Finding Your Spiritual Compass: A Guide for Uncertain Times

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When the world seems to change at warp speed, where do we find our spiritual bearing? In this deeply reflective episode (originally broadcast on Soul Report Live), Dr. Douglas James Cottrell guides us through the chaos of current events with wisdom that transcends political divisions.

As global tensions rise in the Middle East and political controversies like Trump's Tylenol-autism claims dominate headlines, Douglas offers a refreshing perspective grounded in spiritual discernment. "Be skeptical," he advises as we navigate a media landscape filled with half-truths. "Don't get angry... that blinds you." His compassionate approach to autism, informed by personal experience with his own daughter Sherry, reminds us that human challenges deserve nuance rather than oversimplification.

The conversation takes a profound turn when addressing Charlie Kirk's tragic assassination. Douglas elevates the discussion beyond partisan politics to examine how we respond to violence and opposing viewpoints. "Charlie Kirk will be a martyr," he observes, highlighting how Kirk's commitment to dialogue might become his enduring legacy. The widow's forgiveness of her husband's killer becomes a powerful example of spiritual principle in action.

Throughout the episode, Douglas weaves practical guidance with spiritual wisdom. He warns of coming economic challenges and extreme weather events while offering concrete advice on debt reduction and financial protection. His insights on religious texts encourage looking beyond literal interpretations to find deeper spiritual truths.

Perhaps most powerfully, Douglas reminds us that our prayers are answered in unexpected ways—if we're paying attention. "When opportunities come up, grab them, take advantage," he urges. In a world filled with distractions and divisions, this episode serves as both compass and anchor, helping us navigate uncertainty while staying connected to timeless wisdom.

What spiritual lessons might you discover in today's headlines? Join us on this journey of discernment and subscribe to Soul Report Live for more insights that bridge the everyday and the eternal.

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night to the spirit of themoment.
So welcome to the show, Larry.
It's great that you're here.
And how are you doing tonight?
You're in California and I'm onthe other side of the world.
So uh welcome to the show andthanks for stepping in tonight.

Larry (02:16):
Yes, I'm doing well, and I hope everyone else is doing
great too.
Um, thank you for having me.
Um, I'll do my best.

Douglas (02:24):
Okay, so tonight we have all kinds of questions
lined up.
We have people I'm encouragingyou to go in the chat and send
your questions.
Larry will ask them to you, andwe'll we'll start off with the
show.
It's you know, we're all overthe place tonight.
There's so much going on in theworld, it's unbelievable.
I mean, this is a time ofchaos, it's a time of
uncertainty, it's a time ofchange.

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You know, just before the dawn,it's the darkest, as they say.
But as we go through this timeof uncertainty, many of us are
looking for some spiritualdirection.
We're trying to figure it out.
What's going on?
The world seems to change everyday at warp speed, from the
Middle East, where now 145nations are chiming in,

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declaring Palestine as a state.
To just a few days ago, therewas only just the UK and France
and Canada and Australia.
Everybody's jumping on boardbecause of what's happening
there.
This is a tragedy in motion.
It's a man-made uh starvationthat's trying to be combated by
the goodwill of the good soulsthat are out there trying to

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save those people who are inneed.
Never mind the politics, nevermind what's going on with the
with the confrontation of themilitary and the uh uh that we
just can't, we have to get bythat.
We have to go help those poorpeople.
And by 145 uh nations uhsigning up for statehood, I
think we're on the right path.
Let's cooperate.

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Prove me wrong, but let'scooperate.
I think that's the way to go.
So, Larry, what's the firstquestion?
What's up tonight?

Larry (03:56):
Well, one of the things everyone's talking about is uh
President uh Trump's uhannouncement about autism and
Tylenol.
What's going on right there?

Douglas (04:05):
Well, you know, that's not just from his lips to to our
ears.
Uh Robert Kennedy Jr.
has been touting that uh pipedream for a while.
Um you know, I'm not a doctor,I'm not a medical person, I'm
just like you and I friends.
I'm just an ordinary person,but I happen to be a

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grandfather.
I've raised my kids, and I knowa thing or two about children.
And also in my business or mycareer as a counselor, we've
talked about many things.
And um I want to know where'sthe science?
You know, like where's theproof?
How can it be that some fellowswho are sitting in a room all
of a sudden decide ta-da,Tylenol is the cause for autism?

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It's not.
I have a friend his name uhJonathan Alderson who wrote a
book.
I'll give him a shout out.
It's called Exploring the Mythsof Autism.
It's not caused by pills, it'snot caused by diet, it is a
brain malfunction.
It's kind of like somebodyhaving dyslexia.
Where does that come from?

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Well, maybe that comes fromaspirin.
Waha, you know, make a littlepoke a little fun here.
But the point being is that uh,you know, it's in the news,
it's it's uh it's dangerous toput this out.
And you know, my opinion is thepresident is a very wise and
and um powerful leader, and Idon't think he should be taking

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this uh announcement, in myopinion, uh to the people
without more solid evidence,because it's these are affecting
little kids.
This is affecting the lives ofparents.
It's a tragic thing to haveautism as a child, but it's more
tragic to be the parent of achild that had autism because

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your heart bleeds every day.
What can I do?
I just take take it my life andand and give it to my child.
You know, I I desperately wantto find something to help this
child.
Well, that book, Exploring theMyths of Autism, is an
award-winning book.
And if you have such a personin your family, uh a child or

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somebody that's in thatsituation, go read Jonathan's
book.
He has made giant steps forwardin helping little children and
families.
I'm talking, getting the childto communicate in that special
way.
They're wired up wrong in theirhead.
I'm not I'm not trying to saywhat autism is, they're just
wired up differently, in myopinion.

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And so, you know, todayeverybody's looking.
I mean, this let's look at thethe Soul Report Live.
What's the take on this?
It's important.
Everybody wants to know aboutthis autism, call it here, oh uh
scourge, difficulty.
I don't want to use any otherderogatory terms.

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We all get the meaning.
So it's important, but realizethere's consequences, my
friends.
And when the White House makesstatements like this that are
off the wall, I mean, I don'tthink the science came out.
I didn't I'm got my ear to theground as we all should.
Every one of us should beskeptical when we hear news.

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We shouldn't just pass it on,you know, like you know, tweet
it on to the next person, slowdown and consider what's what's
really going on here, becauseyou might be passing on
something that's a half-truth oran untruth.
So the question about what'sgoing on here, it's important.
I agree with the secretary thatthere should be some research,

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some cure sought, something todo with autism.
But I don't think you can blameheadache pills for the cause.
It's something else,biological, something else may
have caused it.
But so far, all the research,including that on vaccines and
and poor diet, and uh the mothermaybe going through menopause

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and all the other off-the-wallcauses, they're not founded as
ha ha, exactly.
That's the cause.
But Jonathan Alderson, and I'mnot trying to to to point the
direction to him as the as thegreat messiah, he has found a
small way that people, parents,can find a way to communicate

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with their child.
Even to get the child to say, Ihave to go to the washroom, is
a major accomplishment.
And he has found such ways toget the children doing the potty
training to going to school tolearning how to communicate in
their special way.
That took years and years andyears.
So, my my my answer to thequestion is you can't say it's

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Tylenol.
Cannot.
That's not logical, and I'm nota doctor, and I don't know
where uh Robert Kennedy Jr.
is coming up with this stuff,but it doesn't make sense.
And, you know, he's like allover the page.
I'm not trying to belittle him,but just to say, from my
observation, looking from theoutside in, he ought not to be,

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what can we say, on some sort ofhunt or journey to try to find
the cure.
It should be like, let's gotalk to people who have had kids
that have recovered and findout what was going on with them.
Let's pay more attention to thekids who have autism now,
rather than some theory orspeculation that Tylenol is the

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thing.
It's the cause.
I don't believe it because Idon't believe there's any one
cause intuitively.
I don't believe there's any onecause for autism, as much as
there is for uh children who aredyslexic or children that have
other brain dysfunctions, slowlearners, people who have those
nervous functions, A, D, H, D,or whatever, that is, and it's a

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matter like you can't say thisis it.
The brain is such an amazing, Ishould say the mind is such an
amazing thing.
And the brain with the nervoussynopsis and left and right
hemispheres and corpus callosumand the bridge that goes across
the center.
What's inside your skull?
It's really complicated.
It's enormous.

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We do know the lack ofvitamins, we know that uh
children who can't assimilatewell suffer and they have
conditions like mongoloidism.
It's it's uh it's uh uh beenproven, at least somewhere in my
research, is that it was a lackof assimilation of vitamins.
And giving children excess ofvitamins, in other words, upping

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their their assimilationability, it changed their
thinking.
And they were, although theylooked a little different, they
were functioning 100% the sameas ordinary children.
So kids like this, everybody,if you don't know my my history,
my daughter Sherry haddifficulties, and I'm you know
the parent of a child who hadsevere problems, and we

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discovered our way using theEdgar Casey Ross Peterson as the
as the um the advisor to helpus get Sherry out of an
institution at home, and shelived until until she was almost
40, where her life expectancywas nine or ten at the time.
So I know what I'm talkingabout as a parent.
I don't know what I'm talkingabout as a medical person, as an

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intuitive person or individual.
I'm giving you my feelings orsense, but you know, it's in the
news right now.
This is hot.
Okay, so is Epstein.
Okay, look out.
There's a whole other storyabout kids, right?
So, but look out.
We want we want to say to thepeople here, what's uh what's
the way to take this, myfriends?
Don't jump to conclusions,don't have a strong opinion.

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Listen, be skeptical.
And when you hear things likeTylenol is the problem, you can
say, well, let's give it the thethe the time test, what's gonna
happen next week?
And if it changes next week orthe week after, then we know
this is not sound silence, uhscience, rather.
But the real proof is intalking to parents who have

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children with autism and whatthey did to successfully manage
the child, educate the child,promote the child, and have the
child being functional, goingout into the world themselves.
What did they do right?
That's what we should belooking at, other than theories
and speculation, which to answeryour question directly, this is

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what it is today.
I mean, the president ought notto have been out there
proclaiming it because you knowthat's just not a presidential
duty, in my humble opinion.
He should not put his stamp ofapproval on it uh because I
think it's premature.
Now, again, it's hisadministration and his people,
and he certainly uh, by beingthe president, is a great

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achiever and he knows a lot ofthings that I don't.
I'm just a humble nobody.
But the idea is that for usdown here in the in the
trenches, parents with childrenor parents who are afraid to
have children because they don'twant uh their children to have
autism because it's been in thefamily or something like that.
I want to talk to you.
I want to help you.
I want to tell you that ifyou're about to consider having

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a family, you should be prayingfor a special soul to come into
the world through your family.
I did that with mygranddaughter, and she's a
wonderful young lady, not justme, a proud doting grandfather
talking, but she's extraspecial.
Because this is the time whenextra special children, souls

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coming into the world, arecoming into families.
They're needed.
I mean, back in the day therewas the crystal children, the
indigo children, there was allthese special children.
Everybody was expecting to comein the world in the 70s and in
the 80s and 90s.
Well, now's the time.
And if you look, you'll findthat the children today, I don't

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know how to talk to them.
I can't communicate with thembecause I'm so old.
I'm only two generations away,and I can't talk to younger
people because I don't know howthey think.
I don't know how they've beenraised.
I'm talking about internetstuff now and how social media

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and the world they live in.
Well, when I grew up, there wasthe horse and buggy and there
were automobiles, and wecouldn't understand why people
with horse and buggies, youknow, that must have been
terrible.
Well, that's what we got goingon now.
My world's horse and buggies,when we used dial phones and we
we use, you know, we we wouldtalk to people on the phone.

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We never had the use ofinternet or chat or AI, but now
that's the world of our childrenand our grandchildren.
They live in this world behindme, they live in a universal
world.
And autism is just one stepaway because a lot of those
autistic children are verybright, they just can't think or

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communicate more exactly withthe way everybody else does.
But with artificialintelligence, I'll bet you
there'll be found a way thatthere'll be get this, just pop
to my head now.
There is going to be anautistic language that AI will
invent.
Wouldn't that be wonderful?

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AI has a language invented forautistic children.
Just pop to my head now.
I'm making that prediction.
Write it down, Larry.
There you go.

Larry (15:31):
That's amazing.
I mean, while while Trump ismaking this announcement, I can
see that some people are gonnabelieve in it and talk about it
and spread that information.
Yet what you're saying is verysound, it's it's very
reasonable, it's good insight.

Douglas (15:50):
Well, uh, people are gonna believe the president
because he is the president.
And President Trump, for whatthe people that like or dislike
him, whatever side, whateverside of the aisle you're on,
whether you approve him ordisapprove, the point is he's
there.
God allows all the leaders inthe world to be in the world,

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and at this point in time, allthe leaders in the world are
working with each other, andit's a very convoluted level of
spirituality that they have towork with each other.
Putin, ying, un, you know, uhthe UK, uh different people,
Netanyahu.
They're all working at the atthe same level.

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They'll change, they won't bethere, they'll be there for a
little while and gone.
And when they're gone, it'sgone forever.
But right now, these are thepeople that are in the
leadership roles, and they oughtto be careful because they're
playing with their immortalsoul.
And the way they work, becausethey've assumed the
responsibility of leadership, isthat they're going to suffer

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great karma, good or bad.
Remember, karma isn't reallygood or bad, it's consequences,
but we need to say it's going tobe helpful, it's going to be
unhelpful, it's going to begood, it's going to be bad.
So, which is a poor, poor wayof discussing the extremely
complicated uh understanding ofkarma.
So these people are at the top.

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They have privilege, they havewealth, they have power.
Okay, that's what they'reputting out.
Guess what comes back?
The results are consequences ofthat.
So the people that arelistening to the president and
and just accepting it carteblanche, I say to them, be
careful.
The president is not correctall the time.

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He's not a doctor.
He's he's not a lot of things,but he is a leader in an elected
position.
For whatever time he's there,it's his it's his call, right?
So, but he's playing with thewith the um outcome of his soul,
as are all the other leadersand how they they they work in

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their world.
I mean, think about it, Larry.
Okay, I want to be the leaderof a country.
There's a little vanity goingon there, right?
Who do you think you are thatyou could be the leader, the
king, you know, or the thedictator or the president or the
prime minister?
A lot more prime ministers inthe world than we know, but

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there are kings uh and royalfamilies in the world
throughout.
We don't really pay a lot ofattention to them.
But the kingdom of SaudiArabia, you know, the kingdom of
of uh of London, England, youknow, there's there's a lot of
royalty, uh, the king and queenof Spain.
We don't pay attention to them,but the kings uh and the queens
are born into the family, andothers assess, uh send to power

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or whatever.
And so there's kind of likethis, you know, like I'm I'm
kind of trying not torationalize it.
But there's kind of like thisdichotomy here.
But the point is that whowould, you know, run for elected
office, Larry.
You want to be president?
Okay, let's get going, get somepeople out there, you know,
let's fire up the troops, getthe vote, go through the steps.

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You could be president.
You were born in the US, hey,you could be president.
But I know a lot of people go,like, oh, I don't want anything
to do with politics.
Oh my god, you know.
So I understand that side of ittoo.
But there are people that say,hmm, I think I could be
president.

Larry (19:27):
Okay.

Douglas (19:28):
Where does that come from?
You know, uh, were you were yougiven, you know, like uh a
royal jelly out of the beesbeehive that makes the the queen
bee from the worker bee?
Were you given royal jelly thatall of a sudden you think you
can be the leader of a country?
I don't know.
But that's that's uh for thesoul report live.
Remember, my friends, it's upto you to ascertain what's

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coming at you.
Be your own person.
And so when the White House orother officials are saying
things, you have to beskeptical.
Don't get angry.
That's number one.
For the soul report, the tip isdon't get angry because that
blinds you.
You have an opinion, and thenyou have a strong opinion, which
is very hard to back away from.

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And remember, as WinstonChurchill said, those that are
afraid to change don't changeanything.
And so when you're wrong, okay,wrong.
I didn't I don't understandthat.
But try not to dig your heelsin when somebody says, you know,
we were talking about this, youknow, and you know, chocolate,
you know, we're talking aboutdark chocolate, fatty, and now

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it's turned out to be somethingthat you can eat that's going to
have uh, you know, that stemcell research stuff, it's gonna
create stem cells.
What?
Dark chocolate does that?
They've been telling me I'mshould I shouldn't eat chocolate
because I might gain a pound ortwo.
This is how it goes, right?
Everybody knows this if youthink about it.
You're told one thing a fewyears later, it's wrong.

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And then a few years later, oh,it's right.
And that, you know, so uh as assomebody who's on a spiritual
path, Larry, uh and everyone outthere, be uh have be
discerning.
Learn how to discriminate andlearn how to be patient.
Don't be quick to come toconclusions, and you'll gain in

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wisdom.
Hey, we're gonna take a shortbreak in a few minutes.
We'll be right back with thesection two.
It's great to have you uhchiming in, my friends.
Uh send us a chat.
If you disagree with me oragree with me, or you have a
question, let us know right now.
Go to the chat and chime in.
And thank you very much forallowing us to be part of your
evening tonight.
We'll be right back after theshort break.

Larry (21:38):
Yes.

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Douglas (22:31):
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We have these mugs available.
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guest mug, and we'll see if wecan get one to you, Larry.
So, any questions from thechat?
Do we have any burningquestions that you can see
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Larry (22:50):
Yes, we do have one in relation to what recently
happened with Charlie Kirk.
Um, in terms of freedom ofspeech, what's going on?
It's almost like people areafraid now to speak up because
they fear a politicalassassination.
So, what are your thoughtsabout that, Douglas?

Douglas (23:07):
Well, one event does not the world make.
Okay, so everybody, you know,up until before uh Charlie was
was executed or assassinatedbetter.
Uh there were, you know, therewere the typical back and forth

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between the two sides, uh, thered and the blue.
And he stood, although he wasvery controversial, he had
strong opinions, but God blesshim, he said, let's talk.
He wanted to negotiate, hewanted to listen to people, or
so we are told, and he seemed tobe that kind of a man.

(23:48):
So you can't be afraid uh to uhyou can't be afraid to be
silenced.
I mean, this is the whole ideathat part of losing your freedom
is losing the number one giftthat your country has given you,
my friends, is the freedom ofspeech.

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Now, in other countries,freedom of speech is not as free
as America.
In America, you can sayanything about anyone at any
time, good, bad, or ugly.
In other countries wherethere's freedom of speech, you
cannot be derogatory, you cannotinsult people, you cannot call

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them names, you cannot liable oror slander their name or
belittle them.
You can't just because it'sagainst the laws.
But in America, carte blanche,you have the freedom of speech.
Okay, but with that freedomcomes huge responsibility.
Again, being careful not toruin somebody's life, not to

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bully them.
Children, people at work, orpol or political opponents, they
should not be bullied.
But again, that's aresponsibility of freedom of
speech.
So a lot of people are afraidit'll fade, it'll go away,
because the freedom of speech inAmerica is the number one

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quality to keep the democracygoing the way it has.
And they'll never be silencedbecause how many Americans are
out there today?
400 million?
They're not gonna shut up,they're not gonna change their
mind.
200 million are gonna say yes,and 200 million are gonna say
no.
And maybe some people in themiddle, like the independents,

(25:36):
are gonna gain some prominenceand they're gonna watch out,
become a third party.
I predicted this once before.
I actually set a text off to uhMr.
Sanders and I said, Hey, uhPresident Sanders, you know,
like watch out.
Independence coming up themiddle.
Because people are basicallygood.
They know, they're smart.
The bread and butter earnersare the ones that are practical.

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The ones that areintellectually trained have a
tendency to be lofty, and youcan sell them a bill of goods
because they're uh academics,and I'm not trying to belittle
them.
I'm just saying they believe inthe philosophy.
But the people that really runthe country are the lunch bucket
people, you know, like, no, no,no.
I'm on my paycheck.
I gotta buy my groceries, Igotta pay the rent, you know, I

(26:22):
gotta pay the carb payment.
These are the people that arepractical, and those are the
people we need to listen to.
Farmers are in trouble rightnow, and they're not being hurt.
Willie Nelson had this farm aidon the weekend, God bless him,
on all the superstars came outto help the farmers.
40 years ago he did the same.
Where's the government?

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You know, where's the help?
How come they can't sell theirsoybeans?
And uh and the thing aboutthis, my friends, if you lose a
market and the customer, likeChina or wherever goes
elsewhere, they don't come back.
They don't come back and buythe soybeans next year because
they stay wherever they want thebeans or or the commodity, the

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pork or the cattle, they staywhere they are.
So losing markets is veryimportant.
These are the people that needto speak up, and when they speak
up, listen to them because theyproduce food.
Okay, you don't think farmersare important?
Well, when you go to theremember during COVID, you went
there to the uh to the shelvesand they were empty.

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That could happen again if thefarmers in America are not
listened to or aided or helped.
But thank God to the spirit ofthe Willie Nelson and other
people.
See, people are basically good.
The soul report is here toamplify the goodness of people,
get us together and say, byprayer, by flood, by coming

(27:49):
together, seeking theconstructive way, we can give
hope to each other and to theworld.
And so when people are afraidto speak up, what does the Bible
say?
What does the Quran say?
What does the Gida say?
What do the other worldreligions uh have to say in
their holy books?
Speak up, stand up to thestrong when you're in the wrong

(28:13):
intelligently, you know, passiveresistance, you know, Mahatma
Gandhi chased the British out ofIndia with a handful of salt
and nonviolent protest.
He took down the British Empireand out they left from India

(28:34):
and they got the country back.
Because he said, How can Imillions of people were in
India, but let's say how let'ssay how can a hundred million
people be controlled by 40,000uh British troops?
Makes sense to me.
But the infighting, the lack ofof uh willpower, the lack of
resolve, uh, and the way hewanted it, which was

(28:58):
non-violent.
Nonviolence always wins.
Might does not make right.
And so when people are sayingthings, have a dialogue like
Charlie Kirk said.
You don't like me?
Fine, but let's talk.
He wasn't one to say, like someof the other people in
politics, about shoot thisperson in the leg, get rid of

(29:19):
that, imprison this, go afterour political opponents, you
know, throw them in jail.
He didn't say any of that.
God bless him.
He said nonviolent, the same asMahatma Gandhi, the same as
other world leaders who havecome into the world and changed
the country for the better.
Nonviolent, open dialogue,let's talk, let's let's have

(29:40):
vigorous uh you know,conversation, but let's try to
find the bread and butterapproach.
What's going to be good forpeople, not what they think is
good for the people, what isgood for the people, and let the
people tell us.
So don't be afraid.
And what happened to him wasone.
Foolish young man at 22 yearsof age gave up his life because

(30:07):
he thought that he was doingsomething to silence some I'm
gonna say issue that he thoughtwas somewhat bigger and stronger
than he was or his opinion.
Somebody else's beliefs andvalues were better or not as
good as his, I'm gonna say.

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And that man, whether he gets adeath penalty or not, is going
to pay the price for the rest ofhis life.
Now, I'm telling you, somebodywho is at 22, I know there are a
lot of people out there who arein their 20s, and they're gonna
maybe take a little offensewhen I say you're still a child.
You don't know what it's liketo be adult.

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And psychologists will tell usyou get to be adult feeling,
sensing, living when between 30and 33, somewhere in there,
women faster than the men.
After 28, you start to becomean adult.
But up until that, you're achild.
And by that I mean you're notphysically a child.
I mean you can make babies, youcan drive cars, you can go to

(31:10):
war.
You can, when you're 18, youknow, put on a uniform, get a
rifle, and go kill people.
But when you're older, you golike, wait a minute.
That's not gonna solveanything.
What's going on here?
But the younger you are, theeasier you are to be
brainwashed.
Back in the day, we would callthis being brainwashed.

(31:32):
Social media is radicalizingpeople.
You hear that a lot.
Was this young man radicalized?
Was he brainwashed?
Yes, he was because he saidwhat he said, and I'm not going
to repeat it, but the point isthat he thought that Charlie was
somewhat so powerful and sopersuasive that he had to be

(31:54):
eliminated.
What happened was Charlie Kirkis now a martyr, and he will be
remembered for free speechforever.
And so, whatever thecircumstance was, what led up to
that point, now what he stoodfor, Charlie Kirk, is going to

(32:16):
be remembered.
Doesn't matter what was said,that's going to be forgotten,
but he will not because he stoodup for dialogue.
And that's what everybodyshould stand up for.
Now, again, lots of peopledon't agree with Ice what I say.
And I'm I'm sorry you do that.
And I disagree with some peopleas well.
But the idea is that they havejust as much right, in my

(32:39):
opinion, to be wrong, in theiropinion, as I do.
And a wise person who's on aspiritual path listens to the
other side because they mightjust have it right.
They might know something thatyou don't know or I don't know.
And so by listening, you golike, well, that makes sense.

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I don't have it all.
Because you see, the vanity isthat you think you know it all.
The vanity is that you thinkyou're right.
The vanity is that you don'tgive somebody else the same
privileges or courtesy that youwant yourself.
That's called the golden rule,by the way.
So the answer, and this is thepoint, is that Charlie Kirk will

(33:27):
be a martyr.
He'll be remembered by bothsides, or of the aisle and
across the nation, as a man whowas taken too early from his
children and his wife.
But his movement will carry on.
It's kind of like somebody Ihave an eye, I have a vision
where somebody just took a matchand they're holding it up to

(33:49):
something.
It's it's he's lighted, he'she's lit the match, and this
movement is going to moveforward.
I hope the movement is freespeech and listening to other
people.
Apparently, uh one of his uhsupporters said that he read
every email that was sent tohim.
He wanted to know whateverybody was thinking.

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That is the sign of a leader.
Even at 31, it's a sign of awise man who was the leader of a
movement trying to get thecountry to a perspective that he
thought was the right way.
Other people thought he waswrong, but the point was he was
doing something about it.
And he's been doing somethingsince he was 19 years old.

(34:31):
This man was on a mission, andbecause of the grandeur of
what's happened, I'm gonna tellyou he came, this was his karma,
this was his mission, he was agreat soul.
Okay, now what he's what hesaid, what he what he stood for,
that's discounted.
He could be wrong in a lot ofthings, but he did what he did

(34:54):
because he had that in hisheart.
Unfortunately, uh, you know,people are afraid now.
And this is the whole idea.
You know, evil comes in thedark, evil comes with you know
destructive tendencies.
Why would somebody be takenaway who was productive and

(35:15):
doing something great for thecountry?
Again, what their what theirvalue was is different, when
somebody who was basically anobody that person is now the
res responsible for harming thatgreat soul, Charlie Kirk.
What's gonna happen to him?

(35:37):
Well, regret and that moment ofsatisfaction of taking
somebody's life because hethought he was eliminating the
the call it the bad side, if youwill, the other side.
Uh he's gonna regret that forthe rest of his life.
I I kind of think that the bestwould be for him to be
incarcerated for the rest of hislife rather than to be

(36:00):
executed.
But vengeance is mine, safe theLord.
So we shouldn't hope foranother death.
We should hope forreconciliation.
Charlie's widow came on and shewas standing up on the stage,
and God bless her, she's a veryattractive, well-spoken,
intelligent woman, and sheforgave the assassin.

(36:21):
Wow.
That's what I like to see.
That's about the soul reportbringing force that ability as a
Christian person to forgive.
You know, that's what it's allabout.
So as we let this story goforward, never mind the
politics, never mind the valuesof left or right, you know,
agreement or disagreement,because apparently Charlie said

(36:43):
a lot of offensive things to alot of people.
That's part of America, that'spart of the First Amendment,
that's part of what we're doinghere tonight, expressing
ourselves for some reason,satisfaction, you know, to get
it out, whatever.
No, to get some wisdom.
How do we handle this?
How do we learn how tocooperate?

(37:05):
Because you see, that's thegreat lesson.
This is the lesson of becominga divine, spiritual, enlightened
being, if you're saying in yourown religious views, Christian
or otherwise, is to illuminatethe words of Christ, which is
nonviolent, which is to listento other people, don't be

(37:26):
distracted yourself, don't beforced into with mental
reservations agreeing withsomebody, you'd be able to stand
up and say, No, I just don'tlike that.
I do not like chocolate icecream.
I like strawberry ice cream,and that's the way it ought to
be.
Everybody ought to havestrawberry ice cream.
And you're like, What's withhim?

(37:46):
Strawberry, come on, we wantvanilla, butterscotch.
And that's why they havedifferent flares of uh flavors
of ice cream because everybodyhas a different flavor of life.
Go ahead.

Larry (38:00):
That was well said, Douglas.
Uh I just something that cameup into my mind.
Um, I had a conversation withmy brother um a few days after
the assassination, and uh hewatched a video interview of the
final person in the audiencethat was asking a question, that
person that witnessed the fatalshot.

(38:21):
But he was a leftist.
After that event, he justthought that it's crazy being on
this side because I just sawsomeone do that to Charlie Kirk.
And then he suddenly shiftedand changed his views, realizing
that his way wasn't goodbecause his way led to what the
shooter did.

Douglas (38:42):
No, no, no, no, no.
I disagree that his way didn'tlead to what the shooter did.
The shooter did what he didbecause of what was in his mind.
The idea wasn't that your yourrelatives, friends were wrong.
He just was awakened, you know.
His eyes were opened up as to,you know, like that blind-sided,
this is the way it is.
No.
So, well, wait a minute.

(39:02):
It isn't.
There's more.
And that's what took to him,but it's not what he believed
that led to the shooter.
The shooter did this, he was amisguided uh soul.
Uh dearly for what he's done.
So uh the point, but yes, backto your point, is like, yeah, a
lot of people are like, whoa,what happened?

(39:23):
This is real, it gets real.
This isn't just cheerleadingand you know, like, we're right,
you're wrong, blah, blah, boo,boo, wham, wham.
No, this is like blood and gutstime.
This is that is, and that's howhow it always is.
Always.
And so when you take a positionand you go on TikTok, uh, or
sorry, you go on Twitter, you goon someplace and you're

(39:45):
throwing out a barb and you'recrazy and whatever, that's
thoughtless and that'sdangerous.
And believe it or not, anybodythat does that, that comes back
to evil.
It's out in the universe,you're throwing out barbs,
insults, nastiness, just becauseit makes you feel better
because you disagree with theperson.
The wisdom would be to say,Well, okay, I understand your

(40:08):
point.
I still disagree with you, butlet's go have a coffee, talk
about something else.
That is the Christian spiritualway.
But this is what you'redescribing, this is your point.
All of a sudden, oh my God.
And it made that personinternalize and look and see a
bigger truth.
And that's what this was allabout, seeing the bigger truth.

Larry (40:28):
That's right.
And the last thing I'll sayabout that is um I'm not sure if
you've noticed or anyone elsein the audience has noticed, but
there's a trend going on onYouTube, for example, where uh
those who have been celebratingCharlie Kirk's death are
suddenly being reported to theiremployers and losing their
jobs.
What do you think about that?

Douglas (40:50):
Well, again, celebrating somebody's death is
foolish.
But it's not worth losing yourjob about.
And it's not worth uh somebodytattletailing on somebody else
saying, they said, maybe theydidn't.
Maybe they were commenting likeJimmy Kermel was about uh what
happened, and all of a suddenhe's called up on the carpet,

(41:15):
and uh the immediately, within20, within hours, his show was
canceled because of whatsomebody thought he said.
He was not celebrating that uhabout Charlie's death.
He was saying, as I understandit now, that he was saying that
it's terrible that these thisthing happened, and the people

(41:36):
on one side of the of the aisleare now doing everything they
can to disassociate withthemselves that he's not one of
them.
Apparently, the assassin comesfrom a conservative family.
Apparently, his father was apoliceman, apparently he might
have been a Republican.
I'd say might have, I don'tknow.
But so what?

(41:57):
Why try to say somebody else isto blame, like they did with
Gimmel?
Some they're trying to blamehim because of what they think
he said.
And then, of course, he'sgetting his show back, which I
said something on Sunday at theservice, that he's, you know,
don't worry, he's gonna be okay,he'll be back.
And here he is coming backtomorrow because the people, the

(42:19):
people got out there and said,this is wrong.
This is a First Amendment rightthat he can say anything he
wants.
And, you know, we can sayeverything we anything we want
to anybody, and that's from ifit's right for for Jimmy Kermel
to say whatever, okay.
He shouldn't be punished andtaken off the air because he's a

(42:40):
superstar, uh, and people hehas political enemies, as we
know.
But so what?
He's expressing his FirstAmendment rights.
So are the people that areallegedly celebrating.
I don't really think anybodycelebrates murder.
I really don't.
But maybe they were in theirown um feeling of uh emotions

(43:01):
that you know they didn't likewhat Charlie had to say.
And maybe that's what they weretalking about.
I don't think they wereactually sitting down, you know,
down at the pub having a uhhaving a beer or saying, yeah,
thank goodness he's gone.
I don't think that happened.
But the idea is that they'rebeing fired or losing their
livelihood.
Maybe you're gonna lose theirhouse, maybe they're gonna have
divorces, maybe their kidsaren't gonna be able to go to

(43:23):
school.
That's the end result ofreporting somebody that you
think is wrong.
It would be better, spirituallyspeaking, to go over and say,
listen, brother or sister, um,I'm a little offended at what
you said.
How did how did you mean that?
What did you really mean bysaying that?
So this this uh assassinationby verbiage should be given what

(43:50):
it's its value, like boy, areyou silly?
You're gonna regret thatsomeday, etc.
So the point is that yes,people are losing their jobs and
people are being punished tothe extreme by who?
Their friends, their neighbors,their co-workers, their

(44:12):
employers?
Who gives them the right?
Ever bearing in mind the FirstAmendment says freedom of
speech, period.
It doesn't qualify it and sayfreedom of speech, provided I
agree with it, provided it'spolite, provided it's nice,

(44:33):
okay?
It doesn't say that, it saysfreedom of speech, period.
And believe me, Larry, myfriends out there, how many of
us have really, really dumbfriends that say really, really
dumb things?
Unbelievably stupid, dumbthings.
What do we do?
Chop off their head?

(44:55):
No, we go like go have a beer,take it easy.
You're out of line, but youknow, like there is no such
thing as, but the best beingagain, spiritually mindful, is
to realize there are people outthere who are not as bright as

(45:15):
the rest of us, and there arepeople who are brighter than us.
So you know, there's alwayssomebody smarter than you, and
there's always somebody not sosmart as you.
And so people that say stupidthings ought to be corrected if
it's correct, if it's right.
In other words, like that was aterrible thing to say.

(45:37):
I know you're upset becausesometimes people say bad things
because they're emotionallycharged, and they don't say the
right thing, they say the exactopposite thing.
How many times have we seenthat in life?
How many times in life have wedone that ourselves?
So the point comes down tonobody should lose their job

(45:59):
because they've said somethinginappropriate.
Nobody.
Give them time, and I guaranteethey will, like you said, your
relative, they came around tothe other side.
That's what's gonna happen.
But you get somebody fired,what are you doing?
You're creating violence.

(46:20):
The person is gonna get angry.
Maybe they're gonna lose theirhouse, and they're gonna come
after you, the person whotattleted on them.
Because you think you're right.
That person ought not to havecelebrated a murder.
Well, we all know that, that'strue, but who are you to cause
that person who is misguided,who's not so smart, who made a

(46:43):
mistake, whatever, misspoke?
Who are you to take yourlivelihood away?
So I'm on the side of GodAlmighty.
I'm on the side of Charlie'swidow.
Forgive.
If she can forgive that monsterwho's 22 years of age,
assassinated her husband, thenyou, my friends, when somebody

(47:05):
says something inappropriately,you just gotta look them and
say, Well, you're gonna regretthat.
Okay, whatever you say, no twocents worth.
But if you retaliate and youtry to hurt that person, the
karma is coming back to you.
Christ warned his disciples,you can look it up.
He said, I'm gonna send you outinto the world to help people,

(47:29):
but don't judge them.
If you do, what you judge themis gonna happen to you.
In other words, you go out inthe world and there's a fellow
down there in a hole, and yousay, You silly person, what are
you doing down there?
I'm gonna I'm gonna let yousuffer because you're so stupid.
You fell in a hole and you walkaway.
The next day, you fall in ahole, and the same guy comes by

(47:52):
because somebody pulled him outlater and he looks at you and he
said, Were you the guy thatleft me in the hole yesterday?
Well, now you know what it'slike, and he walks by and then
he falls in another hole untilsomebody says, Hey, brother, you
you know what happened here?
Give me a hand.
Pull you out.
That's being a good Christian,that's being a good spiritual
person, that's being a goodreligious person.

(48:14):
So the point of all that isthat when you're attempting to
get somebody fired, you'refalling into the dark side.
You're falling into evil.
Evil means the absence of love.
And you are just as bad at dowhen you do that as the person
who committed the crime, eventhough it was much greater in

(48:37):
the result.
So catch yourself, my friends,and hang on to your your
spiritual self because it'simportant that you don't fall
into that misguided,unchristian, unloving point of
sought or value.
It's important that you keepyour own integrity.

(48:58):
And let me tell you, there arepeople all around you every day
you walk through Costco or themall.
There are people who are not soswift, and there are people who
are of all emotionalbackgrounds and faiths and
beliefs.
But you're there all byyourself in a crowd.
Think about it.

(49:19):
And that's how life is.
You're here living your lifeamongst everybody else.
So the answer to that one againis when somebody says something
stupid, you don't go try to getthem fired.
You go like, listen, that'sthat's inappropriate.
I'm sorry, you know, I disagreewith you.
And that's it.
You know, what's for lunch?

(49:40):
You know, like the person isexpressing themselves in that
moment.
They've done something reallydumb.
Okay.
Have you ever done something,my friends, that's really dumb?
Have you ever regrettedsomething you said or did or
didn't do?
I'll bet you you have.
We'll be right back after thisshort break with more of the

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This is what the Soul ReportLive is all about.
Larry, what do we got next?

Larry (51:58):
Yes, we have one question from this to shall pass.
Uh, I know two lifelongCatholics who won't read parts
of the Bible.
Their official doctrine doesn'tdirect them to.
Why would someone be afraid tolearn more about the Bible if
they already know other partswell?

Douglas (52:17):
Because the parts they don't want to read, they
disagree with.
Simple as that.
And the parts that they'rereading may contradict what they
believe is the truth.
So they're what can I say,they're being unwise.
And uh to read the this is thewhole thing about wisdom.

(52:38):
Uh, you want to find out aboutyour enemies, you find out by
sending spies into their camp tofind out what their strength
is.
You know your enemy well.
That's wisdom if you're engagedin battle.
If you're engaged in a debateor a court case or whatever, you
need to know what the otherside's all about.

(52:58):
And by law, the other side hasto give you what they know so
that you can have a look at itand then have a uh um a strategy
or maybe learn how not learnbut how to uh handle what their
what their point is, you know,like how to counter counteract
what they're saying.
You know what I mean?
Like they give you the theygive you what there's on their
side, and then you get to lookat it and see what the truth is,

(53:20):
not imaginary what's going on.
The thing about all spiritualbooks, and I've got in a little
bit of trouble on this in thepast for saying what I'm about
to say, is that all of the bookswere not written by God.
They were written by people.
The people were inspired bytheir divine insights, by their

(53:43):
spiritual knowledge to put onpaper what they received from
the cosmos, the truth, thespiritual truths, the
everlasting truths, because yousee, truth doesn't change Monday
to Friday.
It's Monday, Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday, Sunday, the samethroughout eternity.
So the universal truthsencompass all perspectives.

(54:09):
So if you're looking at a coinand you're looking at the nice
shiny top of the coin, theheads, and you don't want to
look at the bottom, the tails,or the edge, you're only seeing
one plane, one level ofinformation.
And so a spiritually wiseperson looks at other aspects

(54:31):
than what they know, so they cangain insight or understanding.
You can still disagree withthat.
I mean, in the Bible, there's astory about three snakes.
One of those snakes ate theother two snakes.
Everybody know what I'm talkingabout?
I don't know.
Snakes in the Bible?

(54:51):
What's that all about?
We're talking about Moses whenhe confronted Pharaoh, and
Pharaoh had two magicians whoturned their staffs into snakes.
In other words, they hadmetaphysical creative power that
was man-made because these twosnakes were gobbled up by Moses'

(55:12):
snake, a staff that was turnedinto a snake.
Why was Moses' snakes morepowerful than the other two?
Because it was spirituallyempowered, it was divine.
And that's one of the levels ofunderstanding that little
phrase in the Bible, why Moses'snake gobbled up the other two

(55:32):
snakes.
Because the other two were thedivinity of mankind manifesting
through their metaphysicaltelekinetic ability, but Moses
was spiritually endowed with thedivine, and that's why his
snake was more powerful.
So when you read that in theBible when you're in Sunday
school, you go like snakes?
You know, Moses threw down hissnake and it gobbled up the

(55:56):
other two, and you go, like,wow, what's that all about?
But as you uh grow older orwiser and you start to
contemplate the spiritualessence or meanings of that,
then you begin to see that we aspeople are divine.
But when we're connected to theuniverse, we are empowered with

(56:17):
divinity, where we have divinepower.
And that's why Moses gave upbeing Pharaoh, went back and
joined his people and theIsraelis, they were enslaved,
and became a leader of theenslaved mob of bricklayers and
and uh slave people, enslavedpeople.
He was going to be Pharaoh, themost powerful person in the

(56:39):
known world.
Why did he do that?
Ding, because he realized thathe was going to be Pharaoh of
men and have that ability in ahuman sense, the highest
possible political position.
But the spiritual side, becausehe was metaphysically trained,

(57:01):
because he was uh trained inhigh Egyptian spirituality, he
touched God.
And that's why he went back tohelp his people, to set them
free, to get them out ofslavery, take them across the
isthmus into Syria when theyescaped from Egypt, on and on
and on.
But he did so because he wasdivinely guided, inspired, or

(57:24):
endowed.
So that little story about twosnakes is a lot, but I know
people say, I don't want to readthat stuff, you know, Egyptian
stuff.
They forget.
The first four books of theBible are make up the Jewish
Bible, the Torah, and that theidea is that we're like
combining the same.
So I can I can tell there'sstories in the Bible where you

(57:47):
know people are going to war,people are peeing up against a
brick wall, people are gettinghit over the head with a
jawbone, you know.
Uh you go like, what's that allabout?
Well, it's a story of humannature and how those things
affect us.
So that's a long-winded way ofsaying if people are afraid to
look at the entirety of theBible, but they're willing to

(58:08):
selectively cherry-pick things,then you know, we're back to
that smarter, not so smart kindof, you know, thinking.
And it's better to know bothsides of the question because
maybe there's just somethingelse that you need to look at
that you don't know.
And again, in in theunderstanding scripture, it's

(58:28):
interpretation.
Okay, it's interpretation.
But the words of the Christ arenot to be interpreted, they're
to be actively used in yourlife.
But you need somebody like,well, like me, or somebody that
has some experience ofunderstanding spiritual books to
be able to give you themetaphysical spiritual uh uh

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embellishment or greater truthor the greater opinion.
Because you can look atsomething small, like, okay,
Jesus and the boys went out tothe Mount of Olives, they had a
few loaves of bread and uh halfa dozen fish, and they fed the
multitudes.
Well, when I was in Sundayschool, I went, How do you do

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that?
You know, what's I don'tunderstand.
How do you do that?
Well, then you get tounderstand that there can be
things that are materialized,right?
Okay, what was Jesus Christ'sfirst miracle, Larry?
Not to put you on the spot.
The answer is his mommy said,We're at the wedding, we're
running out of wine.

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Go do your thing, make somemore wine out of water.
And his first response was,Mom, I'm my it's not my time.
In other words, he knew hecould do these things as his
mother did, as his family did.
He could turn things intodifferent things.
He had, you know, he had theability of transmutation, if you
will.
But he didn't want to do itbecause he knew that he would be

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famous and people would betalking about.
He said, Ma, it's not my time.
I'm not ready yet.
And she said, go do it anyway.
So, like the good son, he wentdown the back room and
abracadabra, my words, not his.
He prayed, and water turnedinto the best wine uh of the
evening.
And then the landlord came byand said to the the the the uh

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guest of the uh of the uh theperson having the wedding and
said, Listen, you know, usuallyyou wait till the people have a
little, you know, too much wineand then you give them the bad
stuff, right?
You get rid of the junk.
But you saved the good stuff tothe last.
What happened?
And that was the stuff, thewine that Jesus made.
So when you start to look atthis in that playful way I'm

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describing it, and I'm showingno disrespect here, I'm just
giving you a differentperspective, my friends, is that
Christ turned water into wine?
How he did it?
Amazing.
By divine means, the same waythat Moses turned his staff into
a snake that gobbled up theother two snakes that were

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turned into and his staffsturned into snake by men that
weren't powerful.
And so the fish is in a loafstory.
Well, but that's amazing.
How did he do that?
Well, again, by the samespiritual um ability to
co-create instantaneously.
Okay.
I've seen some of that happenin a Hindu temple where I saw

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Virboti created in a smalllittle case over and over and
over again, where the devoteeswere taking handfuls of the holy
ash out and putting it on theirskin, and it would close up,
the priest would say a fewwords, and it would open again,
and there would be more uhverbudi or holy ash.
The same as Christ creatingfishes and loaves, the same as

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creating uh wine out of water.
So if you're a Christian, youhad to look at those things and
say, Well, my God, how did he dothat?
The metaphysical aspects of theChrist show the demonstration
of the spiritual gifts within.
And if you're not wanting toread parts of the Bible, who are
you to say that they're notwisdom or there's some

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application if you don't readthem?
The best case scenario is ifyou if you if you uh disagree
with something, go read it andprove it wrong.
Prove it to yourself that it'swrong.
More than likely you won't dothat because oh my god, there's
some truth in this somewhere.
I did that with Ekincar.
Somebody gave me the book aboutEkincar, and I said, That's

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bulloney, that can't be.
I read the book and try as Imight, I sincerely, very
earnestly tried to prove itwrong, and I couldn't because it
had universal truths in thepractice of Ekincar.
For what people don't knowabout that, check it out.
Anyway, long and short of it iswhat's next, Larry?

Larry (01:02:54):
Yeah, uh, we have another question from uh this two shall
pass.
So a second question.
Uh Charlie Kirk's uh memorialhas gotten global attention.
Can it lead to a positiveoutcome like a revival?

Douglas (01:03:11):
A revival of what is the question, but already it has
a positive outcome because it'sgone around the world because
that's what people want to see.
They want to see love, theywant to see togetherness.
This is not around the worldtaking sides.
If if that's the outcome, thenthey've got his whole life

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wrong.
They're aspiring to his life,the testament to his life, which
was to dialogue, try to provehis views wrong, you know, come
together and talk, and that'swhat people want to do now, and
that's the essence in all thespiritual journeys and all the
spiritual beings in the worldthat have uh come together,

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that's what they're doing.
They're getting people to putdown the weapons, talk, and then
figure it out.
And so as you can see, CharlieKirk was a great soul.
Why?
Because of what he accomplishednot only in life, but now he's

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bigger than life.
Okay, and so whenever you seemovement starting like this, you
have to say whoever caused thatmovement or started that
movement, or was willing to paythe price, willing to sacrifice
himself, put Christ up there,put Moses up there, put a lot of
different uh disciples upthere.

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They were all willing to standup for what they believed,
knowing that some of them weregoing to go to their death as
Christ did, and some of thedisciples, and others who just
were put to death for theirspiritual beliefs.
Like they would not recant.
Okay.
I'm not trying to say Charlie'sup there.
I'm trying to say thatCharlie's movement is similar

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because of the consequences ofwhat happened.
So indeed, in this day and ageof global communication, like
we're doing here on the SoulReport now, talking about this,
it's going around the world.
And people who are listening tous are saying, you know, you
got a point.
Irrespective of this man'sopinions, which may not be

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accurate, which may be halfaccurate, or maybe whatever, you
know, uh incomplete, I guess isthe word I'm looking for.
The point is that his ma hismechanism, his machine, his
message was to talk.
Mahatma Gandhi, the same thing.
Handful of salt, talk.
And so as we go through this uhto answer the questions, we go

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through this time, this movementof you know, it's going it's
going to, of course, excuse me,it's going to become
adulterated, and people will saythings he didn't say, and
people will give him credit forthings he didn't do, and on and
on it goes.
But that's the that's thenature of our spirituality,
which is to talk, to try to finda way.

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And even you know, he startedwhen he was 19.
That tells me that he wasspiritually motivated from
within.
And as he progressed, forwhatever beliefs he had, those
were his private beliefs, buthis purpose was to get people to
talk.
And that spiritual message isthe one that everybody's
resonating with.
So naturally, it's going aroundthe world and will continue,

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you know.
But understand this, myfriends, it's gonna be like one
of those stories.
You know, you sit in a circleand somebody says three words,
and you pass the message to thenext person, the next person,
the next person, the nextperson.
And by the time it comes back,it's got absolutely nothing to
do with the first three words.
But the message was carriedaround, and so that's what we're
gonna see.

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Let's hope that uh thesacrifice that Charlie Kirk made
will change the tone in theworld.
I pray to God Almighty that itit would change the way people
deal with each other, as we'vetalked about on the show
tonight.
Don't accuse people ofcelebrating his death.

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Go and talk to them.
That was his message.

Larry (01:07:23):
Thank you, Douglas.
Uh I do believe that's the lastof our questions.
So um, do you have any finalwords?
Any final gems of wisdom thatyou'd like to share with all of
us?

Douglas (01:07:32):
Well, we got two hours more in the show to go, Larry.
What are you talking about?
Oh no.
No, I I think uh there's noanybody in the chat one now's
your time to send in a question.

Larry (01:07:43):
Yeah.

Douglas (01:07:44):
Okay.
We'll wait a second, so forsomebody.
Thank you very much, myfriends, for participating in
the show and and sending in thechat.
Um, you know, as we moveforward in time, remember the
weather is going to be moresevere in different parts of the
world.
Uh, we're going to see morefloodings and more tornadoes.

(01:08:05):
I had a vision or dream thataround my neighborhood there was
a tornado.
So uh I'll let you know if thathappens, but um it will happen.
I've seen it.
As we move through this time ofextremes, um, you know, the
price of gold is going up to$4,000 U.S.
I've predicted that before.

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Uh the price of uh food isgoing to go up and is going up
and will continue.
Be prepared uh for by stockingup of food right now and try to
protect yourself.
Get insurance on your yourproperty if you need it, or if
you're in one of those placeswhere weather is going to
strike.
But remember, um we're in atime of extremes.

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There is recession coming.
And that means that there willbe difficulties uh for people.
And you can look up whatrecession means to you.
Some people are incomes, uh, itwon't bother them at all.
But for the average person,number one, try make the
attempt, make the effort,Herculean effort as it might be,

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to get out of debt.
Debt is the modern-day slavery.
It shackles you, it controlsyou, and it debilitates your
life.
So if you can, work two jobs,get out of debt, be clever, go
into business, make a sidelineof selling things.
Remember, if you're sellingsomething, you really are in

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business.
If you're making stuff andgiving it away, you're not.
So try to be in business andmake extra money.
Try to do your best to get outof debt, and then make sure you
don't continue in debt.
A lot of teenagers are runningaround now with debit cards and
I should say credit cards, andthey have like $50,000 to
$75,000 in debt.

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On your cell phone, you mighthave subscriptions to different
things that you don't knowabout, and you're paying $100,
$200 a month on yoursubscriptions.
I just found that out.
I found I was paying threesubscriptions on my cell phone,
this stuff for plants andsomething else.
I go, what how did that getthere?
So be mindful of yourexpenditures in this day and age

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where everything's electronic.
Pay attention and be protectingyourself of uh intrusions on
your finances.
But again, never use your debitcard online.
Uh somebody I read thatrecently.
Use your credit card because ifyou use your debit card, they
can go into your bank and and uhtake advantage of it.

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But if you use your creditcard, it's more difficult and
they can't do that.
I was surprised to see thatbecause I didn't want to carry
credit card debt.
Well, if you're disciplined topay off the debt on the 20th of
the month, then you can do it.
But it's the same as debit,except that it's smaller when
the when the little chunks ofcash are going out of your bank
account in smaller amounts.
But if you can do that, that'sone way of protecting yourself

(01:10:56):
as far as uh somebody intrudingon your bank account.
Pay with a credit card and thenpay the credit card off.
And another thing that comes tomy mind to protect yourself is
to take these little spies thatwe have here called cell phones
and turn them off every day.
Turn them off completely,because when you do that, it

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resets the cell phone and makesit more difficult for people to
continue to pry into yourprivate affairs or or uh banking
on your cell phone.
Anyway, so that just comes tomy mind is how to protect
yourself with the weatherconditions coming up.
And so as we uh head towardsthe show, let's take one more
quick break.
If uh Jack is there to give usanother short break.

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We'll be right back after this.
And welcome back, my friends.
And so, as we head towards theclose of the show, uh again, I
want to thank you for arrivinghere.
We believe, I believe, thatyou've been divinely guided to
this place called the SoulReport Live.
Okay, and I'm your soulreporter, along with my good
friend Larry here tonight, who'suh joined the show, and our

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good friend Jack, who is thewizard behind the curtain
helping to produce the show.
So we we'd like to encourageyou always, my friends, to
remember this is a spiritualjourney you're on.
This is a time of extremes.
And as we go through this time,remember this too shall pass.
Uh, attempt not to do any harmto anyone, but don't allow

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yourself to be pushed around ortaken advantage, don't run away,
stand up to the strong whenyou're in the wrong, and
understand that you can becomeanything you want to become.
Pray always, and as our goodfriend, uh uh, I think it was uh
Dr.
Paul, who told us that there'saffirmations and affirmations,

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and his newest book was aboutaffirmations.
So affirmation is justrepeating something that you may
not believe, but affirmationsis actually doing something,
you're forming a plan.
You're signing on the dottedline.
How many times have we donethat?
Oh, I should have.
I could have made a fortune.
Well, yeah, but when it cametime to sign, you chickened out.

(01:13:11):
Okay.
So this is what commitment'sall about, whether it's in a
financial venture, whether it'sin a a romantic nature, uh, you
know, uh getting together withsomebody maybe for the rest of
your life, or or joining into abusiness with somebody.
Doing something where you haveto make a commitment.
It takes signing on thedialing.

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It takes a commitment.
And so part of that is choosingwisely, getting counsel from
people to understand theparameters on the other side as
well as your side.
Remember the coin, and as such,you will make a good decision.
But so what?
Do something, anything.
Don't sit still, don't mope,don't blame others, and say to

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yourself, okay, God Almighty, Iwant to have a new car.
I want to have a newMercedes-Benz.
I want to have a black,leather-seated Mercedes-Benz,
and I want it to be a reallygood car that I can enjoy for
the rest of my life.
And I'd like to get it thesooner the better.

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Please make arrangements.
Please send people withopportunities.
Please let me have coincidencechance to find this automobile
because I really, really wantit.
Amen.
And then when it shows up,don't chicken out.
Hey, hey, Doug, I just got thisthis car.

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I, you know, I I I gotta getrid of it because I'm I'm
moving.
And what is it?
Oh, it's a black Mercedes.
How much?
Oh my god, that much?
No, I can't afford that.
Wait a minute, that was myprayer.
So when things show up, I'mbeing funny, but when things
show up, grab them, takeadvantage.

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Those are the those are thewords of wisdom by my mentor,
Reverend Alec Holmes, who said,When you pray, don't be
surprised when your prayer getsanswered.
And when it comes, grab it,take it.
It's yours.
And if you do that, you know,chances are you'll you'll have
an interesting life.
Remember the wisdom of at theend of your life, if you have no

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regrets, you have lived amiracle lifetime.
You've done everything right.
Chances are you're going tohave regrets.
So learning how to forgiveyourself along the way is just
as important as learning how toforgive others.
But take advantage when theopportunities come up.
When you pray for something,God will send it through the

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most unusual ways and means.
You'll be nudged, you'll have afeeling, or somebody will come
right to your door.
Usually that's happened to me.
Would you like us to give you aquote on new aluminum windows?
I was just thinking that twoweeks ago, and I had a man come

(01:16:05):
to the door yesterday.
Oh no, I kind of fixed thedriveway.
Wait a minute, wasn't I prayingfor windows?
Hmm, good thing he left hiscalling card.
Maybe I'll give him a calltomorrow.
Remember, my friends, it's upto you.
And it's always, always been upto you.
And as we go uh come to a closehere, we would like you to
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friends.
You know, I'm your host, andthis brings us to uh another
close to the Soul Report show.
Thank you to everyone who'sjoined us live and with sending
the questions.
Uh, and um we hope that youfound this a sacred place with

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your energy and your questions.
Uh, tonight you reminded us ofthe spiritual journey we're all
seeking and we're about toshare.
When one asks uh questions, allof us learn.
When one speaks, the rest of ushear at the echo of our own
soul.
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sure to like this video,subscribe to the channel, and

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And remember, you don't need tobe on stage to speak your
truth.
Your inner voice is alreadyconnected to the source.
Trust it, honor it, and followwhere it leads.
Until next time, stay aware,stay kind, and keep reaching for

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On behalf of our producer JackBaelick, our guest Larry C, a
guest host uh Larry C, andmyself, Dr.
Douglas James Cotrow, goodnight, God bless, and may you
enjoy peace and prosperityalways.

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