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Speaker 1: this edition of the show. The allegory of the cave
Speaker 1: and dimensions and later scientists have discovered that plants make sounds.
Speaker 1: How about that? I'm going to play some for you
Speaker 1: on this podcast. All Right, dimensions always a tough subject
Speaker 1: to talk about. It's well truly unimaginable. And I'm not
Speaker 1: going to go into all of my explanations for how
Speaker 1: you might comprehend dimensions. I've talked about it before. If
Speaker 1: you want to hear some of those stories about flat
Speaker 1: land and how to wrap your mind around other dimensions,
Speaker 1: go back and listen to episode fourteen of this podcast.
Speaker 1: It's called Enter Dimensional Monsters. Okay, that's where I get
Speaker 1: into the groundwork for that sort of thing. But what
Speaker 1: I am going to do is tell you about this
Speaker 1: story that was written I believe, almost two thousand, four
Speaker 1: hundred years ago, that gives us insight today and how
Speaker 1: that dimensions might play into our lives, you know, other
Speaker 1: dimensions outside of the the three dimensions or even the
Speaker 1: fourth dimension of so called time, and and how that
Speaker 1: people have always been aware of this if they were
Speaker 1: thoughtful enough. These philosophers, and of course most people will
Speaker 1: say the all time great philosopher was Socrates and the
Speaker 1: Allegory of the Cave. It is basically a story that
Speaker 1: Socrates is telling. And before I get into the actual tale,
Speaker 1: let me just point out you know Socrates, the ancient
Speaker 1: Greek philosopher. He was persecuted for his teachings and he
Speaker 1: was eventually executed when he was about eighty years old.
Speaker 1: And they say that there are people who are trying
Speaker 1: to rescue him from prison, but he didn't go, and
Speaker 1: he actually drank himlock. I guess at eighty years old
Speaker 1: he was ready to see something more a guy of
Speaker 1: that intelligence. But when I was reading about this allegory,
Speaker 1: it reminded me of something I wrote about and my
Speaker 1: book called Use the Force, a Jedi's Guide to the
Speaker 1: Law of Attraction, which you can obtain through my website,
Speaker 1: and here is page one fifty four just gives you
Speaker 1: an idea of how socrates mind worked. There's a story
Speaker 1: about Socrates and his approach to gossip, possibly apocryphal, that
Speaker 1: has circulated for years, and here's one version an ancient Greece.
Speaker 1: One day, Socrates the great philosopher was approached by an
Speaker 1: excited man who said, Socrates, do you know what I
Speaker 1: just heard about one of your students. Wait a moment,
Speaker 1: Socrates replied, Before you tell me, I'd like you to
Speaker 1: pass a little test. It's called the test of three.
Speaker 1: Before you talk to me about my student. Let's take
Speaker 1: a moment to test what you're going to say. The
Speaker 1: first test is truth. Have you made absolutely sure that
Speaker 1: what you are about to tell me is true? No,
Speaker 1: the man said, Actually I just heard about it, all right,
Speaker 1: said Socrates, So you don't really know if it's true
Speaker 1: or not. Now let's try the second test. The test
Speaker 1: of goodness is what you were about to tell me
Speaker 1: about my student, something good? Well, no, the man said.
Speaker 1: On the contrary, so Socrates continued, you want to tell
Speaker 1: me something bad about him, even though you're not certain
Speaker 1: it's true. The man shrugged a little embarrassed. Socrates continued,
Speaker 1: You may still pass, though, because there is a third test,
Speaker 1: the filter of usefulness. Is what you want to tell
Speaker 1: me about my student going to be useful to me? Well? No,
Speaker 1: not really, well, concluded Socrates. If you want to tell
Speaker 1: me something that is neither true, nor good, nor even useful,
Speaker 1: then why tell it to me at all. So that's
Speaker 1: the story, folks, that's been circulating for a long time,
Speaker 1: and whether or not it's true, it seems to be
Speaker 1: somewhat in line with what philosophers call the Socratic method
Speaker 1: of questioning. And the point is quite clear. Why should
Speaker 1: you develop your opinions about anyone or anything in the
Speaker 1: world unless you can vouch for the accuracy of the facts.
Speaker 1: I continue writing. Be mindful of this even more as
Speaker 1: it's even more important in this age of mass media.
Speaker 1: You cannot put yourself in another person's shoes unless you
Speaker 1: have some direct access to the information regarding that person,
Speaker 1: and even then you should be careful to ensure it
Speaker 1: is worth your effort to do so. Now, that is
Speaker 1: all I was going to read to you. But actually
Speaker 1: there's another interesting little point that I'm going to include,
Speaker 1: since it comes right after this. There is a fascinating
Speaker 1: parallel to this in the Sherlock Holmes stories written by
Speaker 1: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and his story a Study in Scarlet.
Speaker 1: Holmes tells doctor Watson he was previously unaware that the
Speaker 1: Earth revolves around the Sun. Moreover, now that he's learned it,
Speaker 1: he will do his best to forget it. And when
Speaker 1: Watson protests Holmes and periously interrupts and says, well, what
Speaker 1: the deuce is it to me? You say that we
Speaker 1: go around the sun. If we went around the moon,
Speaker 1: it would not make a pennyworth of difference. To me
Speaker 1: or to my work. You see. Sherlock Holmes believes that
Speaker 1: the mind has a finite capacity for information storage, and
Speaker 1: learning useless things reduces one ability to learn useful things.
Speaker 1: And whether or not this is in fact true, it
Speaker 1: is a good lesson for all of us to bear
Speaker 1: in mind. We should strive to only take impertinent knowledge,
Speaker 1: and even then to only occupy our minds with knowledge
Speaker 1: that is relevant to our lives. So I'll stop reading
Speaker 1: right there, and look, I'm a terrible trivia abuff. So
Speaker 1: there's no telling how much useless knowledge that is in
Speaker 1: my mind. But that's just something interesting to think about,
Speaker 1: isn't it. So that gives you a little bit of
Speaker 1: an idea, however, of the approach to life that Socrates
Speaker 1: was supposedly taking. And one of socrates as students was
Speaker 1: another great philosopher turned out to be one named Plato.
Speaker 1: And Plato had a brother, and his brother's name was Glaucon.
Speaker 1: All right, so about twenty four hundred years ago Plato
Speaker 1: he wrote that one day Socrates was talking to Plato's
Speaker 1: brother Lakhan, and they were having a discussion. Plato liked
Speaker 1: to write in dialogues, as they would call them, you know,
Speaker 1: where two people are exchanging ideas back and forth. And
Speaker 1: so the allegory of the cave is Plato's presentation of
Speaker 1: this story that Socrates was telling that I am now
Speaker 1: about to paraphrase for you the best I can, and
Speaker 1: I'll get started here. But I think you know, the
Speaker 1: clock is gonna get us here, so I'll probably have
Speaker 1: to take Hi right in the middle of this. Okay.
Speaker 1: So Socrates says, imagine a cave. Now think, folks, this
Speaker 1: is thousands of years ago. Okay, He says, imagine a
Speaker 1: cave where people have been imprisoned from childhood, but not
Speaker 1: from birth. The prisoners are chained so that their legs
Speaker 1: and necks are fixed, forcing them to gaze at the
Speaker 1: wall in front of them and not to look around
Speaker 1: at the cave, each other or themselves. Behind the prisoners
Speaker 1: as a fire, and between the fire and the prisoners
Speaker 1: is a raised walkway with a low wall behind which
Speaker 1: people walk, carrying objects or puppets of men and other
Speaker 1: living things. The men walk behind the wall, so their
Speaker 1: bodies do not cash shadows for the prisoners to see,
Speaker 1: but the objects that they carry do, just as puppet
Speaker 1: showmen have screens in front of them at which they
Speaker 1: work their puppets. The prisoners cannot see any of what
Speaker 1: is happening behind them. They are only able to see
Speaker 1: these shadows cast upon the cave wall in front of them. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to stop right there and hopefully this is
Speaker 1: making sense to you. These guys, they're chained to a
Speaker 1: cave facing a wall. They can't see each other. All
Speaker 1: they know is that they see shadows of things in
Speaker 1: front of them. They'll know these shadows are being made
Speaker 1: by people behind them with you know, like puppets and stuff.
Speaker 1: Shadow puppets. Sounds a little crazy, but this will make
Speaker 1: sense pretty soon, I think. All right, I'm going to
Speaker 1: come back and tell you the rest. Let me remind
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Speaker 1: am your host, the Wizard of Weird, Joshua P. Warren,
Speaker 1: beaming into your wormhole brain from my studio in Sin City,
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day is golden and every
Speaker 1: night is silver. So Socrates is telling this story, the
Speaker 1: allegory of the cave. These men are chained to this
Speaker 1: chained up inside this cave, and they're facing a wall.
Speaker 1: They can't see each other. They don't know anything about
Speaker 1: the real world other than shadows that are being projected
Speaker 1: from behind them on the walls. Okay, like shadow puppets.
Speaker 1: So the people behind them who walk behind the wall,
Speaker 1: so their bodies, you know, are not visible casting these things.
Speaker 1: They're like puppet masters. The prisoners cannot see any of
Speaker 1: what is happening behind them. They're only able to see
Speaker 1: the shadows cast up on the wall in front of them.
Speaker 1: They can also hear the sounds of the people talk
Speaker 1: echo off the walls, and the prisoners believe these sounds
Speaker 1: come from the shadows. Why wouldn't they now, Socrates suggests
Speaker 1: that the shadows are reality for the prisoners because they
Speaker 1: have never seen anything else. They do not realize that
Speaker 1: what they see are shadows of objects in front of
Speaker 1: a fire behind them, much less that these objects are
Speaker 1: inspired by real things outside of the cave, which they
Speaker 1: do not see at all. So Socrates then supposes that
Speaker 1: the prisoners are released. Uh huh. So a freed prisoner
Speaker 1: would look around and see the fire, and the light
Speaker 1: would hurt his eyes and make it difficult for him
Speaker 1: to see the objects casting the shadows. If he were
Speaker 1: told that what he is seeing is real instead of
Speaker 1: the other version of reality that he sees on the wall.
Speaker 1: He would not believe it. In his pain, Socrates continues,
Speaker 1: the freed prisoner would turn away and run back to
Speaker 1: what he is accustomed to, that is the shadows of
Speaker 1: the carried objects. The light quote would hurt his eyes,
Speaker 1: and he would escape by turning away to the things
Speaker 1: which he was able to look at, and these he
Speaker 1: would believe to be clearer than what was being shown
Speaker 1: to him in quote. But then, Socrates continues, he goes
Speaker 1: even further. He says, suppose that someone should drag him
Speaker 1: out by force up the rough ascent, the steep way
Speaker 1: up and never stop until he could drag him out
Speaker 1: into the light of the sun. The prisoner would be
Speaker 1: angry and in pain, and this would only worsen when
Speaker 1: the radiant light of the sun overwhelms his eyes and
Speaker 1: blinds him. Slowly, his eyes adjust to the light of
Speaker 1: the sun. First he can see only shadows. Gradually he
Speaker 1: can see the reflections of people and things in water,
Speaker 1: and then later see the people in things themselves. Eventually
Speaker 1: he is able to look at the stars and moon
Speaker 1: at night, until finally he can look upon the sun itself.
Speaker 1: Only after he can look straight at the sun is
Speaker 1: he able to reason about it and what it is.
Speaker 1: Socrates then continues saying that the free prisoner would think
Speaker 1: that the world outside the cave was superior to the
Speaker 1: world he experienced in the cave. An attempt to share
Speaker 1: this with the prisoners remaining in the cave, attempting to
Speaker 1: bring them onto the journey he had just endured, says
Speaker 1: he would bless himself for the change in pity the
Speaker 1: other prisoners, and he would want to bring his fellow
Speaker 1: cave dwellers out of the cave and into the sunlight.
Speaker 1: The returning prisoner, whose eyes have become accustomed to the sunlight,
Speaker 1: would be blind when he re entered the cave, just
Speaker 1: as he was when he was first exposed to the sun.
Speaker 1: The prisoners who remained, according to the dialogue, would infer
Speaker 1: from the returning man's blindness that the journey out of
Speaker 1: the cave had harmed him, and that they should not
Speaker 1: undertake a similar journey. Socrates concludes that the prisoners, if
Speaker 1: they were able, would therefore reach out and kill anyone
Speaker 1: who attempted to drag them out of the cave. Okay, now,
Speaker 1: hopefully you kept up with that. I know it's weird,
Speaker 1: but it's actually a very simple story, and it is
Speaker 1: profound in a lot of ways, because I believe that
Speaker 1: this story that was written almost twenty four hundred years
Speaker 1: ago is as relevant today as it has always been.
Speaker 1: Because this is a very simple way of trying to
Speaker 1: not explain what other dimensions are, because you can't really
Speaker 1: do that in a meaningful way, but you can explain
Speaker 1: how that we humans experience them that even though we
Speaker 1: can't directly experience other dimensions because their brains can only
Speaker 1: only go so far and do so much, the projections
Speaker 1: of activity in those other dimensions are almost like shadows
Speaker 1: in our dimension. They're like the shadows that were being
Speaker 1: projected from somewhere else that the men in the cave
Speaker 1: could see on the wall. They were seeing the shadow,
Speaker 1: the projection, the flat two D representation, but there was
Speaker 1: a far cry from the actual thing that was making
Speaker 1: that projection, much less the entire world outside the cave
Speaker 1: that was actually the source of everything. So, in other words,
Speaker 1: there are some of us who who prefer to just
Speaker 1: stay in the cave and look at the shadows and
Speaker 1: not adventure outside of that because that's what you're accustomed to,
Speaker 1: and you also might not be able to grasp why
Speaker 1: it's necessary to go outside. Furthermore, you may fear it.
Speaker 1: There are other other people, however, who have a mind
Speaker 1: that works in a different way, and they want to
Speaker 1: go out and they go through these transformative mystical experiences.
Speaker 1: And it can happen in a lot of ways. It
Speaker 1: can happen through sheer study and thought, or or obviously
Speaker 1: sometimes people say certain hallucinogens might help, or maybe a
Speaker 1: traumatic experience. I mean, you hear all these stories. I
Speaker 1: think that it can be accomplished, however, by some people
Speaker 1: just through sheer deep thinking. And therefore there are people
Speaker 1: who are able to reach out and experience these other
Speaker 1: the other models or or or phases or forms that
Speaker 1: bring you a closer look at the true, behind the
Speaker 1: scenes reality. I don't think that we're ever capable of
Speaker 1: seeing it, because you could say that even the most
Speaker 1: ironic thing about this allegory is that even when he
Speaker 1: goes outside the cave and he's supposedly seeing the real
Speaker 1: real world, well he's still he's still in a cave
Speaker 1: by our standards. Because now we know there are these
Speaker 1: other dimensions that are beyond that. So when it comes
Speaker 1: to these ideas about water phantoms or other bizarre creatures,
Speaker 1: or how does consciousness work, or how can we manipulate
Speaker 1: reality with our minds and manifest things or see into
Speaker 1: the future or the past, it ties into this ability
Speaker 1: that that information could well could be retrieved from these
Speaker 1: other dimensions, and that this whole reality that we live
Speaker 1: in is kind of a holograph, a holographic universe, or
Speaker 1: as I call it, a holosentiate universe, and that we
Speaker 1: are simply seeing the exterior edge of some of these
Speaker 1: things that are existing outside of us and beyond us.
Speaker 1: And this may be one of the best early examples
Speaker 1: of describing other dimensions and interdimensional phenomena and how and
Speaker 1: why we interact with it. And I hope you see
Speaker 1: that the way I do, which is why I wanted
Speaker 1: to share it with you, because I think that's really fascinating.
Speaker 1: And you know, you watch these some of these scientists
Speaker 1: today who talk about not believing in all this kind
Speaker 1: of paranormal stuff, and then you turn around and you
Speaker 1: talk to the best scientist in the world who have
Speaker 1: won Nobel prizes studying quantum physics. And they say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's Alice in Wonderland here. You know, it's down the
Speaker 1: rabbit hole, like anything is possible, that there's no such
Speaker 1: thing as a set reality, that there are other places
Speaker 1: where things are, you know, information comes from and goes to.
Speaker 1: And I mean, like, so the best smartest scientist out
Speaker 1: there are telling us that there comes a point where
Speaker 1: you can't really differentiate too much between hard core science
Speaker 1: and philosophy. Right, Okay, when we come back from this break,
Speaker 1: I'll give you one more like finishing thought on that topic,
Speaker 1: and then I want to play this audio for you.
Speaker 1: I've never heard this before. It's apparently some pretty new research.
Speaker 1: Scientists have discovered that plants make sounds. And this is
Speaker 1: another example of what I'm talking about. You may feel
Speaker 1: secure that you know everything and then one day, nope,
Speaker 1: new discovery. The world is much more complex than we
Speaker 1: can imagine. I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange
Speaker 1: Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM parin
Speaker 1: normal podcast network, and I'll be back after these important messages.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Strange Things on the iHeart Radio and
Speaker 1: Coast to Coast I am parin Normal Podcast Network. I'm
Speaker 1: your host, Joshua Pee Warren, and this is the show
Speaker 1: where the unusual becomes usual. Just to wrap up my
Speaker 1: thoughts on the allegory of the cave and other dimensions,
Speaker 1: My wife Lauren and I have two little chihuahuas named
Speaker 1: Dolly and Lama, both females, and they're both very good natured,
Speaker 1: even though we're pretty sure that Lama has got some
Speaker 1: chupacabra in her. But you've heard me talked about that before.
Speaker 1: And so these dogs, they are never allowed to go
Speaker 1: out our front door because you know, we live in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, and these are the kinds of dogs like
Speaker 1: especially Dolly, she's so fast. If she sees something like
Speaker 1: a pigeon or whatever, it's like squeak of lightning. She's gone.
Speaker 1: And you know, I have this section out back where
Speaker 1: we have, you know, a swimming pool and a spa.
Speaker 1: We've had a nice set up out here, so they
Speaker 1: get plenty of room to go out back and have
Speaker 1: some outside time when we when we're not we're not
Speaker 1: taking them for a special walk or something. But we
Speaker 1: never let them go out the front door. And whenever
Speaker 1: I opened the front door, the dogs especially Dolly. She'll
Speaker 1: run up and she'll stand right there and she'll just
Speaker 1: want to catch a peek of what's outside. I gotta
Speaker 1: be very careful that she doesn't just shoot right by me,
Speaker 1: and I say, get no, get back, get back, get back.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure she thinks that I'm just being a
Speaker 1: mean old guy, you know, not letting her go out there.
Speaker 1: And she has no idea that if she goes out there,
Speaker 1: that there are these zooming cars that could hit her
Speaker 1: at an instant and kill her. Right, that's not She's
Speaker 1: not able to comprehend that. And that reminds me also
Speaker 1: of the allegory of the cave that, um, there are
Speaker 1: certain things that we humans are not allowed to do
Speaker 1: and that might make us angry. We say, well, this
Speaker 1: is a bunch of bull. And I don't like God
Speaker 1: or the universe or whoever you want to blame, because
Speaker 1: there are things that you think you should have or
Speaker 1: be able to achieve and and and it's just not
Speaker 1: happening for you. But you may not realize what you're
Speaker 1: asking for. In some cases, going outside of the cave
Speaker 1: might actually be dangerous for you. And I mean, look
Speaker 1: at how many astronauts have died trying to go outside
Speaker 1: of the cave a little farther. So anyway, just another
Speaker 1: way of looking at that. Well, let's move on to
Speaker 1: plant life, shall we. I have always believed that plants
Speaker 1: have spirits. One of the reasons that I believe that
Speaker 1: now is because a long time ago, and I'm talking,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty some years ago, I started doing experiments
Speaker 1: along with a Lemur team about our experiments with plants.
Speaker 1: We would get plants and we would hook them up
Speaker 1: to biofeedback devices and see what kind of signals they
Speaker 1: were producing under different circumstances, photograph them with kearley in
Speaker 1: cameras and different types of imaging, and without getting into
Speaker 1: all the specific results, I came to the conclusion that
Speaker 1: I believe these plants are sentient to some extent, all plants.
Speaker 1: Not to mention the fact that if you can see
Speaker 1: auras and you look at a plant, you can see
Speaker 1: the aura around the plant, and in some cases it's
Speaker 1: quite big and bright. And you know, I hate to
Speaker 1: tell you that if you're a vegetarian, I have nothing
Speaker 1: against you, but you're you're if you're just a vegetarian,
Speaker 1: you're still not completely getting away with not um taking
Speaker 1: a life, because you know, uh, you have to consume life,
Speaker 1: I think, in order to continue living. And so even
Speaker 1: when you eat plants, you're you're consuming some spirits. But
Speaker 1: I never thought to hook up some very sensitive microphones
Speaker 1: to see if plants were producing sounds per se, you know,
Speaker 1: like vibrations that could be heard in different ranges. And
Speaker 1: I guess nobody else did, and until just recently, because
Speaker 1: here is this scientific journal called cell cel l dot
Speaker 1: com to put out this report and I first learned
Speaker 1: about it through um an article at CNN dot com
Speaker 1: by Katie Hunt, and essentially it says plants are not silent.
Speaker 1: They make clicking sounds. A study finds. The actual journal
Speaker 1: Highlight says plants emit ultrasonic airborne sounds when stressed. The
Speaker 1: emitted sounds reveal plant type and condition. Plant sounds can
Speaker 1: be detected and interpreted in a greenhouse setting. Okay, so
Speaker 1: this article goes on to say at CNN, plants make
Speaker 1: popping sounds that are undetectable to the human ear, and
Speaker 1: they make more sounds when they're thirsty or under some
Speaker 1: kind of stress. The research shakes up what most botanists
Speaker 1: thought they knew about the plant kingdom, which had been
Speaker 1: considered largely silent, and suggests the world around us is
Speaker 1: a cacophony of plant sounds they talk about Hadny, the
Speaker 1: study co author, She said she had long been skeptical
Speaker 1: that plants were completely noiseless. Quote, there are so many
Speaker 1: organisms that respond to sound. I thought there was no
Speaker 1: good reason for plants to be deaf and mute. She
Speaker 1: is a professor at the School of Plant Sciences and
Speaker 1: Food Security and program head of the George Sy's Faculty
Speaker 1: of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University. The first plant
Speaker 1: she recorded using an ultrasonic microphone was a cactus in
Speaker 1: her lab six years ago, but she could not rule
Speaker 1: out that the sound she detected was made by something
Speaker 1: else in the environment. Previous studies had shown that plants
Speaker 1: made vibrations, but it wasn't known whether these vibrations became
Speaker 1: airborne sound waves. To figure out whether plants actually were
Speaker 1: emitting sounds, she and her team commissioned soundproof acoustic boxes.
Speaker 1: They placed tobacco and tomato plants in the boxes, rigged
Speaker 1: with ultrasonic microphones that record at frequencies between two hundred
Speaker 1: and two hundred and fifty kiloherts, and some of the
Speaker 1: plants had cut stems or had not been watered for
Speaker 1: five days. Others were untouched, And they found that the
Speaker 1: plants emitted sounds at a frequency of forty to eighty kiloherts,
Speaker 1: and when condensed and translated into a frequency humans can hear,
Speaker 1: the noises were a bit similar to the pop of
Speaker 1: popcorn being made or bubble wrapped bursting. And it says
Speaker 1: that when the tomato the tomato plants were not stressed,
Speaker 1: they were very quiet, and a stress plant emitted around
Speaker 1: thirty to fifty of these popping or clicking sounds per hour.
Speaker 1: So they're saying that they don't know exactly how these
Speaker 1: sounds are made, but they believe the noises come from
Speaker 1: this process in which an air bubble in the plant's
Speaker 1: water column collapses under some kind of pressure, making a
Speaker 1: click or pop. So they say they can't conclude that
Speaker 1: the cut flowers in your vase or are screaming at
Speaker 1: you in pain, But what they're saying is that these
Speaker 1: plants are definitely making sounds that could be communicating with
Speaker 1: other you know, creatures or forms of life. And you
Speaker 1: know what's funny, We could just look at that and say, well,
Speaker 1: that's that's these are just air bubbles escaping when you know,
Speaker 1: or something like that. But on the other hand, you
Speaker 1: could probably look at a human and say, if you're
Speaker 1: if you're like some giant other being and you don't
Speaker 1: know what a human is, you could be like, well,
Speaker 1: they just have sporadic air that pops out of their
Speaker 1: mouth when they speak, you know. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: Let's just give it a listen, shall we. So this
Speaker 1: is what happens when you take the sound of one
Speaker 1: of these tomato plants and you candense it into a
Speaker 1: frequency that human ears can hear. This is what it
Speaker 1: sounds like. All right, well pretty interesting? Huh what do
Speaker 1: you think? You know? As I was listening to that,
Speaker 1: I thought, what if I were to take that and
Speaker 1: turn that sound into a parasymatics sigil. What would that
Speaker 1: look like? And would it bear any resemblance to the
Speaker 1: plant or the DNA of the plant, or you know,
Speaker 1: any of those things. I don't know. Maybe I will
Speaker 1: look more deeply into that and see if I can
Speaker 1: come up with some experiments. But you know, I've got
Speaker 1: some pretty good microphones in my laboratory, so maybe I
Speaker 1: will try seeing if I can capture some sounds from
Speaker 1: some of my plants. I have some pretty exotic plants,
Speaker 1: like tickle me plants or some column zombie plants that
Speaker 1: when you when you touch them, their leaves close up.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm a big fan of playing around
Speaker 1: with venus flytraps. I got some pretty weird stuff. So, okay,
Speaker 1: when we come back from this break, there's actually another
Speaker 1: sound that I want to bring up. You know, not
Speaker 1: too long ago, I pulled out a rattlesnake rattle and
Speaker 1: rattled it for you here on the show, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people contacted me and they said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I have no idea how a rattlesnake rattle even works.
Speaker 1: Are there some beads in there? So when we return,
Speaker 1: I'm actually going to I'm gonna shake my rattlesnake rattler again.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you why it is that a rattlesnake
Speaker 1: rattle rattles, which I find surprising. And then I have
Speaker 1: just a plethora of other strange and somewhat random things
Speaker 1: that I want to get into. I'll go through as
Speaker 1: many as I can. During the last segment of the show,
Speaker 1: and including some interesting updates for you. So I'm Joshua
Speaker 1: Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1: and Coast to Coast i AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I
Speaker 1: will be right back and welcome back to the final
Speaker 1: segment of this edition of Strange Things all the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1: and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Joshua pe o' warren, and I want to let you
Speaker 1: know that you can visit an interesting display that I
Speaker 1: just put in place recently. Of course, I own the
Speaker 1: Haunted Asheville Ghost Tours in Asheville, North Carolina, So if
Speaker 1: you're going to be in that town, we'll go to
Speaker 1: Haunted Asheville dot com and buy a ticket and take
Speaker 1: the tour. I also created and own the Haunted Boulder
Speaker 1: City Ghost and UFO Tour, which is a walking tour
Speaker 1: here in Nevada about thirty minutes outside of Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: And if you've never been to Boulder City, Nevada, do
Speaker 1: yourself a favor and go there. And that walking tour
Speaker 1: is Haunted Boulder City dot com. You can even drink
Speaker 1: a beer as you take that one if you want.
Speaker 1: But what a great little charming city. You've heard me
Speaker 1: talk a lot about it. But I am a member
Speaker 1: of the Boulder City Chamber of Commerce and I was
Speaker 1: talking to the staff over there, the wonderful people like
Speaker 1: Jill and Madison, and I said, you know, I used
Speaker 1: to have this museum in Asheville, and I have some
Speaker 1: pretty interesting items that are not currently on display. How
Speaker 1: would you feel about me displaying them for a while
Speaker 1: at the Boulder City Chamber of Commerce. And they said, yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: that'd be awesome. So right now, if you go to
Speaker 1: the Boulder City Chamber of Commerce, and I think they're
Speaker 1: hours are like, you know, nine to five every day
Speaker 1: at least Monday through Friday. You can look it up.
Speaker 1: Then you can go in there and see two things
Speaker 1: there on display that belonged to me. One of them
Speaker 1: is a real alien crystal skull that I attained when
Speaker 1: I was doing my research in the Bermuda Triangle. And
Speaker 1: it's big and it's heavy, and it's really cool and
Speaker 1: you can learn about it when if you make the
Speaker 1: trip to go see it, but you can get pretty
Speaker 1: darn close to it. It's in a glass case, but
Speaker 1: it's a real crystal skull and some people say that
Speaker 1: it telepathically communicates with them. And then also I have
Speaker 1: got there on display some actual rocks from a UFO
Speaker 1: crash site that happened in Puerto Rico. I also attained
Speaker 1: this when I was down there in doing my Bermuda
Speaker 1: triangal research for years, and this was a crash that
Speaker 1: happened I think in like nineteen ninety seven, and I
Speaker 1: took this big hike out into this remote area with
Speaker 1: a couple of friends and we found this site and
Speaker 1: there were still rocks scorched black from this thing, and
Speaker 1: I collected some of them and so those are now
Speaker 1: there also on display. So go to Haunted Boulder City
Speaker 1: dot com. If you're going to be in the Vegas area,
Speaker 1: come take the tour, but if you can go out
Speaker 1: during the day, because the tour is usually in the evening,
Speaker 1: go out during the day and see what we have
Speaker 1: at the visitors Well, it's the Boulder City Chamber of
Speaker 1: Commerce there, which I think it's like the Nevada Visitor
Speaker 1: Center also sort of combined. But anyway, that's cool. Now.
Speaker 1: I recently did a podcast where I was talking about
Speaker 1: rattlesnake tails and just you know, I was talking about
Speaker 1: the noise that things make in nature, and I got
Speaker 1: this significantly sized rattlesnake tail from this guy in Texas
Speaker 1: not too long ago. I have it in my hand
Speaker 1: right now and there you go. There there's me shaking
Speaker 1: it back and forth. If you have a pet, does
Speaker 1: your pet react to that? Like? Does it scare them
Speaker 1: or freak them out? Do they know that something threatening
Speaker 1: is nearby? Because as soon as I got this thing,
Speaker 1: I took it up to our chihuahuas and was like,
Speaker 1: and they did not care on the slightest It's very,
Speaker 1: very difficult to phase them. They don't even like playing
Speaker 1: with toys alf the time. So people said, well, you know,
Speaker 1: what is there? Like, are there some beads something in there? Well,
Speaker 1: let me tell you a couple of things real quick
Speaker 1: about rattlesnake tells that are truly are just fascinating. For
Speaker 1: one thing, a rattlesnake can rattle its tail ninety times
Speaker 1: per second, ninety times per second, and it says that
Speaker 1: is twice as fast as the wing muscles of a
Speaker 1: hummingbird sipping nectar. Isn't that shocking? You know? And scientists
Speaker 1: are still like trying to study exactly how they do that.
Speaker 1: But the thing is, if you cut open a rattlesnake
Speaker 1: tail and I've not done this, but you can find videos.
Speaker 1: At least there's one on YouTube of a guy who
Speaker 1: does this. The most interesting thing is when you cut
Speaker 1: them open that it looks like they're empty. There are
Speaker 1: no beads or anything like that inside. But what you
Speaker 1: do find is that each little layer of the rattle
Speaker 1: is what they call a button, and each button is
Speaker 1: kind of like an exterior button, and inside of it
Speaker 1: is like a slightly smaller button, which is a dead
Speaker 1: cell or made of dead cells. So basically, every time
Speaker 1: a rattlesnake sheds, I think it gets like a new button,
Speaker 1: and some of that dead skin stays inside. So each
Speaker 1: button is actually kind of like shells within shells, and
Speaker 1: so when when the snake shakes its tail, you're just
Speaker 1: hearing those dried, hard shells kind of like banging against
Speaker 1: each other. I don't know what much time would you describe.
Speaker 1: Banging is not a good word, but I think you
Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying. Like these these crusty, crunchy little
Speaker 1: layers are bouncing off each other, and that is what
Speaker 1: gives this amazing sound. But there are no little no
Speaker 1: little objects or anything. Again, if you cut open a
Speaker 1: rattlesnake rattler, it just looks like it's empty, except there
Speaker 1: are two or three layers of these buttons as shells.
Speaker 1: So that's pretty wild. In fact, we see what do
Speaker 1: they efficiently say? A rattlesnake rattle is made of dead
Speaker 1: tissue and its owner shakes it by twitching sets of
Speaker 1: small muscles on either side of its tail. So pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: Another example of the wonders of mother nature. Right, Okay,
Speaker 1: next thing I want to talk to you about. Oh,
Speaker 1: you know I am. I am still collecting stories for
Speaker 1: my new anthology called Amazing Happy Endings. And if you
Speaker 1: go to Amazing Happy Endings dot com you can submit
Speaker 1: a story. Because I've got so many great ones and
Speaker 1: I've been I edited a version of this already, and
Speaker 1: I you know, I love it so much. I just
Speaker 1: want to make it bigger and bigger and keep collecting stories.
Speaker 1: If you can just write one paragraph, that's fine. It
Speaker 1: just has to be a story, preferably something that happened
Speaker 1: directly to you. That it's going to be short, it's
Speaker 1: going to be true. And it's got to have an amazing,
Speaker 1: happy ending. And there's some examples there for you. Because
Speaker 1: I'm going to be hopefully putting this book out finally
Speaker 1: this year. I've been slowly collecting stories, and I'll tell
Speaker 1: you something kind of funny. I took a version of
Speaker 1: this just for the heck of it, and I sent
Speaker 1: it to a literary agent that I've worked with before,
Speaker 1: and I said, what do you think about this? And
Speaker 1: I don't want to tell you who the agent is,
Speaker 1: but I will tell you it's not Lisa Hagen. Okay,
Speaker 1: So this agent looked at it, and I thought the
Speaker 1: agent was going to say, Oh, this is fantastic. This
Speaker 1: is gonna be a big stone. Basically, the agent said,
Speaker 1: it's too positive. It's gonna make people feel too good,
Speaker 1: and that's not what sells so much these days. And
Speaker 1: I thought, wow, that is really said, isn't it. But
Speaker 1: I understand this is a sign of the times and
Speaker 1: this is the world in which we live, and so
Speaker 1: therefore I have decided that I am definitely going to
Speaker 1: publish this myself through my own company, because I would
Speaker 1: just absolutely hate to have some editor come in and say,
Speaker 1: you know, instead of amazing happy endings. Why don't we
Speaker 1: do amazing terrible endings where everything just gets destroyed and
Speaker 1: their world falls apart, and we will put dark clouds
Speaker 1: and fire and brimstone on the cover and people and
Speaker 1: anguish and say be afraid, and it'll sell like hot kicks. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do that. I think we need
Speaker 1: the amazing happy endings, and all the endings don't have
Speaker 1: to necessarily be all positive and beautify and angelic. But usually,
Speaker 1: you know, an amazing ending is good because that's what
Speaker 1: we like. We like good things. So I don't know
Speaker 1: how how much longer I'm going to keep collecting those stories,
Speaker 1: but you can get a free book if you go
Speaker 1: there and just take a few minutes and write yours
Speaker 1: for me. Go to Amazing Happy Endings dot com or
Speaker 1: if you go to Joshua Pewarren dot com you will
Speaker 1: find a link there at the top. Okay, I have
Speaker 1: much more to tell you about, but it's going to
Speaker 1: have to wait for another show because I am out
Speaker 1: of time. Therefore, speaking of an amazing happy ending, let's
Speaker 1: all have one together, shall we. I want you to
Speaker 1: make this next week the best one ever. Take a
Speaker 1: deep breath, if you can close your eyes and let
Speaker 1: us all listen and meditate upon listen to me and
Speaker 1: meditate upon the good fortune. That's it for this edition
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Speaker 1: and to always remember the Golden Rule. Thank you for listening,
Speaker 1: thank you for your interest in support, thank you for
Speaker 1: sta Ain't curious, and I We'll talk to you again soon.
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