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Hello, and welcome to Psychic Teachers.

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I'm your host, Samantha Faye. And

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I'm Deb Bowen. And today we're

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coming to you with our monthly question

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and answer show. We have

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some wonderful questions and of course, some fabulous

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stories to share with you. Just

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as a reminder, if you want

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to share a story or question

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with Psychic Teachers, just email us,

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psychicteachers@gmail.com. Deb, you want to start us

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off? Absolutely.

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This first question says, Samhain

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is approaching. That means Halloween for those of you

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who may not be familiar with that term. And

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I asked my father for a sign. I

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asked for something specific. When

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I was a little girl, my father would

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play guitar and sing me a song about

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shoes. It was my favorite

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that he sang to me. It

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was our connection when I was a child. I

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asked him to send me a sign

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that I would be okay in these

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uncertain times. Anxiety

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sucks. I asked

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for red shoes. I

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went to support a friend at an open mic

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night, not my usual outing

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or atmosphere. There was

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a young man with a shiny red

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guitar. It was candy apple red. Dad

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at the table said, oh, look, that

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guitar reminds me of Dorothy's red shoes.

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Not only was this a guitar, my

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father's instrument and solace in this world, it

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was associated with red shoes. I

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just knew my daddy was reassuring

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me. I hope this brought

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a smile to your face as it really did to

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mine, and I wanted to share. Thank

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you so much for that. I just love

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that. That kind of

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clear validation that is

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so incredibly specific, it's just

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such a gift. As

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you are reminding us. of your connection

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with your father and the signs that

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he has sent you. I just

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love you, and I have to tell you that

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as Samantha and I are recording this episode, we

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are celebrating what would have been our

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friend, Granny Jean, the palm reader's 97th

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birthday. So thank you

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for making a smile with this

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great story. I love

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it. And what would make that person say

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the red guitar reminds him of Dorothy's red

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shoes. Like I could see comparing, I

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don't know, a red guitar to a rock

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star's guitar, but to shoes that

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spirit at work. Well,

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it really is. And of course, the old rock

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and roll girl that I am, as I'm reading

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this, I'm hearing an old

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Elvis Costello song where

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the chorus says, I used to be disgusted.

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Now I try to be amused. The angels

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want to wear my red shoes. I

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love it. Our next one says,

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I attended a mediumship group reading where

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my father came through. The

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medium identified two important dates, the

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eighth and the 31st. Well,

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my father was born on the 31st and died on

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the eighth. She provided great detail

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of foods I've eaten, things I bought all

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in just this last week to show he's

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around me. She gave details that

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she could not have known about my experience with

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my father during his illness before his death. She

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told me he wants me to be tougher, that

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I'm kindhearted and often others take advantage

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of me. I've been told

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I'm an empath by my therapist, hence my

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intense emotions and why I care so deeply

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about others. My question

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is, how does an empath get tougher? How

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do I take this message from my dad to help

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me on my life's journey? Well,

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I thought this was a really good question, Deb. And

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I also think it's a good

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example of how mediumship works because they'll

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try to give you some validating things

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about the emotions or the personality

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of the person, some specifics like But

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the fact that she provided so many, you know,

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minute details of things she'd done that week,

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just to show that the dad was around

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her is the sign of a really good

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medium. But also, this is

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how a reading should work. You give details,

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you give validations, and then you bring through

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the message. And his message was that

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she needs to be tougher, that

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she's very, very kindhearted. I don't

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think it needs to be an either or. I don't

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think that you have to be tough or

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kindhearted. I believe that you can and

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should be both. We have to be tough, we have

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to be strong, we have to be

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resilient, but we also have to

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be tender and empathic and kindhearted. I

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think the best way to work

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on that is to practice sacred

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selfishness. So start with Dr. Bud

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Harris's book called Sacred Selfishness,

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which really, really helped me when

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I started to embrace my empathy

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and try to set boundaries. That

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book, and so many like it,

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I think Brene Brown's work would

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also be really great for

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you to look into, because both of them talk

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about how important it is to

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put yourself first, to not see it

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as being selfish, to

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really focus on who you are and what you want

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and make sure your needs are met. And

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that comes through practicing sacred selfishness

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and through setting really, really firm

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boundaries. And the thing with

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boundaries is you have to set them

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once and twice and three times, and

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sometimes dozens of times if you're dealing

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with difficult people. But each time you

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set that boundary, it gets easier and

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easier and easier. And you'll

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see that you're able to maintain your kind

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heart, but also your inner

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strength will flourish. I've

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been reading a lot of Anne Lamott

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lately. I just love her work. I

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just love her way of being in the

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world. And one of the things that she

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says that she's probably pretty famous for is, everything

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will work again if you unplug it

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for a few minutes, including you. And

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I think that's a part of that

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taking care of yourself backing away,

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unplugging, and then replugging

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and setting those boundaries while you're doing that. Yeah,

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I agree. And I like to ask

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myself too, is this mind to carry?

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You know? That's a good question. Yeah.

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When you're worried about someone or someone's coming to you

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with their issues or they're pulling on

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you too much, I

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always have this reflex, this instant response to

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dive in and help out. And I've had

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to learn to ask myself, is this mind

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to carry? All right, our next one says,

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my question is about telepathy and

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how you approach long distance connections.

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Do either of you have stories of time

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when you've received or sent

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messages telepathically to someone? I'm

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curious to hear about any experiences

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where you felt someone thinking about

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you or had a sudden

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nudge to check in on someone, especially

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if they turned out to need help or support.

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Additionally, do you have a

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specific technique or practice that you

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use when trying to connect

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with someone telepathically? I've

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heard people describe the sensation of

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telepathy as similar to feeling

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someone watching you. So I'd be fascinated

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to hear if you've experienced anything like

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that too. Well, this

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is an interesting question. I guess

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the people I've so deeply, emotionally

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and spiritually connected to

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just kind of stay

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that way. We just know if

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my phone rings, sometimes

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I know it's going to be Joel,

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for example. Have there been times where

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I have sat down with the intention

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of connecting to someone

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telepathically? Absolutely, there have been those

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times. And for me, it's not

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so much of being able to

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see someone or feel someone watching

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me or vice versa. I often,

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because of being such an auditory

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communicator, hear their voice or ask

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them to hear mine. So that's the

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primary clear. I bring them all

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in, but that's the primary clear. layer that I

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use when I'm doing telepathic work.

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And often, the reverse is

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true. If I know someone needs to

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talk to me and they're sending me a

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message, I hear their voice or hear

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a song that I know is one of their favorite

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songs, for example. I always wonder if,

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you know, like when you go to text someone and

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you get your phone out and you unlock the

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screen and then a text comes in from them.

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I always wonder is that must

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be a form of telepathy. Well, of course

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it is in the modern world. Or if

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you show up for lunch with a friend

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and you're both wearing the same colors. What

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I teach might be your own psychic

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class. One of the partner exercises we

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do is called the sender receiver exercise.

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And that's where you're assigned a partner

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and you're given symbols and numbers and

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images to send to your partner and

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then your partner has to receive it

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and try to guess, you know, if

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it's one, two, three, four, or five,

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or what letter it is and so

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on. And then you switch roles because

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some people are better at sending telepathically

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and others are better at receiving telepathically.

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And I think it's important to know

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which of those two is your strength.

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So this listener could try

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doing that with a friend. It's a

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really fun way to play with telepathy.

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There's also a crystal that is

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known as the telepathic stone and

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that is Angelite. And it

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said, according to Melody and Judy

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Hall, if you buy two pieces of

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Angelite and you keep one and give

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one to your child, your

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partner, your best friend, whoever you

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want to try this with, that

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it will enhance your ability to

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connect telepathically. The

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one experience I've had with telepathy that stands

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out to me, I often get messages

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in my dreams. And a couple of

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years ago, I had a dream that

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a friend I knew from a long time

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ago, I hadn't seen this person in over

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20 years, was in

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really, really dire straits, was going through

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quite a depression. And in

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the dream, his whole family, a

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bunch of us were all gathered around the,

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this couch, trying to talk and

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just, you know, cheer him up and things like that. But

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I hadn't spoken to him. I had no idea where he was. I

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wasn't going to be like, hello, you know,

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I had a dream about you that you were very sad.

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Like, what do you do with that? So I just

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wrote an affirmation for him that he is healthy and

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happy. And I lit a candle for him that day.

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And I just went to work and went about

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my day. And when I came home, I had

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an email from him saying, Hey, is there any

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way I could schedule a reading with you? I

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really need some help. Now, I don't know if

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that was from the dream, the candle, the intention

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of the prayer, but I thought that was really

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interesting. Well, it is. And

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I mean, you just never know how those things are going

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to evolve, do you? No,

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but it's, I think telepathy

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is absolutely fascinating. And this listener

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could also look at, I think

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it's called Psychic Spies, the Russell

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Targ documentary. On Amazon Prime, fascinating.

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And they talk about some of the

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research they did with telepathy and it

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focuses mainly on remote viewing. But

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looking into that work could be helpful

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too. Our next one says, my mother

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passed away in August, three years ago

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on August 21st. She

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and I discussed that she would try to give me a

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sign to let me know she was around and okay. Since

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she passed, I have not received a sign

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that could not be chalked up to coincidence.

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And like you both say, sometimes we're given

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signs, but we want more. On

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October 4th, at about three 30 PM, I

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was driving to work missing my mother so

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terribly as she was my very best friend.

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I began to talk out loud in the car to her

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asking her for a sign telling her I needed

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a sign that I could not dispute that I

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knew for sure solid. It was her. As

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I stopped at the light in front of me, I

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looked at the license plate of the car. It

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was from Tennessee. That is where she

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had lived for the last 30 years of her life. I

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smiled and said, I see it

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mom, but that could be coincidence. I need something that

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I can do. I know for sure it's you. Two

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hours later at work, I was talking

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to a teenage coworker. We ended

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up realizing that her boyfriend was best

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friends with my great nephew. Kind

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of a long story, a lot of thin threads

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came together here. She was so surprised

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that he was my great nephew. A

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few minutes later, she said, he always

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wears a necklace with a picture on it. I wanna show

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it to you and see if you know who it is.

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I said, okay. So she opens her phone,

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enlarged the photograph on the chain hanging around his

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neck and turned her phone around to show me.

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When I looked, it was my mother's

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face. A picture of her in her 40s

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smiling back at me, it took my breath

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away. I started to cry. I

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could not believe it was my mom looking back at me

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from the photo. One hour

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after that, I was telling the

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young man who was my manager what I had

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experienced. He hugged me and said,

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I'm so happy for you that your mama said hi.

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She was a real cat. I

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didn't know her well, but she seemed really cool.

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She was a real cat. At

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that moment, my mind was totally blown.

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Her husband of 30 plus years and her

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father and all of his family always called

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her cat. Everyone else called

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her Kathy. So within

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less than five hours, she showed me

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Tennessee, the state she lived in with

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her husband for the whole of their marriage, her

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actual picture smiling back at me and the

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name she was called by the people that

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were very closest to her. Wow,

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that is incredible. And it just shows

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you how Deb and I are always

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saying, ask for a sign, state

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the sign, give a time

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limit. And if you don't get it, if

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you're asking for a sign from your guide about

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a decision you should make and you don't

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get that sign, well, then there's your answer.

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But if you're asking for a sign from a

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loved one that they're okay and they don't give

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you a sign, I think it

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is perfectly fine to be just as pushy as

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this listener was. I love that

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she got a little frustrated and talked out loud in

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the comments. diagnosed

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with something like diabetes, I

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would think there'd be anger. I know

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my former mother-in-law have dealt with diabetes the

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last 25 years of her life, and

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she dealt with it with grace like this listener,

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but she was kind of mad. There

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were times we'd be at holiday gatherings and people

22:18

would be passing chocolate dessert after

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cheesecake, after pecan pie, and she'd be

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like, no, no, thank you. And that's

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kind of making you kind of mad.

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Why me? And so it

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could have just been a reaction to that. Other

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times though, I've done chakra cleansings and I'll

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have a strong reaction in one chakra, and

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I'll do some, I'll send some light and some

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healing to it. And the next day I'll do

22:41

the same chakra clearing meditation and I don't have

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a reaction there. So just

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as our auras and our vibrations and our

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frequencies shift and change all the time, I

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think the blockages in our chakras can shift

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and change all the time too. I

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do too. Okay,

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our next one says, my brother and sister-in-law

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recently bought a house in my city and

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needed some help getting the new house in

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order before they started unpacking. I

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was over at their house on move-in day doing

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some cleanup in the backyard. While

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cleaning up some brush around a small tree, I

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found sitting at the base of the tree what

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looks like a cluster of selenite crystals. I

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picked up the crystal matrix and it felt like

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it weighed about two pounds. I was

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shocked to see something like this in a random

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city in the United States. I

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guess in my mind, I always thought if I

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ever found a crystal out in the wild, it

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would be while traveling abroad, exploring

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through caves or something exotic like that.

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I'm actually friends with the previous owners of

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the house my brother had just purchased, so

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I immediately texted them and asked if they had left

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it behind. They had no idea

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what I was talking about and told me I

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could keep whatever I found. I

23:47

then took the crystal inside the house to inspect

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it more closely. Excitedly, I displayed

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the crystal on the kitchen table to

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show off my miraculous discovery to my

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brother and sister-in-law. The pair

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were less than amused, as they are not crystal-like.

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to it, she would never want to part

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ways with it. What do you think?

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Does selenite grow on a matrix? It

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can. Okay. I mean, I'm

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sitting here looking at this beautiful piece of

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selenite that you gave me some years ago. Do you

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remember? It's about, it's about

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14 inches long. My memory or my

28:18

images of selenite didn't grow on a

28:20

matrix, but okay. Well, think about like,

28:23

like, gypsum with selenite. Right. You

28:26

know, desert rose selenite. Sometimes

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the icy clear gypsum selenite

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grows in a beautiful, like,

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spiky matrix. Well,

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that's true. It does. Okay. There's

28:38

nothing unethical about sewing this.

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I mean, it was, stone

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was given to you by the property owner

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to do with as you wish. So yes, you

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could sell it. But the other thing that's coming

28:49

to mind is that while

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you could do that, I

28:53

just wonder if you can just be

28:56

with it for a bit and that

28:58

a person who actually needs that

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stone will appear and you can

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give it away. I know that happens to

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me sometimes where I am suddenly

29:07

very aware that there is somebody

29:09

that I'm working with or talking to

29:12

who needs a particular rock and

29:14

I pass it on. And

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I have rocks that have certainly been passed on to

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me. And like I said, I'm just talking about a

29:20

piece that selenite Samantha gave me a while back. So

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I'm asking you to just be with it

29:25

for a bit and just wait for

29:27

an answer from the stone itself. It'll

29:30

tell you what to do with it.

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Yeah, I just think the fact that she's

29:34

been trying to manifest more lately, and she

29:37

is connected to crystals, this

29:39

could just be a gift for her to use

29:42

to help boost her income. Well,

29:45

absolutely. Okay, the next

29:47

one says, thank you for

29:49

this six ways

29:51

episode, the one we just did on

29:53

six ways to jumpstart your intuition. I think

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she's talking about I see

29:57

a woman's eye at my third too.

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It felt personal and a bit shocking

30:03

at first. I used to

30:05

see purple light when I first started

30:07

meditating, but now the eye is common.

30:10

I feel it is the divine feminine

30:12

connecting with me. The amount

30:14

that her eye is open or closed

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is a barometer of how connected I

30:19

am at the moment. It

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usually starts out closed when I first sit on

30:23

my mat, but then opens and

30:25

changes as I progress. Sometimes

30:28

a gentle hand comes out of the eye

30:31

to hold my heart or

30:33

feed me upgrades. Occasionally

30:36

two hands come out to form two

30:38

halves of a heart, which reminds me

30:40

how loved I am. If

30:42

I am calm, not seeking an

30:44

answer to a question, then

30:46

a wave of loving acceptance floods

30:48

towards me. It's

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only happened twice, but it caused

30:53

such a change in me that

30:55

I popped out of meditation because

30:57

the frequency was so big. This

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started four months ago, so I'm

31:02

still learning how she and I work together.

31:05

Wow. We actually got

31:07

a lot of emails about that, and so I

31:10

think it must be more common, which

31:12

is nice to know. It is. I've

31:15

never seen anything come out of the eye

31:17

when I meditate and I see an eye.

31:19

I'd be a little freaked out by that,

31:21

but I know what she says about the

31:23

eye. I know if I have

31:26

moved away from meditation for a couple of

31:28

days, I haven't taken time to really ground

31:30

and center and go within. Then after

31:33

three or four days, I'll close my eyes to

31:35

meditate. That eye I see on my

31:37

third eye is closed. It's like she's saying, nope, you

31:39

haven't made time for me. I'm not making time for

31:42

you. Oh, wow. Yeah. Then

31:44

if I keep my practice up

31:46

like I'm supposed to, it is open that

31:48

eye. It's nice to know

31:50

that other people have that experience too. It

31:53

absolutely is. I know about the eye,

31:55

but the hands coming out

31:57

and the

31:59

heart. And so that's what's how lovely

32:01

that is. I know that's

32:03

a part of that. She said when she Meditates

32:06

without seeking an answer. She

32:08

gets that loving feeling I

32:11

know exactly what she means by that

32:13

too. Like when you're just meditating to

32:15

commune and connect It

32:17

is so much better for me.

32:20

Anyway, then when I'm meditating with

32:22

that, you know anxious I need

32:24

an answer I need guidance Yeah,

32:26

sometimes you just don't need to sometimes you just need

32:29

to be receptive Yeah, absolutely.

32:31

Thank you Our

32:33

next one says I was wondering if you

32:35

had any suggestions for crystals to have during

32:38

labor and birth Along with

32:40

that what to do with them beforehand I'm

32:43

going to go back and listen to previous crystal

32:45

episodes But I'm thinking cleanse and wear or work

32:47

with them for at least two weeks beforehand. Yes

32:50

Okay, so there's a lot of

32:52

great crystals for labor and birth.

32:54

My favorite is unikite It

32:57

is the stone of birth and rebirth Moonstone

33:00

is also really really wonderful for

33:02

that as is pink opal Or

33:06

pink calcite. Those are both

33:08

very nurturing stones White

33:11

quartz, I think it's called snowy

33:13

white quartz is really good

33:15

If you choose to nurse

33:17

your baby It's said to help make

33:20

the the breastfeeding process a little bit

33:22

easier because for first-time moms It's not

33:24

always so easy and and what I

33:26

would recommend she's absolutely right It does

33:28

take about two weeks for a crystal

33:30

to resonate with your energy So

33:33

you would want to get your

33:35

unikite or your moonstone or whichever

33:37

stone you're drawn to for that And

33:40

wear it for at least two weeks beforehand.

33:43

I recommend getting a unikite

33:45

pendant or some beads and making

33:47

your own bracelet or making your

33:49

own necklace and Really

33:52

putting your energy into it and wearing

33:54

that all the time So

33:56

that that that stone is with you

33:58

constantly and you can really help

34:01

to connect deeper with

34:03

your baby and the labor and birth

34:05

process. And as you're working

34:08

with your unikite or your pink

34:10

opal or your moonstone, you can

34:12

really use it as a meditation

34:14

touchstone and hold it while you're

34:17

trying to talk to your baby.

34:19

Can't recommend that enough, especially during

34:22

the third trimester when

34:24

I believe the soul is really in that

34:26

body and can hear

34:28

you. And you can visualize an easy labor

34:30

and birth and you can talk to the

34:32

baby about how great it will

34:34

be when they, I used to say

34:37

to my kids all the time in my third

34:39

trimester, the quicker you go to the light

34:41

when you feel a little pressure, the quicker

34:43

you'll be in mommy's arms. Remember

34:45

those stories, Deb? I do. I

34:49

worked with pretty easy labors and do it.

34:51

I had super easy, very fast labors. And

34:53

I really believe it's because I talked to

34:55

them and told them like, okay, in a

34:57

couple of weeks, you're gonna feel really tight

34:59

and constricted and it's gonna be a little

35:02

scary. And then you're gonna feel

35:04

like this pushing and squeezing sensation and you're gonna

35:06

see this big light and you're not gonna know

35:08

what to do. Go to the light. Quicker you

35:10

do that, the quicker you're in my arms. Okay,

35:15

Samantha, that was really interesting. Let's take

35:17

a quick break and we'll be right back.

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36:22

says, I used to be

36:25

able to ground my energy easily. I

36:27

would drop a grounding cord from my

36:29

root chakra deep into the center of

36:31

the earth and anchor it firmly. When

36:33

I would do this, I would feel

36:35

a tug at the base of my

36:38

spine and feel securely connected. I

36:40

took a break from meditating and have been doing

36:42

it again for a couple of years. But I've

36:44

not been able to ground like I used to.

36:46

When I tried to drop a

36:48

grounding cord down into the center of the

36:51

earth, it does not stay. It immediately

36:53

springs up and I cannot get it

36:55

to connect to the center. No

36:58

matter what I try to visualize, it

37:00

does not work. I've even tried

37:02

grounding by spreading roots out of my feet

37:04

and they won't go into ground. They

37:07

stay superficial, only going an inch

37:09

or so down. Because of

37:11

this, I do not feel like I'm ever in

37:14

my body. This just causes a lot

37:16

of problems for me any idea what's going on

37:18

and how to fix this. Let

37:20

me offer a suggestion here because I'm a

37:22

firm believer in the feet on the ground

37:25

root thing. But but it can't

37:27

just be, oh, I'm sending roots

37:29

down from my feet. What's

37:31

important about the

37:33

feet grounding technique is

37:36

that you envision that the roots

37:38

coming from your feet connect

37:41

to the roots of everything else in

37:43

the planet. Do you remember the

37:45

great book called The Overstory by

37:47

Richard Powers? And he writes and

37:50

several other writers have too over the past

37:53

couple of years, about the notion that there's

37:55

this network of roots

37:57

that basically hold the planet together

37:59

and that that all the tree roots

38:01

talk to each other, when

38:03

we meditate and can envision our

38:06

roots from our feet connecting

38:09

to those other roots, then

38:11

we too become grounded and

38:14

a part of all that is. And

38:17

not only are we sending roots down

38:20

to be connected, but that

38:22

energy of connection is coming back up

38:24

into us. So rather than thinking of

38:26

it as just going down, think of

38:28

it as a circular flow of

38:30

energy from what's below

38:32

us, through us, and back down around,

38:35

so that it's both a

38:37

giving and receiving reciprocal kind

38:39

of relationship in that kind

38:42

of grounding. I know another way that

38:44

folks really find it important to ground is

38:47

that they bend down or kneel

38:49

down and put their hands on the

38:51

earth as well. So

38:54

that seems to help other folks,

38:56

not just your feet, but to use your

38:58

hands as well. I

39:00

had this problem during the COVID lockdowns.

39:03

I think it was because I was picking up

39:05

on, well, I was feeling anxious and worried too,

39:07

but I think I was picking up on the

39:09

anxiety as well. And

39:12

one thing that helped me a lot, I

39:14

realized I couldn't feel that grounding energy because

39:16

I just wasn't grounded. So

39:18

there was nothing for me to connect to

39:20

because I was just feeling disconnected. And

39:23

so I had to do a lot of work

39:26

to connect myself. And so I started journaling and

39:28

writing down my worries and getting all of that

39:30

out of my body. And that helped a lot.

39:33

And then I did a different meditation

39:35

that really helped me. And instead of,

39:37

a lot of times when I

39:39

meditate, I always picture myself walking up a

39:41

mountain or going up high so that I'm

39:43

elevating my energy. But I

39:45

started doing a meditation where I was walking deep

39:48

into the forest and I found a big, big

39:50

tree with a huge trunk. And

39:52

there was an opening in the trunk

39:54

and I walked into that and went down

39:57

wooden stairs, like from the tree trunks in

39:59

the forest. into the earth. And

40:01

that actually helped me a lot. I

40:04

do have a funny story. My older

40:07

sister, there's a pretty

40:09

well-known documentary. It came out, I think about five

40:11

years ago, on grounding. I believe

40:13

it's still on YouTube. And

40:15

she was looking at all the science about how

40:17

important it is to ground your energy. And

40:20

so she bought a grounding mat. You

40:22

can buy mattresses that

40:25

ground your energy while you sleep and you plug

40:27

them in. They're kind of

40:29

pricey. So you can also buy grounding mats

40:32

that you just step on, you know, like while you're

40:34

brushing your teeth and washing your face. But

40:37

she watches documentary and she's like, I'm going to

40:39

buy this grounding mat. So she's

40:41

married to a brilliant engineer, but

40:43

you know, engineers, they're very, very

40:46

left brained analytical. So she didn't

40:48

really tell him, you know, Hey,

40:50

underneath the sheets and everything, I

40:52

have a grounding mat plugged in. She just

40:55

put it in and didn't tell him. And

40:58

she started sleeping beautifully and he

41:00

started sleeping great. And his back pain started to

41:02

go away. And after like a week, he said

41:04

to her, I don't know what's happening. Like, am

41:08

I cutting down on caffeine? Like I'm sleeping so

41:10

great. My back doesn't hurt. And so

41:12

she finally told him there's a grounding mat

41:14

underneath all the sheets. And

41:17

I don't know if he's a believer

41:19

now, but that definitely changed his mind

41:21

on grounding. So I would recommend you

41:23

can try that as well. But just

41:25

know that sometimes this is common as

41:27

we're just picking up on the energies

41:29

within us and around us. You can

41:31

also look into the Schumann

41:34

resonance and see if, if

41:36

your energy reacts to that, there's different sites

41:39

you can follow on social media that

41:41

will tell you what the residents of

41:44

the earth is every day. And sometimes

41:46

that can give you an idea of

41:48

where your energy is. Okay. Our next

41:50

one says recently, a longtime

41:53

friend passed away and

41:55

the night before the viewing, he was in my dream,

41:57

nothing odd or dramatic or virtually. that

42:00

I recall, but clearly he was in

42:02

my dream. My question,

42:04

is it more likely that I

42:06

manufactured his image or could

42:09

he have pushed himself into my dream for a

42:11

reason I can't understand? Well,

42:14

I suppose it is possible that you were just

42:16

thinking about him and had a dream of him,

42:18

but the fact that it stayed with you and

42:20

it was so vivid and it feels like there

42:22

was emotion connected to it, I

42:25

do believe that he was visiting you.

42:27

That is something I've seen many, many

42:29

times when talking to people

42:31

who've lost loved ones and it's something I've

42:33

experienced too. I'm sure you have as well,

42:35

Deb. There's this

42:38

feeling of, like

42:40

I remember when a family member died and

42:43

she was around all of us and she kept saying, I

42:45

have three days, I have three days, I'm not going anywhere.

42:47

I have three days before I have to cross into the

42:49

light. And she was saying

42:52

her goodbyes to everyone. And

42:54

so she would pop up in dreams or I

42:56

would just feel her around us. And

42:58

so it could just be that he was popping in

43:01

just to say his goodbyes before he moved into the

43:03

light. What do you think? Yeah,

43:06

I think so. I mean, when we

43:08

have that kind of intense emotional connection

43:11

to someone and they're across the veil

43:13

and they're trying to get oriented, that's

43:16

one of the times we're most likely to be able to catch

43:19

up with them and talk to them or hear

43:21

from them in some way. They

43:23

come in our dreams often. I know my mom

43:26

did that. It's a beautiful way for

43:28

them to say, I'm with you. I'm

43:30

seeing that you're there, that you're connecting

43:32

and saying goodbyes. And so I want

43:34

to say goodbye to one of

43:36

my favorite books about stories like that is

43:38

called Postcards from Heaven. Do you remember that?

43:40

When was it written? Like the eighties? I

43:43

think so. And it's a great book. It is.

43:45

And I believe it's still in print. It's written

43:47

by a couple and they just collected a whole

43:50

bunch of stories like this of loved

43:52

ones who had died and came back

43:54

through dreams or signs like the ones we've

43:57

shared in today's show to say

43:59

a little goodbye. And so that's why they called

44:01

it postcards from heaven. So I recommend you check that

44:03

out. Okay, do we have time

44:05

for one more, Samantha? Yes. Okay,

44:07

I was out doing our weekly shopping

44:10

this Sunday and let my kids play

44:12

on those rides on the

44:14

middle of the shopping center. While

44:16

I was standing waiting for the ride to

44:18

finish, a blue happy

44:20

birthday balloon floated towards me. Without

44:23

using my intuition, I grabbed the balloon and

44:25

let my kids play with it. We

44:28

took it home and I left it in the formal

44:30

living room. I went to the

44:32

kitchen and made lunch, but I had feeling something was

44:35

behind me. I looked back

44:37

and the balloon had floated into the kitchen

44:39

right behind me. I thought,

44:41

how odd since there was no breeze or

44:43

air flow that would have moved it so far.

44:45

I grabbed the balloon and took it back to

44:47

the living room about

44:49

20 feet away and went back to

44:51

the kitchen. Within minutes, I

44:54

had the same inkling that something was

44:56

behind me again and there

44:58

it was again. My heart starts

45:00

racing and I put the balloon in a

45:02

box. My husband returns home

45:04

and I tell him the story and

45:06

he reminds me that it was his

45:09

deceased nephew's birthday a couple of days

45:11

ago. Then it all clicked.

45:14

Since his nephew's passing, I

45:16

have dozens of happenings that remind me

45:18

of him. I've also

45:20

been meditating and using crystals to

45:23

close the door to signs from him

45:26

as I do not enjoy the interaction.

45:29

I find it puzzling as to why I

45:31

keep getting these messages from him, but I'm

45:33

not close to his parents or even fond

45:35

of them. Nor

45:37

was I close to this nephew before his

45:40

passing, but I'm still

45:42

thankful for this gift. I

45:44

really enjoy listening to the podcast and want to

45:46

thank you for creating a safe

45:48

space to share experiences. Well,

45:53

my goodness, he certainly wanted

45:55

you to know he was around, didn't he? Oftentimes

45:58

I feel they can only connect. listened

48:01

to us as we talked and

48:03

knew what really resonated with

48:05

us. And the cards

48:08

were three dimensional. They're just

48:10

lovely. I still have them all, Samantha. I have

48:12

all those cards. And I

48:14

just think that's just such a

48:16

lovely thing from such a kind, kind

48:18

person. So please keep him in your

48:20

thoughts. He was a delightful person. Definitely

48:23

was. And thank you guys so

48:25

much for listening to us this

48:28

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48:30

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48:32

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48:43

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48:45

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48:48

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48:50

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48:52

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