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Brian took two courses in Russian History and wanted to do a paper on Stalin that focused on his psychology and upbringing. The professor was enamored of the deterministic model of history and believed history makes men, men don’t make history. So if not Stalin, a virtual clone of Stalin would have been created by events, and not responsible for the events, and the individual actor was irrelevant. Nevertheless, the professor suggested books by other historians he disagreed with, which the student eagerly pursued. He got an A-minus for his efforts, and his professor was candid in admitting the paper was graded down solely because the professor personally disagreed with the academics the student cited in his paper. What is Creator’s perspective?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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We can cite examples of university professors who reportedly gave up greater academic freedom in exchange for being at a more highly prestigious institution. And examples of professors who left an ivy-league institution to join a school with less prestige, in order to have greater academic freedom to pursue the unconventional. That all seems incongruous. What is Creator’s perspective?
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Many students, especially those earning advanced degrees, and who go to professional schools, need decades to repay their student loans. So not only are they subjected to academic gatekeeping for a number of years, but enjoy the privilege of spending most of their adult lives paying for it! What is Creator’s perspective?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Brian studied and experimented with hypnosis for a number of years before entering law school. One time he was invited to a large group gathering to attempt a past life regression on the group. To his astonishment, not a single individual of the more than almost thirty people present reported experiencing or seeing anything. This was unprecedented in Brian’s experience, bordering on the impossible in his perspective. He took this as a sign, that this was not to be his life’s work after all. It was a watershed moment in his life. Looking back, it still seems unbelievable. Was the failure “his,” or a result of divine or interloper intervention? What can Creator tell us?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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A university professor wrote: “[I wanted] an occupation in a field allied to philosophy in the sense of involving theory: one which was new enough to permit rapid growth so that a young man would not need to wait for his predecessors to die before his work could find recognition …” That is an amazing prescient awareness, as a young man, of the genuine gatekeeping he accurately anticipated encountering. What is Creator’s perspective?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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GetWisdom is fighting an uphill battle with interloper gatekeeping in spreading the word about its mission. Can Creator share with us the importance of persisting against these headwinds, in our efforts to get more and more people to learn about and use Empowered Prayer and the Lightworker Healing Protocol?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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When reading material written by skeptics denying the existence of an afterlife, spirits, etc., their biggest agenda seems to be, “Do whatever it takes to avoid having to settle on a paranormal explanation for ANYTHING.” Why do these people have such a deep-seated aversion to the very notion of the paranormal? It’s almost as if the paranormal traumatizes them. Is that a valid insight? Could these people actually benefit from Deep Subconscious Trauma Resolution?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Included in a skeptical article in the collection, The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death, was this VERY interesting reference, “Another recent study compared Theravada Buddhist Monks with lay novices … The authors found far more (brain) activity in the practiced monks than the novices during meditation, noting that the monks were able to dramatically self-regulate the activity of their frontoparietal and left insular areas.” This one statement dramatically undercuts the assertion that the brain controls ALL mental activity and not the other way around. Yet, it was nonchalantly included in an article whose agenda was to (quote) “Argue that the mind is located in the brain in such a way that there is no mental life after brain death … Our conclusion is overwhelmingly supported by neuroscientific evidence.” Yet they inexplicably include a neuroscientific case study that dramatically undercuts that conclusion. What can Creator tell us?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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In an earlier show, Creator agreed with the statement, “You will learn more about reality by studying the extraordinary, than the ordinary.” Yet the ordinary is the focus of the skeptics in their attempts to prove that the paranormal is make-believe. In fact, skeptics have elevated this proclivity to have the force of law. In the volume, The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death, behavioral geneticist Jene Mercer writes, “The law of parsimony, a guiding rule for scientists for hundreds of years, states that given two equally well-supported explanations for a phenomena, we are best advised to choose the simpler one rather than multiplying entities unnecessarily.” Skeptics routinely “choose the simpler” by ignoring and throwing out exceptions and outliers in their data, all the while congratulating themselves for being scientific. What is Creator’s perspective?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Actress Marilu Henner is one of less than a hundred people in the world with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory. She can literally remember every detail of her life. But she doesn’t appear to “remember” the way most do. Her son once asked her after testing her memory, “You’ve never explained how you do that?” Her reply was, “I don’t DO it, I just SEE it.” Others equated it to having Google in your brain. Is her deep subconscious pulling everything out of the akashic records on demand, and presenting it to her visually? Is this ability granted as a “mission life” to simply be a non-threatening billboard for what’s possible? What can Creator tell us?
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In the book, Tesla: Man Out of Time, by Margaret Cheney, she quoted Nikola Tesla, who talked about having, “A peculiar affliction due to the appearance of images, often accompanied by strong flashes of light, which marred the sight of real objects and interfered with my thought and action. They were pictures of things and scenes which I had really seen, never of those I imagined. When a word was spoken to me, the image of the object it designated would present itself vividly to my vision and sometimes I was quite unable to distinguish whether what I saw was tangible or not.” Cheney continues, “In the stillness of the night, the vivid picture of a funeral he had seen or some other disturbing scene would thrust itself before his eyes, so that even if he jabbed his hand through it, it would remain fixed in space.” What can Creator tell us about this ability of Tesla’s? Does Marilu Henner see her memories in a similar fashion?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Cheney quotes Tesla about his amazing visualization ability, “My method is different … I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in my thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance.” Cheney writes, “He claimed he was able to perfect a conception without touching anything. Only when all the faults had been corrected in his brain, did he put the device into concrete form.” Most people cannot begin to relate to this kind of ability. What can Creator tell us?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Brian made it through law school without taking notes. Not because he had a photographic memory, but because he couldn’t remember what the professor said long enough to write it down. Yet he made it through and passed the bar exam on his ability to intuit the law. He just seemed to grasp what the law was, correctly, for nearly any fact set presented. In his case, an unusual handicap was offset by an equally unusual analytical ability. What can Creator tell us?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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We have learned that Karl was Allan Kardec in a past life. In that life, he was a scholar of ordinary abilities, who studied extraordinary phenomena. In his current life, he retains all the skills of Kardec, but now is a medium himself instead of having to rely on others. Can Creator explain in more detail how Karl’s abilities are an upgrade from Kardec’s, and what was involved in bringing that about?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Cheney wrote of Tesla, “The optic screen in his mind stored entire logarithmic tables to be called on as needed.” Brian struggled mightily with math, and failed to become a mechanical engineer himself, largely due to his excessively poor memory for detail—in contrast to Tesla’s optic screen. Brian tries to be philosophical and a good sport about this kind of disparity, but sometimes can’t help feeling a bit of chagrin about how UNFAIR it all seems at times. Most people have two hands and two feet. Why do most people NOT have an optic screen like Tesla? What can Creator tell us?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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