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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast am on

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio at.

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Speaker 2: George Norri back with Anthony Hamilton, a former professor of

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Speaker 2: communication at Calalno University in North Vancouver, Canada. He is

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Speaker 2: recognized internationally as an authority on the art and science

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Speaker 2: of mental time travel. One of his books, Mind, Time

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Speaker 2: and Power describes the results of his thirty years of

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Speaker 2: research into how our thoughts and feelings shape our lives.

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Speaker 2: This work began after not a body experience at the

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Speaker 2: age of ten. He saw himself at the age of

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Speaker 2: thirty two and spent years twenty years as a matter

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Speaker 2: of fact, searching for an answer to the question how

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Speaker 2: is it possible to receive information from the future. He

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Speaker 2: eventually realized that all of us receive information from the

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Speaker 2: future constantly, but most of us are simply unaware of it.

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Speaker 2: Anthony Hamilton back on Coast to Coast, Anthony, how are you.

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Speaker 3: I'm great, George, how are you doing?

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Speaker 2: Good? Looking for this and what great work you do,

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Speaker 2: my friend? Great work?

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Speaker 3: Well, thanks so much. Thanks to you. You really helped

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Speaker 3: to spread the word of what I'm doing. A huge

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Speaker 3: number of people that come to me have heard me

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Speaker 3: on your show, So I have to thank you for

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Speaker 3: helping me get the message out.

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Speaker 2: How do we know about receiving information from the future,

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Speaker 2: How does that happen?

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Speaker 3: Well, where can I begin?

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: What happened to me, of course, was I had a

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Speaker 3: dream when I was a kid, and I saw myself

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Speaker 3: at the age of thirty two, and as I got

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Speaker 3: into my late twenties, more and more of that dream

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Speaker 3: started to come true. So I eventually put together, after

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Speaker 3: twenty years of research, a theory which is widely known

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Speaker 3: as quantum consciousness. It's a way of describing the way

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Speaker 3: the mind works using the principles of quantum physics, which

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Speaker 3: is a departure from the way we normally think of

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Speaker 3: how the mind works, which is based on Newtonian physics. Well,

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Speaker 3: of course, in Newtonian physics, you can't know anything about

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Speaker 3: the future because the future hasn't happened yet, and they

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Speaker 3: assume people that, you know, all of us have grown

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Speaker 3: up with this Newtonian model that says our presence is

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Speaker 3: created by the past. Well, Einstein came along over one

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Speaker 3: hundred years ago now and said, you know, according to

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Speaker 3: his mathematical equations of relativity and quantum mechanics, it's just

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Speaker 3: as possible that the future influences the present as much

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Speaker 3: or more than the past does. So this gave me

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Speaker 3: some insight into understanding this dream that I had, because

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Speaker 3: what I was doing at the time was I had

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Speaker 3: taken some training in visualization, law of attraction, and something

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Speaker 3: called silver mind control. I remember that, so I became

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Speaker 3: pretty good at using my imagination and visualizing my goals, right,

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Speaker 3: this is what I was using it for, helping me

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Speaker 3: make my goals come true. And during one of these

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Speaker 3: sessions where I was just you know, visualizing, I decided

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Speaker 3: to go back and try and remember more about my past.

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Speaker 3: Because my past was more or less a blank to me.

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Speaker 3: You know, I couldn't remember too much about my childhood.

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Speaker 3: So I'd been used to doing these twenty minute visualization

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Speaker 3: I thought, well, I'll just spend some time exploring my past.

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Speaker 3: And during one of these visualization exercises, I remembered having

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Speaker 3: this dream at the age of ten. And here I

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Speaker 3: lot of the stuff that was happening in my life

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Speaker 3: now was happening that I had seen in this dream, Right,

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Speaker 3: So I thought, well, wait a second. Now, nobody argues

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Speaker 3: that's perfectly normal. That's what we call memory.

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Speaker 3: But what if memory is not a recording? What if

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Speaker 3: it's a connection? Right? Because one of the things that

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Speaker 3: I had read from Einstein studying some of his work

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Speaker 3: Like right now, I'm connected to you, and you're connected

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Speaker 3: That answered my question as to how it's possible to

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Speaker 3: which according to what I understood from Einstein's work, it's

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Speaker 3: at the time I was teaching people, I was leading

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Speaker 3: visualization skills. Close your eyes, imagine yourself in the future,

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Speaker 3: see yourself achieving this goal, you know. And so I thought, well,

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Speaker 3: if memory is really a connection, then goal setting must

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Speaker 3: be a connection too. This explains why people that set

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Speaker 3: they use that future as a source of information. So

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Speaker 3: So I've been thinking about this now and teaching people

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Speaker 3: these principles for you know, the last forty five years,

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Speaker 3: and what I've come to believe is that literally every

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Speaker 3: thought we have is a connection. It's a connection into

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Speaker 3: of course, according to quantum physics, there's a whole spectrum

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Speaker 3: Some of which happened and we experience them. So that's

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Speaker 3: our timeline through the physical world. You know, I can

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Speaker 3: of things that might have happened but didn't. And when

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Speaker 3: I can imagine myself driving downtown and going to disappointment. Well,

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Speaker 3: unless something interferes with that, that's going to happen. That's

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Speaker 3: going to be a physical event. I'm going to get

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Speaker 2: But do you know the outcome of the meeting.

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Speaker 3: I don't do I because it's a crab shoot. You know,

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Speaker 3: there's so many possibilities that could happen tomorrow. People could

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Speaker 3: You know, we go to work every day, we do

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Speaker 3: any power. But the thing is, when you focus on

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Speaker 3: whether it's finding a new job, buying a new car,

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Speaker 3: writing another book, starting a business. When something is important

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Speaker 3: you can take steps to achieve that goal. So these,

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Speaker 3: to me is information from the future. But we don't

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Speaker 3: of a goal as a connection, right. We don't think

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Speaker 3: we're fish in the sea of thought, and we don't

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Speaker 2: If we're aware of it, Anthony, can we tap into

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Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely, absolutely. Like I say, if you are a

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Speaker 3: perhaps laid out in advance. You know where you're going

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Speaker 3: the possible future, as I would call it. But if

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Speaker 3: less unfold as you expect. But at any particular show,

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Speaker 2: Right, I've been lucky a little bit there.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure you. I'm sure you are. And of course

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Speaker 3: You know, more or less. What we expect is what

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Speaker 2: How can we utilize the time of the future to

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Speaker 3: Well, the best thing that I've found is to start

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Speaker 3: and they can with practice, visualize it, work towards it,

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Speaker 2: Does it work that way for most people?

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Speaker 3: I think it works that way for pretty well everybody,

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Speaker 3: that most people, probably ninety five percent of people, don't

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Speaker 3: I'd like this to happen. I'd like that to happen.

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Speaker 3: But the people that enroll in university because they want

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Speaker 3: Because you can change the setting of your sails and

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Speaker 2: You compensate for that, Yeah, you can compensate.

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Speaker 3: You can use the that's trying to blow you to

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Speaker 2: What does consciousness, Anthony mean to you?

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Speaker 3: Well, consciousness, you know, that's a tricky question and people

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Speaker 3: to me, what it seems to be is more or

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Speaker 3: the way I became a university professor was just a fluke.

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Speaker 1: But did you.

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Speaker 2: Make those things happen?

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Speaker 3: Though some of them I did make happen. You know, obviously,

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Speaker 2: And I was asking you what you thought consciousness means.

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Speaker 3: To you, and that's right, So yeah, exactly right. Thanks.

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Speaker 3: So what I was going to say was, now, I'm

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Speaker 3: so my becoming a university professor, my getting my university degrees,

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Speaker 3: Well, it's a combination of both. Right. It's like if

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Speaker 3: I mean. It's like there's a thousand cars that could

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