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Enjoy your exploration. My name is Erro. Do you believe

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in resurrections? I mean they happen every day? But are

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you willing to listen, to participate, to explore and find

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newer ways to understand? This podcast isn't about what we

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study and see through the eyes of religion. My boy

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boy Ernie spoke with me each chance we had together.

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But this isn't about resurrecting a spiritual brother of nearly

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thirty four years. This resurrection is that of a writing instrument,

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verbal documentation of what some may call a vision quest.

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Trusting the great mysteries of life. Tools are handed to

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us to carve out each expectation. This tool was laid

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to rest inside a forest to experience the elements of

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reality while connecting with a universe that unconditionally shares its stories,

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But who's writing it? Welcome to the Resurrection.

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Speaker 2: March sixteenth, twenty twenty six. A storm has moved to

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the southeast. They said it would bring down trees. They

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said the winds would be high, they said the rains

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would be torrential. There were tornado warnings, and you know,

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we all embraced, but did we really embrace Because on

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this date, the very lay of land where my boy

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boy Ernie is resting, a tree has fallen not only

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on his place and his space of peace, but it's

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fallen on the house in this very place. What are

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the chances that this one moment, this one little area

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would serve as some sort of magnet to bring down

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a tree. It has fallen onto the my boy boy

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Ernie garden as well as the house, and the damage

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is there. And so it's one of those where I

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just want to go take the writing instrument which has

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been placed next to the writing desk and bring it

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out here so that it too can be a part

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of this because many stories are going to be written

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about that day. The tree came down in the very

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place that my boy boy Ernie is resting, and maybe

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maybe this could be like his home inside our home.

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And he was just looking for a new place to climb,

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and he thought, well, I'm tired of walking over to

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the tree. Why don't we just move the roots of

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the tree and bring it over here a little bit closer.

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In this I can just climb up, because that's just

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what parrots do. Because I am a blue crown conure

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could be. But we are in a freaky place, of

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all places, inside this beautiful forest in South Charlotte. This

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is where the tree came down. Really, we are back

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at the site of my boy boy Ernie, where he

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has been laid to rest, and where the writing instrument,

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the my boy boy writing instrument was placed for thirty

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four days. There's a lot of destruction inside where Ernie

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is laid, and the tree has been removed that fell

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onto the area. But the marks that are in the

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soil are not that that would have been caused by

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the falling tree. There's a lot of digging here. I

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can see evidence of deer. I can see the deer tracks.

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I can see that a lot of animals have come

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into this area. But it's the digging that has my attention.

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Because it's right in the area where my boy boy

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Ernie is, And it's like, I don't want to take

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anything natural away from the storyline, But what I want

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to do is I want to understand it a lot better.

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I've been doing a lot of research on this, and

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what I've learned is that animals dig around burial sites

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mostly because their senses tell them that something is in there,

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not because they understand that it's a grave. It's just

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that something is in there. Do I think it's a dog.

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I don't think it's a dog. It's too tiny to

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be a dog, because I know how my dog would

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be Jazzy the disaster artist, and she would totally dig

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things up. But a lot of these animals have a

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powerful sense of smell. We're talking about foxes, raccoons, coyotes.

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As things start to decay inside the ground, these animals

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are drawn to this area and they leave their marks

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on top of the soil instinct not intention. To scavengers,

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the smell of the decomposing body sends off a signal,

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and this is really true for animals wired for evolution

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to locate the actual dead animal. And it's like, I

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keep thinking one of these days, I'm going to walk

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out here and Ernie, with his beautiful, beautiful home to

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which he was planted within, it's going to be dug up.

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I mean, that is my real, honest to God fear.

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But what's happening is is that nature is very curious

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right now, and nature is being very territorial. And the

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thing is is that I also have to remind myself

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that the soil is softer, and this really does invite

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a lot of animals to this area. Shadow burial grounds

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make it easier for animals to kind of get in there,

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find that scent, and locate the actual origin of where

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things are going. You cannot prevent any of this from

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taking place. If there is something they want to deal

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with with, they're gonna dig down three to four inches deep.

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And that's exactly what they have done with my boy

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boy Ernie in this one area where I know he's

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there because I'm the one who buried him there. So

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what they're suggesting is is that I place a large

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rock or concrete slab over the area just to keep

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the animals away. I'm a naturalist. I can't do that.

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I just don't have it in my heart to do

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something like that. For instance, not even six or seven

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feet from where Ernie is currently overlooking this forest, there

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is a chunk of a building. It was once the

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county courthouse in Mecklenburg County in North Carolina, that was

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built back in nineteen twenty five. I got my hands

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on this because I went to the actual destruction site

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and got this from the workers that were on site,

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and I brought it home because I believe in preserving history.

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But there's been this calling for the past two or

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three weeks now that has said plant this gigantic chunk

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of a building that once was over Ernie. And my

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heart is saying no, no, And that's why I'm going

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against this, even though research shows that this is what

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we should do to help preserve this. The behavior of

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these animals is completely natural and not a sign of

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aggression or disturbance. It is biology doing what biology does. Now,

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here's the thing that they suggest, if I want, I

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can explain which animals in the area can do less

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or more, if I want to do more research on this.

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And I don't think that's where we are. Because as

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we grow closer and closer to the thirty fourth day

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of the writing instrument being where Ernie once once lived,

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inside what we call the mansion, overlooking the forest. Maybe

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things will calm down, But right now, this area where

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my boy boy Ernie is, the animals are restless and

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it's very physical.

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Speaker 1: The resurrection, It's a true story. Learn more about this

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forest and my boy boy Ernie on Arrow dot Net,

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a re dot net. His story, his journey a new

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path with the Writing Instrument are available on the podcast

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The Lyrics from Ernie's Forest. Future episodes of this podcast

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will focus on the transition of materialistic value to that

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of an authentic storyteller. The ice storms, a record setting

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eleven inches of snow, The fear of walking to the

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gravesite to find nothing, The resurrection, faith, hope, forgiveness and discovery.

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What lessons will the Writing Instrument bring back to the

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surface of walking forward? Let it rise above our tears.