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Dr. Pearl Maria Wilkinson · Vox Novus with Victor Fuhrman

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Speaker 1: Vox Novus, the New Voice, Vox Novus, the New Dimension,
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Speaker 1: Vox Novus thought and movement leaders who will share from
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Speaker 1: their experience and offer tools to help us navigate our
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Speaker 1: rapidly changing world. My name is Victor Furman. Welcome to
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Speaker 1: Vox Novus, the New Voice. How may the healing messages
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Speaker 1: of Edgar Casey, combined with naturopathy, holistic health, and spirituality
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Speaker 1: be channeled into an amazing healing practice. My guest this
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Speaker 1: week on Vox Novis, Doctor Pearl Maria Wilkinson is a
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Speaker 1: third generation custodian of the Casey Health Principles, a Board
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Speaker 1: certified traditional naturopath, colon hydrotherapist, certified holistic health coach, DETOC specialist,
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Speaker 1: and the visionary founder of Pearl Wellness and Detox and
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Speaker 1: The Well and the Way, a five oh one C
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Speaker 1: three healing and spiritual organization. A lifelong learner, Doctor Pearl
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Speaker 1: Wilkinson completed her Master of Divinity at Yale Divinity School,
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Speaker 1: where her work explored spiritual formation, pastoral care, and integrative
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Speaker 1: wellness leadership. Her holistic medical training includes a certification in
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Speaker 1: Nutritional Coaching from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, a professional
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Speaker 1: certificate and colon Hydrotherapy from the International School of Colon
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Speaker 1: Hydrotherapy and board certification with the American Association of Druglist Practitioners.
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Speaker 1: Her website is pearlwellnessdetox dot com and she joins me
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Speaker 1: this week to share her path and mission. Please join
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Speaker 1: me and welcoming to Vox Novis doctor Pearl Wilkinson. Welcome,
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Speaker 1: doctor Pearl.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me here. It's a
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Speaker 2: pleasure to be with you today.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Pearl. Please share with us your early path and
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Speaker 1: how it inspired your calling.
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Speaker 2: Earliest path and memory that I have that I would
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Speaker 2: say inspired my calling would not just be one memory,
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Speaker 2: and I think this is true of many people. When
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Speaker 2: we think back on our lives, there's probably a handful
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Speaker 2: of things that contributed to the person we become in
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Speaker 2: our calling.
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Speaker 3: And for me, I.
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Speaker 2: Think it was a combination of my family's deep spiritual,
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Speaker 2: mystical and religious pursuits and that we were very involved
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Speaker 2: as a family. And I know we'll probably talk about
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Speaker 2: this more, but in the readings of Edgar Casey, we're
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Speaker 2: also heavily involved in the charismatic movement of the Earth eighties.
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Speaker 2: In the Bronx. I grew up in the western northwestern
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Speaker 2: area of the Bronx right off of Broadway, and our
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Speaker 2: local Catholic church was part of a Spanish speaking charismatic
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Speaker 2: movement called a Movimento Charismatico, and this was a really
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Speaker 2: fervent movement of people speaking, seeking the Holy Spirit and
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Speaker 2: seeking a deeper experience of God within a more traditional
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Speaker 2: religious setting. And then outside of that, my mother's involvement
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Speaker 2: alongside those religious activities with the Edgar Casey readings, which
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Speaker 2: is more which is truly more mystical based through a
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Speaker 2: search for God material and so I had this incredibly
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Speaker 2: rich panopy of just in insights and expression and exposure
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Speaker 2: to all sorts of movements toward God, if you will,
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Speaker 2: And that alongside my mother and my grandmother is practicing
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Speaker 2: the health wisdom from the Edgar Casey readings just made
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Speaker 2: me very aware of things like diet and nutrition and
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Speaker 2: juicing and alkalinity. Way before these were things that we
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Speaker 2: spoke about in everyday society. And to boot, my mother
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Speaker 2: would get us on the train on the one train
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Speaker 2: where we grew up in that northwest section of the Bronx,
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Speaker 2: right next to Riverdale, and we'd get on the one
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Speaker 2: train and we'd go all the way down to Fourteenth
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Speaker 2: Street to get to one of the only health food
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Speaker 2: stores existing in New York City back in the late
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Speaker 2: seventies and early eighties. And it was a market that
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Speaker 2: still is in existence down in that Chelsea area. It
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Speaker 2: is called Integral Yoga, and it was a health food
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Speaker 2: store that was attached to a yoga philosophy and yoga
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Speaker 2: training and meditation and development center from a more Eastern background.
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Speaker 2: But that's just to say that we really had to
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Speaker 2: spend some time and energy to acquire and go and
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Speaker 2: find the foods that would really help us to practice
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Speaker 2: the kind of diet that my mother and grandmother were
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Speaker 2: studying through the Edgar Qesy readings and really putting the
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Speaker 2: highest quality foods in our body. And so if you
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Speaker 2: can imagine, we were a family of four at the time,
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Speaker 2: all on the train to get to a health food store.
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Speaker 2: From my earliest days, maybe even before I could walk,
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Speaker 2: that left quite an impression on me that health was
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Speaker 2: really important and that care of the body and care
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Speaker 2: of the diet were paramount. And I grew up in
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Speaker 2: a world where this was very much normal and just
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Speaker 2: what we did. We made our own peanut butter inside
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Speaker 2: of integral yoga by grinding the peanuts before our very eyes,
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Speaker 2: and we were fascinated as children. You might liken it
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Speaker 2: to the glow in the children if you know the
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Speaker 2: movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the old from the eighties,
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Speaker 2: when all the children go into the candy shop to
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Speaker 2: be with the candyman and get their chocolate. It's like
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Speaker 2: there's wonder and awe in the eyes of these children
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Speaker 2: because he is supplying such a wonderful experience through their chocolate.
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Speaker 2: For me, it was the health foodstore and little carab
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Speaker 2: treats that we were able to get when we visit
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Speaker 2: the health foodstore and serve our own honey because we
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Speaker 2: were buying honey that was essentially available in bulk, and
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Speaker 2: we'd pour it out of the dispenser into our plastic
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Speaker 2: container where they'd weigh at the front of the store.
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Speaker 2: So just little things that I was exposed to that
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Speaker 2: brought a sense of wonder and magic and freedom and
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Speaker 2: expansiveness into the vibration of my experience from my youngest
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Speaker 2: and earliest days. I mean, that really left quite an
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Speaker 2: impression on me, and I was aware that there were
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Speaker 2: ways of being and even though I wouldn't have known
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Speaker 2: the word attonement, but there were essentially ways of eating
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Speaker 2: and being that would allow our bodies and our lives
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Speaker 2: to come into greater attonment with the divine forces. And
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Speaker 2: one of the ways as a child I experienced the
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Speaker 2: divine was in a sense of magic and wonder and
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Speaker 2: I think that's something I still experience and very much
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Speaker 2: inspired my calling. And again this was happening through a
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Speaker 2: multitude of experiences.
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Speaker 1: Just for my edification. I remember years ago speaking with
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Speaker 1: someone about the charismatic movement and they used to say,
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Speaker 1: there's the charisma and also the arigma. Do you know
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Speaker 1: what that is?
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Speaker 4: The argma.
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Speaker 2: Wow, So you're really bringing me back to my dividity
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Speaker 2: school days. You know, it's been a little while that
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Speaker 2: I've had to talk about charigma. So basically, the charisma
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Speaker 2: of the Holy Spirit, or as we look at it,
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Speaker 2: are the charisms which are truly the gifts that one
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Speaker 2: may receive from spending time in the presence of the
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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, whether we call that a formal baptism of
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Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit or simply just being in experience of
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Speaker 2: praying in the Holy Spirit. There are many ways of
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Speaker 2: terming it, but the charisms can be bestowed on those
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Speaker 2: who go before the Holy Spirit and essentially make themselves
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Speaker 2: available to receive an experience of the Holy Spirit that
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Speaker 2: might just naturally happen and accompanied by receiving the gifts. Okay,
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Speaker 2: the charigma is really the core announcement of the gospel
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Speaker 2: and is also a bold public declaration of the calling
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Speaker 2: to profess faith and essentially face about the life of Jesus,
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Speaker 2: his death and resurrection. You know, this is such a
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Speaker 2: powerful We might even think of charigma as a form
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Speaker 2: of evangelism, but when somebody is really caught up in
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Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit, it's expressed almost as a fire. And
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Speaker 2: we think of, you know, the morning of Pentecost where
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Speaker 2: the disciples were in an upper room and bystanders even
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Speaker 2: thought they were drunk, and they were at that moment
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Speaker 2: speaking in tongues. Of course, we know that is a
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Speaker 2: different gift of the Holy Spirit. But the point is
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Speaker 2: is that there is a boldness that generally accompanies the charigma,
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Speaker 2: which makes it a specific form of evangelization and a
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Speaker 2: movement of the Holy Spirit that usually the bystanderds and
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Speaker 2: onlookers will know is different than their everyday lives. And
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Speaker 2: that's certainly been true for me both up you know,
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Speaker 2: my upbringing as a girl, and even today, when I'm
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Speaker 2: in a space and there is a bold movement of
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Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit, it's unlike anything else I've ever seen
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Speaker 2: or known.
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Speaker 1: Beautiful. Thank you for sharing that. It's wonderful. Thank you
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Speaker 1: tell us a little bit more about how your spiritual
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Speaker 1: calling led you to colleges and other institutions of divine calling.
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Speaker 2: I did my undergraduate work at Amherst College, and that
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Speaker 2: is a liberal arts college that does not involve itself
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Speaker 2: a whole lot in religious studies or spiritual phenomena or
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Speaker 2: even New Age topics. And I realized that then that
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Speaker 2: if I wanted to have a more holistic experience, I
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Speaker 2: would have to seek out a very different kind of education.
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Speaker 2: And so in my early twenties, I started to travel
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Speaker 2: the world, and I spent quite a bit of time
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Speaker 2: in Latin America. I spent quite a been a time
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Speaker 2: also in Europe, and I didn't know it at the time,
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Speaker 2: but I was searching to be able to find a match.
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Speaker 2: I was looking for parody between what I knew was
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Speaker 2: the best of the best, that i'd learned in my
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Speaker 2: own home and what I was seeing in the outer world.
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Speaker 2: And I didn't know what I was searching for, but
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Speaker 2: I know I was looking for the experience of God
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Speaker 2: in the nations, and I was looking for the experience
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Speaker 2: of God in other parts of the world to kind
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Speaker 2: of almost feel that I could make some harmony or
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Speaker 2: create some evenness between my internal world, my upbringing, and
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Speaker 2: what I was experiencing as a young person. And so
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Speaker 2: that led me on this vast search and brought me
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Speaker 2: down all sorts of roads and into all sorts of experiences,
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Speaker 2: some of them better than others. And I kind of
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Speaker 2: went down one path, and one path led me to
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Speaker 2: a community called the Marieapolis, which happens to be a
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Speaker 2: Catholic community of people who are heavily steeped in a
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Speaker 2: devotion to Mother Mary, the blessed Virgin Mother Mary. And
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Speaker 2: they're living in these little Marian communities called Marieapolis's. And
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Speaker 2: I visited a Manteapolis and I spent time there, and
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Speaker 2: many of the young women there were essentially preparing to
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Speaker 2: become novitiates and considering or contemplate devoting their life to
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Speaker 2: becoming nuns within this order and I said, Okay, this
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Speaker 2: is not for me. I'm not ready to become a nun.
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Speaker 2: Although I had really grappled with the question, and I
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Speaker 2: had truly searched my heart a number of times. And
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Speaker 2: if I found a community who I think was also
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Speaker 2: studying the Ksey readings, it very nearly could have happened
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Speaker 2: that I would have become a nun. But because of
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Speaker 2: the and safe for the Casey readings, I couldn't find
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Speaker 2: that match, even in experiences like the Madeapolis. I'd also
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Speaker 2: been to London and I was studying under a lama
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Speaker 2: who was directly involved with the Dali Lama, and I
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Speaker 2: experienced and was exploring the possibility of Buddhism. And again
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Speaker 2: I went in all manner of directions looking for a
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Speaker 2: match between the fire and the power and the freedom
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Speaker 2: of the magic of the Holy Spirit and the movement
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Speaker 2: of God essentially here on earth, irrespective of anything religious.
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Speaker 2: I was just looking for a match by rationally and
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Speaker 2: energetically of who I knew God to be as just
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Speaker 2: completely this incredibly loving, transformative power. And I couldn't find
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Speaker 2: one victor. I think that's what I came up with
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Speaker 2: is Wow, what I got through my education in the
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Speaker 2: charismatic movement, but also through the love of God that
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Speaker 2: I saw my mother and body and also her expression
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Speaker 2: and studies in the Casey reading created an environment, almost,
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Speaker 2: if you will, an oven that was baking me and
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Speaker 2: preparing me for life within a religious background that was
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Speaker 2: so great and powerful that I struggled to just again
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Speaker 2: find myself because what was so freely available to me
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Speaker 2: as a young child felt harder and harder to stay
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Speaker 2: in touch with as a young adult. That also led
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Speaker 2: me to get more involved with a spirit led movement
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Speaker 2: out of a church in North there in California who's
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Speaker 2: definitely come under controversy in recent years. But the church
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Speaker 2: is called Bethel Church, and they have these healing rooms
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Speaker 2: where people can come and basically soak and receive healing
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Speaker 2: in the Holy Spirit through a series of divine encounters
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Speaker 2: that they have curated and prepared for through a very
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Speaker 2: specific order and environment that's incredibly free and warm and invitational.
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Speaker 2: And it was back to in experience I had of saying, Okay,
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Speaker 2: now we're talking the God I knew in the God
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Speaker 2: I fell in love with as a child, was not judgmental,
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Speaker 2: was not rigid. Yes, there were rules, but the experience
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Speaker 2: of God, which is really what the mystic is after.
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Speaker 2: The mystic is after the divine encounter and experience in
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Speaker 2: the spirit or in God versus just the study of God.
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Speaker 2: And I kind of found a likeness through the Bethel
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Speaker 2: movement because I think part of what they were acting
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Speaker 2: was such a warm, inviting, liberating, healing experience. So I
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Speaker 2: said to myself, I said, Okay, they're onto something here,
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Speaker 2: But I still did not feel called to necessarily become
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Speaker 2: Bethel if is a part of or once was a
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Speaker 2: part of Assemblies of God or something to do with
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Speaker 2: that aspect of Christianity, at least in the US today,
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Speaker 2: And so I just didn't feel that I was supposed
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Speaker 2: to necessarily join in and adopt that whole ex church
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Speaker 2: and fellowship experience. I know many people who wound up
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Speaker 2: moving to Redding, California to be more involved with the
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Speaker 2: Bethel community because they were truly it was just such
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Speaker 2: an awesome and wonderful experience. And so since I didn't
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Speaker 2: feel a calling to join them, I came back to
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Speaker 2: my everyday life and I just I just kept wondering, like,
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Speaker 2: where am I going to experience more of God? And
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Speaker 2: I wound up settling into a practice over time. It's
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Speaker 2: not where I began professionally, but I wound up settling
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Speaker 2: into a practice that got me into applying some of
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Speaker 2: the Edgar Casey material on health and on care of
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Speaker 2: the body, and namely the specifically the care of the colon.
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Speaker 2: So it led me through the Casey work into a
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Speaker 2: profession in colon hydro therapy. And as I was practicing
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Speaker 2: as a colon hydro therapist and gut specialist on the
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Speaker 2: Upper West Side of Manhattan in around the year twenty ten,
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Speaker 2: actually I started in other centers in New York City,
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Speaker 2: low down in the area of Union Square, and wound
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Speaker 2: up settling in a private practice a couple years later,
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Speaker 2: by twenty twelve on the Upper West Side. And while
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Speaker 2: I was in that practice, I still felt there was
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Speaker 2: more for me in the realm of God's goodness. I
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Speaker 2: wasn't expecting it to come into anyone package, and I
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Speaker 2: was not being sofficiently fed by any of the churches
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Speaker 2: I was involved in.
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Speaker 5: It was the.
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Speaker 2: Experience of almost feeling like I was coming ready for
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Speaker 2: a buffet, but that I was being given like maybe
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Speaker 2: a thimble serving or a cupful of something that was divine,
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Speaker 2: and I just had such a strong hunger and appetite
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Speaker 2: for more of what I experienced as a child. That
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Speaker 2: is what led me, Victor all of this searching and
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Speaker 2: probing and studying and researching where could I experience more
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Speaker 2: of this direct encounter. Part of it was I was
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Speaker 2: going to and I didn't know it yet over time
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Speaker 2: develop more maturity in my own spiritual practices internally, and
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Speaker 2: the other piece of that was wanting to expose my
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Speaker 2: clients and patients to possibilities for divine healing alongside their
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Speaker 2: physical healing, and helping my patients and clients to know
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Speaker 2: that the two are really one. As we heal physically,
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Speaker 2: we heal spiritually, and as we heal spiritually, we also
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Speaker 2: heal physically, and there is no separating them, which is
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Speaker 2: another primary Casey concept that mind, body, and spirit cannot
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Speaker 2: be separated because they're all one. But I didn't feel
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Speaker 2: adequately equipped to teach on these matters of higher spirituality
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Speaker 2: and higher consciousness without doing some formal study, and so
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Speaker 2: I said to the Lord. I said, well, Lord, I'm
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Speaker 2: not married yet and I don't have children, so surely
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Speaker 2: there's something else you want me to do with my
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Speaker 2: life besides just work in my practice, what else could
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Speaker 2: I do? And I decided I would go to Divinity school.
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Speaker 2: And I started at a more evangelical and some would
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Speaker 2: say conservative seminary through NYAC Alliance Theological Seminary. And in
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Speaker 2: the middle of the night, I was way on a
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Speaker 2: retreat and it was with my favorite professor and his wife.
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Speaker 2: Professor's name was Chuck Davis. And while I was away
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Speaker 2: on retreat, in the middle of the night, I received
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Speaker 2: a dream and the dream was so clear, and I
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Speaker 2: was told that I was going to be going instead
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Speaker 2: of staying at that seminary, that I would be going
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Speaker 2: and essentially was being sent to Yale Divinity School instead.
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Speaker 2: So at that point I promptly applied to Yale Divinity School.
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Speaker 2: The application process was already closed, but I felt a
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Speaker 2: calling to just say, Okay, God, if this is you,
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Speaker 2: they're going to accept my application. So I picked up
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Speaker 2: the phone and the person on the other end said,
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Speaker 2: Monday's a holiday. If you can get it to me
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Speaker 2: by Monday, i'll add your application to the bottom of
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Speaker 2: the stack and we'll consider you for this upcoming fall semester.
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Speaker 2: And through many strokes of grace, I was able to
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Speaker 2: pull together all of my recommendations and transcripts and various
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Speaker 2: forms of study and application essay and everything else involved
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Speaker 2: in that and get them to the Yale Divinity Admissions Office.
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Speaker 2: And that was that. Within a few short months, I
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Speaker 2: was living in New Haven in the Yale Divinity do
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Speaker 2: a dorm apartments if you will, and I was still
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Speaker 2: practicing in New York City, but I was commuting to
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Speaker 2: New York City from New Haven, and my formal education
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Speaker 2: in the Lord essentially began between my time at NIACA
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Speaker 2: Alliance Theological Seminary and then at Yale Divinity School. And
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Speaker 2: while I still could not find the same hunger, excuse me,
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Speaker 2: the same sense of being satiated that I found as
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Speaker 2: a child within the charismatic movement of my church and
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Speaker 2: the Edgar Casey readings, I did find that my mind
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Speaker 2: and my ways of thinking about who God is and
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Speaker 2: all things divine and pastoral and theological, including church history,
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Speaker 2: were greatly expanded upon. And from that place I felt
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Speaker 2: that I had enough data to know that what I
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Speaker 2: experienced as a child was truly unique, and that more
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Speaker 2: people in the world would benefit from being exposed to
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Speaker 2: both movements that involved the Holy spirits and movements that
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Speaker 2: involved the reading the Edgar Casey readings, and that has
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Speaker 2: made me, both as a practitioner but also as a
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Speaker 2: co pastor and minister, a very unique kind of person,
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Speaker 2: if you will. That's just so rare that someone is
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Speaker 2: able to kind of have a foot in each world
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Speaker 2: and have no internal conflicts. Now, externally, I know many
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Speaker 2: people would be surprised by that and have all sorts
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Speaker 2: of comments, but internally, I'm absolutely clear that this is
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Speaker 2: the movement of God and that He makes himself available
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Speaker 2: to so many people in all different ways, in in
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Speaker 2: all different languages, and in all different kind of cultural
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Speaker 2: approaches that can even include mystical traditions and what some
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Speaker 2: might term New Age traditions, which for many people inside
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Speaker 2: of traditional churches, they would be put off by that sentiment.
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Speaker 2: But that's not been my experience, and I fully trust
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Speaker 2: who God is and the way God has presented himself
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Speaker 2: through myriad of experiences in my life, and that's how
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Speaker 2: I got to Divinity School.
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Speaker 1: What a wonderful sharing of your path and an example
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Speaker 1: for those who feel the calling, and a way that
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Speaker 1: everyone can pursue if they choose to that voice, that
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Speaker 1: voice that calls you to not only the study, but
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Speaker 1: the love of others, the love of humanity, which is
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Speaker 1: the result of all the work that you've put in.
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Speaker 1: And that's amazing and just a quick share. I did
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Speaker 1: not have as convoluted a path as yours, but in
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Speaker 1: my late thirties I had a calling to that led
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Speaker 1: me to yoga and meditation, and that led me to
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Speaker 1: energy healing, and that led me ultimately to an organization
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Speaker 1: called the New Seminary of New York, in which one
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Speaker 1: of the first interfaith seminaries in the world. That totally
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Speaker 1: expanded my understanding of the divine, our connection with the divine,
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Speaker 1: and really what our service should be to one another.
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Speaker 1: So thank you for sharing that story. That was totally beautiful.
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Speaker 2: Oh thank you, Victor. And Victor. I think one of
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Speaker 2: the things that really draws me to you, and one
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Speaker 2: invest in our relationship with the Divine, there is tremendous fruit.
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Speaker 2: A tremendous fruit is the result. And I just I
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Speaker 2: love that about you. Anytime I'm in your space, we're
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Speaker 2: divine expression and that is totally a powerful experience of love.
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Speaker 2: And so I do also experience the love of God
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Speaker 2: in your presence. So thank you, Victor, and.
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Speaker 1: The same with you, Doctor Pearl. The same with you.
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Speaker 1: Back on box Nobus, my guest this week is doctor
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Speaker 1: Pearl Wilkinson. We're going to start talking a bit about
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Speaker 1: her practice. So doctor Pearl, tell us about functional medicine
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Speaker 1: and how it applies to your practice.
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Speaker 2: Functional medicine in overall, just speaking in broad terms, really
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Speaker 2: avails patients and clients the opportunity to bring together the
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Speaker 2: best in the alternative world or a more holistic approach
25:58
Speaker 2: to viewing the body, both perspective of health and disease
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Speaker 2: and withinside that it also creates space for more traditional
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Speaker 2: Western modern medical approaches as well. So functional medicine is
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Speaker 2: a space where we take a look at the body
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Speaker 2: and the person from a very holistic perspective that's not
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Speaker 2: just mind, body and spirit, which is a good start,
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Speaker 2: but also socially, relationally, emotionally, and functionally, how is that
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Speaker 2: person operating in their everyday lives and how is their
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Speaker 2: health contributing or stymying the process of them getting to
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Speaker 2: live their best expressions here on earth. So functional medicine
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Speaker 2: to me is just a glorious approach, a glorious way
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Speaker 2: to approach our lives, our bodies, our well being in
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Speaker 2: that it combines the best of what we have in
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Speaker 2: labs and blood work and diagnoses from a Western perspective,
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Speaker 2: but then can investigate that more in a more circumspect
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Speaker 2: way and holestae And I truly love functional medicine. At
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Speaker 2: one point, I think we would have called this form
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Speaker 2: of medicine to some degree integrative, but the functional approach
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Speaker 2: is even a wider view, if you will, and really
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Speaker 2: bringing in that full person and then truly inviting all
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Speaker 2: parts of that individual patient to come forward in the
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Speaker 2: exploration and partnering in their health journey, so they're truly
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Speaker 2: learning about self healing in the journey and taking on
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Speaker 2: new ways of being responsible for their health, so they're
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Speaker 2: not as dependent on just prescriptions or surgeries or Western
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Speaker 2: medicine alone, where those are all and can be helpful
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Speaker 2: in their right respective uses. When patients and clients have
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Speaker 2: the opportunity and know that they can draw on their
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Speaker 2: primary care physician and to order labs and to assess
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Speaker 2: their health from that Western diagnostic perspective, but then they
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Speaker 2: can also have other providers and invite other providers to
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Speaker 2: give other angles. Now they're really able to make more
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Speaker 2: cohesive decisions and feel more confident about their health because
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Speaker 2: they're not waiting for something to be terribly wrong before
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Speaker 2: they're getting really comprehensive holistic health attention. So I hope
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Speaker 2: that explains functional medicine absolutely.
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Speaker 1: And the last time we spoke, you said this works
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Speaker 1: in addressing root causes absolutely.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, finding the root cause is what it's all about.
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Speaker 2: Especially in my practice, I can say that I never
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Speaker 2: want to just treat symptoms, because if I'm treating symptoms,
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Speaker 2: I might need to treat that same symptom for thirty years,
28:57
Speaker 2: and that place is such an exhaust question on someone's
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Speaker 2: life force and resources and time and energy. I'd much
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Speaker 2: rather get to the root cause, not just pulling babies
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Speaker 2: out of the water downstream, if you will, but going
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Speaker 2: upstream to figure out, well, why are the babies in
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Speaker 2: the water to begin with, to use a rather disturbing imagery,
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Speaker 2: the getting to the root causes is really about undermining
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Speaker 2: getting to the core aspect of why is this person
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Speaker 2: experiencing this disease, chronic or acute condition to begin with,
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Speaker 2: what is going on in their life and their lifestyle
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Speaker 2: that is causing this. We believe in functional medicine that
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Speaker 2: most things are not genetic. Most experiences of illness can
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Speaker 2: be reversed, and even if they are genetic, we have
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Speaker 2: a lot of control in the gene expression through the
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Speaker 2: understanding and science of epigenetics, which will avail someone to
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Speaker 2: the understanding that just because they may carry a gene
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Speaker 2: that has a propensity towards an expression of a certain
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Speaker 2: disease kind or type, that doesn't mean that they have
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Speaker 2: to get it. If they choose lifestyle, dietary and other
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Speaker 2: practices that help them to stay well, they can control
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Speaker 2: to a large degree their own gene expression. So it's
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Speaker 2: all about a root cause understanding, as you shared correctly.
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Speaker 1: Let's get to the gut. What is the gut microbiome
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Speaker 1: and why is its care important?
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Speaker 2: Well, I'll say that the body as a whole has
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Speaker 2: roughly thirty eight trillion bacteria living in it, both inside
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Speaker 2: the body and on the skin. We are full. We
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Speaker 2: are in a whole ecosystem walking around each one of us,
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Speaker 2: and the gut is the place where is the home
30:54
Speaker 2: to most of those bacteria in our body. The gut
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Speaker 2: microbiome is incredibly diverse landscape of all different kinds of
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Speaker 2: bacteria that help us coordinate our daily functional activities and
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Speaker 2: our bodily systems, from digesting our food, to producing enzymes,
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Speaker 2: to helping different organ systems to function, to regulating our
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Speaker 2: hormones and our nervous system. It's just incredibly vast, and
31:29
Speaker 2: research is starting to confirm what Edgar Casey and Hippocrates
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Speaker 2: pointed at. They both stated in their own respective ways
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Speaker 2: that all disease starts in the gut. That is a
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Speaker 2: direct quote from Hippocrates over two thousand years ago. Now,
31:46
Speaker 2: modern medicine has not validated in as much of what
31:50
Speaker 2: Hippocrates has said fully, but more and more research every day,
31:55
Speaker 2: more and more research is coming forward that proves that
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Speaker 2: the gut micro biome is responsible for so many different
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Speaker 2: aspects of health through for example, the gut brain access
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Speaker 2: or the gut heart access or the gut endocrine access,
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Speaker 2: and on and on and on. Every system of the
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Speaker 2: body is certainly impacted by the health of the gut.
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Speaker 2: Now I am in the line of thinking of Hippocrates
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Speaker 2: and Edgar Casey, who felt is a little bit more
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Speaker 2: forward than where what science is saying. They're acknowledging that
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Speaker 2: the gut microbiome is and the gut is the second brain,
32:31
Speaker 2: but they're not yet at the point where they're saying
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Speaker 2: that the colon is responsible for the level of health
32:37
Speaker 2: or disease in the body that Edgar Casey and Hippocrates
32:40
Speaker 2: pointed to. So the gut microbiome is an vastly important
32:44
Speaker 2: aspect of our health. It is in our large intestines,
32:48
Speaker 2: and whereas our small intestines is meant to be a
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Speaker 2: sterile environment and not process a ton of sugars, our
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Speaker 2: colons are incredibly active with bacteria to break down anything
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Speaker 2: and everything that comes to the body, or at least
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Speaker 2: it does its very best to do that, and the
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Speaker 2: better we care for it, the better it can keep
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Speaker 2: us healthy.
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Speaker 1: Is there a connection between the microbiome and higher consciousness?
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Speaker 2: If you ask me, absolutely, anything that affects brain health
33:22
Speaker 2: and anything that will affect the nervous system in the
33:25
Speaker 2: body and the endocrine system will absolutely, without a doubt. Again,
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Speaker 2: this is if you're asking me, well, absolutely, without a doubt,
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Speaker 2: affect higher consciousness. Casey explains that the soul enters the
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Speaker 2: body through the endocrine system. If you search the Casey readings,
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Speaker 2: you will find that Casey's perspective is that the soul
33:45
Speaker 2: enters the body through the endocrine glands. And we know
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Speaker 2: for sure that our cognitive abilities to a large degree,
33:53
Speaker 2: not entirely, is reliant on our brain and our brain health.
33:56
Speaker 2: And so if you put together our endocrine system, nervous system,
34:01
Speaker 2: and our brain health, you're having some of the core
34:04
Speaker 2: pieces of what make up our spiritual experience inside the body.
34:09
Speaker 2: And if you had a way to bio hack the
34:13
Speaker 2: body to increase brain health, increase the nervous system health,
34:18
Speaker 2: and increase endocrine health, then you are absolutely going to
34:23
Speaker 2: have greater access to opening the door to higher consciousness. Now,
34:29
Speaker 2: the next thing that will determine whether or not higher
34:32
Speaker 2: consciousness is gained is whether that individual is seeking out
34:37
Speaker 2: the thoughts and interest and aptitude essentially to receive higher consciousness,
34:43
Speaker 2: because it's something that is developed for most people. A
34:47
Speaker 2: little bit out of time. And that's why in Eastern
34:50
Speaker 2: traditions one of the symbols of higher consciousness and enlightenment
34:54
Speaker 2: is essentially the lotus flower, which will bloom very slowly
34:57
Speaker 2: pedal by pedal. It doesn't just bloom, and so it
35:01
Speaker 2: is a process. And when our gut microbiome is in
35:05
Speaker 2: a healthier state, and therefore our brain and cognitive health
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Speaker 2: is stronger, our nervous system is stronger, and our endocrine
35:11
Speaker 2: system is balanced through healthy hormonal function, we are without
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Speaker 2: a doubt more receptive and able to experience the divine
35:19
Speaker 2: and higher and higher consciousness levels of consciousness. And I
35:22
Speaker 2: will liken it as a simple example victor to an
35:26
Speaker 2: antenna system. If you have in a short antenna system,
35:30
Speaker 2: you'll only be able to pick up a limited amount
35:33
Speaker 2: of radio waves that are available in the ethers. They're
35:37
Speaker 2: out there, but that antenna system will not be able
35:39
Speaker 2: to pick it up. And don't test me. You probably
35:42
Speaker 2: know more about radio systems than I do. But I
35:45
Speaker 2: do know that if you have a bigger antenna system
35:49
Speaker 2: that is stronger, more robust, and taller, that you will
35:54
Speaker 2: without a doubt be able to pick up greater numbers
35:59
Speaker 2: of frequency and radio waves that are also available. So
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Speaker 2: when our systems are essentially prepared from the inside out,
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Speaker 2: our spiritual antenna is much stronger, and therefore we can
36:13
Speaker 2: access higher states of consciousness. You know, Victor, these questions
36:16
Speaker 2: are really getting me into the nits and bits, the
36:19
Speaker 2: nitty gritty here.
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Speaker 1: So what do we have to do to cleanse that
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Speaker 1: antenna or to cleanse the microbiome system? What do you
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Speaker 1: do in your current practice.
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Speaker 2: Well, one of the things we continue to offer is
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Speaker 2: colon hydro therapy. We're really huge advocates of colon hydro
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Speaker 2: therapy as a way to flush the intestines, to flush
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Speaker 2: the large intestines with pure triple filtered water that is
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Speaker 2: temperature and pressure control. So it's a very gentle experience
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Speaker 2: with all FDA approved medical devices, and we really endorse
36:57
Speaker 2: flushing the colon just the way you might think of
37:00
Speaker 2: oral cleaning when you go to see the dentist two
37:02
Speaker 2: times a year for your regular dental cleaning. You want
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Speaker 2: to refresh that area by cleaning it up, and primarily
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Speaker 2: you can do that with water. Casey also recommended using
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Speaker 2: a combination of baking soda and salt sea salt in
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Speaker 2: the colon to realkalize the colon. He also gave other
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Speaker 2: readings of using a mouthwash alkazyme, but originally Casey gave
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Speaker 2: a reading for a product that went by the name
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Speaker 2: of glycothymoline. I prefer a version that does not have
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Speaker 2: any sodium, benzoate or red dye in it, so that's
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Speaker 2: why we go with the alkalthyme that or alkazyme that
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Speaker 2: is sold by bar. Nonetheless, in Casey's time, glycothymaline was
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Speaker 2: a pure product, so he recommended baking soda and salt
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Speaker 2: and glycothymoline and other things that can be used in
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Speaker 2: neither an enema that it can be performed at home
37:55
Speaker 2: or to have a much more thorough cleansing of the
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Speaker 2: large intestines, the gut microbiome, you can do that through
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Speaker 2: a colon hydro therapy session in office.
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Speaker 1: And how long do those sessions usually take?
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Speaker 2: Roughly an hour to seventy five minutes. If someone is
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Speaker 2: coming in for their first session, they may want to
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Speaker 2: just allot themselves ninety minutes on their schedule, just because
38:16
Speaker 2: for a first experience in this style, you want to
38:20
Speaker 2: just have a little flexibility in your day. You don't
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Speaker 2: want to have to be rushing about right we're working
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Speaker 2: on someone's bowels. But generally speaking, it's very easy to
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Speaker 2: have a complete session in one hour, including the time
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Speaker 2: that it takes to put on the gown and to
38:35
Speaker 2: also use the restroom afterwards.
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Speaker 1: And what do clients experience after these sessions.
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Speaker 2: Well, different clients experience different things, but I would say
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Speaker 2: across the board, almost everyone experiences being physically lighter because
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Speaker 2: one of the things that happens as a byproduct of
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Speaker 2: colon hydro therapy as people are able to release years
38:55
Speaker 2: and years of stored and stuck fecal matter that has
38:59
Speaker 2: been sitting in the colon. And if someone has perhaps
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Speaker 2: had a time when they've prepped for a colonoscopy and
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Speaker 2: they've flushed everything out, then they might not have as
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Speaker 2: much build up these days, but even from three to
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Speaker 2: four months or a year of not having colon hydro therapy,
39:15
Speaker 2: quite a bit of waste does accumulate. So once that
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Speaker 2: is released, someone genuinely feels much physically lighter, but they'll
39:24
Speaker 2: also experience feeling emotionally lighter, more relaxed, more in touched
39:29
Speaker 2: and grounded, more in touch with their external experience, and reality,
39:33
Speaker 2: it's just just a For many people, it's so eye
39:36
Speaker 2: opening that they can feel so much lighter, clearer, and
39:42
Speaker 2: essentially more wonderful after just having a colonic because people
39:46
Speaker 2: aren't aware of how much it might be affecting their
39:49
Speaker 2: brain function, how much it might be affecting their moods
39:52
Speaker 2: or mood swings and energy levels and so forth. I'm
39:55
Speaker 2: always amazed when clients afterwards tell me that they can
39:58
Speaker 2: hear better, see better, smell better, or tastes better. Sometimes
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Speaker 2: I also hear experiences of how their senses change.
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Speaker 1: And you had mentioned the emotional aspect, and does this
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Speaker 1: stress reduce.
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Speaker 2: Also, absolutely, that's part of them feeling lighter afterwards. They
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Speaker 2: usually feel like they're ten pounds lighter, And it absolutely
40:18
Speaker 2: helps to reduce stress, and not just reduce stress in
40:21
Speaker 2: the moment after they're done, but helps to make their
40:24
Speaker 2: body and want mind more resilient to stress going forward,
40:28
Speaker 2: because essentially they become more alkaline as their body has
40:32
Speaker 2: reduced and released all of those waste matters that are
40:34
Speaker 2: highly acidic and usually quite toxic, because that is the
40:37
Speaker 2: body is storing environmental toxins and holding usually some pathogen,
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Speaker 2: some not so good activity as well in the form
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Speaker 2: of unhealthy anaerobic bacteria, parasites, mold, fungus, or candida in
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Speaker 2: the colon. So as those are wiped out and released
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Speaker 2: from the body, alongside with environmental toxins, heavy metals, and
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Speaker 2: old waste matter, people generally feel a lot better and
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Speaker 1: Back on blox Novus. My guest this week is doctor
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Speaker 1: Pearl Wilkinson. So, doctor Pearl, you advocate dietary practices for health.
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Speaker 1: Let's look at a few of these, starting with keto.
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Speaker 1: What is it and how does it benefit the client?
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Speaker 2: So, Kito is one of the diets that I feel
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Speaker 2: has become more popular in the last ten to fifteen years,
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Speaker 2: but even more so in the last ten and it
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Speaker 2: is an approach that helps people to drastically reduce their
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Speaker 2: consumption of macro nutrients that are carbohydrates and so the
45:31
Speaker 2: three forms of macronutrients in everyone's diet, irrespective of what
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Speaker 2: amount of fat in it, some amount of protein, and
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Speaker 2: some amount of carbohydrates, and those are the three broad
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Speaker 2: macronutrient categories that people typically consume in any form of diet,
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Speaker 2: and the ketogenic diet encourages people to reduce carbohydrate consumption
45:55
Speaker 2: so that the liver is able to use up glucose
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Speaker 2: that store is glycogen in the liver, and once the
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Speaker 2: any available sugars and glucose in the body and in
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Speaker 2: liver to begin converting fat for fuel, turning fat into
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Speaker 2: fuel for everyday bodily functions including brain function, muscle function,
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Speaker 2: and other tissue functions. So keto is helping the body
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Speaker 2: to get into a ketogen its state where it can
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Speaker 2: use fat, both fat that someone is eating, but also
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Speaker 2: fat that's stored in fat cells on the body and
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Speaker 2: that very person's body use that for energy as opposed
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Speaker 2: to using carbohydrates for energy.
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Speaker 1: And I assume it also balances blood sugar.
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Speaker 2: It absolutely balances blood sugar. And one of the things
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Speaker 2: that more and more research is coming out that is
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Speaker 2: helping people to understand and I'm thinking off the top
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Speaker 2: of my mind of doctor Blickman's book on Why We
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Speaker 2: get sick. I think it's an excellent book and credible
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Speaker 2: research on blood sugar. But as we reduce blood sugar
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Speaker 2: and we balance our use our production of insulin and
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Speaker 2: our use of insulin, because we become more insulin sensitive
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Speaker 2: because there's less free floating sugar, you know, moving all
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Speaker 2: around the body, insulin actually becomes we produce less of it,
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Speaker 2: but we become use it better. Through greater insulin sensitivity,
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Speaker 2: a lot of health conditions begin to reverse. Now with
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Speaker 2: everything that has to be taken in done with care
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Speaker 2: and moderation through a health practitioner to supervise that so
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Speaker 2: that someone is also being healthy as they reduce their
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Speaker 2: carbohydrate intake. But it absolutely balances blood sugar and in turn,
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Speaker 2: in many ways reduces inflammation and many other health goals
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Speaker 2: can be achieved this way.
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Speaker 1: So that's keto. What about paleo and raw food?
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Speaker 2: So a paleo diet is basically helping people to eat
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Speaker 2: a more natural style diet. So in keto, where someone
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Speaker 2: is reducing the carbohydrates but not really necessarily looking at
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Speaker 2: what kinds of food they're consuming. It may still be
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Speaker 2: open to, for example, zero sugar foods, but still might
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Speaker 2: have some unhealthy fake sugar such as aspartainin it. Paleo
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Speaker 2: is really helping people to eat lower carbohydrate foods, but
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Speaker 2: really focusing more on natural foods and limiting grains and
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Speaker 2: limiting sugars as a whole, and going back to foods
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Speaker 2: that an ancient man or woman might have found in
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Speaker 2: their environment, and they're just more simply prepared and sourced,
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Speaker 2: So many of the sugary foods on the market today
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Speaker 2: would not fly in a paleo diet. And then in
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Speaker 2: terms of of the raw food diet, that's essentially keeping
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Speaker 2: to eating foods that are just not heated above a
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Speaker 2: temperature that would kill the enzymes and naturally occurring enzymes
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Speaker 2: and essentially living aspect in that food. So someone who
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Speaker 2: eats a raw food diet stays away from all forms
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Speaker 2: of processed foods, whether that be processed through machine or
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Speaker 2: processed and heated through cooking it on a stovetop, or
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Speaker 2: raw food diet just includes fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds that
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Speaker 2: are sprouted, and fruits and vegetables that are not cooked.
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Speaker 1: Essentially you also advocate intermittent fasting. What is that like
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Speaker 1: and how does it help?
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Speaker 2: In fasting helps the body over time. If you're in
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Speaker 2: an intermate and fasted state for enough hours helps the
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Speaker 2: body achieve autophagy. And the study and understanding of autophogy
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Speaker 2: is that the body is able to begin to go
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Speaker 2: into a repair state, cleaning up damage cells and repairing
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Speaker 2: the body at a cellular level to essentially metabolize and repair,
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Speaker 2: and that really tends to help someone feel much better overall. Now, again,
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Speaker 2: these states can sound wonderful, and I highly encourage them
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Speaker 2: and just want to always make sure that someone is
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Speaker 2: safe in doing it, with a healthcare provider to monitor
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Speaker 2: their well being as they might take on fasting. But
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Speaker 2: essentially in and fasting is a way of life where
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Speaker 2: someone can begin choosing a certain number of hours a
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Speaker 2: day that they will fast, and someone might begin with
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Speaker 2: what is considered a very moderate, easier to do fast,
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Speaker 2: which might be ten hours of fasting and a fourteen
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Speaker 2: hour eating window. And a fourteen hour eating window might
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Speaker 2: simply be that somebody begins eating at eight am in
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Speaker 2: the morning and they're eating window goes all the way
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Speaker 2: till ten pm. That would be a fourteen hour eating window,
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Speaker 2: and from ten pm to eight am they be fasting.
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Speaker 2: Whether they're awake or asleep for most of that time,
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Speaker 2: they'd be fasting through that time. And then those ten
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Speaker 2: hours when someone is fasting allows the body to essentially
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Speaker 2: recuperate its energy and go into healing, digest their food,
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Speaker 2: but go into a deeper healing state. Now, if that
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Speaker 2: fasting window is expanded to be greater greater in time
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Speaker 2: to fourteen hours or sixteen hours, then the body has
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Speaker 2: a chance to go through more of the glucose, eat
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Speaker 2: up some of the glucose in the body, metabolize that,
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Speaker 2: and little by little achieved better and deeper kidogenic states,
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Speaker 2: which takes a little time to do, but someone will
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Speaker 2: begin to go through their glycogen stores as well. So
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Speaker 2: interimmet and fasting can be used together with keto or
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Speaker 2: a paleo or raw foods, and it tends to accelerate
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Speaker 2: someone's healing and metabolic journey.
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Speaker 1: Your practice includes spiritual direction for individuals of all faiths
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Speaker 1: and backgrounds, aiming to help clients achieve mind body spirit
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Speaker 1: integration for the most balanced, whole, healthy and vibrant version
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Speaker 1: of themselves. What do you share with your clients.
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Speaker 2: In this regard, Victor, I would say, it's not so
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Speaker 2: much what I share with my clients, but it's the
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Speaker 2: space that I create for them to share with me.
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Speaker 2: Almost everywhere people go, they're either being listened to or
52:31
Speaker 2: heard through a lens or a box. That is increasingly
52:37
Speaker 2: happening in our world for greater efficiency in all areas.
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Speaker 2: But it's truly rare to just have time where someone
52:43
Speaker 2: can come as they are and explore the spiritual experience
52:47
Speaker 2: that they're having in their daily in their daily lives.
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Speaker 2: And for some people, they may come to me and
52:54
Speaker 2: begin sharing about a traumatic or traumatic experiences that they've
52:59
Speaker 2: lived their whole life with and went through since the
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Speaker 2: time they were maybe three or five, just like one
53:05
Speaker 2: patient I was working with this week. For another person,
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Speaker 2: they might come and simply be sharing with me how
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Speaker 2: their meditation practice is going. And so the terrain of
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Speaker 2: what we might cover and what I might say is
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Speaker 2: vastly different depending on who is in front of me,
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Speaker 2: what philosophy or tradition they are operating in, if any,
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Speaker 2: and what is relevant to them at this moment in
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Speaker 2: their lives. And I think just depending on where that
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Speaker 2: person is it's a really different conversation. So I can
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Speaker 2: say I'm always offering a degree of listening and compassion
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Speaker 2: and empathy that invites in the presence of God and
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Speaker 2: the presence of the Holy Spirit to guide that individual
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Speaker 2: irrespective of their background. And then the specific subject matter
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Speaker 2: really depends on what they want to discuss and tell.
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Speaker 1: Us about holistic spiritual development. What's the connection between higher
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Speaker 1: consciousness and physical health?
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Speaker 2: The development between higher consciousness and physical health really goes
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Speaker 2: back to do a large review. What we talked about
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Speaker 2: earlier was really caring for the gut microbiome and caring
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Speaker 2: for the colon as an essential aspect of health. For
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Speaker 2: many people who look at trees, and if you want
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Speaker 2: to understand the well being of a tree, it's essential
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Speaker 2: to look at its root system. And for us, we
54:32
Speaker 2: understand our root system through our intestines that we carry
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Speaker 2: our root structure internally, whereas a tree has its roots
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Speaker 2: exposed in the ground. And the second thing we look
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Speaker 2: at if we want to look at the health of
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Speaker 2: a tree and its healthiness in life, is the soil
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Speaker 2: that the roots are in. We want to examine the
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Speaker 2: health of that soil, the balance of the minerals and
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Speaker 2: micronutrients and oxygenation available in that soil, and whether they
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Speaker 2: are any pathogens that are in balance or creating a problem.
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Speaker 2: And essentially the body and higher consciousness is the same.
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Speaker 2: If we care for the gut microbiome with we care
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Speaker 2: for our intestines, and we care for the nutrients and
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Speaker 2: micronutrients available to our body, and looking at our whole
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Speaker 2: body in its fullness, and we're caring for the workings
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Speaker 2: of all of the organ systems. Essentially, we're going to
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Speaker 2: just feel better, live better, look better. And one of
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Speaker 2: the natural byproducts of that experience is we're going to
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Speaker 2: have greater access to higher consciousness through the antenna analogy
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Speaker 2: that I was sharing earlier.
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Speaker 1: My guest, doctor Pearl Wilkinson, Doctor Pearl, one more time,
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Speaker 1: please share with our listeners where they can connect with
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Speaker 1: you and find out more about your wonderful work.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Victor Sure. We are on Instagram
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Speaker 2: and Facebook at Pearl Wellness Detox. We are at Pearl
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Speaker 2: www dot Pearl wansdtalks dot com, or you can call
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Speaker 2: us at six four six three four two seven seven
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Speaker 2: zero five.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Pearl, thank you so much for joining us and
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Speaker 1: sharing this wisdom, this wealth of wisdom that you've brought.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me here. It is
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Speaker 2: always a pleasure to speak with you, Victor, and I
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Speaker 2: can't wait to see you soon.
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Speaker 1: And thank you for joining us on Vox Novius. I'm Victor,
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Speaker 1: the Voice Vermonton. Have a wonderful week.