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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on

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Speaker 1: iHeart Radio and welcome back to Coast to Coast George.

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Speaker 1: Don't with you. Anthony Hamilton with us former professor of

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Speaker 1: Communications at a Canadian university, as a lifelong passion for

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Speaker 1: helping people achieve success that they need and want. He's

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Speaker 1: a best selling author of Mind, Time and Power, which

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Speaker 1: presents a new model of consciousness based on the latest

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Speaker 1: findings in physics and neural science. It's the model of

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Speaker 1: quantum consciousness, allowing you to change your past and create

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Speaker 1: the future that you want. He specializes in teaching people

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Speaker 1: simple mind power exercises which can rewire your brain and

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Speaker 1: transform your personality and your personal reality. Anthony, welcome back.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you, Great to hear you. George. Nice

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Speaker 1: to be back with you. I gotta tell you, when

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Speaker 1: you were with us about a year and a half ago,

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Speaker 1: I'm still getting emails from people who just thought the

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Speaker 1: world of you. So thank you for that. Wow, what

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Speaker 1: a pleasure. Thanks very much for that goodness to get

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Speaker 1: on my website and send me an email. How did

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Speaker 1: you get involved in this field? Well, my story starts,

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Speaker 1: as I mentioned to you once before, I had a

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Speaker 1: dream when I was about ten years old. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I was in a tree. I was playing with some friends.

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Speaker 1: so from that moment, I guess that's an epiphany, right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I knew, quote unquote, knew what my future was going

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Speaker 1: I was going to be helping people achieve more happiness

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Speaker 1: to be a university professor. I knew I was going

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Speaker 1: to be married to an Asian woman. And so, starting

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Speaker 1: shortly after that, I devoured every self help book I

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Speaker 1: could find, every book on consciousness, metaphysics, mind power, also

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Speaker 1: quantum physics, and Einstein's theories of time and space, looking

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Speaker 1: for some logical reason or some logical explanation for what

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Speaker 1: This was a glimpse of my future self. And so

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Speaker 1: I spent about twenty years almost researching and reading and

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Speaker 1: studying to try and figure out how it's possible to

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Speaker 1: realize that the key to it is to realize that

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Speaker 1: memory is not a recording, as people had thought for years,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of people still do. Think memory is

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Speaker 1: a connection, very similar to the connection that you and

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Speaker 1: hear me. So information is going both ways. So when

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Speaker 1: sudden it makes sense that you can remember not only

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Speaker 1: the past, but the future too. Because Einstein said the

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Speaker 1: laws of space and the laws of time are mirrors

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Speaker 1: had read in so many books, and you've heard of

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Speaker 1: the key to success is to set goals. And what

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Speaker 1: I realized in my research is that only about three

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Speaker 1: started writing, started doing workshops on what I call mental

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Speaker 1: So I believe that the key to happiness and success

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Speaker 1: like a time warp. Well, you know, I was watching

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Speaker 1: There were two point six billion references came up. That's amazing.

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Speaker 1: So this idea that the mind is a time machine

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Speaker 1: Now tell me about the title Mind, Time, and Power

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Speaker 1: in your best selling book, because that tells you everything

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Speaker 1: you need to know. Well, it does. You know. The

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Speaker 1: the things that I studied was what I call mind power. Right,

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Speaker 1: there's a ton of books on mind power. I mean,

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Speaker 1: people have been talking about mind power since the time

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Speaker 1: of the Buddha. You know. Buddha said, with our thoughts,

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Speaker 1: we make our world. So the idea of the power

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Speaker 1: taking workshops and seminars and reading books, you know, Thinking

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Speaker 1: Clad Bristol, exactly right. And so I was reading these

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Speaker 1: works in time. So that's why I called my book Mind,

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Speaker 1: Time and Power, because in a nutshell, the power of

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Speaker 1: It works, absolutely works. We have a guest. His name

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Speaker 1: is Joseph Gallenberger. Owe him a lot. He has written

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Speaker 1: works called Liquid Luck. And what he does, Anthony, is

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Speaker 1: and he takes happy people in one group, unhappy people

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