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Today, I want to talk to
you about an experience that I had a

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while back, but I've forgotten about
the reason why I bring this up is

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because I keep talking about the fact
that I've not really experienced a lot of

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things. I've not really felt anything
or seen anything or anything like that.

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And then the more I think about
it, well, I've had more experiences

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than I thought I had. I
mean, I really truly have. And

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I wonder if that's the same thing
for you. If we go around life

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thinking, yeah, I don't I've
not seen anything that's weird, or I've

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not experienced anything. Something about our
minds shuts off the impossible, forgets the

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improbable, the things that we can't
really explain. Our mind just dismisses offhand.

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And sometimes it isn't until much later
on, when we're maybe having a

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conversation with someone when it suddenly hits
like, oh my god, that's right,

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I just remember it. Something weird
did happen to me. And the

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more I think back to the time
in my twenties when I was first looking

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into all this kind of stuff,
the more that I'm finding that I had

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these experiences. The one that really
comes to mind right now is the time

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that I can only imagine I saw
or us, but I didn't see colors

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or anything like that. And I
know that longtime listeners will have heard the

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episode where I started seeing Karen's aura
as we were recording things, But hasn't

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he really happened since then? Like
I haven't really seen them. I guess

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I have to try, but I
guess I back up for a second.

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It wasn't until very recently that this
is gonna sound weird and Karen's gonna last

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at me when she hears this.
But there was a time when I actually

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studied with a guru, back when
I was living in Miami. Now.

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He wasn't like a regular guru.
He wasn't like some guy who sat in

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lotus pos all day long and in
India and showed me the way. He

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was just a regular guy who was
on the same path. But he was

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well advanced. He was much more
advanced than I was. His improbable name

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was actually Larry. It was his
name was. I studied with Larry the

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Guru, and he was a Jewish
man that was a practicing mystic. I

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mean to clarify, his family was
Jewish. He was no longer practicing that

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religion in favor of a spiritual and
mystical practice. But he was Jewish,

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his family was Jewish. But now
he was an avid meditator. He was

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a reiki practitioner, He saw auras, he practiced ritual magic things like that.

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Like he was. Really he's a
far out dude man. He has

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really long hair and a beard,
and always barefoot, which makes sense to

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me, now right, the whole
barefoot thing. You're connected to the planet.

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So that's why he was always a
barefoot now I get it. Well,

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I would go over to his house. I think it was once a

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week that would go and we would
meditate together and he would teach me something

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else. When we'd talk about stuff
I was experiencing or that he was experiencing,

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he was teaching me. He was
teaching me like breath work, all

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kinds of different things in the in
a metaphysical space. And I would study

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with him he once in a while. Well, at one point we were

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sitting across from each other and the
lights were somewhat dim, but we had

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incidents going and a few candles around, and we were talking about auras,

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and all of a sudden I was
looking around him and I'm seeing a like

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outline around him, I guess,
like an energetic aura around him. But

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it wasn't a color. It was
like just like gray, gray, white,

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black, whatever color or lack of
color it was, but there was

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just like an outline around him.
I said, hey, Larry, I

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think I think I see your aura. He goes, oh, really,

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what it looks like? And I
tried to explain it to him. He

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goes, okay, well, keep
your eye on the aura and tell me

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what you see now. And as
he said that, as I was watching

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his aura, it shot up really
high, and my reaction, like unbridled

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reaction, was to go whoa at
that point, and then he laughed and

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he goes, Yep, you can
see it all right, because apparently he

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had shot it up, like he
had expanded his aura above his crown chakra

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really up in the air to see
if I would notice it. And sure

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enough I noticed. I noticed it
shot up in the air, so it's

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weird. So I suddenly I was
overjoyed I could see aras. But then

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he asked me what color is and
I couldn't see it, and that kind

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of threw me right back down to
the ground because I couldn't see I couldn't

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see the color. I could just
see the outline around him, and I

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could see it when he manipulated it, and that was pretty amazing. From

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that moment on, I would always
look around and I could I could see

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this outline around some people, although
usually when they were up against like a

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flat wall with not a lot of
patterns and things, because I guess the

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patterns made me lose the sight of
the aura or something. I don't know,

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and I think that's what I saw
back when we were recording that episode

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where I saw Karen's aura, it
was the same general thing. It was

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an outline. Now I'm wondering if
maybe I've seen or as all along.

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I just didn't know what they were
or recognize them. And that's the hardest

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thing about all this for me,
because there is a level of trusting that

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you're not just making this stuff up. And everyone tells you that, but

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it doesn't hit you until you start
experiencing it yourself. It takes a level

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of trust that you're not making this
up, and that is the hardest thing

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for pragmatists like me. I don't
know. I'm curious because now that I

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realized that I go back to the
things that have happened to me that I

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just thought it was just my mind
making things up, and wonder what if

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they weren't. What if it was
nascent gifts that were trying to emerge and

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I shot them down because I just
pooh pooed them to the realm of my

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imagination. I would love to hear
your thoughts. Is this something that you

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have experienced when you think back,
Go ahead and think back in your life,

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in your experiences, in your search
for this kind of thing, any

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memories come to mind where, huh, maybe that was something or maybe I

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don't know, maybe it's just me. But I appreciate that you listen to

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these ramblings because it's me just processing. I'm definitely a verbal processor, and

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this is It's nice to have someone
actually help me to process these things as

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we go in somewhat stream of consciousness. But it's a two way street.

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I would really love to hear what
you are thinking, what you're feeling.

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you all right, Thanks for listening. I think I'm gonna just wrap it

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up for today.