Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised. Welcome Weirdos, I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained. If you're new here, welcome to the podcast and be sure to subscribe so you don't miss future episodes. If you're already a Weirdo, please share the podcast with others. Doing so helps make it possible for me to keep creating episodes as often as I do. Coming up in this episode... Born into wealth, then orphaned, then forced to marry at the age of 14, losing all control of her money and future, Catherine Ferris did what any teenaged girl in her position would do. She became a ruthless highway robber that terrorized local villages. People in Gloucester, Massachusetts were reporting very bizarre things in the summer of 1692. They heard the march of troops despite the war having ended 20 years earlier. They saw what they claimed was a human scalp and the shape of a Native American's bow when looking at the face of the moon. But that was only the appetizer of what would come that horrifying summer of paranormal activity. Seeing a deceased loved one, a soft glowing light, a warm feeling of comfort and love. People have reported seeing many of these types of things when near death. And while some might want to blame it on the brains neurons misfiring or even rapid firing towards the end of someone's life, how does that explain that the majority of these reports are so similar? In 1849, young Cornelius Ahern was only 19 years old and his chosen occupation was pickpocketing. It's likely we never would have heard about him except for the fact that he once attempted and failed to pick the pocket of one particular writer who would one day become famous, Charles Dickens. But first, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been surrounded by controversy and conspiracy theories since the day of his death. The magic bullet theory, Leharve Aswalt was or was not the lone gunman. Was there someone in the grassy knoll? Was there a government conspiracy to have Kennedy killed? But there's another mystery most documentaries and books don't cover. What about Kennedy's missing brain? We begin with that story. While listening, be sure to check out the Weird Darkness website. At WeirdDarkness.com you can sign up for the newsletter to win monthly prizes, find paranormal and horror audiobooks I've narrated, watch old horror movies for free, plus you can visit the Hope in the Darkness page if you're struggling with depression or dark thoughts. You can find all of that and more at WeirdDarkness.com.  The assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been surrounded by controversy and conspiracy theories since the day of his death. Most everyone agrees that JFK died on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. And that's about all historians and theorists agree on. Various people and committees have debated for decades about fundamental questions such as how many shooters were involved, why the President's route was changed at the last minute, the political leanings of the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the reason Jack Ruby killed Oswald. But what about JFK's brain? Its mind-boggling disappearance is yet another great mystery surrounding the assassination. The American public now seems to believe that we do not know everything about the assassination. The Warren Commission came to the conclusion that Oswald was the lone assassin and there were no others involved. At that time, in 1964, surveys seemed to indicate that the majority of Americans believed the commission's findings, but not anymore. A 1998 CBS News investigation showed that 76% of Americans believed there has been significant information withheld that might prove there was some kind of conspiracy that took place. Later, in 2013, 59% of respondents to a poll stated that they thought that Oswald was not the only assassin of JFK. That same year, a Gallup poll showed that the number of people who believed that some kind of conspiracy was involved was more than 60%. Every the most bizarre element in an admittedly bizarre series of events took place both at and after JFK's official autopsy. In 1978, a government organization called the House Assassination Committee published findings that stated that JFK's brain was missing. Some of the committee called for a thorough investigation. How could something like JFK's brain go missing? To delve further, we need to go back to the facts that we know about the movements of his brain after the assassination. First off, we know that the second bullet went through Kennedy's skull. At that point, much brain matter ejected and splattered around the car in which he was riding. Doctors removed the remaining part of JFK's brain during the autopsy. This is where the mystery starts. Some witnesses that were supposedly at the hospital state that JFK's wife Jackie was seen holding a part of her husband's brain, but it's not known what eventually happened to it. During the course of the autopsy, doctors removed the brain and put it into a metal box. Subsequently, the Secret Service stashed the box in the White House. In 1965, for reasons not fully understood, JFK's brother Robert ordered the removal of JFK's brain from the White House and had it put into the National Archives. But the following year, an inventory of the archive's materials showed the JFK's brain was missing. An investigation was started and although approximately 40 people were interrogated, the brain section was not to be found, hence the mystery continued. Subsequent searches proved fruitless. But a recent book by historian James L. Swanson claims to know the truth. According to Swanson, JFK's brain was actually stolen by JFK's brother Robert in an attempt to conceal the nature of the president's poor health and his drug history. Swanson said that JFK was on multiple medications for pain and there was a possibility that the brain could provide evidence that Oswald was not the sole shooter. So Robert Kennedy removed the brain matter from the National Archives so that tests on it could not point to dangerous drug use or conflicts in the official facts of the assassination. Swanson says that his brain tissue would probably not prove anything about JFK's medical conditions or drug use. Swanson claims that JFK's brain was not buried with his body but says he does not know the brain's current location. Did someone move it from the Archives? Was it destroyed? Could someone have buried it apart from his body? The missing brain material removed during the autopsy is just one more topic that keeps assassination conspiracy theorists eager to question the facts surrounding one of the major international events of the 20th century. If you happen to pass through with Hampstead Hertfordshire, you might notice a pub doing business under the name Wicked Lady. The pub is named after the legend of one known by the same name, a female highway robber who terrorized the area 400 years ago. According to the legend, the Wicked Lady was a local noblewoman named Catherine Ferris, who under the cover of night dressed as a man and robbed and terrorized locals. Catherine was born in 1634 to a family of fervent protestants who had profited from the favor of Henry VIII and Edward VI. The family was granted extensive properties in Hertfordshire, including several manor houses. However, Catherine's father, Knight and Ferris, died in 1640, shortly followed by her grandfather. Catherine was the sole heir to her family's fortune, as her only brother had died young. This meant that at the age of six, Catherine became an heiress to a great fortune. Whilst her mother quickly remarried, she also died two years later after the family joined King Charles I at his base in Oxford upon the outbreak of the Civil War. Several years into the Civil War, her stepfather was taken prisoner, resulting in Catherine being made a ward of the court. She was sent to live with her stepfather's sister. The Fanshawe family, who took her into their care, were also committed royalists, and under parliamentary rule they had their assets cut, assets which were already drained by contributing to the royalist cause. This meant that Catherine was in a precarious position. With no family of her own around her, she was married at the age of 14 to her stepfather's nephew, who was only 16 himself, in a bid to combine the two family's fortunes. It didn't take long for her husband, who was now in control of her assets under the laws of the time, to sell off many of her properties. One such property was Marquette Sell, an old priory which had been converted into a house in the 16th century. Under the legend of the wicked lady, it is sometime during this period that Catherine decided to take up the mantle of Highway Robber, perhaps as a way to rebuild her family's lost fortune or as a way to regain some autonomy after years of being passed around for her wealth. As her husband was absent a lot, it was easy for her to lead her double life. It wasn't unusual during this period for royalist supporters to turn to Highway Robbery, as many had been left destitute after the Civil War, just as Catherine and the Fanshawe were. It wasn't just Highway Robbery that's been attributed to Catherine with the burning of houses, slaughtering of livestock, and even the killing of a constable being blamed on her. Catherine died early at the age of 26 in 1660. As we have no records for the cause of Catherine's death, the legend has seized the opportunity to create a dramatic end for her. The persistent explanation for her death is that she was shot during a robbery gone wrong while she was on Noamansland Common in Whithamston, right next to where the modern-day pub bearing her name stands. The legend said that she died of her wounds whilst she was trying to ride back to her old family's property at Marquiette cell which had a secret staircase entry. Her body was found by her servants, still wearing her male Highwayman clothes, and they carried her home and buried her. In reality, whilst an excellent story, there is not much evidence to prove its truth. The upheaval of robbery and damage to property in the area at the time could be blamed on bans of brigands or the unrest during the Civil War, and there is no contemporary reference to Catherine's misdeeds. However, the legend persisted in local memory and it was fueled further in the 1800s when a secret chamber was discovered by workmen at Marquiette cell behind a false wall next to a chimney stack. The unknown circumstances of Catherine's death further lends questions to how she died, particularly as she was buried at St. Mary's Church in Ware and not in the Fanshawe family vault as may have been expected. Skepticism arises when looking at the geography of her supposed death. Noamansland is not actually particularly close to the Marquiette cell manor and the property had been sold by her husband's family five years prior to her death. There were some confirmed female Highway robbers during the 17th century and many who worked as ordinary robbers, often paired with a man, the woman would lure men into alleys with the promise of sex where their male partner would knock out the man and they would rob him. This was known as buttock and file. Female Highwaymen do appear frequently in literature of the following century, but these accounts are often sexualized and demonstrate male discomfort at the idea of powerful independent women. In the literature the women are either emphatically unwomanly or ultimately are brought back under control by a man. Mall Cut Purse featured in the second volume of Alexander Smith's A History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Noted Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifts and Cheats 1714 is written in a fashion that constantly highlights her lack of feminine qualities.  Other women who appear in ballads include one featured in the female frolic. She would rob members of unpopular groups such as Quakers, thus satirizing these men's lack of masculinity and symbolic impotence against a woman. Ultimately though, the female highway robber comes up against a real man when she accidentally attempts to rob a fellow highwayman. He overpowers her, has his way with her, and thus she is brought back to her station as a submissive woman. Whilst female highwaymen did appear in popular literature, in reality there are very few confirmed cases of actual female highway robbers. In 1735, a man named Beatty published a piece in the Gentleman's magazine on female highwaymen, but even he only cites one case. A butcher was robbed in a very gallant manner by a woman well-mounted on sidesaddle and near Rumford in Essex. She presented a pistol to him and demanded his money. He, being amazed at her behavior, told her he did not know what she meant when a gentleman coming up told him he was a brute to deny the lady's request, and if he did not gratify her desire immediately he would shoot him through the head, so he gave her his watch and six guineas. Even in this case it appears that the woman may have been acting as a partner to a male highwayman who threatens the gentleman. One case of a female highwayman who did meet a grisly end in the 17th century was a woman named Joan Bracey. Her story is told in the Newgate Calendar, a biographical book about criminals whose executions had been announced in the original Newgate Calendar, a bulletin of executions. The calendar tells us that Joan was the daughter of a wealthy farmer in Northamptonshire who met a man named Edward Bracey around 1680. Edward's initial plan was to seduce Joan and then extract the large sum of money from her father for a marriage portion, as marriage was a common consequence of sex outside of wedlock during this time before abandoning both Joan and her father. However, Joan was wily herself and she agreed to rob her own father with Edward. The pair then traveled together, passing as husband and wife, and frequently robbed together on the highway. They were successful for four years and amassed a good fortune, but the fear of retribution made them decide to quit highway robbery and try to build a legitimate business as a way to live the rest of their lives in comfort. However, the inn they purchased quickly became a center of scandal after they continually robbed patrons and so they had to abandon it and return to their old ways. One rich young gentleman who had spent lots of money at their inn was the heir to an estate of around £100 a year, a significant sum of money at the time, and so they decided to extort the young man for the debts he still owed their inn. They blackmailed the young man to join Edward in robbing a rich tradesman who they knew was coming to Bristol with a large sum of money. The men were successful and managed to steal more than £100. After further extortion of the young gentleman, the pair made off with £1400 and continued to rob people on the highway with Joan dressing in men's clothes. Unfortunately for the couple, one robbery on the highway went wrong and Joan was caught and sent to Nottingham Jail. In 1685, she was executed at the age of 29. Edward managed to escape when Joan got caught and hid for a while, but one day whilst visiting an inn he was recognized by someone he had previously robbed. He was chased out of the inn by armed men where he managed to grab a horse from the stable to try and escape. Nonetheless, a few days later he was caught by some men and shot when he tried to escape by horse again. So whilst female highwaymen may not have been very prevalent, they certainly captured popular imagination both at the time and still today. The story of Catherine Ferris was made into a film in 1945 which elaborated upon her legend. Whilst some exist in literature, some in legend, there certainly were some around, although most, if not all, probably acted as partners to male robbers. It's easy to see how they still capture our attention today with the idea of women who led double lives as meek, repressed women of their time during the day, but at night reclaim their independence to assert their power over defenseless men. Coming up, people in Gloucester, Massachusetts were reporting very bizarre things in the summer of 1692. They heard the march of troops despite the war having ended 20 years earlier. They saw what they claimed was a human scalp and the shape of a Native American's bow when looking at the face of the moon, but that was only the appetizer of what would come that horrifying summer of paranormal activity. Plus, seeing a deceased loved one, a soft glowing light, a warm feeling of comfort and love. People have reported seeing many of these types of things when near death, and whilst some might want to blame it on the brain's neurons misfiring or even rapid firing toward the end of someone's life, how does that explain that the majority of these reports are so similar? These stories and more when Weird Darkness Returns Oh, hello there, it's Santa, and my big night is getting closer by the day. You know, I love milk and cookies when I visit your home each year. Well, the milk can get warm while waiting for me to arrive, and a warm toddy is not the best thing to drink if you plan on staying alert and flying around the world. So this year, I'm asking that you instead leave me a plate of cookies at a nice hot thermos or mug of Weird Dark Roast Coffee. It actually tastes like Christmas. It has a hint of cocoa and caramel, and I've been drinking a lot of it recently to wake me up early in the morning to work on toys and take care of the reindeer. So this year, leave Santa a mug or thermos of Weird Dark Roast Coffee. Tell your parents they can find it right now at WeirdDarkness.com slash coffee. That's WeirdDarkness.com slash coffee. Strange Things were reported in Gloucester, Massachusetts in the summer of 1692. Though King Philip's war had occurred two decades previously, the march of man was heard in its Gloucester streets, and an Indian bow and scalp were seen on the face of the moon, while the boom of cannon and roll of drums were heard at Maldon, and the windows of Plymouth rattled to the passage of unseen horsemen. But the strangest thing was the arrival on Cape Anne of a force of French and Indians that never could be caught, killed or crippled, though two regiments were hurried into Gloucester and battled with them for a fortnight. Thus the rumor went around that these were not an enemy of flesh and blood, but devils who hoped to work a moral perversion of the colony. From 1692 when they appeared, until the Salem witchcraft hysteria ended, Cape Anne was under military and spiritual guard against the Spectre Leaguers. Another version of the episode based on sworn evidence said that Ebenezer Babson, returning late on a summer night, saw two men run from his door and vanish into a field. His family denied that visitors had called, so he gave chase, or he believed the men to have mischievous intention. As he left the threshold, they sprang from behind a log, one saying to the other, the master of the house is now come, else we might have taken the house. And again, they disappeared in a swamp. Babson woke the guard and on entering the quarters of the garrison, the sound of many feet was heard without. But when the doors were flung open, only the two men were visible and they were retreating. The next evening, the Yalmin was chased by these elusive gentry who were believed to be scouts of the enemy, for they wore white britches and waistcoats and carried bright guns. For several nights they appeared, and on the Fourth of July a half-dozen of them were seen so plainly that the soldiers made a sally, Babson bringing three of ye unaccountable troublers to the ground with a single shot and getting a response in kind, for a bullet hissed by his ear and buried itself in a tree. When the company approached the place, where lay the victims of that remarkable shot, behold, they arose and scampered away, as blithely as if not had happened to them. One of the trio was cornered and shot anew, but when they would pick him up, he melted into air. There was fierce jabbering in an unknown tongue, through all the swamp, and by the time the garrison had returned, the fellows were skulking in the shrubbery again. A man named Richard Dolliver afterward came upon eleven of them engaged in incantations and scattered them with a gunshot, but they would be not down. Instead, they lurked about the cape until terror fell on all the people, remaining for the best part of a month together. So it was deemed that Satan had set ambushments against the good people of Gloucester, with demons in the shape of armed Indians and Frenchmen. Stones were thrown, barns were beaten with clubs, the marching of unseen hosts was heard after dark, and the mockers grew so bold that they ventured close to the redoubtable Ebenezer Babson, who gazed scornfully down the barrel of his gun and laid a charm on the weapon, so that no matter how often he snapped it at them, it flashed in the pan. Neighboring garrisons were summoned, but all battling with goblins was fruitless. One night, a dark and hostile throng emerged from the wood and moved toward the blockhouse, where twenty musketeers were keeping guard. If you be ghosts or devils, I will foil you, cried the captain, and tearing a silver button from his doublet, he rammed it into his gun and fired on the advancing host. Even as the smoke of his musket was blown on the wind, so did the beleaguering army vanish, the silver bullet proving that they were not of humankind. The night was wearing on when a cry went out that the devils were coming again. Arms were laid aside this time, and the watchers sank to their knees in prayer. Directly after the name of God was uttered, the marching ceased, and heaven rang with the howls of the angry fiends. Never again were leaguers seen in Gloucester. Close to the moment of death, apparitions of deceased friends and loved ones appear to escort the dying to the other side. Such deathbed visions are not just the stuff of stories and movies. They are in fact more common than you might think, and are surprisingly similar across nationalities, religions, and cultures. Instances of these unexplained visions have been recorded throughout history and stand as one of the most compelling proofs of life after death. Anecdotes of deathbed visions have appeared in literature and biographies throughout the ages, but it wasn't until the 20th century that the subject received scientific study. One of the first to examine the subject seriously was Sir William Barrett, a professor of physics at the Royal College of Science in Dublin. In 1926, he published a summation of his findings in a book titled Deathbed Visions, which I have linked to in the show notes. In the many cases he studied, he discovered some interesting aspects of the experience that are not easily explained. It was not uncommon for the dying people who saw these visions to identify friends and relatives who they thought were still living, but in each case, according to Barrett, it was later discovered that these people were dead. Remember, communications then weren't what they are today and it might take weeks or even months to learn that a friend or a loved one had died. Barrett found it curious that children quite often expressed surprise that the angels they saw in their dying moments did not have wings. If the deathbed vision is just a hallucination, wouldn't a child see an angel as it is most often depicted in art and literature with large white wings? More extensive research into these mysterious visions was carried out in the 1960s and 1970s by Dr. Carlos Osis of the American Society for Psychical Research. In his research, and for a book he published in 1977 titled At the Hour of Death, which I'll link to in the show notes, Osis considered thousands of case studies and interviewed more than a thousand doctors, nurses and others who attended the dying. The work found some fascinating consistencies. Although some dying people report seeing angels and other religious figures, and sometimes even mythical figures, the vast majority claim to see familiar people who had previously passed away. Very often the friends and relatives seen in these visions express directly that they have come to help take them away. The dying person is reassured by the experience and expresses great happiness with the vision. Contrast this with the confusion or fear that a non-dying person would experience at seeing a ghost. The dying also seemed quite willing to go with these apparitions. The dying person's mood, even state of health, seems to change. During these visions, a once depressed or pain-riddled person is overcome with elation and momentary relief of pain until death strikes. The people having these experiences do not seem to be hallucinating or to be in an altered state of consciousness. Rather, they appear to be quite aware of their real surroundings and conditions. Whether or not the dying person believes in an afterlife is irrelevant. The experience and reactions are the same. How many people have deathbed visions? This is unknown since only about 10% of dying people are conscious shortly before their deaths. But of this 10%, it is estimated between 50% and 60% of them experience these visions. The visions only seem to last about 5 minutes and are seen mostly by people who approach death gradually, such as those suffering from life-threatening injuries or terminal illnesses. So what are deathbed visions? How can they be explained? Are they hallucinations produced by dying brains? Delusions produced by drugs in the systems of the patients? Or could the visions of spirits be exactly what they appear to be? A welcoming committee of deceased loved ones who have come to ease the transition to life on another plane of existence? Carla Wills Brandon attempts to answer these questions in her book One Last Hug Before I Go, The Mystery and Meaning of Deathbed Visions, which includes many modern day accounts. I'll link to her book on Amazon in the show notes. Could they be creations of the dying brain, a kind of self-induced sedative to ease the dying process? Although this is a theory offered by many in the scientific community, Wills Brandon doesn't agree. The visitors in the visions were often deceased relatives who came to offer support to the dying person, she writes. In some situations, the dying did not know these visitors were already dead. In other words, why would the dying brain only produce visions of people who are dead, whether the dying person knew they were dead or not? And what about the effects of medication? Many of the individuals who have these visions are not on medications and are very coherent, writes Wills Brandon. Those who are on medications also report these visions, but the visions are similar to those who are not on medications. We may never know whether these experiences are truly paranormal. That is until we too pass from this life. But there is one aspect of some death bed visions that is most difficult to explain and lends most credence to the idea that they are actual visitations of spirits from the other side. On rare occasions, the spirit entities are seen not only by the dying patient, but also by the friends, relatives and others in attendance. According to one case documented in the February 1904 edition of Journal of the Society for Psychic Research, a death bed apparition was seen by a dying woman, Harriet Pearson, and by three relatives who were in the room. Two witnesses in attendance of a dying young boy independently claimed to see the spirit of his mother at his bedside. Whether the death bed vision's phenomenon is real or not, the experience is very often beneficial for the people involved. In his book Parting Visions, Melvin Morse writes that visions of a spiritual nature can empower dying patients, making them realize that they have something to share with others. I'll link to his book in these show notes as well. He says these visions dramatically lessen or completely remove the fear of dying in the patients and are enormously healing to the relatives. Carla Will's Brandon believes that death bed visions can help change our overall attitude about death. Many people today fear their own death and have difficulty handling the passing of loved ones, she says. If we can recognize that death is nothing to fear, perhaps we will be able to live life more fully. Knowing that death is not the end might resolve some of our fear-based societal difficulties. When Weird Darkness returns, in 1849, young Cornelius Ahern was only 19 years old, and his chosen occupation was pickpocketing. It's likely we never would have heard about him, except for the fact that he once attempted and failed to pick the pocket of one particular writer who would one day become famous. Charles Dickens. His story is up next. 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That's WeirdDarkness.com slash Built, and use the promo code WeirdDarkness, all one word, and you'll get 10% off everything in your cart. That's WeirdDarkness.com slash Built, promo code WeirdDarkness. It's beginning to taste a lot like Christmas. On a chilly March evening in 1849, a young man aged 19 was making his way along the Edgware Road in Merlebone. He was small and of medium build. He had dark hair and an oval face with a fresh complexion. His eyes were gray, and they were peering keenly through the dark. His name was Cornelius Ahern, and he was a pickpocket. Ahead of him, Ahern spotted two gentlemen who were strolling along arm in arm deep in conversation. One was portly with corkscrew curls and a double chin, and passed the first flush of youth. His companion, wearing an expensive hat and coat, carried less weight and was the right side of 40. Creeping up and putting his hand in a pocket of the older gentleman's coat, Ahern got the fright of his life when his victims spun round and clouded him on the head with a walking stick. Swearing as a salient, the young thief turned tail and fled. Although unnerved by the side of a gathering mob, the two gentlemen gave chase, and with the help of a police constable on plain clothes duty, caught up with Ahern in Bell Street. They then frog-marched him, kicking violently and swearing to the police station at 86 Merrillbone High Street, where they formally identified themselves. The older of the two, Ahern's victim, was Mark Lemon. He was the editor of Punch Magazine. His younger companion was Charles Dickens. He was a writer. At the police station, Dickens, who had once written a piece on the Middlesex House of Correction at Coldbath Fields and Clerkenwell, spoke to Ahern. Have you not been in prison before? No, never, replied Ahern, who had in fact been locked up in one penitentiary or another on 20 previous occasions. The constable gave him a knowing nudge. But what are you talking about? Ahern again protested. Although he conceded that he had once served a two-month sentence, one presumed that he felt that this did not count. Ahern's defiance did not end there. When he came before the magistrate and was asked to give his version of events, he explained that he had simply been walking behind two gentlemen quickly, but with nothing unlawful in mind. They had stopped so suddenly that he had bumped into them, at which they had turned and struck him. When he had protested that they had struck him again, he had then run off, pursued by cries of stop-thief. At this point, Dickens said again that he thought he had seen the young man in the House of Correction, and replied to which Ahern said that, in that case, he Dickens must have been in prison himself. In fact, he went on, he knew both the gentlemen well as members of the swell mob, and he added to the obvious amusement of the court that they got their living by buying stolen goods. And I recollect him at the prison. Ahern was pointing at Dickens, where he was put in for six months while I was there for only two. The magistrate handed down a sentence of three months in cold bath fields with hard labor. He had been unimpressed by the attempt to discredit the two eminent men of letters, and he made it clear that the young pickpocket had only avoided a high court trial with a possibility of transportation by failing to find anything in Lemon's pocket. And so, Cornelius Ahern was taken away in a police van to the House of Correction. He had been born into a Catholic family in about 1830 in Ratcliffe Highway, the road running from Shadwell to Limehouse in the east end of London. His mother Margaret, who was in her mid-30s when he was born, came from Ireland. Nothing is known about Cornelius' father beyond the fact that he had already died when the 1851 census was taken. In that time, Margaret was living in Berry and Ground Passage off Merrillbone High Street, where she was the domestic servant of a bricklayer's laborer, who was also from Ireland. Cornelius, too, was a laborer, although at one time or another he described himself more precisely as a plasterer or a mason. In prison records, his degree of instruction, his education, was classified imperfect. By a curious coincidence, Dickens had explored the relationship between illiteracy and criminality in the course of his prison visits. In 1846, in a letter published in The Daily News, he commented on the sight of male prisoners in the House of Correction being taught to read, saying, The contrast of this labor in the men with the less blunted quickness of the boys, the latent shame and sense of degradation struggling through their dull attempts at infant lessons, and the universal eagerness to learn impressed me in this passing retrospect more painfully than I can tell. But he was less generous in his depiction of a juvenile pickpocket being sentenced at the Old Bailey to transportation, which appeared in his works Sketches by Boz. The 13-year-old boy in one of the stories tries to argue his way out of trouble, but his arguments are disingenuous, and his tears are a sham. Like the boy in Boz, and indeed like the Dodger in Oliver Twist, Ahern had started his criminal career at an early age. His repertoire was decidedly varied, and by the time of the Mark Lemmon Affair, he'd been charged not only with picking pockets, but also with stealing from gardens, assaulting the police, passing counterfeit money, and on a darker note, mugging children. However, he was not as artful as the fictional Jack Dawkins, and only weeks after serving time for his botched attempt at picking Lemmon's pocket, and we are assuming that Lemmon was telling the truth about the incident, he was brought before the Merrill Bone Magistrate again. At this time, he was committed for a trial at the Middlesex Sessions because there was material evidence of a crime, namely a two-chilling silk handkerchief. The victim was the remarkably named Bulkley John Mackworth Prade, a first-class cricketer and member of the Merrill Bone Cricket Club, who'd been walking along Great Cumberland Street with his wife when he felt what he called a slight twitch at his pocket. Catching Ahern trying to hide the stolen handkerchief, he had dragged him into a baker's shop, where he kept watch over him until a policeman arrived. Once again, Ahern had his own version of events. He had seen a handkerchief fall out of Prade's pocket, and while attempting to return it to its rightful owner had been rounded on. To be accused of stealing the handkerchief, pricking the wipe was a travesty of justice. But Ahern's notoriety went before him, and on the 21st of August, the Clerkinwell Court, deciding that enough was enough, sentenced him to be transported for ten years. He was held in coal bath fields until he was transferred to Millbank at the end of November, where he remained for nine months. From Millbank, he went first to Portland and Dorset, and then to Sterling Castle, a convict hulk at Portsmouth. By the end of 1851, he'd been moved to Dartmoor. Finally, in the autumn of 1852, he was put on board the Dudbrook at Plymouth with 53 other convicts. Australia now loomed. The Dudbrook, a 601-ton bark had already collected convicts from the hulks of Woolwich and from the prisons at Portsmouth, Portland, and Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight. In total, she carried 229 convicts. She sailed on the 9th of November, and after a voyage of 77 days, reached Fremantle in Western Australia on the 2nd of February in the year 1853. And there Cornelius Ahern disappeared from sight. We know that he had a ticket of leave, possibly granted for his record of good behavior in the months prior to his departure, which gave him a degree of freedom of movement. But where he went, what he did, and what ultimately became of him, remain a mystery. After all, Australia is a pretty big place. He disappeared from the lives of Mark Lemon and Charles Dickens, too. No doubt, they would have said that the young Nerdoel had got his just desserts. One wonders, though, what the man who railed against social injustice would have said if he had seen the forlorn Ahern on board the Dubbroke. He was still only 23 years old, and oval of face and fresh of complexion. His fellow passengers were a rough lot, their bodies bearing witness to their crimes, but also to their deprivations. One man had a skin deeply pitted with smallpox, another had scars running across his nose and under his chin, a third had lost three middle fingers on his left hand. Ahern had butt a tattoo of a heart on his right arm. What does a man have a tattoo of a heart? He was unmarried. Maybe it reminded him of a girl he had once known, or of his mother Margaret, who, having lost a husband, had now lost a son. If you liked the podcast and if you haven't already subscribed, be sure to do so now so you don't miss future episodes. And also, please, tell someone else about the podcast. 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We're going to talk about how they thrive in 2023. You know what everybody's been thinking?  Three years of just stagnancy. And we have had a lot of challenges. A lot of us had health challenges. We have a lot of loss in our lives. And it feels like our lives have been just stuck in limbo for the last three years. And a lot of us have dealt with a lot of anxiety, disease, and pain, and even depression. Now they say that 1 in 10 Americans have depression. And it's even worse in adolescents. And adolescents 1 in 5. And out of that group, 3 out of 10, they are having suicidal thoughts. And 1 out of 10 actually attempts suicide. So the situation is pretty bad. But hopefully, with what I'm going to show you today, we can turn that around. And it's going to make your life probably the best year in your life that you've ever had. And set you on that trajectory to basically have your best version of yourself and the best reality occur for you in your reality. We've been dreaming through the last three years. And many of us are feeling the squeeze of inflation, where a lot of us are concerned about what's going to happen in the economy. There's this looming recession happening. And there's still a lot of uncertainty in our lives, even though the last few years was already uncertain. But still have a lot of uncertainty up ahead in terms of that. But I'm going to show you how you can basically become unshakable and unstoppable from this point forward. You know what? It doesn't have to be that way. But we don't have to be affected by all the chaos that's going around in the world. We don't have to be affected by all the negativity and all the stress and all the bad things that are happening in the world. We can actually take control of what? We can take control of our thoughts and we can take control of our mindset. And most importantly, which I'm going to show you today, is how you can take control of your frequency, which is even on a deeper level than your mindset. And it's on a deeper level than your thoughts. And I'm going to explain why that is the case. Everybody is freaking out about what's happening in the news and freaking out about what's happening with stories that they hear and rumors and all the political or geopolitical or climate events and just so much weird stuff happening.  Things that you never thought would happen are actually happening right now. What matters most in your life is you can figure out how you can have that solid foundation mentally, physically, and spiritually and emotionally. So that doesn't matter what's happening on the outside. It doesn't matter what the circumstances are. You're able to have a solid foundation towards your future. And you can be a leader in your community and you can be a leader in your family so that you can protect them as well. Because there are weaker people. I used to be a very weak person and there are people like that who need protection, who need someone like you perhaps to help them. So hopefully my goal and my mission is to help people like that because I used to be in that position. And guess what? There was nobody that really helped me. I really had to help myself and I said wouldn't it be nice if there was somebody that actually took me by the hand and lift me up, get me back on my feet and help me brush myself up and keep walking forward and keep moving forward. And I didn't have anybody like that. But eventually I met some people that helped me. But now I realize when I look back that if I had somebody to help me, if I had a mentor, I would have been further along, much further along than I am even now. And I wouldn't have to go through so much confusion, frustration, lack, pain, and all that negativity in my life.  You guys following? You guys would like that in your life? Let me see you raise your hands again. If you don't know who I am, I'm David Wong and I'm a visionary inventor. I'm the inventor of chi-clos. You don't know what chi-clos are. You're in the world's most powerful compact PEMF frequency wellness device, all right? If you have one, great. Welcome to the family. If you don't have one, I encourage you to take a look at what that is. And also I'm a martial artist and I'm a chi-gong practitioner and also I am a entrepreneur. And they call me the frequency doctor, but I'm not a medical doctor. I'm the doctor of life force and chi energy because for the last 15 years, I've been studying and researching about life force and I've followed many different scientists and doctors and eventually I figured out what is life force and how do we harness it? How do we tap into this power that is infinite that's all around us in order to heal? Like how I heal myself and also in order to transform ourselves and also how to attract abundance? So we're going to talk about all those things. So we're going to be talking about how you can join our inner circle, all right? So we have a brand new inner circle this year, 2023. And what inner circle is? You get the opportunity to do many things, okay? So number one, you're going to get these inner circle frequencies that are not available to the general, okay? These are very specific, very powerful, uniquely curated by myself. And these are the most powerful, most effective frequencies that you can get out of all 12,000 frequencies that we have. And there are 72 of them, all right? So what you do with these frequencies is they can instantly transform you, okay? So you heard me right. These frequencies are so powerful, they can instantly help you begin to transform. And what kind of things can you transform? You can use these frequencies to unlock your body's innate healing ability, all right?  And you could have been like me. You could have been having a chronic condition. I had an immune disorder, autoimmune disorder called ulcerative colitis that I had for 10 years. And I was stuck there for a whole 10 years without any improvement, regardless of what I did. The pills didn't help. None of the therapies helped. And I thought I was going to live with that pain and with that disease and with brain fog and with fatigue and with internal bleeding for my whole life. But luckily, I was able to develop this technology, G-Coils, and I was able to heal myself in 90 days. So with these frequencies, you can unlock your self-healing powers. You have some questions coming in. We're going to get to those at the end of the webinar. So just type any questions that you have now. We're going to get to them very soon. All right? What else are you going to do? You can use these frequencies to eliminate stress, depression, and anxiety. Okay? Those are the top things that people are dealing with emotionally, right?  Because like I said, because of all the negative influences from the outside, it could be news, other people, your family even, your friends, friends. And it's causing a lot of stress. And so many people have burnt out and they're exhausted from working every day and still having to manage their families and manage their finances and not with inflation and all these things happening and there's so many layoffs and so on. There's a lot of stress and there's a lot of uncertainty that causes anxiety. And even the children, even the younger people, they have so much depression is because they don't think that there's going to be a future. They don't think that in five years that the world is still going to be here. They think the world is coming to an end. And a lot of them feel that there's no purpose in living. So they become depressed and they become not unmotivated. And they feel like there's no point of doing of living. But what if there's a way that you can just eliminate all that, like just with a stab or finger, as fast as that, because with our frequencies, with these frequencies, you can actually do that. You can basically just turn off depression and anxiety and fatigue. You can turn it off. That's how powerful they are. So if you use some of the frequencies, you know what I'm talking about. Like we have people that just turn off for a few minutes and they have no more anxiety or they just feel happy. Like they never felt that way for probably years. And some people even burst out in tears because of the feeling that they get. And it's not bad tears. It's a good kind of joy, deep joy that they felt, never haven't felt for many years. And these frequencies can do that because they actually unlock all that positivity inside you. And you have it inside of you. And you can unlock that and turn all that depression, fatigue and anxiety and stress and instantly turn it off and transform it into something good. Your stress turns into relaxation and calm. And your anxiety turns into confidence. And your fatigue turns into energy. And these things are happening all around the world with people that are using our technologies. So it's really amazing. So that's the second thing that happened. Another thing that happened is you're going to change your thought patterns. You know how you get into these negative spirals of thought, right? And it comes with emotions, right? You have fear and at least worry and at least a doubt and it leads to more fear and also want, right? And it becomes a negative cycle. It's hard to get out of that. So that's why people spiral into depression because all these negative thoughts, they become more negative and they just feed into each other. So what do you do about that? First of all, you need to take action and the action you need to take is not necessarily being, oh, you got to go to yoga class or you got to go meditation or you got to go to church. The only action you need to take is just use some of these frequencies and use our Shikho technologies. You don't even have to take any, get it coaching or anything like that. Okay. So that's how powerful this and that's how simple these frequencies are. You just, they were instantly. Okay. And when I instantly, it means it starts working instantly. You don't have to wait for it to start working on you. Now after they start working, it may take an hour for it to really feel it for you to really feel it and some people take longer. But the moment you start these frequencies, you instantly start to steer your life back into the best direction for you. All right.  This is the force that drives you. This is the force that becomes what drives your soul, that fills up your soul. And it goes beyond just physical energy. You know what I mean? Like you can drink caffeine and get lots of physical energy, but it's not lasting. It's not deep. Or you can, you can also get a lot of mental energy with some drugs, but then it's also not lasting and it's not that deep. So what I'm talking about is life force energy. So it's your whole entire being becomes energized, which includes everything in energize your body and mind while they are aligned together. That's very important.   Is this vibrant and energetic and resilient and super human, almost like person and happy and also powerful. And you're going to amplify all the good, the best qualities of yourself.  Everybody has good qualities above themselves because when you ask somebody else, what's your best quality, they can tell you. A lot of times we're not really aware of our own good qualities, but what these frequencies will do with it is they're going to amplify those good qualities about yourself and make you the best version of yourself. Like I said, what else is going to do is going to help you discover your inner hidden power. All right. Like I said, we have all these good hidden qualities and abilities that we haven't really tapped into or we used to tap into we lost or we had a hint and sometimes we have it, we grasp it, we're in the zone and we have that, but then we lose it and we don't know how to get back and get it back again. So you're going to be able to unlock and unleash that hidden power and be able to keep that hidden power and no longer hide it.  Also attracting abundance. So we all know we want to attract abundance and what's abundant is not necessarily just be rich. There's so many rich people that are, a lot of them are in very bad mental, spiritual and physical condition during the last few years. We can see that clearly.   That's what it means to be abundance, to be full of life, whatever that means to you. So some people, it may be to have really strong and positive relationships. Some people may be to have really strong and resilient health. Some people may be to unlock their hidden potential, like even like their mind abilities, like superhuman mental abilities, or to become the best that they can be. And or some people, could be money, could be making a lot of money. It could be becoming very successful or building a very successful business. So we're going to show you how you can use these frequencies to do all those things to achieve true prosperity and wealth, not just riches. You can make money with this if you want, but that's not the whole purpose. The whole purpose is to help you to become the most alive and experience your life to the fullest.  This is the opportunity right now, while you're watching this, to make this year count.  This is your chance.  Instead of regretting months from now, a year from now, two years from now, five years from now, and say, I wish I should have done something back then because I'm nowhere further now, five years later than I was five years, sometimes even going backwards. So make sure you take this opportunity to do something in your life and take action. Right? How do you turn your resolutions into lasting change? Most people with resolutions, new resolutions, how long they last? How long they keep their motivation for? Guess how long? It's two weeks, okay? Statistically, people keep their resolutions two weeks. They got another 50 weeks more to go. Needless to say, is that resolutions don't work. The reason is because it's just something mental. It's not something that encompasses your whole being.  Because in a change your whole being, you just simply have to change your frequency. You change your frequency and then everything's going to line up behind it. It's like a train, right? The train is all like a snake or something like that, like an NS.  That's exactly what's going to happen. You just have to do that one thing, and that one thing is going to pull everything straight. So even if your life is going around in curves and circles and backwards, you just do this one thing and it's going to pull you in that direction and straighten everything out for you. Okay? All you have to do is just change your frequency. And you see, we all want instant results. And the problem why people, another problem why people can't keep their resolutions, let's not even talk about resolution. Let's just talk goals. Okay? It doesn't even have to be a new year. It can be goals, right? You can set goals any time you want. And the reason why people don't achieve their goals is because what do you need to achieve a goal? You need consistent action and also you need consistent motivation, right? If you don't have consistent motivation, you're not going to have action. And if you don't have the action, you're not going to have motivation. It's like chicken and the egg. So how do you get both motivation and action and do it have it consistently? You need to put in a lot of time, right? And you need to put in a lot of effort. For example, people say, oh, and I want to lose weight this year. I want to lose 10 pounds. I want to lose 30 pounds, whatever it is. So they take action for, they go to the gym or they do some running or they do some exercise and they do it for a couple of weeks consistently. Good for them. But then after that, they stop being consistent because they lose motivation. They say, oh, that two weeks later, I don't really see any results and they lose motivation or they get busy or they get distracted. And basically after two weeks, they lose one of the two are both of those things, motivation and action. But here's the cool part. Here's the trick. How do people become super successful and how do I become super successful and how do all our inner circle people become so super successful? And the secret is to not rely on motivation and to not rely on your own willpower to take action. Okay, what do we do? We have a secret. We're using these inner circle frequencies and what these inner circle frequencies do is they actually give you motivation and then make you take action effortlessly. Okay, that's the trick. Okay, so you basically were able, you will be able to have your mind so that you don't have to have motivation anymore. You don't have to have willpower anymore because it's going to give it to you. These frequencies actually will program your subconscious and your conscious mind and your body and give you motivation. Like you're looking to listen to these frequencies, you're going to use the cheat quotes and after 30 minutes or so, or an hour or three hours, okay, but in a very short period of time, you're going to start sitting up on your seat and then your eyes are going to go wide awake and say, whoa, I feel like I want to do something. I feel like I want to go out and do something. I feel like I want to exercise. I feel like I want to clean up my room and declutter my house and wash the car or mow the lawn. This happens. So this motivation, this fire starts to build up inside of you and it's a lot deeper, like I said, than just getting caffeine because caffeine just gives you a boost, jolt of energy. But what this does is it ignites your energy, ignites your life force and that ignition starts this fire.  You become this person that's super motivated, that's unstoppable, that takes action. And even when things, hurdles come your way, or there's obstacles, or their setbacks, or their stress, or things happen to you that are unexpected, it doesn't matter because you have so much energy to just go straight through these obstacles without a hitch. Do you understand what I mean? If you have a very powerful boat and you have this water coming down one way, you're going up the river, your boat is so powerful, it doesn't matter if your river is going the opposite direction, you can go up that river, even if the flow is going not your way. And even better, if the flow is going your direction, then you can go even faster. Do you get what I'm saying? You're going to have this engine in your life that's so powerful that no matter where and how things flow, we can talk about the economy when no matter how it goes up or down, then we can talk about inflation that doesn't matter how much the dollar is worth. Okay, because with this technology and with these frequencies, you'll be able to make yourself into the best person that you can be. Best doctor, best podcaster, best teacher, best mechanic, best nurse, best health practitioner, whatever you do, best writer, best designer, whatever you are, you're going to become the best of that. And when you become the best of that, you don't need to worry whether the economy is better or good because in any economy, there's going to be a high demand for you, for your service, for your product, for what you have to offer because you are one of the best or the best. And this is what these frequencies can do. So you tell me, how much would that be worth to you if you were able to become the best that you can be?  So that's how these frequencies work. All right. They eliminate the formula, what do you call them? The word? I forgot the word. Anyway, they eliminate the need for time and commitment because they give you so much motivation that you're going to do it without using any willpower because you just want to do it.  You're going to feel like you want to be happy all the time. You want to feel like you want to take action all the time. So that's why it's so great. How do these frequencies work? They work in three steps. The first step is it works to remove these deep hidden traumas that you may have inside of your life, these negative energies that could be still inside of you that could be blocking a lot of things in your life. I'm not talking just about theoretical blockages. Some of these are physical blockages. For example, when somebody is physically not, it could be meridians that could be blocked, like tension in the actual body that's blocking certain energy from flowing properly throughout your body. So there's those kind of blockages. We're also talking about emotional blockages. You could have had an accident. You could have had trauma. You could have had been injured or you could have suffered pain or loss in a way that was very traumatic and it was never dealt with properly and you could have had that stuck inside you subconsciously that kind of determines some of the decisions that you make or the way that you see the world or the relationships in a certain way that cause people to respond to you as not as ideally as you think. So whatever we are inside, we actually create that in our outside world. We create that in the relationships we have with our friends, with our family. So if you're able to release those traumas, release those negative energies, release those blockages, then you're able to basically prepare yourself for the next step. So that first step, we're going to get rid of all those things for you and it's going to be easy. We're not going to talk about going to a therapist or like walking on hot coals or something like that. Nothing like that. Simple. Once again, using just the frequencies you can do that. It's so simple.  Very simple. If you were like me and you had a chronic condition that you were dealing with that you couldn't really get rid of and nothing really helps, this could be the energy that you need in order to basically break out and break through, get that breakthrough that you need and finally achieve the wellness that you've been needing. So we can help you do that and mental health too. So have you been stuck in a rut mentally?  Stuck in anxiety, worry, pain, and having stress and burnout. You've been stuck there for a long time. You just can't take anymore and you're just so tired of that. With this, now you can reverse that and you can change it and accelerate yourself, accelerate your progress and get all of that very quickly. And then once you do that, step two, step three is to reprogram your subconscious to attract abundance and attract wealth effortlessly. So how do successful people become successful? I think it's a big part of it has to do with their frequency. That's all we're talking about, frequency and what do we mean by frequency? There's people who have a really negative frequency and no matter what they do, they keep losing money. They keep getting frustrated. They keep making mistakes. They keep getting associated with the wrong people and getting a con right and losing money. They keep believing the wrong people. Why? Why is that? I used to be there.  Why did I do that? And then next thing you know, I do it again and I lose more money. There's people like that, the people who, no matter what they do, because their frequency is negative, they just can never succeed. They just always make the wrong decisions. They always meet the wrong people. They always take the wrong opportunity and you gotta think if there's people like that who are always stuck there, wouldn't there be people on the opposite who have the frequency that allows them to always make the right decisions, always attract abundance, always attract the right people in their life and then always succeed? Yeah, it actually exists. Did you guys see the movie Glass or with Will Smith and I forgot his name. Anyway, not Will Smith, it was Bruce Willis. Bruce Willis. I'm breakable. I'm breakable. Remember that movie? I'm breakable. So basically the bad guy, he was called Mr. Glass and his bones were like glass, so they shattered very easily. So he said that if I was somebody who was such so fragile, there must be somebody on the other scaled end of the spectrum that's indestructible. So that was Bruce Willis. Anyway, it's an old movie. So think about it. There's people who are on one spectrum who are always unsuccessful and failing all the time, always attract bad things to them. There must be people on the other side of the spectrum that always attract good things to them and what's the main difference? The main difference I think is frequency because frequency is the nature of the universe and everything operates on frequency. Okay, it includes our brain waves, includes our nervous system, includes frequencies coming up from every organ in our body. Now they have technology that can measure what you're thinking, not just your brain waves, like alpha, beta, theta, delta. They can actually measure what kind of thoughts you have. They can measure and track whether you're paying attention to something actively or in the peripheral view or you're paying attention to something that's related to your task. It's scary, okay? But they can do that now. So everything, your thoughts are frequencies and it's measurable.  It's just state of mind. It's just a state. It's just a mental, emotional state and those things can be programmed into your mind. All right? So what are you going to transform? So those three steps, you guys remember it's very simple, okay? It's a long explanation but it's just three steps. Number one, we're going to remove all the negative energy. Number two, we're going to accelerate your physical and mental health. And then three, we're going to help you program you for abundance and prosperity. Okay? It's that simple. Okay? Just one, two, three. Very simple. What will you transform as an annual circle member? All right? Like I said, if you have exhaustion and burnout, we're going to turn that transmuted, so to speak, help you regain energy and life force energy. Okay? If you have chronic health or hindrances, we're going to help transfer that into being the healthiest you've ever been for years. If you have depression, stress or anxiety, we're going to transform that into positive mood and elevation in your inner self. If you have self-limiting beliefs, we're going to help you awaken your inner superhuman abilities and awaken that frequency that you can have to attract abundance in your life. How do you guys like that? Raise your hand if you do. Okay? So there's three ways to get involved with inner circle. And before I throw that, basically, inner circle, the main thing from inner circle you're going to get, as I said, was those inner circle frequencies. Okay? I'm going to talk a little bit about that. So what are these inner circle frequencies? So now a lot of people say, okay, are these the same as the stuff you hear on YouTube or is this same as binaural beats or is it the same as right frequencies? Okay, let me explain it very simply. Okay? Let's say there's different dimensions. So if there's one dimension, it just goes a run line, right? One line is one direction. One dimension, that's the right frequency. Okay? What's binaural beats? Binaural beats is basically two lines, two frequencies at the same time. That's binaural beats. Okay? So that's two dimensions. With three dimensions, you have more than two lines happening at the same time. So when you have that, you have a harmony. So that's our quantum frequencies. That's three dimensions. Okay? What do you have when you have more than three dimensions? You have four dimensions. You take a three-dimensional object and then you start spinning it around. All right? And you start creating this symphony of frequencies. And that's our higher quantum frequencies. Okay? So we have higher quantum frequencies and they're four dimensional. And they're based on very specific precise frequencies that can cause changes in your mental self and in your emotional self and in your mind state. Okay? That's what they're for. And they're so powerful, they have four up to 5,000 data points. Those are 5,000, you can call frequencies inside each of these programs. Not like binaural beats, we got two or anything else, which is they don't have that many. So it's not like anything like you see on YouTube, because YouTube, they say, okay, it's 432 or 528. First of all, they don't even play that frequency in there properly, or they just change the octave and then you call it that frequency. And it's just music. It's not really a frequency. They don't really know how to stimulate brain waves the way that we have figured out how to. And most of them are just musicians who make some very relaxing music that you can listen to. It's nice relaxing, you make it or buzz from it, but they don't actually program your brain waves or program your subconscious the way that these frequencies do or higher quantum frequencies do. So that's generally what it is. So when you join inner circle, there's three ways to join. Okay? And you have to apply. It's not something that everybody can join. We have to make sure that you qualify for this. All right? And there's three ways to join. So first, let me talk about the frequencies that are included in the inner circle collections. Okay? So there are, I believe, 78 of these inner circle frequencies, and they're separated into about 10 different collections. You have these very powerful frequencies, okay? Attract abundance, magnetic attraction, health, wealth and wisdom, manifesting meditation, attract money and resources, success, programming, manifesting abundance. So each one of those are like powerhouses of frequencies. And like just one of these will be worth the investment because we had people just play one of these for a day. And the next day she won something like $3,500 from the casino, like holy cow. And we had somebody who used this for a week. And then he was able to eliminate $3 million in debt. Okay? He just woke up and he had this idea and this solution of how he could get rid of this debt that he has been holding on to. That's worth $3 million. So it's definitely worth what he invested in this frequency. And this is one frequency. So there's seven frequencies in the abundance plus collection. So that's the first one that's included. The second one is something called psychic ability. And this is crazy. Okay? Whether you believe psychic ability or not, this is going to make you experience the world very differently than they're used to. Okay? So what this collection includes is psychic activator, psychic shield, third eye opening, emethyst, crown chakra, divine intuition and instinct, mental telepathy, astral projection, lucid dreaming. Okay? So all these psychic abilities, I think they're all abilities that we all have. You can use these to activate and a very popular one is a psychic shield. So if you feel like that you're really highly affected by other people's thoughts and feelings, psychic shield is a great frequency to protect you from that so that you're not exposed, especially a very sensitive person, right? Some people are very sensitive. You can call it emotionally or psychically or telepathically. So this is something that could definitely help with that. So those are eight frequencies in that collection. And then the third one is mind expansion. So you guys like mushrooms, cannabis, right? LSD, some of these psychotropic, you call it psychotropic or psychotropic. Anyway, so these are mind expanding substances that you can just use frequencies for. A lot of these things are legal. You can't get them, right? So now you can, or if you get them, they're hard to find or they're expensive. So now instead of getting them, you just use these frequencies. I had a couple ladies that were using the, what you call it, one of these, the, I think the mushroom one. And then they were just getting really happy, you know what I'm saying? Really happy. And they felt like it was like taking the real thing. So those are available. So those are three of the really popular ones that we have in the inner circle.  So that's the first level. It's $2,000, $1,995. It's lifetime. So you get to own these frequencies. You can use it as much as you want. You can use it for whole family. You can play them in the morning and play them at night, play them when you sleep. And it's unlimited. So it's just one time investment. And this is something that you can, as an asset that you can use to start transforming yourself. Okay. So normally before inner circle is 5,000, but now I created a, like a smaller version of inner circle called the mentee membership. And the mentee manager gets you in their inner circle and gets you those three powerful collections for $1,995. Or you can play three payments of $9,995 for three months. Okay. The next level after that is the inner circle. So just the normal inner circle. And now you get the whole collection of inner circle frequencies. And if you click on that, what, if you click on that 78 inner circle frequency link there, you can see what's included. In addition to those three frequency, three collections, you got another seven in collections. There's the abundance money collection, which has seven frequencies for specifically like attracting money, like specifically attracting money. Okay. There's eight frequencies specifically for attracting or for growing and building your business. And then there's five frequencies specifically for job and career, which includes overcoming fear, balancing power and action, financial stress relief, financial clarity, financial genius. So we have a lot of people who are investors, stock traders, day traders, crypto traders, whatever you have. And they actually use this quite a lot because it's helped them get a lot of success through trading. Could be currency, could be futures, currency exchange, or whatever they do. This has been very useful for them. Or people who have businesses, these money and business growth ones are just exceptional. And they start playing them. And then for some reason, like all these things happen in their business, like these clients start showing up to their offices and ordering the most expensive package that they have. People are a lot more open to what they have to offer. They are listening to them more and they're more, there's less friction and there's less like resistance when people see your product or your service. For some reason, they're just more open to it. And the only thing that they can attribute this success to is just through our frequencies. It's just in their businesses are growing exponentially faster than they normally do. Okay. And then the next one is the Manifesting Plus Collection. And that has 10 also powerhouse frequencies. You got the willpower and purpose, focus and energy, getting stuck just to it, overcome fear, surging into strength, removing an invitation, stay focused, job well done. So each one of these are powerhouse frequencies. I don't know what I'm just saying. Where's the same? Because these are the most powerful ones that we have. And there's 10 of them in this Manifesting Collection. So you get that. You get the Super Brain Collection, which has seven frequencies, specifically the Brain Performance, which has brain and nerve support, concentration, optimizing, stamina, intelligence, memory and connection, cognition, problem solving. So for anybody who's studying, whoever or anybody that has really highly intellectually demanding work, then you want to have peak performance. If you're an athlete and want peak brain performance, then you got to use this.  So that's included. And finally, the Life Protection Collection. So these are the after-jab frequencies.  And they'll boost in moon for you as well. So that's also included. So that's 10 collections total. So you've got Abundance Plus, Mind Expansion, Psychic Ability, Abundance Money, Abundance Business, Abundance Job Career, Manifesting, Super Brain, and Life Protection. That's nine. Okay. So nine collections, 78 frequencies all together. Each one of them super powerful. And that's all included. Like I said, once again, it's a lifetime. You own these and that's 395. So 4,000. All right. Or you can do 995. So 1,000 for five months. All right. Now, so that's the second level. And now I'm also releasing or offering the VIP level, which is the third level. And these are for people who want all that and they want more. So what this level is, if you are somebody that has been wanting to have somebody help them personally, this opportunity for you to become a basically an apprentice and I will become your mentor and I will guide you by the hand one on one to help you achieve your success. So you get all the frequencies. You get exclusive invitation to VIP events. So when we start having live events, then you get VIP access to that. And you're going to get a personal growth assessment. So we can assess what you need and start sending goals. We're going to have monthly one-on-one meetings with you to do strategy calls and to help you to determine what you need to do. And you're going to have communication with me one-on-one through text message, direct communication. So you get all that. So this is a one year commitment. All right. So I only want people who are serious and I actually don't have much time for this. I only have probably spaces for maybe a handful of people like this and that's all I'm going to take all year. I don't have much additional time. So I'm going to be very picky who is accepted into that. So it's $15,000 a year and or you can do 12 payments off $1500 a month. All right. So those are the three options.  Let me explain. So you get community leadership opportunities. So there have been people who are thinking about working with Chi life or in Chi life and they want to be leaders in Chi life. So if you're an inner circle member, a mentee or any of those three levels, you get to become one of the leaders in our community. We may have you lead one of these webinars or lead one of our workshops or lead one of our healing sessions. So that's the opportunity that you can get. You get direct access to my social media accounts so you can talk to me through those. So if you're not part of the VIP, you can still reach me through some social media. The VIPs will get my direct, basically my direct phone number for text messaging. And inner circle Facebook group is a private group, inner circle Telegram group is a private group. You also get my transformation course, which is worth $1,000. You also get the 12 step actualization course, which is another 12 lessons. So that's another $1,000 value. You get complimentary attendance to events. When you start having events, you get to attend for free. That's another $1,000. You get prototype access. So when you have new prototypes that we're working on, you get access to those prototypes before everybody else. So that's $500 value. Also, you get special membership only deals or members only deals. That's another $1,000 value. And we're also going to give you dedicated Chi life support. So it's going to be going to be Chi life concierge. We have somebody on staff who is specifically handling our VIP members, meaning I mean our inner circle members. So all three levels, mentee, inner circle and VIP. We're going to have a dedicated staff just for them. So they get priority help if they need. Also, you get, last but not least, you get a copy of my life of Chi, both the digital copy and also the physical copy of the book. So you get all of that. So all the frequencies value is, if you add it all together, is $7,090. So you buy them all separately. All those collections is going to be $7,090. And all the bonus value you added all together is about $12,059. Total measurable value. If you add everything together, it's actually worth $19,149. Okay, so there's a lot of value there. There's probably a lot of not non-measurable value, like things that are priceless, like community leadership, there's a lot of things that are priceless that you can't really put a price tag to. But as a actual measurable value, there's about $19,000 worth of value. And you can basically get involved at a one time for $2,000, $4,000, or you want to buy VIP that's $15,000 a year. So VIP is not one time. VIP is a yearly thing. Okay, so as I said, right now, what's the best investment you can make? You don't know what's going to happen with the stock market. You don't know what's going to happen with the dollar. You don't know what's going to happen with real estate. But in any market, the best thing to invest in is yourself. When you read, that's what Warren Buffett says.  You can pass it to your family without getting taxed, right? You can teach other people, you can give it to people and it keeps growing value. It keeps growing in value because it improves you over time because the more you improve, the more value you have. So it keeps growing in value no matter what happens in the economy. As I said, if you make yourself the best person that you can be, the best doctor, the best practitioner, the best student, best parent, best nurse, best teacher, whatever job that you are, you're going to be in high demand and you're not going to have to worry about how the economy is because you're always going to be doing well. And these frequencies are exactly what you need in order to get there and stay there. Get to that high frequency of success and abundance and be able to stay there and be in such a high level that it doesn't matter what happens on the outside, what obstacles and what shortfalls and what shortcomings or what life throws at you. It's just going to bounce off. You're just going to brush it off and the life is never going to be the same again. So the question is, are you ready for your next level of transformation? So if you're somebody who you're in a place in your life when you just feel like you've got to try something different because whatever you're doing now for the past while, it could have been months, it could have been years. It's just not working. You're just not getting the life that you want. This could be the opportunity for you to turn that all around and do it in a way that is new and that is different and that works a lot better than all the stuff you see out there. It's going to work a lot better than courses or going to retreats or going to seminars and things like that or even coaching. A lot of times the reason why people need coaches is because they need those two things that I mentioned. They need energy and they need motivation. They need someone to keep them accountable and take action because they can't do it themselves. They don't have the energy inside of themselves and motivation to do it themselves. That's why they need to hire a coach and pay them thousands of dollars or hundreds of dollars a month. Some are pretty expensive. There's a coach that I'm meeting pretty soon. He charges $150,000 a year. That's right, $150,000 a year. I think this is in coaching. It's actually a lot more cost efficient and time efficient than getting a coach because now you don't need somebody to give you the motivation. You don't need someone to make you take action because these frequencies will do that for you.  It's just so simple. The frequencies become your coach and instead of going on the phone and meeting with your coach and setting goals and all that, which is great. All those things are great. Now the frequencies become your coach. They are like your guide and they work in the background while you're doing anything. You could be watching TV doing nothing and still get this frequency programmed into you. Isn't that crazy? You don't have to put in the effort. That's why I say it's effortless because you can forget about the willpower. You're going to have willpower. You get me? You're going to have willpower. You're going to have motivation. You're going to have energy. You're going to have all of that. You're going to have focus. You have consistency. You're going to have all of that. The way you get it is so much easier because you're using frequencies to get that and then you just have to listen to frequencies to keep getting that. That's where your consistency comes in. You don't have to to use your own willpower. You don't have to use your own efforts, your own strength, your own luck, right? It's just going to do it for you. Okay? So that's how powerful this inner circle frequencies are. You guys get it? Okay? So it's going to help you. And there's more, right? There's some other bonus things that are going to happen. You're going to start having spiritual experiences. Remember, there's those psychic ability, right? And the mind expansion frequencies, you can start experiencing some things that you've probably never thought existed. You're going to have such deep meditations that you never knew you could have. You can have, sometimes it could be even scary experiences. Something I remember, this is one time I was using these frequencies, one of the first times experimenting with these things. And I just felt like I was just observing myself from far away by the same time I was in watching myself and being in myself at the same time. I can explain it like I was in many places at the same time. It's really bizarre. But now these experiences are actually happening pretty consistently. And now it's very common for me. It's very normal for me to have this connection with a spiritual world that I didn't have before. So you'll be able to raise your spiritual resonance to a level you never experienced before. Or even if you do have a very deep spiritual practice, this can take you even deeper. And yeah, now you can start to clear your mind and then clear out all those negative energies, clear out all those traumas. And people are going to notice. Another good thing is that you're going to have better relationships because you're going to be less stressed.  Most of the divorce happens because of stress. And most of divorce happens because of financial reasons too. But then financial reasons causing stress. And so if you get rid of stress, you can get rid of most of the problem. Because many people have financial issues, but it's how you react to them. That really makes a difference. How you react to that really counts, doesn't it? Especially with your partner. So that's another bonus thing that you're going to get. And inner peace and joy and delight. You can start to smile again. You can start to laugh again. A lot of people forgot how to smile. A lot of people forgot how to laugh and how to be how to take it easy and enjoy their life, right? Because they're just so focused on what they're just being so tired and so burned out and so stressed out that they forgot how to enjoy life. So those are many things that you can achieve and you can experience. Yeah, finally, as I said, not everybody is going to be accepted. So you need to apply. So go to that page, David Wong inner circle.com or cheat life inner circle.com and click apply now and then go through that quick application form. And we're going to have an interview with you and then see if we are mutual fit for each other. And honestly, it's not for everybody. It's not for everybody. These frequencies so powerful. I actually don't want I don't want you to have it if you're not going to be these things if you're not going to use it for good. And you're not going to use it. And you're not going to use it to improve yourself or improve other people that I don't want you to have these frequencies. It's just going to be a waste. Okay. And if you're not planning to be in good standing in the community, right? Because this is a very private community. And I want to protect that community. Then I do not want you to be in this inner circle. I don't want you to have these frequencies. And if you're not going to support the group, and you're not going to be a team player, I don't want you to have these frequencies either. So that's why you need to apply if we find that it's a mutual fit. And and I find that you're ready and you're serious. And you're worth giving these these are the most powerful frequencies we have. And they are they can cost some dramatic changes in people's lives. I want to make sure that you are the right person for it. Okay, so go ahead. If you think you are, then go ahead and do that application. Click the apply now button. And we can have that chat and review and then we'll take it from there. Thank you for coming out. And I'm really excited to have you join our inner circle. Really look forward to working with you. And to help you to experience these most powerful frequencies that basically I believe are the most powerful frequencies in the world that completely transform my life, transform the life of many people. And we have some incredible stories that you'll read on the website of what they were able to do. And I can't just can't wait to see you transform into the best version of you to achieve all the things that we talked about. And to hear your success story and your life transformation story. And make sure that you apply now for the inner circle program and use the chi and prosper.


Over the past few weeks, Pakistan has seen protests against soaring electricity prices and inflation. Power tariffs have surged by 76% recently. The immediate reason for the hike is a deal with the IMF. Pakistan and the IMF signed a deal for a $3 billion dollar loan in July 2023. One of the conditions was a cut in subsidies. However, this crisis is not a new phenomenon. It is the result of policies spanning decades. Successive governments encourage the private sector and signed deals which benefited them. Taimur Rahman, General Secretary of Pakistan's leftist Mazdoor Kisan Party, explains the origins and current nature of the crisis. So in Pakistan currently electricity prices have gone up not only because per unit electricity price has gone up but also because the government has imposed new taxes and the reason it's done so is because of the agreement and the conditions that the International Monetary Fund has placed on Pakistan for the loan that they have received which is about $3 billion dollars. Now in this agreement the International Monetary Fund has stated that Pakistan's government must charge the full price of the electricity to the consumer. Currently the Pakistan government was in fact subsidizing electricity. Now the reason why the Pakistani government has been subsidizing electricity is very, very interesting. In the 1990s, the Pakistani government decided that it would privatize the power sector and it did so not necessarily by selling its main power sector distribution and generation company which is called VAPTA but rather by breaking it up into several different units and by privatizing the Karachi Electric Grid and also by inviting other people to come and invest in independent as independent power producers. These companies called IPPs at the time which were mainly foreign based at the time but now many of them are Pakistani as well were given a sovereign guarantee by the government of Pakistan in dollar terms that they would be able to earn a profit. Now this has become absolutely untenable for Pakistan because as the price of the dollar has been going up the amount of money that the Pakistani government has to pay the independent power producers has also been going up and the government of Pakistan is now trying to push that cost onto the consumer which is of course causing the price of electricity to escalate but in fact the IPPs are demanding from the Pakistani government given the new dollar rate they were initially getting a subsidy of about 350 billion rupees now that subsidy has gone up to 1.3 trillion rupees and in the future it will go all the way up to 2 trillion rupees. In other words the subsidy given to these capitalist concerns that are called independent power producers has gone so high because of the rise in the price of the dollar and the rise in the price of fuel it's gone so incredibly high that it will essentially bankrupt the Pakistani government so the government has two choices either it can impose those high electricity prices on the consumer which is the option it's going for currently which will of course mean that millions of people will be pushed into a dark age literally into a dark age because they won't be able to afford electricity at these prices and or it can do go the other way oh sorry also I would like to add that if if government increases the price of electricity that means that the entire economy of Pakistan will slow down recently the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics has come out with the statistic that about 78 to 82 percent of industry is going to be incredibly negatively impacted by the rise in oil in electricity prices on the other hand what the government can do is that it can renegotiate its contracts with the independent power producers and say sorry we cannot give such high capacity charges capacity charges means that the government of Pakistan has to pay them a certain amount of money even if the government does not buy any electricity from independent power producers I mean the contract is absolutely mind boggling so what that means essentially is that even if the government is unable to buy electricity send it to the producer sorry to the consumer they still have to pay for it from the producer of that electricity and those prices have to be paid in dollar terms and they are astronomically high so this has put public finance in Pakistan into complete disarray and it is causing the Pakistan economy to completely tank and collapse because everything requires electricity if you have a business it requires electricity school colleges universities everything homes everything requires electricity so the conditions that the IMF has placed have in fact caused complete stagnation and the economic destruction of Pakistan which I was we had been arguing the Pakistani left had been arguing since day one these conditions were really unrealistic with the given how the IMF wants us to address the international trade balance which is basically by raising the price of the dollar which it will go up automatically given their conditions and free trade agreements and the rest of it given that the price of dollar will go up the public expenditures of the government will also go up because of the peculiar nature of the IPP contracts and that is threatening now to unravel the entire economy of Pakistan


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