Skip Atwater
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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Everything that comes to you comes from what we believe in. not by me giving you quarters or whatever out the window. And it was an interesting, in the movie, it was an interesting lesson he was teaching those kids. They're used to trying to find something to eat and run down the street and chase anybody that looks a foreigner or whoever to give them some money and make their life better.
And this guy got out and he just went like that. And all the kids are like, Interesting.
Well, we, in my mind, if I back up hundreds of years and watch the way people have organized what they thought was space, like we talked about a minute ago in terms of The Earth is the center of everything, and everything else goes around the Earth. And then you think, well, no, look, we've measured out over the years, and we found out that not everything is the center of the Earth.
As a matter of fact, if you look, there's things out there, they're really strange, and there's a bunch of things out there, and we're calling those planets. Well, how do you know it's doing that? Well, it took a long time for... guys to figure it out and watch it happen. So we are beginning to think now that this thing we call space is infinite.
There isn't a place where, well, when do we stop having planets and suns and stars? And it's a good question because some of them say, Everything was supposed to collapse back in a billion years from now and start all over again with a big bang. And then time went by and the scientists looked out and said, all of those things aren't coming back.
They just keep going further and further and further away until as time passes, like there really is time, it will be so far away, we can't see it anymore. Well, then are we alone in the universe? What's space all about?
And I will challenge that statement, not that it's a big deal. Yes, the Big Bang is the thing. Well, how much longer? Will that stick? Will that always be that's the way it is? Or 100 years from now, 200, 500 years from now, they will say, you know, that Big Bang thing just doesn't work.
No, I think you're the one that's supposed to ask those questions and share those answers with the world around you. That's who you are. Thank you.
Thank you. I will bring that home to my family and I'll say, really? Oh, those look really good.
I grew up in Southern California and my dad was a dentist and my mother's father was a dentist. So the family business was dentistry for them. And there were a couple of kind of childhood things that were interesting to me because they seemed normal to me because they were happening in the family. And as I got older, I would say, well, you know, I got kind of a weird family.
And it sounds like I didn't like them because they were weird. It was more of a casual comment about that. My mom used to talk to... animals that died, a cat or a dog or whatever thing, and they'd tell us kids and shit, but they're fine. I talk to them and they're going to be okay and so forth. And I was like, okay, mom, I'm going to school.
And I guess one of the stories is an interesting bedwetting story. When I was 10 or a little bit younger than 10, I was still wetting my bed, but I wasn't teased about it. It was just a thing that... I had to pull the sheets off the bed and run them through the washer and then make the bed again. But it wasn't teasing or anything else.
Of course, I felt a little of that at school, that people would talk about that. And one night, I woke up in bed, and the bed was all wet. And I was screaming and mad at what had happened because there was no reason for this. It was an embarrassing thing for me with two older sisters and school kids talking about it. So my mother came in, are you all right? You fell out of bed? Did you get hurt?
Why are you screaming? What's it all about? And I said, I went into the bathroom and I sat on the toilet. And when I began to pee, I woke up here in bed And now my bed's all wet and, you know, very angry, very, really outspoken about it. There's a joke in the end. It really pissed me off. At any rate, my mom put her arm around me and she said, oh, it's okay. It's okay. It'll be okay.
And I was like, well, why are you so cool about it? I didn't say anything. She says, you know, Sometimes you're in your body and sometimes you're not in your body. So when you go into the bathroom, you have to make really sure that you went to the bathroom. Because it's obvious you didn't. And we go back to the discussion of dreams. Maybe you dreamed you went into the bathroom and you didn't.
and you peed your bed again. Well, that left a idea in my head. As the days rolled by and weeks rolled by, it was like, what does she mean by you're not in your body? And so I would kind of practice at night and found that I could get up and look out the window and then look back and I was in bed. And I said, that's pretty weird.
And as time went on, I would jump out the window, and my out-of-body state would jump out the window, and I learned to trust that.
It would be over 10, so maybe in the next year or two, those things started to happen. Do you remember the first time that happened? Yes. What were you thinking? Made an impression. Well, I want to go out and play with my friends. I found the first thing that I ran into when I'd go away from my sleeping self in bed, that I was in some sort of school situation, like night school or something.
I was in something called night school. But then when I got a little bit older, I started to go find my friends. Where's Mikey down the road? Well, hey, what if I go over here and find this? And they were out of their bodies too, although they didn't realize it like I did. And so that became part of my life growing up.
I can't answer that question. I can only say what my experience was. And the question is, are they out of body? And I'm not so sure that we use the term out of body.
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