Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to coast AM on
Speaker 1: iHeart Radio. Albert Barbado with US. Albert was born and
Speaker 1: raised in Brooklyn, New York. Retired postmaster worked there for
Speaker 1: thirty years. His hobbies include Roman enacting, ghost hunting, and karaoke.
Speaker 1: He is also the owner operator of Enlightened Road Adventure Tours.
Speaker 1: His book is called The Enlightened Road, a Travel Guide
Speaker 1: for the Awakening Soul. Albert, Welcome to the program. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much, George. It's an honor to be on
Speaker 1: your show. Now, how did a great postmaster get involved
Speaker 1: in the afterlife a great postmaster? I was a great postmaster, Yes,
Speaker 1: you were. You know it all happened. It was just
Speaker 1: an amazing, amazing way it happened. I went through you know,
Speaker 1: I actually left the post post office during a dark
Speaker 1: night of my soul, and and that's when an all
Speaker 1: star arted. Um it was. It was. It's just an
Speaker 1: amazing thing that happened. So later in life, what happened
Speaker 1: to you, Well, I had, Um, I went through a
Speaker 1: mass depression. Um, you know, I was. It was. It
Speaker 1: was a whole fifty one years old. It wasn't fifty
Speaker 1: it was fifty one, because now I was in my fifties,
Speaker 1: you know, and I went through I became, you know,
Speaker 1: very overweight, I was fighting with people, had made massive
Speaker 1: anxiety attacks, making family members miserable. Became obsessed with dying.
Speaker 1: And with that you just had to study everything you
Speaker 1: could get your hands on. I bet, yeah, well that's
Speaker 1: that's what was going on. I mean, I realized that that, um,
Speaker 1: nobody in my family had made it past sixty years
Speaker 1: old as far as the males males go, and and
Speaker 1: I just got obsessed and it's extremely depressed. And I
Speaker 1: went to a psychiatrist and I was diagnosed with severe
Speaker 1: depression disorder. And of course the psychiatrist, you know, gave
Speaker 1: me the usual medication and that didn't work. And of
Speaker 1: course when I called the psychiatrist back, what do you
Speaker 1: think they did? They doubled my dough. Of course they did, right,
Speaker 1: and uh, and so you know, I knew I had
Speaker 1: to do something else. And so I decided that I
Speaker 1: was going to get into the yoga and meditation because
Speaker 1: my son was into that. And that's how that's how
Speaker 1: it all started. We could talk to a horse about
Speaker 1: the post office. We'll get into that at a later time,
Speaker 1: it'll be a different show. My father, Albert, lasted until
Speaker 1: he was eighty eight. His dad died at fifty and
Speaker 1: I could remember when my dad was fifty, getting close
Speaker 1: to that age. Well, how strange he was beginning to act.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he actually thought he was going
Speaker 1: to go at fifty two because he looked at his father.
Speaker 1: His father dies at fifty. He's going to die. It's
Speaker 1: a genetic right, he thinks. And then um, once he
Speaker 1: got the fifty one and then fifty two and fifty
Speaker 1: three and realized, hey, I'm not going to die this early.
Speaker 1: I'm going to keep going. And he made it until
Speaker 1: he was eighty eight years old. But it was on
Speaker 1: his mind for a long time, you know it. It
Speaker 1: was on my mind a lot. And and what really
Speaker 1: made me take the step into into getting rid of
Speaker 1: it was was, you know, my two sons. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not fair to them to see me
Speaker 1: like this, because I was I was mentioning in a lot,
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, you know, I can't put
Speaker 1: this on them. Yeah, you know, I didn't want my
Speaker 1: sons to think that they weren't going to make it
Speaker 1: past a certain age, and I said, you know that.
Speaker 1: At that point, he said, you know what, I got
Speaker 1: to do something and to change my life. And that's
Speaker 1: what I did. And at what point did you decide
Speaker 1: to write The Enlightened Road? Well, I took the What
Speaker 1: happened was my one of my best friends who he
Speaker 1: worked in He lived in Brooklyn, New York. He got
Speaker 1: he retired, and he got a job out in Vegas
Speaker 1: and he flew out and he decided that he needed
Speaker 1: somebody to drive his car out from him. Now this
Speaker 1: was back in twenty twenty and right in the middle
Speaker 1: of COVID of course. Yeah. And so for years I
Speaker 1: would take my vacations to international places. If it wasn't
Speaker 1: the Caribbean Ocean, it wasn't a vacation to me. I
Speaker 1: never never, you know, the US never. Just seemed to
Speaker 1: be one one of my places that I wanted a vacation.
Speaker 1: And so I made him a deal. I said, I'll
Speaker 1: take your car out to Vegas if you give it
Speaker 1: to me, if you give it to me to two weeks,
Speaker 1: and I go on a on a little road trip.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of how it all started. Well, Las
Speaker 1: Vegas is not a bad place for a little road trip. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and then when you started, when you were writing the book,
Speaker 1: you gathered a lot of information. I mean you've gone
Speaker 1: through a past life regression and everything else. You found
Speaker 1: out that you were somebody else in a different life
Speaker 1: named Anton. Yeah, you learned a lot. I mean, how
Speaker 1: much since since the days you were afraid of die
Speaker 1: in it or obsessed with dying, how much have you
Speaker 1: come up, come come on and learned? It was a massive,
Speaker 1: massive awakening. Um, you know it's it started with just meditating.
Speaker 1: And when I took that journey the day I left
Speaker 1: and I crushed into you know, out into the western
Speaker 1: parts of Pennsylvania, and I started seeing the scenery change.
Speaker 1: My meditations just just changed. Um. I was seeing, I
Speaker 1: was stopping at places and I would get out and
Speaker 1: I was meditating without even realizing it, and I was
Speaker 1: seeing things that I never saw before, and smelling things
Speaker 1: I never saw before. I would look at at you know,
Speaker 1: this giant forest of trees that spread out past the mountains,
Speaker 1: and I would imagine them as oceans. And then as
Speaker 1: I was meditating, I would start to smell the ocean,
Speaker 1: start to hear seagulls, and I was like, what what's
Speaker 1: come on? You know it was. It was just a
Speaker 1: massive change in me and that's you know, that's how
Speaker 1: you know, those meditations, through those meditations, throughout that journey,
Speaker 1: you know, made everything more intense. And uh, I was
Speaker 1: able to find out certain things about my life. I'm
Speaker 1: going to be in So don't I Arizona in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks at a life stage show, Albert and
Speaker 1: you went there. I'm going to be there. You're going
Speaker 1: to be at that event, Arcade Gray. I look forward
Speaker 1: to seeing you there, and they definitely come up to me.
Speaker 1: But you were You went through a hypnosis, didn't you
Speaker 1: out there? Yes? I did, Um, there was, Uh, there's somebody,
Speaker 1: Well it was through somebody that's been on your show before,
Speaker 1: Susanne Ross. Oh sure, she just was on great person.
Speaker 1: And this is how my whole thing started. Actually it was.
Speaker 1: It was through the synchronicities that I had while I
Speaker 1: was at home, when I was learning how to how
Speaker 1: to meditate, I was looking for better ways to do it.
Speaker 1: I just wasn't doing it well. And I started looking
Speaker 1: at some books, um, some videos, and I found her
Speaker 1: book Rise Up, and I fell in love with the book.
Speaker 1: It had all the science and math and stuff that
Speaker 1: I was still that logical person, so it kind of
Speaker 1: I wasn't tuned with that stuff, but it explained the meditations.
Speaker 1: And what happened was when I was booking my trip,
Speaker 1: I booked a I booked a little spiritual tour in
Speaker 1: Sedona because I knew I was gonna end my trip
Speaker 1: in Sedona, and and it was through this company and
Speaker 1: I was as a man named Mark I booked with
Speaker 1: because I really liked his videos. And about two weeks
Speaker 1: before the trip, I called up to make sure everything
Speaker 1: was still going on because of COVID, and they told
Speaker 1: me Mark had to cancel. But we had this this
Speaker 1: this this other person that can do your tour with
Speaker 1: Your name is Susanna. I said, okay, great, and uh
Speaker 1: and so I started looking up, you know, her videos,
Speaker 1: and lo and behold it was Susanne Ross of all
Speaker 1: the this is crazy, you know, and and you know
Speaker 1: it went on from there. We've become very good friends.
Speaker 1: And and when I got to Sedona, um, she helped
Speaker 1: me with. I told us some things that were going
Speaker 1: on in my life as far as visions I was
Speaker 1: having when I was sleeping and dreaming, and uh, and
Speaker 1: meditating and we did a little hypnotic regression and she
Speaker 1: helped me figure some things out. And apparently you had
Speaker 1: a past life as Anton who was he Well, I'm
Speaker 1: an actually an ancient Roman gladiator reenactors, right, And so
Speaker 1: it's something that's rare in the United States. You know,
Speaker 1: in the United States, you have a ton of Civil
Speaker 1: War reenactors. Um. In Europe it's the same amount of
Speaker 1: Roman renactors and so UM, through a bunch of a
Speaker 1: bunch of of of coincidences, I got into this ancient
Speaker 1: Roman reenacting and um, when I met the people that
Speaker 1: actually started this Roman reenacting thing, they had this this
Speaker 1: net and tried and set up and they when I
Speaker 1: went to go meet them, they told me, Um, nobody,
Speaker 1: you know, this is the armor that we use. We
Speaker 1: you know, we fight with this. We we we show this,
Speaker 1: but we leave that net and tried it there because
Speaker 1: it's very hard to use. And the first day I
Speaker 1: met these guys, I picked up the net and tried
Speaker 1: it and I started. I just it automatically came to
Speaker 1: me and they were like, you gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 1: And we put on a whole a whole four hours
Speaker 1: show throughout the day with me as using this net
Speaker 1: and tried it and I realized now it was muscle memory,
Speaker 1: and I've been doing this for years now. And what
Speaker 1: happened was I was having these visions in my dreams
Speaker 1: and in my meditations of this man with with long
Speaker 1: blonde hair just you would just walk by me and
Speaker 1: just stare and just keep going. And so when I
Speaker 1: when I met with Suzanne, we decided that she did
Speaker 1: a hypnotic regression on me. And it turned out that
Speaker 1: through this regression, I was able to to pull myself
Speaker 1: through this like portal and I found myself on the
Speaker 1: sands of the Rener in Rome and looking face to
Speaker 1: face with this man and he actually told me his name.
Speaker 1: He said, my name is Anton. We are Anton. Let's
Speaker 1: get to work. And I was like wow, and then
Speaker 1: I get sucked back in and it was just an
Speaker 1: amazing experience. And I realized then that's why everything came
Speaker 1: so easy for me as far as the Roman reenactment goes,
Speaker 1: because I've done this before. Albert, what have you learned
Speaker 1: about the afterlife with these episodes? As far as the afterlife? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you think? What do you think of it? Well?
Speaker 1: I believe now that that there is something out there.
Speaker 1: You know, I always wondered, I was always skeptical, skeptical, Um,
Speaker 1: I know now that there is there is something. And
Speaker 1: what you know, I always always also believed about time
Speaker 1: being not linear. You know that there's a possibility that
Speaker 1: time right now is is Everything is happening now, Everything
Speaker 1: that will happen is happening now. Everything that did happen
Speaker 1: is happening now. And what this whole experience that did
Speaker 1: for me was made me become a better person. Because
Speaker 1: if that's the case, and this person Anton is my
Speaker 1: past life, then there's a possibility that I'm his past life.
Speaker 1: Sure he's become my higher self, and to me that
Speaker 1: means maybe I'm his higher self. And so that's a
Speaker 1: big responsibility. And so it's made me become a better person,
Speaker 1: and I always think about that when I'm making decisions.
Speaker 1: Did you like him when you met him in this
Speaker 1: in this this momentum, Yes? And no? Really what was
Speaker 1: to know? For? Well? I liked them because I've been
Speaker 1: yearning to meet him and I knew. I knew the
Speaker 1: second that it happened, the second that I that I
Speaker 1: envisioned Rome when we went on on his journey and
Speaker 1: I saw him on the arena. I said, this is
Speaker 1: I know, this is it. You know, I know this
Speaker 1: is him. What I didn't like was the fact that
Speaker 1: he controlled everything. And I'm a very you know, I'm
Speaker 1: a control for you to. Yeah, I didn't like the
Speaker 1: fact that everything that happened was because of because he
Speaker 1: made it happen. And I kind of, you know, during
Speaker 1: my trip or turn trip back to Sedona, after there's
Speaker 1: an initial trip, I had an experience where I controlled
Speaker 1: the situation, and so that that's one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why I didn't like it. I didn't like the fact
Speaker 1: that he controlled everything. Listen to more Coast to Coast
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