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Speaker 1: A lot of people are having some weird dreams these days,

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Speaker 1: strange dreams. I mean, I'm getting lots of emails from people,

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Speaker 1: more so than I have in a long time, that

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Speaker 1: they just feel something strange. Are you picking up anything

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Speaker 1: like that in your in your circles. Yes, people feel

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Speaker 1: very unsettled, like they're on the edge of something that's

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Speaker 1: about to happen and they don't know what it is.

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Speaker 1: Some of it, I think is the ongoing effects that

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Speaker 1: we've had for the past couple of years. Is in

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Speaker 1: this country um being very unsettled politically, a great deal

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Speaker 1: of upheaval going on globally. We have economic uncertainty, a

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Speaker 1: lot more political upheaval, and we all realize that we're

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Speaker 1: tied to each other globally, and instability in one part

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Speaker 1: of the world affects us as well, and it does

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Speaker 1: create an overall underlying unease and a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: Um we we were not confident about the direction things

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Speaker 1: are going in um Whether disasters are very upsetting to

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Speaker 1: people because they are unpredictable and so people feel vulnerable,

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Speaker 1: and that that affects moods, emotions, psychological states, and our dreaming.

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Speaker 1: It really doesn't talking about dreaming. One of your books,

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Speaker 1: of course, one of the first books, the Encyclopedia of Dreams,

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Speaker 1: which has got got you and I together in our

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Speaker 1: first st. Louis episod zodes with those shows that we

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Speaker 1: carried on into so many others. But let me go

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Speaker 1: through some of the dreams that explain them to us, Rosemary,

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Speaker 1: in terms of what they are, that different kinds of

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Speaker 1: dreams that are there. First of all, we have what

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Speaker 1: is called prophetic dreams. What are they? These are dreams

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Speaker 1: that literally appear into the into the future. And we

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Speaker 1: do have the psychic ability to um perceive coming events

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Speaker 1: in the future. Uh and um. Some of them are

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Speaker 1: major events, catastrophes, disasters. Were more likely to dream of

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Speaker 1: big cataclysmic things than happy events. And some of them

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Speaker 1: are um precognitive dreams about our own lives, events that

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Speaker 1: are coming up on the horizon, things that might be

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Speaker 1: happening to us or people were going to meet. That's

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Speaker 1: because when we dream, consciousness is really not bounded by

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Speaker 1: linear time, where we're out there in another kind of

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Speaker 1: reality landscape, and the dreaming mind can pick up on

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Speaker 1: um the forces that are shaped in motion, that are

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Speaker 1: shaping up towards events. Now, this is what creates the

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Speaker 1: prophetic dream. Is it the brain itself or is there

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Speaker 1: something outside of the brain that somehow feeds into it.

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Speaker 1: I believe it's a function of consciousness. And of course

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Speaker 1: consciousness isn't limited to the brain. Um uh it you know,

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Speaker 1: the mechanisms of the brain enable us to think and

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Speaker 1: perceive and create vision, have memories and things like that.

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Speaker 1: But it it seems to be a function of consciousness

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Speaker 1: which is nonlocal, and that's been very well demonstrated in science,

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Speaker 1: especially in nonlocal healing and prayer and certainly in dreams.

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Speaker 1: The thing with prophetic and precognitive dreams is some people

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Speaker 1: we pick up on things like that. There seems to

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Speaker 1: and we we have the ability to pick that up. Now.

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Speaker 1: I think that by the time we pick things up precognitively, uh,

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Speaker 1: forces are already well on their way towards shaping an event,

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Speaker 1: forces in motion shift. Our efforts to try and pinpoint

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Speaker 1: been very successful Alright. One of the kinds of dreams

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Speaker 1: And the imagination is not the same as fantasy, and

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Speaker 1: ideas that come to them when they're in kind of

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Speaker 1: a daydreamy state. Lucid dreams one of my favorite kinds

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Speaker 1: of dreams, where you know in the dream that you're

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Speaker 1: having the dream that's right. And everybody has these kinds

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Speaker 1: of dreams throughout life, and again some of us have

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Speaker 1: to be very prolonged. A Scientists have studied lucid dreams

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Speaker 1: advanced faculty of dreaming that is tied into our um

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Speaker 1: very common in a nightmare to be pursued, be pursued

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Speaker 1: They just keep happening over and over again. We do

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Speaker 1: I think they're powerful and miraculous. They are, and I

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Speaker 1: power to heal? Is it God? What is it? For

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Speaker 1: many people it boils down to a faith. They have

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Speaker 1: Why didn't the healing occurred? Was this something that the

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