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Ann Bolinger-McQuade – Everyday Oracles · Destination Unlimited with Victor Fuhrman

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  Speaker 1: My name is Victor Furman. Some call me The Voice.
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  Speaker 1: I've always been fascinated with human nature, spirituality, science, and
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  Speaker 1: the crossroads at which they meet. Join me now and
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  Speaker 1: we will explore these topics and so much more with
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  Speaker 1: fascinating guests, authors, and experts who will guide us to
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  Speaker 1: Destination Unlimited. Most people who are grieving have a story
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  Speaker 1: they don't tell anyone. A song that came on at
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  Speaker 1: exactly the right moment. A dream that felt too real
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  Speaker 1: to dismiss. A bird that showed up somewhere it had
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  Speaker 1: no business being. A text notification at the exact time
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  Speaker 1: they needed to feel something. They don't share it because
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  Speaker 1: they're afraid no one will believe them. With National Grief
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  Speaker 1: Awareness Day this past Sunday, Anne Bollinger McQuaid offers a compassionate,
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  Speaker 1: grounded perspective on what these moments actually are and why
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  Speaker 1: they matter. Her book, Everyday Oracles, awarded Nonfiction Book of
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  Speaker 1: the Year and New Age Book of the Year in Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: gives language to experiences millions of people carry quietly. Her
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  Speaker 1: website is everydayextradimensions.com, and she joins me to share her
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  Speaker 1: path and how the bereaved may receive loving messages from
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  Speaker 1: their departed. Please join me in welcoming back to Destination Unlimited,
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  Speaker 1: Anne Bollinger McQuaid. Welcome back, Anne.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, thank you, Victor. It's so great to be with you.
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  Speaker 1: And so great to have you back again. And we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be talking about something very special today. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to be talking about grief awareness. But before we
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  Speaker 1: discuss that, let's share your path for those meeting you
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  Speaker 1: for the first time. Please tell us about your Native
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  Speaker 1: American roots and how it shaped your understanding of nature
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  Speaker 1: and all that is around us.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, these things that I think all of
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  Speaker 2: us take for granted, you know, we grow up a
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  Speaker 2: certain way, we're in a family. We feel like that's
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  Speaker 2: just the way the whole world is. And I realized
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  Speaker 2: as I went along that things were a little bit
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  Speaker 2: different in my family. I never gave a lot of
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  Speaker 2: weight to my Native American ancestry. But I realized that
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  Speaker 2: I really have always known and interacted with the world
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  Speaker 2: that is interacting with me. Everything's alive. Everything's interacting. And
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  Speaker 2: so I took it for granted and lived that way.
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  Speaker 2: And then as time went on and I lived my
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  Speaker 2: life and I got older, I started to realize there
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  Speaker 2: was so much more to that. There's an interaction that
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  Speaker 2: the universe is designed to protect us and respond to
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  Speaker 2: our needs. You know, I think so many of us
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  Speaker 2: in the world of spirit know that ask for a sign,
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  Speaker 2: ask for something and ask for it to be delivered.
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  Speaker 2: I started to discover that the universe was taking care
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  Speaker 2: of me and I didn't even know it. So when
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  Speaker 2: I started to Pay attention to that. I've always been
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  Speaker 2: known I was an author. I've always been taking notes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a researcher. I started to document it all, and
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  Speaker 2: I saw these patterns that were so fascinating because I
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  Speaker 2: realized we're all safer than we realize because, yes, we
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  Speaker 2: ask for our spirit, but spirit's taking care of us
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  Speaker 2: when we don't even know that we need to ask
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  Speaker 2: for it. So it was a natural evolution for me
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  Speaker 2: as far as just... living what I was born into,
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  Speaker 2: the ancient wisdom of the Native American ancestry. And then,
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  Speaker 2: you know how the universe draws people to us that
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  Speaker 2: are important, and we are drawn to them, they are
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  Speaker 2: drawn to us. And so all the right people have
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  Speaker 2: been coming along. And these things have back, probably in 2000, maybe,
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  Speaker 2: or a little before, probably in 2000, let's say, At
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  Speaker 2: some point, I started to realize that there was a
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  Speaker 2: book here that I was supposed to document things and
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  Speaker 2: share them. And I'm going to cut right to the
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  Speaker 2: chase so we can then talk about the formula for
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  Speaker 2: personal oracles. As that book was written and the right
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  Speaker 2: people came around me, I wasn't connected to these people,
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  Speaker 2: but an editor, publishers came to me, and I could
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  Speaker 2: not publish it without the formula for personal oracles that
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  Speaker 2: I was explaining to people. So I'm going to give
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  Speaker 2: everyone here the formula, and I'm not sure I can
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  Speaker 2: give it again. But it's the universe responds to a need.
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  Speaker 2: Then it goes, what's a delivery system that's close by?
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  Speaker 2: They select a delivery system for each that individual, and
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  Speaker 2: then there's a message. So a personal oracle is obvious
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  Speaker 2: to us because there is a need, a delivery system,
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  Speaker 2: and a message. That's the personal oracle.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, we're talking about your book, Everyday Oracle,
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  Speaker 1: decoding the divine messages that are all around us.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And that was the inspiration.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and that was, you know, it was like my
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  Speaker 2: feet were held to the fire to find that, which
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  Speaker 2: I think is fun looking back, that I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that I set off to try to figure all that out.
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  Speaker 2: So then once that became solid in my awareness and
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  Speaker 2: I became familiar with it, I could really... quantify how
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  Speaker 2: we are all safer than we realize. The universe is
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  Speaker 2: designed to protect us. Wow, look at us in today's world.
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  Speaker 2: Look at us in any world. Look at us in
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  Speaker 2: every day. Now, then when my husband, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: skip over to those of you, some know my husband's
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  Speaker 2: body shut down in 2014 after a massive stroke. And
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  Speaker 2: he was very involved. NASA engineer, chief engineer in the
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  Speaker 2: first shuttle, very different type, but very supportive of me
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  Speaker 2: in my spirit work, read everything I wrote, but had
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  Speaker 2: his own life. As he passed, he edited that phrase
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  Speaker 2: that I brought him up. And I had always said
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  Speaker 2: we're safer than we realize. He added a word. He
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  Speaker 2: added ultimately safer than we realize. Kenneth didn't. No, if
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  Speaker 2: he was popping into black, he's a scientist. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: know what was going to happen. When his body shut down,
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  Speaker 2: he stayed and is available through electromagnetic energy. So I've
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  Speaker 2: just handed a whole lot of data to all of you,
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  Speaker 2: and we can discuss whatever parts of it are salient
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  Speaker 2: to this conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I just want to share a couple of things
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  Speaker 1: with you. When I was in the Air Force in 1975,
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  Speaker 1: I was stationed in Korea. And during that time, I
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  Speaker 1: would write my mother back in New York. We'd exchange
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  Speaker 1: letters on a monthly basis. And I had no indication
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  Speaker 1: that anything was wrong. And then one morning, this wonderful voice,
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  Speaker 1: which I would get in my head from time to time, said,
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  Speaker 1: you need to call your mother back in New York.
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  Speaker 1: She needs to hear from you. And I always responded
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  Speaker 1: to that, what you used to call the still soft
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  Speaker 1: voice within. Not the shouting voice, not the ego voice,
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  Speaker 1: but this wonderful guiding voice.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: And so I contacted my mother back in New York.
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  Speaker 1: And my mother and sister picked up the phone extensions.
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  Speaker 1: You'll remember we had phone extensions back then.
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  Speaker 4: Right, right.
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  Speaker 1: And they pick up the phone simultaneously. And I said, Mom,
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  Speaker 1: is there anything wrong? And my sister exclaimed, how did
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  Speaker 1: he find out? And what was happening was she was
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  Speaker 1: scheduled for major surgery the next day. And the voice
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  Speaker 1: told me to tell her. The operation would be a
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  Speaker 1: complete success. She'd have a rapid and pleasant recovery. Everything
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  Speaker 1: would be just fine. She needed to hear those words,
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  Speaker 1: and that's exactly what happened. And I'm grateful for that.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: And the other aspect was, when I attended the new seminary,
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  Speaker 1: the Interfaith Seminary, back in the 90s, the founder and
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  Speaker 1: teacher used to say, use an expression which translated as
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  Speaker 1: everything is unfolding in divine order. We may not see
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  Speaker 1: it that way. We may not recognize it. But ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: if you look at it retrospectively, everything happens for a reason.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. That's very powerful to me, Victor. I
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  Speaker 2: think so many times when we get information and then
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  Speaker 2: we find out later that that information doesn't look like
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  Speaker 2: it was accurate, when we shine a light on it
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  Speaker 2: the way that you just did, that that information did
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  Speaker 2: need to go to your mother? Did your mother survive
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  Speaker 2: the surgery?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, completely.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. Well, then I took it in a whole
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  Speaker 2: other direction. I wonder then if what you shared with
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  Speaker 2: me is another, maybe you could visit this, because that's
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  Speaker 2: how it struck me. Because I know your mother is
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  Speaker 2: not in her body anymore. So I wonder, let's just
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  Speaker 2: wonder about it. There is really no affirmative answers. But
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if sometimes we get information that somebody needs
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  Speaker 2: to have and we find out that that isn't exactly
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  Speaker 2: what was going to happen. But they needed to hear
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  Speaker 2: that right then for what was happening with them. Just
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  Speaker 2: worth considering.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Absolutely. So let's go a little deeper into this.
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  Speaker 1: How do you define a personal oracle?
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  Speaker 2: Well, personal oracle is, it's something that occurs and it
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  Speaker 2: could be, well, right now we're looking at, we're having
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  Speaker 2: them all the time and they're like a synchronicity or
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  Speaker 2: a coincidence. You know, people see coincidences that happen all
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  Speaker 2: the time. I'm going to give you one I like
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  Speaker 2: to use a lot that's kind of brief. The woman
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  Speaker 2: that drove into, this is a very lighthearted one, well,
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  Speaker 2: starts out with the one driving into a parking lot
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  Speaker 2: And she's crying. She's had a really rough day. and
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  Speaker 2: she pulls in and she heads her car right in
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  Speaker 2: to park you know in front of another car and
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  Speaker 2: that license plate says quit sniveling well she broke into
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  Speaker 2: a laugh because she needed that she needed to come
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  Speaker 2: out of what she was That's a personal oracle. That's
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  Speaker 2: a very simplistic personal oracle that says, I don't even
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  Speaker 2: go into how that happened, but look, she needed to
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  Speaker 2: come out of it. There was a license plate that
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  Speaker 2: said quit sniveling and she pulled herself together and the
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  Speaker 2: day was together. And then they go as deep as
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  Speaker 2: another one I love to contrast this, that one with.
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  Speaker 2: is another author and his name is Dr. Alan Hamilton.
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  Speaker 2: And he's got a book out called The Scalpel and
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  Speaker 2: the Soul. And he has an account in there. He's
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  Speaker 2: a neurosurgeon. He was driving in to do neurosurgery, brain
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  Speaker 2: surgery on a patient and a heart patient. And as
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  Speaker 2: he drove in that day, he drove by and he
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  Speaker 2: slowed down and he looked and there were vultures eating
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  Speaker 2: a rabbit on the side of the road, which is
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  Speaker 2: really gross. He preceded To the surgery, which was his
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  Speaker 2: first surgery. And he got there with that, having passed
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  Speaker 2: all that and being, I'm going to say it, he
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  Speaker 2: didn't say grossed out. He saw the woman. She was
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  Speaker 2: with her husband before he was going into surgery. And
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  Speaker 2: she would, I love you, bunny. I'll see you after surgery.
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  Speaker 2: And he canceled the surgery because they were eating a rabbit.
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  Speaker 2: And the man who was scheduled to surgery had a
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  Speaker 2: horrible cardiac event that that would have taken his life
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  Speaker 2: if he'd have been under the brain surgery with Dr. Hamilton.
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  Speaker 2: That's a very powerful one of when we're able to
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  Speaker 2: look at what the universe is showing us all around us,
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  Speaker 2: the personal oracles, the information that's coming to us through spirit,
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  Speaker 2: when we can, in the title of the book that
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  Speaker 2: we have out, when we can decode the things, when
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  Speaker 2: we get to the place where we just, it's a
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  Speaker 2: matter of fact, then we.
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  Speaker 2: Then they just become second nature to us. And we
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  Speaker 2: live our life in a whole different way, as you are, Victor,
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  Speaker 2: with the things that you are seeing and hearing and
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  Speaker 2: being able to decode.
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  Speaker 1: So you just said that these messages are all around us.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't most people notice them, or do they?
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  Speaker 2: I guess it's a yes. I guess, yes, we notice them.
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  Speaker 2: We call them synchronicities and coincidences. Why don't we pay
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  Speaker 2: attention to them? Maybe because we've never really, we've just
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  Speaker 2: always looked at them as synchronicities and coincidences. We've never
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  Speaker 2: gone deeper. You mentioned let's go deeper. Let's go deeper
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  Speaker 2: and look and see what's going on there. Is it
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  Speaker 2: a coincidence? Yes, and more. So I think that maybe
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  Speaker 2: part of it is lack of information. Part of it
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  Speaker 2: is fear of the unknown. And, you know, as those
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  Speaker 2: of us on the spiritual on our spiritual journey. It's not,
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  Speaker 2: how do I want to say this? I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: be really careful here. It's not for the fate of heart.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we have to trust, you know, and so
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  Speaker 2: I think that we build up our trust in the universe,
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  Speaker 2: in God, in what is underneath all this support. And
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  Speaker 2: then we can recognize these things and start making note
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  Speaker 2: and letting that be a major influence in our lives.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. You mentioned the word synchronicity, which
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  Speaker 1: Carl Jung coined that expression as meaningful coincidences without causal connection.
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  Speaker 1: And once I had my first synchronicity, which I would
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  Speaker 1: guess would be in my late teens, middle to late teens,
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  Speaker 1: the next one would come and the next one would come.
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  Speaker 1: If we start recognizing these, do they come to us faster?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yes.
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  Speaker 2: And here, let's parallel this. It just popped into my mind.
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  Speaker 2: You know how when you see this is taking it
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  Speaker 2: into the very... very ordinary level. But you see, you
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  Speaker 2: buy a red car, you see red cars. Now you
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  Speaker 2: see all the red cars. You start to do something.
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  Speaker 2: Now you start to see, oh, that happened. Oh, I
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  Speaker 2: recognize that. I can identify that as something else. And
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  Speaker 2: then I'd like to take what you ask about. Once
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  Speaker 2: we identify them, do we start to see them more?
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  Speaker 2: I like to encourage people to to collect their own
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  Speaker 2: body of evidence. If you have something happen, write it down.
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  Speaker 2: Even if you're unsure of it, write it down. Take
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  Speaker 2: a photo. We're all carrying our cameras. Take a photo
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  Speaker 2: of whatever it is. Write it down on anything. Make
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  Speaker 2: a note, however you want to do it. Create your
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  Speaker 2: own body of evidence and you watch it build over
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  Speaker 2: time and you prove to yourself, oh my, look what's
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  Speaker 2: going on in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. You know, it's interesting. A lot of times people
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  Speaker 1: will hear a song come up. on the radio or
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  Speaker 1: something or on television. And they recognize that song as
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  Speaker 1: being meaningful to something that has occurred in their life.
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  Speaker 1: And in 1998, I lost a partner to cancer and
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  Speaker 1: she and I used to love going in the fall
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  Speaker 1: and autumn and traveling to different places on vacations. And, uh,
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  Speaker 1: one day I'm listening to the, after she passed, I'm
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  Speaker 1: listening to the radio. And the song comes on called
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  Speaker 1: Forever Autumn, sung by Justin Haywood of the Moody Blues.
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  Speaker 1: And the song was about through autumn's golden gown we
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  Speaker 1: used to kick our way. You always loved this time
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  Speaker 1: of year. Those dying leaves lie undisturbed now because you're
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  Speaker 1: not here. And when I heard those lyrics, I started
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  Speaker 1: crying because it really reminded me of my experience with
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  Speaker 1: my partner. But also it was a message that she's
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  Speaker 1: still there.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: She's still looking after me.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes. And I think that's a beautiful,
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  Speaker 2: easy way for when we're out of our bodies. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we're immortal beings in mortal bodies. So just because we're
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  Speaker 2: in a mortal body doesn't mean that we're not going
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  Speaker 2: to keep trying to interact with those that have deep
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  Speaker 2: meaning for us and that we love. And that's beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, yes. How may mirrors and reflections act as
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  Speaker 1: personal oracles?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's see. Let me try to zero in on that. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to take it on to a very physical. First,
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  Speaker 2: when you said that to me, I took it on
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  Speaker 2: a more metaphysical. But we will see things that the
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  Speaker 2: eye is not designed to see. Like you can see
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  Speaker 2: images when someone is trying to, I'm now talking about
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  Speaker 2: people connecting from, that have left their body and are
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  Speaker 2: connecting in other ways. You will see things mirror or reflect.
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  Speaker 2: One of the ways that my husband reflects things to
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  Speaker 2: me is he will shine a light that will come
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  Speaker 2: in a window through the window and light on something
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  Speaker 2: that has meaning it was it's a time frame meaning
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  Speaker 2: or something that does so much so that and i
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  Speaker 2: this is something that there's a whole section in the
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  Speaker 2: book about basically shining a light a light beam these
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  Speaker 2: things that that mirror what someone is trying to say
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  Speaker 2: and when he did this one at one point a
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  Speaker 2: few years ago i had my camera and i was
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  Speaker 2: going is that you is that you kenneth and then
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  Speaker 2: i went take or he went i'm not sure if
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  Speaker 2: it's him or me sometimes but take a photo i
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  Speaker 2: took a photo And there is a laser light that
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  Speaker 2: when I took the photo and I took on video.
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  Speaker 2: So I took a photo and I went up, up, up, up, up, up,
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  Speaker 2: up across the ceiling. And I'm laughing because I didn't
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  Speaker 2: plan ahead and I couldn't do a back bend. But
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  Speaker 2: this laser light traces the light that he has shined
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  Speaker 2: up there. That sounds so wild. I did it again.
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  Speaker 2: He did it again.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And from time to time, you get a glimpse
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  Speaker 1: in a mirror, and you think you see someone there,
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  Speaker 1: and you look back, and they're actually physically not there.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: What is the connection between nature and personal oracles?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, listen, well, and I just happen to have this
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  Speaker 2: right next to me, but, you know, as a Native
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  Speaker 2: American ancestry, you look to nature for things, and I
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  Speaker 2: have a quote that I would love to share. right here.
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  Speaker 2: And I share it in the book and I share
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  Speaker 2: it every chance I get. And it's an old Apache storyteller.
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  Speaker 2: And the quote is that he reminds us the plants, trees, rocks, clouds, fire,
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  Speaker 2: water are all alive. They watch us and see our needs.
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  Speaker 2: They see when we have nothing to protect us. And
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  Speaker 2: it's then that they reach out and speak to us.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that a lot of us, let's start
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  Speaker 2: with clouds. When you're little, and you're looking, well, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people do it as grown, but when we're children,
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  Speaker 2: we look at the sky and we see images in
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: the clouds, and we at least identify with the image
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: and sometimes feel like that cloud image is speaking to us.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: The universe does work with us through nature all the time.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I read something the other day in my work, and
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: it had nothing to do with the work that I'm
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: specifically doing today, But it talked about calming down in
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: this time that we're in. And it said, touch grass.
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  Speaker 2: So when we can touch the universe physically or in
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: our mind or go into that space, that is one
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: of the key places that I'm aware of, that we
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: will have that spirit connection that so many of us
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: are so open to and have as such a core
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: part of our life.
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  Speaker 1: I used to be called, when I was in my
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  Speaker 1: teens in the 1960s and 70s, I was called a
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: tree hugger.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I love that.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Because I love to hug trees, number one. And two,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: sit against a tree with my back, my spine against
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: the tree, and allow the tree to act as a
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: conduit between me and the earth. And what a feeling,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: what a grand feeling that was.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: Exactly.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: And there you are on the conduit. And conduits are
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: something that will connect you to spirit and trees. Oh,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: remember the tree hugging period of time that so many
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: of us experienced? And think about that sap that's running
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: up against them. And that's a beautiful thing for us
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: now in the day and age that we're all living in.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: If you have trees available or grass available, go hug
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: a tree. Go run your toes through the grass. Yeah,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: touch nature. Let nature be a conduit for us. Absolutely.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: My guest, Anne Bollinger McQuaid, her book, Everyday Oracle, decoding
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: the divine messages that are all around us. And please
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: share with our listeners where they can get your book
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: and find out more about you and your amazing work.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Well, the book is available at any of the booksellers. Amazon.com,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: of course, is one of them. We have a team.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I have a team now. The team is Everyday Extra Dimensions.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: We have a website, The website is everydayextradimensions.com. And there
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: you'll find all kinds of information there that is from
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: the book and from future books that the book that
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: my husband and I are writing together about life after life.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: And those are ways that I would get on Instagram.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: And we have Substack now. So we're Instagram, Facebook, Substack,
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  Speaker 2: and Bolling McQuaid or Everyday Oracles or Everyday Extra Dimensions.
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  Speaker 2: We're just all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: Back on Destination Unlimited, my guest this week, Anne Bollinger McQuaid.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: We're talking about her book, Everyday Oracles, Decoding the Divine
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Messages That Are All Around Us. Anne, August 30th was
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: National Grief Awareness Day. Let's examine the connection between grief
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and personal oracles. How does grief open us up to
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: signs and synchronicities we might otherwise miss?
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Thank you for that question, and I think that it's
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: a powerful one because I think so often we can
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: look at grief as all negative, overwhelming, no way out.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: And I think that what happens in, you know, I've
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: been studying this a lot lately, networking with a lot
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: of people, and grief will kind of take us to
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: our knees, literally and physically, and maybe make us a
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: little bit raw, maybe a little bit more vulnerable. And
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: that appears to me, from my experiences and all my research,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: that's when the universe really will step in. And the universe,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: as we talked in the first segment, if anybody, if
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: those of you who are listening to that, the universe
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: is designed to respond to our needs. So when we
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: are down, oh dear, I do this sometimes that it's coming.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I'm singing, when we're down and out, you can just
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: recognize that the universe has your back. And so you
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: start to get these things that are coming to you, synchronicities, coincidences,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: and you start to see rays of hope. And when you,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I believe, that when we can ride a ray of
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: hope out of the darkness and continue to focus on
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: that ray of hope, there's grief, there's a beautiful way
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: to deal with grief. So grief can be very positive,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: very positive thing, and there is a way out. For
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: those of us that are suffering, there's also not to
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: gloss over the fact that community is vital. Our religious
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: groups and spiritual groups that give us that sense of
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: community are vital. We realize a lot of grief seems
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: to be that sense of being just so totally alone.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: When we start to enumerate the ways that we are interconnected,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: through the universe, through our people and reaching out. I
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: like this idea of even when you're just out about
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: in the world and you're at, I do a lot
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: of UPS. You're at UPS. I'm in line at UPS.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: You catch the eyes of a stranger and that stranger
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: catches their eyes with you and you really see each other. Boy,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: there's a validation there that defies words. The times that
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: we're open to that, where we can see someone, really
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: see them, and they see we see them. There's a
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: beautiful spirit feeding that I've experienced when that occurs. So
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: there's some things to me that when we are dealing
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: with grief, there are tools. Absolutely.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: And speaking of those tools, how do our loved ones
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: continue to connect through timing, technology, dreams, and nature?
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Well, and again, we've talked in the first segment about
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: my husband has his body shut down. He stayed connected.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: There is electromagnetic energy. The soul of the I have
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: studied all. Well, first off, he stayed. I could tell
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: he stayed. I was laying in the bed when we
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: let the life support go. He didn't leave. He stayed.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: I have never even heard of anything like that. But
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: I could tell he was still there. I could sense him.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: I could feel him. I much later realized reading a book, again,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: here's another book, and it's The Afterlife Frequency. It tells
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: us that electromagnetic frequency is afterlife frequency. That is also,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: as I've studied more, I see that it is the
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  Speaker 2: soul of the universe. There is a frequency level that
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: we connect to with people who have passed. So, through
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  Speaker 2: this electromagnetic frequency, they are our people. And we, once
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: we are on the other side, will be able to
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: have been out of our bodies, out still immortal beings,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: but out of the mortal body. And I did copy this.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: This came to us part of our team. We have
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: a team, the Everyday Extra Dimension team. And my husband
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: gave this to Kathy, who's part of our team and
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: ask her to give it to me rather than giving
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  Speaker 2: it to me and we were talking about chapter 4
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: of his book that we are doing it was an
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: alert to chapter 4 as we are working with an
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  Speaker 2: editor on it and he alerted us to electronic transmissions
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  Speaker 2: so we looked that up now remember that Kenneth was
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: when he was in his body a NASA engineer he
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: is pointing us all toward electronic transmissions. It's the broader
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: prospect of sending information electronically through wires, fiber optics, cables, wireless,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: and electromagnetic waves. Emails, television, radio, these are all examples
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  Speaker 2: of electronic transmissions. The music, I venture to say on
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: my own here, that the music that you talked about
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: that played, that was transmitted through electronic frequency. If we
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  Speaker 2: look at things and ground it through this information that
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: is the technical world that we live in, I can imagine,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go back to the woman who sent
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: that song to you, was aware of being able to
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  Speaker 2: use that electronic frequency to get that song to you.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: So it goes deeper, it is all It's a world
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: that we are all, it's unknown to all of us,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: but there are places where it grounds and you can recognize, oh,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: that's an electromagnetic frequency that is electromagnetic. transmission. These are
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: messages that are coming from me from someone out of
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: their body.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: And talk a little bit about dreams. How do they
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: come to us in our dreams?
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Well, dreams, I think, are so fascinating, and they're... I...
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: have friends who study dreams. I have friends who, I
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: took a dream workshop once. I am not a expert
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: when it comes to dreams, but I, so that I'm
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: going to just give you the one thing that's happened
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: to me. That is another, seems to be another frequency
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  Speaker 2: dimension that When we're out of our bodies, we can
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: slide through. Maybe even when maybe I don't want to
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: restrict it to that. Maybe it's a dimension that's available
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: as to whether we're in and out or out of
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: our bodies to slide in to connect with someone else.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Dreams are just magical. They're a frequency, again, that allows
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: us to connect with someone in a way that we
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: are not able to connect to when we're awake. Okay.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting. You had mentioned Kenneth being a
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: NASA scientist. And over the last few years, I've become
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: familiar with quantum physics and an expression, quantum entanglement. The
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  Speaker 1: idea being that there's a connection between atoms that can
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: be a long distance apart. And if you affect one,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: the other becomes affected, that there's no distance when it
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: comes to the transmission of this sensation through energy. I
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: wonder if that's part of it, too.
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  Speaker 2: That makes such sense. And I'm glad you brought that up. Years, oh,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: probably 15 years ago, I saw Greg Braden, who's another author,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: that I saw him in a workshop, a huge workshop,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: thousands of people. And he was doing like a show,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: like it was all electronic. He had on a big stage,
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: he had a television up there. He took two particles
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: and divided them and showed us, he was a scientist too,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: before he became a spiritual leader. And he tickled one
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: of them and the other one moved. I've actually gotten
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: to watch that. And he's someone who I've studied over
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: the years and have great faith in. He's been in
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: this work for as long as I can remember. So
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  Speaker 2: I've watched that. I think that that again brings us
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  Speaker 2: into our practical minds where we're trying to make sense
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: of of what's so hard to understand for me. When
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: you can watch him do an exercise like that, where
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: it is interacting, it was over a great distance. And
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: I remember him saying it didn't matter how far it was,
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: it would still interact. So it's all, bottom line, interconnected.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Do our departed loved ones also connect through our
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: animal companions?
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, don't get me going on animals. Yes, yes, yes.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: And dog, you know, we have a dog, I'll barely
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: touch on this, but we have Rusty, our golden retriever.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: The year after Kenneth and I got married, we got
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: a golden retriever. Rusty was our spirit dog. Dogs are telepathic.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: If you have an, and we'll get, I'll get right
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: off of Rusty because I could spend hours on this,
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: but Let me just say, and we now have a cat, Moonboy,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: who adopted us in New Mexico on a horrible, stormy night.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: So I've had, over the years, 30 years, experience with animals,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: and they're so telepathic. If you're in doubt of telepathy,
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: think about your, if you have an animal, think about,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: just think about when they need to go out to
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: go to the bathroom. I used to do things or
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: think of something and send a message to Rusty in
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: my mind. Maybe I'd say, would you come over and
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: lay here beside me? And he'd come all in my brain.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Animals are telepathic, and there's so much study of animals.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: There's something I'll barely touch on, that it's believed by
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: a lot of groups that animals can actually carry illnesses
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: for their humans. Yes, animals are beyond measure vital parts
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: of our spirituality. Kenneth has, here's another one that I'm
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: going to, I'm going to bring owls and hawks into this.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: When I connected with Kenneth, I was already connected. I
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: have a colleague that's a medium, Tina Powers. Tina, five
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: days after, or a few days after Kenneth's body shut down,
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  Speaker 2: I called her and said, Could you meet us? I
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: had booked a place to go celebrate our anniversary. He
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: wasn't in his body. I was in mine. Would she
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: want to come do like a reading there? She wasn't
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: able to do it. But what she did was called
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: me that day with something on the phone. My daughter
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: was there and she heard all these things Kenneth was saying.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: He was saying, I'm going to please tell Ann I'm
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: going to channel a book through her. He told me
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: later I was the scribe. He was going to be
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: channeling to me my job was to write it down
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: as a scribe he also then said that he would
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: signal me through hawks so i have kept my and
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: i've heard of that that was not new to me
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: but and kenneth and i had we never talked about
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: this kenneth wasn't sure he was going with was anything
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: we would do together so we didn't have a plan
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: But for him to alert me to that, I know
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: that in the kingdom, let's just say animal kingdom with birds.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: And very recently, I had another woman on the team.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: Kenneth got a message to her that he was going
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: to send me a hawk. I didn't get it for
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: two weeks. And yesterday, day before yesterday, I looked at
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: the dining room on the table. Outside is this huge,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: gorgeous owl. Mm-hmm. of things I want and I took
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: multiple pic it let me I didn't go real close
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: but it let me here's some things that I want
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: to lay in here for anybody that wants to have
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: these resonate with them maybe it didn't happen immediately I
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: wondered it was a couple of weeks I wondered if
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: she'd heard him right it was two weeks that time
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: frame that we look at as human beings I'm looking
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: at that going you know Sometimes we set a time
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: frame on things without even realizing it. And there's a
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: lot going on in our work right now. So for
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Kenneth to have sent the owl that day was absolutely perfect.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: So I'm laying a lot of things subtly in here
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: for everyone to look at, to see where we are
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: on rigid time frames that in the overall scheme of
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: things don't make any sense.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. You know, I'll share one more personal story with
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: you about my partner who passed in 1998. I returned
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: from the funeral. I had been part of the officiation
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: team on the funeral, got home. I was very tired,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: came home. I had two cats with her at the
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: time and I fed the cats and I decided I
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: really needed to take a nap. So I laid down
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: on the bed. I was face down and all of
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: a sudden I hear plump, plump in front of me.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: And I look up, and there are the two cats
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: sitting side by side like two little sphinxes looking at me,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: looking into my eyes. And then all of a sudden,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: they look up, up toward the ceiling. And as they're
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: looking toward the ceiling, their eyes start moving down, down, down.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: And when they came to the level of my back,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: I felt a hand rubbing my back, and I knew
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: it was her coming to comfort me. And I'll always
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: be grateful for that experience.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: That's magnificent. That's powerful. Thank you for that interaction on
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: so many different levels there. Absolutely.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: So I'm open to sharing my experiences. You're open to
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: sharing your experiences. A lot of people aren't so open
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: as we are. What's the reaction that people get when
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: they start sharing these things?
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Well, I think it depends. I think that it's intimidating
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: if you're in the wrong group. People can look at
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: you and need to go somewhere else because they're so uncomfortable.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: I think that we get all kinds of reaction. I
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: think that if we pay attention to our intuition, our
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: kindred spirit, oh, here's a fun word. It's not even
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: there yet or a phrase. our kindred spirit zone seeker
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: could could work in our favor you know i think
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: that people that are afraid i think i do believe
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: that there are people that are afraid to look at
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: something that is to them this far out uh there's
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: all kinds of reasons i think they might even connect
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: it with with unpure things. So I think that the
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: key in the way I'm going to answer what you
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: ask me is, those of us who are drawn to
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: all of this, pay attention to like-minded spirits. Pay attention
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: to energy that's drawing us. If there's something that says
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: move closer, move closer. If there's something that says stay away,
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: trust that too.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. My guest, Anne Bollinger McQuaid, her book, Everyday Oracles,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: decoding the divine messages that are all around us. We'll
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: be back with more after these words on the Om
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  Speaker 1: Back on Destination Unlimited, my guest this week, Anne Bollinger McQuaid.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about her book, Everyday Oracles, Decoding the Divine
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  Speaker 1: Messages That Are All Around Us. Anne, how may people
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  Speaker 1: become more intuitive and develop their senses and become more
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  Speaker 1: aware of the messages coming from their departed loved ones?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think step one on almost anything in this
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: world of spirit that we're talking about is set your intention.
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  Speaker 2: Set your intention that you want to do this, that
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  Speaker 2: you are capable of doing it, and then see yourself
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  Speaker 2: as a receiver of information that is coming from the
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  Speaker 2: other side. I don't want to call it the other side,
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: but from when we're out of our bodies, when we're
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: in our bodies, that makes that incredibly valuable translation between
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  Speaker 2: the physical world and the world that is connecting to us.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that if paying attention to your intuition
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  Speaker 2: and trusting it seems to me to be with the
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  Speaker 2: people that I've talked about, I'm just going to call
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: it a hiccup. It's a real hiccup for people. It's
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: like maybe all of us. Wait, is that all my imagination?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know who I can I credit
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  Speaker 2: this too. I do have a plaque and it says
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: author unknown, but it says intuition is evidence of the divine. Well,
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: just taking that sentence, intuition is the divine. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I've learned over the years that your intuition is the
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: divine speaking to you. So if you've got something that
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: feels like it's coming out of left field, that's random,
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  Speaker 2: pay attention. And I think I mentioned earlier, Make a
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: note of it. Keep it in one place so that
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: you can go back. Even if you think that it's
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: just not possible, keep it in the same place and
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: go back to it. And again, I'm going to bring
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: up the body of evidence that you'll create for yourself.
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  Speaker 2: But trust your intuition and follow it. Follow it like
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: maybe expand a little bit too to maybe like the
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: Mexican culture. Their scents are very, the scent, the smell,
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: scent is very commonly thought of as just one of
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: the tools. I do have in the book Cindy and
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Wally who were, when she got a divorce, she started
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: to notice that she was smelling this scent of cigar.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: It was a sweet cigar. When she had no idea
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: what it was, she tried to identify it with a
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: lot of different things, but could not. And She found
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: out it even was not just in her house. It
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: was falling to other places. She met a man that
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: she ended up marrying. And she said to Wally, do
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: you smell this smell that I'm smelling? And he said, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I do. She started to talk to her mother and
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: her siblings and started to ask them. They decoded that
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: it was her father reaching out to them at times
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: that they needed him. And he was doing this with
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: them in different cities, states, situations. So, pay attention to smells.
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  Speaker 2: Pay attention to, I think you mentioned earlier, I love
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  Speaker 2: the thing about catching. If you think you saw something
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: catch your eye, it probably did. Oh, here's another piece
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  Speaker 2: of information that just floated in. If you see it
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  Speaker 2: out of the corner of your eye, your eye is
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: not designed to see it. is designed to see, and
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: I can't give you the word right now, but look
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: it up if you're intrigued. Your eye is designed to
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: see straight forward. What is on the peripheral, it's not
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: designed to see that. Then there's the terminology for the
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: part of your eye that you see straight out. So
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: know that it's because your eye isn't designed to see
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  Speaker 2: that way. Also know that when you take a photo
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  Speaker 2: When you have an intuition and you take a photo
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: or say you don't even, well, let's stick with intuition.
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  Speaker 2: You have an intuition, you take a photo. There's an
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: image on that photo your eyes can't see. All of
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: our eyes are not designed to see everything that's around us.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Imagine trying to make it through the world with all
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: of these images that there's right now for the last
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: umpteen years, I don't know, orbs have been coming up
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: in all kinds of people's photographs. All kinds of things.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: The laser light that I described earlier that followed the
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: spotlight basically from coming outside that I was seeing that
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: Kenneth added the laser light. I could not see that
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  Speaker 2: without the camera. So here let's give some respect to
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: our cameras that we're carrying around on our cell phones.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: Recognize that there are things that will show up Pay
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: attention to them and then jump in and do a
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: little research. You might find out just what you need.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: I want to quote something that you said. You said,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: we don't lose the bond. We just change the way
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: we connect. The messages come when our hearts are open
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: and they're always loving. I think that really sums it
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  Speaker 1: up beautifully.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I've shared this with you before, and I'm going
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: to share it again for our listeners. My mother passed
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: in 2020, and shortly after she passed, I started seeing
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: this vision of circles and rings that she, I believe,
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: was transmitting to me. And it inspired a poem, and
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: I'll share that poem with us now. It says, The
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: path of great beauty in so many things, from atoms
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: to galaxies, circles and rings, natural wisdom that dwells there within,
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  Speaker 1: from naught to 360, that magical spin. We circle each
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: other in gravity's dance, as Gaia circles Sol, the solar romance,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: as Luna circles us in life-giving motion, drawing the tides
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  Speaker 1: and inner emotion. And the age of the oak is
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: found in its rings, as in woman and man and
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: all living things. And when the rings stop and life
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: comes to an end, we'll all circle back and dance
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  Speaker 1: once again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I have no, I adore that. That is so deep.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: And that is a book that I own. And that
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: is a book that we treasure in our library. That
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  Speaker 2: is so powerful, Victor. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you so much for your
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: kind words. in Everyday Oracles, you share that the universe
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: responds to our needs. And you sort of touched upon
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: this before. Is there something further you can talk about
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: with that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I can tell you an example. I'll give you
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  Speaker 2: an example that I feel is a appropriate right now
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: the year after Kenneth and I got married I And
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: my intuition said, go get a mammogram, go get a mammogram. Well,
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: my mother had a diet of cancer, different kinds of cancer,
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: but I'd never been worried about it. My mother had
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: a mastectomy. I'd never been worried about it. But I went.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't wait. And I wasn't panicked. I just went.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, well, my intuition said it. I did it.
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  Speaker 2: I went. I got a mammogram. The mammogram was minuscule.
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  Speaker 2: There was cancer in my body, but it was minuscule.
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  Speaker 2: It took a while back in those days. That was
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: in 86. Back in those days, it took a while,
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: but the excruciating couple of months before I went in,
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: I just had a lumpectomy and they got it. I
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: want everybody to know that that was in my body.
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  Speaker 2: My life is so rich and full. I have so
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: many Our family is wonderful. The life that we live
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  Speaker 2: is amazing. All this that we're doing. If I hadn't
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: listened to my intuition, I wouldn't, I would have, cancer
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: would have taken me out of this body. So I just,
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: for anybody that, intuition can save our lives.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to that voice.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's the voice. Yes, it is the voice, Victor.
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  Speaker 1: Or the image. I react to the image. Whatever way
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: you receive.
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  Speaker 2: However it comes to you. Absolutely. I just had to
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: laugh a little because I love that, you know, you're
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: known as the voice. And I'm sorry, but I just
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: had to, that tickled my soul a little bit in
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: a beautiful way. And yes, however it's coming to you,
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: whether it's coming through technology, whether it's coming, but don't,
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  Speaker 2: I think maybe one of the reasons I brought intuition is,
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Because we discount it. We don't trust it. Because so
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: many times there's, I did an article years ago called
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: Monkey Mind Chatter. I won't go into that except to
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: say who hasn't dealt with Monkey Mind Chatter. And Monkey
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: Mind Chatter appears to be coming from what a lot
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: of us would call intuition. So, you know, discern which
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: is Monkey Mind Chatter and which is intuition and follow
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: your intuition.
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. You share that ultimately there is no death. There
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: is simply a change of dimensions. Where do we go
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: when our bodies no longer function?
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: You know, this is such a great question. Well, what
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: do I know? But what I do know, what do
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: I know in the ultimate scheme of things? But what
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: I think I know, okay, what I know for sure,
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: Kenneth is with me. Kenneth is working with all kinds
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: of different people. He's with me all the time. He
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: said to me, I don't leave your side. Now, that's
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: not possible when we're in our bodies. When we're out
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: of our bodies, we are not restricted to one place.
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  Speaker 2: He's involved with all these other people, with work and
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: other things that I don't even know he's doing. So
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: when we are no longer restricted by our body, it
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: would appear to me that we go wherever. It's kind
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: of like when we're in our bodies. Now we aren't restricted.
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  Speaker 2: Where do we want to go? Do we want to
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: go to heaven? Do we want to go these other places?
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: I know people that believe that they then go to planets.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's a choice. I don't know. But I do
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: know this to be true. We stay. We are immortal beings.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: And that appears that our immortal beings... get to choose
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: where we go. So that's my best guess on that.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. What would you like readers to take away from
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Everyday Oracles?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and it's what I want to take away from
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: all the work. It's like if they get on my website,
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: here's the plug again, but if you get on the website, everydayextradimensions.com,
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: one of the first things you're going to see, and
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: it's what I like to end the interviews and everything
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: else with, we're all ultimately safer than we realize. We're
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: all ultimately safer than we realize. There is no death.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: There's simply a change of frequency. And in the world
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: that we're living, well, always, the world's always been a
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: wild and crazy place to live. But in today's world,
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: and this is 2026, in today's world, that's a nice
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: thing to recognize, to know, to find things that prove
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: to us We're all safer than we realize.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: And because we have just passed National Grief Awareness Day,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: I'll share a message for everybody. In my years as
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: an interfaith minister, I've officiated many funerals and many memorial services.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: And I've also done grief counseling. And one of the
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: things that I hear from the bereaved is, I wish
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: I had told them. I wish I had told them
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: I love them. I wish I had told them I
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: forgive them. I wish I had told them that they
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: should forgive me. Tomorrow is never guaranteed in the physical sense.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: If you love somebody, tell them today. If you feel
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: that you've hurt someone, ask for forgiveness today. And if
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: someone has hurt you, and I know this is the
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: hardest one, forgive today because tomorrow is never guaranteed.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, Victor, 100%. And may I add one thing
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: to that?
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: Yes, please.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: Apologize now.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: Call out their name. Find the spot that's right for you.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's wherever you are right then. Doesn't even matter when.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: If it's a place that you could go to that
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: you went to together, tune in to your hope and
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: your belief based on what we're all talking about, that
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: they're right there with you and say, I am so, hey,
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: I am so sorry for whatever it was. On a
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: lighter level than deep grief, I want everybody to know that,
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: you know, Kenneth and I were married, we've been together
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: since 82. So I apologize to him now on a
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: regular basis for things I did, like did, things I've done, like.
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: I now give our dog and cat lots of treats.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: I gave Kenneth such a hard time for giving our
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: golden retriever rusty treats because I didn't want him to
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: die because he was fat. I apologize to Kenneth now
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: on a daily basis. I sometimes like to call it
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: eating humble pie. But they're here. They're here. And chances
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: are that they can hear you. I do believe that
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: in my soul.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Anne Bollinger-McQuade, thank you so much for joining us
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: and sharing your wisdom and your heart.
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Victor. You're an angel.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: Thank you. And thank you for joining us on Destination Unlimited.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: I'm Victor, the voice vermin. Have a wonderful week.