Thank you all for joining us today. This is a Dolores Cannon original support forum webinar And today is the 10th of November 2016 and I have with me a very special guest and friend Laurie Paulina a wonderful Practitioner and a truly great guy all around he's got some great stories to share so today we are Looking at discussing a couple of topics by request one was trans depth there's You know a lot of discussion in our community about the Seministic state and the different brainwave states and hypnosis and Visualization and where we are and where our brain state is during all of this and we talk about that all the time and What Dolores mostly talked about was the seminalistic state and its Importance in healing and as I was thinking about how we were going to discuss that I thought about Laurie Particularly because he has some really great stories personal stories very personal stories where he can talk to you about What depth of trance he was in and how all that happened for him in various forms and stories He has at his own personal healing and that's why I've asked Laurie to join me today, but he's not the only one Okay, we want to talk about that practitioners all across the board are getting healings in sessions sometimes During the interview portion Session okay sitting in those chairs Sometimes I mean one of my best stories ever is of a woman just laying there If you didn't participate in the session one way or another that most people would have thought that was a complete and utter failure and It was one of the most extraordinary outcomes. I have had to date in eight years so, you know, we need to talk about the seminalistic state and possibly why it's not completely required for healing and Because Laurie has such great stories That's why I thought those two things might align nicely today Your stories and for you in the community to get to know Laurie a little bit his stories and also, you know, pretty much Talk around this topic about trance and trance depth So I want to welcome everybody, but I want to especially welcome you Laurie. So I'm gonna I'm gonna start out by Telling you all the first time I ever met Laurie and it's such a fond memory of mine it was in September of 2014 which was going to end up being the last classes that Dolores Cannon would ever teach and I've In in real life Anyway, and I have such fond memories of this and Very warm memories and I know many of you out there Have them as well. It was her largest class ever and upon reflection and speaking with many of you after the fact weeks months and even years after the fact many of you Knew what I also knew in my heart, which was that's the last that was going to be her last class And it was so anyway I showed up early to open up the auditorium doors for the class the level one class that day and When I walked into the convention center and it's like really early, you know And I don't know probably have my coffee or something and there's the spell of standing right by the door And that's Laurie and his eyes were like this slide and he was and he had like a notebook or something on his chest and You just you couldn't contain the enthusiasm It was so astonishing just that meeting the the utter joy that was exuding from you and your body About being there it just warmed my heart then and even now remembering it and you I think already started to tell me your story even there at the front door once when I was unlocking the door to go in for the auditorium in the classroom and so this is a really great place I think for you maybe to tell the story Laurie. I know I sent the link or put up the link look at the We'll put the link up on this as well to go to your website and people can read in Text your story, but why don't you give us your story in your own words right now, Laurie? all right, I was at that front door much earlier, but Nobody was there, so I didn't know that I went for a cup of coffee and came back But I was so excited to be there and I Guess I had been fresh Fresh off the miracle belt and just was so enthused to learn to Lars's technique, but I'll give you my story. I had a long history of soul-searching and and philosophic background and was always searching for things and always trying to you know awaken as best as I could and I was living in Denver at the time. I had lived 20 years in Santa Fe as an artist and Moved to Denver and stayed with some friends of mine who had a big house and I was able to stay with them and work a little bit for them and So I was at their B B Hest, you know, I was trying to fit in there and be helpful and stuff like that and I and I worked for them and I Practiced music and walked and made dinners for them. So I was constantly active at their house and I Had to go back to Buffalo where I'm from Because my mom had passed away and my brother who had been her caretaker was sort of just lost you know, he thought that she was going to be senile for the rest of eternity and A close friend of mine said, oh, well, you should read Michael Newton's books Journey of souls and destiny of souls and so I read them and it was amazing in that I had believed in in Reincarnation but my only venture Find out about it was the Tibetan Book of the Dead and that was you know, it said you died You came back and forth. You had 40 days to come back. It just didn't Resonate with me. It didn't make sense. And so I never took it any further But I did believe there was a spirit realm and all that so I You know, I wanted to Find out about the spirit realm. I read those books and I was so turned on by it I I sent it to my cousin Janet who the next day sent me a leak to Dolores's the More Kevin Moore show and it was just an audio I didn't even see her and so I was listening to it and she just Blew the top of my head off. It was like everything. She said it was just spot-on and Resonated in my body. I mean, I think she you know opened up every chakra and then some you know right away And I said I have to Read these books, you know, because she talked about her books So I went to the library and thanks to Dolores's method of inter library loan, which I suggest to everyone I was able to get her all of her I think it was 17 books at the time Through the Denver library which had none none of those books on their own And I read all 17 of them in a matter of two months so I was just everybody was making fun of me at the dinner table because I was I said you don't understand. This is too great And uh It was just tremendous and then I said to myself. Well, I really have to study with her You know, I got this feeling like she wasn't gonna I was just flabbergasted that reading those books that she was still alive number one Number two that she was still teaching. It was like, oh my god But you know, I was very practical and I said, all right Well, I'll get a session in Denver with a practitioner and see if I like the modality and you know If it's something I think I can do because I had never done hypnosis I do psychic work and And spiritual counseling, but I was never really into hypnotherapy. So I had a session the woman was lovely and very matter of fact and She just said No matter what say Okay, when I asked to speak to your higher self And so I did 111 I'm just saying it's 111 as I'm checking the time go ahead. Okay. So, uh Don't rush me Candice This joke So it wound up being that uh That when she asked I had a crooked back my shoulders were Uneven due to a childhood accident and my sacrum was crooked and my left Foot was pronated and sort of just life not lifeless, but I mean, I couldn't really walk on it I just sort of used it almost like a peg leg so the left leg was weird the foot and And Left shoulder was a good, you know, two and a half three inches lower than my right shoulder and I had Continuously been suffering for the past maybe year and a half with really bad stiffness in the back that I couldn't Abide by so I was going to a chiropractor, but he wasn't helping So she asked during you know, and I had a past life or two it was working You know, I was a salamander and a and a space alien But uh, then she said could glory heal his back and at that point I was about as Loosened as I am now and I just sort of chuckled because it's like, I don't know, you know I hope so It's basically what I said. I was so light in trance and um And that was the end of the uh the thing, you know It was just sort of like lame and I uh I Said goodbye to her and she said, you know, just give it a week or so. She says and see what happens So a week to the day was the 4th of july we lived in a fancy part of the neighborhood where they Country club was and on the 4th of july they let off all these bombs, you know explosions and stuff I was home alone. I was practicing the cello and my back was killing me and I said, oh, I'll take a hot bath And maybe I'll feel more uh Well, wouldn't you know one of those explosions, uh Came all the way to the house. I don't know how it happened, but uh I guess my higher self must have coordinated it, but it exploded right next to the bathroom window and With like, you know boom, you know and it rattled the window and the energy of this explosion uh went You know rifled right through me and uh The second that happened I looked down and the first thing I saw was my chest and it was In a gray wool suit with gold buttons and a whole bunch of metals to the left and I gathered immediately that I was I was wearing a confederate outfit I just Looked down further and I saw blood everywhere and I looked down further and I didn't have any legs and I saw at a distance my legs and It was so rivetingly real that I thought that I just said to myself I'm dead. That's the end of my life. You know it's over. Oh my god, you know and then one second later I realized I was in the bathtub All of a sudden it was like then And I said, oh my god this is The time now, you know, it's the present is now and I'm in a bathtub and it's not that you know and the Relief from this traumatic experience was like overwhelming and in fathoming this relief. I saw what looked like You know like when you're looking at a A grill and the heat waves come up So I saw like an invisible heat wave or whatever of that trauma Apparently like just lived out of me. You know, I just saw it rise to the ceiling and then I Felt elated but I was more like freaked out than elated and I said I am getting out of this bathtub right now Like, you know voodoo bathtub or something.  I didn't tell anybody I spent the next week looking in the mirror looking in reflections in shop windows and tried to see if I was holding myself differently or whatever and Every time I looked perfectly straight uh I also had a shoe lift because I had a special shoe and had a metal arch in it and a and a shoe lift and uh I walked every morning for like three miles. So I Didn't take the shoe lift off because I just didn't believe that anything was really really happened and Lo and behold my back started to hurt. So I took I said, I'm going to just take it out and see if it You know works whatever and all of a sudden it was fine. My back didn't hurt at all and I just couldn't believe it.  Yeah, that happens. She was like she could care less She could care less but she she was just so I heard that before. Yeah, it was like just normal so, uh, I immediately uh Like called up and and booked the Dolores, uh class and I went Tarkin saw and that's why I was so excited was because I had such a miraculous healing um, then we broke up at the end of the week into groups and Cynthia Buckner was my partner and and One other person, uh, Holly. I forget her last name and and we all did healings on each other and what I noticed about Cynthia when Holly did her Was that at one point she looked like she was having A heart attack or something. I was like looking at her like what's going on and afterward She said I felt like I was being electrocuted.  So being an eagle was fantastic and, uh Towards the end I felt like mud was being splashed in my eyes and I said well, what's this all about And I looked down and there I had a talon And in the talon was a snake and the snake must have been picked up from a river bed or something And it was splashing wet mud in my eagle eye And because I had terrified to just You know Figure out what that was I heard in the distance like some voices And I noticed they were saying well He doesn't Were mean to him because he doesn't listen to us And I realized that that was my own voice that Cynthia had already begun the sc part And that because I had Dallied to figure out what the mud was that I just sort of like Bifurcated or something and so that's what happened Uh, so she said well, she was such a great practitioner and she said if lori promises to do what you say, you know Listen to you will will you heal his left foot? And the reason my foot was so lame was because of the calf muscles They were like atrophied from not use or the crooked spine or whatever So I came back to Denver And on the plane I noticed something I made a mental note of something that was going on in a cloud It just was phenomenal or whatever. So when I finally listened to my tape It said look It it mentioned that cloud moment The tape did it was like they were Trying to tell me like, you know We're telling you the future or whatever and then I said, what did I promise? You know here I promise something So I listened to the tape and it said you must rest Well, it turned out that I had been an artist all my life and Never had funding from my family So I was struggling to survive my whole life And I did a great job up to like 57 years old or whatever But it was getting hairy and I was living with these people trying to save money so I was just constantly constantly Efforting and trying to survive trying to make money trying to you know get my career You know art and music going all the time in different cities and I was like Bedraggled from all this, you know aggressive You know survival and it was kind of like that eagle That was a similar message and that eagle past life anyhow I said, all right They they said I have to rest so I'm not going to get up at six in the morning and go walking I'm not going to practice the cello before work. I'm not going to Come home from work and You know make dinner for everybody. I'm not going to make my macrobiotic lunches Early in the morning. I'm just going to lay in bed and go to work and then come back and rest So I did that for a month and while I laid there I had some realizations and one of them was that I was telling everyone I was exploded by a bomb and Then I said, well, this was a civil war. There were no bombs. So it was a cannon and then I said, oh my god Dolores cannon and then I said, well, what does Dolores mean? I had a cousin named Dolores and we always knew that meant pain in Spanish.  Then I realized, you know, sort of the grievous egregious errors of war and all that stuff and I started to really decide to, you know, make some shifts and really stop struggling and maybe let the universe start to Do its half rather than me doing three quarters and it doing, you know, here and there And so It said if I did what it said it would heal the leg in two months. Well in a month and a half I Uh Was sleeping in the middle of the night and at midnight I it was the october 26th or whatever I felt like I was having I was being electrocuted when I was a kid I went to a fun house and they had a Chair there that had a little bolt going through it. So I knew what that felt like, you know Supposed to be funny, but it wasn't and so I didn't know what to do and I I realized if I deeply breathe it will Um a bait, you know, because you know deeply breathing is so great So I did that and 20 minutes later it stopped and I said That must have been what happened to Cynthia because it it felt like how she looked But thought no more of it and I got up to go to work I took a shower. I went to put my shoes on and my foot would not fit into that Medaled shoe, you know, it was all built for a lame foot and you know, it just wouldn't fit So I had some sneakers that didn't have that set up in it and um And I I just realized I was standing on the edge of my foot correctly It was like all of a sudden usually I could pretend like I was standing correctly But I couldn't hold it for more than a second But now I was without even thinking about it I was completely standing on it correctly and the muscle was in the macath was holding it up No problem and to this day, which is years later. I've not Stood the other way.  Although I had a foot on it And it was many many years, right? My memory is I was like 13 till 57 or something. Yeah Yeah, crazy And to this day I continually walk and the arch which wasn't there before Slowly over the years has carved out just like water Rubbing against the stone or something. So now I have an arch in both feet Uh And so I'm gonna stop you because I want to I want to ask some questions and and I know you've got more stories But for uh for people who are listening. I've been taking a few notes. So, um I want to I want to mention some things and then I want to ask you some questions if that's okay So the first thing is and I'm learning, you know, you and I have talked Many times since meeting in 2014 but I've Because of the wonderful way you've told your story today. I've learned more about Uh, some of the timing and some of the things that were going on here So when you had your very first initial session in Denver, you said you were a salamander and a space alien But you did not experience a civil war life. Is that true? Not at all Isn't that interesting so for the practitioners out there think about this, right? You know, he He didn't even go to the place that seems to be the the impetus of what happened to your sacrum, right?  Um, may I ask What did you learn about those two experiences? Why did your higher self say that? I I was Surprised when you just started to ask how it all of a sudden it clicked in my head this salamander I was like looking at I was it something like a salamander in the vietnam war You know And and it was like I was climbing up tanks and stuff like these like green light green tanks with like big You know nozzles on them or whatever a tank has to shoot And i'm like You know like what are these people doing? What are the What we're you know, it was like you're in my jungle and all of a sudden We're killing each other. What how ridiculous is this so I climbed up to a tree And looked down at it and it was just like baffled So so that's what clicked in my head is like it was sort of like This this is when I started to realize how war is maybe ridiculous Where in the civil war I might have bought into the idea And then the space alien thing was When we went to take the class it was in the hilton that I stayed and we also had The class next to it or whatever and it had this enormous Lobby It was like eight stories high You know And all the rooms were around the periphery of this huge lobby. Well this life as an alien I Was on a ship and then the next thing I know I was in a plate like a you know like this front Cement entrance to what looked like a glass dome and I walked in it and it looked just like That lobby except it was all glass And I stood there and I looked up at like maybe the eighth floor or whatever and there was a panel of council And they said they were chewing me out not really but they were Letting me know in no uncertain terms that I had failed In whatever it was My mission was and I just felt like You know like boy. I'm getting chewed out. You know not really but But it was a disappointment because I had failed and I don't know what the subject matter was Okay, um, I want to mention a couple other things when you Talked about the explosion going off by okay. No wait, but I'm going to back up and ask first and mention this I have a memory telling me about this story before and Correct me if I'm wrong you said Before going in to take your bath. You had listened to the session for the first time Is that true or my mystery? You are right. I I had uh I just said, uh, you know, they said to listen to it a number of times. So I said, uh You know And this was before I practiced this was a few minutes before I practiced I just listened to the healing part. I wasn't going to listen to anything else I just listened to the healing part, which was very short. I mean And it was you saying I'm right here. It's just me. This sounds like I'm just talking like we're sitting on the sofa, right? Right. So I I when she said ken lorry. She said it in such a mysterious way Heal his back or could you heal lorry's back? And it was like you asking me this right this minute. So I just said, well, I don't know. I hope so Right and it just sounded like you and you're only just said I hope that okay. Yeah, I wanted I wanted to make sure Okay, so so that's number one I want I wrote it down when you said this when you said that the explosion happened by the window And then that energy, you know what word you used the energy rifled through you It did So that I picked that on that right away Well, it's interesting that you're saying that because the final story that you're going to ask me Yes had to do with the rifle wound. Yes And we're going to talk about that too But before we even move on to that, I also want to say and as I'm saying this now my body is buzzing wildly You had this entire experience immersed in water Water which we are talking about with the idea of you know The beyond quantum healing or some of the information that is coming through from the loris and or Emoto from various sources Talking about the importance of using water in a session drinking it putting intentions in it Even at the webinar we had in Missouri talking about the idea of putting somebody's feed in it during a session Which all sounds a little hokey-hoey and whatever and even I didn't Think to your specific session is till you started talking about How your entire experience here happened with you kind of immersed in water And I mean I'm kind of imagining you kind of laying back and being That's exactly what happened, but I do have to say, you know On top of that that bomb exploding next to the Window was really Yeah orchestration of my Higher self, you know that was orchestrated But yes the the medium that I was in was water and it did have a very vivid Recreation going there. Mm-hmm. That's really amazing. Okay Um So go ahead and uh, you know, one of the reasons I was trying to Send something on the chat here. It said I can't do that. It's not everyone's there. I don't know why it's I was just going to say To crystal. Yes. Thank you Crystal before we even got to that was talking about that, you know that you were in water when all of this happened And it's it's what I wrote down and and mentioned just now out loud um You had some really interesting things happen subsequently about The the confederate soldier and then something else and another healing that happened to you and this this This particular healing and I want everyone to realize this too Didn't I mean have anything to do with the session? I think you know all of this study and all of these ideas and all of these other sessions And and this work that we do brought you to a place Where you had a healing that you literally watched happen just I don't even know where you were sitting on your own sofa or whatever So go ahead and tell us that story. Okay, so um And and then maybe talk later about the the development of the civil war thing Do either whatever makes most sense for you because I don't have all the facts straight, but you know Stories are amazing Well, they're all related. So I'll tell you the third story Which is so I get back to denver. I have the two miracles behind or under my belt and then I still uh Had some issues which developed and so I said to myself I had a cough that was just not stopping It was like I've had coughs all my life. This did not stop And also the weirdest thing happened You know living in denver. I don't know what kind of spiders they have there and one Morning I woke up and it was like I looked at my leg and it looked like I had gotten bit by some like nasty spider and I I monitored it for like a day or two and Instead of it like rising and becoming swallowing or whatever it sunk Like, you know when rain hits on a grave and makes it sink a little bit And I said, well, what is this a brown recluse or something? Is it eating my leg from within, you know So I took my pants off at the dinner table and showed everybody just a little bit, you know And sorry I'm just imagining going on record and Everybody said, oh, yeah, it is sunken, you know, and all I could think of was it looked like a bullet hole It was that size well as the days weeks and month proceeded it Changed and it looked like the size of a chicklet, you know chick they come But not the little ones they made those jumbo ones which was about you know that size and It was on my leg my right leg and it started to grow and it was like blue and purple and it didn't hurt and it didn't itch but it was sort of like somewhere in between there and I it started to get thick so it was about an inch and a half or more Like subcutaneously and above the skin And I didn't have health insurance, you know part of my struggling life and uh So I just said, uh, what is this going to turn into and So I finally said, you know, I'm doing all these Healings, you know all these sessions because you know, I wanted to go to level two right away So I had like 10 sessions 15 sessions under my belt at that point And I said, I'm talking to everybody else's SC. Why can't I talk to my own? so I said, well maybe if you just You know because it was sort of there even though I wasn't deeply entranced So maybe I can just talk to it, you know, so I lay down and asked it for you know If I asked it for a healing I just sort of started to build a relationship with it That's what I was doing and said I loved it and show me more of who you are and all that stuff And then at one point I said, all right I'm just going to use my own voice. So I said Higher self, uh, could I please speak with you and then with my own voice? I said, yes And then I said, uh, could you heal my cough And at that time I was working with a whole bunch of people and there's some people at the top that were very very abusive and I got an intuitive hit like is loud This can be that said no You are getting abused at work and every time you cough, that's you saying no to the abuse And I said, all right that sounds, you know, I'll buy that and I'll take note, you know Think of that And then without dropping a beat. I just said, could you Well, how about my chiclet on my leg? No sooner did I say those words and all of a sudden it felt like because I watched the movie austin powers There's a laser beam I felt like a laser beam stitching You know like horizontally the length of this thing and then vertically the width of it Like someone had stitched over it patched over it with a sewing machine And I almost think I heard crackling You know like how a laser beam would crackle as it's burning into metal or something And after that finished I was like so You know flabbergasted I like Second time in the same month. I pulled my pants And I looked and it was gone the patch That remained was what looked like burnt skin it was sort of like I don't know Skin colored but like burnt like my cousin is a Nurse and I went to her immediately and she said lori that looks like It was burned the skin looks burned and So I was just and then a week later There was a penumbra around the the area that was red and it was It was like it was uh expunging What had vaporized below the skin? And so someone gave me some clay and I put it on there and it sucked it out, you know And so then it was gone and over a year passed and I moved to buffalo and You know, there was a couple little red spots on this patch. It was sort of beige and red And almost like if you were sifting something or if you had sand and you turn the vibration and it made a pattern It seemed like as it was healing slowly the skin finally turned back to normal What remained was a dusting of red and when I looked it I kept on it it started to look like numbers, but I said, oh, what is this 53 or what a Finally it it reached its its final position and it said 33 And I have a picture of it that is just incontrovertible. Do you have that? I do go get that. Well, I mean it's on my phone though. I don't know if this is okay so Now this is the second part of this story and that is that um Excuse me second part of the story is that prior to any Dolores can an activity I He took a painting class right painting class. Yes. Sorry. I'm looking for this picture That's all right. I was gonna I was gonna help you out here a little bit while you're while you're searching so lori took this painting class in the and the Assignment was to paint a portrait And I think that lori just painted a portrait out of his own imagination And he They said to just uh, you know paint Uh Anything and just use your imagination. So I did and uh Because I was going to paint a picture of the people that I've lived with and I wanted to do a nice job So I took a painting class and did that and after I did that it it turned out that uh That the person It sort of painted itself. It was kind of weird and then it looked like the person was a civil war person And I said, uh What's this about, you know, and so I made gold buttons on on him, you know, and then I made epaulets like right here Just because I know that you know, I like van Gogh and he painted a portrait of a postman and so I sort of imitated that And I tried to get those epaulets to look realistic and they didn't so I said to myself Um, all right. Well, I will Just fashion This one to look like a three which I did and then I did the other one with the three Yeah, like Mary Yeah, and then it didn't look right. So I switched the other three to a a real three and so And I thought nothing of it other than you know, that looks better and I left it like that and then I I put it away moved to Buffalo And when I was decorating my apartment, I put this portrait up and uh And it was a it wasn't a confederate. It was a blue, you know, like a northern Well, it's called a Yankee and so, um so, uh I had it up in the the on the ceiling there and I had a client come and she was super intuitive and uh and she looked at that and she said that person Killed you in a past life and I said, oh, I thought it was myself who had died in a past life and, um Candice, I don't know where this is Put this up later as a link to So don't worry about it. Okay. Yeah Telling your story. I know it's distracting. I showed it to someone just the other day. So I thought it was right there So She said no that that person Um, that's a confederate and he was from or that he was a Yankee and he was from the 33rd Regiment and I said Oh, that's what the 33 is So I thought oh, I will go Now let me just back up one second. This was when they said the three waves of ascension and uh, September 28th of 2015 was the first wave All that month. I was feeling like my insides were being burned alive Like I was just all the negativity was being burned up. I felt like I was being cleansed and purified and And they said the 28th was going to be the first ascension. I said I I'm going through it right now I mean it really feels like it. Well, this was on the 28th and when this client left she said that's the man that killed you and Uh, he was from the 33rd regiment Well, I'm sorry to back up one more time But I am an Emily Dickinson fanatic and I've studied her all my life And the sad part about Emily Dickinson seemingly was that she Was so afraid to be public that um At one point a man who owned a publishing company said Anybody he put this out in the newspaper anybody that thinks they're talented enough to write Send me your poems and I will publish them if you're good enough And she sent him epic Palms that were mind-blowing and he wrote back and said sorry you're not talented enough And she continued to send him better and better poems if they could even get better And he rejected all of them When she died she hadn't published at all and so her sister Got him to publish her work, but he Obliterated it. He said I'll publish it, but I have to fix it because it's so bad So he changed it all so for the next 70 years The american public only read his version of her poems So he I wanted to strangle him And his name was thomas wentworth higginson Well A couple years ago. I lived with an artist. He was having a show. He invited me to Dartmouth college to hang the show. He said I got you a bed and breakfast. You will stay there I did I came down to breakfast the people that owned the bread and breakfast were there and I looked at their wall of You know things like all these pictures behind me and I looked at one of the pictures I said I know him and the lady said oh you can't she said that's my great-grandfather and I said it's thomas wentworth higginson She said you're right And I said well, I'm an emily dickinson Oh, like and you know And she said oh, he was so wonderful and he helped her so much, you know I was like I I had to hold myself back from strangling her and uh, so So just that's the background of thomas wentworth higginson. Anyway, so uh, I The lady left she said the 33rd regiment and she said uh, she said And I said I have a 33 on my leg and she says well, yes, they they would brand the people they killed with their Stamp, you know, like we killed the 33rd regiment killed this confederate soldier So and I showed her and she said yep, that's what it looks like So she left and I went immediately to the internet to see about the 33rd regiment and Could I find a picture of that guy? Well, I found a picture of that guy and he was the head commander of the Whatever and the 33rd regiment, uh the Supreme leader of that it said thomas wentworth higginson And I said what and I looked and and then it had a link to emily dickinson And that when he finally got out from the north being the commander of the 33rd, uh, you know He set up this newspaper and had a counter Conversation with her and you know all that stuff. So It was that day the 28th of ascension It was like all of a sudden the veils were opening up and I was seeing that maybe I don't know why I'm so You know emily dickinson is just like so part of me So it's like, you know, could I have been like part of her? And this guy at the same time because it happened at the same the 1860s So, um, you know, could that be and that that was my nemesis in that life You know and You know what i'm saying? I do So it's amazing amazing connections and so so many fabulous stories You know, since we were starting to talk about trans depth and um and proving healing. I wonder if you couldn't just Talk about your own Realizations right now what trans depth and what mind state is That you've come to the conclusion is necessary to achieve some of the really miraculous healings that you've had and also a little bit possibly about We we ran out of time beforehand I was going to talk to you about some of because I believe you've had like scans and then re scans We've had some of those questions. So if you would talk about You know mind states trans depth healing what you think are the real components the necessary components for healing and then some of maybe, you know, what you have for testing and Maybe a way that we can present that or maybe places that you've already presented it to the public yeah well as far as all that proof stuff I had a Let's get that wrong zero not xerox x-ray of my back prior to it and afterwards and my chiropractor went over it with me and he did show me where The sacrum did not like shift but the rest of the back straightened itself out and he did You know, he measured it and he wrote the differences in measurement between the two and I have those And uh my foot uh, I mean I didn't take a picture of my foot before but uh, but Everybody that knows me my family I could get people to testify because I mean they've lived with me All my life and known the whole thing um What other proof that the thing on my leg I have people that were with me my cousin susan saw it I took pictures of it Before and after So, you know, do you still have those pictures and and can you see the 33 on them? It's I think you might have sent one of those to me. I think you could Yeah, I did send you the 33 one And I do have the picture. I know I emailed it off off of my phone To to me. So I just have to go dig it out of my emails Yeah, if I would I I went swimming with my iphone and it took The pictures away, but uh, maybe they're on the cloud. I don't know but uh, but I do have them in email I'd have to search them out But Depths of trance You know what I learned from Dolores when In that last class, um, that she taught I you know, I I sort of read all those books and it was all, you know, synombe elastic Right channeled type of books and um, so I said, you know I had a this miraculous healing and it was lighter, but it You know, and she I said, you know, I was not in that deep state and she said, yeah, we're seeing that Now, um, a lot more that people's vibrations have raised and they don't really need to go that deep but I mean, I I really had this like, um I really had this question for her because it was like You're saying everybody goes into this deep thing and I'm living proof that you don't or you don't have to right, um Then what I found More helpful Than any physical healing And this is interesting. My brother asked me he said does it feel like a miracle all this stuff and I said I thought and I said no it feels more like That was a bad dream and I woke up from it So that's interesting but More important than any physical healing was The realization that we are embers of god Our soul is an actual piece of god and it resides in house and our journey in ascension or enlightenment or awakening is to forge A relationship with This element which is sort of the parent and the partner you never had You know, the only one that could really give you love the only one that could really guide you And uh, and so to build a relationship and that it is possible to build a relationship by just speaking to it and so I went on a journey from that day to build a relationship with my higher self and And in retrospect, I think what caused My healing and I have a sneaking suspicion would help other people to heal is that I was willing To change I was willing to stop efforting to Let my heart melt By sort of like loving myself and calming down and trusting my higher self and learning to work with it like a co-pilot would work with a pilot and and By calming my Sort of inflamed ego or my emotional mind By calming it down And working more with the help and the guidance And the comfort of the higher self. I was able to start Making choices from my heart rather than constantly from the brain trying to get ahead and I give you a quick example, you know, like rather than Saying oh that person's brother-in-law works at the company.  Oh, my brother-in-law works here. You should get together with him So it's sort of like your heart makes the choice and then everything works out rather than you Half a brain co-pilot, you know trying to enact The journey of your life rather than working hand in hand with the one that wrote The the sequence of events in your life You know, can we go back? Can I ask you about your cough? um, you had a cough and it was because of Abuse yeah, and and what may I ask happened with that? A week later, uh, I went down to Mexico because the people I stayed with wanted They had a house in Mexico and they've been wanting me to go forever So we went down and I got there and There was a bowl of limes A gigantic bowl of limes and maybe 45 limes And my friend said, I don't know what we're going to do with all these And that night I couldn't stop coughing and I went to the lime bowl I cut one and a half and squeezed the whole thing into a tea cup and I poured They had honey I poured some honey in there and then There was some tequila because they had tons of tequila and I put tequila And I drank it and I slept through the night the first time in like three weeks And all I did was drink non-stop. I drank all of those 45 limes and it went away, you know Laurie and probably a half a bottle of tequila Laurie, you know what? I have to tell you something. I could pick up this computer right down and go show you But I've got this bowl of limes in my kitchen right now and one of the last things when I was getting my drink Do you see this and it's got a little bit of juice in it Yeah, because I said what am I going to do with this bowl of limes? I can't believe you're coming That's funny There's so many connections so many connections between people between events between between things You know, it's just astonishing if it The one thing that I want people who are Attending this webinar to know especially those of you who you know We're only around Dolores for your initial class or your only class or maybe only online That sentence that Laurie Said just a few minutes ago about That Dolores that Dolores said We're finding these things are changing is so true These were conversations that I had with Dolores in classes at the end of her life You know that year 2014 we would talk about it and these amazing things that would happen in sessions Like I said during the interview portion or and I know that you all or I believe that you all have heard these stories before too within classrooms and also within some of Dolores cannon's lectures just being in The audience and listening to some of these stories People were able to access whatever it was make whatever changes They needed to to have healing without going to the synambulistic state when we first put the Support forum together way back in 2008 For a good many months Those of us those first few people who came together and were asking each other questions because we were all new We would ask ourselves What are we doing wrong because we found that not everyone went to the synambulistic state And we didn't find that everyone was feeling and we would ask ourselves. What are we doing wrong? and of course it took a great deal of Question questioning and access to Dolores and time to pass to realize and understand a few things Number one. We weren't doing anything wrong and neither are you out there Not at all and Dolores herself again and towards the end of her life Would come to us and talk about how the synambulistic state didn't seem to be necessary anymore for healing But this is not how she taught and it's not how she taught even to the end and even in her final classes, she was not going to teach that and It's because of Dolores cannon and her style Just because something new would come down or some new realization would happen or she would notice something changing or expanding Or morphing or whatever She didn't just start talking about it. She didn't just start teaching it. She didn't just start doing it. She wanted many examples of whatever it was To come down the road and be presented to her Before she would use it and particularly before she would talk to her students about it So even there at the end when she was noticing it She still wasn't talking about it and when she was doing her teaching she was in that zone where she was teaching the way she was teaching And she was you know in her mid 80s and everybody who knows people in that time Framed they can and I I will say that I believe Dolores is one of those people who just she was very comfortable You know, she's very comfortable in in doing things this way And she was going to keep doing them and it's not if she was going to live another 15 years or 20 years I fully expect and suspect that she would have changed some of these things in that way But not until they were more solid not until she saw them more So she was seeing a lot of the things that we were seeing She just wasn't ready to add that information into her classrooms to talk about it At the end So I wanted to make sure that you know, we we mentioned that so even though she saw it And she wasn't really talking about it. Yeah, I I you know Dolores was a consummate researcher and corroborator, you know, she was very much scientifically focused and She was very responsible and her Findings and her research and her methods so But when she I know when she answered that question to me for me About oh, yeah, we're seeing a lot more that the vibration is raising and people don't need to go there. She I was really I was expecting not to be satisfied with her answer And when she said that it went into a different level In me, you know, just like when on the 28th I had that realization and all the veils of the different lives and the connections between the players and those different lives Was revealed. It's like I get it, you know the higher your vibration the more everything opens up the connections can be seen behind the veil And it's all an orchestrated assembly of guides spirits players You know realizations thoughts Promptings, it's all like a soup, you know that that without this amnia Amnesia, how do you say amniatic fluid or whatever?  Yeah She was she was very careful and I love that about her. She you know, she didn't just she she was like a sailboat who would you know set course and And she was you know, she would have a direction just because some stray wind came Through she wasn't going to change course just because of that. So even though she was noticing some of this towards the end You know again, that didn't make it into her classroom. So I don't see any questions Or anybody asking anything in the chat room about any of this that we're talking about but And we've been on We've been just past an hour, but I'm I'm happy to hear any more thoughts You know, one of the things that if you don't mind I I'd I'd kind of like to talk about I don't know if this kind of aligns with our topic or not, but A session that you Laurie did for me in March of 2015 I think you probably remember that session. We were there and you were taking the level to class and I was also there assisting in In all of the classes at the time This is just a really interesting session that I've never felt that I've gotten completely Some nambulistic either I have a very strong analyzer left brain logic side of my brain And what I found really So Unique and interesting about the session we did so Laurie facilitated a session on me And in a way my brain was in three areas So I was um Wait, oh wait, what are we looking at?  You're too close back it back it off a little Yeah, stop now hold it real still can y'all see that 33 That's amazing now now go find now go find that uh painting. It'll be even cooler. There's uh My underwear And then uh, here's the painting. Oh good. Oh good. He's gonna show us the painting So I'll pause my story while we go look at the painting Well, uh, where is it? Where is it? Oh, it's up. It's up Oh Could you see the Now hold still Isn't that amazing everyone Oh gosh, thank you so much. Thank you for sure. I'm trying to show you the guy.   I felt it was kind of like my teaching mind You know my assistant teaching mind. There was a part of me I would speak as my conscious mind my higher self and even then like uh My my teaching, you know, because I just finished Walking from upstairs and you know helping assisting and in teaching in the level two and three classes and uh So during the session laying down and having this session I could I could speak from any one of these perspectives and actually kind of did too, you know, like, okay Here's teaching part of me saying something and here's conscious mind part of me saying something Here's my higher self and whenever I speak with my uh and use my voice to speak for my higher self It's exactly the same way you talked about it earlier on In the webinar when we were talking about it that you just used your own voice and you kind of I mean I don't know about you, but I'm kind of giggling inside when I'm doing it Oh, you know a little it's a little almost like joking, right? But that's way, uh, we did it too. I actually was in a lot of pain. It was one of the reasons we had the session I was uh, actually in the emergency room had been in the emergency room in arkansas Happily my husband was there taking excellent care of me um I had a kidney stone and it You know it showed up on the scan and I was needing to pass this kidney stone And I knew that was going to hurt and I didn't want to so the idea was to have a session to have the kidney stone Uh be dissolved so I didn't have to pass it because that hurts past kidney stone. Okay.   Oh, okay. So I wanted a session to pass this kidney stone and My higher self said, okay Um This is how and I think about this all the time especially when I'm walking because I walk on these paths these beautiful paths that My husband created for us here on our farm And my higher self told me in our session that I could dissolve the kidney stone But I had to do something very specific. I had to wear my earthing shoes my earthing boots. They have little copper um Steads through the bottom. So you have direct electrical connection with the earth, right? Um, I would have to walk three miles a day Um for a week or something like that and then that would dissolve my kidney stone and internally I'm I'm having an absolute hysterical fit about how in the world walking With metal on my feet On the planet is going to do anything at all for a stone inside of my kidney, you know my logical part of my brain is having a field day throwing darts at how ridiculous this is, you know and But I did it anyway And that whole week it actually, you know, it was it was I did it for a week and we got all the way back And and I was like day six or whatever and I was still in pain and I went back to my doctor and got He said well, I want you to have another scan And he sent me to go get another to go get another scan and it's friday, right? and I go get the scan on friday and I show up at Oh, I don't know 1 p.m. Or something like that and I show up at the place where they do the scans and I'm in pain and I hand over the paperwork for the to get the scan done And the paperwork doesn't go through And they're like well, they they put the wrong code on this, you know, we need to put we need to get another code This is the wrong code. You can't have the scan and there was like this paperwork snafu So I sat in the waiting room and at first I'm annoyed But not for very long because as we all know you need to go. Why is this happening, right? Why is this happening and I literally was there for two and a half hours Waiting for and they kept apologizing and there was all these things and this you know the fax machine didn't have paper Or I mean it just you know it went on and on and I just sat there laughing because I knew something was up That was going to be helpful for me even though I was in pain And I end up getting the scan really late. So what happens then it's late friday I get a medical scan late on a friday It's not going to get read right everybody all the doctors all the You know all radiologists. They're out playing golf or whatever that you know, I'm going to get my results on monday So the whole time I'm thinking that's because I just need I mean, I'm you know, I'm asking myself Well, that's because you need a couple more days. You need the weekend To go and walk a couple more days with you know with your earthing boots on on the farm And I'm still ouchy. I've done kidney stones before and I was not a happy person And I wake up monday morning and my pain is gone. It is completely gone And first thing that happens after I make my coffee the doctor calls with the results And says honey, I don't know, you know Why you were continuing to have a pain that you are completely clear. There is no kidney stone there at all Now see what would have happened If I'd have gotten my scan early and gotten possibly my results early before having another couple days to walk You know my higher self or they or God or the universe set it all up so that I wasn't going to get any result till monday So that I could get the results that I needed And and it was just astonishing and amazing and so when I think of you laura I think about my you know how I didn't have to pass that kidney stone And um and and how absolutely kind of convoluted and crazy that was go You know go walk with these special shoes this long this long on the ground and then your kidney stone will go It's like what you know, I you never told me that story till now. I didn't know if I did or not so I thought I would so Good, uh, would you write a recommendation for me? Yeah, well you're breaking up a little bit now to my internet connection may be going a little walky, um I think would you would you write a testimonial for me? I will actually I'll do that Yeah, yeah, and it was you know, it's fascinating for me too because there is a part that you know, we as healers You know, it it wasn't lost on me at all that I was spending my day Uh in the classroom with the laura's canon students teaching about self healing and I end up in a medical emergency room in springdale arkansas You know, I mean, it's just surreal. It's absolutely surreal and we won't go into the details and and you know about the root causes But there's all you know, I'll so much make sense. You know it all makes sense. It's all completely for a reason But you betcha I will write you That's funny. I never knew that it it uh healed it. Um what I want to just say again is you know, I've worked with a lot of people and Most people are not ready to change. They're willing to experience things. They're willing to open up They're willing to give it a thought but It's I think more than a deep state You just have to be at the point where you are ready to change And it means it means doing things differently It means Taking, you know, not being a victim Doing some research and learning about how we write our scenarios in life And we're not victims and then we have the freedom to react to them It's all due to the amnesia um, whatever but we have to to uh Find a way to to ask ourselves To you know, show an issue show what What I find really really important is that a lot of times the healing happens in a little while And it's because you're being guided and it might not just be a snafu like a miracle It may be that you have to change your perception like I thought something was happening the other day and I listened to the and I thought it was someone doing something to me And then I watched Joseph Levotsky or whatever video about hypnosis and he pointed to the He said, you know, if you're put taking makeup off you don't take it off of the mirror You take it off of yourself. So I said that to myself. I said, well Maybe I'm gonna take that look and say is this me instead of that person So I did what I could do in my Thing in my sphere and it cleared up Wonderful. So it you know, it was like I was my higher self showed me Got me to watch the joseph thing got me to realize something. I made a change in perception And all of a sudden the resistance I had to this person Let go and as soon as it let go everything got better and then when I realized it was really me Then it really left So, you know, it's it's it's having this relationship with your higher self It's being open to to be shown things through intuition or signs Or just faith That you want a change you want a healing, you know, it comes in many different packages But I think the biggest part of this all is to forge Daily relationship with your higher self Take care of your own emotions Okay Actually, so in the in the question and answer room Nina says The chat room is closed and we can't see both screens. We can only see the person speaking So we didn't get to see the 33 We will make those images available to you all and actually I believe Well, I'm not sure this is this interface is new and it's one of the reasons You know, we're going to practice and do this. I'm not sure what it will look like I'm still trying to figure out what a what a viewer sees what I see what a panelist sees But we will make sure to have the images of the painting and the 33 chicklet Branding number on on Laurie's leg All of you will be able to see that we will make sure I will put it on this video or Um Links to it. Thank you so much for talking about, you know, making a change. I think what is about healing What is important to understand here? You know, we as humans we've been very much programmed especially in the western tradition But we've been programmed that you don't heal yourself.  This is this, you know, this big fat program in our lives and to even get Some of us interested in the idea that we can heal ourselves by coming to alternative People like us who can help them and help facilitate some self healing That programming is still running a little bit, which is basically I'm going to go do this to go get healing which They still have the same kind of mindset. I'm going to go to Laurie I'm going to go to Candice and they're going to heal me and you know, we try to take that away We try to say no, no, no, that's not the way it works That program, you know that those people have been running under it is very very strong And so sometimes that's where the disconnect of why healing doesn't happen because you're so right There's needs to be some sort of change made because And and I think a fundamental thing is when people come to me I say you may get like, you know fireworks and you may not but what I'm doing for you is I'm showing you that it's possible to have a relationship who with who you really are And and and start to identify with your immortality and start to work with it And that's where interpersonal healing Is and you can access it and if we don't get to it today, at least you will have A relationship started. You'll know how to do it And it's just a matter of whether you'll work at it and and start to get results So did you say fireworks on purpose or on accident? Well, I just came out that but probably we're in there to begin with Oh, okay. Well, Laurie, this has been So wonderful spending this time with you I'd love to do this again at some other point talk about some other sessions or Some other cases that we you know might take us down that road I want to thank you for your time today I'd like to thank those of you also who have joined us today for Taking the time out of your day to listen and to answer some questions and to make Some observations about what's going on here and for those of you who are watching in the future The recording look for more of these and let us know what you want to talk about What kind of things can we talk about? What are you interested in as it concerns this work? There's always so much to talk about. Um, I'm still a little Um Taken aback by the limes the lemon and the water about all this. There's so much more going on Dolores, I think has a lot more to Share in these Tangents of You know exploration of of all the different connections the soup that you're talking about also isn't that interesting, you know liquid The soup of all and what's going on. I think this is an exciting time to be a practitioner. There's More coming to light. There's more available to us More people are hearing Dolores including many practitioners out there. There's still I would say 80 of you out there still too shy to share what you are hearing In their sessions and in your meditations and in your dreams about Dolores that we'd love to have you share them publicly I'm happy to hear it all privately and I'm glad you're sharing in that way, but I'm hoping some of these people will come forward Because Dolores has a lot to say on many other And expanded issues from her expanded perspective right now Lori, this was amazing. Um, thanks again Can you send me and find some good pictures some jpeg images send them to me and I'll get them attached to To this project to this recording for everyone else to see we'll do okay All right. Well, you have a you have a great rest of the day. Thank you all for joining us and see you next time See you on the floor until then. Okay. Bye everybody. Bye Bye


Should you try intermittent fasting? Is it even healthy? In this video I go over the pros and the cons of intermittent fasting and I kind of go over if you should try it or not Let's go ahead and get to it What's up everybody? It's your boy the millennial health coach where I help you conquer your mind Master your health and grow to your highest potential if you haven't already make sure you hit that subscribe button So the topic of the day is intermittent fasting It's been a very popular topic and a question I get asked all the time. Should I try it out? Do you think it's healthy? So in this video I wanted to go over what it is like what is intermittent fasting the pros and cons and then my suggestions if you should try it or not So starting off what is intermittent fasting intermittent fasting is basically cycling between Fasting which is not eating and then also eating you're cycling between the two now There are two main types that you've probably heard about there is the 16 8 fasting protocol And then there's also the 24-hour protocol now the 16 by 8 That's basically where you go 16 hours without eating Then you have an 8-hour window where you can eat then the other option is 24 hours of just not eating at all And you do this twice a week. So fasting isn't new people have done it in many religions And it also actually our ancestors did it a long long time ago So the first humans were hunter-gatherers and they basically hunt for their food in it They didn't have supermarkets, you know, they didn't have food super available to them So what they had to do is they had to go long periods without eating So they were practicing fasting before it's even called fasting now. There are pros and cons to intermittent fasting Let's go ahead and go over the pros.  So what is my suggestion when it comes to intermittent fasting now? I don't actually practice intermittent fasting myself. I actually like eating throughout the day I'm with the type of guy who gets like hangry. That's me I just get pissed off if I don't eat but keep this in mind the best diet eating style that you could do It's the one that you can stick to the most the one that's the most sustaining So this is the thing if you do it for two or three weeks and you find yourself being inconsistent You can't stick with it. It doesn't work for you drop it. Don't do it if it does work for you Hey, try it out I'm not gonna knock on it because it does help with weight loss But you just want to make sure you're following the right guidelines make sure you do your research before even trying anything out So hope this video was super helpful for you If it was feel free to like the video and then put in the comment box if you have any questions about intermittent fasting I'd love to answer them and help you out. So I'll catch you at the next video. You already know embrace the Hold on one second. Did you check out this video? How about this video and I already know if you haven't already You need to make sure you subscribe. All right. I'll catch y'all next time. See you later


SCP-001 is an O5's tale. Good evening, doctor. No, no, don't stand up. And yes, I am who you think I am. Let's not make any more of this than it is. You know my number, and I know enough about you to make a duplicate that even your mother wouldn't be able to tell apart from the real you. No, that's not a threat. Just a fact. Now, as to my business here, it seems you have stumbled upon something above your clearance. Well, no. Stumbled is not the right word. Dug up? Perhaps. And you are getting to the point where further digging would end in some fairly lethal gunshot wounds. This would be a sad state of affairs, as you are otherwise quite a good researcher. And therefore, you are getting something very few people in the Foundation ever get. An explanation. Yes, we were alerted when you first started digging into SCP-001. Every researcher who's been around for a while looks into it. Most are satisfied when they uncover the angel with the flaming sword. It's buried under enough levels. But then, you started looking into the factory. And that is when I knew you wouldn't stop. So, here it is, plain and simple. The factory is SCP-001, but it will never be written up. It was a choice I made early on in the creation of the Foundation, and a choice I still stand by. You researchers are far too curious. I'm not sure what scares me worse. That will never understand the factory, or that we one day will. Ah, well, I'm sure you're eager to learn more. The factory was built in 1835. Back then, it was known as the Anderson factory, named after James Anderson, a rather well-to-do industrialist. It was built in, well, we'll just say America, and was the largest factory yet designed. A good mile across at its widest, three stories tall throughout, with a special seven-story tower by the front gate that Anderson lived in. It was designed to be the ultimate factory, capable of taking care of everything, including the housing of workers. People could be born, work, live, and die, without ever leaving the confines of the factory. And work they did, on everything, from cattle raising and slaughtering, to textiles, to everything else under the sun.  It's just as likely that he followed some kind of pagan gods. What is known is that he was very exact in the building of his factory, and in the placement of his machinery within it. Survivors claimed the floor was engraved with arcane symbols that were only visible when blood flowed across them. But then, the survivors claimed a lot of things. What is known is that Anderson made his money on the blood and sweat, and sometimes body parts of the lower class. His journals indicate he thought of them as less than human, being put on this earth only to serve his will. Of course, at that time, no one knew about his predilections, and so people flocked to the factory. A place to both work and live, at the same time, well, of course people wanted in. Never mind the harsh hours, working conditions, sadistic security force, and all the rest. Factory workers were forced to work 16-hour days, work only shutting down on Sundays between sunrise and sunset. Workers were not given individual rooms, instead sharing rooms with eight other people, sleeping in shifts of three. Medical attention was unheard of. If you were injured in the course of your duties, which most people were, you were expected to just keep working. Anyone too injured to work was dragged off by the security, never to be heard from again. For forty years, the Anderson factory cranked out all sorts of things for people. Meat, clothes, weapons. Never mind that the beef might be mixed with human. Don't care that the weapons were forged in blood. No attention need be paid that the clothes were dyed with… well, you get the idea. Rumors leaked out, but the products were so good, why bother? Until someone got out. I never met the brave soul who managed to escape, but she managed to meet with President Grant and, in 1875, he enlisted my aide. At the time I was… well, it doesn't matter. Will say I was military, kind of, and that my people were the same. A hundred and fifty good men and some few women, who were often given jobs that weren't supposed to be common knowledge. We'd been cleaning out some Confederate holdouts and some of the worst things we found down south. So we did some research, didn't like what we saw, and went in, loaded for bear. I don't actually remember much about the night it all went down. Most of it blends together in my head, I get flashes sometimes, of the people chained to the line, living next to dead, damned hard to tell which was which. Children working underneath machines, the majority of the flesh scoured from their bones by the great wheels and cogs, and the other things. No, I'm alright. I haven't thought about that night for a very long time. The security force wasn't much of a problem, but then, Anderson's creations showed up. He'd been taking the injured workers and, well, experimenting on them. Then, if you could call them men, with multiple arms, sewn together, some of them combined with animals, horrible monstrosities out of mankind's worst nightmares. They kept coming, wave after wave of not quite living creatures. I lost a lot of good people that night. And then, we found Anderson's breeding pits, girls as young as a chain to the wall's force to be nothing more than ... I'm sorry. Even today, more than a century later, the memory makes me see red. When we finally found Anderson cowering in his office, we hung him from his tower window, with his own entrails. As he died, he laughed, saying it didn't matter. We could kill him, but his factory, the factory, would go on.  The entire time he uttered blasphemies that I don't like to think about. We spent a week cleaning that place out, freeing the workers, putting down the things we found at the basements in many lightless rooms. We pulled out things that were useful, stocked them in a house near the gate, trying to make sense of everything. About 150 of us went into that hell pit that night, and only 93 came out. By the end of that week, we were down to 71, but the things we found in there, my God. Well, you've been with the Foundation a while, they wouldn't seem as amazing to you, but we found toy guns that shot real bullets, a yo-yo that would flay the skin from anyone it touched, hammers that only worked on human flesh. A breed of skeletal horse that ran faster than anything we'd ever seen, cloaks that seemed woven from the night itself, and let man access a shadowy dimension that I get away from myself. We found tools, both wondrous and horrible, and we were faced with a choice. I gathered my highest ranking, well, we'll call them officers, to me, and we tried to figure out what we would do. They all had opinions, the chaplain he had gone a little crazed, thought all these objects must be miracles sent from God, holy relics to be worshipped. Marshall, and his little toady Dawkins, thought there was a fortune to be made here, making and selling these things to the highest bidder. The engine we all called base, due to his deep speaking voice, he called these things an abomination, and declared that we should hunt down and destroy everything we could find. Smith thought we should take this stuff back to the president. The only one without an opinion was the old man, but he never said much of anything anyways. We argued for hours, days trying to work it out. Me, I thought we were sitting on a gold mine alright, but that we could use these things, these objects, to hunt down some of the scary things we'd run into down south, the other monsters this world had to offer, and use this factory for good as a place to contain these things, find a way to make them work for our fellow man, or at least protect our fellow man from having to deal with them. I'm sure you can figure out what happened. The chaplain snuck away at the night with his devotees, taking a couple of small items with him. Marshall we kicked out when we found him, abusing his authority.  This and his people tried to light the whole damn thing on fire, then just left when it didn't work, and Smith left to report back to the president. I did manage to get him to promise me he'd tell Grant the factory had been destroyed. I had big plans for that place. Of course, it was kinda hard to follow through on big plans when you only have 12 other people to work with, but it was a start, and it worked for a while. We had these amazing toys, and finding people to work with us was easy. Back then, going off the grid was as simple as leaving town. We knew what we wanted, we knew what we could be. Leaventhal set out getting us backing. A simple invention here, some well-invested money there. It all worked out. White and Jones set out getting us...other backing. In our previous work, we'd found out some interesting things about people, some secrets that powerful men didn't want getting out. And with our new position helping keep secrets, we got more people asking us to deal with their secrets. Blackmail is a dirty word, but it works. Bright, Argent, and Luminew got to work cataloging the items. Light and Bright's wife, the nurse, they made sure we kept ourselves healthy. Heh, no, it's just remembering Light. We had such unusual ideas about hygiene for the time. Brilliant woman. Jav, Flescher, and Karnoff dealt with training the troops. Tesla and Tamlin were in charge of figuring out how to take advantage of the items without making it obvious. We were amazing. The city we built around the factory, which we took to calling Site Alpha, was self-supporting. Agents, researchers, operatives of all sorts. Not by those names, of course, but those positions. We expanded. I'm sorry, I am an old man. I know I do not look it, but the body lies. The mind doesn't always remember right, and sometimes I get lost in my memories. Things get confused, but the long and simple of it is this. We used the factory. It always seemed to have more empty rooms to store things in. Back then, that was the word for them, things. No skips, then, no. We thought we had the factory tamed. That's one of the reasons I refused to quit this job. If there's anything I can do here, it's remind people that we will never tame these things. Contain them, yes, but as we saw with Abel, tame them, never. After a decade or so, we were pretty organized. The 13 original of us were being called by numbers, not names. We knew how to make things work. And if a thing or two vanished inside of the factory, still? And the occasional D-class? What? Yes, we had D-class back then. Disposables. That's where the D comes from. I had to have someone to test things on. Tesla and TAM were both very firm about that. But, yes, sometimes we lost people who didn't matter. Adam, sorry, Dr. Bright, was fond of saying it was the factory taking its toll. You can't get something for nothing. 1911 was when it all went wrong. Things, we called them fairies, an entire race of things. Living beside us, they could look the same as you or I. The only obvious difference was an allergy to iron. Yes, that's why we called them fairies. No, you haven't heard of them. Why? Because it's the one time the foundation wiped out an entire race of things. Root and branch. And I'm the one who did it. We'd been hunting them for some time. We'd run into them a time or two before, come out on top. So when a certain royal asked us for help, of course we were eager to get them in our debt. We've always loved having people in our debt. We sent a team to help out, take care of what we thought was a hunting party. The next time we saw them, their heads were on poles attached to the saddles of the creatures the fairies rode when they attacked the factory. It was horrible. Three words, but they convey so much. I've never. I'm sorry. Please, give me a moment. I've never told this part to anyone. You should consider yourself lucky.  People think Procedure 110 Montauk is a walk in the park compared to what I do to you. We lost. The things came and they destroyed us. Rode over our emplacements, slaughtered our people, shrugged off our weapons like they were nothing. I watched my 13 go down, left and right, just trying to hold the factory. And I, I, their leader, their friend, their father figure, godfather to the brights four young children, confidant, sometimes lover, always the confessor. I ran. I ran like a scared little boy, deep into the dark guts of the factory. I was chased by the things, always just one step ahead. I could hear them behind me feel their breath upon my neck and I came to a door I'd never seen before, a bronze door covered in Arabic script of some sort. I'd never been one for languages, especially not the curvy bullshit the musclemen use, but I didn't care. They were coming for me and I threw the door open and dived through it. Everything inside was different. There was a feeling of peace that nothing could hurt me here. The light was this dark red, but still felt right. My ears were filled with the steady thrumming of a gigantic heartbeat and in front of me were the remains of Anderson. It spoke to me then, but I'll be damned if I could tell you exactly what it said. What it told me was more meaning than exact. It offered me hope. It told me, it told me that each of the things we had used from the factory, no matter what we did with them, fed it, helped it grow. But if the fairies took the factory they would destroy it and we couldn't have that. It offered me a deal. It could remove this event, make it have never happened. All I needed to give it was us. I didn't want to. I knew it was a bad idea, but then I saw them again.  I agreed. It smiled and I found myself once more upon the ramparts, watching the horde of fairies crest the hill. My foundation alive once more in my hands was a weapon. I won't bore you with the details, but we slaughtered them and with these new weapons continued to slaughter them everywhere they lived, everywhere they bred. My fellow O5s questioned my decision, thinking we should save some in case we might ever need them. I overruled them. We moved away from the factory, shut it down, moved our things out of there. We changed the name from things to special containment protocols, focused on containing them, not anything else. The others were curious, but understood I had my reasons. I boarded up the factory, locked it shut, buried it under a ton of rubble, saying it was too dangerous. I thought, thought I'd gotten away with it, until I found a thing on my desk, one of the old toy guns that shot real bullets, and it had the factory label on it. I've sent people in from time to time, to see what it might be doing. Last time I sent people in to look, there was nothing there. We keep finding factory items out there. I can't help but think of how many more we don't find. The people who use them and keep it hidden. I think back to the body telling me how each item used gave energy to the factory. I never asked it, energy for what? I don't think I want to know. What do we give it? D-Class, mostly. Where did you think all those bodies went? There's a place. Bodies are left, and they vanish. Everyone thinks I'm a genius for figuring it out. Sometimes, sometimes I have defeated other things, researchers, agents. They never know it's coming. It just reaches out and takes them. But in the end, we're doing more good by being here. Whatever the factory wants, whatever it is, we're doing good here. I have to believe that. And now you know. Are you happy? I didn't think so. Why tell you? I'm getting old, Everett.  Everyone will have to keep feeding it. Maybe you'll be different. Maybe you'll figure out how to stand up to it. But I doubt.


For these five entrepreneur teams it started with a dream to launch a business After a year of research presentation development and mentorship their dream may become a reality Today they'll have five minutes to pitch their business plan to a panel of experts ready to invest in their futures From the Fairfield University Charles F. Dolan School of Business. This is Fairfield startup My name is Diana my company is diverse and it stands for Diana and the universe and it's kind of a combination of both and where that merges We make unique handmade jewelry and through this jewelry you want people to wear their voice. I love clothes I love accessories because I think that they Manifest your story like they kind of speak for you when you enter a room and before you speak Diverse started about two years ago and became official as of last year Today we are a studio space in Bridgeport one of diverse's shoots Being from here and building what I'm building is of course It's ingrained in my purpose because I think people of Bridgeport are people that Not necessarily are heard all the time and what they need or their wanton needs, you know, I want you to express yourself I want your identity and your purpose to be heard because you have a story to tell I build the concept first the meaning and then I kind of create the pieces with this concept and meaning in mind So it's very intentional and purposeful as I develop these collections and prep for them. I am photographing the models. I'm styling sometimes doing makeup. I am crafting the website I'm making the jewelry so it's an array of things that I'm doing My career cannot be something that is one thing like if I want to keep myself happy If I want to keep myself going and excited It has to be some where a place that I can wear many hats and diverse allows me to do that and express myself to the fullest For Diana Mazzo helping women express themselves through jewelry is a passion today She will present her business diverse to the startup investor panel. Hello everyone. My name is Diana And I am the founder of diverse diverse for Diana and the universe. I'm here to tell you what I mean by connection There's a purpose here and a reason why art is so important to me I started diverse in hopes to share my own creations with the world as I began to sell out I realized I could share this passion with other artists. I'm unpacking the connection between artists and customers My role is to promote this art to customers who are looking for a way to make a statement about their purpose Our customers are women who appreciate handmade products women who want to reaffirm their identity and women who want to feel beautiful and evidently love posting about it We take pride in what our customers have to say about us similar sentiments follow the themes of confidence and every Transaction feeling personal and every product feeling as if it was made just for you The next few sides are examples of my own creations in 2019 My family was impacted by immigration laws leaving me to find my light own my boldness and essentially rebirth and transform Fibrincy is a stepping stone and the next step in the evolution of our company. It's the beginning of a virtual co-op if you will This collection was made by a new artist whose name Coincidentally is also Diana and is a Colombian jewelry artist She just opened up her own jewelry store in hopes that this partnership can help her expand her customers as the week Our second artist is Nicole. She will be making jewelry trays that are customizable and individualized to our customers favorite color and favorite shape Unlike our competitors we focus on our customers passion The world is changing and for online platforms like ours. These are very special times Amanda found us because we make Unique jewelry that connects to the soul This is our website and platform and our website and platform is on track to doubling this year We have surpassed our Q3 numbers of 2019 and just quarter one of 2020 Along with our website traction growing. So are our financials in 2018. We launched diverse in 2019 we really perfected directing creating marketing and selling our own creations bringing our gross margins to 60 percent In 2020 as we step into the role of curator We are able to bring our margins to 80 percent Our method is to continue to find artists from all over the world and different economies that are favorable to the US dollar We will launch vibrancy in may 20 20 and hope that our margins are going to continue to grow This is a scalable business model to go from creator to curator and continue to bring artists from all over the world on our platform This is about the people and connecting them to their passion and providing artists access to our market in the US Our growth strategy is not only to attract artists but to attract artists that align with our core values Who are experienced manufacturers and making this a highly selective distribution channel We hope to collaborate with organizations who support artists and introduce introduce a monthly subscription based plan Marketing channels are our website social media Local news like new haven and Connecticut live, which we have been featured on and live events The market size for jewelry revenue is huge not only in the u.s But worldwide 79 of all jewelry revenue sold in 2019 was non luxurious jewelry The other 20 was luxury jewelry. We fall under non luxurious This is our team myself Andrea and our three wonderful mentors and we need you to take this to the next level We want different ways to attract more artists world-class artists We want to expand our team. We want to establish influencers endorsement sponsors and create live events for our community We thank you very much for listening. We now open the floor for questions With the presentation complete it's time for the startup investor panel discussion Diana has had a chance to convince the panelists that diverse has what it takes to succeed as a startup Thanks for joining us. I'm michael. This is joe and this is mary an and uh, we're very We're very pleased to see the presentation you just gave Um, I know we all have a couple of questions and we have just a few minutes.  It looks pretty exciting You know in terms of the potential for the business and you've actually done Pretty well so far I had to look at the website and it's pretty uh pretty attractive Thank you. So if you could comment on that a little bit be great Yeah, so the way that we plan on expanding this business is to continue to attract artists from favorable economies And basically make this a repeatable process. So we want to leverage these low costs of labor and Provide artists with assistance and manufacturing to be able to produce X amount of pieces and collaborate collaborate with them on these collections that are unique and Purposeful to our marketing customers However, in the mark and the manufacturing how I handle the for vibrancy was that I work with the artists and we found other laborers who are jewelry artists as well To be able to bring this collection to life This is definitely an area in our business that will need expertise and coaching more With people who have more resources But as of now And the way that we handle vibrancy it worked and we hope to be able to provide or develop a repeatable process Tell us a little bit about the manufacturing because you know I could envision if you Got this stuff on qvc or something like that. You'd be swamp yes, so As far as manufacturing when I what I could speak on is this collection vibrancy with diana I found her she's an artist in columbia and I told her I wanted x amount of pieces for each You know jewelry piece And realistically as a jewelry artist myself one person can't handle The level that I was asking for so what we did is that we found other jewelry artists local That are we are able to support So there's the social venture aspect there and also You know be able to Make these pieces and this was done in a week with about Five women working and I like the idea how you've kind of pivoted from you use the words In your presentation from curator, excuse me from creator to curator and you also talked about the term I think you said virtual co-op virtual co-op So how do you intend to compete with like the etsy's of the world and are you trying to A miniature etsy for an acquisition by etsy or I need to I need to understand that a little bit Yeah, so the the mark I think from going to creator to curator was a moment that was very special to us because That is where we can scale so We are similar to etsy in the sense that we are a web platform that connects artists and customers However, we are different because we focus on artists and customers their passions And not necessarily on the arts and crafts so we connect people to purpose And that is why our people our customers are repeated customers and are always Keeping up with our collection is because we you know connect to them in the essence And a virtual co-op because it's it's a community-based And we share the stories of our artists our customers And um everyone necessarily is like in this co-op, which is why we call it a virtual co-op Okay I I really love your passion for what you're doing here and and really trying to bring a lot of this great art from Wonderful artists around the world specifically south america. I love your earrings. Oh, thank you. Thank you Do you have any clip earrings? I wear a clip So um wanted um wanted to congratulate you because you've had revenues this past year And that's fantastic. So with that traction, um, give us a sense about what you've learned Not only about, you know, how to operate the business And what you need to do as the CEO going forward, but also what have you learned from your customers? Yeah, so I launched diverse in 2018 and um I Really initially just wanted to share my own creations It has been a journey. My prices have increased over time because I was able to figure out that my customers love what I was saying and no matter What I wouldn't say no matter what my price is because there's always a range, but um, they were connected to that And in any way and I think that what I have learned through coaching with my mentors and through startup is that I can Take this to the next level here when we continue to stick to our Values, which is exclusivity uniqueness and remain in authentic and what we can provide and finding Artists that really connect to that mission. Our customers will continue to come in. Um, I also found that We can whenever I Launch, um that the man is so high that I'm basically selling out in the one one or two days The first two days are where our sales come from most Because we're able to you know, increase our marketing in that way I think startup for this opportunity because since 2018 I've been doing this on my own and so Coming into now with people who are experts in these in these areas I'm able to really take this to the next level Well, good. I'm gonna I'm gonna ask us all to to pause there. I I think um, we all I know We've spoken before this call and we was speaking again. I want to thank you for participating this We're all very impressed what you've done. I look forward to seeing you again in the award round I know that uh, I will um tip my hand joe for you me for still a little thunder here I think already my wife and daughter have been looking your website Joe indicated wife has already purchased some so based on that delivery and joe's opinion of it I think we should all talk again Yeah I would love to speak with you all again Great. Thanks so much Fairfield startup would like to thank our sponsors for continuing to make the annual startup showcase possible. Thank you Diverse has presented and it's on to the final round Visit fairfield.edu slash startup to watch all of the 2020 fairfield startup team episodes Vote for your favorite and tune in next week to see the winner of the ct next Connecticut innovations audience favorite award. Thanks for watching fairfield startup This has been a presentation of fairfield university and the dole in school of business


Hi, I'm Mark Punzak, Head of Product at GitLab, and today I'm going to talk about GitLab's product vision for 2018. Specifically, I'm going to show a few mock-ups of what the product might look like. As you can imagine, with a product vision as extensive as ours, there's a lot to cover. So if you only remember three things from this presentation, know that, one, we're going to go after the complete DevOps lifecycle, and specifically, two, we want operations to use GitLab as a primary interface, and three, with a single application covering this entire scope brings emergent benefits, specifically that people can work concurrently on the same data with the same interface. So hopefully it's obvious by now that we're going from covering the development lifecycle to covering the DevOps lifecycle. But traditional DevOps tools only focus on the intersection between DevOps. And GitLab is going to deliver a complete scope for both DevOps and DevOps. In particular, that means we're not just looking at how developers can get their code into production, but how operations can then monitor and manage those applications and underlying infrastructure. A big milestone for GitLab will be when operations people log into GitLab every day and consider their main interface for getting work done. But even that's not really sufficient, as we're redefining what the scope of DevOps really is. We're also covering QA and security in a single application. And rather than coming up with some crazy DevSec QAOps name, we're just calling it DevOps and putting it all into a single application. And with that, each group gets an experience tailored to their needs, but shares the same data and interface as everyone else. So collaboration is easy. Imagine an ops person finds an issue in production, drills down to find the application with the problem, and sees that a recent deploy caused the problem. Simultaneously, a Dev gets alerted that their recent deploy triggered a change in production, goes to the merge request, and sees the performance change right there. When Dev and ops talk, they're looking at the same data from their own point of view. Now, the scope we're going after is quite large, with a lot of new areas being introduced this year. I won't go into all of these today, but instead I want to focus on a couple flows, the paint a picture of how this could look. I'll start by showing a merge request. At the top, we see a test summary, which shows a deeper understanding of your test results than the job level. Using standard JUnit XML output, we can tell exactly which tests fail and provide that information in a nice summary format. We also see links to the binary artifacts and container images associated with this merge request. As I scroll down, we see a lot of information about the extensive collection of tests we've run on the code. First, we see the code quality section, which we've had for a while, then the relatively new security section with static application security to find vulnerabilities in your code, dynamic application security to find vulnerabilities while actually running your app, and an analysis of any vulnerabilities in any of your underlying Docker layers. We'll also be checking your dependencies for any violations of your company's license policy. And lastly, we show how your application performance has changed. Now, this is a lot to cover for every merge request, so we have separate issues to redesign for all of this new information. But I wanted to show it all now to see how much we're doing automatically for you. Down below all of that is an enhanced code diff view that highlights any code you should pay attention to because of code quality concerns or missing test coverage. This is all part of the shift left movement, where important quality, security, and performance tests that may have once been run manually, if at all, and usually much later in the development lifecycle, and now being run automatically as soon as the first code is written. There's a lot more planned, but this is a good idea of the direction we're going in to help developers get their ideas into production faster. But this only covers part of our vision because the other side is from the operations point of view. And a big milestone for a complete DevOps vision is when operators start using GitLab as their primary interface. There's a long way to go here, but let's start by looking at an operations dashboard. Here we're seeing an overview answering the question, how is production doing? In this case, we're seeing a group with four projects in it, with a quick green-yellow-red indicator of how those projects are doing. We've tentatively put a graph of the appdex score there to represent the one metric to watch. Below the projects is a view of the cluster, including CPU and memory usage, possibly indicating when you need to scale up or down the cluster size. Now, if there was an indication that something was wrong, you'd be able to drill down and see more details and rectify the situation. But that's only the first level of understanding of operations. I mean, if we've got the new data about how things are doing, why not proactively alert you to the problem? Well, that's the second level and a natural step. But we're not going to stop there. The third level is to automatically detect and resolve any issues. If your app needs more resources, just autoscale it. If you then hit a limit on the cluster, well, add a node to the cluster automatically. The operations experience then really should just be, I go to work in the morning and see an email summary of what has happened without me having to do anything. But autoscaling is just scratching the surface, as operations involves a lot more, from application infrastructure and network monitoring to security patches. After we've got this breadth as a structure, we look forward to customer feature requests. So wrapping it up, we're going after the complete DevOps lifecycle, we want operations to be our new favorite users, and we want teams working concurrently. And that's the GitLab product vision for 2018.