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thinking higher thoughts core connection

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to the absolute the opposite of stress I

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should also point out that there were

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people who said they couldn't really put

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into words some of these states so they

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did their best that that's of course

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always a problem in describing higher

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consciousness group results for

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perceived relationship between the

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adjectives that I provided in the 40

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Hertz states were as follows I'll have

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to move quickly as you notice the peak

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value there although they're the

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standard deviations are high but at the

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top of the list is happiness in a loving

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state and the others are all down the

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line and negative associations were with

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the adjectives disappointment stress

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distress alertness focus concentration

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the comparison of meditators and

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non-meditators baseline values we did

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not see a difference this is in

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contradiction to the earlier literature

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gathered by Davidson at all however my

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group was small three meditators so far

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in the study and seven non-meditators

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however during the maximizing 40 Hertz

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did see a highly significant difference

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between non meditators who didn't do

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and meditators who were up between 23

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and 36% more 40 Hertz now I want to show

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you one case of volunteer who took

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salvia divinorum which is an entheogen

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is a psychedelic herb used in shamanic

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ceremonies by indigenous healers in

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Mexico it's legal

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twenty-eight-year-old volunteer who had

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previously experienced this herb just

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show you how the time kinetics of it I

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took a measurement at 7:37 p.m. baseline

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to 15 minutes later and then already at

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8:04 there was a coming down from the

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state of post peak intensity and finally

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she felt fully recovered at 818 p.m. so

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it's less than an hour I have very

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little time but just to show you

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something about her baseline and focus

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on this this is a brain spectrogram so

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we have one minute of time

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versus frequency mostly she's in the

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relaxed mode ten Hertz or less with

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occasional bursts up at higher

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however there's a lot of I blank that's

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what all these green lines are and there

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was a lot of movement and the subject as

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you see the brainwaves are now enhanced

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in all frequencies the lower frequencies

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are just are off the scale actually and

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there are also activity of 40 Hertz etc

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and then coming down from the peak

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experience you see a relaxation in the

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brain spectrogram and finally at the end

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point it's curious because now you can

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actually see a depletion in the focus

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function this software also measures

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focus and alertness and this is actually

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not looking at all like her recovered

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state even though she's purportedly

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feeling recovered this is the percent

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difference over her baseline scores in

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her self-reported state of pre well the

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priests state before the entheogen the

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peak experienced the post peak and

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recovered so these are subjective states

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or aspects of the experience and during

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the peak actually she experienced a

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twenty - twenty plus percent diminution

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in forty Hertz post peak that increased

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similar to baseline so it's a bifurcated

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response first below baseline and then

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above conclusions are as follows

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experienced meditators who presumably

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cultivate higher states of consciousness

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can produce greater amplitudes of forty

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Hertz from the prefrontal region than

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non-meditators during neurofeedback

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descriptions of the forty Hertz state

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were similar in meditators and

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and love as being most prevalent salvia

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divinorum produced abrupt changes in

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substantial decrease at peak experience

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before returning to baseline the

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limitations of the study the study is

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small it's incomplete still in progress

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hopefully I'd like to get equal numbers

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of meditators and non-meditators and do

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a statistical analysis of the

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quantitative aspects

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in the end also the salvia divinorum

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case is singular and mayor not be

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representative and I should also say

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that it's very difficult to describe

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interstates of higher consciousness in

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words and that of course puts

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limitations on on what we can gather

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about it

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questions for further study that relate

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to some of our interest in this group

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are does training gamma brainwaves help

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improve meditation and or increase the

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experience of higher states of

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consciousness and secondly does training

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gamma brainwaves from the prefrontal

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region help open the so-called third eye

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and improved subject performance and

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healing and SCI research studies those

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questions remain to be seen and I hope

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to explore them thank you I would like

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to indulge in the pleasure of the first

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question and this is we do so much with

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the brain and I keep going to the heart

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and wondering is there a way to dovetail

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some of this research with the heart

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considering that many of the statements

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that were made were really coming from a

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place of what we say heart and there are

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so many heart attacks and heart ailments

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in society that maybe that higher state

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we may be missing something well of

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the Fourier analysis of heart

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frequencies of omission and I just

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could add that I have heart rate

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variability equipment but this was just

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exploring an initial study to explore 40

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Hertz and higher consciousness and just

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the beginning yes hi hi Beverly's Maria

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specifically your baseline activity what

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them a specific instruct I did I gave

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them a very specific instruction and I

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don't have that for you to read but it

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was putting your mind in a neutral state

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not thinking about anything in

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particular from the past present or even

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going into the future to just main into

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it relaxed open eyed

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gays without focusing actively in

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anything particular that was essentially

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it I don't I read something to them and

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be sure they understood it okay just and

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hear that you had their subjective

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responses to even though they were hard

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to put into words that is so valuable

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charlie humans you might think that when

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people go into altered states they might

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have increase in some of the lower

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frequencies like theta and alpha and I

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between higher rates of gamma a higher

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amplitudes of gamma and at the same time

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in my study and nor did Davidson and his

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study and I can't remember whether looks

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did this so these are the main studies

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meditators again all of these things

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could be explored it's just a matter of

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taking more data simultaneously hi Billy

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why Nicole Stan I've done now close to

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preliminary report is being published in

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Journal of neural therapy I presented

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last year at is NR and I haven't looked

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at gamma but a very consistent effect is

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suppression of power in all frequency

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bands and sometimes there's an alpha

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rebound during the return to ordinary

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reality state so I'd love to talk over

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this data with you stuff now as I

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mentioned a better possibly entheogen to

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look at gamma is ayahuasca in in there

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currently studies looking at that and

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that state does produce a very enhanced

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state of consciousness it's lasting

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several hours so there's a good place to

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look for that too

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have you found it to be contextual one

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with people under different experiences

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of salvia because everybody has a

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different trip obviously

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salvia is such a powerful experience you

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know with the extract you have the

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people that can surrender to it

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completely and then you have the people

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that don't let go the ones that

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surrender completely usually have a very

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positive experience I haven't you know I

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wish I recorded all of the reports

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because they were amazing descriptions

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but none of them were along the lines of

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I had an enlightenment experience or I

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had a very high state of awareness or

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something they were mostly having to do

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with distortions of space-time

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that's right that's what I had in this

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particular case as well this particular

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subject experienced herself get ready

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for this yes as a crayon yes yes indeed

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where the pointed head and just a body

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like a cylinder and and was went through

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some anxiety whether she would it be a

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crayon forever that's really bad

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and so the beginning part of that