So welcome. This is the talk Ansible Deployment and Management Updates for IDM. According to the plan it changed a little bit so there will be no bigger demo. If there's time left there will be a small demo, but let's start. So the again now you see there are several things. So small overview over Ansible Free APA and afterwards the changes. So for the roles, management modules, new roles and new management modules and also utilities in the end. So here's you have a overview of over Ansible Free APA in the current state. So all the bold mark things are the new stuff that has been added since last dev.conf. So we have an additional role. This is the backup role for backup and restore. And for management modules, according additionally to the other ones. So last time we added HBAC and also DNS stuff. And now we have several modules, RBIC modules and also IPod location ipad trust. I will show some examples about this later in the demo in this presentation. I'm sorry. So the availability and distribution and versions this has not changed. So we still have RPMs, we have a collection and Galaxy and we have several supported distributions. In DBN 10, I think server is now possible, but I'm not sure. So this needs to be verified. And for all management modules, we have a minimum requirement of IPA 4.4 and for the deployment roles. So for server, we have 4.5 plus for replica we have 4.6 plus and for client we have 4.4 plus. So simply let's say everything with 4.6 up is supported by all roles and modules. So the requirements. So under controller, we need an Ansible version. 2.8 plus is supported for all RPMs that we are providing for Ansible IPA and also upstream. We also have a collection Ansible collection and Galaxy. Right now it's fully supported in Ansible 2.8 and 2.10 plus. There is an issue with 2.9 right now in the deployment roles. You will run into a spec is none error because Ansible is importing modular utils, not in the really correct way. So it tries to load all imports and fails because it's trying this on the controller to make sure to copy the right files to the nodes. There is currently a workaround. This is work in progress. So this is something that we will add in the next weeks to make the Ansible collection and Galaxy working for the deployment. Additionally, you will need K in it. So you will need covers utilities. As soon as you want to use a one-time password. And Python 3 GSS API is required also for OTP if you use a key tab for installing the client. On the node, you will need a supported free IPA version and a supported distribution. That means you need to have packages for free IPA available and also the files in Ansible free IPA that are defining which packages or modules need to be installed to be able to use free IPA. So we have enhancement and deployment roles. So there is one thing that has been added for IPA server and IPA replica roles for the deployment. So there is a new setting that is called IPA server firewall D zone for the server and IPA replica firewall D zone for the replica. Up to now, firewall D is automatically enabled and also configured within the default zone. And with the setting you can define to use another zone for the server and replica deployment. It's very important to open the firewall. So for the server, the firewall is opened after the deployment. But for replica, it needs to be opened before because there is a connection check that is making sure that the replica is able to speak to the server and the other way around. So it's very important to open the firewall ports for free IPA for IPA before you deploy, otherwise you will fail. So the connection check will fail and you will see an error message. And to be able to have this a little bit more tunable, we have this setting now. So it simplifies life if you have more than one zone in use and want to have your server only available within your internal zone, for example. We have also enhancements and management modules. So for IPA group, the POSIX option has been added. So now it's possible to ensure a group has been added within a group is a non-POSIX group or to change from a non-POSIX to a POSIX group. But the second one cannot be completely unimportant because it's changing the type. So it is not failing. But in the first try, it will make sure that it's non-POSIX. In the second try, it will not fail. And we have new roles. And this is the biggest addition to Ansible Free AP. In the latest version, we have the IPA backup role. This role is able to do backup and restore of IPA servers, so servers and replicas. You can do a server local backup and also backup to a controller. You can copy backup files, existing backup files, or even all backup files that are available on the server. Let's not say files, it's a directory in fact. From a server to the controller, you can also remove specific backups or all backups from the server. You can restore a local backup on the server and also from a controller. And it will, if you restore and you have an empty machine with no packages installed, it will make sure that the needed packages are installed to be able to restore properly. And it will fail if the packages cannot be found. So it's needed to have the packages in the repository. Or YAM configured or DNF, or whatever you use to install packages on your system. It can copy backups from the controller to a server and it will configure file will be accordingly. And there is also setting to turn file will be configuration of the same as we have an IPA server and hyper replica role. And here we have an example of IPA backup role usage. You see it's using IPA server and it's doing a backup to the controller. So IPA backup to controller is yes, just defaults to no, which means there will be a local backup on the server itself. There isn't a setting to make sure to define if IPA backup to controller is set to yes to keep the backup on the server. This defaults to no. So as soon as you say IPA backup to controller, yes. The backup will be transferred to the controller and removed from the server afterwards. So IPA backup keep on server can be set to yes to keep it also on the server itself after copying to the controller. Here we have another example to restore an IPA server from controller. So you see IPA backup name is set to the backup name. By the way, if you do a backup within here. It automatically renames your backup. So you will have the server name as a prefix to make sure that you can have several backups at the same time. So let's say you have a server in several replicas and you're creating backups of all of those. Then you're not running into name issues because the server name and replica name will be the prefix of the backup of the backup directory that is created on the controller. So and here we are copying. We are restoring from the controller. That means in the first place, this backup is copied back to the server from the controller. And then this backup is applied and you see you need to give this also the DM password. But this is the also the case with the command line tools. So this role is more or less a big wrapper around the command line tools to allow to to use the controller also. And it has the same requirements as usual. And you see the state is restored. This means this will be restored. If you instead use state copied, it will only copy this backup to the from the controller to the server. But then you don't need the password. There's another example here, for example. So here we are copying a backup from the IPA server. Several backups from the IPA server. You see the IPA backup names. These are the names on the server without the prefix. And IPA backup to controller is set to yes and state is copied. So it will make sure it will copy those from the server to the controller. By the way, it will fail if you provide names that are not existing. And the second one on the right is to remove all backups from the IPA server. If IPA backup name here is not all, but the same as on the left side, it will only remove those. But if it's all, it will remove all available backups on the server. And the state here is absent. So IPA backup is a fairly powerful role. And I think you will have fun with it. And here's another example. We are copying a backup from the controller to the IPA server. And you see here IPA backup name is the full name on the controller. It might be possible to change this in the future that it's using the IPA server name, looking for the IPA backup name with the short word, with the normal name on the server and to automatically prevent the name of the server. But this is not there, but it might be added in the future. It should be simple to do. So we have new management modules also in Ansible VIPA. So here you see a list. So there is IPA location and IPA trust. IPA location has been added only as a test for a utility that I will show later on. IPA trust was an external contribution to manage domain trusts. And we have role-based access control, so RBAC modules. So IPA delegation to manage delegation and delegation attributes. IPA permission to manage permissions and permission attribute members. IPA privilege to manage privileges and privilege permission members. And IPA role to manage roles and members. These are users, groups, hosts, host groups, privileges and services. I will show examples about this later on. And we have IPA self-service to manage self-service and self-service attributes. So here we see a simple example of IPA location. IPA location is a fairly small module. It cannot do really a lot. So it simply makes sure that a location with the name mylocation1 and the description mylocation1 exists. It cannot do a lot more. It can also remove locations. But the only thing it can do is adding and making sure that locations are present or absent. So we are coming to trust, IPA trust module. So the first example is making sure that a one-way trust is present. And yeah, I cannot even show an example for this if I want to because I do not currently have a Windows machine that I can use as a trust for this. And the second one is making sure that a two-way trust is existing. So you see there is the additional two-way setting set to true. It should be yes, not true. But both are working. And so we are coming to the RBAC modules. So there is the IPA delegation module. So in the first example you see it's ensuring that a delegation is present with the attributes business category and employee type and group managers and member group employees. And the second example shows that you can add attribute or make sure that attributes are present or absent with the action member. So here in this example you see it's making this task is making sure that employee type and employee number are absent and you can use delegation with the main basic manager attributes. You can also use present to make sure that attributes are present. And also you can remove delegation modules and you can make sure that they're not existing and you can also change groups and member groups with a task. So the second one is IPA permission module. So the first example ensures that permission, my permission is present with object type host and all rights. And the name of this permission is my permission. And in the second example you see you can also use action member for attributes here. So it's making sure that GICOS is present in my permission. You can also use state absent here to make sure that an attribute is absent in the permission. So we're coming to IPA privilege module. So the first example shows how to make sure that a privilege is present. So it creates a privilege broad privilege with the description with the same as description. In the second part you see you can also use action member here to add permissions. So this example makes sure that write IPA configuration, system write DNS configuration and system update DNS entries is present for this permission. And additionally as before, as for all modules, you can use state absent also with action member to make sure that permissions are not there. And we are coming to IPA role module. There's a little bit more than the others. So in the first example you see it's ensuring that a role is present with all members. So you see here a role with the name same role. There's with the user pinky with a group group 01 with a host host 01 example con with a host group and with two privileges group administrators and user administrators and service service 01. All parameters user group host host group privilege and service can be treated with action member. That means you are you can ensure that a user group host host privilege or services present within a role or absent. So you see two examples for this on the right side. So the first example make sure that the user pinky exists in this role. And in the second one you see that the service 01 exists make sure that the service 01 exists in this role. You can also use state absent here to make sure that users groups host host group privileges so this is absent within a role. So and finally we have the IPA service module. So here a self service user can manage their own details will be created or will be ensured that it exists with permission wide right and attributes title and initials. And in the second example you see action member again with the attribute here. So this makes sure that the initials is really present in this self service. You can also use state absent here to make sure that attributes are not present. Not present within a self service. I think we are fast. So we are coming to utilities. So a nice utility has been added for Ansible free IPA to make it easier for people to create new modules. So this is called new module is placed in utils sub directory in GitHub and also in the just in the releases. It needs a module name of the module you want to create your author name and your email address. It has three options to create a module with member support so members as you have seen before with attributes users groups and so on and to force the creation of this module. This new module was used to create IPA locations IPA location was the test bed for this script. And it automatically creates several directories and files for you that so far you needed to create on your own. So it will create. Oh, there's a modules directory missing it should be plugins modules I'm sorry plugins modules IPA module pie. It will also create playbook example playbooks for your module and playbooks my module sub directory. So these are my module absent and present. And you should add more than those. So these are the basic ones to make sure that the module is doing something. And it will also create the basic test. So in tests my module it will create a file test my module level, which also contains the absent and present examples with additional tests to make sure that they are important. So they will be executed once with a expected result of changed and the second one, it will be executed with a result of not changed. In addition, it creates the read me my module file. So all these are skeletons. And that you need to fill with life. So, but it should give a good start to create new modules for hands for free IPA. So I think we have time for a small demo of a backup role. Let me change to this. So here, it's not doing what it should do. So this is from a colleague of mine. He created that from the beginning. So, so on the left side you see the controller on the right side you see he's logging into a little bit. He is making his crew zoom it up. It's not eligible on the recording I think. Yeah, perfect. Thank you. Yeah, awesome. It's a better now. Okay. Should I start it from the beginning? I think you can you have five minutes easily. Okay. Okay now. So on the left side you see the controller on the right side you see this. He's logging into the server. He's checking the IPA version. So this is a fedora of 32 so it's for 810. And you also see it's fedora release 32. He's looking into the IPA backup directory and it's empty right now. On the left side you see the backup YAML file. So a backup to the controller. Keep on the server is no. This is the default IPA backup data. So you can limit also if it's a full backup or not a full backup. And in this case he's only doing the data backup. So hands up if he is running now you see it's trying to find out what kind of machine it is information to get the backup directory from IPA platform from the installed IPA distribution release. So that was a little bit fast. At first it was copying the backup from the server you see on top still and it removed the backup from the server. And on the right side you see there is no backup. And still IPA is working. He's removing sudo command. A sudo command to show that if he's replying the backup it will be back. So right now you see he's replacing the backup name in the restore YAML file. So you see backup from controller yes keep on server no. This is not needed in this case. Backup data yes and no logs yes. And now he's restoring. At first you see the backup has been copied to the server. And it is applied now. This normally takes some time so it's better to have it in a demo. And it was also ensuring that the firewall is running and the firewall is configured properly. Now it's restoring the backup. It's done. So on the right side you see the formally removed sudo command what it exists again. So the backup was working. So for all the roles and the modules. We have the whole documentation on Ansible Free AP GitHub source repository. You can start directly there. There is the whole documentation of all parameters. There are lots of examples. If you look into the test subfolder, you will see all the tests that we are running upstream to the tests. So these are item potency tests. If you have an issue, please go to issues on this GitHub repository. And if you want to contact us on IRC, there's a free IP channel on free node. This can this is also used for Ansible Free AP not only for free IP. So do you have questions? We have one question in the chat QA section. Is IP admin password clear text password for admin? No, you don't need to have it clear. This is only here in the example so that you see it you can use Ansible Vault for this. But you can also use GSS API for that. There is an example for the GSS API usage in the documentation in Ansible Free API upstream. And also one for Vault usage with deployment in the client and replica role as far as I remember. It's only here to make sure, yeah, you need to provide this setting somehow. But it's up to you how. Yes. And D, I think missed some initial slides. Which IPA version these modules are compatible with right from the initial one. So we are making sure, as written here, that all management modules are working with IPA 4.4 plus. This is early Rails 7. So Rails 7 is now at 4.6 I think. In the latest versions there. In Rails 8 we have 4.8. And also in Fedora we have 4.8. So 4.9 I'm sorry. So we cannot support IPA prior to 4.4 because there was a big API change in IPA. I don't see any other questions. Okay, I will give people more time, opportunity to ask another question and I will ask my own. So if I install free IPA, am I supposed to then configure everything through Ansible? Is it possible or do I still have to edit some configuration files on the machine manually? This depends heavily on what you need to configure. So the normal deployment can completely be done with the deployment roles in Ansible for IPA. They support all parameters that are also available on the command line clients. For management you see we have already a longer list of modules but we are still missing some. So there are lots of IPA commands and we are still adding management modules. So the list is not complete yet. But you see we already have a long list but you most likely find something that is not there yet. And you can use Ansible for IPA in the normal commands. You can mix them for the management. This is no problem. All the modules are using the free IPA API so they are not implementing things differently. Not so much a question, more of a caveat. So we have been using the Ansible free IPA roles in federal infrastructure. And we found that there is a good way to shoot yourself in the foot if you like structure the logic around the clients connected to the IPA server. Because if you then have an IPA client role and they all attempt the same thing on the IPA server. Like you delegate that to the IPA server to ensure that a certain host group, user group, whatever exists. So something they will step on each other's toes like there is a race condition in there. And so it's probably better to structure it from the server view. Like collect the information you have about all the clients that need to be connected, all the users and stuff.  Okay, so you use several clients. Like we have many nodes that hook up with the IPA server for identity management. And we have rules for who's allowed to even log into the machine. Who's allowed to use pseudo to become rude stuff like that. And for that we use the HPEG and pseudo rules. And if we hook that up with with the client node in question. All of these will be executed in parallel across the whole set of Ansible hosts. And then if you touch the same pseudo rule or HPEG rule, like ensure that it's present or that some host is in it, then the same IPA commands will be executed. Touching the same IPA objects at roughly the same time and this will lead to. Yeah. A small question here. How, how have you used Ansible free API on the client for management. So you use management modules. We have a role IPA slash client that just says, okay, this host is a client host to the IPA server. Identity management is done by the by the IPA server. And then when we have cluster wide rules like this group is like this is admin group is allowed to do anything anywhere, stuff like that.  And all of them will try to then execute the same IPA HPEG rule or IPA pseudo rule statement in parallel and then step on each other's toes because one will one will say create the rule. The other one will try to create the rule then fail because it already exists. So that's just a caveat to formulate your your Ansible playbooks from from a server side view, because then you can you can just collect all these are the hosts in question. These are the rules that have to be applied for these hosts so that we can have the correct access to people and services and stuff like that, because then then everything will be done in order, and not step a step on, like, you won't have these race conditions. Okay, but this is that there are two things here. So this is general IPA thing. Yeah, of course, of course, it's true. And it's only helping with this because it's doing this, or it's, it's trying to execute it on all hosts at the same time. But there is one question. Right now, Ansible free IP management modules are not able to be run. Yes, you machines. They run in the context of the client machine, like the Ansible Ansible Ansible playbook. The, the, the command execute has a couple of hosts in the play at that point, and it will want to execute the task on behalf of these hosts, all at the same time. So at first we, we, we helped ourselves with just throttling this to one, which works, but is super slow. And then we, then we had to restructure it so that there is that that we had a decent performance but because we're talking about somewhat up of 200 hosts, which could be, if you do a main playground or something.


Item number, SCP-241 Object Class, Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-241 is to be kept at Site-19, using standard operating procedures for containing safe-class book and manuscript type SCPs, with the following additional conditions. SCP-241 must be kept open on a flat surface, with restraints across opposing pages of the open book, to keep it from closing accidentally. Containment devices must be checked at least once a week for structural integrity. Any anomalies must be reported immediately to Site Command. Access to SCP-241 is restricted. Any and all usage of SCP-241 must be logged. SCP-241 must be transported in an authorized book stand, such that it cannot accidentally be closed in transit. In the event that SCP-241 is opened outside of a testing environment, the last person to have touched it must report to the nearest infirmary, and a D-class personnel must close and reopen SCP-241. Description SCP-241 appears as a normal book, 33 cm x 23 cm x 3.5 cm, entitled Good Home Cooking. The cover of SCP-241 is a red and white checkerboard pattern, with the title and simple black letters on the front and spine. When open, SCP-241 contains 99 recipes, sorted into typical sections of a cookbook. Many of these recipes include a picture of the dish that is invariably appetizing, and a small percentage will call for rare or exotic ingredients. Whenever SCP-241 is opened by a subject, known as the target, different from the one who last opened it, i.e., the previous target, the recipes contained in the book change. Preliminary investigations concluded that if the target eats a dish prepared from one of the recipes in SCP-241, that person soon dies from apparent anaphylactic shock. Others who eat the same dish are not similarly affected. Testing has been authorized to determine the exact nature of SCP-241's effects. SCP-241 appears to be impervious to getting dirty, and to at least minor damage. For example, sauces splashed onto its pages disappear almost immediately, and torn pages and nicks on the cover are repaired within seconds. Research on SCP-241 continues, including potential interaction with other SCP items. Experiment log, 241-L02, supplemental testing on SCP-241. Just as in initial testing, all tests on SCP-241 were carried out in test kitchens at Site-19, using D-Class personnel for test subjects, unless otherwise indicated. Test 241-21 Subject Subject 241-J was chosen from general population. Health screenings indicate subject is allergic to peanuts. Procedure Subject was instructed to close and open SCP-241 several times at prescribed intervals. Each time SCP-241 was opened, the complete contents of SCP-241 were recorded and transcribed while subject underwent testing. Results Test results indicated the subject's allergy to peanuts worsened each time subject opened SCP-241. Subject's allergy was most affected the first time he opened SCP-241, and subsequently opening SCP-241 appears to have diminishing effects. However, subject's allergy worsened from mild to severe. Most of the recipes in SCP-241 reappeared when subject closed and reopened SCP-241. Between 11 and 17 inclusive new recipes appeared each time SCP-241 was reopened. Recipes that had been replaced did not reappear. The one exotic recipe was replaced after subject had opened SCP-241 for the fourth time. Analysis The effects of SCP-241 appear to follow the law of diminishing returns. SCP-241 also appears to tailor its choice of recipes to the specific condition of the target, though much more testing would be necessary to prove that theory. Suggest analysis of recipes offered during normal testing of SCP-241.  Health screenings indicated no apparent food allergies or other health problems. Procedure Subject was introduced to SCP-241 and encouraged to open it by handlers. Handlers were instructed to keep subject from closing SCP-241 again. Results Subject eventually opened SCP-241 and handlers kept it open for analysis. The contents of SCP-241 were consistent with previous results for a target with a shellfish allergy, though again unique for the target. Testing confirmed subject had developed an allergy to shellfish. A dish was prepared from SCP-241 by subject-241-F and presented to subject-241-K. Subject-241-K ate the meal without hesitation, and nine minutes later was dead from anaphylactic shock, consistent with previous testing. Analysis SCP-241 is just as effective on certain non-humans as it is on humans. The working theory now is that SCP-241 works on anything potentially susceptible to food allergies that can and does open SCP-241. Subject-241-23 Subject-241-L is a robot designed for remote manipulation of hazardous materials. Procedure Subject was remote controlled by R. who was instructed to have the subject open SCP-241. Results Subject opened SCP-241 via remote control. The contents of SCP-241 were identical to before it was closed previously. Analysis SCP-241 apparently does not respond to inorganic targets. Test 241-24 Subject Subject-241-M slash 859-E was chosen from general population. Health screenings indicated no allergies. Procedure Subject was exposed to SCP-859 via touch. Subject then placed within a MOP-P4 containment suit. Subject was given SCP-241 and instructed to open it and to keep it open. Results Tests on skin sample taken from subject confirm development of severe allergy to spider venom. As per usual with contact with SCP-859, SCP-241 retained its previous set of recipes. Analysis SCP-241 apparently requires physical contact with subject. Test SCP-241-25 Subject Subject-241-M slash 859-E Procedure Subject given a standard class D uniform. Subject was given SCP-241 and instructed to open it. Results Subject dropped SCP-241 to the floor and began screaming. Subject given a mild sedative. SCP-241 contained a set of arachnid-based and themed recipes. The meal, Mr. Skeleton's Halloween Spider Snacks, was selected and prepared from SCP-241 by Subject-241-F. Due to Subject-241-M slash 859-E having severe arachnophobia, data expunged. Within two minutes, the subject experienced breathing difficulties and partial paralysis. This was closely followed by the typical symptoms of anaphylaxis. Immediate administration of epinephrine did not prevent the subject from expiring. Analysis Although the images found in SCP-241 are typically considered pleasing or appetizing, it does not seem to have any particular sentience. Autopsy confirmed the presence of venom and neurotoxins produced by the Brazilian wandering spider. End experiment log Directive-241-S06 In light of recent test results with SCP-241, no further testing of SCP-241 on personnel without pre-existing food allergies is authorized. Without level 4 security clearance, testing may continue on personnel with pre-existing food allergies. 05 Directive-241-S09 Reclassification of SCP-241 to Euclid Classes Denied Honestly, the cookbook? Leave it in its room and everything's fine. It's no one else's fault if you don't know what you're allergic to and don't bother to find out beforehand. Unless you're cooking for your significant other, then you'd better know. 05 Directive-241-S11 Cross-Testing SCP-241 with other SCPs will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Considered to SCP-682 has already been considered and denied. 05 Addendum 1 Acquisition Summary The Foundation became aware of SCP-241 in April 2000 while investigating reports of a black widow in... Said subject had been married four times, and all four of her husbands had died shortly after eating a meal at home. However, since authorities never found evidence of foul play, subject was never charged with any crime. Subsequent interviews with subject by Foundation personnel revealed the existence of SCP-241, at which time SCP-241 was seized by Foundation agents. Subject revealed that she had first realized there was something unusual with SCP-241 when data expunged. 02 Initial Testing Log All tests on SCP-241 were carried out in test kitchens at Site-19, using D-Class personnel for test subjects, unless otherwise noted. Test 241-1 Subject Subject 241-A was chosen from general population, no unusual traits selected for. Procedure Subject 241-A was presented SCP-241 while closed, and instructed to open it, choose a recipe, prepare it, and eat it while giving feedback during the entire process. Results Before exposure to SCP-241, subject declared that he had never cooked anything more complicated than ramen noodles. Subject opened SCP-241, reporting nothing unusual. Subject looked through recipes in SCP-241, choosing sauteed scallops in a white wine sauce. Subject prepared the sauteed scallops from the recipe in SCP-241, and when complete, remarked that he did not know he could do that. Subject declared that the prepared dish smelled fantastic, and while eating it, declared, this is the best thing I've ever eaten. Three minutes after completing the meal, subject started showing symptoms of anaphylactic shock. Subject was treated with emergency doses of epinephrine, but treatment was not effective. Subject died from anaphylactic shock six minutes afterward, later confirmed by autopsy. A subsequent examination of SCP-241 revealed that 81 of its recipes called for shellfish. SCP-241 was left open. Analysis Results are consistent with previous descriptions of the effects of SCP-241. Test 241-2 Subject. Subject 241-B was chosen from general population. Subject reports no known allergies to scallops or other shellfish. Procedure SCP-241 was still open from test 241-1. Subject 241-B was instructed to not close SCP-241, find the sauteed scallops recipe, just repair it, and eat it while giving feedback during the entire process. Results Before exposure to SCP-241, subject expressed doubt that he'd be able to prepare the sauteed scallops recipe. After preparing the dish, subject expressed surprise that he had done so, similarly to the reaction of subject 241-A, and said that the dish smells pretty good. While eating, subject declared that the dish was pretty good, and again expressed surprise that he had cooked it. Subject did not suffer anaphylactic shock, or any other adverse effect after completing the meal. Post-testing observation of subject revealed no long-term effects from eating the dish. SCP-241 was left open. Analysis Results are consistent with previous descriptions of the effects of SCP-241. Subjects that SCP-241 may somehow improve the cooking skill of whoever is preparing the dish. Test 241-3 Subject Subjects 241-C and 241-D were chosen from general population. Both subjects report no skill in cooking, and no allergies to shellfish. Procedure SCP-241 was still open from test 241-2. Subject 241-C was instructed to not close SCP-241, find the sauteed scallops recipe, and transcribe it to a standard sheet of paper. In a separate test kitchen, subject 241-D was given the transcribed recipe, and instructed to prepare and eat the dish prepared. Results Subject 241-C found and transcribed the recipe without incident. The transcribed recipe was visually compared to the recipe in SCP-241, and confirmed to be identical. SCP-241 was left open. Subject displayed no adverse effects from interaction with SCP-241. Subject 241-D was given the transcribed recipe, and attempted to prepare the sauteed scallops, but experienced difficulty and frustration, several times declaring, I told you guys I can't cook. The completed dish did not look or smell nearly as good as in previous tests. Subject balked at eating the dish, saying that it smells like b***h, but was persuaded to eat it. Subject ate approximately 40% of the meal before stating, I'm gonna be sick, at which time Subject vomited. Subject was instructed to finish the meal, but Subject responded, data expunged. Termination of Subject considered, but rejected, in favor of further testing. Analysis More evidence that SCP-241 can improve the cooking skill of its user. Subject 241-D retained for further testing. Test 241-4 Subject Subject 241-D Procedure SCP-241 was still open from Test 241-3. Subject 241-D was instructed to not close SCP-241, find the sauteed scallops recipe, spare it, and eat it, while giving feedback during the entire process. Results Subject vociferously protested to having to eat her own cooking, but was persuaded to cooperate, with the promise that Subject would not have to eat the resulting dish, if it turned out like in the previous test. Subject expressed skepticism, but proceeded to prepare the sauteed scallops recipe. While cooking the dish, Subject experienced none of the difficulties she experienced from the previous test, instead expressing the now familiar surprise that her cooking was turning out so well. The completed dish looked and smelled similar to the results of Test 241-2. Subject was not nearly as reluctant to eat the prepared dish, declaring it, not bad. Not bad at all. Subject did not appear to suffer from any adverse effects after eating the dish. During post-testing interviews, Subject was asked how she was able to prepare the sauteed scallops during this test, when the results of the previous test were so unappetizing. Subject stated that she did not know, only that once she started cooking the dish, it became perfectly clear to her how to do it. Subject did not appear to have any additional knowledge of cooking, and even had trouble remembering the cooking techniques she used in this test. Analysis There is now little doubt that SCP-241 can turn people who know nothing about cooking into gourmet chefs, at least for the dish that is being prepared. Test 241-11 Subject Subject's 241E and 241F were chosen from general population. Subject 241E is known to have an allergy to peanuts. Subject 241F has demonstrated considerable skill as a chef. Procedure Subject 241E was presented with SCP-241 while closed, and instructed to open it and choose a recipe. Subject 241F was then instructed to prepare the selected meal from SCP-241. The prepared dish was given to Subject 241E, who was then asked to eat it. Results Subject 241E opened SCP-241 and, while looking through the recipes offered, stated that all the recipes called for peanuts, adding, Peanuts mess me up something fierce. Subject found a few recipes that did not include peanuts, and selected an Australian carrot cake. Subject 241F prepared the carrot cake from SCP-241, and remarked that the finished product was better than he expected. The cake was presented to Subject 241E, who started eating without prompting or hesitation. Subjects stated that the cake was the best thing I've ever eaten, and ate nearly half the cake before claiming satiation. Within two minutes, Subjects started showing symptoms of anaphylactic shock. Subject was administered epinephrine, which was ineffective, and died four minutes later. Autopsy confirmed anaphylactic shock as the cause of death. The recipes in SCP-241 were examined, and 85 of the 99 recipes called for peanuts or peanut products, but the Australian carrot cake was not one of them. The carrot cake, and seven other recipes included lupin flour. A quick search found that lupin flour can induce an anaphylactic reaction in those who suffer from peanut allergies. The remaining six recipes called for more...exotic ingredients. SCP-241 remained open. The remaining half of the cake was saved for further testing. Analysis. Reactions of Subjects 241e and 241f were both consistent with prior observations. The selection of recipes supports the theory that SCP-241 somehow determines the substance that the target is most allergic to, and offers recipes to specifically induce a fatal allergic reaction in the target. Test 241-12 Subject 241f Procedure. Subject 241f was instructed to prepare the six dishes that contained neither peanuts nor lupin flour. The dishes were turned over for analysis. The six recipes were transcribed. Results. Data Expunged Analysis. Data Expunged. Subject 241f showed no apparent ill effects from preparing seven different dishes from SCP-241 in quick succession. Recommended retaining subject to study long-term effects of secondary, i.e. not as the target, exposure to SCP-241. Test 241-13 Subject Subject 241g was chosen from general population and is known to have an allergy to peanuts. Procedure. Subject was instructed to eat the remaining cake from test 241-11. Subject asked if the cake contained peanuts and was assured that it did not. Subject stated that he didn't much like carrot cake. Subject started eating the cake, remarking that the cake was pretty good actually. Subject consumed approximately 75% of the remaining cake before declaring satiation. After seven minutes, subject started showing signs of anaphylactic shock. Epinephrine was administered and subject was stabilized. Subject eventually recovered, although recovery time was somewhat longer than expected. Analysis. It appears that although the recipes from SCP-241 are potentially hazardous to anyone susceptible to the allergen in question, SCP-241's recipes are most potent against the target. Test 241-14 Subject Subject 241h was chosen from general population. According to complete health screenings, subject has no food allergies. Procedure. Subject was instructed to open SCP-241 and leave it open for analysis. Results. Analysis of SCP-241 showed that 79 of the recipes on its pages called for chicken eggs or egg-based products. 15 of the remaining recipes called for eggs. The other five recipes did expunged. These five recipes were transcribed. Subject 241h stated that she had never experienced any problems eating eggs before. Subject was presented with one dozen hardboiled chicken eggs and was instructed to eat them. Subject asked for salt and pepper, granted, and proceeded to eat the eggs. While eating the third egg, subject started complaining of stomach pain. Subject was instructed to continue eating and she begrudgingly continued. On ingesting her seventh egg, subject collapsed on the floor, doubled over in pain. Within 60 seconds, subject started showing signs of anaphylactic shock. Epinephrine was administered and subject was stabilized. Subject recovered within the expected recovery time for such an episode. Analysis. We now have evidence that SCP-241 somehow induces or amplifies an allergy in the target when SCP-241 is opened. This ability would explain how SCP-241 is able to cause an allergic reaction in targets without pre-existing food allergies. Addendum 3. Notes from cross-testing. To determine the effects of SCP-241's recipes on subjects that either cannot eat or do not require sustenance, approval was given to cross-test SCP-241 on SCP-1770. On subject opening the book, the contents were identical to before it was closed previously. This confirms results of test 241-23, in which SCP-241 does not respond to inorganic subjects. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-240, Breath-Powered Flying Machine, right now, or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


Welcome to Dare to Dream. This is Debbie Daschinger, and this podcast has been nominated for two People's Choice Podcast Awards for a Webby Award, as well as WELP Magazine just listing us, me, and Dare to Dream is one of the top 20 best podcasts to listen to this year. I'm super grateful for that acknowledgement. I've been doing this a really long time, and I still find that I'm curious. And because today, the new curiosity is about time. What if you could change time so that it worked for you? What if you could actually control time? That is what my guest expert is going to be speaking about, and we'll be talking about her new book All the Time in the World. I want to also start out by saying thank you to my sponsors, Dr. Dane Here and Access Consciousness. They do fantastic energy work out in the world, and you can become a facilitator. You can take a class. You can get involved anywhere, any country. Go to Dr. Dane Here, H-E-E-R dot com, or AccessConsciousness dot com. I am a book writing coach. I also take books to a guaranteed international bestseller. I have a couple of folks in my book writing group who just graduated, so to speak. They successfully published their books out into the world, and so we have a few hot, rare spots that are opening. If you want to write your book, you want to work with me live, coaching you to get your book done this year, it is more than possible. You can write a highly engaging book. You can grab one of those spots. It's at debbie-shinger.com slash visible visionaries. It's D-E-B-B-I, D is in David, A-C-H, I-N-G-E-R dot com slash visible visionaries to become one of those writers.  I take care of the rest. So indeed, this episode features how time works so you can control time for yourself. My guest is Lisa Broderick, who earned a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Duke. She is a Transcendental Meditation Citta, attended the Monroe Institute for the Exploration of Expanded States of Consciousness and studied imagery and dream reading at the American Institute for Mental Imagery with noted author and teacher of Western Spirituality, Dr. Gerald Epstein for 15 years. Lisa currently runs a business consultancy based in New York City that helps socially conscious entrepreneurs manifest their creativity and energy. If you'd like to learn more about her in her new book, go to allthetimbook.com and I'm just going to flash this gorgeous book here. This is also something I discussed in my class yesterday because there were a few pieces of the magnificence of what Lisa created as an author and as an expert that I wanted my students to see. So her book, Amazing Read, and welcome Lisa to Dare to Dream. It's so great to have you. Debbie, thank you so much for having me. Yeah, this is amazing that we are here and I just want to start out with my congratulations to you because this book which doesn't yet and will at some point have assembled here, your book just went international bestseller, hit the highest rankings in Australia, in Denmark, in the UK, in Canada, in Italy, and the USA, both Kindle and Hardcover. Awesome, congratulations. How does that feel after birthing this baby book out into the world? Somehow it seems like manipulating time is more real to me than that, but I think I'll get used to it. It is a wonderful thing that people are finding it useful and valuable and I really want people to lead their best possible lives. That's what it's all about and that's why I wrote the book. So how do we make time our friend? How do we connect with time in that way to even have a relationship with it? Well, the first thing to think about time and that is people think that they're a slave to time. They think the time is an arrow. We think about that, which is flying through the air, through space and the tail of the arrow, the feathers is the past and the tip is the future and the direction of it and the speed of it, no one can change. We're just riding along for it. But that's actually not true because how we perceive time is affected by how much we focus and what we focus on. That's why a coined a term called focused perception. When we use a particular type of focus, we can actually change time for ourselves. And by the way, Debbie, we can change time on the clock. That's in the book too. So it's not just that we can change time with our minds, although our minds are tremendously powerful, but the book contains a tremendous amount of science to prove that time is not what we think. It's not. And if you know it's not what we think, then it's controllable by us.  It's actually the basis for many other exercises to come. And you talk about focused perception as being the key to manipulating one's construct of time. So what kind of practice is focused perception? Well, that's a little bit like meditation. And I'm a meditator for 30 years. As you mentioned, I am a transcendental meditator as well as a SIDA, which is advanced meditation training. And in meditation, of course, one learns to tune out other things to the exception of all others. And so you may focus on your breath, you may focus on a mantra, but you're basically focusing on one thing to the exclusion of others. And it focuses the mind. So when I became a meditator, I started to notice that time acted funny. I'd be meditating and then I would think that a minute had passed and I'd look up and it would be an hour and I was still sitting upright, which really surprised me. And I had not fallen asleep, but I was somewhere else. So what was it about time? So the first thing to know about focused perception is that it's meditative, very hard to do when you're frenetic and running around and worried and fearful. We'll talk about fear. But if you can sit yourself down in a meditative way and focus your mind using the exercises in the book and this one in particular, then you can do a lot of things, not the least of which is control the passage of time. That's beautiful.  You did. How were they for you? Amazing. And I had some favorites that I'm gonna go back and use. And just this idea of focused perception that you offer to us, I've never done anything like that. And Lord knows I've done enough meditating TM and many other imagery kind of hypnosis and so forth. But the way you have us count ourselves down, something really interesting happens. And I will say what I love about it is it's super fast. My God, it's very fast speaking of time to get us there. And then there's an opening for something else to occur. Was that your purpose in creating that? It was. And the counting down actually comes from training which I studied with Dr. Jerry Epstein in Kabbalah. And so it was a technique and a methodology. And Dr. Jerry would talk about it going into the time of no time. Because when you count down from let's say three and you're counting backwards while doing in particular breathing exercises which are all based in science and biology, you get to a place where you're not only focusing the mind but you've relaxed the body. But it's a signal to you that you've gone back somewhere. Where have you gone? You've gone to a time of zero, no time, the now. And when you're sitting in the now as most spiritual traditions would suggest that is the time of manifestation. It's the place where genius lives. It's the place where miracles happen. We're able to do it just by, I've done it in ladies' rooms, in parked cars, in on buses and trains, everywhere you could imagine to focus my mind to get to this place where not only am I centered and I'm focusing on one thing to the exclusion of others but I can create the life I want. And in that way, I can also manipulate time. You talked earlier and mentioned that we can control time on the clock. And for some reason, what popped for me when you said that is, what about age? How does that reflect on age? People have a sense, right? Every second that goes by, you just age again, you're getting closer to death. How does manipulating or being able to control time reflect on age and how do you feel about it? How do you feel about age in regards to time? So what I learned when I started to study this after beginning, after meditating and having experiences with time my whole life since I was a little girl, I've had experiences with slowed down time in particular. I realized that time in one sense only exists because things move around. No movement, no time. If the earth didn't move, we wouldn't be calculating days by 24 hours. If you were in a dark room, not moving at all, no perception, no time. So if the entire universe were not moving anywhere, there'd be no time, which means that time is rooted in the physical to some extent, but it's also rooted in perception. And the perception is, as Einstein famously said, when you're sitting with a pretty girl, an hour seems like a minute. And when your hand's on a hot stove, a minute seems like an hour. Why? Because of what you're focusing on, that's the secret. And so, and also Einstein, of course, believed that time was an illusion and that relativity showed that time is relative. So if time is one part physical and one part perception, let's change the part of the equation we control, which is our perception. And the thing I do when dealing with things that are physical realities is I remove fear. Fear rings like the clearest bell above us. If we think of manifestation and even of quantum physics collapsing the wave function, what you're thinking about, how you show up for a situation affects the situation, the physical nature of the situation. If you show up afraid, that's what you're gonna get. So these exercises completely remove fear. And in fact, if you have time for one later, we could actually do one on the radio, which might be fun, and completely remove fear so that the fear of aging, what you focus on, as had been famously said, grows in your life. Focus on other things, right? Use the exercises in the book to focus on the life that you wanna live. Does the physical aspect of time exist in Israel? Sure, of course it is. I think of it as a quantum ballet. We're each doing our thing. It's a giant ballet. It's wonderful and messy and chaotic and choreographed all at the same time.  And what we focus on grows in our lives. So use the part we can focus on, including to focus on things, again, to lead our best possible lives. Great, great. Who doesn't want a miracle? Yes, we are gonna make time for that exercise. So folks, don't go away.  So I know something very traumatic happened and that's what opens you up to years of research in this realm becoming who you are today. So do you mind just to let the audience in on what did occur? What was this big turning point for you when you were a young girl? Thank you for asking. And very often we have formative experiences before about the age of seven. Something might happen. For me, what happened is my parents were New Yorkers but we lived in Arizona and Arizona in the 60s was the seat of a new industry called the computer industry and my dad was a computer scientist early on. Anyway, we were at a cabin in the mountains when I was four and little girls in full of life. My sister and I, she's a year younger jumping on a bed in a cabin in a remote part of Arizona and the bed rolled away. We didn't realize it was on coasters. And I flew through the room and was impaled on a plate glass window which I broke with my head. So there I was on the window sill half in half out in a remote part in Arizona bleeding out and I had a classic death experience. And the death was, death experience was I remember most of it. I could draw it. I remember the station wagon and even the glass and the country facility where I was cared for. I did live obviously. And from above, which I saw as though I were hovering over myself. And then suddenly I was in my body again. But I never went back to the way it was. At least I don't think so. Now in all fairness, memories are strange things. We can remember something vividly and another person remembers another thing. But my memory of all of that was suddenly the world was alive. Everything was talking and different and more vibrant. And that's actually very common with death experiences that people come back and they report these things. But one thing I noticed was I had a superpower and the superpower was I could slow down time. I could, I'd be running on a field or doing track or any of the other things that little girls do in grade school and suddenly the field would change. We now know today it's common with Michael Jordan and all of the athletes, they're even trained to do it. They're trained to slow down the field. Is this what's called being in the zone or is there another word? It is, there are many words for it. There's a flow state. There's being in the zone. Right, the now in the present and spirituality. It's all the same thing. It's a brainwave state which I cover in the book which when these brainwaves converge triggered by I believe focused perception which is why I include that in the book. You can move into a state, a flow, zone, the now. This time of no time where time slows down and you can do things that you wanna do. So while bowling at the age of eight, I bold a nearly perfect game. I'm still exasperated. I remember trying to mess up by throwing the ball in a different lane and it still wouldn't go in the same lane and I still bold a strike. Now that's a zone for a little girl. But it never left me even though I didn't tell anyone at the time because I thought they would think I was weird or crazy. But when I became a meditator in my 20s I realized something was up. And then I started a study of ancient spiritual traditions all over the world from Buddhism and Zen Buddhism and Chinese and Kabbalah and India. And then later on about 10 years later I discovered quantum mechanics. And I realized that the state that we're reaching may be the same state described by the most modern physics as the quantum world. So this state we're reaching are you referring back to that zone, that place where all stands still and all is possible? Well, maybe more than that. We've all experienced these weird episodes, right? Where something happens and we say to ourselves, did I really just see that? Did that really just happen? You may see something fall in slow motion. Now that the book has been out and I've been asking stories for people for years, they abound from the glass falling in slow motion to a piece of wood coming at a friend of mine at high speed on a highway. And in slow motion he swerved out of the way and only took off the top of the car and didn't kill him. So we have all of these experiences but we mostly pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and go on like nothing happened. Which is why I think the issue has not been explored more. I didn't do that. I started writing them down and noticing them and wondering what I could do to bring them on and it's this state of focus perception that I talk about in the book.  Is there a way we can use it to heal? There is and that's a very important part of this work. If we're stuck in the past or afraid of the future, we can't be in the now, right? It's that simple. And so I actually say that all transformation, personal transformation work is rooted in time where we need to free ourselves from the past and not be afraid of the future and come into the now where we can manifest a life that we want. If you were living right in the present moment, there's no disease there. In this moment right now, where everything is in Hebrew, the word for peace means nothing missing, missing, nothing lost, nothing broken, right? Shalom. And so that's a place of peace. That's the now. Nothing missing, nothing lost, nothing broken. If we can get there and not be afraid of the past, then we can actually heal ourselves. And the book has an exercise to heal traumas from the past and has some stories, a real world stories of huge trauma. Young people who, a young man who was a bartender who served a drink to someone who died on the road and another woman who was harmed by an adult as a child. And so these stories require tremendous courage to even tell and then begin to overcome. But if we can relive them in a way from a third party perspective as an adult looking back at our lives and begin to heal ourselves using some of the practices in the book, we can move from the past being stuck in the past and move into the now. You mentioned earlier when you were telling the story about yourself as a child, you mentioned bowling and when you were running on the field. So there's an illusion in the book to using this method and what you teach in regards to exercise. So I do wanna say for anyone out there who loves to exercise or is an athlete, can you tell them how they might positively manipulate time towards exercise and becoming an excellent athlete? Well, an athlete or just a regular person. One of the exercises, in fact, we could do it right now. If we wanted to do a quick exercise, we could cover that. And it wouldn't necessarily pertain to exercise in particular, but it pertains to anything that we want to have happen in our lives that's fulfilling. That's what's important. So we're gonna pick something fulfilling. So right now I will say, and we can talk about this later on, I work in public safety as well. I run a charity that's in police reform. So if you are driving, do not do this. Do not attempt this while driving. Go home, you can listen later. On my website, lisabroderick.com is this exercise. You can download it and listen at another time. But for everyone else, for a quick exercise, we're going to begin to relax. And so if you're sitting in a chair, that's a good place to be. And two poses to sit in the chair would be, feet on the floor with a straight back and then arms on your thighs like King Tut. It's a straight arms, straight leg energy posture, which is common to Kabbalah and also to China. Now there's also the lotus position for people who like that. Very powerful, a little different, and that's from India, either work. But you don't want randomly cross things. You wanna have yourself aligned either in one or the other, it would be helpful.  Now we're gonna have an intention to relax. And in doing that, we're gonna use a little biology. Let's inhale through our nose and exhale through our mouths, a long, slow exhalation through the mouth, twice as long as the inhale. Think about that.  And with the next inhalation, let's see the number three in our mind's eye. Any way we see it is perfect for us. You may not think that you can visualize the course you can daydream. Any way that's perfect for you. And breathing in through our nose and exhaling out through our mouth, see the three dissolve into the number two. And in through our nose and out through our mouth, a long, slow exhalation two dissolves into the number one. In through our nose and out through our mouths, the number one dissolves into the number zero. We're now in the time of no time, the now. I'm gonna sit quietly for a moment. And now a special trait and bring to mind something that you would really like to create for yourself, something satisfying and fulfilling, something wonderful. It could be mundane like a check coming or you're finding the right apartment or getting a promotion. It could be world changing. I wish for world peace and for American police and communities to get along, but live it as a movie. Live it as a visceral movie where you see, feel, hear, sense and know. This is all happening this wonderful experience. You're living this in every sense. And now for a little big, let's amp it up a little bit. Imagine how this is a benefit to everyone. This is not for you. It's a benefit for everyone involved. Think about how many people this would benefit. And the reason we do this is now we're not afraid it won't happen for us. We just want it for someone else, whatever this is. It's wonderful, satisfying and fulfilling and for benefit for everyone involved. Keep this thought in mind and live it experientially as much as a movie. And now become aware that it's already happened. It's done, it's complete, it's accomplished.  You're living the moment where you learned the check came, the job came through, the apartment is yours, the house is yours. Some miracle that you wanna have happened and you're actually living it, it's accomplished fully and completely. There is nothing more to do. Now our brains, our fabulous computers may take over and try to explain why and how it doesn't matter. Who, what, when, where, why, how, just forget all of that. Don't care about the details. Live the experience that it's done. It's happened, it's complete. Now let's take this into our bodies and we'll amplify this. Going out to the bottom of your feet into the earth as though the energy is filling up every cell of the earth. It's filling it up, the giant earth. You and the earth are attached and this energy is going right into the earth from your feet and filling the entire earth. So the whole earth is this experience that it's already happened. And now coming back from the earth into your body, going up, up, up, it goes out through the top of your head in every direction. Higher and higher through the building you're in and into the solar system and into the galaxy and the universe and higher, higher, higher, higher and now just let it go. Feel your body resting in the calmness of nothing more to do. It's done, it's complete. When we're ready, we can slowly open our eyes. I'm back, isn't that fun? Now what has just happened here? So if manipulating time and controlling it for our lives is one part perception and one part physical world, the perception part we control. When we are faced with that moment because we want this to happen for our lives how we show up for that moment is now forever different. In the back of your mind somewhere you have lived the experience that it's done it's happened, it's complete. So what else have you done? You've removed the fear that it won't happen. You've also have a little vig again with the universe because the universe is going, oh really? Well, if it's for everybody then I'm really interested in supporting this dream. So let's take it even higher, right? And then we bring in the quantum mix and that is we don't know whether and how what we do affects every moment of our physical life but we do know that it's a principle in quantum mechanics that it does. Observation and the observer affect the collapse of the wave function from a wave into a particle, right? Essentially into matter. So how we show up if that's true for us in our lives and it's hard to imagine that it's not we're different too and even in the quantum field. Now we don't know how this works yet. We don't know how the quantum world is bubbling up into our big everyday world. Some believe it cannot although science is increasingly pointing to the fact that it's here including really far out principles like quantum entanglement which we can talk about. But if all that is true and we've just changed how we show up and we've removed fear you have set the stage to not waste any time about having this wonderful thing happen for you. And if you're not wasting time, you're controlling time. That same experience could be used to actually control clock time which is in the book which we won't do now. You can do that quietly at home but it's the same principle where what we focus on affects our perception of time and we've just used it to lead our best possible life. What exercise do you use the most? Is it called Mind Your Today? Yeah, Mind Your Today. There are three things that I do and I do have a bit of an unusual nightlife, let's say. It is more akin to an Eastern tradition and it's really only more recently in Western civilization that humans sleep through the night. They didn't really used to do that. I mean, for all kinds of reasons there were predators out there and it wasn't warm enough. It wasn't cold enough, whatever. So I sleep from about 10 or 11 to about 3 a.m. and studying at the Monroe Institute about three and a half hours after sleeping is an ideal time to do some very special things. So around three o'clock in the morning, I do this exercise and in the day I actually think of the things that I wanna dream from my heart's desire. I actually say that. What is my heart's desire? My heart's desire was this conversation is wonderful with you Debbie. That was one of it. I have a presentation after this that's important to me and that's wonderful. My heart's desire was the book would help people. My heart's desire could be that the check comes or arrives or whatever it is. I pick things out, you know, three, four, five or six and I do that exercise for each of them individually. Again, on my website, LisaBrodrick.com is this exercise which you can download as an audio file and put on something in your bed where you can listen to it at three o'clock in the morning. That is a friendly hint because that is the time of the prophets. That is the time of the mystics. Basically three a.m. wherever we are or having sleep and then doing it. Well, so it's a little, it's three or three and a half hours after sleep, right? With that said, in most ancient cultures, so three a.m. is the time of the void and Buddhism. Between three and five is the time of the prophets in Kabbalah. So there's something about the middle of the night, right?  So you could do that, put it on a device that does not ring, I have an MP3 player. And also I have a little, like something called a totem. A totem is something to remind me to do something like a totem pole and it's a crystal. So I have a crystal in bed with me and inevitably I'll roll over on it and I'll think to myself, okay, great. Now time to do, now it's a time for me. I'm gonna do my imagery exercise. I'm gonna do my guided meditation and I do that exact meditation for each of the things that I want with my heart's desire. So I do that at three a.m. And if you fall asleep, good. Because in essence, there's two of us, right? There's your lower self, your little eye, your personality self running around and feeling harm and unhappy and coping with the world and strategizing and planning. And then there's your big eye, right? Your higher self, which is more God-like, more spiritual, more akin to the creation, the creator. And so at three o'clock in the morning, there's no little eye floating around, wondering what you're gonna do right now. You've forgotten all of that. But your big eye could take this information to go, oh, really? Well, I've just heard that Debbie wants this and I am going to do this, I'm gonna work on that. So if you do this and fall asleep, it's ideal, it's perfect. Fall asleep, even while you're doing it, don't even remember, you'll know what you've done. And then when I wake up in the morning, I do something which is what you mentioned and that is I dream my entire day in advance.  And like a movie that I'm watching on screen and I'm the only person in the theater, I see myself getting up and making a phone call and being in a presentation and being on this call and having the check come and finding the apartment and my car starts and the tires come and I find a new life and a wonderful miracle happens and I go through my day all the way to the very end and I get to the very end and I'm going to sleep and then I close my eyes and I've just lived my day in advance the perfect day. For all the same reasons that we just did this exercise, living that perfect day in advance has tremendous benefit for it turning out that way, for saving time, for not wasting time, for speeding up time or slowing down time. If you have a really big proposal and you cannot imagine that you could possibly get it done, use that exercise to live the experience that it's done. It's finished, it's complete. You will be very surprised that when you dive into that proposal, having removed all fear, it will be done and finished and complete. And I get phone calls all the time saying, Lisa, it worked. I'll bet you do. I bet your clients love you. These are really hot tips. And it's not hard folks, I can tell you because doing the exercises and I took a couple every day, I was amazed at how quick it was, but how transformative. And as I get any better. When we master time, we master ourselves. That's really it. Personal transformation is rooted in time. Manifestation is rooted in time. Why? Because what you want to have happened, hasn't happened yet. So let's deal with time, right? Let's deal with the one thing. I heard a fight when I told my near-death experience, I heard someone say, it's like all of death, all of life is a near-death experience, right? And so we're clinging to time and time is the thing we know the least about. It's the biggest problem in physics. It's the biggest problem in everybody's lives. And especially after COVID. So before COVID, this book was written before during and then of course it's after we're getting to the end. And so people would picture their day as dollars, right? And so being busy was a badge of honor. Oh, I'm so busy. I'm so scheduled. I'm so this, I'm so that. And be so stressed out. And then what happened? Everything stopped. We stopped, it stopped, that stopped. And people right now are stressed out, burned out, bummed out, overwhelmed and hopeless for a couple of reasons. If they feel that way, it may be because they've lost their connection to time. They don't have the routine that used to define them. So everyone out there, before you get back to business as usual, take control of your life. Take control of time, not your schedule.   You mentioned earlier that would I ask, you would go deeper into it. So I'm going to ask quantum entanglement. Talk more about that.  Crack, I got to say it.  So much beautiful science in here and your understanding of that science and your way to break it down for the late person so we can understand what you're talking about. A lot of these words we've heard before that we may get snippets of that. So yes, let's talk about quantum entanglement. Well, first of all, say one of the fathers of quantum physics, Richard Feynman says, I can safely say no one understands quantum mechanics. So I did my best as a lay person to try to take these concepts of the latest science and help them be accessible. And so quantum entanglement, people have heard the phrase quantum mechanics. It's a field of point-like objects, particles. And when you observe things, different things happen. A lot of it, it's smaller than we could ever see. No one's ever seen a quanta, right? And so, and it's this entire field, but I'll tell you, quantum mechanics runs our lives. It's how we're having this phone call, it runs computers, it runs lasers. All aspects of our lives in terms of the latest technology are quantum-based. So we'll sit on that for a moment. But quantum entanglement is a proven theory in quantum mechanics where, think about this for a moment, the implications.  And you have a blue rock and you cut it in half. And there's two blue rocks and you keep one with you when you take the other blue rock to outer space. And you do something to the blue rock you have and someone's looking at the blue rock in outer space. The exact same thing happens to the blue rock in outer space. Now, the blue rock is in outer space and the blue rock is not communicating with your rock, although it used to be part of your rock. It's called quantum entanglement. Let me back up for one second so we can understand. Is this anything in the entire world universe that gets split in two, that has these really mysterious properties? Or is there a reason why this particular blue rock that is here with us now? And the other piece half of that blue rock that is in another planet is having this kind of coexistence and co-experience? Well, it's not happening for bigger things, although they are proving it in the bigger world for physical objects we may be able to see. But this happens in the quantum world, right? In quantum mechanics. And so a particle is a point-like object, the smallest we could possibly imagine. It's mathematically derived. It's a mathematical formula. The all of quantum mechanics is mathematics. So it's not really as though you could see it and move it into outer space, but experiments have been done. And it's not that the particle is blue. The particle has a quantum property like spin, which I won't get into, but some quantum property where the two particles, which used to be a single particle, exhibit the same characteristics when removed by space and time to a degree that defies the speed of light. Because even if you shot the particle you had in your hand out into space, it couldn't go fast enough for how quickly the particle in space is the same as the particle in your hand, even though they're separated by space and time.  Imagine calling someone and they say, I was just thinking of you. I actually think it's related. I think that there's a foam. A friend of mine is a physicist used that word, a quantum foam, right? And there's something called the Higgs-Bosin field. There's all this space. Even in the molecules that make up your body, I'm sure everybody knows, the table you're looking at is not solid. That microphone, you nothing, not all of it. You're 90% water and all of the other molecules are so, so much space that between here and the sun is the difference between the center of a molecule and the outside of the molecule in your body. Everything is me, is that? Everything, everything is me, that's right. So if there's that much space, where is all that space, right? What's in all that space? And how does quantum entanglement work? Well, maybe it's all solid. Maybe it's not, maybe it's not space. We're, we just imagine it's space because we have to measure between here and outer space. Maybe there's a foam. Maybe it's, maybe it makes things instantaneous. The truth is, nobody knows why quantum entanglement works, but it's been proven. So how do we apply that to our lives? We can apply that to our lives by first of all realizing that time is not what we think. If there are particles, if there are characteristics of particles that are changing faster than the speed of light, which is the speed limit for the universe, period. Nothing goes faster than the speed of light except quantum entangled particles. So, so much for that, right? So there's already science, which proves that time is not what we think, but we can use these things in our daily lives. Thinking of someone, if there's a quantum foam, thinking of someone and have them call you is a practice. I do it all the time. If I want someone to call me and they haven't called me, I imagine, I go through the exercise we just did or I'm speaking to them, I'm picking up the phone, I'm looking at their name ringing on my phone and they will say I was just thinking of you. So is it quantum entanglement for conversations? We don't know. Again, we know that these things happen. We know that the quantum world exists. We know that we have these experiences. The real question is, how do we connect our daily lives using this information to lead our best possible lives, better lives of meaning and purpose and not be slaves to time? And what about stretching time? Is there overlap there with what you're sharing about quantum entanglements or stretching time a whole different experience? Well, you know, the quantum science is in the book in order to give people who are critical thinkers, you know, using critical thinking the ammunition in their own minds to start to question whether time is an arrow for ever flying forward that cannot be changed. So with readers that I knew would be reading this book who believe that and who've been taught that, there had to be science in there to prove that time is not what we think. Stretching time is focused perception. What we talked about, and that is when you focus your perception of time changes. Here's an example. You are reading the best possible book in the world and you're so engrossed and you started it and then you look up and you finish the whole book and you think a moment has passed and it's been two hours. Oops, you're late for the appointment. You are holding your newborn for the first time. And as you hold your newborn, the world falls away. You're so focused, so engrossed in the experience like Einstein and his pretty girl where you're holding them for a little period of time and you may think it's forever or you may think it's just a moment, right? You don't wanna do something and you hate it and time lasts forever. So use focus as your tool in order to change your perception of time and to stretch time. In particular, using the focus perception exercise. Yeah, it's so amazing when I read that because when I was young, I did this. So when I was in my 20s and I had been just learning about metaphysics, it logically made sense to me. Let me inject a piece here. When I was in my 20s, I was late all the time. I don't know what was up with me, but I was a chronic late person, which meant I was always setting myself up for this, ah, getting places. And logically, I would think if everything is energy and if there's metaphysics, if we can control things, I can change the time I arrive there. Now I'm not gonna say or suggest to anybody to do this, meaning the being late part because it really says love to be uptight. Still, back then what I would do running late is I would literally envision the time I wanted to arrive.  And sure enough, almost to the late experience, I would get there on time. So I had this in my arsenal before I even read it, and it was such a great memory that that was something I already had, that this is something all of us can do. Or I would imagine people going through a trauma have time issues or there's a pregnancy, you don't know how long it's gonna take, or you're waiting to hear back in a job interview, an apartment, and there's so many scenarios where you can probably use this technique alone so that it's really manageable in your space and you can start to influence the world around you. Right. Well, think about what you did instead of focusing on the physical nature of the impossibility of driving across LA in 10 minutes or whatever it was, you focused on arriving on time. You changed the part of the equation you could change. Now, that may, for the physical world, we don't know how it interacts yet. We don't know how we interact with the quantum field, although increasingly what is being proven in quantum mechanics is bubbling up into our big world of universes and cars and people and matter and things. With that said, by focusing on arriving rather than letting any of the fear that you're going to be late get into your awareness, you've certainly changed the equation for how you show up in the moment. You didn't make a mistake, you didn't make a wrong turn, you simply focused on arriving on time. So number one, remove fear. Number two, focus on what you want, not what you don't want, right? Number three, we don't know how we show up for the moment affects physical reality, although it's proven in quantum mechanics that it does. And number four, if all of that is true, practice. Practice it for your own life, do these things for your own life and see for yourself.  And I say, go for it, absolutely.   What kind of instruments you play, how long have you been playing? So in that little girl exercise, I decided I wanted to play the saxophone when I was five, six, or seven, by the way. Well, it wasn't back then, it was a bit of a boyish thing. And so I, and I played for a while and then I got to high school and I put that away. But in my 40s, I'd realized I could play an instrument and I had a soul, meaning I'd had soul experiences. I had loved and lost and I had triumphed and I had not and I had things to say with my soul.  And in fact, I would speak to very famous jazz musicians who tell me at the height of mastery, they can pick a note out of the air. They're playing so fast that you think they can't possibly be thinking about it and they're picking the notes out of the air one by one in their minds in slow motion. That's mastery. So I tried to apply that to music. I was never great, but I was good enough for me. And I played on stage at Jazz at Lincoln Center a couple of times and had a band and a couple of albums. And then I'd put it away. I still have some instruments that I play. But what I noticed that, of course, frequency and vibration are music because it's sound. And time is a frequency and vibration, right? So there are sound waves and there are magnetic waves and there are waves of matter and all kinds of things and they all move over time.  See the audience if you have to perform loving it, enjoying it, it's a joyous occasion. Use the exercise we just did to become that, remove all fear and you change your perception, your experience of time. May I ask you, so if you played the sax, you put the sax away and then years later, you're like, I think I'll do this again.  I know as a musician and a singer, I, for someone who used to play violin at a very high advanced level and let it go when she was 16, that when I pick it back up and I do have one in my household now, I still remember how the hand goes. I remember how I hold the bow. There are things that a sense memory, but the rest is gone, reading that music, knowing how to play.  And so how do you re-remember? How do you re-inform yourself and even get better, excel at it? So again, back to the formula, time, life, reality is one part physical and one part perception. So the physical part is the fingering of any instrument, right? Or unless you're using your voice than your physical voice, right? Which needs to be up to a certain speed and a certain level and you can practice with that. But then the perception and that is play one note, just one note in slow motion and play that concentrate to the exclusion of all others using focus perception on one note. One note, enjoy, luxuriate how beautiful that note is. And then maybe move on to another note and then move on pretty soon, you're putting these notes together at a high level of mastery. There's no reason to rush. There's no reason to do something for someone else. Luxuriate in the slow motion of relearning to play the instrument. See your fingers moving in slow motion. Do the exercise that we just did. Imagine playing and it's beautiful and effortless and joyous and you love it. You become one with the music. That removes your fear that when you're playing or even practicing for yourself that you won't enjoy it. You can do all of these things and they're all rooted in time. So you've used your life and your exercises and came up with this new piece that you alluded to earlier. You said, I'm in public safety. Don't be meditating while you're driving. I think. You created this amazing nonprofit that's called Peace to Police with the number two, peace, number two, police. Police to peace. Police the number two in peace. Police, police to peace. Interesting. Okay, that came out backwards. So forgive me. So we'll make sure we give out the correct URL and everything for that title again. How is this nonprofit related to your research with time? Can you tell us about it? And again, that's police2peace.com. That is a great question. At the same time I was beginning to write down this book, I had been working in private consulting for a long time and been the CEO of many, many technology companies which was my background. And I decided that I wasn't going to do another company, work with another company that didn't give back that wasn't socially accretive. We have a lot of problems, right? In our own backyard.  And I was on a beach one day and on the beach came a police vehicle onto a beach on a summer afternoon with kids playing in the water and a wonderful, joyous occasion one afternoon. And I had sort of a mystical experience. I had a vision where I saw the words peace officer on a police vehicle. So I'm looking at that and it wasn't quote there but it was there for me. But while writing this book, I realized something and that is the only reason we care about what time it is is that we care what it is that's ours to do now. If you had nothing to do, you wouldn't care what time it is. So I'm writing a book on time and I'm thinking of these questions and I'm thinking about my life. And I realized that if not me, who if not now when, right? I realized that if peace officer were on vehicles it might be a way to help our communities and our police work together and live together in harmony. And this was years ago before the events of the last year but still even then the fractionalization, the difficulties, the police involved shootings all of the things that we're so aware of were happening and they've been happening for the longest time of course. And I realized that first of all for myself I had made space in my life and know at the time that I could stumble across something that had meaning for my life because I was considering it within the framework of time. Again, with the phrase, the wonderful phrase if not me, who if not now when, right? And then another phrase which is what is it that's mine to do, mine to do?  What was mine to do was to explore this vision of peace officer on vehicles. So many years later, that was 2016, 2017 police to peace is working around the country we're uniting police departments and communities around programs that uplift and heal them communities torn apart by violence reuniting them under this concept of peace where the community are part of the police and the police are part of the community. And it relates to time is because I knew that I had made space in my life for this question. What is it that's mine to do now? Because I had mastered time because I knew that self mastery and mastering time were the same thing and I was working on that and writing the book. I knew that this was mine to do that I could choose to do it and it was mine to do now and I did. What is happening right now? What are the next steps that are happening not necessarily that you envision but that are concretely moving forward with the nonprofit? Oh, with police to peace. We're working in cities and communities and counties around the country introducing the idea of peace officer to police agencies, sheriffs and police agencies so that it becomes them. So in name and in action approaching remember how we talked about showing up for a situation? Imagine if all officers in this country showed up to every situation as a peace officer. First, de-escalation, problem solving. What is the root of the problem? Instead of just following rules which are very prescriptive and we live by in society, especially in public safety what if there's another element? What if we came as a society to keeping the peace and guarding the people? That is going on around the country where police agencies and sheriffs agencies are adopting peace officer. But then there's the community. The community has to buy in. Communities where harm has been done. Where harm needs to be acknowledged that it has been done. Where the fear of harm exists which may not have happened but is there anyway. So we're uniting those communities with their police agencies by talking with them. We bring them together in groups and we meet and speak and share values. When people speak about values and no longer make accusations or come from places of emotion but rather the desire for mutual understanding that's where miracles happen. And that's our work going on around the country. So Lisa, this is Dare to Dream. What are you next, Dare to Dream? What are your future dreams and goals? Well, with police to peace, I dream that every police agency in this country is a peace officer in name and action. If that is true, we are reunited in community. We are families. We are nurturing the systemic issues that are tearing us apart, dissolve away when everyone cares about the values of peace. So that is my dream. And also the dream of bringing this work to the world. It's time. The time jokes are infinite which is another time joke, right? So there's so many, this is the perfect timing and all the time in the world and all the time to do what we wanna do. If people really knew that and got back to their lives they could use this book as an antidote to feeling stressed out, burned out, hopeless and unoverwhelmed. There's no reason to feel that way. You can't have all the time in the world. Yeah, I say this all the time about book writing. And if people are interested in my coaching whether it's privately or joining the group it's like, it's time. If a book has come to you in spirit and said, I want to be birthed through you. I want you to author my story so to speak. It's time. Like there's no reason to wait, right? Get on with it.  So if you've got a message, boy is it time to get it out there. It is, and that's the question. What is it that's mine to do now? When that book is yours to do you can pick yourself up and go on like nothing happened. It will follow you. It will. It'll come up again. You might as well do it now, right? When it presents itself because it's going to come through and you can use this work and use Debbie's work to know what it is that's yours to do now and bring all of your wonderful ideas through to the world as I was so blessed and able to do with all the time in the world. Yeah, so again, this is Lisa Bratterich's book and Lisa, where can they find it? And what would you like to tell the listeners and the watchers here at the end? All major booksellers of course, Amazon is a big one but all major booksellers available now and really wonderful on purchase over the internet. We have bonuses on the website if you're interested. If you wanna go to lisabratterich.com that's probably the easiest. All the time book is the same website where you can sign up for a newsletter and get bonuses and this guided meditation that we did put that on an MP3 player and listen to it tonight three o'clock in the morning when you wake up and live a life of purpose and meaning and we're all lead so that we can all lead our best possible lives. Thank you for the book and thank you so much for coming on the show today. It's really been a pleasure. Debbie, thank you so much for having me. I end today's show with two pieces here. The first is again, the URL to give out all the time book.com so you can get your copy as well as it connects you to Lisa's site for the meditation and more. And I end today's show with this quote from Lao Tzu. Time is a created thing to say, I don't have time is to say, I don't want to. Subscribe to this podcast on YouTube. It's your number one transformation conversation. Go to youtube.com slash Debbie Dashinger also on Apple podcasts and all the podcast major sites. Next week on Dare to Dream, I'm having a guest return. Stephen Bassett will be back. He has a passionate voice for disclosure. Steve is back for his second interview and he's a leading advocate for ending the 65 year government in post Chusenbargo regarding an extra terrestrial presence. His first time on the show was beyond, you want to get ready because I have all new questions for Steve Bassett. Thank you so much for joining us today on the show. Remember to dare to dream, create all your dreams. You've got a great meditation from Lisa to do it. And the question is, what is yours? What is mine to do today?


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