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Synchronicity or Soul Mind? Understanding Life's Mysterious Patterns

• Douglas James Cottrell PhD • Season 1 • Episode 75

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Are those recurring number patterns, animal sightings, and strange coincidences trying to tell you something? According to Dr. Douglas James Cottrell, the answer is a resounding yes—but not in the way most people think.

Dr. Cottrell unveils the fascinating mechanics behind synchronicity, explaining how our subconscious mind constantly perceives everything while our conscious attention remains narrowly focused. These "coincidences" often represent communication between different levels of our consciousness—what he calls our conscious mind, subconscious mind, and "super subconscious" or "soul mind."

Through compelling real-life examples, including his co-host Les Hubert's experience with repeatedly seeing black dump trucks before experiencing burnout, Dr. Cottrell demonstrates how our deeper awareness tries to protect and guide us. Most remarkably, he shares the story of a woman who avoided death by heeding a single intuitive warning not to get into her boyfriend's car moments before it was crushed in an accident.

The challenge for most people isn't that these messages aren't being sent—they constantly are—but rather that our ego blocks or dismisses them because it wants to maintain the illusion of control. "The tyrant within is yourself," Dr. Cottrell explains, emphasizing how our rational mind often overrules the very intuition that could save us from harm or guide us toward better choices.

This episode offers practical wisdom for developing greater awareness by recognizing patterns (especially when they appear three times), trusting the feeling of certainty that accompanies genuine intuition, and distinguishing between authentic guidance and wishful thinking. As you practice listening to these subtle messages, you'll develop what Dr. Cottrell calls "that still small voice" that can transform your decision-making and potentially save you from unnecessary hardship.

Ready to stop dismissing coincidences and start recognizing the extraordinary intelligence constantly communicating with you? Listen now, and take your first step toward truly waking up to the wisdom of your soul mind.

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Welcome to Wake Up with Dr Douglas James Cottrell, your source for helpful information, advice and tips to live your life in a mindful way in this increasingly chaotic world. For over four decades, dr Douglas has been teaching people how to develop their intuition and live their lives in a conscious way. His news and views of the world tomorrow, today, are always informative and revealing. To learn more about Dr Douglas, be sure to visit his website, douglasjamescottrellcom, where you can download self-help exercises you can do right in the comfort of your own home. And now here's your host, dr Douglas James Cottrell.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Welcome to the Wake Up. I'm your host, douglas, james Cottrell and my good friend and co-host, les Hubert is here tonight and we're here on the Wake Up bringing to you important information about how to improve your life, live your life more fully and wake up spiritually. What's on your mind tonight, les?

Les Hubert:

Hi, doug, a lot of your listening audience wants to know about synchronistic events. Are they just merely coincidences, or is there something deeper going on?

Douglas James Cottrell:

Well, why don't you give me an example or two of what you mean by a synchronistic event?

Les Hubert:

Let's say one of the most popular is seeing the same number on the license plate over and over and over again, or the same name or the same sequence of digits, and it's like three or four times in rapid succession with different vehicles. Or they'll see the same sequence on a billboard and like okay, what's going on? They just want they'd say this is this can't be just simply coincidences, what is going on?

Douglas James Cottrell:

Well, okay, that's one instance, you got another one.

Les Hubert:

The other one was somebody said the other day that they kept seeing hawks all day, where they typically don't, as they're driving down the highway, and they said, oh my god, there's another hawk. That it's like. You know, I normally, you know, I'm looking out my windshield and I have good vision and I normally don't see this many hawks in one day, but I saw, like you, four or five or six of them. What does that mean? Or they'll see like a ton of crows, or they'll see they'll hear it here, the same sequence of words over and over again that normally they don't hear.

Douglas James Cottrell:

So in reality, what we're looking at is people are wondering why they see 1111 or 4444 or yeah, or different, yeah, different, different things like that, I mean.

Les Hubert:

Some one of the questions was can they interpret these things like they would? A dream symbol Is this are we living in a dream? Are we living in a matrix? They, they just want to know. Is there something deeper going on?

Douglas James Cottrell:

Well, you know, under under the under the sun, everything's possible. It says so in the Bible. So King David was complaining about that. You know, everything's the same under the sun. So here we are and people are having these odd experiences and they're wondering if there's some synacracy or some connection to these different things. And well, there are a variety of answers for that. One is that in their mind they are fixated. There's a thought, there's something that is established in their thinking and then their awareness takes over. And so whenever they have fixated on something in a subconscious way, in an unspoken way, then their attention is like a radar, it's like a compass needle and they become aware of whenever this number or object or item or thing occurs. Or object or item or thing occurs.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Something I learned a long time ago, when I would be driving along in the street, all of a sudden a Corvette Stingray would show up. Because I became interested in Corvette Stingray cars and they were like a revelation to me, like it was what a beautiful car. Well, for the next couple of weeks they were everywhere, but prior to that moment I could never see a corvette stingray at all. But as soon as I came to that moment, there's one. Wow, then there was another one and another one, another one, another one. So my attention, my radar, my psyche was looking for that point of interest and I could see that Corvette Stingray everywhere. All of a sudden, everybody had one, the same with any other vehicle, the same with a mailbox. Walking down the street or driving around the street, you know, you see, a mailbox catches your attention and then there's another one and there's another one. You're just thinking, gee, last week I was looking for a mailbox. You think I could find one. I couldn't find a mailbox or a police one. They were invisible. Then all of a sudden they're all over the place.

Douglas James Cottrell:

So there is a mechanism in your mind that when you fixate on something, it becomes an unspoken spoken let's go find it. Or there it is again. And so that's not a coincidence and that's not some sort of synchronization. It's a repetitive vision that you're having because your mind is looking or searching for it. And to comprehend that, it's to understand that when we're looking through our eyes at something, we are focused on items, but our subconscious mind sees everything. So the room that somebody is sitting in, if you're having a conversation with them, you're looking at their face, their nose, their lips, maybe their sweater, and the rest of your vision is looking at everything else in the room to the most minute, in detail.

Douglas James Cottrell:

And we know this works because people have been put into an altered state of consciousness. They call hypnosis, and people are able to recall numbers. They're able to recall descriptions very vividly. Why? Because the brain has absorbed all that information. However, the eyes and the attention has been very selective, and so it's like looking out of a great big plate glass window and you can see on the window a little black dot, a dust or a mosquito or something. And as you look at that, what happens to the vista behind the window? It disappears. You don't perceive it at all.

Douglas James Cottrell:

But, it's still there. You have, on some level of your vision, you have been able to see this, but you're not recognizing or remembering it because your attention has gone on a single item, the smallest one, actually. So when people have these reoccurrence of numbers popping up, it's a curiosity. Oh, it's 1111 again, that must be an angel number. 4444. Oh, that be an angel number. 44 44. Oh, that's an angel number.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Well, we can assign values to something, but the reality is that when there's a number appears on the digital clock, our mind goes there because we are aware of it outside of what we're looking at, in other words, the greater vision, the the subconscious vision is perceiving. The numbers just change to 1111, and then that flips the switch over and says to our conscious mind there it is again. And so we just automatically look at the clock, at the indicator and the reason. You think about that. When you're driving down the highway or in a car, you look at the clock and at that precise moment it's 11, 11. Why did you look away from the windshield and looking out down the road and look at the clock? Because your subconscious told you to. You just did it and sure enough, there it is.

Douglas James Cottrell:

So, in this way of understanding this extrasensory perception, this greater consciousness is being able to focus on these things. So when things occur to you and you want to say is this some sort of synchrosy going on? Well, it is between your conscious mind and your subconscious mind and then your super subconscious mind which starts to bring in other things like precognition, deje vu, premonition. You're driving along and all of a sudden you hit the brakes on the car. Why'd you do that and then if you had proceeded in the intersection, you would have been broadsided, but somebody went zooming through. Or you go to open the door and you stop and a bicycle goes by the door as you're sitting there in the curb, otherwise you would open the door and the bicycle would have struck the door. And you stop and a bicycle goes by the door as you're sitting there in the curb, otherwise you would open the door and the bicycle would start the door right so this other awareness is an extension of this ability that your subconscious mind points things out to you and says 11, 11.

Douglas James Cottrell:

and your soul mind says stop the car, Don't get in the car.

Les Hubert:

Interesting.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Okay, you wait a second. And you just prevented yourself from stepping up to get into your car on the driver's side and a bus hit the side of your car. You would have been smeared all over the car, had you been there. But for something it stopped you and held you back. So in a way, this is extra sensory perception, rather than the term that we're calling it as synchrosy or something deeper. It is something deeper.

Les Hubert:

So I remember one day I was driving north on a highway here called 295. And I've always been a lover of trucks, ever since I was a little kid. I've always loved trucks of all sizes Someday I hope to own my own classic little pickup truck and so I noticed trucks a lot and this one particular day I kept seeing black dump trucks. It was like one, two, three. I said, okay, there's something going on here. So I said, well, just for giggles, let me go home and see what it looks like.

Les Hubert:

I actually looked up on my phone what the dream interpretation for a black pickup truck was, or a dump truck specifically, and the dream interpretation on this particular website said you are near burnout and you should be taking a vacation. And I said, yeah, right, whatever, I love what I do. I'm a bit of a workaholic such as a self-taught, but you know, when we love what we do, we we do it. And then next week I had like a little bit of a mini breakdown. I mean, I was exhausted, I was, I had to take a break and it got to the point where I had to take some time off and I thought, holy crap that was. It was trying to get a hold of me, and I just didn't know how to interpret it at the time. So that's it. Does that work? All the time Is our subconscious mind constantly trying to give us hints as to what's going on in our life that we don't know about?

Douglas James Cottrell:

Well, let's take that apart. First of all, you're seeing black dump trucks. You didn't know what that meant.

Les Hubert:

Yeah, yeah.

Douglas James Cottrell:

And most other people would have dismissed that and thought, man, there must be a black dump truck convention in town or something. There must be a little road work going on up the street there and they're going to put some new blacktop somewhere. No, what does Les do? He goes home and he checks his dream interpretation Bible or book. Right, okay, and in that book it says burnout as a symbol.

Douglas James Cottrell:

So let's say that your super subconscious is really smart and it's sensing that you're wearing yourself out and you're not getting the message any other way. When you go to shave yourself, your hand's trembling and you're making blood sacrifices to the porcelain sink and you're banging your head on the door and you're a little wobbly and you're going like I'm okay, I'm fine, yeah, I'm okay, yeah, man, we're okay, yeah, and no, you go home and you get the symbol black pickup dump trucks and you pick up your um pre-interpretation book and, lo and behold, that's the symbol that the high self, or the soul mind, is trying to get the message to you oh it couldn't get to you any other way, so it did the one way that it knew you would get the message, and that is it kept distracting you with these very unusual symbols of black dump trucks.

Douglas James Cottrell:

I've never seen a black dump truck. Usually they're gray or they're muddy. That's exactly what I thought, unless they're doing you, you know, black top tar kind of work, you know, yeah, anyway. So it uh gave you a message and in your way, you went home and you looked up the book and there was the meaning that the subconscious was trying to get to you all day along. And what did you do? You dismissed it again yes, I did even after reading that can't be.

Les Hubert:

That I'm fine you know, I'm fine.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Collapse, what happened? I don't understand. Hello, 911. So long and short of that is uh, that would be as far as the title goes. That would be something deeper.

Douglas James Cottrell:

The intelligence of that mind, that extra sensory perception mind, the soul mind, found a way to get the message to you. And again you rejected it because, whatever you, you thought what you thought, and then, when you came to the conclusion that you were having a bit of a collapse or burnout, then ding. Then the meeting came true. Yeah, that's remarkable. It's remarkable that it knew the steps to take to get the message to you. And, of course, once it got the message to you, you can say I can just hear them up now they're in the heavens above and say, okay, well, here we go again. Well, let's wait, let's see, uh, three days, I'll bet you five days. No, three days. You know he's gonna fall, no, two days. But then we'll take a bet. You know they're all up there. The angels are kind of, you know, uh, playing with you. They're shooting craps or they have dominoes or whatever they do up there.

Les Hubert:

And yeah, the weird part was they were all dump trucks of different sizes, but definitely not pickup trucks, dump trucks. And in this particular, it said I have a long list of trucks and I know and I was familiar with the and when the color black shows up in a dream, according to my dream interpretation usually means take this literally, like pay attention to this, like black and white, right. So I was like okay, black, it's not, red, it's not so, it's black and it's always. And some of the dump trucks were huge, some of them were small, but they were always dump trucks and I've never seen that.

Les Hubert:

Even after that, I had that little breakdown. I had to take a week off but I don't see them. And I travel the highway, you know, I go back and forth on the highway and I'm always looking at, I'm looking at these beautiful trucks, I go by them and I'm going, wow, that's a beauty. I don't see the black dumpers. So I've thought to myself how did this work out? How did it? How did my super sun or subconscious, how did it figure?

Douglas James Cottrell:

out how to get me in the right place. They were there always. It just like the dot on the window. It focused your attention on them. When you're going down the highway, if you see a pretty person in a car, your attention goes there. If you see a favorite type of car, your attention goes there, but it's fleeting. You know you pass them or they pass you, but your attention went there.

Douglas James Cottrell:

And so, again, your super subconscious mind got you to see these symbols that were there for that, for that particular event. Right, and you could say that it knew that was going to happen, that there were going to be those trucks on on the road that day. But it also knows that you were looking at trucks and that you like to look at trucks. So it figured out a way, without emotion or fanfare, to give you a symbol that you could go back and look in your dream book and get the meaning for, because it struck your curiosity what's that all about? Okay, so it motivated you and then you got the answer, and then you discounted it, like usual everybody does. And then, when you got dumped on it, was like ding, oh, I got it.

Douglas James Cottrell:

So it's just. It's the remarkable way that we can say that the universe has I don't want to call it a domino effect, but the way things are strung together. You know this to that, to that, to this, to this, to that and all the way back to your home with a book that you always had in your home and your subconscious, super subconscious, soul mind knew it was there and took the long way to get you there, but the message was clear to try to prevent you from getting in harm's way.

Douglas James Cottrell:

So this is what it is. The synchrosy in this one proves or is the solution. There was synchrosy going by with all these different things to get you to get the message to you.

Douglas James Cottrell:

More than likely, if you think about it. There were other signs, other messages that were being given to you, but you discounted them as well, not on purpose, just they were there and you know you probably picked up a book and said are you feeling tired lately? You need some more ginkgo, bioba or something? And you go, yeah, sure. And then, oh, look, do you need some more something? Something you know more protein, or here's some. You know tablets or something. And you go yeah, and if you count, and the thing is, if it happens to you three times, right, that's the rule right, yeah three notices of something right from different sources.

Douglas James Cottrell:

That's the synchrosy. And you say to yourself oh, I get it, I'm supposed to be taking, you know, magnesium chloride or something.

Les Hubert:

Yeah, it happened three times in rapid succession, then it kept happening. So my question is, and the question that they wanted me to pose to you is can this reality we live in be interpreted like a dream? Do we see symbols all the time? Are we just not listening? Can this be? Is this the secret behind synchronistic events? Should we be interpreting these things like dream symbols? Number one wake up.

Douglas James Cottrell:

That's why we picked the title for this podcast Wake Up. What does wake up mean? It means become aware. What does wake up mean it means become aware? And how do you become aware? You pay attention to. Your attention usually comes in thrace, you know. We often say you're about to go out the door and you look at the kitchen counter and you'll see, let's say, a crayon If I ever use a crayon you got on your crayon and you go to walk out, you forget something, walk back and you come by the counter and there's the crayon. Your attention caught the crayon again. And then you know you're putting on your coat or you put your case over your arm and your attention sees the crayon again. You're not looking at the crayon on the counter deliberately, but your attention keeps grabbing it poking it provoking it.

Douglas James Cottrell:

So an aware person says it isn't heavy. I got my case. I'll put it in my case. See what happens Later on in that day. I can guarantee you you would need that crayon for some special purpose or reason. That's what awareness is all about. That's what listening to that attention is all about. That's what being aware and in the wake up is all about. Because you see these things and you start paying attention and usually all of us will do it.

Douglas James Cottrell:

We'll dismiss and say I don't need that crayon or pair of scissors, I'm not going to need pair of scissors today. Right, we just dismiss it. That's the ego part of us being arrogant and saying I won't eat that and the other part of us saying pick it up, you're gonna need it, look at it. Hey, I'm over here, okay. So, yes, this is a greater consciousness. And how do we? How do we develop it? Well, by being aware, by listening with our eyes, and when you see something, you say, okay, I have no purpose for that at all, I'll put it in my case anyway and maybe, just maybe, you don't need it that day, but you might need it the next day or the day after. How many times you put change in your purse or your wallet or your bag, and you get home and you take it out and you say, well, I'm not going to need this. And on that day you go somewhere and you have to pay for parking, and it doesn't take a credit card, it only takes coins. And you say I just emptied the coins out of my case, what's the matter with me? So that interference is your ego, intellectual mind and the way around. That is to say, hey, it's light, my case doesn't matter, my car doesn't care if it has a, an extra flashlight or a or some coins in the case, it doesn't matter. So you talk to yourself in that way. It's almost a benevolent for the grandfatherly, grandmotherly kind of look and you say, well, it can't hurt. And sooner or later you will need that exact item that builds you into greater awareness that you can, with confidence, when you feel something, know something or hear a little voice in your head, obey it, obey it. The tyrant within is yourself. That's the tyrant in you is the part that says no, you know, that's a pretty looking. You know, gal over there, you know wowee. No, no, no, no, that's temptation. You know you got a wife at home. No, no, no, no, you got a boyfriend at home. No, no, no, you got a boyfriend. You know that's. You know, you know, watch them.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Somebody once said to me that a client recently, and they explained it this way. They said they were having trouble at home and they were striking up a conversation at this lady this is middle-aged people and he really got to like this lady, you know, and so his relationship with home was turning a little bit cool and a friend of him came. A friend came up to him. He said I want to tell you something when you're swinging in the jungle, don't let go of one vine before to grab a hold of another one. You know to grab a hold of another one, you know and that was pretty, that was wisdom, right.

Douglas James Cottrell:

So I'm telling him watch out for the temptation, but hang on to where you are. And sure enough, this other fantasy that he had with this other lady turned out to be wasn't interested in him.

Douglas James Cottrell:

He was just selling him whatever it was, you know, hamburgers or whateverers, whatever. So anyway, the point being is that when you're, when you're paying attention, and the tyrant inside of you says, no, there's a reason you can overrule it. I guarantee you're going to get in some sort of trouble later and regret whatever it might be. You know, like jesus, you know those chocolate bars are looking. I can have another one, you know. Or just one more hot dog. You know, this is a double header here. You know, like I know I shouldn't eat hot dogs, but I'm going to have an extra one. And you get home and, oh my god, you're running to the washroom, you're sick for the next day. That little voice inside says I told you so, you know. And you go, yeah, you're always right. Because I I finally say that to myself all the time. I hear that little voice or whatever, but not necessarily a voice per se, but I say, yep, you're right, I shouldn't have done that.

Douglas James Cottrell:

I, you know, did something I shouldn't have done or I didn't do something I should have, and uh say yeah you're right, so that awareness is what you're attempting to get a hold of, and that's why you're hearing the wake up, my friends. We're right back after this.

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Douglas James Cottrell:

Welcome back. I'm your host, douglas James Cottrell. I'm here with my good friend, les Hubert, and we're talking about a rather unusual yet ordinary, and seemingly everybody has this kind of experience less.

Les Hubert:

Yeah, I remember reading years ago in a book I think it was written by Dan Redfield, and he was saying that in order to interpret something as an important sign or symbol, as you mentioned, that it has to happen at least three times in rapid succession so that we can it will get our attention. The question is, is this always the case, or is this something because you mentioned how? You know it was always there, but we just didn't, we just didn't see it. So are we constantly being nudged to look for symbols all the time? I mean, are we living in a dream matrix or is this something different?

Douglas James Cottrell:

No, it's called awareness. The reverse is what you're suggesting. Most people are not aware, they're oblivious to things, and that's why we have car accidents and that's why people get run over by trains or crosswalks and that's why people step off the curve and a bus hits them, that's why kids are running their bicycles into trees and that's why we have these different things that are happening because we are oblivious, we're not aware of what's going on. So the answer to that is wake up and be more aware, and as you wake up, you begin to see that there is a lot of communication going on all of the time. It's just that you're selecting what you want to listen to or you're being distracted. You have to pay attention. Most accidents, as policemen have told told me are not because people are poor drivers, it's because they're distracted right not paying attention.

Douglas James Cottrell:

So the reverse of this question is, you know, is this rapid succession of information being given to us, whatever try to put no conditions on or no limits on it. Usually and it's a rule of thumb because whatever I say, I know better that they. The next day I'm going to find out more about what I said yesterday and I won't be exactly as as firm and correct as I was the day before, because now I have more information. So the point being is that, as you see something three times just seems to be a rule you see something for three times. Pick it up when somebody says something to you, three different people saying the same thing, who are disconnected, who have not communicated with you and you're telling the same thing. Pay attention, because that's a message from the universe and as you become more aware, you don't need to have it given to you three times.

Douglas James Cottrell:

You're given a hint you're given a message, it just makes sense and you get that feeling ah, this is divine intervention here, pay attention. Or the reverse, gee, everything's going crappy. Every time I try to do something, I get stalled. There's no reason for this to be held up or for difficulties or delays. What's going on here? Well, this is protection taking place, and that's another element to this.

Douglas James Cottrell:

When you're protected, your, your subconscious or super subconscious is is putting roadblocks up because you're about to go down a path you ought not to go down. It might be, you know, premature and going down this way, or there might be danger down there, or there might be something that this is not your path. You think it is, but it's the wrong path. And then you get held up and you finally go a different way and the next day you say thank god, I went down that different path, that's exactly where I want to go. And so this awareness. You know, we think we're pretty smart. That's the human ego, right. We're really smart. Um, well, there's a smarter part of us, that sleeping giant that uh is a smarter part of us, that sleeping giant that uh directs, redirects, corrects and provokes us. So, to answer your question, you know this is rapid succession. I've seen something three times. Um, you know is it is the universe trying to getting us a message. It's the other way around. You're blocking the messages, you're resisting them Because your consciousness or your ego doesn't want to be told.

Douglas James Cottrell:

No, no, no, no, I'm in control. How dare you, mr Subconscious, try to save my life? How dare you try to tell me not to overeat? Or how dare you try to tell me that to overeat? Or how dare you try to tell me that person over there is very good looking. Stay away from them, because you know they might look like something wonderful. But that poison comes in beautiful bottles too. So you know, stay away, etc. Etc. Or hey, douglas, time to hit the machine, you know, like the treadmill. Oh, tomorrow, no, no, today.

Douglas James Cottrell:

So if you listen to that inner tyrant and you obey, more than likely you're going to do a lot better in life. You're going to avoid issues, you're going to find opportunities, you're going to find privilege, you're going to get prosperity. There's something, some beneficial something or other coming that you're not aware of yet. Wake up, it's coming and as you obey and as you continue to practice that, you will come to the point where you will, without hesitation, without mental reservation, and without doubt you will obey. True story Lady is in Spain, middle-aged people having a wonderful romance. They're about to go away for the weekend. They just had a big fight the week before, but now this is kiss and make-up time. She's at home, she's got her bag packed, she's up on the mezzanine inside the house. He drives up in his sports car, a beeps to horn comes into the house. She's about to come down the stairs with her bag fully packed for the weekend and a wonderful honeymoon kind of trip about to take place and she hears a voice Don't get in the car, whoa, just once.

Douglas James Cottrell:

What would we all do? More than likely, we would dismiss that, but she didn't.

Douglas James Cottrell:

She didn't get in the car she didn't come down the stairs with her back and her boyfriend left in disgust. He was irritated, got in his sports car and drove down the highway. Not fast, but he drove away Up the hill. Coming towards him was a truck. Just as the car and the truck were about to pass each other, the truck veered over into the car, into the lane where the car was coming. Oh no, it was a sports car. Phew, drove the engine of the sports car into the passenger's seat.

Les Hubert:

Oh, my God.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Had she been sitting there, she would have been crushed, with the engine from the car coming through the firewall right into the seat. She would have been sitting in True story, true story, wow. How many of us pay attention to that little voice? Some people call it that still small voice. That still small voice can be pretty forceful and pretty loud when it wants to be. Don't get in the car.

Douglas James Cottrell:

Wrapping this up, doug. I have one final question. Can we be misguided If we're not properly aligned? Can we be misguided by these quote signs? Unquote. Yeah, there's a feeling of surety that goes along with that, and you'll hear some things. Like you know, am I going to win the lottery tonight? You hear a little boy say oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, baloney, you know it's hard for people to win the lottery. I figured it out recently. I was wondering about it and then it occurred to me that Metatron, the chief angels up there in the big football arena where all the people are there screaming and praying, can I win the lottery? Can I win the lottery? Can I win the lottery? So you know what it's like in an arena with 20,000 people in the arena, what it all sounds like.

Les Hubert:

Yeesh, very good invitation.

Douglas James Cottrell:

So that's why it's hard and that's why our prayers aren't answered about winning the lottery, cause everybody's prayer is canceling out everybody Other's prayer, except one, somebody, squeaky voice, high voice, louder voice gets through. Metatron says oh, says oh, this one, you get the lottery this week. Oh, wow, anyway. That's the conclusion I come to recently as to why it's why. Why, when it says you know, uh, ask and you shall receive, why does that mean? Well, apparently you have to ask really loud for that binge, okay. So, yes, we can be distracted, we can be deceived, and this is where common sense comes into it. But as you go through this awareness, as you become aware, as you, as you practice this, it's like when you put on a t-shirt as soon as you put it on, you know you got it on backwards. It just doesn't feel right, it's true. You pull front door and you look and there's a little tag. You got the darn thing on backwards. That's true, you felt uncomfortable.

Les Hubert:

Yeah.

Douglas James Cottrell:

And so that's what happens when you get this so-called misguidance, anything that's lustful, anything that you want, you desire, anything that you want to make it happen. You bought a stock and you want it to go up and you're asking yourself is it going to go up? And you're getting thumbs up, you're getting arrow shooting up and you're getting all stuff, and then you get orange colors and you get banana peels and you go like, what's all this? Well, it's not consistent. And when you don't get something consistent, that's your will or your desire, interfering with that intuition. Wake up, pay attention. Until next time. Health, wealth and peace of mind to you. My friends, tell all your buddies, pals and all those people who are spiritually interested in advancing and finding out more about how to wake up. I'm your host. Douglas James Cottrell. My good friend and co-host, les Hubert, is here. Until next time. Health, wealth and peace of mind to you.

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