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Get ready to be amazed, to find a wizard of weird.
This is Strange Things, right. I am Joshua FE. Warren,
and each week on this show, I'll be bringing you
brand new mind blowing content, news, exercises, and weird experiments
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you can do at home, and a lot more. On
this edition of the show, how to Create Power Power
with self fulfilling Prophecies. This is one of my favorite subjects.
It is absolutely fascinating. In the fifteen hundreds, there was
an englishman named Thomas Woolsey, and he was warned by
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a fortune teller that Kingston, the word Kingston would somehow
mark the end of his life. Well, nearby was a
town called Kingston, so he avoided that town for years.
But one day, when King Henry the eighth sent a
constable to him named Kingston, he instantly died of shock.
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That's true, instantly died of shock. How about this one?
Another English guy? This is in the seventeen hundreds, an
English dramatist named Edward Moore. Although apparently in perfect health,
he sent his own obituary to the newspapers on February
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seventeen fifty seven, giving the next day as his date
of death. Well, guess what that night he suddenly became ill,
and sure enough he died on February seventeen fifty seven. Uh.
Let's see how about this? Uh? This guy is he? Okay?
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He lived in Austria. George Thaller he addicted in sixteen
forty three. He would die five years later at four
a m. On September the four And guess what. He
died of natural causes at four am on September the
four sixty. His prophecy as even inscribed on his tombstone.
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We all know the great American author Mark Twain. He
was born when Hayley's comment was seen, and he predicted
he would die when it reappeared, and sure enough, he
died shortly after it again streaked across the sky. I
think that was probably about seventy five years later. How
about one more of these? Uh, you know, not too
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long ago, I was recording Halloween shows, and uh, I
posted this famous quote from Shakespeare on one of my
I guess I tweeted it. This is the song of
the Witches. Double double toil and trouble, fire burn and
cauldron bubble, philet of a finny snake in the cauldron
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boil and bake, I of newt and toe of frog
will have backed and tongue of dog, adder's fork and
blindworm's sting lizard's leg and out it's wing for a
charm of powerful trouble like a hell broth. Boil and bubble,
double double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble,
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cool it with a baboon's blood. Then the charm is
firm and good. That is from Macbeth. But did you
know that in the theater you're never supposed to say Macbeth.
It's bad luck to say the name of that play.
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Maybe I shouldn't even say it on the on the
podcast here. In fact, in the theater business, they just
referred to it as the Scottish play. And that's because
since that play first appeared in sixteen o six, it
has brought bad luck to many involved with it. In
recent times, Lawrence Olivier was almost killed during a performance,
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Charlton Heston was badly injured during rehearsals. President Abraham Lincoln
read it to friends the day before his assassination. Now
I could go on and on with these things. Uh.
Speaking of Halloween, though, before I continue, people always ask
me every year, Joshua P. Warren, Mr Ghost hundred, what
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are you gonna do for Halloween? And I always come
up with some kind of big, drammatic tall tale. What
I actually did was I spent the night in a
what is a supposedly haunted hotel room here in Nevada,
and I set up cameras, and uh, I'm sorry to
report that nothing happened. But I was concerned I was
thinking about. I was concerned that a ghost would show
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up in the middle of the night while I'm sleeping
and scare the dickens out of me. And that's what happens,
and probably My favorite ghost story of all time a
Christmas Carol. People don't often think of Christmas and ghosts,
but yeah, it's the probably the best ghost story was
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a Christmas Carol. And you know, I always kind of
thought maybe when you say something like that, scared the
dickens out of me, Well you're talking about Charles Dickens
because he wrote that. And just to get off on
a tangent for a minute, do you know what that
term has nothing to do with Charles Dickens. It turns
out that the this phrase, according to the hot mess
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press dot com, was commonly in use three centuries before
Charles Dickens was even born. And apparently there was an
old word for the devil called devil can, and that
became Dickens somehow. So actually, when you say scared the
dickens out of me, you're saying scared the devil out
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of me. I always love looking up, uh some of
these word origin things like well, while I'm on this page,
how about this one? A butt load? Uh? It says um,
you know you hear people talk about that and um
in a nutshell, A butt refers to a volume of
a hundred and twenty six gallons typically referring to a
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butt of wine. The extended phrase butt load developed over
time to meet any large amount of anything. So it
it has that has nothing to do with what you
probably thought. It has something to do with, uh, don't
let the cat out of the bag. That's you know,
what you say if you're talking about revealing a secret.
The historic origin of this common language phrase goes back
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to eighteenth century England. There were a number of crooksters
on the streets and it was common to sell suckling
pigs and transport them to customers and bags. But fraudulent salesman, however,
with stuff cats into the bags instead, So that was
a shock for people when they would get home and
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they would open their package and find that there was
a cat in the bag. So that's where that comes from.
One more um, let's see here, how about you know
people say, oh, you're pulling my leg. You ever thought
about where does that come from? This also goes back
to eighteenth century England. In the streets it was a
very dangerous place, and apparently it said that back then
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a lot of people were walking through dark alleys at
that time, and there were a lot of criminals and
people that were an easy target for for robbery would
be grabbed. Criminals would sort of lay down in the
alleyways and they would suddenly grab hold of a person's
leg and yank them to the ground, and of course
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that was a very shocking thing. And then you grab
their valuables and run away. That's we're pulling. You're pulling
my leg comes from anyway? Look, like I said, I
just there there is a lot of information encoded into
language about real world events, and I've always been interested
in that stuff. But Okay, all these instances that I've
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given you about these guys predicting their deaths or people
who are they're they're afraid to say the name Macbeth,
or something bad will happen in the play, Uh, these
all maybe examples of a self fulfilling prophecy. So let
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me just read you the definition of a self fulfilling prophecy.
It is the socio psychological phenomenon of someone predicting or
expecting something and this prediction or expectation coming true simply
because the person leaves or anticipates it will and the
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person's resulting behaviors align to fulfill the belief. And this
suggests that people's beliefs influence their actions. The principle behind
this phenomenon is the people create consequences regarding people or
events based on previous knowledge or assumed previous knowledge of
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the subject. Now, just how powerful is this concept? Well,
it's incredibly powerful, and it applies to things like, well,
the placebo effect and confirmation bias. Uh. We're coming up
on a break here soon, and when we get back
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from the break, I'm going to give you some examples
of times where I have encountered confirmation bias. Uh. Well,
a great sample of this. This is a self fulfilling
prophecy sort of thing. Uh. Is from Puerto Rico. Uh.
And and this is like a really weird thing to
talk about. So I've never really tried to explain it before,
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but today is the day. Um. And then yeah, I'm
gonna tell you how you can take this information that
we usually think of as kind of a negative thing
and flip it around and start using it to make
positive things happen in your life. We always talk about
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They say there are two types of self fulfilling prophecies,
and I'm reading this description from examples dot your dictionary
dot com. The first type is called other imposed and
here's an example. Imagine a student, Jamie is about to
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take a college entrance exam. She has spent lots of
time preparing for the test. As Jamie is walking into
the building to take the test, she gets a call
from her dad. Her dad tells her she's always had
a hard time with anxiety during tests and that she
shouldn't be surprised if she doesn't get a good score. Well,
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when Jamie sits down to take the test, her heart
is racing, she can't think, and she knows she's going
to run out of time. She struggles through the exam,
and when she gets her score, it's lower than she wanted.
This is a case of an other imposed self fulfilling office.
See Jamie's dad predicted her anxiety would get in the
way of her achievement, and that happened because of his prediction.
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It reminds me of something I wrote about in my
book Used the Force, a Jedi's Guide to the Law
of Attraction, which is available on my website. I talked
about how I met a waitress one time, and Uh.
She said that her mother always called her Murphy because
that she was clumsy and she was always making mistakes.
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And you know Murphy's law, what can go wrong will
go wrong. That's sort of so by calling her daughter Murphy,
and I'm sure it was probably done in a silly
affectionate way, she was actually cursing her daughter and creating
all these subconscious doubts in her. And so that that
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self consciousness would would make this young woman probably make
more mistakes than she would have because she was worried
all the time about that, you see. So anyway, that's
called an other imposed, self fulfilling prophecy. And now here's
an example of a self imposed Uh says. And another
imaginary example. A man named Ryan is getting ready to
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ask a woman for a date. Ryan has previous experience
with rejection, and he thinks he sees a trend. He
sure the woman will reject him when he asks for
the date, but he decides to do it anyway. He
walks up to her. With his hand shoved in his
pockets and his head down under his breath, Ryan mumbles, quote,
I know you probably don't want to go out with me,
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but I'm asking anyway in quote, and just as he predicted,
she turns him down. And this classic case a self
imposed says, this is a classic self imposed self fulfilling prophecy.
Ryan's own prediction turned out to be true. No matter
how attractive he seemed to the woman he was approaching,
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his negative expectations for himself affected his body language and
the way he phrased his request, making her more likely
to refuse him. And so there are real life examples
of self fulfilling prophecies. It says that, for example, and
a study, an official study that was published, UH, certain
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teachers had lower expectations for certain types of students, and
so they got treated a little differently, and sure enough,
those students did not perform as well. Expectation expectations of pain,
A study conducted at the University of Colorado Boulder found
that patients who expect painful experience are more likely to
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feel pain even when the stimulus is not very painful.
Uh goes on to say, Okay, this applies to economic
decision making that in this other study examined participants economic
risk taking behavior when they were given a positive or
negative economic make forecast was striking UH. Those who received
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a negative forecast were less likely to take risks and
took longer to make decisions, resulting in lower profits during
an economic game. Workplace paranoia, this happens a lot UH.
This is a study from the University of British Columbia.
When people perceive they are the victim of negative politics
in the office setting, they tend to make decisions that
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make them more likely to be the target of politics.
The paranoid behaviors that resulted from the perception of prejudice
became a self fulfilling prophecy. This also applies to UH.
Employee creativity says here UH. This study examined how supervisors
positive expectations of employee creativity affected the creativity of employees.
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When supervisors had higher expectations about the creativity of their employees,
they were seen to be more supportive of creativity. This
in turn encouraged employees to be more creative. UM. So
it gives more examples of this, and it basically says
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a self fulfilling prophecy is an example of bias. That's
a belief that can affect the outcome or how something
is presented. Being aware of negative self fulfilling prophecies can
help you change yourself talk and avoid the effects of
these predictions. On the other hand, if you practice optimism
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and predict better things for yourself, you can use self
fulfilling prophecies to your advantage. Now that that's where the
power comes from, and you know, and in all areas
of life, there is this thing. It's a version of this,
it's related to it called confirmation bias, where if you
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believe something, it doesn't matter if it's a political belief,
u it doesn't matter what kind of belief it is.
But if you believe something or let's say maybe it's you.
You you believe that ghosts are real, or you believe
that ghosts are not real, or you believe in Bigfoot,
or you don't believe in bigfoot or flying saucers or
psychic whatever, whatever you believe. People who have a belief,
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they tend to go out and look for the evidence
that supports their belief while ignoring evidence that contradicts it,
that shows or proves otherwise that's called confirmation bias. And
you have to be very careful when you're doing analysis
of strange and paranormal and mysterious things, because, yes, if
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you want it to be a ghost in that picture
really badly, you're gonna convince yourself there's a ghost there
without looking at all the reflections and the lighting and
the optical illusions, etcetera. And the placebo effect is another
example of how that confirmation bias can be used to
produce wonderful, magical, powerful, positive things for people. You know,
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the classic placebo effect is when you give a group
of people a pill you're testing out. Let's say, you know,
eight of the people get the pill and one person
gets a sugar pill that does nothing, but they all
believe they're getting the real pill. And frequently the person
who believes that he or she has the real pill,
even though he or she has the sugar pill, has
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the same improvement, the same experience as the people who
had the actual medication. Now, how do we explain this.
It's one of the greatest mysteries in the world. It
has something to do with the power of the mind
and the limitations that we put on ourselves and that's why.
You know, some people say that when it comes to
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manifestation tools like the wishing machine or the miraculous prayer board,
they said, well, it's just maybe it's just the placebo effect.
And I say, great, who cares. Maybe the wishing machine
is the world's greatest placebo. But if it works, it works,
who cares. We we don't have to explain everything. But
this is an example of the power of the mind.
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And when I was when I was in Puerto Rico,
there was this phenomenon that that became very frustrating, and
I just I think it happened a lot in Puerto
Rico because in Puerto Rico they have a lot of
economic struggles, and so they're the way they set up
and run their businesses is kind of haphazard. So for example,
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here in the States, if you look up a business
and they say, you know, we open at nine o'clock
am and we close at nine pm, you assume you
can walk in the door at nine oh one am
and they're gonna be open, or you can walk in
the door at eight pm and they're gonna be open.
You know, It's it's not like that in Puerto Rico, though,
it's very sloppy how they open and closed, as it says,
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and you don't know if the place is going to
be open or not. And so and this is especially
true when you get you know, outside of San Juan,
and and anyway, Uh, this would happen again and again.
Somebody with a lot of talent, a great chef or
a great cook of some person, a great restaurant tour
would open an establishment, a nice bar, a nice restaurant.
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They'd opened the doors, and um, you would say, Wow,
that place looks fantastic. I'm gonna come back. I'm gonna
go eat there tomorrow, you know. And then you go
there tomorrow and they're closed, same time you drove by
it the day before, but now they're closed. And then
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later on when you catch them when they're open, you say,
why were you closed the other day? And they said, oh, well,
nobody was coming in. I said, well, I would have
come in if you've been open. You see, if you're
gonna start a venture like that, you it almost reminds
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you of the field of dreams. If you build it,
they will come. You can't put all this work into
creating something and then just close the doors on it. Uh,
you have to leave. You have to have a period
of time there where you leave the door open for
for people to find out you're there, and then and
then they will come to you. And but it was again,
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it's a self fulfilling prophecy. We were we've opened, We've
been open for an hour, nobody's here. Screw this or
losing money. Close up. You're not gonna grow that way.
It's a negative, self fulfilling prophecy. We have to take
a break. When we come back, though, I have a
lot of really cool stuff to share with you. For
one thing, this is exciting because this is ultimate proof
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that you are a creator. And in fact, I am
creating something right now that all of you can participate in.
And this is a new venture for me that I
think is going to possibly change a lot of lives.
There's so much to get to this action packed show
about the power of self fulfilling prophecies. I'm Joshua P. Warren.
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I am Paranormal Podcast Network and I am your host,
Joshua Pee Warren. And this is the show where the
unusual becomes usual. Here's something that's really weird. This is
sort of like a self fulfilling prophecy that borders on
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some kind of psychic telekinetic effect. Sometimes I get on
this podcast and I just tell you about bizarro stuff
that happens to me that I I can't even define exactly,
and I just say, does this happen to you? So
recently I I did a podcast and I talked about
this phenomenon that I have experienced where it's like Lauren,
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my wife, and I will will park in a big
parking lot, you know, like here in Vegas you got
giant parking lots, and it seems like wherever we park,
there's always somebody getting into or out of their car
right beside us. And when we leave an establishment, when
we come back to get in our car, whoever's parked
right beside us or in front of us is also
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coming back to get in their car. And you look
around the rest of the parking lot and that nobody
else is in the parking lot. They always happened to
be right there with us. And I said, I don't
know how to explain this, and I talked about it
on this podcast, and I got all these emails from
people saying, WHOA, this happens to me. Also, I can't
believe it, Like I'm shocked to hear that this happens
to you, because I've thought the same thing. Here's another
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weird thing that I've never heard any any talked about.
Maybe maybe this has also happened to some of you.
So frequently I will sit down with somebody, especially Lauren,
and I will say, hey, let me show you this
thing on my computer or on my phone that has
been working perfectly and beautifully. Now you know exactly where
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I'm going with this, don't you. And then as soon
as I want to show it to her, it's stopped.
Something screws up. Okay, something messes up. And it could
be the website is not popping up now, or it's
loading slow, or I don't think it's just me though,
because a lot of times you'll go into a store
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and uh, the clerk will be like, oh man, the
computer is not working. Uh, And I think does everybody
kind of have those moments or is it just around me?
Where I don't know, guys, but I I unfortunately I
have a negative, self fulfilling prophecy, Like if I'm gonna
show Lauren somethinging on this computer, it's probably gonna screw up,
and it's not gonna load properly. It's gonna be all
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slow or whatever. I need to stop that. We're gonna
get into self sabotaging in a minute. But this is
great because it's proof that there is some kind of
design here that you can influence. The problem is humans
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have a tendency to be negative, and we doubt ourselves,
and so we often manifest more negative things than positive things.
But once you understand this, you can start taking measures
to reverse it, and you use this this knowledge for
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positive purposes. Here's something that will probably surprise you. I
have been doing uh radio and podcasting and TV and
all this stuff for you know, over thirty years. I
still get nervous every single time I'm about to do
even one of these podcasts right before r right what
I'm about I get nervous. Isn't that silly. I'm in
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a studio by myself. I control everything. If I mess up,
I can go back and edit it and make it right.
Why feel nervous? Art Bell wrote a book and he
said something along the lines of that he would get
nervous before every single one of his shows. And he
basically said, if you stop getting nervous, then that means
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you're you don't care. You're stopping. If you don't get
excited and nervous, you're not caring enough about what you're
about to do. If you're gonna do something that's important,
you should feel a little excited and nervous about it.
And when I'm about to go out on a stage
and talk to thousands of people, which I've done many
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times in my life. Uh, or or if it's just
a small group and I'm talking to fifty people. Uh.
Sometimes yeah, I get nervous and excited and I go
and Uh. The thing is, I know I feel nervous
when I first get out there. But you know what,
most of the time when you feel nervous, nobody else
can even tell you you you are like magnifying your
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own feelings. But they nine times out of ten people
can't even tell if you if you're nervous. So remember
all that. And this is why when you start coming
up with positive expectations for any situation or any scenario
for yourself, the fastest way for you to sabotage that
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is for you to go overboard and and want something
that seems unrealistic. Because if you do that, a little
voice in your head is gonna be like that, come on,
that's not gonna happen, And that can be all it takes.
So that's why I say, if you're using affirmations or
a wishing machine or something like that, and you want
to wish for money, and if you have a hundred
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dollars in your bank account, don't wish for a million dollars,
because if you wish for a million dollars and you've
got a hundred dollars, there's gonna be that little voice
in your head saying this is not gonna happen. Are
you crazy? You sabotage yourself self subconsciously. So what you
do is, instead of wishing for a million, now you
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wish for a thousand, and then once you get that thousand,
wish for five thousand. And then once you get that
five thousand, let's crank it up and you incrementally grow
it because then you are able to believe every step
of the way, and you don't sabotage yourself by just
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jumping straight to something crazy that you just know is
not gonna work. And and and maybe it would still work.
But most of us cannot make that giant of a
leap of faith. Some people can do it, and I've
made giant leaps of faith sometimes in my life, but
as a general policy, stick with smaller measures of things.
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And here's something else that you should always remember that
in most cases in life, if you want to do
something new, if you want to start a new venture,
a new project, or a new relationship or whatever it is.
Most of the time, if you try something and you fell,
you know what happens. Nothing, nothing, So there's nothing to
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be afraid of. Now, look, that doesn't apply in all cases.
If you're trying to send a person into space on
a spaceship and you fail, yeah you've got a big
problem on your hands. But for most of the stuff
that we normal humans try to do, if you try
something out and it fails, nothing happens. Take some comfort
from that. I want to read some quotes to you
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from famous people from my book Use the Force, a
Jedi's Guide to the Law of Attraction. A lot of
these people are people who I think they're they're sort
of artists in a way. And by that, yes, you
know you have the obvious stuff like music as art
and sculptures are and paintings or art. But also I
think industry is a form of art. Politics is a
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form of art. And uh so I'm gonna read you
some quotes from these people, and let me just point
something out. Nowadays, everybody is so darn sensitive that if
you read a quote by a famous person and uh,
they don't like that famous person for some reason, well
then they just to heck with that quote, I'm gonna
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go on the record here and say that, look, Michael
Angelo may have done some horrible stuff in his life.
I don't know if he did or not, but regardless
of what he did, I'm still gonna go enjoy the
Sistine Chapel. I don't think we need to tear the
sist Seeing Chapel down if we find out he did
something bad. I'm able to separate the art from the artist,
the product from the creator, and I think we need
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to think more about that in today's day and age,
when people are so prone to just destroy things because
they find some imperfection in the individual who created it.
So anyway, that said, here's a quote by Henry Ford.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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Here's a quote from Oprah Winfrey. What you focus on expands,
and when you focus on the goodness in your life,
the goodness you create more of it. You don't become
what you want, you become what you believe. Steve Jobs said,
the people who are crazy enough to think they can
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change the world are the ones who do. The actor
Jim Carrey said, I've always believed in magic. When I
wasn't doing anything in this town. I'd go up every night,
sit on Mulholland Drive, look out at the city, stretch
out my arms and say, everyone wants to work with me.
I'm a really good actor. I have all kinds of
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great movie offers. And I just repeat these things over
and over, literally convincing myself that I had a couple
of movies lined up and I have drive down that
hill ready to take on the world going. Movie offers
are out there for me. I just don't hear them yet.
Intention is everything. Winston Churchill said, you create your own
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universe as you go along. One of the Disney imagineers
named Tom Fitzgerald said, if you can dream it, you
can do it. Albert Einstein said imagination is everything. It
is the preview of life's coming attractions. Helen Keller said,
when one door of happiness closes, another opens. But often
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we look so long at the closed door that we
do not see the one which has been open for us.
And finally, the author Voltaire said, I have decided to
be happy because it is good for my health. Yeah.
I'm not a big fan of this, uh cancel culture mentality.
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We're Sometimes we take quotes from people that we don't like,
products from people that we don't like, and we just,
you know, we just say, ah, let's throw this away.
I'm coming up on a break, but I do want
to read something that I wrote recently. I've worked my
whole life in the in the business of free speech,
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and I wrote this on my Twitter page. There is
nothing more precious than the freedom of speech. It is
that freedom which allows all other freedoms. Whenever someone tries
to limit your freedom of speech through whatever means, that
person is trying to limit your freedom in general, never
allow this to happen, don't even let it begin, and
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always remember freedom of speeches. There primarily to protect speech
that you do not like, speech that maybe unpopular, controversial,
or offensive. When we come back, I'll tell you about
this new project I'm working on, and I want you
to work with me. I'm Joshua pe Warren. You're listening
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Welcome back to the final segment of this edition of
Strange Things on the I Heart Radio and Coast to
Coastadium Paranormal podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua Pete Warren,
and I have a really fun new little project that
I want to tell all of you about right now.
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Years ago, I asked my audience to start sending me
stories for a book of creepy tales. And I said,
they have to be true, they have to be worked,
and they have to have an ending that makes the
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hair stand up on the back of your neck. And
I built a website and said, submit your story and
if you know, if I get enough stories, I'll collect
them all into this book, this anthology, and you'll get
a free copy. And I didn't know if I was
gonna get one story submitted. I mean I figured I would,
but I didn't know. And my goodness, thousands of stories
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came in and that became a book which you can
now buy on Amazon called It Was a Dark and
Creepy Night. And I was so impressed with that project
that I thought and and and that's not the first
time I've done that kind of thing. I did something
similar when I was a teenager with a book called
Speaking of Strange. But I was thinking the other day about, like,
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you know, all the all the bad news that you
get all the time every day, whether you're watching TV
or you're listening to the radio, or you or you're
on the internet, people are always just trying to create
fear here and anxiety. And I thought, you know what,
there are a lot of wonderful, beautiful, magical, hopeful things
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that happen also every day, but they don't really get
any coverage. So I have decided that I am going
to create a new book. It's a new collection. It's
a new anthology, and it's called Amazing Happy Endings. And
if you have a story, I want you to send
it to me. Okay, I'm collecting them right now, and
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there are only four rules. Number one, your story must
be true. Number two, your story must be short, ideally
no more than a few paragraphs. Number three, your story
must be amazing. I want some amazing synchronicities or something
very hopeful. And number four, your story must have a
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happy ending. Let me give you an example of one
of these. Okay, this comes from Betty Bushton, who is
a seamstress in Houston, Texas, and she said, my aunt
was terribly teased in grade school because of her very
pronounced overbite. My grandparents were poor, but they wanted to
do whatever they could to fix her smile and ease
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the bullying. They found a dentist in town who was
willing to take small payments for her braces. The dentist,
a young, nice looking man, had a habit of brushing
off my grandparents whenever they tried to make a payment,
simply sang with a smile, y'all can pay me later. Well,
finally the day come, excuse me. Finally the day came
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from my aunt to get her braces off, and there
was much joy and praise as everyone admired her beautiful smile.
Once again, my grandparents insisted they and they needed to
make a payment, but again he quipped, y'all can pay
me later. A week later, determined to pay the kind
dentist in full, my grandparents went to his office only
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to find it abandoned, as though it had never been occupied. Alarmed,
they asked around town if anyone knew where he had gone,
and no one had ever heard of him or seen him,
nor had they ever noticed anyone but my grandparents and
aunt going into the office building. They never found that
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kind dentist, and forever believed he was truly an angel
from heaven. You see short true amazing with a happy ending.
Do you have one you can submit? Go to Amazing
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Happy endings dot com. Amazing Happy Endings dot com and
uh if you have any trouble getting into that, that's
registered with go Daddy, and they've been having some technical problems.
So if you have any trouble, you know, try it
a couple of times, or go to a different browser.
If you just can't get in for some reason, though,
you can always email me contact at Joshua pe And
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dot com and I'll just reply and send you an
alternative link. But anyway, go to Amazing Happy Endings dot com.
Send me your story I'm collecting them now, and uh,
if if I like your story, if it makes it
into the book, then you will get a free copy.
And want you be happy to see all these and
read all these fascinating experiences that people have had. I'm
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excited about that. Here's an email I got from a
woman and gosh, you know, I could give her name,
but I don't. I don't think I'm going to because
this is a very personal thing. Uh, she said, Okay,
So she has one of my devices called a a
psionic D Materializer, a k. The bad Buster, and she said,
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I love my psionic de materializer. These are at Joshua P.
Warren dot com and the Curiosity Shop. She says, I
wrote to you twice before, once about a utility bill
that was greatly reduced, and secondly about a true miracle
when my daughter received funding after it had been cut off,
enabling her to go through with her divorce. It worked
within thirty minutes. Well, this might just be, oh, the
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most amazing and wonderful thing that my little gadget has accomplished.
My oldest daughter and I have been estranged for over
eleven years. It's been extremely painful and without my knowledge
her sister sent her a series of emails which caused
a reconciliation quite out of the blue. As far as
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I was concerned, I had been wishing for this, quite honestly,
for many years, and I had no hope of it
ever occurring. Now. As if this wasn't wonderful enough, I
had also placed my desire for my current living situation
to be altered from its abysmal state. I don't even
know how to tell you this, but my formerly a
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strange daughter is purchasing a small home for me, which
is certainly plenty big enough to meet my needs and
will get me out of an almo most unbearable situation
in my current home. I don't know if I can
convey how miraculous this is, and I do attribute it
to my belief and continued reliance on my beautiful little
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psionic D materializer. It truly does banish negativity, and in fact,
I would say that it helps create miracles. I know
you only create these wonderful items for a limited time,
but honestly, I don't think it would diminish their power
in the least if you made more. They are absolutely
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a public service. I must thank you from my heart
for this marvelous little wishing capsule which has brought so
much joy and now security and freedom from care into
my life. May are good, God shower you and your
family with blessings and love. And once again, so many
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thanks for helping me to change my life. Whoa huh
you see this is the kind of stuff I'm talking about.
And again I don't want to use her name. I've
got it, I've got all our info, but you know
who you are. Thank you so much, Thank you so
much for that. I get these fantastic emails all the time,
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and I really would like to have more of those
in my you know, for my book here amazing, amazing
Happy endings dot com, Amazing Happy endings dot com. But
this lady who wrote to me, she is right. A
lot of stuff that I produced, I only produce for
a very limited amount of time. That is why. Uh,
this is probably the last time I'm going to mention this.
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But um, the psionic de materializer, the bad Buster. It
inspired me to create kind of a holiday version of this,
and so last year I worked with an artist named
William Eggleston in South Carolina and create a holiday version
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of the bad Buster concept it's called the Anti Crumpass Doll,
and it's really this is really, really weird. I've never
made a doll like this before, and it's very elaborate
and sophisticated. It's a work of art. This doll comes
in a special package with all kinds of goodies. And
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you know, the crumps is the opposite of Santa clause.
So if if Santa brings you gifts when you behave, well,
guess what the crumpass he comes and punishes you when
you misbehave. And people have a lot of stress and
a lot of problems around Christmas and New Year's And
so what I've done is I I created this setup
where you get this doll. It's a Crumpets doll. Okay,
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it's a creepy looking little crumpas doll, and you bind
him up and as you do this ceremoniously, you lock
away that the negative crumpass energy, so that only good
fortune can follow you for the rest of the holidays
and the coming year. And I even wrote a little
story book that goes with it. You just you just
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have to see this. We brought it out last year,
and we brought it out late and there were still
some left over, so I put this thing in a
big discount because I want to just go ahead and
um and sell the last few that we have remaining.
And I'm never gonna make this again. Go to crumpus
buster dot com, crumpus buster dot com, k R A
(49:27):
M p U S crumpus buster dot com and watch
the video there to learn about it. Okay, this is
your last chance to to get one of these, and
it is a work of heart. All right now we
will bring in even more positive and good energy. Are
you ready? Take a deep breath, close your eyes. Let's
make your next week a good one. Enjoy the good
fortune tone. That's it for this edition of the show.
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This is Strange Things, right. I am Joshua FE. Warren,
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you can do at home, and a lot more. On
this edition of the show, how to Create Power Power
with self fulfilling Prophecies. This is one of my favorite subjects.
It is absolutely fascinating. In the fifteen hundreds, there was
an englishman named Thomas Woolsey, and he was warned by
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a fortune teller that Kingston, the word Kingston would somehow
mark the end of his life. Well, nearby was a
town called Kingston, so he avoided that town for years.
But one day, when King Henry the eighth sent a
constable to him named Kingston, he instantly died of shock.
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That's true, instantly died of shock. How about this one?
Another English guy? This is in the seventeen hundreds, an
English dramatist named Edward Moore. Although apparently in perfect health,
he sent his own obituary to the newspapers on February
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seventeen fifty seven, giving the next day as his date
of death. Well, guess what that night he suddenly became ill,
and sure enough he died on February seventeen fifty seven. Uh.
Let's see how about this? Uh? This guy is he? Okay?
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He lived in Austria. George Thaller he addicted in sixteen
forty three. He would die five years later at four
a m. On September the four And guess what. He
died of natural causes at four am on September the
four sixty. His prophecy as even inscribed on his tombstone.
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We all know the great American author Mark Twain. He
was born when Hayley's comment was seen, and he predicted
he would die when it reappeared, and sure enough, he
died shortly after it again streaked across the sky. I
think that was probably about seventy five years later. How
about one more of these? Uh, you know, not too
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long ago, I was recording Halloween shows, and uh, I
posted this famous quote from Shakespeare on one of my
I guess I tweeted it. This is the song of
the Witches. Double double toil and trouble, fire burn and
cauldron bubble, philet of a finny snake in the cauldron
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boil and bake, I of newt and toe of frog
will have backed and tongue of dog, adder's fork and
blindworm's sting lizard's leg and out it's wing for a
charm of powerful trouble like a hell broth. Boil and bubble,
double double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble,
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cool it with a baboon's blood. Then the charm is
firm and good. That is from Macbeth. But did you
know that in the theater you're never supposed to say Macbeth.
It's bad luck to say the name of that play.
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Maybe I shouldn't even say it on the on the
podcast here. In fact, in the theater business, they just
referred to it as the Scottish play. And that's because
since that play first appeared in sixteen o six, it
has brought bad luck to many involved with it. In
recent times, Lawrence Olivier was almost killed during a performance,
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Charlton Heston was badly injured during rehearsals. President Abraham Lincoln
read it to friends the day before his assassination. Now
I could go on and on with these things. Uh.
Speaking of Halloween, though, before I continue, people always ask
me every year, Joshua P. Warren, Mr Ghost hundred, what
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are you gonna do for Halloween? And I always come
up with some kind of big, drammatic tall tale. What
I actually did was I spent the night in a
what is a supposedly haunted hotel room here in Nevada,
and I set up cameras, and uh, I'm sorry to
report that nothing happened. But I was concerned I was
thinking about. I was concerned that a ghost would show
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up in the middle of the night while I'm sleeping
and scare the dickens out of me. And that's what happens,
and probably My favorite ghost story of all time a
Christmas Carol. People don't often think of Christmas and ghosts,
but yeah, it's the probably the best ghost story was
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a Christmas Carol. And you know, I always kind of
thought maybe when you say something like that, scared the
dickens out of me, Well you're talking about Charles Dickens
because he wrote that. And just to get off on
a tangent for a minute, do you know what that
term has nothing to do with Charles Dickens. It turns
out that the this phrase, according to the hot mess
(06:37):
press dot com, was commonly in use three centuries before
Charles Dickens was even born. And apparently there was an
old word for the devil called devil can, and that
became Dickens somehow. So actually, when you say scared the
dickens out of me, you're saying scared the devil out
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of me. I always love looking up, uh some of
these word origin things like well, while I'm on this page,
how about this one? A butt load? Uh? It says um,
you know you hear people talk about that and um
in a nutshell, A butt refers to a volume of
a hundred and twenty six gallons typically referring to a
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butt of wine. The extended phrase butt load developed over
time to meet any large amount of anything. So it
it has that has nothing to do with what you
probably thought. It has something to do with, uh, don't
let the cat out of the bag. That's you know,
what you say if you're talking about revealing a secret.
The historic origin of this common language phrase goes back
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to eighteenth century England. There were a number of crooksters
on the streets and it was common to sell suckling
pigs and transport them to customers and bags. But fraudulent salesman, however,
with stuff cats into the bags instead, So that was
a shock for people when they would get home and
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they would open their package and find that there was
a cat in the bag. So that's where that comes from.
One more um, let's see here, how about you know
people say, oh, you're pulling my leg. You ever thought
about where does that come from? This also goes back
to eighteenth century England. In the streets it was a
very dangerous place, and apparently it said that back then
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a lot of people were walking through dark alleys at
that time, and there were a lot of criminals and
people that were an easy target for for robbery would
be grabbed. Criminals would sort of lay down in the
alleyways and they would suddenly grab hold of a person's
leg and yank them to the ground, and of course
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that was a very shocking thing. And then you grab
their valuables and run away. That's we're pulling. You're pulling
my leg comes from anyway? Look, like I said, I
just there there is a lot of information encoded into
language about real world events, and I've always been interested
in that stuff. But Okay, all these instances that I've
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given you about these guys predicting their deaths or people
who are they're they're afraid to say the name Macbeth,
or something bad will happen in the play, Uh, these
all maybe examples of a self fulfilling prophecy. So let
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me just read you the definition of a self fulfilling prophecy.
It is the socio psychological phenomenon of someone predicting or
expecting something and this prediction or expectation coming true simply
because the person leaves or anticipates it will and the
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person's resulting behaviors align to fulfill the belief. And this
suggests that people's beliefs influence their actions. The principle behind
this phenomenon is the people create consequences regarding people or
events based on previous knowledge or assumed previous knowledge of
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the subject. Now, just how powerful is this concept? Well,
it's incredibly powerful, and it applies to things like, well,
the placebo effect and confirmation bias. Uh. We're coming up
on a break here soon, and when we get back
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from the break, I'm going to give you some examples
of times where I have encountered confirmation bias. Uh. Well,
a great sample of this. This is a self fulfilling
prophecy sort of thing. Uh. Is from Puerto Rico. Uh.
And and this is like a really weird thing to
talk about. So I've never really tried to explain it before,
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but today is the day. Um. And then yeah, I'm
gonna tell you how you can take this information that
we usually think of as kind of a negative thing
and flip it around and start using it to make
positive things happen in your life. We always talk about
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the negative stuff, but it goes both ways. Hey, listen up,
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They say there are two types of self fulfilling prophecies,
and I'm reading this description from examples dot your dictionary
dot com. The first type is called other imposed and
here's an example. Imagine a student, Jamie is about to
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take a college entrance exam. She has spent lots of
time preparing for the test. As Jamie is walking into
the building to take the test, she gets a call
from her dad. Her dad tells her she's always had
a hard time with anxiety during tests and that she
shouldn't be surprised if she doesn't get a good score. Well,
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when Jamie sits down to take the test, her heart
is racing, she can't think, and she knows she's going
to run out of time. She struggles through the exam,
and when she gets her score, it's lower than she wanted.
This is a case of an other imposed self fulfilling office.
See Jamie's dad predicted her anxiety would get in the
way of her achievement, and that happened because of his prediction.
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It reminds me of something I wrote about in my
book Used the Force, a Jedi's Guide to the Law
of Attraction, which is available on my website. I talked
about how I met a waitress one time, and Uh.
She said that her mother always called her Murphy because
that she was clumsy and she was always making mistakes.
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And you know Murphy's law, what can go wrong will
go wrong. That's sort of so by calling her daughter Murphy,
and I'm sure it was probably done in a silly
affectionate way, she was actually cursing her daughter and creating
all these subconscious doubts in her. And so that that
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self consciousness would would make this young woman probably make
more mistakes than she would have because she was worried
all the time about that, you see. So anyway, that's
called an other imposed, self fulfilling prophecy. And now here's
an example of a self imposed Uh says. And another
imaginary example. A man named Ryan is getting ready to
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ask a woman for a date. Ryan has previous experience
with rejection, and he thinks he sees a trend. He
sure the woman will reject him when he asks for
the date, but he decides to do it anyway. He
walks up to her. With his hand shoved in his
pockets and his head down under his breath, Ryan mumbles, quote,
I know you probably don't want to go out with me,
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but I'm asking anyway in quote, and just as he predicted,
she turns him down. And this classic case a self
imposed says, this is a classic self imposed self fulfilling prophecy.
Ryan's own prediction turned out to be true. No matter
how attractive he seemed to the woman he was approaching,
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his negative expectations for himself affected his body language and
the way he phrased his request, making her more likely
to refuse him. And so there are real life examples
of self fulfilling prophecies. It says that, for example, and
a study, an official study that was published, UH, certain
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teachers had lower expectations for certain types of students, and
so they got treated a little differently, and sure enough,
those students did not perform as well. Expectation expectations of pain,
A study conducted at the University of Colorado Boulder found
that patients who expect painful experience are more likely to
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feel pain even when the stimulus is not very painful.
Uh goes on to say, Okay, this applies to economic
decision making that in this other study examined participants economic
risk taking behavior when they were given a positive or
negative economic make forecast was striking UH. Those who received
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a negative forecast were less likely to take risks and
took longer to make decisions, resulting in lower profits during
an economic game. Workplace paranoia, this happens a lot UH.
This is a study from the University of British Columbia.
When people perceive they are the victim of negative politics
in the office setting, they tend to make decisions that
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make them more likely to be the target of politics.
The paranoid behaviors that resulted from the perception of prejudice
became a self fulfilling prophecy. This also applies to UH.
Employee creativity says here UH. This study examined how supervisors
positive expectations of employee creativity affected the creativity of employees.
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When supervisors had higher expectations about the creativity of their employees,
they were seen to be more supportive of creativity. This
in turn encouraged employees to be more creative. UM. So
it gives more examples of this, and it basically says
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a self fulfilling prophecy is an example of bias. That's
a belief that can affect the outcome or how something
is presented. Being aware of negative self fulfilling prophecies can
help you change yourself talk and avoid the effects of
these predictions. On the other hand, if you practice optimism
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and predict better things for yourself, you can use self
fulfilling prophecies to your advantage. Now that that's where the
power comes from, and you know, and in all areas
of life, there is this thing. It's a version of this,
it's related to it called confirmation bias, where if you
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believe something, it doesn't matter if it's a political belief,
u it doesn't matter what kind of belief it is.
But if you believe something or let's say maybe it's you.
You you believe that ghosts are real, or you believe
that ghosts are not real, or you believe in Bigfoot,
or you don't believe in bigfoot or flying saucers or
psychic whatever, whatever you believe. People who have a belief,
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they tend to go out and look for the evidence
that supports their belief while ignoring evidence that contradicts it,
that shows or proves otherwise that's called confirmation bias. And
you have to be very careful when you're doing analysis
of strange and paranormal and mysterious things, because, yes, if
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you want it to be a ghost in that picture
really badly, you're gonna convince yourself there's a ghost there
without looking at all the reflections and the lighting and
the optical illusions, etcetera. And the placebo effect is another
example of how that confirmation bias can be used to
produce wonderful, magical, powerful, positive things for people. You know,
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the classic placebo effect is when you give a group
of people a pill you're testing out. Let's say, you know,
eight of the people get the pill and one person
gets a sugar pill that does nothing, but they all
believe they're getting the real pill. And frequently the person
who believes that he or she has the real pill,
even though he or she has the sugar pill, has
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the same improvement, the same experience as the people who
had the actual medication. Now, how do we explain this.
It's one of the greatest mysteries in the world. It
has something to do with the power of the mind
and the limitations that we put on ourselves and that's why.
You know, some people say that when it comes to
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manifestation tools like the wishing machine or the miraculous prayer board,
they said, well, it's just maybe it's just the placebo effect.
And I say, great, who cares. Maybe the wishing machine
is the world's greatest placebo. But if it works, it works,
who cares. We we don't have to explain everything. But
this is an example of the power of the mind.
(22:13):
And when I was when I was in Puerto Rico,
there was this phenomenon that that became very frustrating, and
I just I think it happened a lot in Puerto
Rico because in Puerto Rico they have a lot of
economic struggles, and so they're the way they set up
and run their businesses is kind of haphazard. So for example,
(22:37):
here in the States, if you look up a business
and they say, you know, we open at nine o'clock
am and we close at nine pm, you assume you
can walk in the door at nine oh one am
and they're gonna be open, or you can walk in
the door at eight pm and they're gonna be open.
You know, It's it's not like that in Puerto Rico, though,
it's very sloppy how they open and closed, as it says,
(23:01):
and you don't know if the place is going to
be open or not. And so and this is especially
true when you get you know, outside of San Juan,
and and anyway, Uh, this would happen again and again.
Somebody with a lot of talent, a great chef or
a great cook of some person, a great restaurant tour
would open an establishment, a nice bar, a nice restaurant.
(23:22):
They'd opened the doors, and um, you would say, Wow,
that place looks fantastic. I'm gonna come back. I'm gonna
go eat there tomorrow, you know. And then you go
there tomorrow and they're closed, same time you drove by
it the day before, but now they're closed. And then
(23:44):
later on when you catch them when they're open, you say,
why were you closed the other day? And they said, oh, well,
nobody was coming in. I said, well, I would have
come in if you've been open. You see, if you're
gonna start a venture like that, you it almost reminds
(24:04):
you of the field of dreams. If you build it,
they will come. You can't put all this work into
creating something and then just close the doors on it. Uh,
you have to leave. You have to have a period
of time there where you leave the door open for
for people to find out you're there, and then and
then they will come to you. And but it was again,
(24:24):
it's a self fulfilling prophecy. We were we've opened, We've
been open for an hour, nobody's here. Screw this or
losing money. Close up. You're not gonna grow that way.
It's a negative, self fulfilling prophecy. We have to take
a break. When we come back, though, I have a
lot of really cool stuff to share with you. For
one thing, this is exciting because this is ultimate proof
(24:48):
that you are a creator. And in fact, I am
creating something right now that all of you can participate in.
And this is a new venture for me that I
think is going to possibly change a lot of lives.
There's so much to get to this action packed show
about the power of self fulfilling prophecies. I'm Joshua P. Warren.
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I am Paranormal Podcast Network and I am your host,
Joshua Pee Warren. And this is the show where the
unusual becomes usual. Here's something that's really weird. This is
sort of like a self fulfilling prophecy that borders on
(26:49):
some kind of psychic telekinetic effect. Sometimes I get on
this podcast and I just tell you about bizarro stuff
that happens to me that I I can't even define exactly,
and I just say, does this happen to you? So
recently I I did a podcast and I talked about
this phenomenon that I have experienced where it's like Lauren,
(27:12):
my wife, and I will will park in a big
parking lot, you know, like here in Vegas you got
giant parking lots, and it seems like wherever we park,
there's always somebody getting into or out of their car
right beside us. And when we leave an establishment, when
we come back to get in our car, whoever's parked
right beside us or in front of us is also
(27:35):
coming back to get in their car. And you look
around the rest of the parking lot and that nobody
else is in the parking lot. They always happened to
be right there with us. And I said, I don't
know how to explain this, and I talked about it
on this podcast, and I got all these emails from
people saying, WHOA, this happens to me. Also, I can't
believe it, Like I'm shocked to hear that this happens
to you, because I've thought the same thing. Here's another
(27:57):
weird thing that I've never heard any any talked about.
Maybe maybe this has also happened to some of you.
So frequently I will sit down with somebody, especially Lauren,
and I will say, hey, let me show you this
thing on my computer or on my phone that has
been working perfectly and beautifully. Now you know exactly where
(28:21):
I'm going with this, don't you. And then as soon
as I want to show it to her, it's stopped.
Something screws up. Okay, something messes up. And it could
be the website is not popping up now, or it's
loading slow, or I don't think it's just me though,
because a lot of times you'll go into a store
(28:42):
and uh, the clerk will be like, oh man, the
computer is not working. Uh, And I think does everybody
kind of have those moments or is it just around me?
Where I don't know, guys, but I I unfortunately I
have a negative, self fulfilling prophecy, Like if I'm gonna
show Lauren somethinging on this computer, it's probably gonna screw up,
and it's not gonna load properly. It's gonna be all
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slow or whatever. I need to stop that. We're gonna
get into self sabotaging in a minute. But this is
great because it's proof that there is some kind of
design here that you can influence. The problem is humans
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have a tendency to be negative, and we doubt ourselves,
and so we often manifest more negative things than positive things.
But once you understand this, you can start taking measures
to reverse it, and you use this this knowledge for
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positive purposes. Here's something that will probably surprise you. I
have been doing uh radio and podcasting and TV and
all this stuff for you know, over thirty years. I
still get nervous every single time I'm about to do
even one of these podcasts right before r right what
I'm about I get nervous. Isn't that silly. I'm in
(30:08):
a studio by myself. I control everything. If I mess up,
I can go back and edit it and make it right.
Why feel nervous? Art Bell wrote a book and he
said something along the lines of that he would get
nervous before every single one of his shows. And he
basically said, if you stop getting nervous, then that means
(30:30):
you're you don't care. You're stopping. If you don't get
excited and nervous, you're not caring enough about what you're
about to do. If you're gonna do something that's important,
you should feel a little excited and nervous about it.
And when I'm about to go out on a stage
and talk to thousands of people, which I've done many
(30:50):
times in my life. Uh, or or if it's just
a small group and I'm talking to fifty people. Uh.
Sometimes yeah, I get nervous and excited and I go
and Uh. The thing is, I know I feel nervous
when I first get out there. But you know what,
most of the time when you feel nervous, nobody else
can even tell you you you are like magnifying your
(31:11):
own feelings. But they nine times out of ten people
can't even tell if you if you're nervous. So remember
all that. And this is why when you start coming
up with positive expectations for any situation or any scenario
for yourself, the fastest way for you to sabotage that
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is for you to go overboard and and want something
that seems unrealistic. Because if you do that, a little
voice in your head is gonna be like that, come on,
that's not gonna happen, And that can be all it takes.
So that's why I say, if you're using affirmations or
a wishing machine or something like that, and you want
to wish for money, and if you have a hundred
(31:53):
dollars in your bank account, don't wish for a million dollars,
because if you wish for a million dollars and you've
got a hundred dollars, there's gonna be that little voice
in your head saying this is not gonna happen. Are
you crazy? You sabotage yourself self subconsciously. So what you
do is, instead of wishing for a million, now you
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wish for a thousand, and then once you get that thousand,
wish for five thousand. And then once you get that
five thousand, let's crank it up and you incrementally grow
it because then you are able to believe every step
of the way, and you don't sabotage yourself by just
(32:35):
jumping straight to something crazy that you just know is
not gonna work. And and and maybe it would still work.
But most of us cannot make that giant of a
leap of faith. Some people can do it, and I've
made giant leaps of faith sometimes in my life, but
as a general policy, stick with smaller measures of things.
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And here's something else that you should always remember that
in most cases in life, if you want to do
something new, if you want to start a new venture,
a new project, or a new relationship or whatever it is.
Most of the time, if you try something and you fell,
you know what happens. Nothing, nothing, So there's nothing to
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be afraid of. Now, look, that doesn't apply in all cases.
If you're trying to send a person into space on
a spaceship and you fail, yeah you've got a big
problem on your hands. But for most of the stuff
that we normal humans try to do, if you try
something out and it fails, nothing happens. Take some comfort
from that. I want to read some quotes to you
(33:43):
from famous people from my book Use the Force, a
Jedi's Guide to the Law of Attraction. A lot of
these people are people who I think they're they're sort
of artists in a way. And by that, yes, you
know you have the obvious stuff like music as art
and sculptures are and paintings or art. But also I
think industry is a form of art. Politics is a
(34:04):
form of art. And uh so I'm gonna read you
some quotes from these people, and let me just point
something out. Nowadays, everybody is so darn sensitive that if
you read a quote by a famous person and uh,
they don't like that famous person for some reason, well
then they just to heck with that quote, I'm gonna
(34:25):
go on the record here and say that, look, Michael
Angelo may have done some horrible stuff in his life.
I don't know if he did or not, but regardless
of what he did, I'm still gonna go enjoy the
Sistine Chapel. I don't think we need to tear the
sist Seeing Chapel down if we find out he did
something bad. I'm able to separate the art from the artist,
the product from the creator, and I think we need
(34:46):
to think more about that in today's day and age,
when people are so prone to just destroy things because
they find some imperfection in the individual who created it.
So anyway, that said, here's a quote by Henry Ford.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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Here's a quote from Oprah Winfrey. What you focus on expands,
and when you focus on the goodness in your life,
the goodness you create more of it. You don't become
what you want, you become what you believe. Steve Jobs said,
the people who are crazy enough to think they can
(35:32):
change the world are the ones who do. The actor
Jim Carrey said, I've always believed in magic. When I
wasn't doing anything in this town. I'd go up every night,
sit on Mulholland Drive, look out at the city, stretch
out my arms and say, everyone wants to work with me.
I'm a really good actor. I have all kinds of
(35:53):
great movie offers. And I just repeat these things over
and over, literally convincing myself that I had a couple
of movies lined up and I have drive down that
hill ready to take on the world going. Movie offers
are out there for me. I just don't hear them yet.
Intention is everything. Winston Churchill said, you create your own
(36:13):
universe as you go along. One of the Disney imagineers
named Tom Fitzgerald said, if you can dream it, you
can do it. Albert Einstein said imagination is everything. It
is the preview of life's coming attractions. Helen Keller said,
when one door of happiness closes, another opens. But often
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we look so long at the closed door that we
do not see the one which has been open for us.
And finally, the author Voltaire said, I have decided to
be happy because it is good for my health. Yeah.
I'm not a big fan of this, uh cancel culture mentality.
(36:59):
We're Sometimes we take quotes from people that we don't like,
products from people that we don't like, and we just,
you know, we just say, ah, let's throw this away.
I'm coming up on a break, but I do want
to read something that I wrote recently. I've worked my
whole life in the in the business of free speech,
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and I wrote this on my Twitter page. There is
nothing more precious than the freedom of speech. It is
that freedom which allows all other freedoms. Whenever someone tries
to limit your freedom of speech through whatever means, that
person is trying to limit your freedom in general, never
allow this to happen, don't even let it begin, and
(37:45):
always remember freedom of speeches. There primarily to protect speech
that you do not like, speech that maybe unpopular, controversial,
or offensive. When we come back, I'll tell you about
this new project I'm working on, and I want you
to work with me. I'm Joshua pe Warren. You're listening
(38:06):
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Welcome back to the final segment of this edition of
Strange Things on the I Heart Radio and Coast to
Coastadium Paranormal podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua Pete Warren,
and I have a really fun new little project that
I want to tell all of you about right now.
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Years ago, I asked my audience to start sending me
stories for a book of creepy tales. And I said,
they have to be true, they have to be worked,
and they have to have an ending that makes the
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hair stand up on the back of your neck. And
I built a website and said, submit your story and
if you know, if I get enough stories, I'll collect
them all into this book, this anthology, and you'll get
a free copy. And I didn't know if I was
gonna get one story submitted. I mean I figured I would,
but I didn't know. And my goodness, thousands of stories
(40:26):
came in and that became a book which you can
now buy on Amazon called It Was a Dark and
Creepy Night. And I was so impressed with that project
that I thought and and and that's not the first
time I've done that kind of thing. I did something
similar when I was a teenager with a book called
Speaking of Strange. But I was thinking the other day about, like,
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you know, all the all the bad news that you
get all the time every day, whether you're watching TV
or you're listening to the radio, or you or you're
on the internet, people are always just trying to create
fear here and anxiety. And I thought, you know what,
there are a lot of wonderful, beautiful, magical, hopeful things
(41:08):
that happen also every day, but they don't really get
any coverage. So I have decided that I am going
to create a new book. It's a new collection. It's
a new anthology, and it's called Amazing Happy Endings. And
if you have a story, I want you to send
it to me. Okay, I'm collecting them right now, and
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there are only four rules. Number one, your story must
be true. Number two, your story must be short, ideally
no more than a few paragraphs. Number three, your story
must be amazing. I want some amazing synchronicities or something
very hopeful. And number four, your story must have a
(41:53):
happy ending. Let me give you an example of one
of these. Okay, this comes from Betty Bushton, who is
a seamstress in Houston, Texas, and she said, my aunt
was terribly teased in grade school because of her very
pronounced overbite. My grandparents were poor, but they wanted to
do whatever they could to fix her smile and ease
(42:13):
the bullying. They found a dentist in town who was
willing to take small payments for her braces. The dentist,
a young, nice looking man, had a habit of brushing
off my grandparents whenever they tried to make a payment,
simply sang with a smile, y'all can pay me later. Well,
finally the day come, excuse me. Finally the day came
(42:33):
from my aunt to get her braces off, and there
was much joy and praise as everyone admired her beautiful smile.
Once again, my grandparents insisted they and they needed to
make a payment, but again he quipped, y'all can pay
me later. A week later, determined to pay the kind
dentist in full, my grandparents went to his office only
(42:56):
to find it abandoned, as though it had never been occupied. Alarmed,
they asked around town if anyone knew where he had gone,
and no one had ever heard of him or seen him,
nor had they ever noticed anyone but my grandparents and
aunt going into the office building. They never found that
(43:17):
kind dentist, and forever believed he was truly an angel
from heaven. You see short true amazing with a happy ending.
Do you have one you can submit? Go to Amazing
(43:38):
Happy endings dot com. Amazing Happy Endings dot com and
uh if you have any trouble getting into that, that's
registered with go Daddy, and they've been having some technical problems.
So if you have any trouble, you know, try it
a couple of times, or go to a different browser.
If you just can't get in for some reason, though,
you can always email me contact at Joshua pe And
(44:00):
dot com and I'll just reply and send you an
alternative link. But anyway, go to Amazing Happy Endings dot com.
Send me your story I'm collecting them now, and uh,
if if I like your story, if it makes it
into the book, then you will get a free copy.
And want you be happy to see all these and
read all these fascinating experiences that people have had. I'm
(44:24):
excited about that. Here's an email I got from a
woman and gosh, you know, I could give her name,
but I don't. I don't think I'm going to because
this is a very personal thing. Uh, she said, Okay,
So she has one of my devices called a a
psionic D Materializer, a k. The bad Buster, and she said,
(44:44):
I love my psionic de materializer. These are at Joshua P.
Warren dot com and the Curiosity Shop. She says, I
wrote to you twice before, once about a utility bill
that was greatly reduced, and secondly about a true miracle
when my daughter received funding after it had been cut off,
enabling her to go through with her divorce. It worked
within thirty minutes. Well, this might just be, oh, the
(45:08):
most amazing and wonderful thing that my little gadget has accomplished.
My oldest daughter and I have been estranged for over
eleven years. It's been extremely painful and without my knowledge
her sister sent her a series of emails which caused
a reconciliation quite out of the blue. As far as
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I was concerned, I had been wishing for this, quite honestly,
for many years, and I had no hope of it
ever occurring. Now. As if this wasn't wonderful enough, I
had also placed my desire for my current living situation
to be altered from its abysmal state. I don't even
know how to tell you this, but my formerly a
(45:50):
strange daughter is purchasing a small home for me, which
is certainly plenty big enough to meet my needs and
will get me out of an almo most unbearable situation
in my current home. I don't know if I can
convey how miraculous this is, and I do attribute it
to my belief and continued reliance on my beautiful little
(46:12):
psionic D materializer. It truly does banish negativity, and in fact,
I would say that it helps create miracles. I know
you only create these wonderful items for a limited time,
but honestly, I don't think it would diminish their power
in the least if you made more. They are absolutely
(46:33):
a public service. I must thank you from my heart
for this marvelous little wishing capsule which has brought so
much joy and now security and freedom from care into
my life. May are good, God shower you and your
family with blessings and love. And once again, so many
(46:55):
thanks for helping me to change my life. Whoa huh
you see this is the kind of stuff I'm talking about.
And again I don't want to use her name. I've
got it, I've got all our info, but you know
who you are. Thank you so much, Thank you so
much for that. I get these fantastic emails all the time,
(47:18):
and I really would like to have more of those
in my you know, for my book here amazing, amazing
Happy endings dot com, Amazing Happy endings dot com. But
this lady who wrote to me, she is right. A
lot of stuff that I produced, I only produce for
a very limited amount of time. That is why. Uh,
this is probably the last time I'm going to mention this.
(47:41):
But um, the psionic de materializer, the bad Buster. It
inspired me to create kind of a holiday version of this,
and so last year I worked with an artist named
William Eggleston in South Carolina and create a holiday version
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of the bad Buster concept it's called the Anti Crumpass Doll,
and it's really this is really, really weird. I've never
made a doll like this before, and it's very elaborate
and sophisticated. It's a work of art. This doll comes
in a special package with all kinds of goodies. And
(48:22):
you know, the crumps is the opposite of Santa clause.
So if if Santa brings you gifts when you behave, well,
guess what the crumpass he comes and punishes you when
you misbehave. And people have a lot of stress and
a lot of problems around Christmas and New Year's And
so what I've done is I I created this setup
where you get this doll. It's a Crumpets doll. Okay,
(48:44):
it's a creepy looking little crumpas doll, and you bind
him up and as you do this ceremoniously, you lock
away that the negative crumpass energy, so that only good
fortune can follow you for the rest of the holidays
and the coming year. And I even wrote a little
story book that goes with it. You just you just
(49:06):
have to see this. We brought it out last year,
and we brought it out late and there were still
some left over, so I put this thing in a
big discount because I want to just go ahead and
um and sell the last few that we have remaining.
And I'm never gonna make this again. Go to crumpus
buster dot com, crumpus buster dot com, k R A
(49:27):
M p U S crumpus buster dot com and watch
the video there to learn about it. Okay, this is
your last chance to to get one of these, and
it is a work of heart. All right now we
will bring in even more positive and good energy. Are
you ready? Take a deep breath, close your eyes. Let's
make your next week a good one. Enjoy the good
fortune tone. That's it for this edition of the show.
(50:14):
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one lined up for you next time, I promise. So
(50:36):
please tell all your friends to subscribe to this show
and to always remember the Golden Rule. Thank you for listening,
Thank you for your interest in support. Thank you for
staying curious and I We'll talk to you again soon.
You've been listening to Strange Things on the I Heart
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