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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori with you,
Speaker 2: pleasant game in with us. Her website is linked up
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Speaker 2: you to go to her Instagram, which Les has posted
Speaker 2: at Coast tocoastam dot com as well. Do you practice witchcraft? Pleasant?
Speaker 3: Yes, but I don't do any any I will not
Speaker 3: do curses or any.
Speaker 4: Kind of.
Speaker 2: You're a good witch.
Speaker 3: Yes, I wish I had a bubble like Glinda exactly.
Speaker 2: And ruby slippers.
Speaker 4: I do have ruby slippers.
Speaker 2: Well, do you really?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: I made them a long time ago, like I made
Speaker 3: them exactly like the Judy Garland ones.
Speaker 2: Now, at what point in your life or career did
Speaker 2: you start practicing witchcraft?
Speaker 4: Well, when I.
Speaker 3: Was when I was about twelve or thirteen, my best
Speaker 3: friend Joan and I decided we were going to become witches.
Speaker 3: And I ordered this book called Potions and Spells of Witchcraft,
Speaker 3: and when it came it was it was like it
Speaker 3: was like a witchcraft bible to me. It had all
Speaker 3: these beautiful illustrations, and you know, we would try spells
Speaker 3: out of that. We also used to try to astral
Speaker 3: project all the time, but I think that was mostly
Speaker 3: so we could go into David Bowie or Freddie Mercury's house.
Speaker 3: This was like in nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 2: Did you ever meet Freddie Mercury.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say that I really met him, but I
Speaker 3: saw him up close in that blobby of the Beverly Hilton.
Speaker 3: He was in play right after I moved to Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: He was a great talent, wasn't he.
Speaker 3: He was incredible. And then I never met David Bowie either.
Speaker 3: But at the Mud Club, this underground sort of punk
Speaker 3: rock disco in New York, yeah, he like there was
Speaker 3: It was rumored all night he was going to come in,
Speaker 3: and I knew that he had come in because all
Speaker 3: these people started running out of the back room sort
Speaker 3: of the vip room, crying, and that's like a you
Speaker 3: know this this girl that I knew that was like
Speaker 3: an insane Bowie freak. And so I went back there
Speaker 3: because I had left my jacket back there and he
Speaker 3: was sitting on it. But I was too shy to
Speaker 3: ask him to get up. I mean, if that would
Speaker 3: have been me a few years older, I would have
Speaker 3: just like introduced my mother and said, hey, you're sitting
Speaker 3: on my jacket. But I was dumb dumbfounded because David Bowie.
Speaker 2: Him sign it or.
Speaker 4: Something, right, I know, but you know what it was Bowie.
Speaker 3: And I was hysterical. I know, we're trying not to
Speaker 3: be hysterical pleasure.
Speaker 2: What do you think manifestation is and how does that happen?
Speaker 3: I think, well, manifestation is magic. Manifestation is witchcraft or
Speaker 3: magic in the you know, in the traditional term, because
Speaker 3: there is there's nothing stronger than the power of will,
Speaker 3: and it comes from inside you. Like we can use candles,
Speaker 3: we can use oils and crystals and all of those things,
Speaker 3: but that's just the focus our will on something that
Speaker 3: we want to happen, you know. I mean that that's
Speaker 3: the way I believe it. I use all those things.
Speaker 3: I love those things. It's great to stare into a
Speaker 3: candle and do an actual spell. But I've had so
Speaker 3: many other things manifest just because I said something out
Speaker 3: loud and you know, or I wrote it down a
Speaker 3: million times and then I worked towards it, you know.
Speaker 3: But I know that that manifestation, it's that's like the
Speaker 3: magician card in Teri. It's it's it's your will, it's
Speaker 3: your ability to speak something into reality.
Speaker 2: What would you recommend to people who want to learn
Speaker 2: how to manifest things in their lives.
Speaker 3: Well, there's a there's a lot of little things that
Speaker 3: I would do. One is to make it concrete, like
Speaker 3: like really write something down over and over if you
Speaker 3: need to, just like old school homework from grammar school
Speaker 3: a long time ago, when they may do right things
Speaker 3: like I will not throw paper airplanes in class five
Speaker 3: hundred times. Just write down what you want, put energy
Speaker 3: towards it every day if you want to.
Speaker 4: You can make a.
Speaker 3: Candle, especially for that. Madam Tamida, who's a really good
Speaker 3: friend of mine, has a genius book on candle magic,
Speaker 3: and you know that way you would learn the correspondences,
Speaker 3: you know, for you know, certain colored candles for certain desires.
Speaker 3: But I have found that writing writing things down makes
Speaker 3: it concrete. And you can also you can write things
Speaker 3: down and then burn, like write it on a piece
Speaker 3: of paper and burn it into a burn it into
Speaker 3: a candle and a fireproof container like a big pot
Speaker 3: or something. On the new moon, because that's always a
Speaker 3: good time to start new things. But you really have
Speaker 3: to learn how to focus your will on something. And
Speaker 3: a lot of times if you say something and you
Speaker 3: really mean it, it will just happen in front of you,
Speaker 3: And that that happens to me and to other people
Speaker 3: I know who are psychic with really really mundane.
Speaker 2: Things good or man.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean manifestation. If you want to manifest something
Speaker 3: like I don't. I don't manifest anything bad. I want
Speaker 3: to manifest nice things for people, for my you know,
Speaker 3: for others, for myself, for animals or for you know
Speaker 3: how there's like group group rituals like there was there
Speaker 3: was group rituals amongst witches.
Speaker 4: To to clear to clear the world of disease during
Speaker 4: the pandemic.
Speaker 3: A lot of witches at this this store that I
Speaker 3: do readings through.
Speaker 4: Called the Green Men. My friend and.
Speaker 3: Co producer of my Witch for Leque show, which we
Speaker 3: can go into later, shan A Lei, Lani Her and
Speaker 3: Monica Source started doing rituals and we would put them
Speaker 3: on Instagram and have everybody who is reading it say
Speaker 3: it at the same time to rid the world of disease,
Speaker 3: you know, and so things like that, like if you're
Speaker 3: doing if you're trying to manifest something bad. I feel
Speaker 3: like that turns it into a curse, you know, like
Speaker 3: if you if you wish something bad upon someone, So
Speaker 3: I only go for the good things. And also if
Speaker 3: you're trying to manifest something, it will never hurt to
Speaker 3: to sort of pay for it magically, to give coin,
Speaker 3: like to donate to a charity. It can it can
Speaker 3: even be a few pennies or or you know, like
Speaker 3: whatever you have like to do something good that will
Speaker 3: that will help. It's sort of like like like your
Speaker 3: your ticket to better manifestation.
Speaker 2: What about dreams and manifesting, Oh.
Speaker 3: My gosh, that that has happened to me.
Speaker 4: All the time.
Speaker 3: Uh, I'll tell I'll tell you that the main dreams
Speaker 3: that I had and how they're manifested, and that will
Speaker 3: tell people how they can put put their dreams into
Speaker 3: into real life if they if they work on them enough.
Speaker 3: So the first time that I ever remember it really
Speaker 3: happening was I had a dream about a band of
Speaker 3: wild women and that we all looked like we all
Speaker 3: looked like we were a prize between mis kitty on gunsmoke,
Speaker 3: like an old wild West saloon girl. Yeah, and a
Speaker 3: female biker, you know, And I saw how it sounded.
Speaker 3: It sounded like Kitty Wells or Patsy KWin meets the Ramones,
Speaker 3: And I mean, I saw the whole thing in the
Speaker 3: dream and I woke up in My takeaway was I
Speaker 3: have to cite a band right now. And I told
Speaker 3: my roommate Ilish, who is now actually my book publisher,
Speaker 3: I said, I'm going to side a band. And she said,
Speaker 3: what makes you think that you can start a band?
Speaker 3: And I said, really indignantly, well, if I can get
Speaker 3: to the to the blue screen of Miss Pacman, I
Speaker 3: could start a I didn't even remember that until she
Speaker 3: told me that, like a few months ago. But you know,
Speaker 3: to get to the the screen of a video game,
Speaker 3: or you know, like to get to the highest level,
Speaker 3: you have to really work at it. And it was
Speaker 3: the same with the band. So the first thing I
Speaker 3: thought that I needed to do was have a name
Speaker 3: for it, and I called it the Screaming Sirens because
Speaker 3: I wanted an all girl band. It would be like
Speaker 3: the Sirens in ancient Greece and drive men to death
Speaker 3: and destruction, but in a good way, in a rock
Speaker 3: and roll way.
Speaker 4: And so then I thought I could start. This was in.
Speaker 3: Nineteen eighty three and it was hard to find women
Speaker 3: in bands at that time, you know, So I thought
Speaker 3: that the first thing that I used to do would
Speaker 3: be get a great female drummer. But the only one
Speaker 3: that I knew of was someone I hated. And the
Speaker 3: hate was mutual because we always saw each other at
Speaker 3: clubs doing horrible crazy things, are getting dragged out by
Speaker 3: a bouncer because we were rowdy, you know, and you
Speaker 3: were rowdy. Oh my goodness, George, you have no idea.
Speaker 2: That'll be a different show, yes, different, So.
Speaker 4: It was a different show for quite a few years. Anyway.
Speaker 3: So I hated this girl, but I got her phone
Speaker 3: number because I've seen her playing in other bands, and
Speaker 3: I called her up and I was like, I said Hi,
Speaker 3: this is pleasant, and the phone was dead silent.
Speaker 4: And I was like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: She didn't know whether to hang up or what.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, yeah, she had no idea. I said what
Speaker 4: are you doing?
Speaker 3: And she said, in a really mean voice, folding laundry?
Speaker 3: And I said, oh, would you like to start a
Speaker 3: band with me?
Speaker 4: And she said, well, what do you mean?
Speaker 3: And I started telling her about my ideas for the
Speaker 3: band and then she said, okay, let's meet tomorrow. And
Speaker 3: we met and then like at first, we were circling
Speaker 3: each other like wolves, getting ready to tear each other apart,
Speaker 3: and then we became best friends. And so about two
Speaker 3: years into the band, I asked her, why did you
Speaker 3: even like want to meet me? And she said, because
Speaker 3: I thought the whole fact that you called was the sickest,
Speaker 3: craziest thing I could think of. So anyway, the band
Speaker 3: became the Screaming Sirens. We got signed to a record deal.
Speaker 3: We toured all over North America. We had songs and
Speaker 3: movie soundtracks. Yeah, so that was the first manifestation, and
Speaker 3: then the second one came about. It came about twelve.
Speaker 4: Years, I guess.
Speaker 3: After that one, I thought that I needed to belly dance.
Speaker 3: I had no idea why, no one and my family
Speaker 3: did it. And I know, George, are you your.
Speaker 2: Lebanese I know all about belly dancing.
Speaker 4: Yes, I know you do.
Speaker 2: Not that I belly dance.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you could if you wanted than that.
Speaker 2: I don't want to.
Speaker 4: I would pay to see that.
Speaker 3: But anyway, so I just kept I was calling studios
Speaker 3: all over asking if there wasn't you know, belly dancing anywhere,
Speaker 3: and I couldn't find any and then I finally met
Speaker 3: someone and started taking some classes, and then then things
Speaker 3: started moving really really fast. I kept thinking, I need
Speaker 3: to go to Egypt to study belly dance, and that
Speaker 3: was all I could concentrate on with how am I
Speaker 3: going to get to eat stuff?
Speaker 2: Didn't you?
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, yeah, because this was an obsession that.
Speaker 4: That knew no bounce.
Speaker 3: My father used to write for National Geographics when I
Speaker 3: was really tiny, and I remember cutting out a picture
Speaker 3: in one of the National Geographics of a belly dancer
Speaker 3: in Turkey, and I still had it in my wallet
Speaker 3: as an adult, as someone in their late my niece.
Speaker 3: That was that was That was when this happened. So
Speaker 3: I kept trying to, you know, like, how am I
Speaker 3: going to get to Egypt? That was the only thing
Speaker 3: I could think of. And then a couple came up
Speaker 3: to me, a female couple that were the friends of mine,
Speaker 3: and they said, we have a proposition for you. And
Speaker 3: I just got accepted into a master's program that I
Speaker 3: thought I wasn't going to be accepted into. But we
Speaker 3: had a trip book to Greece. If I pay for
Speaker 3: your if I give you my plane ticket, because you
Speaker 3: could do that in those days, they were pay per tickets.
Speaker 3: I give you my plane ticket where you go with her?
Speaker 3: Can you pay your your expenses? And I said yes.
Speaker 3: And then I turned to her girlfriend and said, DEBI
Speaker 3: interested in going to Egypt, and she said I always
Speaker 3: wanted to go to Egypt. So I called the airlines
Speaker 3: and changed the tickets to include Egypt, and off we went.
Speaker 4: And then.
Speaker 2: You manifested these things.
Speaker 4: Didn't you completely?
Speaker 3: And then also I manifested a place to stay in Egypt.
Speaker 3: And that's another sinker in the city. I was letting
Speaker 3: this Swiss rock and roll roady stay at my house
Speaker 3: because it had been broken into and I wanted him
Speaker 3: there and around. And he heard me talking on the
Speaker 3: lamdbine about Egypt and he said his brother had just
Speaker 3: moved to Cairo to work for Swiss Air and he said,
Speaker 3: I'll call him, because he's a workaholic. He'll give you
Speaker 3: his car and his driver, and that's what he did.
Speaker 3: And then when he saw the place that we were
Speaker 3: staying at in Cairo, he let us. He invited us
Speaker 3: to stay at his house.
Speaker 2: My late father was born there. We're not Egyptian. But
Speaker 2: that's where he was born.
Speaker 4: Oh, in Cairo, yep.
Speaker 2: Nineteen twenty three, A long time ago.
Speaker 3: Have you have you been there? Drest Nope, never have,
Speaker 3: But it's magical.
Speaker 4: It's magical.
Speaker 3: I've been there several several times. So anyway, I stayed,
Speaker 3: I stayed in Kiro. My friend went home and I
Speaker 3: stayed there. And when I came home, i'd been seeing
Speaker 3: down throughs every night, taking lessons, and I I came
Speaker 3: home and started working. And I mean, first of all,
Speaker 3: who starts a dance career with no training when they're thirty.
Speaker 3: That's what I did. And then I just worked and
Speaker 3: worked and worked, and within a few years I started
Speaker 3: touring all over the world and to teach and perform
Speaker 3: belly dance. It still blows my mind every time, every
Speaker 3: time that I was about to go on stage, I
Speaker 3: would just think the universe because it was so unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Where does synchronicity play a role in your life?
Speaker 3: It's huge, it's all, it's all the time. I have
Speaker 3: to I'll even tell you this, Okay. So the night
Speaker 3: before Lisa called me, I was listening to Coast to
Speaker 3: Coast and then I just I just set out loud,
Speaker 3: I need to be on Coast to Coast And then
Speaker 3: Lisa Ryan called me the next.
Speaker 2: Morning, Executive producer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I asked her, it was I.
Speaker 2: She called you, Yes, she called.
Speaker 3: She called me for such a she she called me
Speaker 3: and the voice Smith had said she'd been cleaning out
Speaker 3: her inbox and she saw a time that was ten
Speaker 3: years ago when we had spoken. But wow, and I
Speaker 3: think I ever had you on the show. And then
Speaker 3: I called her back and yeah, it was crazy.
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