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spoiler you are not so I'm going today

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I'm going to talk about the concilium

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survival

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this body ownership and cellular

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turnover research because you know I'll

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have full bellies will now be talking

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about bodily functions so I'm going to

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talk about in a different order than the

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title is I'm going to talk about body

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ownership and cellular turnover which is

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a very mainstream topic and it's

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published in mainstream journals and

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then I'm also going to talk about

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survival of consciousness more Edgefield

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or non materialist non mainstream for

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example if you google scholar search

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body ownership you get over 2 million

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results survival of consciousness over 1

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million but your search body ownership

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and survival of consciousness did not

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match any articles when Google can't

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find a thing it doesn't exist so ok

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let's start with body ownership there

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are three major aspects to by two body

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ownership a sense of - this body belongs

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to me a sense of agency the ability to

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initiate and control action and the

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sense of self location i beez right here

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Here I am in my body and so we're

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getting constant continual feedback that

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we're in this body there are is all

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kinds of ways and so when I see

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something when I feel something and then

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my experience is that I'm feeling it but

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I know it happened to this body that

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centers me into this body I am in this

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body and there's when I move this body

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moves when I want to when I go on a

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roller coaster this body gets dizzy and

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I feel the dizziness so we're getting

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this continual in information and

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feedback that this is where I am this is

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where I am but this can go awry very

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easily in a condition called somatic

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arif Renia people often stroke victims

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of localized lesions in the brain will

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feel like they don't own the paralyzed

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limb and so they'll think that's not my

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hand and if your hand is in the visual

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field where that hand is they'll mistake

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your hand for theirs and it also go

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a'right in situations of microgravity

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like orbital and parabolic flights in

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parabolic flights they the jet climbs

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and then it dives and it climbs and it

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dives to mimic a weightless situation

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and it can it creates what's called the

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inversion illusion where you think that

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you're upside down or that you're right

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set up and the world is upside down and

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when they come out of the parabola and

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everybody's supposed to get back where

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they're supposed to be people go wrong

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they go upside down and this can result

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in a major accident it's also really

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easy to mess with intentionally so

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experimentally induced illusions

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demonstrate an astonishing malleability

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in our idea of body ownership it's

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really easy to mess with it using things

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literally like smoke and mirrors so the

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first we'll talk about two illusions the

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first one is called a rubber hand

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illusion it was first published in 1998

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and it's been done hundreds of times in

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all kinds of different ways but overall

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this is how it looks so you are assited

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the participant is seated at a table and

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there's some kind of barrier preventing

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you from seeing your arm and then they

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put a rubber hand so that what what you

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can see is now a rubber hand and then an

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experimenter uses a paintbrush and

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simultaneously brushes your hand at the

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same time as the rubber hand so now what

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you can see is the brush on the rubber

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hand but what you can feel is the brush

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on your own hand and what people report

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is during the experiment there were

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times when it seemed as if I was feeling

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the touch of the paintbrush in the

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location where he saw the rubber hand

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touch it seemed that the touch I felt

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was caused by the paintbrush touching

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the rubber hand I felt as the rubber

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hand was mine and they can also have

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what's called proprioceptive drift where

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if they said close your eyes and take

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your other hand and put it under the

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table where your hand is and that people

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drift toward the rubber hand than to

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where their actual hand is and you think

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like I wouldn't I couldn't so if your

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brain is doing a good job

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it will mistake the rubber hand for your

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hand anyway well it but not in my body

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right oh no totally your whole body too

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so in the full body or body swap

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illusion is the second one they use

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immersive embodied virtual reality where

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sensory and motor stimuli occur in

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synchrony with the first-person

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stereoscopic video so again this has

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been done hundreds and hundreds of times

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example they the virtual reality there's

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a head mounted display and so the camera

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is the eyes now so what the camera can

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see is what you are seeing out of your

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eyes but the camera is 6 feet behind you

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so then when you see someone it's like

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with the paintbrush when you see someone

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touching that body it's six feet you're

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the eyes are six feet behind you so your

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virtual body where you think you are is

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six feet in front of you and there

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there's all kinds of ways to do this it

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can do it where you're behind yourself

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where you're above yourself looking up

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you're above yourself looking down if

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the camera is on the experimenters head

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and you're both doing paintbrushes your

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experience is that you are painting the

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paper on your own hand

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it's really easy to mess with this so

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again hundreds of studies and you can

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feel body swapped in bodies of all kinds

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of shapes and sizes and genders and

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colors very easily even inanimate

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objects and animal avatars and then in

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this one it's just socks and gloves all

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you are socks and gloves so this is the

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head-mounted display and this is what

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you can see here you can see when you

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move your hands and when you move your

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feet these hands and feet move these

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gloves and socks move so your brain goes

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and even with a mannequin they can do

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this so in this

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picture these are the cameras and so

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what this guy can see in his head

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mounted display is like looking down at

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this body and so she's gonna touch both

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of these things with the paintbrushes

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and what he's gonna it won't take long

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at all he's gonna think well I don't

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remember taking my shirt off and doing

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all those sit-ups but okay that's mine

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okay that's my body okay that's my body

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now okay and they have a subjective

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experience of that that's their body and

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the brain is doing its job it's got

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feedback that that's its body and it

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knows and it's doing a good job and so

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there's this subjective experience but

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there's also an objective way to

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determine this where if you if the

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virtual body has threat to it you will

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experience anxiety and they track this

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using skin conduction skin conductance

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responses so if a knife gets pulled on

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that belly you will respond as if a

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knife got pulled on your belly so our

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sense of body ownership is highly

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flexible the mind is only tenuously

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tethered to the body so where is it in

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the body is it which cells is it in all

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the cells where is it

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so let's talk about cellular turnover

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this is a little background on this so

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lot of above-ground nuclear testing and

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it was there was a huge boom in

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carbon-14 in the atmosphere and it

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quickly got everywhere all over the

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whole planet and it got incorporated

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into the carbon dioxide and then the

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plants ate the carbon dioxide and the

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animals ate the plants and the people

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ate the plants and the animals and

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everybody had carbon-14 in their system

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and so this group in Sweden they looked

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at pine tree rings right because there

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they get every year they're established

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so they took the cellulose from the

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rings each year and that directly

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mimicked what was in the atmosphere at

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that time so they could track they could

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like do a curve of the carbon-14 content

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in the atmosphere and then it turns out

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that the genomic do

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a-also mimics the amount of carbon-14 in

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the atmosphere so they use mass

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spectroscopy to determine the level of

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carbon-14 in different kinds of tissues

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and then they can find like the birth

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date of that tissue because they know

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what year that was that the atmosphere

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looked like that so these are some

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things that using this bomb pulse method

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have been found so the intestinal

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epithelial cells the lining of the

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intestine turns over every five days the

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non epithelial cells in the intestine

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cells in the heart less than 50%

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turnover in your whole life the genes

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and the cerebellum stopped growing by

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two years old but the glial cells which

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are the scaffolding of the brain they

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turn over every four years skin two to

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bones ten years skeletal muscles 15

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years and your tendons are probably the

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age you were when you had your pubescent

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growth spurt you grew your tendons and

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turned over so if we're anywhere that's

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where we are and so you might have heard

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this the dental enamel is the window to

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you might have heard this myth that the

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body turns over every seven years and

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that's nonsense clearly this all it's a

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lot of different things happening all

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the time so the body is fluctuating but

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the body is not all that you think that

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it is so human cells in the body number

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at thirty trillion and this is pretty

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standard because even like when muscle

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builds it doesn't make a new cell the

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myofibrils inside the muscle cell so

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like my bicep probably has just as many

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muscle cells as your bicep the cool

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thing is so 30 trillion human cells the

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cool thing is in your body

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there are also 30 trillion bacteria

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there's just as many of them as there

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are of us they're very small so they

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don't take up as much space but if you

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like take them out and put them they

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would weigh about half a pound it's like

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two sticks of butter of bacteria in your

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body and you should thank them because

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you would be dead without them that we

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can't digest our food they educate our

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immune system against what like what's

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friend and what's fo the this I just

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think is super fascinating in human

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breast milk there's a particular

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oligosaccharide of sugar in huge amounts

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a baby can't use that sugar the gut

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flora the bacteria and the babies got

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oligosaccharide simply to build the gut

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flora in the baby so we're you know it's

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a symbiotic relationship obviously we

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would be dead without them so when you

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have live culture probiotics you might

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want to do what I do and I say hello

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little bugs I call them little bugs and

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I say thanks little bugs welcome home

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this is where you live now in julie land

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so the in the more we because skin turns

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over fast so in the morning mark and i

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say good morning welcome new cells so

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the body is fluctuating and only part of

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it is you there's this entirely all

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these other species and and they're

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don't get me started on all the viruses

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and mites and there's all kinds of

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things growing in you that it's not you

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so if you're not so where are you and it

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looks like you are both nowhere and

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everywhere because research

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demonstrating sigh that is telepathy

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clairvoyance precognition and

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psychokinesis we heard this this paper

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has been referenced a couple times at

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this conference so in 2018 the APA

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published in an APA journal this your

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friend and mine thurston professor of

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psychology in sweden at south gardenia

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in this paper sighted over 1200 and 25

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published works and

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found that an extensive amount of

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quality research exists providing a

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cumulative support for the reality of

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sigh which cannot be readily explained

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away by the reality of the studies fraud

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sorry the quality of the studies fraud

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selective reporting experimental or

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analytical and competence or other

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frequent criticisms so mind can

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transcend space and time so this this

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last topic that I wanted to talk about

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with survival of consciousness and there

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are the three main topics are blinded

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mediumship readings near-death

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experiences involving brain death and

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that have veridical information comes

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back and then verifiable stories of

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children who remember past lives so

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you've heard me talk about blinded

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mediumship readings before and you know

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I love my p-values but we're you know

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we're having a meal here let's let's do

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some more kind of fun things so I'm

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gonna tell some stories and because of

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the blinding of our mediumship research

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you know it our protocol we ask the

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medium what did the person look like

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what's their personality how did they

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die what are their hobbies so there's

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not a lot of room for like interesting

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stories and but I have collected stories

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from the mediums on our team over the

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years and you know they solve murders

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they find bodies they but again it's a

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little late hearted we're just having

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dinner so I thought I'd do a little bit

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I wouldn't talk about murder and suicide

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how about that so and I wanted to keep

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these story short so so this is my

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example of a story from a wind bridge

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certified research medium this story is

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from Laurel and Jackson and she said one

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sitters dad came through repeatedly and

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told his daughter to stop all capitals

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using the two-in-one shampoo on her

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daughter his granddaughter he kept

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bringing it up over and over she said

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because he was so insistent she stopped

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using it within a week her daughter's

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chronic skin condition which he had had

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for over a year and a half and which

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various doctors had diagnosed as viral

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and without a cure

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cleared up in a weekend never came back

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and Laura says I thought this was neat

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as it showed that the other side can

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intervene and helped loved ones okay and

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then this is a story from paramedic in

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Australia named Frank and so this one is

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the story about near-death experience

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and so I will read this this is was

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posted online and I promised Marc I

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wouldn't try and do the Australian

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accent so I I won't do it it will be

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hard because he says reckon at one point

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a 49 year old male developed chest pain

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and called for an ambulance My partner

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and I were the first on scene he had

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stopped breathing we assessed him I

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found that he was in cardiac arrest we

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ended up working on the patient for 20

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minutes without any change one of this

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senior paramedics said okay what do you

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guys reckon shall we call it I was

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working with a new rookie paramedic and

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said no he can use some more experience

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with CPR the senior paramedic laughed

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and said hey if you want him to get more

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experience there's a mannequin back at

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the station he's got just as much chance

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of resuscitating it as this guy almost

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as though the out-of-body person had

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heard that and decided hey no I don't

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want to die yet we had miraculous

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spontaneous return of circular

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circulation we expedited him to hospital

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two days later we found out that he had

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been excavated and was neurologically

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intact in cardiac ICU no way we think

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good for him it probably would have been

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the last we ever thought about him if it

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wasn't for the knock at our station door

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one early morning hi Frank the man

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looked at me my name is John I believe

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we met a couple months ago I look at him

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and try to work out where I treated him

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and for what I just couldn't place it

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the man sees my confusion he says the

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last time we met my heart wasn't working

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in fact they tell me it had stopped

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completely now I know who he is says

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Frank I invited him and we get a vitamin

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and we get chatting finally he says I

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want to thank you for giving me an extra

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10 minutes of CPR even it was only so

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sorry I say instantly aware of how close

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the man was to dying because we were

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going to quit I was there he's the man

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said you see I saw the whole thing

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and I remember Jack saying that he

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wanted to call it and you saying your

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rookie needed extra work on his CPR

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anyway so you may as well keep going the

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Frank at this point is shocked and

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fascinated at the same time really what

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else what else do you remember well I

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remember the other paramedics suggested

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that they should be just as much at

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likelihood of resuscitating the

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mannequin back at the station as me and

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it was about then that I realized that

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this was serious if I wanted to live I

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was going to have to get back in that

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body and the next thing I know I'm in

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hospital a few days later okay and then

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this is my story from about children who

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remember past lives and if you're

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familiar with Jim Tucker's work you

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probably have heard all the amazing

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stories that he has on this and so this

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is a story from the book from 2013

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called return to life and I asked him if

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I could use it and I said I was looking

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for something short and odd and he goes

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that one short nod so yeah go ahead so

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this this is a story from Jim's book

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most of the claims of past lives as

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animals are of course unverifiable one

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strange case in Thailand of a boy who

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claimed to have been a Python in a

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previous life seems to be an exception

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the boy named allowin claimed he had

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been a deer in a past life he said that

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after he was killed by a hunter he was

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reborn as a snake just before dowon was

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conceived his father had eaten snake

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meat when it was served to him by an

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acquaintance who had killed a Python

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after an extended struggle when dala

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Wong was three that acquaintance mr.

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Hugh came to a party at the house next

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to Dowling's family the doll along nor

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his mother had met him before

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when doll Owen saw him he became

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infuriated and tried to find a hammer or

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a stick to use to attack him he said mr.

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Hugh had killed him when he was a snake

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and gave details of how the killing

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occurred these were the ones that died

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along seemingly these were ones that

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doll along seemingly had no way of

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knowing involving a particular cave and

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a fight between a snake and two dogs

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followed by a confrontation with the

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owner of the dogs who killed the snake

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Hugh confirmed that all the details were

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correct

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Dola wong said that after he was killed

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spirit saw his future father and thought

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he was kinder than the other men who ate

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the snake meat he followed him home and

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soon entered his mother's body his

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father reported that when Dahl along met

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Hugh he touched him on his left shoulder

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and said he'd been bitten by the snake

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there his father said who did indeed

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have a scar on that spot from the from a

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snakebite

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20 years later dalla Wong still believed

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he had been a snake in his past life he

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continued to visit the cave where the

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snake had been killed he would go there

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every couple of months and meditate

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during his meditation he obtained

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information about using herbs to help

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the sick and he was recognized in his

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village at that point as a local doctor

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I should also add that dalla Wong was

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born with a Chi OSIS a skin condition

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that caused his body particularly the

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lower half to be covered in scales you

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might say that made his skin look

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snake-like

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so that's my stories so not these

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particular stories necessarily are not

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evidence but these three bodies of

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research mediumship near-death

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experiences and children who remember

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past lives demonstrate that mind can

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survive the death of the body so what do

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we learn today apparently nothing our

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sense of body ownership is highly

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flexible the mind is only tenuously

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tethered to the body the body is

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fluctuating and only partially you mind

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can transcend space and time mine can

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survive the death of the body so in

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conclusion the body is clearly more than

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the thing that carries your head around

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from conference to conference it is

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remarkable it is a physical thing in an

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intimate symbiotic relationship with

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entirely other species that they

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couldn't live without us and we can live

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without them and then it also has this

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intimate relationship with this

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non-local thing we call mind that can

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transcend space and time like that's

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pretty cool for a body to be able to do

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those things so but you are not your

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body mine is limitless death is not the

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I hope that gives you some things to

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think about I want to thank my husband

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Mark you guys should thank him too

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because when I started this pers agent

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was so boring and he really really

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helped me tighten it up and I want to

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thank the program committee and you for