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Speaker 1: well after Halloween. Perfect to have Paul Selig back on

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Speaker 1: the program. Paul is considered one of the foremost spiritual

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Speaker 1: channels working today. His work has been featured on ABC News, Nightline,

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Speaker 1: Fox News, the Biography, Channel series and Explained, and so

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Speaker 1: much more. His six channeled books include I Am the

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Speaker 1: Word and his most recent, The Book of Freedom, which

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about tonight. Paul has received his master's degree

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Speaker 1: U for more than twenty five years before the van

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Speaker 1: himself fully to his work as a channel and he

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Speaker 1: leads workshops and livestream seminars all over the planet. Always

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Speaker 1: a pleasure of Paul selling back on coast to coast.

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Speaker 1: Hello there, Paul, good to have you back. Hi, thanks

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Speaker 1: for having me. How are you? What's new? You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm good. I left my academic life and I really

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Speaker 1: am showing up for this work in a way that

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Speaker 1: I I never thought possible. And the guides keep delivering

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Speaker 1: these books through me. So now there are six of

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Speaker 1: these things that have really been the transcripts of the

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Speaker 1: dictations of the channeling sessions which become books. And uh,

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Speaker 1: it just takes a matter of weeks. It's a fascinating process.

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Speaker 1: What's it difficult for you, Paul to leave academia? It

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Speaker 1: was actually I knew myself in that role. You know.

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Speaker 1: I was a college teacher for about twenty five years,

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Speaker 1: want to be discovered. Um, so the challenge in leaving

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Speaker 1: So that's what they're teaching now, Paul, at this point,

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Speaker 1: that level, which they say is the kingdom. That's the kingdom,

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