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can do at home, and a lot more. On this
edition of the program. The Ascended Masters and What They Said?
Do you know there is this weird, controversial ancient manuscript
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that well, it supposedly tells these wild stories about the
childhood of Jesus. And these are controversial stories because they
are often not very nice stories. Uh. He was, according
to these, quite a mischievous kid, to say the least,
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as he grew up as a as a human and
gradually learned right from wrong, just like the rest of
us do, which is actually a very interesting concept because
I'm gonna tell you what some of these I'm gonna
give you some of these stories. I'll tell you what
this is about, and you can you can make up
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your own mind whether or not you want to believe
these stories are true. But the concept that you know, uh,
the character of Jesus was not just automatically genetically perfect,
you know, just came out of the womb instantly being
a great guy, you know, is Um. It's kind of
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inspiring because it makes you think, like, wow, that's I
guess the whole purpose of coming into the material world
to live like a human is you have to go
through the process that we go through, and you have
to learn and figure out right from wrong. Um. But
before we get into this, uh, you know, the whole
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idea behind books, uh in the Bible being credible or
not is uh, it's a can of worms, It's a
Pandora's box. I mean, we are talking about stories that
were written hundreds or thousands of years ago, and I
say hundreds in some cases because there are more recent
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documents that claim they are biblical. But anyway, look, uh,
but we're certainly talking about things that were written thousands
of years ago. They've been edited, translated, reinterpreted. And I
often tell people, look, I have a personally published over
twenty books. I don't even know what the number is
at this point. And from one addition to the next,
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usually the book is different. There are some changes, there
are errors that occur, and so and that's just and
and my microscopic world with the books that I published,
So I can't even imagine the changes that must take
place when you look at manuscripts that were produced or
stories that were recorded thousands of years ago. So that's
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why we I don't think we can ever take these
ancient texts literally. We can just sort of get the gist,
get the gist. And and that's why that there are
so many, um self contradictions in the King James version
of the Bible, which you can look up for yourself
if you're interested in that. But you know, there are
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all these stories that didn't officially make it into the Bible,
and these are considered apocryphal. Uh. If you actually look
up the definition of apocryphal, UH says writings or statements
of dubious authenticity. So in other words, these are these
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are a type of writing that cannot necessarily be verified,
is called apocryphal. But when most people talk about that,
and they use that word, they're talking specifically about the apocrypha.
And and the apocrypha UH is this collection of these
types of UH stories, ancient stories and ancient books thought
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to have been written sometime between two hundred BC and
four D. And UH it's kind of like the the
official curators and custodians of Christianity decided that these didn't
make the cut um. And so it may be that
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what I'm about to read to you is UH is
similar to this an apocryphal tale. It's called the Infancy
Gospel of Thomas, and I'm looking at an article about
it right now, and here is the overview. It is
a biographical gospel about the childhood of Jesus, believe to
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date at the latest to the second century. Okay, so
it's it's very old. Yeah, it's it's very old, but
you know it still was written quite a while, I
guess after maybe after Jesus lived. I'm not sure. I'm
not going to pretend that i'm some kind of biblical
scholar or historian. Here. You can look into all those
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details yourself if you're that serious. I don't want to
get any emails from people like, hey, you got the
timeline mixed up. This is some old stuff, you know.
Most stuff related to Jesus is about two thousand years old,
and some of these things about Jesus were written quite
a while after he died. Uh. But anyway, it goes
on to say that proto orthodox Christians regarded this thing
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called the Infancy Gospel of Thomas as inauthentic and heretical. Okay,
so the official powers of Christianity they do not they
do not like this. Uh. The author of the gospel
is unknown. Uh. And the earliest manuscripts no author is
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indicated at all. Um. And Uh. It's look, they talk
about how that this thing may have been updated in
the Middle Ages. All right, we don't know, Okay, nobody
knows whether or not this is true, but a lot
of people think it is true. And here's something also
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that's very interesting about it. Uh. It says that, um,
the Infancy Gospel of Thomas was thought to be Gnostic
in origin. So do you know, have you heard of
the Gnostics? That spelled g n O S t I c. Nasticism,
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which is a Greek word means having knowledge. Gnosticism is
officially a collection of religious ideas and systems which coalesced
in the late first century a d among Jewish and
early Christian sects, and basically the idea was these groups
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emphasized personal spiritual knowledge above orthodox teachings and traditions and
the authority of religious institutions. Um. They thought that it
was maybe a simplification to just look at the material
world as as flawed or evil and um. And they
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considered the principal element of salvation to be sort of
a direct knowledge of the Supreme Divinity in the form
of mystical or esoteric insight. So that's that's some pretty
vague sounding stuff I understand, but nothing that gives you
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an idea how that maybe some of these very early
Christian types in particular, they thought that, um, yet the
Bible is condensing stuff down in the parables, but there's
something more complex here, and that it's not just about
some kind of a hierarchy with God and angels and
the devil and demons and all that that it's um,
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it's something a little bit more like we might call
the christ consciousness or something these days. I'm not I'm
not sure if I can explain it much better than that.
You can look that up for yourself as well. I
am just here to give you a podcast with an
overview of this information. But let us get into these
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controversial stories that supposedly relate to jesus upbringing, because you know,
there are some significant gaps in the life of Jesus.
In fact, there's a whole article here, uh, which is
about the the unknown years of Jesus. They are at
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least eighteen unknown years in there, because you know, after
the Nativity, you know, after the the miraculous magical birth
that we celebrate every Christmas. After that, there's not much
said about Uh, Jesus's early life. I think when he
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was around twelve years old that you know, he went off,
he wandered off into a temple and started having some
impressive conversations with some of the elders there um. But
there's really not much said until he's like, you know,
thirty years old and he goes off to begin his
his ministry. So there's like eighteen years missing here. It's
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actually one of the greatest old historical mysteries. What was
Jesus up to during that time? Some people said, oh,
he went to India, or he he maybe he went
to Tibet. Uh, you know, he studied all he traveled
and studied all these other cultures. Most people say, like, look, no,
he was just a carpenter the whole time. He was
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building houses. But maybe there was some other stuff happening.
What's pretty crazy. Okay, time for a break. When we
come back, I will tell you these stories and you'll
see how this ties into the concept I'm shooting for here.
We're gonna dign to what is an ascended Master. You know,
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studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day
is golden and every night is silver. All right, let's
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finally get into the Infancy Gospel of Thomas Uh. The
text describes the life of the child Jesus from the
age of five up until age twelve, with fanciful and
sometimes malevolent supernatural events. He is presented as a precocious child. Okay,
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so that means he's he is smarter than you would
think for his age. He's beyond his years in mental presence,
who starts his education early. The stories cover how the
young incarnation of God matures and learns to use his
powers for good, and how those around him first respond
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with fear and later admiration. One of the episodes involves
Jesus making clay birds. Okay, so he gets some mud
and some water and he makes a little little clay
birds and brings them to life and they become real birds.
They fly away, and they say that that act is
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also attributed to Jesus in the Korean and even some
other works. No, that sounds nice, but how about this one?
In another episode, apparently Jesus goes to collect some water
and some kid comes and somehow gets ahold of his water.
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And I don't know if there's an accident or if
the kids being mean, but he gets Jesus's water and
just sort of like dumps it out. After Jesus went
to all this work to get this this water, and
it takes Jesus off, and so Jesus curses the boy,
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which causes that boy two wither up and die. Okay,
this is like I think of a of a young Jedi.
You could be Darth Vader or Yoda, Like, which way
is this gonna go? You're like, oh, man, boy, he
he shouldn't have done that. He he he killed a kid.
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And that's not the only time. Uh. He says later on,
there is an incident where some kid throws a stone
at Jesus or punches him or something along those lines.
And guess what, Jesus strikes that kid dead. Also, I mean,
I mean he maybe he's just trying to get his
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bearings on this skill he has. He goes, oh, man,
I was I went a little overboard. Um. It's like
Superman trying to give somebody a little shove and you're like, oh, man,
I just tossed that guy through a concrete wall. I
don't know, but anyway, Um, So, apparently the neighbors are
not happy about Jesus killing all these kids. I know,
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surely you find the humor in this. Uh. And the
neighbors complained to Jesus's parents, Joseph and Mary. But that
takes Jesus off that the neighbors are complaining, and so
he decides to go easy on them, and he just
strikes them blind. Uh. And at some point, I guess
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Mary or Joseph had to sit down and be like, look, dude,
just because you can do this does not mean you
should do this. You've got to get this thing under control.
And and he starts learning more and and he's he's
kind of arrogant and he's hard, stubborn and bullheaded and
all that kind of stuff. But gradually he starts using
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his power for good purposes. Uh. For example, you know,
he's working as as a as a carpenter, helping his
dad out. And there is some guy who falls from
a roof and uh and dies, and so Jesus uses
his power to bring that guy back to life. And
then there is a guy who cuts his foot with
an axe, and then Jesus is he heals the guy's foot. Um,
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they're all kinds of different, you know, little situations. I
think like at one point, as Jesus is helping out
his um, helping out his dad, the carpenter Joseph, Joseph goes, ah,
I cut this board or whatever, you know, like two
inches or six inches too short, and Jesus just reaches
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down and goes and just stretches that board out. And
so anyway, Um, gradually, gradually he begins to realize that
I have this incredible power and I can now use
this for good purposes. And I'm giving you quite a
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general overview here, of course, But again this is all
I can do for you in a podcast. But I
think that, um, this is whether it's true or not,
it is an interesting concept, isn't it? Because there is
this great mystery of what happened to Jesus for all
all of these years, and we know so little about
his upbringing, and yet this is arguably the most famous
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figure in all of human history. I realized there are
some people out there who believe that Jesus was entirely fictional. Well, okay,
if you believe that, then it doesn't matter. It's it's
still a figure that has had a profound impact on
how people think and live their lives. And so I
find this really interesting that there is this concept out there,
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as exemplified by these stories, that life is so supposed
to be a big classroom. You know, don't feel too
bad about mistakes that you've made. You look back and
you think I was ignorant, or I was mean spirited,
or I was being a reactionary or whatever. You might
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not need to beat yourself up so badly. As long
as you are willing to learn. You're like the prodigal son.
You learn and you change and you improve, and then
you come back. And and the idea here is that
even this divine spirit Jesus had to learn and grow
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and therefore a sind. And so you might think about
yourself right now and be like man Um, I wish
I could be some wonderful, benevolent spiritual being. Well, guess why.
That's the whole idea. You can follow these examples and
you can change, and you can improve, and you can
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be a better person in and make wiser decisions starting
right now. The life you have is a classroom. And
I want to pause for just a moment to say that,
you know, my whole life, I've always been talking about, uh,
the spirit, the idea of a spiritual realm, and uh,
just about everything that happens in the Bible has a
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paranormal connotation. You know, the Bible is the most paranormal
book ever written. I mean it's it's got all the goodies,
and there's some magic and spirits and angels and demons
and UFOs and you know other than I mean, like
all of it's in the Bible healings and miracles. Um.
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And I know you might look back and look at
an ancient text like the Bible and say, well, I
have never seen any of that stuff, like like, hey,
I'm maybe you've seen some remarkable things, but it's not
like an angel shows up and has dinner with you
or something like they used to do back in the days. Uh,
back in those days apparently. Um. But but just I
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want you to keep this in mind. We don't know
what to believe about anything if we don't personally experience it, right.
It's kind of it kind of goes back to that
gnostic thing. It's like I've never been on the moon,
So it's it is a leap of faith for me
to say humans have been to the moon. I believe that,
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but I can't say that I know for a personal fact.
And even if I did, you know, as as Edgar
Allan Post said, uh in his famous poem, all but
we see your seem is but a dream within a dream.
So how do you really know anything? Right? And so
that's why I've I've always found it interesting that, Uh.
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I I think that there's no way that a rational
person can be an atheist, because to say I am
an atheist means I know that I believe there is
no fill in the blank. You know that, UM, and
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a lot of people, uh misused skepticism as well. Skepticism.
It's like somebody doesn't believe in a ghost or a
bigfoot or whatever. They're like, oh, he's skeptical. Well, skepticism
is different than debunking. You know, a skeptic is supposed
to be somebody who just doubts. It's okay to doubt,
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but you should doubt. You should be skeptical. You doubt things,
you reserve judgment, But when you make a judgment, you say, no,
this is wrong, this is wrong. This. You are moving
often beyond skepticism into what is usually cynicism in many cases,
which is an inclination to believe that people are motivated
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purely by self interest, which is often financial, but it
could be an number of things. And that's that's a
very negative way of viewing the world, to be a
cynical debunking person. UM. I think that if you you
should if you're a blind believer in something that may
not be rational, and if you are a blind disbeliever
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in something that may not be rational, it may be
that the only thing that you can do that makes
any philosophical sense is to be some form of an agnostic,
meaning that you're not smart enough to know. Necessarily, you're
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not smart enough to know. Always give yourself some wiggle
room there. I mean, maybe it's this, maybe it's that,
But you're here to learn. Okay, fine, oh fine? So
what are we here to learn? What do they ascended
masters all say? What do they want us to do? Well?
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When we come back, I'm gonna break it down for you.
I'm gonna save you many years of studying tibit. I'm
Joshua pe Warren. You're listening to Strange Things all the
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where the unusual becomes usual? What are the ascended masters? Well?
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Have you ever heard of Madame Blavatsky Helena Blavatsky Um
She was a Ukrainian author. Let's see her. She was
born in eighteen thirty one, died in eighteen ninety one,
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and she co founded something called the Theosophical Society in
eighteen seventy five, and she gained an international following as
the leading theoretician of theosophy. In fact, I wrote about
Madame Blavatsky and some about her work in my book
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Use the Force, A Jedi's Guide to the Law of Attraction.
And Uh, I could sit here and do a whole
podcast just about Madame Blovotsky, trust me, um, but you can.
We're we're We're just gonna talk about, uh, some of
the things she was into here. Getting back to Theosophy now,
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I'm just looking at the the Wikipedia definition of Theosophy
and it says it is a religion established in the
United States during the late nineteenth century, founded primarily by
immigrant Helena Blovotsky. Draws its teachings from her writings. Characterized
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by scholars of religion as both a new religious movement
and part of the occult stream of Western esotericism. It
draws upon both older European philosophies so as neo Platonism,
and Asian religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. As presented
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by Blovotsky, Theosophy teaches that there is an ancient and
secret brotherhood of spiritual adepts known as the Masters, who,
although found around the world, are centered in Tibet, and
these Masters are alleged by Blovotsky to have cultivated great
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wisdom and supernatural powers, and theosophust believe that it was
they who initiated the modern Theosophical movement through disseminating their
teachings via Blovotsky. They believe these Masters are attempting to
revive knowledge of an ancient religion once found around the world,
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and which will come again to eclipse the existing world religions.
Theosophical groups do not refer to their system as a religion. Uh.
Theosophy preaches the existence of a single divine absolute and
basically goes on to say that these ascended Masters are
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here to promote values of universal brotherhood and social improvement.
So that's basically what theosophy is about. And so if
you look up, well, what, okay, what's an ascended master.
Ascended Masters is in the ascended Master teachings of a
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number of movements in the Theosophical tradition, and are held
to be spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were
ordinary humans, but who have undergone a series of spiritual
transformations originally called initiations. Okay, So I mean like, look,
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there's a lot of room here to get creative with
thinking about these enlightened ascended masters. And I would not
want to imagine they transform from you know, one type
of being to another, and they are just here to
help us out and to enlighten us. And so examples
of those that are believed to be ascended master masters
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um by many of these organizations are people like Jesus, uh, Buddha, Confucius,
even Uh Mother Mary h Enoch St. Germaine. Uh. You know,
I guess it's it's a bit of a subjective thing
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exactly how one defines an ascended master. But that is
the idea that these these beings are here and they're
trying to help us improve. And it's kind of interesting
when you start looking at some of these people that
might be considered an ascended master or related to that,
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you look at some of these titles that people have.
You know, she's talking about Tibet here, and one of
my favorite movies is called Kundun. That's a Martin Scorsese film,
which is kind of difficult to find these days. It's
about kun d u n and it's about the life
of the current Dolli Lama and all the political turmoil
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that he went through. As a matter of fact, Dolly Lama,
that word actually means let's see, I wasn't sure okay,
So it says here it's a combination of these words.
Dolly means big or ocean okay, which makes sense. And
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then this word uh blama, which means master or guru.
Soy big master, he's the big guru, all right, makes sense? Um.
But this movie is called Condon, and I think that's
really interesting because if you actually look up what can
done means uh con don, which refers to this person
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embodied by the dollar Lama. Condon means present or presence,
and and that really is profound if you stop and
think about it, because that may be the one thing
that most of us are missing, is being aware of
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the present. We're always worried about the past or we're
stressing about the future. But there's something mystical about being presents. Um.
Maybe that's the hardest thing to its chief, to just
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be present. Uh. You know, you hear about people like
Mahatma Gandhi Uh I was like, what is that. What
is mahatma? Men? Well, um, it means great soul. Mahatma
means great soul. So you know, these are different cultures
around the world that are using language that uh hince
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at the idea that some people have a deeper soul
and a greater connection to what's spiritually important. And um,
getting back to the current Bali Lama however, you know
I've mentioned before one of my favorite quotes by him,
which is also my book Used The Force. Uh. He says,
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there's no benefit and worrying whatsoever. If there is a
solution to a problem, then there's no need to worry.
And if there is no solution, well then there's no
need to worry, right, And it's it's it's so simple,
but it's so difficult for us to grasp that and
to embrace that and to live by that. Also. Um,
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you may or may not know this. I have written
some novels, just not many, maybe couple, I think, uh fiction. Yeah.
One of them is called The Greeno Maniac Murder Spree
and it's it's an R rated manuscript in terms of
like language. It's got some language and violence in it.
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It's kind of like a Quentin Tarantino story and um, yeah,
the Gringomaniac murder spree. If you're if you're a big,
a big fan, you you may as well go to
Amazon and buy a copy of that one if you
like to read novels. But in the book, I was
talking about this scenario which kind of pops up going
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back to like the this is the student who asked
the great uh Tibetan master what is real? And the
master replies that which never changes? And if you think
about that, you can you can explore that quite a bit.
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But in my mind what that means is, Hey, from
what I can tell, everything changes. Everything is in a
constant state of motion and evolution and transformation, and so
maybe nothing is really real. There are things that can
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be real at a certain time, in a certain situation
to serve a certain purpose. But ultimately everything is flexible.
You can grow, you can improve, you can be a
better person, you can help other people. Mhm. But all right,
enough of that business. Let's look at all these characters
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that are often called ascended masters. Well what do they
tell us all? They ultimately tell us two things. In
my opinion, this is just my breakdown, my years of research.
I'm gonna get, Like I say, here's year's worth of
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of ascended master knowledge broken down for you in a podcast.
Two things number one. They all in one way or
another talk about the I Am principle, which is, you know,
even in the Bible, God identifies himself as I am.
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Moses says what is your name? And God says I
am Basically I am that I am, And I think
what that means is this is about that concept, is
about taking personal responsibility for yourself as an independent observer
of the world who can judge the world based on
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your own logical merits and ultimately pay the consequences for
your decisions and actions. When we come back, I'm going
to tell you what the second thing is, and then
if I have time, I might even squeeze in a
creepy email. At least I think it's creepy. Maybe you won't,
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depends on what you're into. I'm Joshua Pete Warren. You're
listening to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio and
Coast to Coast AM Paranormal podcast network. I will be
right back. Welcome back to the final segment of this
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edition of Strange Things on the I Heart Radio and
Coast to Coast. I am Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host,
Joshua P. Warren, And in my opinion, the first thing
the ascended masters tell you what they talk in some
form about that I am principle taking personal responsibility for
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yourself as an independent observer of the world who can
judge the world based on your own logical merits and
ultimately pay pay the consequences for your decisions and actions
and hopefully, hopefully you'll do well. But here's a little
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tip for you. It's not a popularity contest. You have
to think for yourself. All throughout history, we've seen over
and over again that oftentimes the majority of what's popular
at a certain time is like a mob mentality, and
we look back and we're horrified by it. You have
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to think for yourself. History keeps trying to beat that
lesson into our heads. We live in a pretty troubling
time right now where people feel like it's okay to
jump on the internet and just be horrible and rude
and uh, and then they run around and people are
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uh virtue signaling and trying to act like they're better
than everybody else. They say, I know what's right, and
I'm good, and so I'm gonna force you to do
what I want you to do. Uh, it's a it's
a it's a contradiction. It's a self contradiction. These people
who often are like, this is the right thing to
do today because this is what's popular today, and I'm
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gonna jump on that bandwagon, and then they go out
and become the thing that they supposedly hate. They become
the monster. You have to love other people and don't
try to control them and manipulate them all the time.
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And if you, I think if you do that, if
you actually even if you don't naturally love people, I
think you can train yourself to love people if you
just sort of um are self aware. You know. That's
what what the I Am is about. You have to
be aware of your your animal instincts that in my
book used the four I talked about your your wookie
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like Chebacca like, you know, sort of like primitive instincts
to just be an animal. You've got to be aware
of that, and then that will help you to actually
be a better person. Okay. The second thing is no
big surprise. In one form or another. They all say,
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once you have that self awareness. You use that two
achieve a mindset of the Golden rule. That's it, do
unto others as you would have them do unto you,
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
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And um, all of this ultimately kind of boils down
into it. You know, you reap what you so kind
of scenario. But even if you don't believe in karma,
and I know a lot of people who don't believe it,
I happen to believe in karma. But even if you
still uh, the ascended masters were saying, be self aware,
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use the power of the I am of the observer.
Do not be swayed by things that feel you know,
out of place or wrong. And you know, you should
be a loving being and secondly you should express that
by way of the Golden Rule. Those are your two things,
I am and the Golden Rule. And you know, going
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back to the Internet, I knew when the Internet came
out because I you know, I I never even heard
the word email until I was in college, So I
got to see the world before and after. I mean,
like right in the middle of my life, like boom,
the Internet took off and I built my first website
in or ninety gates. So I've always been very plugged
in UH, and I knew that the Internet would finally
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show us once and for all whether or not human
nature is essentially good or bad, because it would give
people freedom to express and UH, it would give people
access to all kinds of information they wouldn't otherwise have
access to. And at this point I have to tell
you I'm sad to report that I think it's bad. Um.
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I think it's bad because there are too many good
people out there who are weak and who don't stand
up for goodness. You can stand up for what's right
without attacking somebody else who's wrong. If you disagree with somebody,
you don't have to attack that person. You can just
say here's what I think is right. But too many
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people are who are good are weak and afraid to
do that, and that's a shame. UM. So look, just
if you care at all about the lessons of the
ascended masters, every time you interact with somebody, I don't
care if it's in person or it's on the telephone,
or it's through the Internet or whatever, try to do
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it as a promoter of the Golden rule. But be strong.
You don't have to attack people, you don't have to
try to change people. You just give your opinion strongly
and firmly, and make sure it's a good, positive opinion.
Don't be weak. And that's why you have to remember
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that only the devil wants to restrict speech. Yeah, my
whole life is about free speech, whether you like it
or not. Free speech is a divine right. The devil,
so to speak, will take it away, the enemy will
take it away, the darkness. Take those lessons. I've bowled
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them down for you best I can. And now you
can go and do more research on your own if
you'd like. That's what the ascended masters are all telling us,
and that's how you can apply it to to your
life today. Perhaps here's uh, let's see an email I
got from Thomas Hancock from Oregon. He says, in September
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of two thousand and eight, my grandmother, who I was
very close to, died at nine nine years old. Being
so close to her, I knew that her very favorite
animal in the whole world, oddly enough, was the daddy
long legs spider. Let me pause to let you all
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know I, Joshua not a fan of spidery things all
right back to his email. Anyway, she loved to watch them,
and it was not uncommon to see her letting them
dance gangly across her fingers. Just weeks after Grandma's passing,
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I went on a hunting trip with a friend of
mine and we found a nice secluded area and set
up camp. We started our fire just before dark and
we started talking about my Grandma. For whatever reason, I
had always favored saying goodbye to loved ones that had
passed by getting back to nature as opposed to attending
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a funeral, so this seemed like the perfect time to
reminisce about her and say my goodbyes. Well about an
hour into our conversation, we both noticed that it looked
like the ground was moving. We turned on our head
lamps to see the entire campsite and the bottom of
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our pant legs entirely covered. We have daddy long legs.
I would say that an area of about ten ft
by ten feet was completely covered by them. I was
so overwhelmed with strong feelings and thoughts of Grandma that
it almost seemed that she was there with me. We
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let the little creatures be, and they and and we
just kept talking. They crawled everywhere. After about thirty minutes
of this, we decided to go our separate tents. Go
to our separate tents to get some sleep. The Daddy
long legs were still everywhere, covering the ground, and after
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about ten minutes, my friend had to get up as
nature called. He turned on his head lamp, stepped out
of his tent and found mine completely covered with the
Daddy long legs. There were none on his tent are
around the area we were sitting out before. And as
his light shined on my tent, all I could see. Uh,
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As his light shined on my tent, Uh, Yeah, all
I could see we're hundreds of spindley shadows. The next morning,
when we got up, we saw no sign of the
Daddy long legs anywhere. And this was the only night
this happened to us during the ten days we stayed
at the site. So I thank you for that, Thomas.
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I get the idea that that brought you some warmth
and comfort, and I'm I'm happy. I'm happy that that
you took it that way. Me. I love my grandma,
but I'll pass, I'll pass. I'd I'd rather just I
think I'll go to the funeral. I know that's terrible. No,
(48:23):
my my grandmothers have passed already, but seriously, I'm not
a fan of granddaddy long legs. Growing up in western
North Carolina, I saw plenty of them. All right. Uh,
hopefully you've learned something. Hopefully you've enjoyed this podcast. Let's
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can do at home, and a lot more. On this
edition of the program. The Ascended Masters and What They Said?
Do you know there is this weird, controversial ancient manuscript
(01:51):
that well, it supposedly tells these wild stories about the
childhood of Jesus. And these are controversial stories because they
are often not very nice stories. Uh. He was, according
to these, quite a mischievous kid, to say the least,
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as he grew up as a as a human and
gradually learned right from wrong, just like the rest of
us do, which is actually a very interesting concept because
I'm gonna tell you what some of these I'm gonna
give you some of these stories. I'll tell you what
this is about, and you can you can make up
(02:36):
your own mind whether or not you want to believe
these stories are true. But the concept that you know, uh,
the character of Jesus was not just automatically genetically perfect,
you know, just came out of the womb instantly being
a great guy, you know, is Um. It's kind of
(02:57):
inspiring because it makes you think, like, wow, that's I
guess the whole purpose of coming into the material world
to live like a human is you have to go
through the process that we go through, and you have
to learn and figure out right from wrong. Um. But
before we get into this, uh, you know, the whole
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idea behind books, uh in the Bible being credible or
not is uh, it's a can of worms, It's a
Pandora's box. I mean, we are talking about stories that
were written hundreds or thousands of years ago, and I
say hundreds in some cases because there are more recent
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documents that claim they are biblical. But anyway, look, uh,
but we're certainly talking about things that were written thousands
of years ago. They've been edited, translated, reinterpreted. And I
often tell people, look, I have a personally published over
twenty books. I don't even know what the number is
at this point. And from one addition to the next,
(04:07):
usually the book is different. There are some changes, there
are errors that occur, and so and that's just and
and my microscopic world with the books that I published,
So I can't even imagine the changes that must take
place when you look at manuscripts that were produced or
stories that were recorded thousands of years ago. So that's
(04:30):
why we I don't think we can ever take these
ancient texts literally. We can just sort of get the gist,
get the gist. And and that's why that there are
so many, um self contradictions in the King James version
of the Bible, which you can look up for yourself
if you're interested in that. But you know, there are
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all these stories that didn't officially make it into the Bible,
and these are considered apocryphal. Uh. If you actually look
up the definition of apocryphal, UH says writings or statements
of dubious authenticity. So in other words, these are these
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are a type of writing that cannot necessarily be verified,
is called apocryphal. But when most people talk about that,
and they use that word, they're talking specifically about the apocrypha.
And and the apocrypha UH is this collection of these
types of UH stories, ancient stories and ancient books thought
(05:40):
to have been written sometime between two hundred BC and
four D. And UH it's kind of like the the
official curators and custodians of Christianity decided that these didn't
make the cut um. And so it may be that
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what I'm about to read to you is UH is
similar to this an apocryphal tale. It's called the Infancy
Gospel of Thomas, and I'm looking at an article about
it right now, and here is the overview. It is
a biographical gospel about the childhood of Jesus, believe to
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date at the latest to the second century. Okay, so
it's it's very old. Yeah, it's it's very old, but
you know it still was written quite a while, I
guess after maybe after Jesus lived. I'm not sure. I'm
not going to pretend that i'm some kind of biblical
scholar or historian. Here. You can look into all those
(06:49):
details yourself if you're that serious. I don't want to
get any emails from people like, hey, you got the
timeline mixed up. This is some old stuff, you know.
Most stuff related to Jesus is about two thousand years old,
and some of these things about Jesus were written quite
a while after he died. Uh. But anyway, it goes
on to say that proto orthodox Christians regarded this thing
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called the Infancy Gospel of Thomas as inauthentic and heretical. Okay,
so the official powers of Christianity they do not they
do not like this. Uh. The author of the gospel
is unknown. Uh. And the earliest manuscripts no author is
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indicated at all. Um. And Uh. It's look, they talk
about how that this thing may have been updated in
the Middle Ages. All right, we don't know, Okay, nobody
knows whether or not this is true, but a lot
of people think it is true. And here's something also
(08:00):
that's very interesting about it. Uh. It says that, um,
the Infancy Gospel of Thomas was thought to be Gnostic
in origin. So do you know, have you heard of
the Gnostics? That spelled g n O S t I c. Nasticism,
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which is a Greek word means having knowledge. Gnosticism is
officially a collection of religious ideas and systems which coalesced
in the late first century a d among Jewish and
early Christian sects, and basically the idea was these groups
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emphasized personal spiritual knowledge above orthodox teachings and traditions and
the authority of religious institutions. Um. They thought that it
was maybe a simplification to just look at the material
world as as flawed or evil and um. And they
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considered the principal element of salvation to be sort of
a direct knowledge of the Supreme Divinity in the form
of mystical or esoteric insight. So that's that's some pretty
vague sounding stuff I understand, but nothing that gives you
(09:33):
an idea how that maybe some of these very early
Christian types in particular, they thought that, um, yet the
Bible is condensing stuff down in the parables, but there's
something more complex here, and that it's not just about
some kind of a hierarchy with God and angels and
the devil and demons and all that that it's um,
(09:56):
it's something a little bit more like we might call
the christ consciousness or something these days. I'm not I'm
not sure if I can explain it much better than that.
You can look that up for yourself as well. I
am just here to give you a podcast with an
overview of this information. But let us get into these
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controversial stories that supposedly relate to jesus upbringing, because you know,
there are some significant gaps in the life of Jesus.
In fact, there's a whole article here, uh, which is
about the the unknown years of Jesus. They are at
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least eighteen unknown years in there, because you know, after
the Nativity, you know, after the the miraculous magical birth
that we celebrate every Christmas. After that, there's not much
said about Uh, Jesus's early life. I think when he
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was around twelve years old that you know, he went off,
he wandered off into a temple and started having some
impressive conversations with some of the elders there um. But
there's really not much said until he's like, you know,
thirty years old and he goes off to begin his
his ministry. So there's like eighteen years missing here. It's
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actually one of the greatest old historical mysteries. What was
Jesus up to during that time? Some people said, oh,
he went to India, or he he maybe he went
to Tibet. Uh, you know, he studied all he traveled
and studied all these other cultures. Most people say, like, look, no,
he was just a carpenter the whole time. He was
(11:45):
building houses. But maybe there was some other stuff happening.
What's pretty crazy. Okay, time for a break. When we
come back, I will tell you these stories and you'll
see how this ties into the concept I'm shooting for here.
We're gonna dign to what is an ascended Master. You know,
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studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day
is golden and every night is silver. All right, let's
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finally get into the Infancy Gospel of Thomas Uh. The
text describes the life of the child Jesus from the
age of five up until age twelve, with fanciful and
sometimes malevolent supernatural events. He is presented as a precocious child. Okay,
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so that means he's he is smarter than you would
think for his age. He's beyond his years in mental presence,
who starts his education early. The stories cover how the
young incarnation of God matures and learns to use his
powers for good, and how those around him first respond
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with fear and later admiration. One of the episodes involves
Jesus making clay birds. Okay, so he gets some mud
and some water and he makes a little little clay
birds and brings them to life and they become real birds.
They fly away, and they say that that act is
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also attributed to Jesus in the Korean and even some
other works. No, that sounds nice, but how about this one?
In another episode, apparently Jesus goes to collect some water
and some kid comes and somehow gets ahold of his water.
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And I don't know if there's an accident or if
the kids being mean, but he gets Jesus's water and
just sort of like dumps it out. After Jesus went
to all this work to get this this water, and
it takes Jesus off, and so Jesus curses the boy,
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which causes that boy two wither up and die. Okay,
this is like I think of a of a young Jedi.
You could be Darth Vader or Yoda, Like, which way
is this gonna go? You're like, oh, man, boy, he
he shouldn't have done that. He he he killed a kid.
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And that's not the only time. Uh. He says later on,
there is an incident where some kid throws a stone
at Jesus or punches him or something along those lines.
And guess what, Jesus strikes that kid dead. Also, I mean,
I mean he maybe he's just trying to get his
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bearings on this skill he has. He goes, oh, man,
I was I went a little overboard. Um. It's like
Superman trying to give somebody a little shove and you're like, oh, man,
I just tossed that guy through a concrete wall. I
don't know, but anyway, Um, So, apparently the neighbors are
not happy about Jesus killing all these kids. I know,
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surely you find the humor in this. Uh. And the
neighbors complained to Jesus's parents, Joseph and Mary. But that
takes Jesus off that the neighbors are complaining, and so
he decides to go easy on them, and he just
strikes them blind. Uh. And at some point, I guess
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Mary or Joseph had to sit down and be like, look, dude,
just because you can do this does not mean you
should do this. You've got to get this thing under control.
And and he starts learning more and and he's he's
kind of arrogant and he's hard, stubborn and bullheaded and
all that kind of stuff. But gradually he starts using
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his power for good purposes. Uh. For example, you know,
he's working as as a as a carpenter, helping his
dad out. And there is some guy who falls from
a roof and uh and dies, and so Jesus uses
his power to bring that guy back to life. And
then there is a guy who cuts his foot with
an axe, and then Jesus is he heals the guy's foot. Um,
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they're all kinds of different, you know, little situations. I
think like at one point, as Jesus is helping out
his um, helping out his dad, the carpenter Joseph, Joseph goes, ah,
I cut this board or whatever, you know, like two
inches or six inches too short, and Jesus just reaches
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down and goes and just stretches that board out. And
so anyway, Um, gradually, gradually he begins to realize that
I have this incredible power and I can now use
this for good purposes. And I'm giving you quite a
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general overview here, of course, But again this is all
I can do for you in a podcast. But I
think that, um, this is whether it's true or not,
it is an interesting concept, isn't it? Because there is
this great mystery of what happened to Jesus for all
all of these years, and we know so little about
his upbringing, and yet this is arguably the most famous
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figure in all of human history. I realized there are
some people out there who believe that Jesus was entirely fictional. Well, okay,
if you believe that, then it doesn't matter. It's it's
still a figure that has had a profound impact on
how people think and live their lives. And so I
find this really interesting that there is this concept out there,
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as exemplified by these stories, that life is so supposed
to be a big classroom. You know, don't feel too
bad about mistakes that you've made. You look back and
you think I was ignorant, or I was mean spirited,
or I was being a reactionary or whatever. You might
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not need to beat yourself up so badly. As long
as you are willing to learn. You're like the prodigal son.
You learn and you change and you improve, and then
you come back. And and the idea here is that
even this divine spirit Jesus had to learn and grow
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and therefore a sind. And so you might think about
yourself right now and be like man Um, I wish
I could be some wonderful, benevolent spiritual being. Well, guess why.
That's the whole idea. You can follow these examples and
you can change, and you can improve, and you can
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be a better person in and make wiser decisions starting
right now. The life you have is a classroom. And
I want to pause for just a moment to say that,
you know, my whole life, I've always been talking about, uh,
the spirit, the idea of a spiritual realm, and uh,
just about everything that happens in the Bible has a
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paranormal connotation. You know, the Bible is the most paranormal
book ever written. I mean it's it's got all the goodies,
and there's some magic and spirits and angels and demons
and UFOs and you know other than I mean, like
all of it's in the Bible healings and miracles. Um.
(21:43):
And I know you might look back and look at
an ancient text like the Bible and say, well, I
have never seen any of that stuff, like like, hey,
I'm maybe you've seen some remarkable things, but it's not
like an angel shows up and has dinner with you
or something like they used to do back in the days. Uh,
back in those days apparently. Um. But but just I
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want you to keep this in mind. We don't know
what to believe about anything if we don't personally experience it, right.
It's kind of it kind of goes back to that
gnostic thing. It's like I've never been on the moon,
So it's it is a leap of faith for me
to say humans have been to the moon. I believe that,
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but I can't say that I know for a personal fact.
And even if I did, you know, as as Edgar
Allan Post said, uh in his famous poem, all but
we see your seem is but a dream within a dream.
So how do you really know anything? Right? And so
that's why I've I've always found it interesting that, Uh.
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I I think that there's no way that a rational
person can be an atheist, because to say I am
an atheist means I know that I believe there is
no fill in the blank. You know that, UM, and
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a lot of people, uh misused skepticism as well. Skepticism.
It's like somebody doesn't believe in a ghost or a
bigfoot or whatever. They're like, oh, he's skeptical. Well, skepticism
is different than debunking. You know, a skeptic is supposed
to be somebody who just doubts. It's okay to doubt,
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but you should doubt. You should be skeptical. You doubt things,
you reserve judgment, But when you make a judgment, you say, no,
this is wrong, this is wrong. This. You are moving
often beyond skepticism into what is usually cynicism in many cases,
which is an inclination to believe that people are motivated
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purely by self interest, which is often financial, but it
could be an number of things. And that's that's a
very negative way of viewing the world, to be a
cynical debunking person. UM. I think that if you you
should if you're a blind believer in something that may
not be rational, and if you are a blind disbeliever
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in something that may not be rational, it may be
that the only thing that you can do that makes
any philosophical sense is to be some form of an agnostic,
meaning that you're not smart enough to know. Necessarily, you're
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not smart enough to know. Always give yourself some wiggle
room there. I mean, maybe it's this, maybe it's that,
But you're here to learn. Okay, fine, oh fine? So
what are we here to learn? What do they ascended
masters all say? What do they want us to do? Well?
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When we come back, I'm gonna break it down for you.
I'm gonna save you many years of studying tibit. I'm
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where the unusual becomes usual? What are the ascended masters? Well?
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Have you ever heard of Madame Blavatsky Helena Blavatsky Um
She was a Ukrainian author. Let's see her. She was
born in eighteen thirty one, died in eighteen ninety one,
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and she co founded something called the Theosophical Society in
eighteen seventy five, and she gained an international following as
the leading theoretician of theosophy. In fact, I wrote about
Madame Blavatsky and some about her work in my book
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Use the Force, A Jedi's Guide to the Law of Attraction.
And Uh, I could sit here and do a whole
podcast just about Madame Blovotsky, trust me, um, but you can.
We're we're We're just gonna talk about, uh, some of
the things she was into here. Getting back to Theosophy now,
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I'm just looking at the the Wikipedia definition of Theosophy
and it says it is a religion established in the
United States during the late nineteenth century, founded primarily by
immigrant Helena Blovotsky. Draws its teachings from her writings. Characterized
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by scholars of religion as both a new religious movement
and part of the occult stream of Western esotericism. It
draws upon both older European philosophies so as neo Platonism,
and Asian religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. As presented
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by Blovotsky, Theosophy teaches that there is an ancient and
secret brotherhood of spiritual adepts known as the Masters, who,
although found around the world, are centered in Tibet, and
these Masters are alleged by Blovotsky to have cultivated great
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wisdom and supernatural powers, and theosophust believe that it was
they who initiated the modern Theosophical movement through disseminating their
teachings via Blovotsky. They believe these Masters are attempting to
revive knowledge of an ancient religion once found around the world,
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and which will come again to eclipse the existing world religions.
Theosophical groups do not refer to their system as a religion. Uh.
Theosophy preaches the existence of a single divine absolute and
basically goes on to say that these ascended Masters are
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here to promote values of universal brotherhood and social improvement.
So that's basically what theosophy is about. And so if
you look up, well, what, okay, what's an ascended master.
Ascended Masters is in the ascended Master teachings of a
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number of movements in the Theosophical tradition, and are held
to be spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were
ordinary humans, but who have undergone a series of spiritual
transformations originally called initiations. Okay, So I mean like, look,
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there's a lot of room here to get creative with
thinking about these enlightened ascended masters. And I would not
want to imagine they transform from you know, one type
of being to another, and they are just here to
help us out and to enlighten us. And so examples
of those that are believed to be ascended master masters
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um by many of these organizations are people like Jesus, uh, Buddha, Confucius,
even Uh Mother Mary h Enoch St. Germaine. Uh. You know,
I guess it's it's a bit of a subjective thing
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exactly how one defines an ascended master. But that is
the idea that these these beings are here and they're
trying to help us improve. And it's kind of interesting
when you start looking at some of these people that
might be considered an ascended master or related to that,
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you look at some of these titles that people have.
You know, she's talking about Tibet here, and one of
my favorite movies is called Kundun. That's a Martin Scorsese film,
which is kind of difficult to find these days. It's
about kun d u n and it's about the life
of the current Dolli Lama and all the political turmoil
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that he went through. As a matter of fact, Dolly Lama,
that word actually means let's see, I wasn't sure okay,
So it says here it's a combination of these words.
Dolly means big or ocean okay, which makes sense. And
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then this word uh blama, which means master or guru.
Soy big master, he's the big guru, all right, makes sense? Um.
But this movie is called Condon, and I think that's
really interesting because if you actually look up what can
done means uh con don, which refers to this person
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embodied by the dollar Lama. Condon means present or presence,
and and that really is profound if you stop and
think about it, because that may be the one thing
that most of us are missing, is being aware of
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the present. We're always worried about the past or we're
stressing about the future. But there's something mystical about being presents. Um.
Maybe that's the hardest thing to its chief, to just
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be present. Uh. You know, you hear about people like
Mahatma Gandhi Uh I was like, what is that. What
is mahatma? Men? Well, um, it means great soul. Mahatma
means great soul. So you know, these are different cultures
around the world that are using language that uh hince
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at the idea that some people have a deeper soul
and a greater connection to what's spiritually important. And um,
getting back to the current Bali Lama however, you know
I've mentioned before one of my favorite quotes by him,
which is also my book Used The Force. Uh. He says,
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there's no benefit and worrying whatsoever. If there is a
solution to a problem, then there's no need to worry.
And if there is no solution, well then there's no
need to worry, right, And it's it's it's so simple,
but it's so difficult for us to grasp that and
to embrace that and to live by that. Also. Um,
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you may or may not know this. I have written
some novels, just not many, maybe couple, I think, uh fiction. Yeah.
One of them is called The Greeno Maniac Murder Spree
and it's it's an R rated manuscript in terms of
like language. It's got some language and violence in it.
(34:35):
It's kind of like a Quentin Tarantino story and um, yeah,
the Gringomaniac murder spree. If you're if you're a big,
a big fan, you you may as well go to
Amazon and buy a copy of that one if you
like to read novels. But in the book, I was
talking about this scenario which kind of pops up going
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back to like the this is the student who asked
the great uh Tibetan master what is real? And the
master replies that which never changes? And if you think
about that, you can you can explore that quite a bit.
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But in my mind what that means is, Hey, from
what I can tell, everything changes. Everything is in a
constant state of motion and evolution and transformation, and so
maybe nothing is really real. There are things that can
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be real at a certain time, in a certain situation
to serve a certain purpose. But ultimately everything is flexible.
You can grow, you can improve, you can be a
better person, you can help other people. Mhm. But all right,
enough of that business. Let's look at all these characters
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that are often called ascended masters. Well what do they
tell us all? They ultimately tell us two things. In
my opinion, this is just my breakdown, my years of research.
I'm gonna get, Like I say, here's year's worth of
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of ascended master knowledge broken down for you in a podcast.
Two things number one. They all in one way or
another talk about the I Am principle, which is, you know,
even in the Bible, God identifies himself as I am.
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Moses says what is your name? And God says I
am Basically I am that I am, And I think
what that means is this is about that concept, is
about taking personal responsibility for yourself as an independent observer
of the world who can judge the world based on
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your own logical merits and ultimately pay the consequences for
your decisions and actions. When we come back, I'm going
to tell you what the second thing is, and then
if I have time, I might even squeeze in a
creepy email. At least I think it's creepy. Maybe you won't,
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depends on what you're into. I'm Joshua Pete Warren. You're
listening to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio and
Coast to Coast AM Paranormal podcast network. I will be
right back. Welcome back to the final segment of this
(38:23):
edition of Strange Things on the I Heart Radio and
Coast to Coast. I am Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host,
Joshua P. Warren, And in my opinion, the first thing
the ascended masters tell you what they talk in some
form about that I am principle taking personal responsibility for
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yourself as an independent observer of the world who can
judge the world based on your own logical merits and
ultimately pay pay the consequences for your decisions and actions
and hopefully, hopefully you'll do well. But here's a little
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tip for you. It's not a popularity contest. You have
to think for yourself. All throughout history, we've seen over
and over again that oftentimes the majority of what's popular
at a certain time is like a mob mentality, and
we look back and we're horrified by it. You have
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to think for yourself. History keeps trying to beat that
lesson into our heads. We live in a pretty troubling
time right now where people feel like it's okay to
jump on the internet and just be horrible and rude
and uh, and then they run around and people are
(39:54):
uh virtue signaling and trying to act like they're better
than everybody else. They say, I know what's right, and
I'm good, and so I'm gonna force you to do
what I want you to do. Uh, it's a it's
a it's a contradiction. It's a self contradiction. These people
who often are like, this is the right thing to
do today because this is what's popular today, and I'm
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gonna jump on that bandwagon, and then they go out
and become the thing that they supposedly hate. They become
the monster. You have to love other people and don't
try to control them and manipulate them all the time.
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And if you, I think if you do that, if
you actually even if you don't naturally love people, I
think you can train yourself to love people if you
just sort of um are self aware. You know. That's
what what the I Am is about. You have to
be aware of your your animal instincts that in my
book used the four I talked about your your wookie
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like Chebacca like, you know, sort of like primitive instincts
to just be an animal. You've got to be aware
of that, and then that will help you to actually
be a better person. Okay. The second thing is no
big surprise. In one form or another. They all say,
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once you have that self awareness. You use that two
achieve a mindset of the Golden rule. That's it, do
unto others as you would have them do unto you,
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
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And um, all of this ultimately kind of boils down
into it. You know, you reap what you so kind
of scenario. But even if you don't believe in karma,
and I know a lot of people who don't believe it,
I happen to believe in karma. But even if you
still uh, the ascended masters were saying, be self aware,
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use the power of the I am of the observer.
Do not be swayed by things that feel you know,
out of place or wrong. And you know, you should
be a loving being and secondly you should express that
by way of the Golden Rule. Those are your two things,
I am and the Golden Rule. And you know, going
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back to the Internet, I knew when the Internet came
out because I you know, I I never even heard
the word email until I was in college, So I
got to see the world before and after. I mean,
like right in the middle of my life, like boom,
the Internet took off and I built my first website
in or ninety gates. So I've always been very plugged
in UH, and I knew that the Internet would finally
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show us once and for all whether or not human
nature is essentially good or bad, because it would give
people freedom to express and UH, it would give people
access to all kinds of information they wouldn't otherwise have
access to. And at this point I have to tell
you I'm sad to report that I think it's bad. Um.
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I think it's bad because there are too many good
people out there who are weak and who don't stand
up for goodness. You can stand up for what's right
without attacking somebody else who's wrong. If you disagree with somebody,
you don't have to attack that person. You can just
say here's what I think is right. But too many
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people are who are good are weak and afraid to
do that, and that's a shame. UM. So look, just
if you care at all about the lessons of the
ascended masters, every time you interact with somebody, I don't
care if it's in person or it's on the telephone,
or it's through the Internet or whatever, try to do
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it as a promoter of the Golden rule. But be strong.
You don't have to attack people, you don't have to
try to change people. You just give your opinion strongly
and firmly, and make sure it's a good, positive opinion.
Don't be weak. And that's why you have to remember
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that only the devil wants to restrict speech. Yeah, my
whole life is about free speech, whether you like it
or not. Free speech is a divine right. The devil,
so to speak, will take it away, the enemy will
take it away, the darkness. Take those lessons. I've bowled
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them down for you best I can. And now you
can go and do more research on your own if
you'd like. That's what the ascended masters are all telling us,
and that's how you can apply it to to your
life today. Perhaps here's uh, let's see an email I
got from Thomas Hancock from Oregon. He says, in September
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of two thousand and eight, my grandmother, who I was
very close to, died at nine nine years old. Being
so close to her, I knew that her very favorite
animal in the whole world, oddly enough, was the daddy
long legs spider. Let me pause to let you all
(45:30):
know I, Joshua not a fan of spidery things all
right back to his email. Anyway, she loved to watch them,
and it was not uncommon to see her letting them
dance gangly across her fingers. Just weeks after Grandma's passing,
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I went on a hunting trip with a friend of
mine and we found a nice secluded area and set
up camp. We started our fire just before dark and
we started talking about my Grandma. For whatever reason, I
had always favored saying goodbye to loved ones that had
passed by getting back to nature as opposed to attending
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a funeral, so this seemed like the perfect time to
reminisce about her and say my goodbyes. Well about an
hour into our conversation, we both noticed that it looked
like the ground was moving. We turned on our head
lamps to see the entire campsite and the bottom of
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our pant legs entirely covered. We have daddy long legs.
I would say that an area of about ten ft
by ten feet was completely covered by them. I was
so overwhelmed with strong feelings and thoughts of Grandma that
it almost seemed that she was there with me. We
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let the little creatures be, and they and and we
just kept talking. They crawled everywhere. After about thirty minutes
of this, we decided to go our separate tents. Go
to our separate tents to get some sleep. The Daddy
long legs were still everywhere, covering the ground, and after
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about ten minutes, my friend had to get up as
nature called. He turned on his head lamp, stepped out
of his tent and found mine completely covered with the
Daddy long legs. There were none on his tent are
around the area we were sitting out before. And as
his light shined on my tent, all I could see. Uh,
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As his light shined on my tent, Uh, Yeah, all
I could see we're hundreds of spindley shadows. The next morning,
when we got up, we saw no sign of the
Daddy long legs anywhere. And this was the only night
this happened to us during the ten days we stayed
at the site. So I thank you for that, Thomas.
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I get the idea that that brought you some warmth
and comfort, and I'm I'm happy. I'm happy that that
you took it that way. Me. I love my grandma,
but I'll pass, I'll pass. I'd I'd rather just I
think I'll go to the funeral. I know that's terrible. No,
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my my grandmothers have passed already, but seriously, I'm not
a fan of granddaddy long legs. Growing up in western
North Carolina, I saw plenty of them. All right. Uh,
hopefully you've learned something. Hopefully you've enjoyed this podcast. Let's
end it on a very positive note. As usual, take
a deep breath, if you can, close your eyes and
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listen to the good Fortune Tom. That's it for this
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