1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,200 Speaker 1: Welcome to the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM paranormal 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: podcast network. Now get ready for us Strange Things with 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 1: Joshua P. Warre. 4 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:17,159 Speaker 2: Welcome to our podcast. Please be aware the thoughts and 5 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 2: opinions expressed by the host are their thoughts and opinions 6 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 2: only and do not reflect those of iHeartMedia, iHeartRadio, Coast 7 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 2: to Coast AM, employees of Premiere Networks, or their sponsors 8 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 2: and associates. We would like to encourage you to do 9 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 2: your own research and discover the subject matter for yourself. 10 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 1: Ready to be by the Wizard of Weird. This is 11 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: Strange Thing with Joshua Warren. I am JOSHUAAPE Warren, and 12 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: each week on this show, I'll be bringing a brand 13 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: new my blowing content, news exercises and weird experiments you 14 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: can do at home, and a lot more. On this 15 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: edition of the show, A Voice from the Grave two 16 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: thousand years Ago plus The Hand of Glory? Do you 17 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: know what the Hand of Glory is? We're gonna get 18 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 1: into that. The first let me ask you a question. 19 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: Have you ever really tried to imagine what it may 20 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: have been like to live on this planet two thousand 21 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: years ago? And I mean, and I mean, even if 22 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: you've read a ton of history books and you have 23 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: the best imagination in the world, I don't think that 24 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: any of us can really imagine what life would have 25 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: been like two thousand years ago. I mean, just look 26 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: at technology alone. The bicycle would not be invented for 27 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: like another two thousand years, not to mention the advancements 28 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: with electricity and communications and Okay, look at it this way. 29 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: Instead of you trying to imagine what it would be 30 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 1: like to live two thousand years ago, think about how 31 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: a person who lived two thousand years ago could comprehend 32 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: what life is like for us today as we sit 33 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: here and I talk to you all over the world 34 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: and we're shooting rockets to the moon. I mean, it's 35 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 1: just like you can't relate. So you might think, though, 36 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: if somehow amazingly, amazingly, if you were able to, let's say, 37 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: hear an audio recording from someone who lived two thousand 38 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: years ago, a normal person, you might think there's no 39 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:08,920 Speaker 1: way that we could relate to each other, really, especially 40 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: if that person we're just talking about basically, you know, 41 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: the way the world works, what's good, what's bad. The 42 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 1: philosophical aspects of life, and yet we have the next 43 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: best thing. It's truly amazing. You know a lot of 44 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,359 Speaker 1: times when you say, well, somebody lived two thousand years ago, 45 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: we use Jesus as a reference. Well, about one hundred 46 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: to one hundred and fifty years after Jesus was born, 47 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: there was a Roman born named Marcus Aurelius. And Marcus 48 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 1: Aurelius was a He was the son of a Roman commander, 49 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: and eventually, through various family connections and whatnot, Aurelius became 50 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: the Emperor of Rome. Now, let me just say I 51 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 1: consider him to be a normal man only because that 52 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: he never claimed that he was a god or some 53 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: divine being, or some prophet or some mystic or anything 54 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 1: like that. He was certainly an extraordinary human being, however, 55 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,479 Speaker 1: because he had the power of life and death in 56 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: his hands, and he was a guy who had a 57 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:32,840 Speaker 1: hell of a lot of responsibility on his hands, and 58 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 1: so he was what is often considered one of the 59 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: last of the five good Emperors of Rome who oversaw 60 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 1: this period of time called the Pax Romana, and the 61 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:51,359 Speaker 1: Pax Romana it was, which means Roman peace. Was this 62 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 1: sort of two hundred year period of relative stability, economic prosperity, 63 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff within the Roman Empire. So 64 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 1: everybody was kind of happy. It was like the good 65 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 1: old days. Of course, that ended at some point, but 66 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: during that period of time he was he was the 67 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,040 Speaker 1: son of a military commander, and so he grew up 68 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 1: fighting all the time, and even when he was the emperor, 69 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 1: he was out there conducting military campaigns on a regular basis. 70 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: And when he was fifty eight years old, he was 71 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:38,159 Speaker 1: out on a military campaign, and they believed that he 72 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:42,479 Speaker 1: died because here there was a plague of some kind 73 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: that swept through his army. And so after he died, 74 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: many years went by until it was discovered that he 75 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:01,919 Speaker 1: had been keeping a private journal throughout a good period 76 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:09,039 Speaker 1: of his life describing his thoughts. And let's see, I 77 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 1: think the first time that this came to our awareness 78 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: there was a bishop a few hundred years later. He 79 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: was a collector of manuscripts, and he sent a letter, 80 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,919 Speaker 1: this bishop to an archbishop and he said, hey, I 81 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 1: have this copy of Emperor Marcus's most profitable book, but 82 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 1: it's old, it's sort of falling into pieces. So I 83 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:43,280 Speaker 1: have been able to sit down and copy all of 84 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: this and save it and put it in a new dress. 85 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 1: That's how he put it. And it turns out that 86 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:55,599 Speaker 1: this collection of thoughts, this diary kept by this man 87 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: two thousand years ago, it was never intended to be public. 88 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: And obviously now you can read it. I have a 89 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 1: copy of it in my hands. It's called Meditations. And 90 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: one of the things that's remarkable about this is that 91 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: it turns out Marcus Aurelius was quite a He was 92 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: quite a philosopher, and he was one of the proponents 93 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: of what is now called Stoicism. Now, this is an 94 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: ancient Greek and Roman philosophy that supposedly teaches virtue, reason, 95 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: and emotional resilience. So here are some of the tenets 96 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: managing emotions. Stoics do not seek to eliminate emotions entirely, 97 00:07:56,080 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: but to transform destructive emotions. That means irrational things, inter 98 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 1: rational and healthy ones. Another tenet is living in accordance 99 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 1: with nature, and this involves living rationally as a social 100 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: logical being and accepting the natural order of the universe. 101 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: Stoics believe virtue is the only good, that the highest 102 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: good in Stoicism is moral virtue, not wealth or pleasure. 103 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: And they believe in the four main pillars wisdom, justice, courage, 104 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: and temperance, which is moderation. They also believe in what's 105 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: called the dichotomy of control. Stoics emphasize focusing entirely on 106 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: one's own reactions and thoughts and actions, while also accepting 107 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: external events like misfortune or other people's behavior with some 108 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 1: kind of composure. You might even be able to argue 109 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 1: that stoicism is one of the building blocks of what 110 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:10,960 Speaker 1: eventually became the scientific method, a more rational way of thinking. 111 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 1: One could argue that, and so it was. It's really 112 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: fascinating when you sit down and you you read what 113 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: a Roman emperor was writing in his own diary, not 114 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:30,839 Speaker 1: for the people, not to promote himself, not to publish, 115 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: as he was out there, you know, essentially doing what 116 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 1: he had to do to maintain order, including killing people. 117 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 1: You might ask yourself, well, what how did he feel 118 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 1: about Christians? And it turns out that it seems like 119 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 1: he didn't particularly care for Christians. He does, he only 120 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: mentions them once, and he says he basically criticizes what 121 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 1: he perceives as their theatrical approach to martyrdom. And he 122 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 1: wrote the readiness for death. Quote must spring from a 123 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: man's inner judgment and not be the result of mere opposition. 124 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:25,719 Speaker 1: It must be associated with deliberation and dignity. And if 125 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 1: others are to be convinced with nothing like stage heroics 126 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 1: end quote, you can take from that what you want. 127 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 1: He never came right out and said anything terrible about Christians, 128 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: but you know he's criticizing the Christian approach, and again, 129 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 1: you know he calls it theatrical. I have a copy 130 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:52,559 Speaker 1: again of Meditations right here in my hands. It's almost 131 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: three hundred pages long, and it's divided into twelve books 132 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: that are all collect together. On the back of the collection, 133 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 1: here's a quote by him. If someone can prove me 134 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:10,079 Speaker 1: wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, 135 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 1: I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never 136 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: harmed anyone. The harm is to persist in one's own 137 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: self deception and ignorance. Okay, fine, So what did this 138 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:34,439 Speaker 1: man write down that was so significant two thousand years ago, 139 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:39,959 Speaker 1: that was discovered after he died, that was preserved by monks. Basically, 140 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 1: when we come back from this break, well, I'm going 141 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 1: to give you some of the very specific pointed things 142 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 1: that he wrote about. And let's see what this voice 143 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: from the grave has to tell us from two thousand 144 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 1: years ago. Fascinating. Huh. Well, you know, there are a 145 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: lot of podcasts out there, but I think you'll agree 146 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: there is no other podcast quite like this one. So 147 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 1: if you like it, you find it interesting, and you 148 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: like these topics, and you want me to keep doing 149 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 1: the show, well listen, you gotta support me. It's easy. 150 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 1: Go to joshuapwarren dot com. Do two things. Number One 151 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 1: on the homepage, please sign up for my free and 152 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: spam free e newsletter. It takes you two seconds. 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Welcome back to Strange Things off the iHeartRadio 162 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 1: and Coast to coast, a m paranormal podcast network. I 163 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: am your host the Wizards of Weird, Joshua P. Warren, 164 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: beaming into your worm whole brain from my studio in 165 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:50,199 Speaker 1: sen City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day is golden 166 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: and every night is silver. A giitato zume And this book, 167 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 1: which you can read, written proximately two thousand years ago, 168 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:12,199 Speaker 1: is now known as Meditations, a collection of twelve books 169 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: containing personal, private and untitled journals written by the Roman 170 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 1: emperor Marcus Aurelius, and it outlines his his personal insights 171 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 1: into Stoic philosophy, his outlook on life, focusing on self improvement, 172 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 1: duty and virtue, and written for his own guidance rather 173 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 1: than for publication. It's that interesting, okay. So I am 174 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: just not going to read you some passages because he 175 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: doesn't write big, long stories or anything. He writes very short, 176 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: little thoughts and passages. And I'm just going to take 177 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: my time and read some of these to you. Maybe 178 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: i'll comment. Let's see what you think. Do you agree 179 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:05,680 Speaker 1: with these tenets of Stoic philosophy and the outlook of 180 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 1: this man who lived that long ago. Here we go. 181 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize 182 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: this and you will find strength. Next, he says, dwell 183 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 1: on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see 184 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 1: yourself running with them. The happiness of your life depends 185 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: upon the quality of your thoughts. Well, that's an interesting one, 186 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 1: don't you think, because that's basically sort of like it 187 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 1: borders on law of attraction type thinking. Let me repeat 188 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 1: that when he says the happiness of your life depends 189 00:15:53,440 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 1: upon the quality of your thoughts. Next, everything is an opinion, 190 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 1: not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not 191 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 1: the truth. Wow, that's pretty profound, don't you think. Let 192 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: me repeat that one. Everything we hear is an opinion, 193 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 1: not a fact, and everything we see is perspective not 194 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 1: the truth. Boy, I think he's onto something there. Let's 195 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 1: see here he says, waste no more time arguing about 196 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: what a good man should be be One. How he 197 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: likes that if you are distressed by anything external, the 198 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: pain is not due to the thing itself, but to 199 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: your estimate of it, and this you have the power 200 00:16:52,800 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: to revoke at any moment. When you arise in the morning, 201 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 1: think of what a privilege it is to be alive, 202 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:12,439 Speaker 1: to think to enjoy to love. Well, I'm liking this. 203 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you. I you know, I never thought 204 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:18,720 Speaker 1: I'd be like h I'm into this Roman emperor all right? Uh? 205 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 1: He next, he says, the best revenge is to be 206 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 1: unlike him who performed the injury. Man, you know, if 207 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 1: this actually sounds a lot like stuff that Jesus was saying. 208 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 1: You know what Jesus is saying said like, you know, 209 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: be kind to your enemies or love your enemies, and 210 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 1: it's like pouring hot coals on their head. Let me 211 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 1: repeat that one. This Roman emperor said the best revenge 212 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:54,399 Speaker 1: is to be unlike him who performed the injury. I 213 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:58,120 Speaker 1: wish more people these days could just remember that, if 214 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:01,640 Speaker 1: nothing else, that if you don't like somebody the way 215 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 1: they're behaving, then if you turn right around and act 216 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:07,879 Speaker 1: the same way they do, well you're no different. You 217 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 1: two wrongs don't make it, right, I guess all right, 218 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 1: let's keep going. The soul becomes dyed with the color 219 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,880 Speaker 1: of its thoughts. Okay, so again he's talking about your 220 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 1: your You're thinking shapes and colors the way your soul 221 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 1: is expressed. It is not death that a man should fear, 222 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:45,919 Speaker 1: but he should fear, never beginning to live. Now, mind you, 223 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,360 Speaker 1: this is coming from an emperor who was responsible for 224 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 1: untold deaths. And he says, not death a man should fear, 225 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:59,160 Speaker 1: but fear never beginning to live. Okay. Next he says, 226 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 1: the things to which fate binds you, and love the 227 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: people with whom fate brings you together, but do so 228 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 1: with all your heart. Never let the future disturb you. 229 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: You will meet it if you have to, with the 230 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:32,639 Speaker 1: same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. Next, 231 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:37,199 Speaker 1: he says, and this is a reiteration, our life is 232 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:42,200 Speaker 1: what our thoughts make it. So boy, he's really big 233 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 1: into you getting your thoughts together, he writes. Next, whenever 234 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself 235 00:19:54,960 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 1: the following question, what fault of mine? Most nearly symbols 236 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 1: the one I am about to criticize. If someone is 237 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: able to show me that what I think or do 238 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:16,160 Speaker 1: is not right, I will happily change, For I seek 239 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:20,360 Speaker 1: the truth by which no one was ever truly harmed. 240 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 1: It is the person who continues in his self deception 241 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:29,439 Speaker 1: and ignorance who is harmed. I have often wondered how 242 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 1: it is that every man loves himself more than all 243 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 1: the rest of men, but yet sets less value on 244 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others. Next, 245 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 1: he writes, when you wake up in the morning, tell yourself. 246 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:57,679 Speaker 1: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, 247 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: and surly. They are like this because they cannot tell 248 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,439 Speaker 1: good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of 249 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 1: good and the ugliness of evil, and I have recognized 250 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 1: that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own, 251 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 1: not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, 252 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 1: and possessing a share of the divine. And so none 253 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 1: of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me 254 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 1: in ugliness, nor can I feel angry at my relative 255 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 1: or hate him. We were born to work together, like feet, hands, 256 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,879 Speaker 1: and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. 257 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:40,199 Speaker 1: To obstruct each other. Is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, 258 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:48,239 Speaker 1: to turn your back on him, These are unnatural. He 259 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 1: then says, if it is not right, do not do it. 260 00:21:54,160 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 1: If it is not true, do not say it. Subject 261 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,639 Speaker 1: of life is not to be on the side of 262 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 1: the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks 263 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 1: of the insane. Very little is needed to make a 264 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 1: happy life. It is all within yourself and your way 265 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:26,199 Speaker 1: of thinking. This also is a reiteration of something he 266 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 1: said earlier. The best revenge is not to be like 267 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: your enemy. I'm going to repeat that. The best revenge 268 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: is not to be like your enemy. He says, live 269 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:45,399 Speaker 1: a good life. If there are gods and they are just, 270 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,440 Speaker 1: then they will not care how devout you have been, 271 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: but will welcome you based on the virtues you have 272 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:57,439 Speaker 1: lived by. If there are gods but unjust, then you 273 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 1: should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, 274 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,639 Speaker 1: then you will be gone, but you will have lived 275 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 1: a noble life that will live on in the memories 276 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 1: of your loved ones. He says, reject your sense of injury, 277 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:25,120 Speaker 1: and the injury itself disappears. He writes, how much more 278 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:30,119 Speaker 1: grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. 279 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 1: When another blames you or hates you, or people voice 280 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 1: similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see 281 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,640 Speaker 1: what sort of people they are. You will realize there 282 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 1: is no need to be racked with anxiety that they 283 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 1: should hold any particular opinion about you. The first rule 284 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to 285 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:00,919 Speaker 1: look things in the face and know them for what 286 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 1: they are. Do not act as if you were going 287 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While 288 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:13,160 Speaker 1: you live while it is in your power. Be good. 289 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. 290 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 1: Now take what's left and live it properly. What does 291 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 1: not transmit like creates its own darkness. Here is a 292 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:31,119 Speaker 1: rule to remember in the future when anything tempts you 293 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:36,399 Speaker 1: to feel bitter, not this is misfortune. But to bear 294 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 1: this worthily is good fortune. Lastly, you always own the 295 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 1: option of having no opinion. There is never any need 296 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,240 Speaker 1: to get worked up or trouble your soul about things 297 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 1: you cannot control. These things are not asking to be 298 00:24:51,480 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 1: judged by you. Leave them alone. Okay, wo, you gotta 299 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:04,159 Speaker 1: take a break. We'll come back. I'm going to ask 300 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: you about the largest empires you think have ever existed, 301 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 1: and then we're going to get into another really cool subject. 302 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 1: I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on 303 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast am Paranormal podcast network. 304 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 1: I'll be back after these important messages. Welcome back to 305 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:03,520 Speaker 1: Strange Things called the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM 306 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:08,639 Speaker 1: Paranormal podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua P. Warren, and 307 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 1: this is this show where the isn that usual becomes usual. 308 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:19,679 Speaker 1: Now think about this. That man who lived around two 309 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 1: thousand years ago, a Roman emperor. He may now be 310 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:34,400 Speaker 1: in heaven, he may now be in hell, or as 311 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 1: he suggested, maybe there is no such thing as an afterlife. 312 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:41,640 Speaker 1: And he died and he is just gone, and there 313 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:51,399 Speaker 1: is nothingness regardless, regardless of what happened. His voice just 314 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:57,439 Speaker 1: traveled two thousand years into the future to speak to you, 315 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 1: and he didn't even intend for it to have I 316 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:06,359 Speaker 1: don't think that's some kind of an immortality, isn't it. 317 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 1: So think about that. No matter what your beliefs are, 318 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: no matter if you know if you're an atheist, or 319 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,479 Speaker 1: you believe in an afterlife or you don't, or whatever 320 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:19,919 Speaker 1: you're thinking, just remember you know your actions can carry 321 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:24,679 Speaker 1: forward through at least thousands of years and affect people. 322 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 1: And by the way, if you don't already know this, 323 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 1: every time I do one of these podcasts, you can 324 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:37,160 Speaker 1: get a free transcript so you can go back and 325 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:41,679 Speaker 1: you know, actually read the words if you want to 326 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,199 Speaker 1: go back and sort of examine or re examine some 327 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 1: of those those quotes and passages. But you have to 328 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 1: listen to the show through the iHeart app or the 329 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,960 Speaker 1: iHeart website. There are many different ways to listen to 330 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: the show. But if you go to strainsshow dot com, 331 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 1: there are links to different some of the different platforms, 332 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,520 Speaker 1: and right there at the top says iHeart. If you 333 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: click that one, you'll see this show. Strange things pop 334 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:15,199 Speaker 1: up at iHeart and right there where each episode is listed, 335 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 1: it gives you some options and one of them says transcript, 336 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 1: and when you push transcript, boom, it shows you every 337 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,919 Speaker 1: word I mean according to AI. So it might not 338 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 1: be entirely accurate, but every word that was said in 339 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,719 Speaker 1: this podcast. And then you know, you can copy it, 340 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,000 Speaker 1: you can paste it into a document, you can email 341 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 1: it to yourself. I mean. So I think that it 342 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 1: might just be handy if you want to go back 343 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 1: and and you know, take time to dwell on some 344 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 1: of the things that you hear about this podcast. Every 345 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 1: time I speak in front of this microphone, I kind 346 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 1: of feel like I'm writing a book in real time, 347 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 1: because nowadays that's what happens. Your words get interpreted that way. Nonetheless, 348 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 1: you know, I think again, it's fascinating to think that 349 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,960 Speaker 1: those are words coming from a man. So, yes, he 350 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: was a powerful man, but he didn't claim to be 351 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 1: a god or a prophet or a divine being or 352 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 1: a mystic or any of that. And that's one thing 353 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 1: that makes it so interesting because many of the things 354 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 1: that he said align perfectly with what those people who 355 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 1: claim to be prophets and whatnot have said. And you know, 356 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 1: people talk about the great power of the Roman Empire. 357 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,880 Speaker 1: I got curious recently. I don't think I've ever brought 358 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:35,760 Speaker 1: this up on the show before. Maybe I have, but 359 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 1: I wanted to go back and see, like, what are, 360 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:44,959 Speaker 1: what were, or what have been the largest empires in 361 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 1: the history of the world to our knowledge, And I 362 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 1: found a list according to historians, and they say that 363 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:58,080 Speaker 1: you know, there are obviously there are different definitions that 364 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 1: they try to use for this. They include a size, area, population, economy, power, 365 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 1: I mean, there are a lot of different variables, but 366 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 1: basically that they've sort of agreed on the idea that 367 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 1: you can define an empire in this context as quote 368 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 1: any relatively large sovereign political entity whose components are not 369 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:31,160 Speaker 1: sovereign end quote. All right, so an empire. So let 370 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 1: me ask you this, What do you think are the 371 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,200 Speaker 1: top ten? Let me just start with, what do you 372 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 1: think is the number one largest empire, according to historians, 373 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: that has ever existed on Earth? Take a moment, think 374 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 1: about it, good trivia question. What's the largest empire that's 375 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 1: ever existed in the history of this earth? They say 376 00:30:53,360 --> 00:31:02,840 Speaker 1: number one is the British Empire, which peaked in nineteen twenty. 377 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 1: Number two, what do you think Number two is? Number 378 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 1: two the Mongol Empire, and you know you're talking about 379 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:19,120 Speaker 1: originating in present day Mongolia. It went all over the place. 380 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 1: Number three the Russian Empire that peaked in eighteen ninety five. 381 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: Let's see the number four, the Qing Dynasty which peaked 382 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 1: in seventeen ninety. Next we have the Spanish Empire eighteen ten. 383 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 1: Next we have the second French Colonial Empire nineteen twenty. 384 00:31:55,280 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 1: Next we have the Abbasid Caliphate, which was an Islamic caliphate. 385 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:09,959 Speaker 1: Next we have the Umayad Califate, and then we have 386 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 1: the Yin dynasty. And then last on this list of 387 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:21,280 Speaker 1: number ten. The number ten largest empire the United States, 388 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,200 Speaker 1: which they say peaked out in nineteen hundred. Interesting, isn't it. 389 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,400 Speaker 1: Do you ever think of the United States as an empire? 390 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 1: And if you keep going down this list, the Roman 391 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 1: Empire is number twenty six on this list. And again 392 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:42,800 Speaker 1: this is not according to me. This is according to 393 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,479 Speaker 1: historians who study this stuff and define it. But there, 394 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 1: you know, that's just interesting trivia, interesting for you to 395 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,840 Speaker 1: think about. You know, a lot of that. You always 396 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:55,320 Speaker 1: hear about certain empires being so like gigantic and powerful, 397 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,360 Speaker 1: but you start looking at you know, like the Byzantine Empire, 398 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 1: it's way down on the list. So anyway, it's funny 399 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,120 Speaker 1: how that you know, people have always sought power for 400 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 1: one reason or another, and they'll do anything to get it, 401 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:16,120 Speaker 1: anything to get it. And I've always been fascinated by 402 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,080 Speaker 1: some of these artifacts that you can find that people 403 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:24,720 Speaker 1: have used over time in order to try to gain power. 404 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:27,760 Speaker 1: And I mentioned recently that I wanted to tell you 405 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 1: a little bit more sometimes about some of the things 406 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:35,080 Speaker 1: and my personal collection of oddities and novelties and just 407 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:40,080 Speaker 1: weird stuff. I actually have people who contact me all 408 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,200 Speaker 1: the time wanting to come over and do a documentary 409 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,360 Speaker 1: and that kind of stuff, and I so far I 410 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 1: haven't agreed to that, but at some point, you know, 411 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,720 Speaker 1: maybe I will. We'll see. But one of the things 412 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,920 Speaker 1: that I would like to talk about on my list 413 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 1: is something that people in Old Europe, very very spooky people, 414 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:04,320 Speaker 1: would use to gain personal power. It's called a hand 415 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:10,400 Speaker 1: of glory hand of glory. I actually have one of 416 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,239 Speaker 1: these in my collection. At least, let me put it 417 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,000 Speaker 1: this way, I have something called the hand of glory 418 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:19,319 Speaker 1: in my collection. The hand of glory is this macabre 419 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:26,279 Speaker 1: artifact from Old Europe, and it is the dried and 420 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:34,680 Speaker 1: pickled hand of a hanged criminal, and it's used by 421 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,960 Speaker 1: thieves as a magical tool. They say the preferable hand 422 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,759 Speaker 1: is the left hand, which has always been considered the 423 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 1: sinister hand. So you cut the left hand off of 424 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:52,080 Speaker 1: a hanged criminal. And then when a candle is made 425 00:34:52,239 --> 00:35:03,040 Speaker 1: from the hanged person's fat. I guess you place when 426 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,759 Speaker 1: a candle is made from the hanged person's fat is 427 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,239 Speaker 1: placed in it. It doesn't make sense to it, I 428 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,000 Speaker 1: just read the definition. But anyway, basically, what you do 429 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:16,560 Speaker 1: is you turn the hand into a candle by lighting 430 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:20,400 Speaker 1: the fingertips or putting a candle in there, and the 431 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 1: candle is made from the fat of the hanged person. 432 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,839 Speaker 1: There are different ways of doing this, but anyway, it's 433 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,680 Speaker 1: basically a candle made from the hand of a hanged man. 434 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,200 Speaker 1: And if you light this thing up, then supposedly this thing, 435 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:39,320 Speaker 1: which is called the hand of glory, gives whoever holds 436 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:47,520 Speaker 1: it amazing powers of burglary. So if you hold it, 437 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:52,240 Speaker 1: it will unlock doors for you, and it will render 438 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:57,920 Speaker 1: the people in the house immobile or asleep, and the 439 00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:02,440 Speaker 1: candle will shine a light that owns the thief can see. 440 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:09,359 Speaker 1: There are some of these and museums out there as well. 441 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:11,799 Speaker 1: Let's see. Here's another way of describing a hand of 442 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:15,359 Speaker 1: glory is the dried and pickled hand of a hanged man, 443 00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:24,160 Speaker 1: often specified as being the left. Old European beliefs attribute 444 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,840 Speaker 1: great powers to a hand of glory. The process for 445 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,440 Speaker 1: preparing the hand and the candle are described in eighteenth 446 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:40,959 Speaker 1: century documents. So, like I say, you basically you take 447 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:45,760 Speaker 1: that you make the candle from the fat of the person, 448 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:50,120 Speaker 1: and then you put the candle in the person's hand, 449 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,480 Speaker 1: or you can light the fingertips of the person's hand 450 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,000 Speaker 1: and turn those into a kind of five fingered candle. 451 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,480 Speaker 1: And you walk around with this thing. And they say 452 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,360 Speaker 1: that once you light it, the candle can only be 453 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:07,480 Speaker 1: put out with milk. Okay, when we come back from 454 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,560 Speaker 1: this break, I'm going to tell you specifically what the 455 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,239 Speaker 1: instructions are that go back all the way back to 456 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:18,160 Speaker 1: at least seventeen twenty two about how exactly you're supposed 457 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,799 Speaker 1: to make a hand of glory. I'm going to tell 458 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,279 Speaker 1: you a little bit about the hand of glory that 459 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:27,320 Speaker 1: I have and then and then we're going to close 460 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:32,000 Speaker 1: up the show with some mental manna, weird stuff I 461 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,440 Speaker 1: like to talk about, and maybe some listener emails. I'm 462 00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,440 Speaker 1: Joshua wa Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on 463 00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:42,960 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal podcast Network, 464 00:37:43,640 --> 00:38:23,960 Speaker 1: and I'll be right back. Welcome back to the final 465 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:28,040 Speaker 1: segment of this edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio 466 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:32,480 Speaker 1: and Coast to Coast AM para normal podcast network. I 467 00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:37,080 Speaker 1: am your host, Joshua P. Warren, And this is how 468 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:41,799 Speaker 1: you supposedly make a hand of glory. According to one 469 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:47,360 Speaker 1: of the old texts. Take the right or left hand, 470 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:51,400 Speaker 1: preferably left of a felon who is hanging from a 471 00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:55,960 Speaker 1: gallows or a gibbet beside a highway, Wrap it in 472 00:38:56,080 --> 00:39:01,600 Speaker 1: part of a funeral paul and squeeze it well. Then 473 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:06,000 Speaker 1: put it into an earthenware vessel with niter, salt and 474 00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:10,960 Speaker 1: long peppers, all powdered. Leave it in this vessel for 475 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,640 Speaker 1: a fortnight. Then take it out and expose it to 476 00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,839 Speaker 1: full sunlight during the dog days that's the hot days 477 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:22,320 Speaker 1: of summer, until it becomes quite dry. If the sun 478 00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,799 Speaker 1: is not strong enough, put it in an oven with 479 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:31,440 Speaker 1: the fern and verveine, which is a type of herbaceous wood. Next, 480 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:35,680 Speaker 1: make a candle from the fat of a gibbeted felon 481 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:41,839 Speaker 1: with sesame wax, and use the hand of glory as 482 00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,120 Speaker 1: a candlestick to hold this candle when lighted. And then 483 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,799 Speaker 1: those in every place into which you go with this 484 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:54,840 Speaker 1: baneful instrument shall remain motionless. Now look the thing that 485 00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,959 Speaker 1: I have in my collection that is called a hand 486 00:39:58,000 --> 00:39:59,799 Speaker 1: of glory. Is it a real hand of glory? I'm 487 00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:04,120 Speaker 1: not gonna say, but it looks like it looks like 488 00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:09,120 Speaker 1: an old Decrepit dead hand and each one of the 489 00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:13,640 Speaker 1: fingers can be lit like a candle. It looks amazing. 490 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:19,160 Speaker 1: Uh and again, is this a real hand of glory? 491 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,319 Speaker 1: It's when I bought it, it was called a hand 492 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,919 Speaker 1: of glory, and I know you can light it. I'll 493 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,080 Speaker 1: never light it. But I actually bought two of them. 494 00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:32,959 Speaker 1: At some point, I'll show you a picture. I bought 495 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:37,239 Speaker 1: two of them. And uh, spring cleaning is coming up 496 00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:40,719 Speaker 1: for me soon, so I'm gonna be cleaning out some 497 00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,520 Speaker 1: of things that I just cannot fit in my collection 498 00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,040 Speaker 1: and stuff like this where I have like two of them. 499 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,920 Speaker 1: So I plan to sell one of my hands of glory. 500 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:55,320 Speaker 1: And that means if you, if you're interested, then maybe 501 00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:59,160 Speaker 1: you could you could win the auction on my second 502 00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:01,520 Speaker 1: hand of glory. Just be sure you sign up for 503 00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:05,160 Speaker 1: my free e newsletter at Joshuapewar dot com and you'll 504 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:10,120 Speaker 1: find out when I start selling and auctioning off some 505 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,480 Speaker 1: of the things that I need to get out of 506 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,560 Speaker 1: my collection. I have three storage units full of stuff 507 00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:21,920 Speaker 1: packed from side to side Florida, selling strewn across this country, 508 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,040 Speaker 1: and I mean, and it's not doing any good just 509 00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:28,080 Speaker 1: sitting there. So I'm gonna be selling, you know, a 510 00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:31,960 Speaker 1: decent amount of stuff soon that are like unique one 511 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:37,399 Speaker 1: off items before we run out of time. Let's go 512 00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:41,200 Speaker 1: to some listener emails and stuff like that. Oh, you know, 513 00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:47,320 Speaker 1: just recently, we had a terrible storm, a winter snow 514 00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:50,560 Speaker 1: and ice storm that spread across the United States here 515 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,360 Speaker 1: majority of the country. As a matter of fact, I 516 00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:57,960 Speaker 1: believe it broke records because I think I saw that 517 00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:03,440 Speaker 1: there were more winter storm warnings in counties across this 518 00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:08,640 Speaker 1: country at one time than ever before in all of history. 519 00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:17,399 Speaker 1: And a lady posted this on a group online. And 520 00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:21,560 Speaker 1: listen to this, she says. Even though I was skeptical, 521 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:27,839 Speaker 1: I ordered a tepaphone manifestation device from Joshua Warren, so 522 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,799 Speaker 1: I tried it out on the mega ice and snowstorm 523 00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:34,800 Speaker 1: affecting the USA. I decided to start small with my city. 524 00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,560 Speaker 1: We have in the past experienced days of outages from 525 00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,320 Speaker 1: ice storms, and I did not want to face that again, 526 00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:45,200 Speaker 1: especially with the weather so cold. Since I live in 527 00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,759 Speaker 1: a suburb of Memphis, I concentrated on Memphis and the 528 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:53,439 Speaker 1: surrounding suburbs getting sleet and snow rather than freezing rain, 529 00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:58,040 Speaker 1: which is by far the worst for power lines having 530 00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:02,319 Speaker 1: power operating continuously, et cetera, and lo and behold, this 531 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:05,000 Speaker 1: area was in the middle of it. But we absolutely 532 00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:08,920 Speaker 1: dodged the freezing rain which affects power lines. In fact, 533 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,839 Speaker 1: I looked at the power outage map and exactly ten 534 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:16,320 Speaker 1: homes were without power. That is way fewer than normal 535 00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:20,200 Speaker 1: weather because our grid is old. As you can see, 536 00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:23,719 Speaker 1: we definitely dodged a bullet. Look at the map, and 537 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:27,479 Speaker 1: then she actually placed the weather map there to prove 538 00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:32,160 Speaker 1: what she was saying. Isn't that crazy? I see these 539 00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:37,280 Speaker 1: tepaphones again. If you go to my website, you'll see 540 00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:42,280 Speaker 1: right now. They should still be available in the Curiosity Shop. 541 00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:46,320 Speaker 1: But I got this email from a listener named David. 542 00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,200 Speaker 1: At one point I talked about on the show that 543 00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,240 Speaker 1: supposedly a lot of scientists have said that you can't 544 00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:55,399 Speaker 1: really start forming memories until you're like two or three 545 00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:59,920 Speaker 1: years old. But I actually mentioned that I had memories 546 00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,000 Speaker 1: of being a baby and laying there in the crib 547 00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:08,080 Speaker 1: before I could even speak, And I said, I don't 548 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,719 Speaker 1: know how unusual that is. By the very first thing 549 00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,200 Speaker 1: I ever remember seeing in my life was cookie monster 550 00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,000 Speaker 1: because I opened my I don't know at one point, 551 00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:18,200 Speaker 1: I just know that I guess I had a stuffed 552 00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:23,560 Speaker 1: cookie monster, you know, like a muppet in the crib, 553 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,360 Speaker 1: and I just remember sitting there with this big blue monster. 554 00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:29,040 Speaker 1: So the first thing that I remember comprehending in this 555 00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:33,719 Speaker 1: life was something that was a fantasy creature. That may 556 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:35,960 Speaker 1: explain a lot. But I got an email from David. 557 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:39,160 Speaker 1: He said, memories from the crib. He said, me too. 558 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,160 Speaker 1: I remember being in the crib, he said. I could 559 00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,120 Speaker 1: not talk yet, but I did understand what my parents 560 00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:50,400 Speaker 1: were saying. It was frustrating as I struggled trying to 561 00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:54,600 Speaker 1: make my thoughts into spoken words. No doubt, just babble 562 00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:58,000 Speaker 1: came out, and I could tell my parents did not 563 00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:03,920 Speaker 1: realize that I understood them. That's interesting, don't you think? So? 564 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,960 Speaker 1: I wonder how many other people are like me and David. 565 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:11,359 Speaker 1: You know, it's funny speaking of childhood and you know, 566 00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:14,359 Speaker 1: youthful memories and stuff like that. As I sit here 567 00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:18,719 Speaker 1: talking to you, I look over and I have this 568 00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:24,040 Speaker 1: letter opener and when I I'm going to be fifty 569 00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:27,520 Speaker 1: this year, and when I was in elementary school. Uh, 570 00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:30,600 Speaker 1: it was right in the heart of the DARE program. 571 00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:37,600 Speaker 1: Dare It's Drug Abuse Resistance Education DARE to keep kids 572 00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:41,320 Speaker 1: off drugs, and they would have a deputy. A deputy 573 00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:43,879 Speaker 1: would come and talk to us about drugs and how 574 00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:47,799 Speaker 1: bad they were. And I'm you know, I'm sure DARE 575 00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:51,880 Speaker 1: is still around. But I have this letter opener that 576 00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:55,239 Speaker 1: I got an elementary school, and I'm holding it in 577 00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:57,000 Speaker 1: my hand right now, and it says DARE to keep 578 00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:01,080 Speaker 1: kids off drugs. And I just realized I have moved 579 00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:05,840 Speaker 1: all over the place. I have moved from Asheville to 580 00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:15,360 Speaker 1: numerous places in North Carolina, to Puerto Rico, Texas, Las Vegas. 581 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:18,279 Speaker 1: I don't know how many houses I've lived in. And 582 00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,520 Speaker 1: you just can't keep up with anything. You lose everything 583 00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:24,400 Speaker 1: or stuff ends up in storage. But somehow, this little 584 00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,680 Speaker 1: letter opener has followed me since I was a kid. 585 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:31,120 Speaker 1: Isn't that weird? Do you have some little weird object 586 00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:35,080 Speaker 1: and you're like, how has this followed me for decades? 587 00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:42,200 Speaker 1: And it looks almost pristine? I mean, I don't know 588 00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:44,799 Speaker 1: what to make of that. Do you have something like 589 00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:50,600 Speaker 1: that in your life brings back memories? Here's a mental 590 00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:52,799 Speaker 1: mana for you. That's what I call just off the 591 00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:57,520 Speaker 1: wall stuff that I talk about sometimes as I look 592 00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:00,839 Speaker 1: at this little little letter open that I had when 593 00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:05,040 Speaker 1: I was in elementary school. You know, obviously I was 594 00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:07,239 Speaker 1: destined to become a writer, so I was always into 595 00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:09,640 Speaker 1: books in the library. And at one point when I 596 00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:13,680 Speaker 1: was in elementary school, we had library time and they 597 00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:15,160 Speaker 1: kind of set us all loose. I don't know what 598 00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:18,080 Speaker 1: grade I was in, but they set us all loose, 599 00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:24,120 Speaker 1: and a friend of mine named Chris, he said, Josh, Josh, 600 00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:28,960 Speaker 1: come here, look at this. And I walked over and 601 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,560 Speaker 1: he had found this big book that he pulled off 602 00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:34,080 Speaker 1: the shelf and he opened it up and it was 603 00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:40,560 Speaker 1: full of all these sketches of naked women. This was 604 00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:44,960 Speaker 1: an art book, okay, but I'd never seen anything quite 605 00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:46,759 Speaker 1: like that, and neither had he. So we were just 606 00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:50,719 Speaker 1: sitting there, chuckling and looking through this thing, and all 607 00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:54,640 Speaker 1: of a sudden, this great looming shadow appears behind us 608 00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,960 Speaker 1: and we turn around and it's the librarian. I won't 609 00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:03,839 Speaker 1: tell you her name, and she jerks that book out 610 00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,000 Speaker 1: of our hands and she glares at us and she said, 611 00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:15,759 Speaker 1: this is not funny. This is not funny. And I 612 00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:19,120 Speaker 1: don't know if I've ever laughed harder in my life, 613 00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:26,160 Speaker 1: because it was funny, and I don't know why, but 614 00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:33,280 Speaker 1: I still think it's funny and it tells It creates 615 00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,040 Speaker 1: some kind of image between I don't know, some kind 616 00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:39,640 Speaker 1: of intellectual education class and the reality of being a 617 00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:44,040 Speaker 1: kid and the confusing situations you end up in sometimes 618 00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:48,040 Speaker 1: in these situations that they call educational. Oh well, that's 619 00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,120 Speaker 1: a mental manner for you. All right, folks, we're at 620 00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,359 Speaker 1: the end of the show. If you can close your eyes, 621 00:48:52,400 --> 00:49:00,200 Speaker 1: take a deep breath. Here is the good Fortune tone. 622 00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:22,880 Speaker 1: That's it for this edition of the show. Follow me 623 00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:27,759 Speaker 1: at Joshua P. Warren Plus, visit Joshuapwarren dot com to 624 00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:31,120 Speaker 1: sign up for my free e newsletter to receive a 625 00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,880 Speaker 1: free instant gift, and check out the cool stuff in 626 00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:39,640 Speaker 1: the Curiosity Shop. All at Joshuapwarren dot com. 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