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

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Speaker 2: And welcome back my friends to Coast to Coast George

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Speaker 2: Nori with you, Anthony Hamilton with us. His website is

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Speaker 2: linked up at Coast tocoastam dot com. A couple of

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Speaker 2: his books include Mental Magic, Mind Time and Power, How

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Speaker 2: I Quit Smoking With Mind Power. You become an expert

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Speaker 2: on the mind, Anthony, haven't you.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm not sure how much of an expert I am.

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Speaker 3: I shouertainly do a lot of thinking. I'll tell you

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Speaker 3: that much.

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Speaker 4: What is neuroplasticity, Well, neuroplasticity is It's fascinating, you know,

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Speaker 4: because at the same time that they were doing these

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Speaker 4: experiments with the.

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Speaker 3: MRI in nineteen ninety five, when they discovered that they

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Speaker 3: couldn't find any place in the brain where memories are stored,

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Speaker 3: and they realize that thinking of the past and thinking

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Speaker 3: of the future were basically identical, they also discovered neuroplasticity. Now,

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Speaker 3: neuroplasticity is something that when I was teaching my workshops

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Speaker 3: in the early eighties, I was teaching neuroplasticity and mental

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Speaker 3: time travel because, as I mentioned, when I experienced that

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Speaker 3: dream again from the other end. You know, I realized

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Speaker 3: I just had the same dream from the other end,

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Speaker 3: and I thought to myself, you know, what if memory

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Speaker 3: is not something stored in your brain. This was fifteen

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Speaker 3: years before they found this with the MRI. I asked myself,

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Speaker 3: you know, if memories are not stored in the brain,

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Speaker 3: what if a memory is a connection. Because if a

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Speaker 3: memory is a connection, the same as you and I

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Speaker 3: are now connected. You know, we're living in different cities,

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Speaker 3: but we're connected through the internet. So if memory works

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Speaker 3: that way, then that would explain to me. Finally, how

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Speaker 3: a ten year old kid can have information about himself

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Speaker 3: at thirty two because at the time I was thirty two,

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Speaker 3: and I realized, you know, from a thirty two year

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Speaker 3: old's perspective, having information about the ten year old is simple.

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Speaker 3: Anybody can do that. But I thought, that explains if

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Speaker 3: it's a connection, that would explain how the ten year

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Speaker 3: old could pick up some of the information from the

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Speaker 3: thirty two year old, because I picked up the information

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Speaker 3: when I was asleep. I was asleep, right and I

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Speaker 3: picked up this information in a dream. So I thought,

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Speaker 3: if memory is a connection, or thinking is a connection,

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Speaker 3: then that would explain how I could have this dream

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Speaker 3: and have my thirty two year old self communicating with me.

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Speaker 3: And I thought, that's exactly how a goal works, because

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Speaker 3: all the books I had read on business and success

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Speaker 3: taught me that if you want to be successful, you

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Speaker 3: must have goals. And in fact, you know, the very

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Speaker 3: definition of success is the step by step achievement of

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Speaker 3: a goal.

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Speaker 5: Right, So I.

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Speaker 3: Thought, well, what's a goal. Well, a goal is a

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Speaker 3: point in the future. And when you're imagining your goal

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Speaker 3: and you're working towards your goal, it's a little bit

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Speaker 3: like you're remembering the future. So setting a goal is

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Speaker 3: the counterpart to remembering the past. So when I was

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Speaker 3: reading these various books, one of the people that I

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Speaker 3: read was a fellow named Wallace D.

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Speaker 5: Waffles.

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Speaker 3: Now he wrote a series of books that were published

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Speaker 3: in nineteen ten. He wrote a series called The Science

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Speaker 3: of Success, and he said in his books that when

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Speaker 3: you do these exercises, these thinking exercises that I'm telling

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Speaker 3: you about in my book, you will be able to

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Speaker 3: grow new neurons or new cells in your brain. If

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Speaker 3: you want any talent, any ability, anything that you want

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Speaker 3: to do or be in your life, if you think

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Speaker 3: about it in the right way, your brain will change

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Speaker 3: I had studied this and I realized that this is

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Speaker 3: what was happening with me because when I was in

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Speaker 3: my late twenties, stuttering and nervous and had never written

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Speaker 3: anything and had never spoken in public. You know, I

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Speaker 3: got the confidence to stop smoking, write a book about

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Speaker 3: putting smoking, teach your course on putting smoking, and then

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Speaker 3: teach your course on how to achieve your goals, all

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Speaker 3: by using the silver mind control visualization techniques. So I

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Speaker 3: a part of your physical life. So neuroplasticity, which was

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Speaker 3: considered to be absolute pseudoscience that made no sense at

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Speaker 3: could be an affirmation, you know, positive affirmation, whatever. But

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Speaker 3: if you think about someone like an architect or a musician,

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Speaker 3: and they spend hours and hours and hours visualizing themselves

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Speaker 3: in the future having created something new. What they discovered

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Speaker 3: is that their brains are actually different, and they can

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Speaker 3: actually measure the changes that are taking place in somebody's

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Speaker 3: brain within about thirty days. So this research that was

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Speaker 3: spearheaded by the Dali Lamo came about because he coming

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Speaker 3: from a twenty five hundred year old lineage of meditators.

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Speaker 3: He was convinced that meditators, people that use their mind

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Speaker 3: a lot and focus their attention inwardly a lot, have

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Speaker 3: changed their brains. Now, the scientists thought this was ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: You know, who are you. You're a monk, I mean,

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Speaker 3: what are your neurology?

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Speaker 5: Well, where's the data?

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Speaker 3: They say, right in brain science? Right now, there's a

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Speaker 3: book that details all of this research.

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Speaker 5: It's called.

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Speaker 3: Train your Mind, Change your Brain. It was written in

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Speaker 3: two thousand and seven, and if any of your listeners

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Speaker 3: want to get that book, that details the whole search

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Speaker 3: initiated by the Dalai Lama that eventually ended up in

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Speaker 3: the discovery of neuroplasticity, the fact that when you think

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Speaker 3: in a certain way, your brain changes.

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Speaker 2: How does this equate Anthony into time travel.

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Speaker 3: Well, when you set a goal and you focus on

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Speaker 3: that goal and you communicate with what I call your

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Speaker 3: future self. Now, your future self is a part of

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Speaker 3: your mind. I remember in the eighties, you know I

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Speaker 3: probably read some books on the wounded inner child, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Well I'd never heard about wounded in her child before then,

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Speaker 5: Well, that's a.

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Speaker 3: Part of your mind that didn't exist before now. What

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Speaker 3: scientists are talking about now is your future self. And

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Speaker 3: your future self again, is a part of your mind

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Speaker 3: that you can develop just hearing the just hearing the

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Speaker 3: expression your future self, you can think about a person

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Speaker 3: from now, two years from now, five years from now.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure if I were to talk to Elon Musk,

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Speaker 3: have a feeling this is exactly what he does, you know,

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Speaker 3: and it's what every successful person does. They have a

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Speaker 3: dialogue with their future self and ask them, how did

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Speaker 3: I achieve this goal, how did I create this invention,

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Speaker 3: whatever it might be.

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Speaker 2: I bet Steve Jobs, the lead Steve Jobs from Apple,

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Speaker 3: Thing exactly exactly, and he said a great quote, if

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Speaker 3: you're familiar with that commencement speech he gave it Stanford.

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Speaker 3: He said, it's only looking backwards that you can see

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Speaker 3: how the dots line up. When you look into the future,

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Speaker 5: You have to.

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Speaker 3: Pursue your dream with passion, and if you do that,

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Speaker 2: In the fifth century, Saint Augustine wrote about mental time travel.

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Speaker 5: How in the world did he know about that?

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Speaker 3: Well, Saint Augustine, if you're familiar with him, he was

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Speaker 3: I think it's chapter eleven, he talks about time and

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Speaker 3: It means they're real. Right. So, when you go back

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Speaker 3: it's exactly the same thing. This is mental time travel.

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Speaker 2: It's dramatic, is it not. And it's where does intuition

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Speaker 3: Anthony, Well, intuition, as far as I'm concerned, is a

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Speaker 3: I use my intuition. Well, what's intuition? It's kind of

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Speaker 3: is is a message from your future self. Because when

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Speaker 3: to manifest in your daily life.

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Speaker 2: When that little voice talks to us in our head,

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Speaker 2: assuming it's not our guardian angel, what do you think

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Speaker 2: it is, Anthony?

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Speaker 3: Well, who says it is in your guardian angel?

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Speaker 5: George, you know it could be could well?

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Speaker 3: The way that I look at you see, when I

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Speaker 3: it something different, right. Well, they couldn't call it future

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Speaker 3: memory because future memory wasn't invented until nineteen ninety five.

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Speaker 3: So what did they call it. Well, they might have

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Speaker 3: called it a hunch or an intuition or a gut feeling,

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Speaker 3: or they might have called it a message from my

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Speaker 5: And that's ratic.

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Speaker 3: That's perfectly as good an explanation I believe as it's

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Speaker 3: possible to have, because let's face it, you know, I

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Speaker 3: mean the idea of your future self. The first time

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Speaker 3: I heard that term was just a few years ago.

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Speaker 3: Now I see that a lot of people have talked

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Speaker 3: about it, including Carl Jung, But previous to that, I'd

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Speaker 3: never heard the term futureself before. But if somebody had

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Speaker 3: an experience like me one hundred years ago or two

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Speaker 3: hundred or three hundred years ago, how would they describe it?

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Speaker 3: You know, they couldn't call it a connection like a

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Speaker 3: cell phone because they didn't have any cell phones. They

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Speaker 3: couldn't say it's like talking to somebody on the Internet

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Speaker 3: because there wasn't any Internet. So they would say something

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Speaker 3: like I got a message from God, or I got

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Speaker 3: a message from my future self, or I got a

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Speaker 3: message from my guardian angel, which to me is just

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Speaker 3: another way of describing it.

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Speaker 5: Do you think that's conceivable?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely? I think you know that if this happened to me,

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Speaker 3: it must happen to lots of people, and they just

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Speaker 3: didn't have the language to talk about it, right. They

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Speaker 3: didn't have the language about mental time travel and neuroplasticity

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Speaker 3: and things like that. But the Dali Lama he intuited,

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Speaker 3: meditators had changed their brains. The scientists didn't believe it

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Speaker 3: until they fondly tested it. And likewise, when you talk

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Speaker 3: to people about mental time travel and neuroplasticity, now people

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Speaker 3: mental time travel is because they haven't experienced it. Perhaps

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Speaker 3: way of describing what I was thinking about. I had

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Speaker 3: to invent some new terms, you know. And so what

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Speaker 3: I discovered finally, it's in my book Mind, Time and Power,

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Speaker 3: that there's a part of your mind that literally travels

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Speaker 3: in time, and that is the focus of your inner awareness.

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Speaker 3: So your inner awareness the same as your outer awareness,

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Speaker 3: if I ask you at the moment, you're in your studio.

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Speaker 3: So if I say to you, George, look up to

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Speaker 3: the left and see what you can see, the focus

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Speaker 3: of your attention moves to the left. Right, if I say, now,

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Speaker 3: and what do you see over there, the focus of

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Speaker 3: your attention moves to the right. Well, we have a

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Speaker 3: matching set of senses internally, and your inner senses move

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Speaker 3: around in time the same as your outer physical senses

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Speaker 3: move around in space.

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