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you can do at home, and a lot more on
this edition of the program. How you can use placebo power. Now,
this is such a fascinating topic. I love it. Okay,
did you know there is a popular prank you can pull.
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This happens a lot, I think like hazing college students.
What you do is you take a glass, just to
short glass, and you pour some tonic water in it,
which is nonalcoholic, and then you put a nice big
juicy slice of lime on it, and then you take
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it to somebody and you say, okay, if you get
free drinks tonight, but take it easy. These are stiff,
all right, And you start feeding a person these completely
nonalcoholic drinks when you are telling that person it is
still alcoholic. When you do that. After a while and
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not very long, the person will often start acting really
really drunk and like like the village anyway, okay, look
basically so drunk that the person can actually fail a
filled sobriety test, you know, the kind of test like
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a police officer would give you if a breathalyzer isn't around.
That's what they used to do back in the old days.
This happens all the time. And you know what, I
don't think I've ever actually tried this out, but I've
seen videos and I've heard stories about it, and so
but I've always thought that was really interesting. I have
no reason to believe that the person would fail a
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breathalyzer test, but the person's behavior definitely changes. And then um,
the person, of course starts acting so uncoordinated that again
he or she could even fail a test. This is
an example of what is called the placebo effect. That is,
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a placebo is a Latin phrase. It means I will please,
And this dates back, oh gosh, hundreds of years. And
the funniest thing is is weird as that may sound,
the placebo effect will often work even if the person
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is told in advance then it's a placebo. So and
there are cases where you could actually say this is
tonic water, there's no alcohol in here, and this is
a slice of lime, but you're going to feel drunk
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and the well, you can get the same effect in
many cases. So the placebo effect, it's weird enough that
it works at all, but it's especially weird that it
works in so many cases even when the person knows
that it's a placebo. This is absolutely fascinating to me
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because it shows how much sort of creative power that
we have when we start focusing mentally on an expectation.
And this actually relates some to the self fulfilling prophecies,
of course, that I've talked about in the past, and
I think I might circle back around to that. But this,
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this element of the placebo effect, is perhaps the closest
that some type some types of clinical scientists have come
to actually documenting this mysterious phenomenon that takes place when
we manifest things. When we create things, whether we create
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good things or creepy things, materialize a ghost or a
UFO encounter or a new job or whatever. Okay, all
of us are sort of magicians, and some of us
are just poor magicians and they can't get it right.
But you can learn, you can learn. And uh, before
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I go further with this, I just want to read
you sort of the the official definition of the placebo effect.
And this is actually a topic that comes to me
as a listener requests because I did a show about
this phenomenon on my old podcast called Joshua P. Warren Daily,
which is still out there. There are hundreds of shows
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that you can listen to for free, uh if you
don't mind some you know, raw unedited content and sometimes
some R rated language. But for the purposes of this show, uh,
you know, I figured, let me revisit this because I
know more about this now and it's just become more
fascinating than ever. So if you actually go to Wikipedia
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and you look up the definition of the placebo effect,
it's actually, I think a pretty harsh description which gives
you an idea of some bias here on the part
of whoever wrote this, because you know Wikipedia, anybody can
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chime in all these things that are kind of controversial.
It says a placebo is a sham substance. It's like,
whoa hold on? Sham. That's a pretty strong word to
start with, isn't it. I looked it up. Here's the
definition of sham. It says bogus or false, or a
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thing that is not what it is purported to be.
So I guess that's kind of true. But is it
Is it a sham substance or is it just a
substance that is producing a mysterious effect? You know, we
we look, let's not get to the semantics, but we
go back here to what it says, a sham substance
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or treatment which is designed to have no known therapeutic value.
And common placebos include inert tablets like sugar peels or
inert injections like sailine you know, salt water basically, and
other procedures and in general, placebos can affect how patients
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perceive their condition and encourage the body's chemical processes for
relieving pain and other symptoms. And uh, and then they
go down. You know a list of different types of
Uh of ways this has been used, and it says
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here the idea of the placebo effect was discussed in
eighteenth century psychology became more prominent in the twentieth century.
Uh doctors believing they are clinically important. So anyway, Um,
they repeat what I was just saying. It's placebo. Placebo
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is the Latin for I shall be pleasing, And it
says in a clinical trial, a placebo response is the
measured response of subjects to a placebo. And then uh,
you know, you get the idea of all these things
that people are attributing to the placebo effect. A lot
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of people say it relieves them of pain and nausea. Um.
So anyway, look, I have found personally that when when
scientists go out there and they start running tests, they
get very frustrated when they do not have a success rate.
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So it's like and they and they never do because
so there's always a margin of error there. And so
whenever a studies being done, even with some type of
you know, firm medication, some type of you know, established
chemical reaction that's supposed to happen, there is always this
period of this again, this margin of air of this
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space that's left open wherein and well this, you know,
we didn't give the person this thing, but the person
had the effect anyway. Well we can't explain that. So yeah,
let's just dismiss that as part of the margin of error.
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And so I think it's kind of irresponsible to say,
well maybe that, you know, studying that margin of error
is just as important as understanding, um, everything else about
this entire testing process. I mean, some scientists have gotten
so specific that they say that they have found that
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if you do these tests and you give people a
yellow placebo pill, it seems to be most effective at
treating depression. Red pills cause the patient to be more
alert and awake. Green pills helped to ease anxieties. Uh,
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white pills seem to soothe stomach issues. And they say
it's it seems to work best when you take them
at least, you know, four times a day. And if
there's a brand name of some kind that's stamped on them,
that also works better than having nothing written on them whatsoever.
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So we have to take a break. We come back,
I want to talk more about like what might be
happening here, because some people think placebo is just bs
and I'm telling you no, there's something important here, and
I'm going to give you some tips on experiments you
can do to tap into that power and use it
to your benefit. And listen to this. I am going
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to be moving soon. I will tell you more about
that in the future. But it's a great time for
me to give away some free stuff because I don't
want to have to move all this stuff that I had.
I buy really cool things for myself and I'm like,
you know what, I don't need all this stuff. So
I'm going to be giving away a lot of cool,
weird free stuff, including a home spa that has never
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You're listening to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio
and co to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'll be
right back. Welcome back to Strange Things on the I
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Heart Radio and Coast to Coast a m paranormal podcast Network.
I'm your host, the Wizard of Weird, Joshua pe Warren,
beaming into your wormhole brain from my studio and Sin City,
Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day is golden and every
night is silver. And why do you think that so
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many people instantly believe that the word placebo means bs? Okay,
if it works, does that make it BS? No? Well,
but if it works but you don't know how it works,
that makes it b S. Yeah, yeah, that's it. Okay,
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Well that does us a lot of good. Huh what
kind of how um, how how un curious non curious
would you have to be to see the world that way?
To not be like, well, no, this is actually the
most interesting part of this whole process. How does that
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work when when this is this is the mystery here.
And do you think it's possible that maybe we rely
upon technology, including medical technology uh too much as a
crutch sometimes, and that you'd be surprised what you might
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just be able to do for yourself by taking advantage
of this mechanism known as the placebo effect, even if
you know that it can work when you know it's
a placebo. Uh. I mean, this is what is so
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incredible because it's it's giving us more insight into our
relationship with reality and the fact that you can put
yourself in a certain state of mind in which it
might help you to just make something happen, even if
you don't know how it happens. A little later, I'm
going to tell you why that faith is overrated. Uh.
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And I'd love to get into that right now, but
just hold off for a second. So I find this
whole thing amazing on so many levels because we're not
just talking about data that should be dismissed as people acting,
you know, their imagination or what. No, we're talking about
some kind of an interesting power here that many humans,
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if not all humans, possess. And I think that any
manifestation tool takes advantage of the placebo effect to some degree.
And you know, over the years, a lot of people
have asked me, how do I think something like the
Wishing machine works? And the simple, honest answer is, I
don't know. Nobody knows. It is a mystery. Uh. And
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then I will often follow up and say, but what
if the wishing machine is somehow the most effective placebo
that has ever been created by humans? Maybe that's it. Uh,
So what if it works? And uh, you know, it
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makes your wishes come true? And you say, that's good enough.
We don't always have to know. Someday we may have
more information. However, I will tell you that personally, I'll
pause here and get off on a side track here,
because I think, in my opinion, the Wishing machine does
not solely work as the product of a placebo, because
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that particular device has got quartz crystals inside of it
arranged in a kind of circuit. And you might say, okay, well,
what does that have to do with the power of
belief and all that? Well, I'll tell you, look there,
technology is real. You can you know, believe you're gonna
fly and flap your arms all day and you're it's
not gonna happen unless you get on an airplane or something.
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So now there is a real thing called objective technology.
And I think that one one reason the wishing machine
is so powerful is because it does have quartz crystals
and very special types of crystals and a special arrangement.
And I always fall back on this. This is one
of my favorite articles. This is from Scientific American. This
was published almost ten years ago and team by Timothy Horniack,
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and it says data saved in quartz glass might last
three hundred million years. And they go on to say
that many laboratories still rely on magnetic tape blah blah blah.
But it says Hitachi recently announced that it has developed
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a medium that can outlast not only this old school format,
but also CDs, DVDs, hard drives, MP three's whatever. It
says the electronics giant partnered up with Kyoto Universities Kyo
Takamura to develop these little slivers of quartz glass that
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can preserve information for hundreds of millions of years with
virtually no degradation. They say it's a little square of
quartz two centimeters wide and two millimeters thick. So think about, like,
you know, like how a little glass microscope slide looks.
We'll imagine a little square that's like half the size
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of that probably looks like half half of one of those.
And it says it houses four layers of dots that
are created with a special laser, and the dots represent
information in binary form. And it says that, uh, these
can be read with various optical microscopes because the layers
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are embedded, surface erosion will not affect them. And it
has a storage density a little better uh than that
of a c D. And it goes on to say
it was undamaged. Well, now listen to this when exposed
to one thousand degree heat for two hours in a test.
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And the results of that lead ha tach to and
to conclude that this quarts data could last hundreds of eons.
And so they go on to say, like many courts
based rocks from the time of Pangaea long long ago
are now sand, and I think they're implying that maybe
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there's some information that's left in there. Well, this is
a scientific American and so it may be that the
human mind, um, you know, this electrical machine that's always
radiating power has some way of imprinting these courts crystals,
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and you can give them some type of a command,
you can charge them with a purpose, and then you
can forget about them and they continue sitting there working
for you. And if you can get that much information
stored for so long and a little sliver of courts,
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imagine a big chunk of courts, you know, like we're
talking three dimensional volume here. This is why I do
actually think there could be something to the idea of
the crystal skulls. Uh that. And I have a few
crystal skulls and weird things happen around them. Someday I'll
tell you some of those stories. I have some big
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ones and some small ones, and I've got an alien
crystal skull it looks like, you know, one of those
from Indiana Jones. And there may be some type of
remnant of consciousness that's stored inside there that's able to
be accessed later. Remember in the Superman movie with Christopher Reeve,
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the original one, how he tapped into the crystals at
the Fortress of Solitude and was able to resurrect some
representation of his father. Uh. Marlon Brando played that character
who starts telling him you know where he's from, and
it's like he's accessing this interactive holographic experience. Look, I'm
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getting off on a tangent here, but but again I'm
just saying I think that you can combine certain types
of conscious sensitive um items or or media like these
crystals in certain arrangements and enhance this so called placebo effect.
But as I was saying, when they test drugs, these
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are you know, these hardcore critical scientists, and and they
sort of brush aside this margin of error because they
cannot explain it. Um, that is where we should be
looking most intensely what is happening in that margin of error,
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because is what this shows you is that there is proof,
in certain cases, at very least, of a mental effect
on the world, especially your own body, that cannot be
explained by just chemistry and electrical impulses alone. Here's an
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interesting thing to think about. Did you know that there
are atheists who pray. Now, they do not believe there
is a God, but they still pray. And they do
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that because they believe it's beneficial to have the human
experience of praying. Two an imaginary entity and I And
now this to me means that we're talking about a
person who is doubtful enough about the reality and actually
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more than a doubt. If you're an atheist, you're usually
coming right out there and you're saying, I don't believe
there is anything more than this material world that I
should be worried about. And yet you still since the
benefit and the value of going through this process of
praying because you've seen it work. And you might think
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that if you're an atheist who praise and you see
it work, that you would start like reconsidering what's happening
here and maybe open your mind about that. But you see,
you have to think about using every tool at your
disposal to succeed in life. And as I told you, faith, however,
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is not the most powerful thing. When I come back,
I'm going to tell you what I think. The most
powerful thing is how you can trick the brain. And
I'm gonna give you some experiments you can do for
yourself to try to tap into placebo power. Why not,
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I'm Joshua pe Warren. You're listening to strange things on
the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast, a Ambara
normal podcast network. I'll be back after these important messages
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Welcome back to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio
and Coast to Coast a yea paranormal podcast network. I'm
your host, Joshua P. Warren, and this is the show
where the unusual becomes usual. It might surprise you to
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hear me say that faith is not the most important thing.
The most important thing is perception. And here's what I mean.
Faith is something that you have control over. To have faith,
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you make a choice. Perception is something that you have
very little or perhaps no control over. It's something that
just works. It's an effect. Um, it's something that even
if it's a trick, it still works and gives you
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a desired result. Let me explain what I'm talking about
in my book Finding Your Magic how to Hack Reality,
which is something that you can get. You can download
it right now as a as an e book if
you go to Joshua P. Warren dot com and go
to my Curiosity Shop. It comes with all kinds of
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goodies if you go there, and it's not very expensive.
Um and Finding your Magic, I use an optical illusion
as an example of this. We've all seen these optical
illusions where you're looking at a still picture, especially if
it's in a book or something, and it looks like
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there are patterns on it that are that are spinning
or moving in some way, as if they are animated.
Now you know they are not moving. You absolutely know
that this is not moving. And yet when you look
at it, they're moving and everything, and and the the
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authors of the artists and the scientists go, yeah, that's cool,
itn't it. It just there's nothing you can do about it.
It just that's just the way that your eyes are
gonna work. Now, look again, it's not a consistent I mean,
there are some illusions, optical illusions that work better for
some some people than others. You know, some people have
trouble seeing those kind of like magic eye three D
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things that used to be popular back in the day.
I've always been really good at seeing that kind of stuff.
And but anyway, you see my point, Um, it doesn't
matter whether or not I have faith that these things
are are spinning. Uh. There are certain designs and and
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certain presentations and interactions that you have with the world
in which there is simply an effect there that you
cannot control, and that is based upon the way the
human mind is currently designed to perceive things. And you
can use that to your advantage, um, to trick your
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mind into doing whatever you want it to do, use
whatever mental tools that you can use to achieve a result.
And you might say, well, okay, the placebo effect is
something we hear a lot about when it comes to
taking a medicine, But actually this can be applied to
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all kinds of things. Like I was saying, I did
a podcast, let's see episode fifty six of this show
called how to Create Power with self fulfilling Prophecies, and
I think you'll see that the two are related. In fact,
there is this cool article that I read um from
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examples dot your dictionary dot com, and it's it's about
self fulfilling prophecy examples, and it says there are two
types of self fulfilling prophecies. The first one is called
other imposed and the second type is called self imposed.
And here here are the examples of that. They say, Like,
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here would be an example of an other imposed they say,
Imagine a student Jamie is about to take a college
entrance exam, and she has spent lots of time preparing.
As she's walking into the building to get the test,
her her dad calls her and her dad's. Her dad
says that she's always had a hard time with anxiety,
and he that she shouldn't be surprised if she doesn't
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get a good score. So he tells her that, and
then when Jamie sits down to take the test, her
heart is racing. Now, maybe he meant well by by
saying that to her, right, but still she can't think clearly.
She knows she's gonna run out of time and anyway,
so she kind of struggles because she's panicking a little
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bit more. And it says when she gets her score,
it's lower than she wanted. That is a case of
other imposed, self fulfilling prophecy. So this is almost like
a placebo. That is, that is implanted directly through the
power of suggestion with that level of simplicity, and then
there is self imposed. They say. Imagine a guy named
Ryan is getting ready to ask a woman for a date.
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And Ryan has previous experience with rejection and he thinks
he sees a trend. He's sure the woman will reject
him when he asked for the date, but he decides
to do it anyway. So he walks up to her
with his hands in his pockets and his head down
and he mumbles, I know you probably don't want to
go out with me, but I'm asking anyway, And just
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as he predicted, she turns him down. So that is
a classic self imposed self fulfilling prophecy. And they say
that this happens a lot in the areas of like
teacher expectations, expectations of pain, economic decision making, workplace paranoia,
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employee creativity. I mean, you can look into this and
you can see what I'm what I'm talking about here,
how it all connects very much to this concept of
the placebo effect. So, knowing how this works, how do
we really take advantage of it? How do we really
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tap into this? Okay, thry this out. Like I say,
all manifestation devices to some extent take advantage of this effect.
You don't have to know how it works, just know
it works. So you can do it for anything. Take
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a glass of water, right, something that you want on
a piece of paper and put it on the glass,
Fill it with water and drink it and let it
sit there and percolate. It could be anything. It could
be the way that you want to feel. It could
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be something that you want to happen in your life.
It could be uh, any combination of abstract concepts for
what you want to manifest. I think somebody like Dr
Moss root Emoto would appreciate this idea as well that
you are. You know, he was the guy who was
doing experiments to document how that thoughts could change the
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structure of water could change what you'd be ingesting. So
right now what you want and drink it. You could
even do the alcohol experiment, you know, where you have
a non alcoholic drink and you just start drinking it
and see if you feel like you're get in the buzz.
But you can do it for anything. But here's another
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variation on this. You really want to experiment, which is
pretty cool, have a friend help you. So let's say
you have some kind of a liquid medicine that you're
comfortable with, and you have a friend a partner of
some kind that decides to work with you on this experiment,
and you put the medicine in one drink and not
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the other. But this needs to be a liquid medicine
that can go into a glass of something that hides
the taste, like a strong tea or a strong soda
or whatever. So so you have one glass that's got
the medicine, and then you have a second one without it,
and only your partner knows which is which. So you
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try just picking one of those two up every day
for a few days, and you don't know what you're
drinking and just drink it. And then at the end
of this period of days you ask your partner. It's
like a blind taste test, what was I drinking and
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see if you know you felt any If you get
to detect a difference, right, you can do it for anything.
One of the most interesting subjects to me is something
a lot of people don't really think anything about. It's
called ontology. It's a branch of philosophy that studies concepts
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such as existence, being, becoming reality, and how that these
entities are grouped into basic categories. It ties right into
metaphysics and trying to systematically sort of break all this down.
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You can take things like substances, properties, relations, states of affairs,
and events and how they affect the human mind and
the ultimate physical outcome. Yeah, and this is so fascinating
to me because I think one of the reasons that
manifestation works, especially when you start getting into some of
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these more elaborate sort of placebo experiments. Is that what
we're doing here is we're we're not just always restricting ourselves.
Do we have one possible outcome like a scientist who's
testing an outcome for a drug. Life is more complex
than that. Life consists of physical phenomena as well as
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mental and emotional and spiritual phenomena that all go into
how we behave We're not just animals. When somebody dies,
we don't just let them lay there and the vultures
eat them. No, we have a big ceremony and we
say nice things, and we put them in the ground
and we put flower. Why do we do all that Well,
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we do it because it means something to us on
a mental and spiritual level. You can take any combination
of concepts and onto logically represent them into the manifestation
technique using something as simple as this glass of water
and the placebo experiment, and add it to whatever else
you're doing at whatever else your experiments are, and let
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me know what happens. We have to take a break.
When we come back, I'm gonna tell you something really
cool that happened to me recently. And then I want
to read an email to you I got from a
woman who said she didn't believe in any of this stuff,
but now she does. I'm Joshua pe Warren. You're listening
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to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio and Coast
to Coast, a m 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 para normal podcast network. I'm
your host, Joshua pe Warren. And here's something just sort
of funny that happened to me not too long ago
that brought a smile to my face, the meaning to
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just bring this up. Uh, not too long ago. Recently,
my my old pal Forest Connor came into town here
in Las Vegas with his lady friend to visit me
and Lauren, and we went out and had a grand
ole evening and you know, we had a nice dinner,
et cetera. And at the end of the night, when
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we were at this big busy casino about two part ways,
of course, we realize, hey, we we need to get
some pictures before the night's over. And so the four
of us we gathered around and I can't remember if
this was a selfie because you know, somebody had a
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good angle, you know that is, or if we asked
a server to take the picture. I can't really tell.
But it's this great picture of the four of us
all huddled around and this is probably like two o'clock
in the morning or something. And uh so the next day,
of course, whoever had the picture sends it out and
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I realized as soon as I see it that in
the background in this busy casino, there is this random
man who is kind of walking through the scene, but
he you could tell he pauses for just a moment.
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And the guy he he has a big, long, dark beard,
and he's wearing one of these kind of flat caps
like they I think they call him, like a newsboy cap,
like they'd wear in the twenties, like the Wright Brothers
would wear. So this random, strange man in the background,
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he is looking directly into the camera. He is grinning
ear to ear, just beaming with joy and giving a
big old thumbs up. And I was like, what this is?
This is my favorite part of this picture because I
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started thinking about how that guy, who I presume I
will never I'll never know, I'll never see him again.
This is a last somehow or other than you know
that I am now connected to this moment with this guy,
because he could have turned and he could have been
delaying anything back there and in this town call Sends City,
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I think you know what I mean, he could have
been doing some pretty nasty, freaky or negative things to
ruin our picture. Instead, he took a moment and he
could have just ignored it, but he said, hey, you
know what, I'm gonna be in the background of this thing,
and he made it positive and he made it great
and I smiled and laughed and he made me feel good.
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And something as simple as that should be an example
for you as how that when you're living your life
every day, you never know who's gonna be seeing you,
what situation you're gonna end up in. And I guarantee
you that that guy, he had no idea who we were,
and that that experience would ever be talked about on
a coast to coast AM podcast that goes out to
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millions of people all all over the world. I mean,
like so um when it comes to bearing in mind,
like the power of how you think and the positivity
that you live your life with and how that exudes
throughout the world and helps other people feel better. I mean,
like simple stuff like that shows you the power of
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these these concepts and thoughts that you can start managing
in order to improve not only your life, but the
lives of those around you. Here is an email I
got from a lady in South Carolina, and you know
I am from North Carolina, and I won't tell you
exactly where she lives, but she lives at one of
my favorite places. Her name is Barbara, and she said,
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I had some serious reservations buying the wishing machine, but
now it dawns on me that I wish for a
new car, and I got one. My husband took his
electric car into the dealership to get some repairs done,
and I had taken him in my car. As we
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were leaving, he said that the Toyota place was just
down the road and that he knew I liked priusists,
so he says, why don't you see if they have
one you like? Well, they did, so he said, all right,
let's go ahead and get it. She said. That was
about a year after I had put the picture and
the message on the wishing box, and it took me
a while to realize that the wishing machine had worked,
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and then last week I was very concerned that my
garden might be compromised by some very cold weather. Everything
was coming out with new leaves and new growth, and
so I put a protective clock over my garden, and
I knew it was going to be all right, and
it was all right the next day. I am a
very positive person, but I have a problem that I
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need help with. So I have decided to order one
of your bad busters, your psionic de materializers, and I'm
looking forward to receiving it. Thank you for being you, Barbara. Well,
you know what, Barbara, I'm so glad that you sent
me that thank you, because this is a great example
of what whatso often happens um someone gets a wishing
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machine because they say, you know what, I'm in a
position where I can I can experiment with this, and
they do it. But there's that little voice saying, come on,
this ain't gonna work. It's ain't gonna work. And so
when it does work, sometimes you don't realize it's worked
until you look back in retrospect. And even though it
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took a year, Well you're talking about this working for
a person who didn't even think it was gonna work
at all. And once she said, WHOA, Okay, that work
will us. What Now she's manifested the next thing much
more quickly, because once you manifest your first big thing,
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you have worked that muscle out and then you can
start manifesting things much more quickly. The just like anything else,
the more you practice, the better you get at it
and the faster it comes to you. But I tell
you what, once you get that flow, you gotta keep
it going. You better not stop because if you do
stop and you get down with the dumps, it'll all
come crashing down on you again. So you know, keep
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it going, keep it going, and you can be a
magical person every single day. And you know, the more
complex the wish, the more difficult to attain, the more
pieces that have to come together, the longer it may take.
But that does not mean that it will not happen.
And then, uh, like I said, once you get in
the swing of things, you're good. Uh. Let's see, I
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think I can squeeze in one more email. It's pretty cool.
This is from MHM Max, who is an information and
technology systems specialist. He said, I was about five or
six years old when I tried to run across an expressway,
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and I guess I was not running fast enough. I
got run over by a truck. But some beings saved me.
I heard them contemplating whether or not I was worth saving,
and finally one of them said to the others that yes,
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I should be saved. And I then became fully conscious
and found my body perfectly aligned under the truck so
that nothing had actually happened to me. I was completely uninjured.
Both my brother and I used to hear and see
these beings, thank you, Max, you know what, stuff like that,
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and I get a lot of it. It makes me
think that they're really maybe um a classroom here that
we're in. We're we're we're we're being taught to open
our minds to be more spiritual, enlightened beings. We're being
taught that we can manifest things, and that if you
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have the right mindset there you you you have help
waiting there for you. You have people who can actually
assist you. Angels, yes, demons. Maybe I don't know, but
I love hearing positive stories and that's why I'm still
collecting stories right now for this new anthology I'm putting together.
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I want your story if you. Okay, it's a book
that's going to be coming out my I hope sometime
this year, and it's called Amazing, Happy in Things, And
I want you to submit a story to me about
something amazing that's happened to you. It's got to be short,
and it's got to be true, and it has to
have an amazing happy ending. And if you go to
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Joshua P. Warren dot com, you'll see a link right
now at the top that you can click there in
yellow letters there that says click here to submit a story.
I've gotten some great ones in, but I want to
get more. I'm hoping I can get maybe close to
like a hundred really really good, solid stories, So go
send me one. All right, now, let's all get positive.
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Let's relax, take a deep breath, and let's subject ourselves
to a vibration that will help us make the next
week of your life one of the best ever. Okay,
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you can do at home, and a lot more on
this edition of the program. How you can use placebo power. Now,
this is such a fascinating topic. I love it. Okay,
did you know there is a popular prank you can pull.
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This happens a lot, I think like hazing college students.
What you do is you take a glass, just to
short glass, and you pour some tonic water in it,
which is nonalcoholic, and then you put a nice big
juicy slice of lime on it, and then you take
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it to somebody and you say, okay, if you get
free drinks tonight, but take it easy. These are stiff,
all right, And you start feeding a person these completely
nonalcoholic drinks when you are telling that person it is
still alcoholic. When you do that. After a while and
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not very long, the person will often start acting really
really drunk and like like the village anyway, okay, look
basically so drunk that the person can actually fail a
filled sobriety test, you know, the kind of test like
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a police officer would give you if a breathalyzer isn't around.
That's what they used to do back in the old days.
This happens all the time. And you know what, I
don't think I've ever actually tried this out, but I've
seen videos and I've heard stories about it, and so
but I've always thought that was really interesting. I have
no reason to believe that the person would fail a
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breathalyzer test, but the person's behavior definitely changes. And then um,
the person, of course starts acting so uncoordinated that again
he or she could even fail a test. This is
an example of what is called the placebo effect. That is,
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a placebo is a Latin phrase. It means I will please,
And this dates back, oh gosh, hundreds of years. And
the funniest thing is is weird as that may sound,
the placebo effect will often work even if the person
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is told in advance then it's a placebo. So and
there are cases where you could actually say this is
tonic water, there's no alcohol in here, and this is
a slice of lime, but you're going to feel drunk
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and the well, you can get the same effect in
many cases. So the placebo effect, it's weird enough that
it works at all, but it's especially weird that it
works in so many cases even when the person knows
that it's a placebo. This is absolutely fascinating to me
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because it shows how much sort of creative power that
we have when we start focusing mentally on an expectation.
And this actually relates some to the self fulfilling prophecies,
of course, that I've talked about in the past, and
I think I might circle back around to that. But this,
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this element of the placebo effect, is perhaps the closest
that some type some types of clinical scientists have come
to actually documenting this mysterious phenomenon that takes place when
we manifest things. When we create things, whether we create
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good things or creepy things, materialize a ghost or a
UFO encounter or a new job or whatever. Okay, all
of us are sort of magicians, and some of us
are just poor magicians and they can't get it right.
But you can learn, you can learn. And uh, before
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I go further with this, I just want to read
you sort of the the official definition of the placebo effect.
And this is actually a topic that comes to me
as a listener requests because I did a show about
this phenomenon on my old podcast called Joshua P. Warren Daily,
which is still out there. There are hundreds of shows
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that you can listen to for free, uh if you
don't mind some you know, raw unedited content and sometimes
some R rated language. But for the purposes of this show, uh,
you know, I figured, let me revisit this because I
know more about this now and it's just become more
fascinating than ever. So if you actually go to Wikipedia
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and you look up the definition of the placebo effect,
it's actually, I think a pretty harsh description which gives
you an idea of some bias here on the part
of whoever wrote this, because you know Wikipedia, anybody can
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chime in all these things that are kind of controversial.
It says a placebo is a sham substance. It's like,
whoa hold on? Sham. That's a pretty strong word to
start with, isn't it. I looked it up. Here's the
definition of sham. It says bogus or false, or a
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thing that is not what it is purported to be.
So I guess that's kind of true. But is it
Is it a sham substance or is it just a
substance that is producing a mysterious effect? You know, we
we look, let's not get to the semantics, but we
go back here to what it says, a sham substance
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or treatment which is designed to have no known therapeutic value.
And common placebos include inert tablets like sugar peels or
inert injections like sailine you know, salt water basically, and
other procedures and in general, placebos can affect how patients
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perceive their condition and encourage the body's chemical processes for
relieving pain and other symptoms. And uh, and then they
go down. You know a list of different types of
Uh of ways this has been used, and it says
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here the idea of the placebo effect was discussed in
eighteenth century psychology became more prominent in the twentieth century.
Uh doctors believing they are clinically important. So anyway, Um,
they repeat what I was just saying. It's placebo. Placebo
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is the Latin for I shall be pleasing, And it
says in a clinical trial, a placebo response is the
measured response of subjects to a placebo. And then uh,
you know, you get the idea of all these things
that people are attributing to the placebo effect. A lot
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of people say it relieves them of pain and nausea. Um.
So anyway, look, I have found personally that when when
scientists go out there and they start running tests, they
get very frustrated when they do not have a success rate.
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So it's like and they and they never do because
so there's always a margin of error there. And so
whenever a studies being done, even with some type of
you know, firm medication, some type of you know, established
chemical reaction that's supposed to happen, there is always this
period of this again, this margin of air of this
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space that's left open wherein and well this, you know,
we didn't give the person this thing, but the person
had the effect anyway. Well we can't explain that. So yeah,
let's just dismiss that as part of the margin of error.
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And so I think it's kind of irresponsible to say,
well maybe that, you know, studying that margin of error
is just as important as understanding, um, everything else about
this entire testing process. I mean, some scientists have gotten
so specific that they say that they have found that
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if you do these tests and you give people a
yellow placebo pill, it seems to be most effective at
treating depression. Red pills cause the patient to be more
alert and awake. Green pills helped to ease anxieties. Uh,
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white pills seem to soothe stomach issues. And they say
it's it seems to work best when you take them
at least, you know, four times a day. And if
there's a brand name of some kind that's stamped on them,
that also works better than having nothing written on them whatsoever.
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So we have to take a break. We come back,
I want to talk more about like what might be
happening here, because some people think placebo is just bs
and I'm telling you no, there's something important here, and
I'm going to give you some tips on experiments you
can do to tap into that power and use it
to your benefit. And listen to this. I am going
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to be moving soon. I will tell you more about
that in the future. But it's a great time for
me to give away some free stuff because I don't
want to have to move all this stuff that I had.
I buy really cool things for myself and I'm like,
you know what, I don't need all this stuff. So
I'm going to be giving away a lot of cool,
weird free stuff, including a home spa that has never
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been used, brand new HOMESPA. Yes, I'm talking about you know,
the warm bubbles. I'm gonna give it away for free
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You're listening to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio
and co to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'll be
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Heart Radio and Coast to Coast a m paranormal podcast Network.
I'm your host, the Wizard of Weird, Joshua pe Warren,
beaming into your wormhole brain from my studio and Sin City,
Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day is golden and every
night is silver. And why do you think that so
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many people instantly believe that the word placebo means bs? Okay,
if it works, does that make it BS? No? Well,
but if it works but you don't know how it works,
that makes it b S. Yeah, yeah, that's it. Okay,
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Well that does us a lot of good. Huh what
kind of how um, how how un curious non curious
would you have to be to see the world that way?
To not be like, well, no, this is actually the
most interesting part of this whole process. How does that
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work when when this is this is the mystery here.
And do you think it's possible that maybe we rely
upon technology, including medical technology uh too much as a
crutch sometimes, and that you'd be surprised what you might
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just be able to do for yourself by taking advantage
of this mechanism known as the placebo effect, even if
you know that it can work when you know it's
a placebo. Uh. I mean, this is what is so
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incredible because it's it's giving us more insight into our
relationship with reality and the fact that you can put
yourself in a certain state of mind in which it
might help you to just make something happen, even if
you don't know how it happens. A little later, I'm
going to tell you why that faith is overrated. Uh.
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And I'd love to get into that right now, but
just hold off for a second. So I find this
whole thing amazing on so many levels because we're not
just talking about data that should be dismissed as people acting,
you know, their imagination or what. No, we're talking about
some kind of an interesting power here that many humans,
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if not all humans, possess. And I think that any
manifestation tool takes advantage of the placebo effect to some degree.
And you know, over the years, a lot of people
have asked me, how do I think something like the
Wishing machine works? And the simple, honest answer is, I
don't know. Nobody knows. It is a mystery. Uh. And
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then I will often follow up and say, but what
if the wishing machine is somehow the most effective placebo
that has ever been created by humans? Maybe that's it. Uh,
So what if it works? And uh, you know, it
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makes your wishes come true? And you say, that's good enough.
We don't always have to know. Someday we may have
more information. However, I will tell you that personally, I'll
pause here and get off on a side track here,
because I think, in my opinion, the Wishing machine does
not solely work as the product of a placebo, because
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that particular device has got quartz crystals inside of it
arranged in a kind of circuit. And you might say, okay, well,
what does that have to do with the power of
belief and all that? Well, I'll tell you, look there,
technology is real. You can you know, believe you're gonna
fly and flap your arms all day and you're it's
not gonna happen unless you get on an airplane or something.
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So now there is a real thing called objective technology.
And I think that one one reason the wishing machine
is so powerful is because it does have quartz crystals
and very special types of crystals and a special arrangement.
And I always fall back on this. This is one
of my favorite articles. This is from Scientific American. This
was published almost ten years ago and team by Timothy Horniack,
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and it says data saved in quartz glass might last
three hundred million years. And they go on to say
that many laboratories still rely on magnetic tape blah blah blah.
But it says Hitachi recently announced that it has developed
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a medium that can outlast not only this old school format,
but also CDs, DVDs, hard drives, MP three's whatever. It
says the electronics giant partnered up with Kyoto Universities Kyo
Takamura to develop these little slivers of quartz glass that
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can preserve information for hundreds of millions of years with
virtually no degradation. They say it's a little square of
quartz two centimeters wide and two millimeters thick. So think about, like,
you know, like how a little glass microscope slide looks.
We'll imagine a little square that's like half the size
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of that probably looks like half half of one of those.
And it says it houses four layers of dots that
are created with a special laser, and the dots represent
information in binary form. And it says that, uh, these
can be read with various optical microscopes because the layers
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are embedded, surface erosion will not affect them. And it
has a storage density a little better uh than that
of a c D. And it goes on to say
it was undamaged. Well, now listen to this when exposed
to one thousand degree heat for two hours in a test.
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And the results of that lead ha tach to and
to conclude that this quarts data could last hundreds of eons.
And so they go on to say, like many courts
based rocks from the time of Pangaea long long ago
are now sand, and I think they're implying that maybe
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there's some information that's left in there. Well, this is
a scientific American and so it may be that the
human mind, um, you know, this electrical machine that's always
radiating power has some way of imprinting these courts crystals,
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and you can give them some type of a command,
you can charge them with a purpose, and then you
can forget about them and they continue sitting there working
for you. And if you can get that much information
stored for so long and a little sliver of courts,
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imagine a big chunk of courts, you know, like we're
talking three dimensional volume here. This is why I do
actually think there could be something to the idea of
the crystal skulls. Uh that. And I have a few
crystal skulls and weird things happen around them. Someday I'll
tell you some of those stories. I have some big
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ones and some small ones, and I've got an alien
crystal skull it looks like, you know, one of those
from Indiana Jones. And there may be some type of
remnant of consciousness that's stored inside there that's able to
be accessed later. Remember in the Superman movie with Christopher Reeve,
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the original one, how he tapped into the crystals at
the Fortress of Solitude and was able to resurrect some
representation of his father. Uh. Marlon Brando played that character
who starts telling him you know where he's from, and
it's like he's accessing this interactive holographic experience. Look, I'm
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getting off on a tangent here, but but again I'm
just saying I think that you can combine certain types
of conscious sensitive um items or or media like these
crystals in certain arrangements and enhance this so called placebo effect.
But as I was saying, when they test drugs, these
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are you know, these hardcore critical scientists, and and they
sort of brush aside this margin of error because they
cannot explain it. Um, that is where we should be
looking most intensely what is happening in that margin of error,
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because is what this shows you is that there is proof,
in certain cases, at very least, of a mental effect
on the world, especially your own body, that cannot be
explained by just chemistry and electrical impulses alone. Here's an
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interesting thing to think about. Did you know that there
are atheists who pray. Now, they do not believe there
is a God, but they still pray. And they do
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that because they believe it's beneficial to have the human
experience of praying. Two an imaginary entity and I And
now this to me means that we're talking about a
person who is doubtful enough about the reality and actually
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more than a doubt. If you're an atheist, you're usually
coming right out there and you're saying, I don't believe
there is anything more than this material world that I
should be worried about. And yet you still since the
benefit and the value of going through this process of
praying because you've seen it work. And you might think
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that if you're an atheist who praise and you see
it work, that you would start like reconsidering what's happening
here and maybe open your mind about that. But you see,
you have to think about using every tool at your
disposal to succeed in life. And as I told you, faith, however,
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is not the most powerful thing. When I come back,
I'm going to tell you what I think. The most
powerful thing is how you can trick the brain. And
I'm gonna give you some experiments you can do for
yourself to try to tap into placebo power. Why not,
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I'm Joshua pe Warren. You're listening to strange things on
the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast, a Ambara
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Welcome back to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio
and Coast to Coast a yea paranormal podcast network. I'm
your host, Joshua P. Warren, and this is the show
where the unusual becomes usual. It might surprise you to
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hear me say that faith is not the most important thing.
The most important thing is perception. And here's what I mean.
Faith is something that you have control over. To have faith,
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you make a choice. Perception is something that you have
very little or perhaps no control over. It's something that
just works. It's an effect. Um, it's something that even
if it's a trick, it still works and gives you
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a desired result. Let me explain what I'm talking about
in my book Finding Your Magic how to Hack Reality,
which is something that you can get. You can download
it right now as a as an e book if
you go to Joshua P. Warren dot com and go
to my Curiosity Shop. It comes with all kinds of
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goodies if you go there, and it's not very expensive.
Um and Finding your Magic, I use an optical illusion
as an example of this. We've all seen these optical
illusions where you're looking at a still picture, especially if
it's in a book or something, and it looks like
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there are patterns on it that are that are spinning
or moving in some way, as if they are animated.
Now you know they are not moving. You absolutely know
that this is not moving. And yet when you look
at it, they're moving and everything, and and the the
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authors of the artists and the scientists go, yeah, that's cool,
itn't it. It just there's nothing you can do about it.
It just that's just the way that your eyes are
gonna work. Now, look again, it's not a consistent I mean,
there are some illusions, optical illusions that work better for
some some people than others. You know, some people have
trouble seeing those kind of like magic eye three D
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things that used to be popular back in the day.
I've always been really good at seeing that kind of stuff.
And but anyway, you see my point, Um, it doesn't
matter whether or not I have faith that these things
are are spinning. Uh. There are certain designs and and
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certain presentations and interactions that you have with the world
in which there is simply an effect there that you
cannot control, and that is based upon the way the
human mind is currently designed to perceive things. And you
can use that to your advantage, um, to trick your
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mind into doing whatever you want it to do, use
whatever mental tools that you can use to achieve a result.
And you might say, well, okay, the placebo effect is
something we hear a lot about when it comes to
taking a medicine, But actually this can be applied to
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all kinds of things. Like I was saying, I did
a podcast, let's see episode fifty six of this show
called how to Create Power with self fulfilling Prophecies, and
I think you'll see that the two are related. In fact,
there is this cool article that I read um from
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examples dot your dictionary dot com, and it's it's about
self fulfilling prophecy examples, and it says there are two
types of self fulfilling prophecies. The first one is called
other imposed and the second type is called self imposed.
And here here are the examples of that. They say, Like,
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here would be an example of an other imposed they say,
Imagine a student Jamie is about to take a college
entrance exam, and she has spent lots of time preparing.
As she's walking into the building to get the test,
her her dad calls her and her dad's. Her dad
says that she's always had a hard time with anxiety,
and he that she shouldn't be surprised if she doesn't
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get a good score. So he tells her that, and
then when Jamie sits down to take the test, her
heart is racing. Now, maybe he meant well by by
saying that to her, right, but still she can't think clearly.
She knows she's gonna run out of time and anyway,
so she kind of struggles because she's panicking a little
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bit more. And it says when she gets her score,
it's lower than she wanted. That is a case of
other imposed, self fulfilling prophecy. So this is almost like
a placebo. That is, that is implanted directly through the
power of suggestion with that level of simplicity, and then
there is self imposed. They say. Imagine a guy named
Ryan is getting ready to ask a woman for a date.
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And Ryan has previous experience with rejection and he thinks
he sees a trend. He's sure the woman will reject
him when he asked for the date, but he decides
to do it anyway. So he walks up to her
with his hands in his pockets and his head down
and he mumbles, I know you probably don't want to
go out with me, but I'm asking anyway, And just
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as he predicted, she turns him down. So that is
a classic self imposed self fulfilling prophecy. And they say
that this happens a lot in the areas of like
teacher expectations, expectations of pain, economic decision making, workplace paranoia,
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employee creativity. I mean, you can look into this and
you can see what I'm what I'm talking about here,
how it all connects very much to this concept of
the placebo effect. So, knowing how this works, how do
we really take advantage of it? How do we really
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tap into this? Okay, thry this out. Like I say,
all manifestation devices to some extent take advantage of this effect.
You don't have to know how it works, just know
it works. So you can do it for anything. Take
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a glass of water, right, something that you want on
a piece of paper and put it on the glass,
Fill it with water and drink it and let it
sit there and percolate. It could be anything. It could
be the way that you want to feel. It could
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be something that you want to happen in your life.
It could be uh, any combination of abstract concepts for
what you want to manifest. I think somebody like Dr
Moss root Emoto would appreciate this idea as well that
you are. You know, he was the guy who was
doing experiments to document how that thoughts could change the
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structure of water could change what you'd be ingesting. So
right now what you want and drink it. You could
even do the alcohol experiment, you know, where you have
a non alcoholic drink and you just start drinking it
and see if you feel like you're get in the buzz.
But you can do it for anything. But here's another
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variation on this. You really want to experiment, which is
pretty cool, have a friend help you. So let's say
you have some kind of a liquid medicine that you're
comfortable with, and you have a friend a partner of
some kind that decides to work with you on this experiment,
and you put the medicine in one drink and not
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the other. But this needs to be a liquid medicine
that can go into a glass of something that hides
the taste, like a strong tea or a strong soda
or whatever. So so you have one glass that's got
the medicine, and then you have a second one without it,
and only your partner knows which is which. So you
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try just picking one of those two up every day
for a few days, and you don't know what you're
drinking and just drink it. And then at the end
of this period of days you ask your partner. It's
like a blind taste test, what was I drinking and
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see if you know you felt any If you get
to detect a difference, right, you can do it for anything.
One of the most interesting subjects to me is something
a lot of people don't really think anything about. It's
called ontology. It's a branch of philosophy that studies concepts
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such as existence, being, becoming reality, and how that these
entities are grouped into basic categories. It ties right into
metaphysics and trying to systematically sort of break all this down.
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You can take things like substances, properties, relations, states of affairs,
and events and how they affect the human mind and
the ultimate physical outcome. Yeah, and this is so fascinating
to me because I think one of the reasons that
manifestation works, especially when you start getting into some of
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these more elaborate sort of placebo experiments. Is that what
we're doing here is we're we're not just always restricting ourselves.
Do we have one possible outcome like a scientist who's
testing an outcome for a drug. Life is more complex
than that. Life consists of physical phenomena as well as
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mental and emotional and spiritual phenomena that all go into
how we behave We're not just animals. When somebody dies,
we don't just let them lay there and the vultures
eat them. No, we have a big ceremony and we
say nice things, and we put them in the ground
and we put flower. Why do we do all that Well,
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we do it because it means something to us on
a mental and spiritual level. You can take any combination
of concepts and onto logically represent them into the manifestation
technique using something as simple as this glass of water
and the placebo experiment, and add it to whatever else
you're doing at whatever else your experiments are, and let
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me know what happens. We have to take a break.
When we come back, I'm gonna tell you something really
cool that happened to me recently. And then I want
to read an email to you I got from a
woman who said she didn't believe in any of this stuff,
but now she does. I'm Joshua pe Warren. You're listening
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to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio and Coast
to Coast, a m 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 para normal podcast network. I'm
your host, Joshua pe Warren. And here's something just sort
of funny that happened to me not too long ago
that brought a smile to my face, the meaning to
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just bring this up. Uh, not too long ago. Recently,
my my old pal Forest Connor came into town here
in Las Vegas with his lady friend to visit me
and Lauren, and we went out and had a grand
ole evening and you know, we had a nice dinner,
et cetera. And at the end of the night, when
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we were at this big busy casino about two part ways,
of course, we realize, hey, we we need to get
some pictures before the night's over. And so the four
of us we gathered around and I can't remember if
this was a selfie because you know, somebody had a
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good angle, you know that is, or if we asked
a server to take the picture. I can't really tell.
But it's this great picture of the four of us
all huddled around and this is probably like two o'clock
in the morning or something. And uh so the next day,
of course, whoever had the picture sends it out and
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I realized as soon as I see it that in
the background in this busy casino, there is this random
man who is kind of walking through the scene, but
he you could tell he pauses for just a moment.
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And the guy he he has a big, long, dark beard,
and he's wearing one of these kind of flat caps
like they I think they call him, like a newsboy cap,
like they'd wear in the twenties, like the Wright Brothers
would wear. So this random, strange man in the background,
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he is looking directly into the camera. He is grinning
ear to ear, just beaming with joy and giving a
big old thumbs up. And I was like, what this is?
This is my favorite part of this picture because I
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started thinking about how that guy, who I presume I
will never I'll never know, I'll never see him again.
This is a last somehow or other than you know
that I am now connected to this moment with this guy,
because he could have turned and he could have been
delaying anything back there and in this town call Sends City,
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I think you know what I mean, he could have
been doing some pretty nasty, freaky or negative things to
ruin our picture. Instead, he took a moment and he
could have just ignored it, but he said, hey, you
know what, I'm gonna be in the background of this thing,
and he made it positive and he made it great
and I smiled and laughed and he made me feel good.
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And something as simple as that should be an example
for you as how that when you're living your life
every day, you never know who's gonna be seeing you,
what situation you're gonna end up in. And I guarantee
you that that guy, he had no idea who we were,
and that that experience would ever be talked about on
a coast to coast AM podcast that goes out to
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millions of people all all over the world. I mean,
like so um when it comes to bearing in mind,
like the power of how you think and the positivity
that you live your life with and how that exudes
throughout the world and helps other people feel better. I mean,
like simple stuff like that shows you the power of
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these these concepts and thoughts that you can start managing
in order to improve not only your life, but the
lives of those around you. Here is an email I
got from a lady in South Carolina, and you know
I am from North Carolina, and I won't tell you
exactly where she lives, but she lives at one of
my favorite places. Her name is Barbara, and she said,
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I had some serious reservations buying the wishing machine, but
now it dawns on me that I wish for a
new car, and I got one. My husband took his
electric car into the dealership to get some repairs done,
and I had taken him in my car. As we
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were leaving, he said that the Toyota place was just
down the road and that he knew I liked priusists,
so he says, why don't you see if they have
one you like? Well, they did, so he said, all right,
let's go ahead and get it. She said. That was
about a year after I had put the picture and
the message on the wishing box, and it took me
a while to realize that the wishing machine had worked,
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and then last week I was very concerned that my
garden might be compromised by some very cold weather. Everything
was coming out with new leaves and new growth, and
so I put a protective clock over my garden, and
I knew it was going to be all right, and
it was all right the next day. I am a
very positive person, but I have a problem that I
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need help with. So I have decided to order one
of your bad busters, your psionic de materializers, and I'm
looking forward to receiving it. Thank you for being you, Barbara. Well,
you know what, Barbara, I'm so glad that you sent
me that thank you, because this is a great example
of what whatso often happens um someone gets a wishing
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machine because they say, you know what, I'm in a
position where I can I can experiment with this, and
they do it. But there's that little voice saying, come on,
this ain't gonna work. It's ain't gonna work. And so
when it does work, sometimes you don't realize it's worked
until you look back in retrospect. And even though it
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took a year, Well you're talking about this working for
a person who didn't even think it was gonna work
at all. And once she said, WHOA, Okay, that work
will us. What Now she's manifested the next thing much
more quickly, because once you manifest your first big thing,
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you have worked that muscle out and then you can
start manifesting things much more quickly. The just like anything else,
the more you practice, the better you get at it
and the faster it comes to you. But I tell
you what, once you get that flow, you gotta keep
it going. You better not stop because if you do
stop and you get down with the dumps, it'll all
come crashing down on you again. So you know, keep
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it going, keep it going, and you can be a
magical person every single day. And you know, the more
complex the wish, the more difficult to attain, the more
pieces that have to come together, the longer it may take.
But that does not mean that it will not happen.
And then, uh, like I said, once you get in
the swing of things, you're good. Uh. Let's see, I
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think I can squeeze in one more email. It's pretty cool.
This is from MHM Max, who is an information and
technology systems specialist. He said, I was about five or
six years old when I tried to run across an expressway,
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and I guess I was not running fast enough. I
got run over by a truck. But some beings saved me.
I heard them contemplating whether or not I was worth saving,
and finally one of them said to the others that yes,
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I should be saved. And I then became fully conscious
and found my body perfectly aligned under the truck so
that nothing had actually happened to me. I was completely uninjured.
Both my brother and I used to hear and see
these beings, thank you, Max, you know what, stuff like that,
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and I get a lot of it. It makes me
think that they're really maybe um a classroom here that
we're in. We're we're we're we're being taught to open
our minds to be more spiritual, enlightened beings. We're being
taught that we can manifest things, and that if you
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have the right mindset there you you you have help
waiting there for you. You have people who can actually
assist you. Angels, yes, demons. Maybe I don't know, but
I love hearing positive stories and that's why I'm still
collecting stories right now for this new anthology I'm putting together.
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I want your story if you. Okay, it's a book
that's going to be coming out my I hope sometime
this year, and it's called Amazing, Happy in Things, And
I want you to submit a story to me about
something amazing that's happened to you. It's got to be short,
and it's got to be true, and it has to
have an amazing happy ending. And if you go to
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Joshua P. Warren dot com, you'll see a link right
now at the top that you can click there in
yellow letters there that says click here to submit a story.
I've gotten some great ones in, but I want to
get more. I'm hoping I can get maybe close to
like a hundred really really good, solid stories, So go
send me one. All right, now, let's all get positive.
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Let's relax, take a deep breath, and let's subject ourselves
to a vibration that will help us make the next
week of your life one of the best ever. Okay,
here is the good Fortune tone. That's it for this
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edition of the show. Follow me on Twitter at Joshua
pe Warren. Plus visit Joshua pe Warren dot com to
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I have a fun one lined up for you next time,
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I promise, So please tell all your friends to subscribe
to this show and who 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
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the I Art Radio and Coast to Coast a UM
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