in my own workshop. I
had a bunch of components. And I've been thinking for

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years about a design for a very simple wishing machine
that would just take that would refine it and condense
it right down to the best of everything, the simplest,
most powerful aspects of a wishing machine for the average person.
You know, something that I could put together with my
own hands in a weekened state even and that that

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would help me pull myself through this. So I sat
down and a few hours later I had this and
I started improving so quickly after I created this device
and started using it that within days I was not

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only going out and living like a normal person again,
but I even went to a movie theater and watched
a movie with Lauren at a casino and then walked
out of the casino. I excuse me, walk out of
the theater and then hit a jackpot. And I had programmed,
if you want to call it that, the machine. I

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programmed the machine to do that for me as well.
And since then I have been using this thing every day,
and it's the only one I've been using. I haven't
been using any of my other manifestations and devices, only this,
only this. So let me tell you sort of why
I built it the way I built it. This is

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the official one and only the final, the Joshua P.
Warren Wishing Machine, and it starts with a clear three
inch disc as the base. But maybe I should say
it really starts with your wish. That's the first thing.

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You should take your wish, and you should write it
or print it on a piece of paper about the
size of a post it note, in fact, or a
sticky note of some kind. That's what I use, just
for convenience. Take a sticky note, and here's what you
write at the You start at the top and you
write God, I Am. Those are your first three words.

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Now you might stop me right there and say, who,
wha wha God? What if I don't God? Well, let
me just tell you. If you don't believe in God,
then I suggest you start because something created all of this,
and I've concluded that, And if you've reached a different conclusion,

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then maybe this product is not for you. Now, I'm
not going to tell you that I am capable of
comprehending what God is. I am not. I maybe you are,
But I'm not going to tell you what God is.
But I'm going to tell you there is a creatord.
You know, the man made object that is farthest from

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Earth as a spacecraft called Voyager one, launched by NASA
in nineteen seventy seven. It's now billions of miles away
from Earth, still sending signals bet and that thing has
not encountered anything out there like this pale blue dot

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called Earth. Not to mention you sitting around there eating
your doritos and watching TV and messing around on the internet. Look,
something created all of this, and that creator very well
works through evolution. Evolution is a part of the creator's process.
The two are compatible, they're not mutually exclusive. You can't

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be like, no, I don't believe in God. I just
believe in evolution. God, whatever God is obviously works through
natural processes, including evolution. When you use that word God,
you are acknowledging that there is a creative power there
that is going to help you. And when you put
I am, you are acknowledging that you are a part

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of that creation and that you are going to work
with that creative energy and that is the source of
your power here with this mind machine. So you're right, God,
I am. And then after that you write whatever you want.
For example, you could put God, I am going to

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feel great tomorrow. God, I am going to pay my
bills this month. You can word it however you want to.
All right, you word it however you want to, but
you have to start, in my opinion, with God I am. Now,
the next component here, which I think gets into the

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very interesting part of the natural interface, is what's on
the bottom. You know, wishing machines have what's called an
input plate. Well, the input plate on this is on
the bottom, so you just put the machine on top
of your piece of paper with the wish. The input
plate is a piso electric disc that turns vibrations into

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electromagnetic signals. And I know all about these because, well,
for one thing, I studied a lot when I was
doing my work on the Brown Mountain Lights in Ashville,
North Carolina. I'll tell you more about how I think
this thing works when we come back. I'm Joshua Pee Warren.
You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast

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to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast network, and I'll be back
after these important messages. Welcome back to Strange Things on

(25:55):
the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal podcast I'm
your host, Joshua P. Warren, and this is the show
where the unusual becomes usual. When I was studying the
Brown Mountain Lights of western North Carolina, this is a
mountain in the middle of the Pisga National Forest that

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produces these big glowing balls of light that float all
around it. I learned a lot about piso electricity that
when you apply stress to certain well really all rocks,
but especially something like a quartz crystal, that will produce
an electric current, and vice versa. If you apply an

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electric current to a rock or a quartz crystal, it
will vibrate. That's called piso electricity. And for many years
engineers have used these little discs that are called piso
electric discs. They're about the size of, oh, I don't know,
a nickel here in the USA. Well, actually they come

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in different sizes. I'm the one I'm looking at right
now is about the size of a nickel, and they're
made from a special type of ceramic where they take
clay and silica and they really fired up and they
create a highly sensitive piezo electric tuner. And it's got
a wire. The one I have has a red wire

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and a black wire coming out of it. Now, if
you take something like a little led light and you
hook it to those wires, all you have to do
is press that little button, the little led the little
piece of electric disc, and it lights up the led
to prove to you that any type of vibration that's

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hitting this little disc, this piece of electric disc is
producing electric current. And electromagnetic transmission. So this is our
input plate. On the bottom, it's literally a piezo electric
disc that picks up vibrations, and there's two wires that
are coming out of that don't plug into anything, They

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don't hook into anything. They're just antennas. Because the idea
is that whatever vibration, no matter how small, no matter
how microscopic, whatever vibration hits that little disc is going
to make that disc vibrate and it's going to translate
that are transduce that into electrical output signal. That's on
the bottom of our clear plastic disc. On top of

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that goes what I call the floating tuner. This is
a completely separate, disconnected piece and it's about the size
of oh, maybe a half dollar, and it's made of glass,
and it has a magnet in the middle, and it
has a quartz crystal, a natural quartz crystal on top.

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I call it a floating tuner just because it's not
attached to anything. It doesn't literally float. And when you
put the floating tuner down on top of the machine,
it almost acts like well, it's sort of like the
tuner on a regular wishing machine, and you can spin
this thing. If you want to, you can take it

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and you can just really give it a little fine
tuned adjustment, or I like to just spin it. And
as often as possible throughout the day, I see this
thing and I go over and I give it a spin,
because you know, every day, all day, the world is changing,
conditions are changing, variables are changing. And with a traditional

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wishing machine, you just tune it and you let it
sit there and you leave it alone, and there's something
to be said for that. But this works a little
differently because this is very flexible. It's meant to adapt
to the changing circumstances of the world, which is changing
very quickly, as you know, every day, all throughout the day.
So here we have a disk on the bottom that's

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picking up the vibration that you put into your wish
and transmitting that. And then we have something you put
your hands on on top of it that has a
magnetic field and a quartz crystal and when you tune
this it's fun to play with. But what makes it
especially interesting is the whole thing has a ring of

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compasses around it, so that when you move, you're floating tuner,
which reminds me of like a plan chet of something
or some kind. When you move your floating tuner, you
can see the compasses move, so this shows you that
it's doing something. These compasses are there to illustrate that

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something is happening. So we know something is happening very
physically when we put pressure on the disc and it
produces enough electricity to light up at led bulb. But
then we also see something is happening when we put
the floating tuner on top, and we are able to
see how the magnetic field is affecting the world around

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it via the compasses. And all of this adds up
to a very interesting connection and interface between the world
of physical and quantum science and psychology and even art.
You could say, and I believe that that is the
most powerful combination that you can use in order to

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fire up the neurons, get to get those synapses going.
I should say, so that you are in full blown
high power turbo manifestation mode. You don't have to sit
around and fiddle with it if you don't want to.
You don't have to say, I can't get a stick,

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maybe this isn't working for me. Everything here is very
clear and transparent, and I've described for you the concept
behind how and why it works. Anybody can use this
a child can you? Is this? I'm using it and
I'll be fifty years old here soon, and this is
you know again, I'm a guy who's been experimenting with
these things for thirty five years. You can go out

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there and you can spend a lot of money if
you want to, and you can buy something that's much
more complicated. This is affordable, it's small, it's portable, it's
super simple to use, and it's extremely powerful. And if
you buy this, then I don't think you're ever going
to need another type of wishing machine. You'll probably say

(32:32):
this works well enough for me. Now you might buy
more of these, because you should only use them for
one wish at a time. But I think you'll be
so satisfied that if you get one of these, that'll
be it. So let me just recap here for a
second how you use this thing. The piezoelectric disc on

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the bottom transforms vibrations into electromagnetic signals. The wires are
intent and they do not connect to anything. Write the
words God I Am on a piece of paper the
size of a sticky note. You can also print it
doesn't matter. Then write or print your wish, blow it
in one sentence, word it however you like. Place the

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device on top of your wish. The floating tuneer is
not connected to anything. It doesn't literally float, but it
spins smoothly on the surface. It contains a magnet and
a quartz crystal. Place it in the middle and spin
it as often as possible every day until your wish
comes true and the compasses are there only to illustrate

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the forces at work. It's that simple. Now, if you
have any hesitation about using a tool like this to
help you manifest blessings in your life, I want you
to know that it's impossible for you to manifest something
bad if your intentions are good when you use this
type of thing. I have a loved one, very close

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loved one who has been unemployed for a long time,
and I mean like over a year, and I was
talking to doctor Moulder on the telephone recently and we said,
you know what, let's send him a machine that's made
just for him to help him quickly find employment. And

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so it's a wonderful thing to do. But it's also
a great experiment because I happen to know that this
person I'm talking about, well, it's a man. It's a man,
it's a man baby. He said that, well, he knows
all about he follows my work. He knows about wishing
machines and radionics and psionics. He's familiar with this stuff,

(34:44):
but he's never used it. So I thought that would
make him an even more interesting candidate for an experiment.
So I contacted him, and I said, hey, got some
great news. This is like winning a prize pack. I
talked to doctor Moulder. We're going to send you a machine,
a free machine, specifically to help you get employment quickly.
And you know, if nothing else, it'll be an interesting experiment.

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And he turned it down, and he said that he
was afraid that it would interfere with God's plan for
him somehow. And I talked to him for a while
and tried to understand more of what he meant by that,
because I don't see it that way. Here's what it

(35:29):
reminds me of. You may remember this parable that I
wrote about in my book called Use the Force. The
parable of a deeply religious man who lived in a floodplain.
Three of his neighbors came over to alert him of
a flood. There was a flood warning and they wanted
to help him pack up and transport him away, and
he said nope. Refusing their help, he said, my Lord

(35:51):
will save me. And a short while later, as the
floodwaters poured in, a sheriff's department truck pulled up with
a megaphone, begging him to come with him. Nope, nope,
the man shouted, I'm fine, my Lord will save me.
And later, as the floodwaters rose above his house and
he waded into the treacherous streams, a rescue helicopter flew overhead,

(36:16):
lowering a ladder. No, he insisted, my Lord will save me,
and then he drowned. Minutes later, the man stood wet
and weary before Saint Peter, and he said to Saint Peter, Ah,
I don't understand. I've been a good, god fearing man
my entire life. Why did the Lord not save me?

(36:38):
He asked angrily. Hmmm, Well, let me check on this
and see, replied Saint Peter. He thumbed through the record,
and he said, ah, but God tried you. See he
sent you three neighbors, a sheriff's car, and a helicopter.

(36:59):
I think the purpose of that parable is to realize
that these things, these don't interfere with your relationship with God.
These are tools that God is providing through us, his
well his children, to help each other. When we come

(37:19):
back from this break, I'm going to tell you something
about well this concept. I saw the movie Obsession, and
I want to tell you my thoughts on that. I'm
Joshua P. Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the
iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast I am Paranormal Podcast Network,
and I will be right back. Welcome back to the

(38:14):
final segment of this edition of Strange Things on the
iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I
am your host, Joshua P. Warren. And last night I
went to the theater. I know I've been talking a
lot about movies lately, but I'm not a movie critic.

(38:36):
But a lot of interesting movies have been coming out lately,
and one of them is called Obsession. I went to
see it with Lauren last night. And this movie was
made for seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars and as
of right now it has made it is grossed or

(38:58):
whatever three hundred and seventy million. Let me repeat that
the movie was made for seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars and it has grossed three hundred and seventy million.
I mean, this is obviously one of the most profitable
movies ever made, and made by a young man twenty five,

(39:21):
twenty six year old man Curry Barker from Alabama, I think,
and let's see yeah Mobile Alabama. Oh boy, he must
be a happy guy. But here's the reason I wanted
to see it, not only because that it's been such

(39:42):
a huge hit, but it's about making wishes. And I'm
not going to spoil anything for you, but the gist
of it is there is a young man who is
just you know, he's got a crush on this girl
that he works with, and she's not interested in him.

(40:04):
So at some point he ends up sort of stumbling
into this new age shop, the kind of shop that
I've been to a million times where you go in
there and you buy your crystals and your sage and
your instinct all that stuff. And he finds a product
on the wall called a one wish willow. It's kind

(40:28):
of a little almost two black box. And actually, I'm
thinking about being more like a Tobel her own chocolate box. Anyway.
So the idea says that you take out this piece
of wood that's inside, and you make a wish. You
get one wish and one wish only for the rest
of your life, and then you snap the wood in

(40:49):
half and then the wish will come true. So he
takes the piece of wood out, which, by the way,
for those of you who live in the south western
United States, I think that they may have designed this
piece of wood based upon what's called chollowood c h
O l l A, which comes from a cactus challowood. Anyway,

(41:11):
it's kind of like a honeycomb pattern. So he pulls
it out and a little chime plays, and then he
snaps it in half. After he says, you know, I
want this girl to love me more than anybody in
the world. Then he snaps it in half, and then boom,
she's on him and she is truly obsessed with him, though,

(41:31):
and it becomes crazier and crazier how that he begins
to regret that he had done this, and maybe by
doing this, he had invited some kind of a possessing
force to come into this young lady. That's making her
crazier and crazier, and of course hilarity ensues. Yeah. Right,

(41:54):
so it's a horror movie. And plase up on this
whole Monkey's Paul concept, like be careful what you wish for,
you might just get it. Like anything you wish for
is going to come at a terrible price. And it
goes all the way back to the old stories of
leprechauns and stuff like that. We're like, you make a

(42:14):
wish for the lepre with the leprechaun, and the wish
will come true, but you're you're gonna pay some severe,
terrible price for it that you weren't expecting and that
you know. It's a it's a cautionary tale. And people
they read stories like that and they watch movies like this,
and it scares the crap out of them, and they

(42:36):
don't want to mess around with little little devices and
tools and things that are supposed to help you manifest
stuff or make wishes come true. But again I want
to reiterate that these are mind machines. That's all fiction, folks.
There are no little eprechauns out there who are going
to grant your wishes. There's no one wish willow out
there these things that I Delvin, I've been doing this

(42:59):
for a lot, long long time. If your intentions are positive,
then it is only possible for you to manifest a
positive outcome. That's it. It's impossible for something bad to
happen because you are the sole source of power your mind.
And when I went to watch the movie, however, it

(43:21):
figured because I was telling Lauren, I already feel like,
you know, I'm going to have a connection to this
movie because of that concept, and we kind of went
there on a whim. It was a late night show
and it was one of the weirdest movie going experiences
I've ever had. I almost walked out of the theater.

(43:45):
So for one thing, again being late night, there were
very few people in this big theater, so Lauren and
I kind of felt like we had pretty much our
whole row to ourselves. And then right before the movie started,
this couple came men, and of course they sat down
directly next to me, and the woman who sat down

(44:07):
directly next to me on my right, Lauren was on
my left. I'm glad that she didn't sit next to
Lauren because Lauren would have probably ended up punching this woman.
This woman sat down to my right. She's very chatty
to begin with. Fortunately she didn't say anything to me.
I guess maybe she'd been drinking or something. I don't know,
but this has been one of those theaters where you

(44:28):
have the recliner seats, so where she's reclined back, I'm
reclined back, focused straight ahead. And the first thing she
does is she just makes herself really at home, and
she reaches down, she takes off her shoes, and she
takes off her socks. She's got her big gnarly feet
out there like she's lounging next to the swimming pool.
All right, fine, Then the movie starts up, and I

(44:54):
don't think I've ever heard anybody talk so much. She's
over there cackling, she commenting to her boyfriend or whatever
about everything that's happening. Every time the leading lady appears
on the screen and does something, she goes, aha, I
love her. Oh, I love her. Then, just so I

(45:15):
think I can't get any work because Lauren is looking
at me, and I'm looking at Laura like I'm almost
ready to leave this movie just because of this, you know,
and the movie is Look, I'm not saying this is
a great movie. It's a you know, it's a pretty
good movie. It's a pretty good movie, but it was
hard for me to enjoy it. As if that weren't
bad enough, she pulls her cell phone out in the

(45:37):
middle of the movie. This woman's sitting next to me
screwing around on her cell phone, and it's and I mean, honestly,
there was a point when I said to Lauren, maybe
we should just get out of here and I'll just
you know, I'll just tell everybody, I'll watch the first
half of this thing. And you know, well, you know,
I think, fortunately, again, like I said, she must have

(45:58):
been drinking or something, because as the movie went on,
her batteries began to dwindle, and by the time the
movie was done, she was asleep. So I don't know
if she was passed out, drunk or whatever, but it
was like I was sitting there starting to make a way,
I'm watching this movie about wishes and I'm sitting there
like I wish this woman would shut them. And so yeah,

(46:19):
that finally happened. But you know what, of all the
places that she could have set, she sat next to
me as I'm trying to watch this movie that I
felt I have this like almost synchronistic connection to because
there was a lot of stuff in the movie that
I could relate to. So that was last night, and
I figured I would tell you about that because it

(46:42):
ties into this whole concept of how people perceive wishes.
And a lot of people are watching this movie obsession,
and there are going to be a lot of people
who are probably going to have an enormous amount of
fear about using manifestation devices because you know, it's like,
it's no different than people being afraid to get into

(47:02):
the water after they watch Jaws. You know, shark attacks
like that are very rare, but you know, for a
long time people would not get into the water. That's
just the reality. Well, I you know, I've got a
really fascinating email here that was sent to me from
a woman who had an amazing experience with something ghostly

(47:27):
at the Grove Park End in Asheville, North Carolina, and
she sent me a picture and everything. But I don't
have time to read that email to you. The clock
is almost goddess, So I'll save that for a future show.
In the meantime, how about this, here's some mental manner
for you. What do you think outer space smells like?

(47:50):
What do you think outer space smells like? Think about it. Well,
here's the answer. Outer space, of course, is a vacuum,
so it really has no smell. However, astronauts returning from
spacewalks report their suits and equipment smell distinctively like seared steak,

(48:12):
hot metal, welding fumes, and gunpowder. And they think it's
because that these high energy particles that are kind of
like passing through outer space interact with the spacesuit materials
and create that kind of a smell. Weird huh. All right,
my friends, you know what time it is. Let's all

(48:32):
manifest something positive now. If you can close your eyes,
take a deep breath, let us listen together, let us
meditate upon the one, the only, the world famous good
fortune tone. That's it for this edition of the show.

(49:12):
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to this show and to always remember the Golden Rule.
Thank you for listening, Thank you for your interest and support.
Thank you for staying curious, and I will talk to
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