March 31, 2025 • 17 mins
What is truth, and can anyone truly claim to possess it completely? In this thought-provoking episode, Dr. Douglas James Cottrell explores the nature of personal and universal truth with co-host Les Hubert.
"The truth is what you think it is," Dr. Douglas explains, but the wisdom lies in recognizing our limitations. Like puzzle pieces gradually coming together, our understanding of truth evolves throughout our lives. Some pieces may not immediately fit our existing knowledge framework - not because they're wrong, but because their connections haven't yet revealed themselves.
The conversation takes fascinating turns through ancient wisdom traditions, modern technology, and human psychology. Dr. Douglas uses the metaphor of a fluted column with six different sides to illustrate how different perspectives each contain validity while being unable to perceive the complete structure. With potentially 144 different psychological patterns influencing how we process information, humanity represents a multifaceted approach to truth.
When discussing artificial intelligence, Dr. Douglas acknowledges its extraordinary capabilities while emphasizing that human minds remain superior. "AI can do calculations with mechanical memory, but our minds are much more powerful," he notes, describing technology as an extension of human thinking without emotional filters.
Whether you're questioning political claims, religious doctrines, or scientific pronouncements, this episode offers a balanced approach to truth-seeking that combines conviction with openness. As Dr. Douglas concludes, "Be satisfied with what you know, move on what you know, and improve along the way." Subscribe now to continue exploring consciousness, metaphysics, and practical wisdom for navigating our complex world.
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Announcer (00:00):
Welcome to Wake Up with Dr Douglas James Cottrell,
your source for helpfulinformation, advice and tips to
live your life in a mindful wayin this increasingly chaotic
world.
For over four decades, DrDouglas has been teaching people
how to develop their intuitionand live their lives in a
conscious way.
His news and views of the worldtomorrow, today, are always
(00:21):
informative and revealing.
And now here's your host, DrDouglas James Cottrell.
Douglas James Cottrell (00:30):
Welcome to the Wake Up, the broadcast
where curiosity leads to deeperunderstanding.
I'm your host, Douglas JamesCottrell, and my good friend and
co-host Les Hubert is here withme, along with editor Jack
Bialik, as we delve into thefascinating realms of life,
metaphysics, spirituality andthe pressing questions that
shape our world.
What is the topic today Les?
Les Hubert (00:53):
Well, people basically want to know where to
find the truth.
Is there a truth quote-unquote,and how to get to it.
How do you discern where it is,because there's so much
disinformation out there now.
Douglas James Cottrell (01:05):
Well, that's true.
This is the age-old question,by the way.
You can go back.
I'm sure it's somewhere on atomb in some pyramid, where in
the Mayan world, in the Egyptianworld, in the Viking world,
there is "What is the truth?
So the question is this it'ssimple and we'll explore a
(01:27):
little further, but the truth iswhat you think it is.
You're right.
Your truth is your truth.
You're right.
The wisdom is that you don'thave all of the truth.
That's the secret.
I mean, people ask what's themeaning of life?
Is there life after death?
Uh, how do I do this?
(01:49):
How do I do that?
How do I have a better marriage?
What's the truth?
How you know, am I, am I mywork, making the company rich
and I'm only getting wages perhour?
What's the truth?
Well, you know, it's up to you,my friend.
The single most important thingis, as it's said in the Good
Book, we all see through a glassdarkly.
In other words, there arelimits of truth.
(02:10):
There is no way you, my friend,will know the truth.
No way.
You will know in part,specifically and with great
wisdom and achievement, parts ofthe truth.
Now, Les, you've heard peoplegoing around saying "God wants
you to do this, and God doesn'twant you to do that.
(02:30):
I know what God wants and Ispeak for God.
" That person is lying to you.
There's no way anyone couldknow the mind of God, and so the
derivative answer is the truthis the mind of God, and God is a
universal mind.
So how can we little, teenygrains of sand on the beach, how
(02:51):
can we possibly know what theocean is all about?
Les Hubert (02:55):
Hmmm.
.
Douglas James Cottrell (02:56):
So the short answer is you want to know
what the truth is?
Well, find out what you thinkthe truth is.
Explore what you know to be thetruth, apply it and if you can
repeat it, good chance you'reonto a piece of good truth.
But remember, always be alittle reserved and say well,
(03:17):
there might be a little more toit.
Because if you think in yourlife and I'm not going to go
into too many examples here, butevery now and then on a science
channel or history channel,somebody comes up with a new
explanation for something thateverybody used to know is the
truth.
Dinosaurs had color, they hadskin with pores in it or ripples
(03:42):
.
The big bones on the back wereradiating heat from their
skeleton.
Well, when I grew up, they werefor defence, so I said they
didn't know, but they told us somuch as what they knew.
So, if you just want to take amoment.
.
.
Internet; what the heck wasthat, just a few years ago?
(04:08):
Who would understand the cloud,where all the information
Google and other search enginescould find?
And now we have AI, artificialintelligence.
What is that?
Well, it's the truth.
They all have their resourcesof information that can answer
(04:29):
your question, guide you, beyour companion, talk to you.
AI is just in its neophyteinfant position in our life and,
oh my God, what's it going tobe like in the future?
Is it going to take us over?
Well, it already is.
What do you mean?
Is that the truth?
Yeah, I have a relative whotalks to the chat, e very night.
(04:54):
They have a cold and theyreport to the AI what their
symptoms are and the AI sendsback suggestions as to how
they're improving theirtemperature.
And so when I hear peoplehaving chats with chat GPT or
DeepSeek or the other ones outthere, is that the truth?
(05:14):
Where are these artificialintelligence machines getting
that information from SomeplaceOut there?
Well, that's how the human mindis.
The human mind is faster,better and more accurate than
any artificial intelligence, andwe get inspiration from above.
(05:36):
So, if you want to knowsomething about the truth, dream
about it, contemplate, meditate, figure it out, get the crayon
going on the piece of paper andtry to determine what it is that
you're talking about, thinkingabout or determining, and bang,
wake up.
There's the answer right infront of you.
(05:56):
How many times, Les, have webeen sitting there noodling
around, all of a sudden ding.
That's what I do.
Where did that come from?
You know what happened.
How come I didn't know aboutthat yesterday?
How come it's not?
Well, never mind about that.
As Buddha would say you arrived, use it.
Forget how you got there, justdo it.
But you know, the human mindgoes like no that was pretty
(06:18):
complicated.
How did I do that?
Where'd that come from?
What day of the week is it, andwhat flavor ice cream do I like
?
So the point being is (06:24):
when you get that information, it comes
from somewhere, and I'm going tocall that the universal
consciousness.
Yahweh, God Almighty, etc.
So the point being is that whenyou, when you're looking for
something and you're looking forthe truth number one, you're
going to be given a piece, andthat piece of truth is like a
(06:45):
puzzle piece, the big puzzle,like the window here on this
Zoom call, the rectangle window,that's the truth.
That's the parameters of truthas far as we can understand it
and comprehend it, and that'sanother thing to contemplate.
You can be given the truth andif you can't contemplate it,
understand it, it's like(airplane sound), it's just way
(07:06):
over your head.
So, whatever you can comprehend, the universe gives to you.
But think of it as a piece of apuzzle.
Puzzle fits in to-- guesswhat-- the other pieces of truth
that you've found.
And as you go through life,some magic things will happen.
You'll get a piece of thepuzzle that doesn't fit.
(07:28):
Don't put it away, just put iton the side, because if it's
truth, it will fit into thepuzzle later on.
If it's not truth, it won'tever matter and you set it aside
.
But as you continue to put thepieces together, sooner or later
you'll have almost the whole,entire picture of what truth is
(07:49):
for you.
Remember, for you.
You know there are 12 differentzodiac signs and of those 12
different signs, t hey're brokendown into 12 versions of each
sign.
Les Hubert (08:03):
Oh
Douglas James Cottrell (08:04):
That's 144 patterns.
Les Hubert (08:06):
Oh wow.
Douglas James Cottrell (08:08):
In In my researches.
So taking that as a truth thereare 144 different types or
patterns of people in the worldright now.
Wake up.
Right now, there's 144 ways ofknowing what the truth is.
If you had a column and you hadsix different sides, a fluted
(08:32):
column with six different sides,which side is the truth?
They all have their own truth,but they can't perceive the
other sides, so they don't knowwhat the other truths are, but
they're one in the same, part ofthe whole.
So if you begin to see yourselfin a simplistic way of: I'm one
of 144 different types ofpeople and I perceive something,
then Then my perception and myunderstanding and my
comprehension, and then how Irelate it to all the other
(09:10):
things me, that That is my truth.
Wake up, my friends.
Tomorrow you'll get moreinformation.
And then, oh my gosh, it's.
Because because you've evolved,you know you've done
(09:36):
.
So what is the truth?
What is what order?
This truth, as I just said,it's what you believe, it's what
your truth is to you alwaysimproving, always evolving,.
A brilliant never get up on apedestal and say this is the
truth, Les is the way Iguarantee the back of your hand.
God, god, will be down and gono, it isn't, I it's, in There's
something else you didn't thinkabout.
d l t s y.
(10:15):
Y.
.
.
Les Hubert (09:46):
That's funny.
You mentioned AI earlier andwith all the hype you hear on TV
and the scaremongering, I havea client of mine.
He works on weapon systems forthe Navy Brilliant man and I ran
it by him and he said to me,les, we've been using AI for
quite some time, you know.
And They have we?
He goes, yeah.
He said it's.
In many ways it's veryapplicable, it's very helpful,
(10:08):
and in other ways he said it'squestionable.
But he said it all depends onhow you apply it.
But he said you going to be aboon to mankind.
It's.
You know, reading x-rays, um,uh, mris, uh, how about the
people, people stuck at theairport, you know, scanning
luggage all day?
Oh my god, uh, they get very,very tired of that.
(10:29):
So, uh, those things it doesvery well.
But can he said also, it takesmassive amounts of programming.
But he said no, don't worryabout it, so we're going to be
said thank you for filling me in.
I you know I was totally offtrack with that.
Yeah, I would add to that tosay that you know AI can do
calculations.
It has a mechanical memory soit doesn't forget, it's not
(10:54):
alterated by age, but theinformation is there.
Wherever it gets is there.
And so I saw something recentlyabout in China they're using AI
to come up with cancer cures.
Wow, they put on the shorttrack, the short list, whatever,
and they are now having cancercures because of AI being able
(11:15):
to go through all the researchmaterial that's out there and
coming to some conclusion orpositive results.
Now, that's the power of AI,because anybody who's used it
you know you write a letter andyou ask it to redo it or check
it before you can sayabracadabra, it's done.
And so the power of AI as aresearch tool, because it can go
(11:38):
out and search through all thethings.
Douglas James Cottrell (11:40):
The truth that's out there and come
back in a concise, straight way.
That's the power.
But remember, humans came upwith that information to start
with, right right, so it's justkind of like an automatic
resource, I guess you can say.
But it has and does it.
(12:23):
think.
We already know how to think,but our emotional filters tend
to put doubt in our minds or,you know, we get distracted or
we think is this U2 going towork with all those things that
come up?
Well, spy with planes that,there's no emotion.
It justdoesn't up.
Well with that, there's noemotion, it just doesn't.
So, uh, as, as somebody in thearmed force is saying you know,
yes, we've always had this, ai,of course we have.
.
You know, like I remember, wehad supersonic jets, there were
spy vehicles.
Everybody said no, no, we don'thave them.
And then out came the u2 andall that stuff.
You know, sure, we've beenflying spine Boys all over
Russia for years now.
So here's along the way of that.
(12:44):
If you think in your mind, myfriend, something, chances are
it's already been done in thisnew world we're in.
And also sometimes, when youhave deductive thinking or
inspirational thinking, or youhave a dream or meditation.
Get on it right away, becauseif you don't, that's filtering
out in the ethers to all the,all the telepathy ways, the
(13:05):
telepathy waves, if I can putthat, as somebody else will take
your idea and produce it andI'll ask you have you ever, my
friends, come up with an ideaand then, a few months later,
there it is on the street.
Somebody invented it orproduced it more exactly and
you're going, I should have.
That's another way to get to thetruth is to follow it, prove it
(13:26):
out or try to disprove it.
And when you try to disprovesomething, you're teaching
yourself how to prove it,whether it's truth or not.
But again, you know, this ideaof AI is out here.
Our minds are much moresuperior to it.
It does things that we take along time to do.
(13:46):
It can do it in a fraction of asecond.
But I see it as an extension ofthe way human minds think,
without emotion, without doubt.
You ask AI, it doesn't say"excuse me, Mr Customer, let me
think about that.
I'm not sure if I can answerthat.
It throws back something at youreally fast and sometimes it
(14:08):
makes mistakes.
The word stream gets put inplace of the word dream or
something like that.
But in any event, remember, youas a person know many, many,
many things more than youpossibly comprehend or
understand about yourself.
You know how to make AI work.
You know how to ask thequestions.
(14:29):
That's pretty good.
You know what to ask.
That's the same as the ask ofyourself, the same of what is
the truth.
But always remember, Iguarantee you you will know a
lot about something, but noteverything.
And that's how you find whatthe truth is.
Now, when you're watchingpolitics and you're watching
(14:49):
religion, or you're watchingpeople make claims, whatever,
you have to be a little reservedand understand that when an
election happens, half thepeople, or slightly more, voted
for the person and the otherhalf didn't.
So when the politician says, Ispeak for the people, I was
elected.
No, he wasn't elected.
(15:11):
He won the election, but halfthe people didn't elect him.
So having that puts you back insome sort of calm mode.
But understand this.
The reason we die is so thatthe next guy can come along or
next person, man or woman, andput their truth forward and find
(15:35):
out what it's like to be apolitician, a religious leader,
a construction owner, a businessowner, a teacher, et cetera, et
cetera.
A parent even most importantjob is being a parent.
So that's the point is that thetruth is temporary.
You do not know it all.
You do not know the truth.
It's impossible.
Only God knows the truth.
(15:55):
We don't even know what Godlooks like, right, how can we
possibly know what's in his mind?
So beware people that tell youabsolutes God wants you to do
this.
God's going to punish you.
Well, wait a minute, let Godtell me that.
Who do you?
Who do you?
I don't even know who you are.
How are thing's going in yourlife, by the way?
A nyway.
So that's the truth.
(16:17):
You won't know the truth, butyou'll know a lot.
Apply it.
If it keeps on working for yourepetitively, and you can
demonstrate it over and over,that's the truth.
And always remember, if youstand up and you say I know the
truth for sure, then a big, bigmetaphysical hand will come down
, slap you on the wrist and sayno, no, no, there's something
you don't know.
And so be satisfied with whatyou know, move on what you know
(16:38):
and improve along the way, and Iguarantee you, by the time you
get to be a little older, youwill know considerable amounts
of the truth.
So rest assured, the truth'savailable to you as far as you
can understand it.
And that's another thing totake into account.
Wake up.
You know the facts, you knowthe truth to your level of
understanding.
(16:58):
You are always right, myfriends, always right, the same
as the other 143 people believethey're right.
You're right, I'll be inrespect.
Today we've been talking aboutwhat the truth is.
We hope we've been helpful.
So thank you for joining us onthe Wake Up.
I'm your host, Douglas Cottrell.
(17:25):
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.
Welcome to Wake Up with Dr Douglas James Cottrell,
your source for helpfulinformation, advice and tips to
live your life in a mindful wayin this increasingly chaotic
world.
For over four decades, DrDouglas has been teaching people
how to develop their intuitionand live their lives in a
conscious way.
His news and views of the worldtomorrow, today, are always
(00:21):
informative and revealing.
And now here's your host, DrDouglas James Cottrell.
Douglas James Cottrell (00:30):
Welcome to the Wake Up, the broadcast
where curiosity leads to deeperunderstanding.
I'm your host, Douglas JamesCottrell, and my good friend and
co-host Les Hubert is here withme, along with editor Jack
Bialik, as we delve into thefascinating realms of life,
metaphysics, spirituality andthe pressing questions that
shape our world.
What is the topic today Les?
Les Hubert (00:53):
Well, people basically want to know where to
find the truth.
Is there a truth quote-unquote,and how to get to it.
How do you discern where it is,because there's so much
disinformation out there now.
Douglas James Cottrell (01:05):
Well, that's true.
This is the age-old question,by the way.
You can go back.
I'm sure it's somewhere on atomb in some pyramid, where in
the Mayan world, in the Egyptianworld, in the Viking world,
there is "What is the truth?
So the question is this it'ssimple and we'll explore a
(01:27):
little further, but the truth iswhat you think it is.
You're right.
Your truth is your truth.
You're right.
The wisdom is that you don'thave all of the truth.
That's the secret.
I mean, people ask what's themeaning of life?
Is there life after death?
Uh, how do I do this?
(01:49):
How do I do that?
How do I have a better marriage?
What's the truth?
How you know, am I, am I mywork, making the company rich
and I'm only getting wages perhour?
What's the truth?
Well, you know, it's up to you,my friend.
The single most important thingis, as it's said in the Good
Book, we all see through a glassdarkly.
In other words, there arelimits of truth.
(02:10):
There is no way you, my friend,will know the truth.
No way.
You will know in part,specifically and with great
wisdom and achievement, parts ofthe truth.
Now, Les, you've heard peoplegoing around saying "God wants
you to do this, and God doesn'twant you to do that.
(02:30):
I know what God wants and Ispeak for God.
" That person is lying to you.
There's no way anyone couldknow the mind of God, and so the
derivative answer is the truthis the mind of God, and God is a
universal mind.
So how can we little, teenygrains of sand on the beach, how
(02:51):
can we possibly know what theocean is all about?
Les Hubert (02:55):
Hmmm.
.
Douglas James Cottrell (02:56):
So the short answer is you want to know
what the truth is?
Well, find out what you thinkthe truth is.
Explore what you know to be thetruth, apply it and if you can
repeat it, good chance you'reonto a piece of good truth.
But remember, always be alittle reserved and say well,
(03:17):
there might be a little more toit.
Because if you think in yourlife and I'm not going to go
into too many examples here, butevery now and then on a science
channel or history channel,somebody comes up with a new
explanation for something thateverybody used to know is the
truth.
Dinosaurs had color, they hadskin with pores in it or ripples
(03:42):
.
The big bones on the back wereradiating heat from their
skeleton.
Well, when I grew up, they werefor defence, so I said they
didn't know, but they told us somuch as what they knew.
So, if you just want to take amoment.
.
.
Internet; what the heck wasthat, just a few years ago?
(04:08):
Who would understand the cloud,where all the information
Google and other search enginescould find?
And now we have AI, artificialintelligence.
What is that?
Well, it's the truth.
They all have their resourcesof information that can answer
(04:29):
your question, guide you, beyour companion, talk to you.
AI is just in its neophyteinfant position in our life and,
oh my God, what's it going tobe like in the future?
Is it going to take us over?
Well, it already is.
What do you mean?
Is that the truth?
Yeah, I have a relative whotalks to the chat, e very night.
(04:54):
They have a cold and theyreport to the AI what their
symptoms are and the AI sendsback suggestions as to how
they're improving theirtemperature.
And so when I hear peoplehaving chats with chat GPT or
DeepSeek or the other ones outthere, is that the truth?
(05:14):
Where are these artificialintelligence machines getting
that information from SomeplaceOut there?
Well, that's how the human mindis.
The human mind is faster,better and more accurate than
any artificial intelligence, andwe get inspiration from above.
(05:36):
So, if you want to knowsomething about the truth, dream
about it, contemplate, meditate, figure it out, get the crayon
going on the piece of paper andtry to determine what it is that
you're talking about, thinkingabout or determining, and bang,
wake up.
There's the answer right infront of you.
(05:56):
How many times, Les, have webeen sitting there noodling
around, all of a sudden ding.
That's what I do.
Where did that come from?
You know what happened.
How come I didn't know aboutthat yesterday?
How come it's not?
Well, never mind about that.
As Buddha would say you arrived, use it.
Forget how you got there, justdo it.
But you know, the human mindgoes like no that was pretty
(06:18):
complicated.
How did I do that?
Where'd that come from?
What day of the week is it, andwhat flavor ice cream do I like
?
So the point being is (06:24):
when you get that information, it comes
from somewhere, and I'm going tocall that the universal
consciousness.
Yahweh, God Almighty, etc.
So the point being is that whenyou, when you're looking for
something and you're looking forthe truth number one, you're
going to be given a piece, andthat piece of truth is like a
(06:45):
puzzle piece, the big puzzle,like the window here on this
Zoom call, the rectangle window,that's the truth.
That's the parameters of truthas far as we can understand it
and comprehend it, and that'sanother thing to contemplate.
You can be given the truth andif you can't contemplate it,
understand it, it's like(airplane sound), it's just way
(07:06):
over your head.
So, whatever you can comprehend, the universe gives to you.
But think of it as a piece of apuzzle.
Puzzle fits in to-- guesswhat-- the other pieces of truth
that you've found.
And as you go through life,some magic things will happen.
You'll get a piece of thepuzzle that doesn't fit.
(07:28):
Don't put it away, just put iton the side, because if it's
truth, it will fit into thepuzzle later on.
If it's not truth, it won'tever matter and you set it aside
.
But as you continue to put thepieces together, sooner or later
you'll have almost the whole,entire picture of what truth is
(07:49):
for you.
Remember, for you.
You know there are 12 differentzodiac signs and of those 12
different signs, t hey're brokendown into 12 versions of each
sign.
Les Hubert (08:03):
Oh
Douglas James Cottrell (08:04):
That's 144 patterns.
Les Hubert (08:06):
Oh wow.
Douglas James Cottrell (08:08):
In In my researches.
So taking that as a truth thereare 144 different types or
patterns of people in the worldright now.
Wake up.
Right now, there's 144 ways ofknowing what the truth is.
If you had a column and you hadsix different sides, a fluted
(08:32):
column with six different sides,which side is the truth?
They all have their own truth,but they can't perceive the
other sides, so they don't knowwhat the other truths are, but
they're one in the same, part ofthe whole.
So if you begin to see yourselfin a simplistic way of: I'm one
of 144 different types ofpeople and I perceive something,
then Then my perception and myunderstanding and my
comprehension, and then how Irelate it to all the other
(09:10):
things me, that That is my truth.
Wake up, my friends.
Tomorrow you'll get moreinformation.
And then, oh my gosh, it's.
Because because you've evolved,you know you've done
(09:36):
.
So what is the truth?
What is what order?
This truth, as I just said,it's what you believe, it's what
your truth is to you alwaysimproving, always evolving,.
A brilliant never get up on apedestal and say this is the
truth, Les is the way Iguarantee the back of your hand.
God, god, will be down and gono, it isn't, I it's, in There's
something else you didn't thinkabout.
d l t s y.
(10:15):
Y.
.
.
Les Hubert (09:46):
That's funny.
You mentioned AI earlier andwith all the hype you hear on TV
and the scaremongering, I havea client of mine.
He works on weapon systems forthe Navy Brilliant man and I ran
it by him and he said to me,les, we've been using AI for
quite some time, you know.
And They have we?
He goes, yeah.
He said it's.
In many ways it's veryapplicable, it's very helpful,
(10:08):
and in other ways he said it'squestionable.
But he said it all depends onhow you apply it.
But he said you going to be aboon to mankind.
It's.
You know, reading x-rays, um,uh, mris, uh, how about the
people, people stuck at theairport, you know, scanning
luggage all day?
Oh my god, uh, they get very,very tired of that.
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So, uh, those things it doesvery well.
But can he said also, it takesmassive amounts of programming.
But he said no, don't worryabout it, so we're going to be
said thank you for filling me in.
I you know I was totally offtrack with that.
Yeah, I would add to that tosay that you know AI can do
calculations.
It has a mechanical memory soit doesn't forget, it's not
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alterated by age, but theinformation is there.
Wherever it gets is there.
And so I saw something recentlyabout in China they're using AI
to come up with cancer cures.
Wow, they put on the shorttrack, the short list, whatever,
and they are now having cancercures because of AI being able
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to go through all the researchmaterial that's out there and
coming to some conclusion orpositive results.
Now, that's the power of AI,because anybody who's used it
you know you write a letter andyou ask it to redo it or check
it before you can sayabracadabra, it's done.
And so the power of AI as aresearch tool, because it can go
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out and search through all thethings.
Douglas James Cottrell (11:40):
The truth that's out there and come
back in a concise, straight way.
That's the power.
But remember, humans came upwith that information to start
with, right right, so it's justkind of like an automatic
resource, I guess you can say.
But it has and does it.
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think.
We already know how to think,but our emotional filters tend
to put doubt in our minds or,you know, we get distracted or
we think is this U2 going towork with all those things that
come up?
Well, spy with planes that,there's no emotion.
It justdoesn't up.
Well with that, there's noemotion, it just doesn't.
So, uh, as, as somebody in thearmed force is saying you know,
yes, we've always had this, ai,of course we have.
.
You know, like I remember, wehad supersonic jets, there were
spy vehicles.
Everybody said no, no, we don'thave them.
And then out came the u2 andall that stuff.
You know, sure, we've beenflying spine Boys all over
Russia for years now.
So here's along the way of that.
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If you think in your mind, myfriend, something, chances are
it's already been done in thisnew world we're in.
And also sometimes, when youhave deductive thinking or
inspirational thinking, or youhave a dream or meditation.
Get on it right away, becauseif you don't, that's filtering
out in the ethers to all the,all the telepathy ways, the
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telepathy waves, if I can putthat, as somebody else will take
your idea and produce it andI'll ask you have you ever, my
friends, come up with an ideaand then, a few months later,
there it is on the street.
Somebody invented it orproduced it more exactly and
you're going, I should have.
That's another way to get to thetruth is to follow it, prove it
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out or try to disprove it.
And when you try to disprovesomething, you're teaching
yourself how to prove it,whether it's truth or not.
But again, you know, this ideaof AI is out here.
Our minds are much moresuperior to it.
It does things that we take along time to do.
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It can do it in a fraction of asecond.
But I see it as an extension ofthe way human minds think,
without emotion, without doubt.
You ask AI, it doesn't say"excuse me, Mr Customer, let me
think about that.
I'm not sure if I can answerthat.
It throws back something at youreally fast and sometimes it
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makes mistakes.
The word stream gets put inplace of the word dream or
something like that.
But in any event, remember, youas a person know many, many,
many things more than youpossibly comprehend or
understand about yourself.
You know how to make AI work.
You know how to ask thequestions.
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That's pretty good.
You know what to ask.
That's the same as the ask ofyourself, the same of what is
the truth.
But always remember, Iguarantee you you will know a
lot about something, but noteverything.
And that's how you find whatthe truth is.
Now, when you're watchingpolitics and you're watching
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religion, or you're watchingpeople make claims, whatever,
you have to be a little reservedand understand that when an
election happens, half thepeople, or slightly more, voted
for the person and the otherhalf didn't.
So when the politician says, Ispeak for the people, I was
elected.
No, he wasn't elected.
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He won the election, but halfthe people didn't elect him.
So having that puts you back insome sort of calm mode.
But understand this.
The reason we die is so thatthe next guy can come along or
next person, man or woman, andput their truth forward and find
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out what it's like to be apolitician, a religious leader,
a construction owner, a businessowner, a teacher, et cetera, et
cetera.
A parent even most importantjob is being a parent.
So that's the point is that thetruth is temporary.
You do not know it all.
You do not know the truth.
It's impossible.
Only God knows the truth.
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We don't even know what Godlooks like, right, how can we
possibly know what's in his mind?
So beware people that tell youabsolutes God wants you to do
this.
God's going to punish you.
Well, wait a minute, let Godtell me that.
Who do you?
Who do you?
I don't even know who you are.
How are thing's going in yourlife, by the way?
A nyway.
So that's the truth.
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You won't know the truth, butyou'll know a lot.
Apply it.
If it keeps on working for yourepetitively, and you can
demonstrate it over and over,that's the truth.
And always remember, if youstand up and you say I know the
truth for sure, then a big, bigmetaphysical hand will come down
, slap you on the wrist and sayno, no, no, there's something
you don't know.
And so be satisfied with whatyou know, move on what you know
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and improve along the way, and Iguarantee you, by the time you
get to be a little older, youwill know considerable amounts
of the truth.
So rest assured, the truth'savailable to you as far as you
can understand it.
And that's another thing totake into account.
Wake up.
You know the facts, you knowthe truth to your level of
understanding.
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You are always right, myfriends, always right, the same
as the other 143 people believethey're right.
You're right, I'll be inrespect.
Today we've been talking aboutwhat the truth is.
We hope we've been helpful.
So thank you for joining us onthe Wake Up.
I'm your host, Douglas Cottrell.
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