Hi, this is Debbie Daschinger. Welcome back to Dare to Dream. Today I've got psychic medium and trans channel mystic, Riz Mirza. He is here today. And Riz is known as the only full physical trans channel who can channel different known interdimensional spirit guides and give accurate and detailed individual messages. This show Dare to Dream has been nominated for two People's Choice podcast awards for a Webby Award. We recently won the Coalition of Visionary Resources Award for Best Radio and Podcast Show, and Dare to Dream is listed in Welp Magazine as one of the top 20 best podcasts to listen to this year. This show is sponsored by Dr. Dane here, H-E-E-R, and Access Consciousness. They do energy work out into the world, so if you'd like to become a facilitator or take one of their classes, go to drdanehere.com or accessconsciousness.com. I'm Debbie Daschinger, and I am a media visibility expert. What I do out in the world is I am a book writing coach. 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I also want to give him a little plug. This is one of his books. And this is called the nine keys he's got several out there all on Amazon so if you like what you see today and want to engage, you can further, and also his website is Riz Mirza.com it's R-I-Z-M-I-R-Z-A dot com. And I am so excited, I welcome Riz to the dear to dream show. So great to have you. Hi, I was feeling really excited. I don't always get that when I'm starting a show, but there was something in me that was getting really pumped about being with you today so I feel like well this month right this is it's October it's Halloween so maybe it's they say this is when the veil is thinnest on the planet earth. You know about that right I mean how they how I've been very interested when I was a kid I was interested in Halloween because was so much fun to dress up. But you know as a kid I was also aware that I was aware like I could feel spirits or energies as I came to know it later I didn't know that's what it was back then I was the kid that was just afraid to go to bed by myself I was afraid to look in the closet I was afraid to go into the basement. And it was because I felt things and my parents used to say, Why don't you go downstairs and play and I didn't want to go. And you can tuck yourself into bed. And for me, it was a truth that I felt things and for my they would say well your brothers don't feel anything the first time I ever said, Well, I feel like somebody's watching me or something. And they, they thought it was watching too many too many too much TV, too much too many movies, you know my parents came from India and settled in New York City. And it was a very, very cultural shock and change for them. On top of having a kid that was having psychic experiences. So, was there anybody else in your family is that a lineage of abilities. Really, not that I know of, but interesting because my mom was a poet. And I feel that, and from my own experience that a lot of mediums and tutors have some connection to a fine arts background so they'll be musicians or they'll be actors will be dancers will be painters will be poets, because art is artist channel isn't it. I mean people get ideas for poems and songs and and characters that they put into movies and characters they put into books. So I believe that we all channel in a particular way. All these years people have been at they tend to ask me so what is a channeler. And I say well I can tell you what channeling is. And you all do it everyone who's watching this, you guys all channel something and let me just break that down for you. So when we're channeling, if you look at the word channel. It's the same root of the word canal. Okay channel and canal are the same word. What are they referring to. So you have the English channel, you have the Suez canal what are they their passageways that allow the water to come through and boats to come through and drop off their packages and their passengers right. So the channel and all of us is this space that spirit or spiritual energy comes through or universal knowledge comes through us and drops off information. The passengers of the packages they drop off information to us. So we are channeling when we step out of the way when we step out of the way, and we relax and we allow things to just come through us and land. Now here's what's interesting, the thing that you may channel may not necessarily be the activity that you're really crazy about. There's some people were just good at things. I've known people who are just really good at math, but they weren't into math, or we're really good at baseball but we're really that good into baseball with that much into baseball. So it's not necessarily the thing that you love to do, but something that you do where, when you're doing it, you kind of forget all sense of time. And you're not really trying so hard, but things are landing in a particular way, like right on the money that and you can feel that thing that's happening. So I call that channeling. And when it comes to spirit guides. So some people channel being an accountant.  And so I channel spirit guides. What is that, right? We know them to be these guardians, these watchers, these protectors, these angels around us. We have different names for them.  But it is, it is definitely I think a fact that we're not alone. We're not alone. There's, there's too many people who have had experiences out there that may not be as dramatic as the ones that I have where spirit guides are channeling through my body. But you, I mean, you must have so many stories yourself about where you did feel like you said something, but it wasn't really you, but it just came out. You just said it and the person needed to hear it. Yeah, for me it's more downloads. I know what I know what I know. For sure Claire Cindy and Claire cognizant, and I know stuff and I feel stuff. And I've learned not to doubt. And it's sometimes it's a bummer, you know, because sometimes I'll feel something and I know something's often somebody's world and they're doing something. I won't be pleased with or, you know, and it's right. It's invariably right. You know, figure out the difference between your thoughts and your downloads. You know, right. Absolutely different. You know, a thought is open ended, and a download is for show up. I doubted myself. I did so much with all of this. I pushed it. I pulled it. I made myself wrong. I'm too sensitive. I never understood any of it. And when I was first starting in radio 15 years ago, I had a psychic on. And when we're done with the show she said stick around I have something to tell you you don't know.  And I spent three days looking up that word freaking out in the best way.  And that's how teachers show up. Some teachers show up for five minutes and some for five decades, but each can give you something very potent. You know, people ask me all the time. This thing happened was do you think that was a sign. And I say, Yeah, if you think it was a sign it's a sign because that feeling that you're thinking it's a sign is the feeling you're looking for when there is a sign. It's not just, it's not there's nothing random that's happening we're creating this reality.  I'm 53 now. So I have seen how it's changed and how people, even 10 or 15 years ago, and you guys know this. Almost no one was no one in the mass consciousness was talking about crystals or Reiki or spirit guides or shaman work or psychedelic therapy or anything like this. This wasn't a part of normal conversation, even in LA. This light went off. Did you notice that I had a little light over here. Am I too dark now. It's actually very cool is very noir what's going on behind you but yes I like it. Okay, let's see who knows why that light went off the battery was charged but as soon as we start talking about spirits they like to like it. I like it. So, what was I saying. So, you were saying how it's changed right so now people. Yes, even in LA, they didn't do crystals and Reiki and channeling. Yeah, not mass consciousness. I have four step daughters. Age of 16 to 30 and take talk which most people know is dancing and having fun and pulling pranks and kids just having fun we would have done it to if we were 15. And, but there's a whole other section of tick tock, which they call spiritual tick tock. Where there are a million videos posted by<PHONE_NUMBER> year olds, talking about spirit guide talking about auras crystals creating a reality dimensional talk. 10 years ago these kids were six. I had people come to my circle of light which has been two or three times a week since 2000, probably six over 2000 circles now, where I'm channeling I'm in trance state for a couple of hours in front of a group of people. And the spirit guides are speaking through me giving everyone messages. It's a wisdom circle so when we first start the spirit guides come into the body, and they speak to the whole group, right so they're talking about maybe anger or fear or extra terrestrials who knows what the topic is. Then they go around to each person giving a personal message. And one of, one of the things that I really love that people have brought their kids, they've asked me can I bring the kids speaking of how young they are. There's a consciousness that is absolutely fast moving shift and change happening in young people. I mean, it's, it's astounding and I'm glad to see it and look in the beginning, like in anything when people really get excited about something you're going to have people who know this much and you can have people who know this much. So, there are things that I see they they're talking about that they're not quite schooled in right because you need time and I'm not going to say they're wrong because when it comes to metaphysical and spirituality just one thing I've learned as a medium is anything is possible. So anytime someone says something they go anything is possible. Let's start with that we do not know the scope of the entire reality of everything everywhere. But we're discussing on these talks and in these seminars and in these readings hopefully is what we're exploring and discovering as we are experiencing reality and our study of energy that everything is energy. Yeah. And then we come back and we share with each other that's what we're doing that's what I do spirit guides do that they speak in a language that we can understand. They can speak like a little ahead of us as well to kind to guide us that's what a guide is there are a few steps ahead of you and they're going come on this way. So you've come very far from being in the Bronx and being known as Rick the Wiz, not Rick because that would be really strange with the Wiz. I had an arts background I sang I played the drums I was a painter I tried my hand in musical theater everything I had a talent for art in any in a lot of capacities. And I look at it and see it that it's it's a form of channeling to form of channeling. So you can connect a lot of people say how do I how do I practice connecting to my spirit guides this is something that I shouldn't I get from people. There's a few ways one is you have to meditate you have to practice meditation there's no way around it now there's a lot of people will say oh I can't meditate.  I tell people. Number one you have to relax, you have to have fun, even though it seems very serious and very it's very important to you to connect with your guides I know how much you guys take it seriously and you should, but you can't do it stiff.  And it's that energy that's behind that. So that's what led me to do it. And, yeah, from the long way from the Bronx you might say you're right, you're right. Yeah, totally. Well we have New York I'm also from New York Long Island. Are you really, background and musical theater. Yeah, as an actress. Let's do a psychic show. Let's do it. I can musical theater. Okay, wow that's amazing. I want to talk about a couple of things that have been on my mind because I think this is a great forum. Alright, someone said to me very recently. I just have one question. Are people just going crazy out there. I think people are going crazy. A little bit the way they're acting at the traffic lights the way that they're yelling to be in stores and someone is yelling and somebody screaming and you go on YouTube and you'll see all these people filming other people in stores who are having a breakdown.  I've seen a lot of that. Right. You know it's interesting right so I had an experience where I was walking down the street about 12 years ago here in LA and was my wife and we were passing a homeless guy that was laying in the street. He was really dirty and really out of it.  And he sits up. And as I walk by, he goes hey. And so we stopped and we turned around he points at me. He looks at my wife he goes he's a medium. He's a medium. Now there's no way this guy knew who I was, especially 12 years ago. Right. I wasn't out there like I am now. And I had to think about that for a while, because people who are in that state they're kind of broken open. They've got nothing left to lose. They've been to Helen back or still in that state of feeling bad. But something there's like there's an opening that happens when you let go. And he had let go of a lot of his life right, but for him to know that and for him to feel so compelled to yell it. Especially when I knew he didn't know who I was nobody knew I was that you think he was gifted. And he gets me that as a shaman I will tell you that when from the shamanic perspective when we talk about certain things that are labeled as mental disorders. Look, this is a case by case I'm not making a blanket statement about mental disorders, because people need to follow their own path with that but from the shamanic perspective. Sometimes in the old days, you have somebody who was a channeler, and they thought that they were having multiple personality disorder. Yeah, it's just that they had an ability their channel was really open and there was no one to teach them that look you can control this separate who's a real spirit guide and who is just an entity coming through. And those people went crazy or they were put away or they died. And we're coming to a point now in time where yes we're seeing what we think are people going crazy, but sometimes going a little crazy is one of the steps to kind of this popping open. It's hard to go through a lot to have a breakthrough. It looks different for everyone. So, the work that we do when we want to connect more psychically is actually internal. The tools that we use that are which are wonderful from the saging and the crystals and the energy work and the runes and the symbols, all the different without is 100 of them. Those are extensions and tools to use it but the tools don't create the connection, they amplify the connection. The connection is not in the crystal the crystal is an amplifier. So it's like my guitar makes a sound with or without a speaker with or without the it being plugged in the electric guitar right. So you plug the electric guitar into the speaker, then that wire contains the, you know, the filament or whatever the, the, the nickel and the copper that carries the frequency of the guitar into the speaker that's kind of like what channeling is. So, may I ask you when you I know your bio says shaman you're bringing up shaman, were you trained by other shamans or is that part of your lineage wasn't passed down. I have to say something on one hand I could say I wasn't trained in anything by anyone. And on the other hand, I would say that the teachers I did have showed up very, very briefly. Now, is that a testament to me know it's how stubborn I actually wasn't alive I could never, I could never sit in class, I could never practice anything for more than you know 20 minutes at a time. I had friends were amazing musicians could sit there and play the guitar, press four hours a day the same scale, and I have after five minutes my hand would ache. And I thought, boy I'm terrible I can't meditate I can't sit and practice properly anything. So the universe being as beautiful and gracious as it was like okay we're going to send teachers we're going to just teach him real quick. I love it. And then they were gone. Evelyn Wood shamanism. Excuse me. Evelyn Wood shamanism. I don't know if all your viewers are going to know what that is you just aged us because I know Evelyn Wood was a speed reader. Exactly. That's built for me to. All right, so I didn't have to guys. Yes, you will have your teachers are there though they're going they're there to spark you. Someone like me who couldn't sit and study. I just had maybe I had attention, attention deficit disorder, or maybe it's my karma to absorb information that way and then then build it and be in my opinion. It helps you sometimes to not study so much, because then you can be more original with who you are your personality can come through what you do. Right because when we tend to learn with a teacher over and over time we tend to want to become like the teacher. I think a good teacher is a great teacher is the one who helps you be more you in your way with your gift. Absolutely. And I can tell you as a singer, that is the truth, because I know both worlds, I was so disciplined. When you do something, then you have my attention this you have my attention other things, not so much. But I was so so so disciplined as an actress as a singer. Period. And then I let it go, and it came back to me was presented during a ceremony and a shaman said, you need to pursue this music never left you. I find this freedom now I never allowed myself before and I find in the freedom is that is the universe that I want to connect with that is the place I want to channel to give and heal people. I totally get what you're saying that it's great to rehearse. It's right and practice practice. There's a time for that that skill but the huge time after that is to the let go. You have to leap. So as so as a shaman my experiences came were when I would go in deep into meditation I would fall into trance I didn't know how I did it. I thought I fell asleep. Guys I thought I fell asleep. So I would practice meditation with a friend. And then I would, I would, I would honestly I would wake up. And the last thing I knew I was meditating then I would open my eyes and my friend at the time she said.  She goes you've been talking nonstop. Wow. And she would write down some of the things I had said, but it was never me. It was the guides. So, you know, sometimes you get a lot of credit for something that you discover rather than you invented. But if anything that I pat myself on the back for is that I stuck to it. And I separated what was my own thoughts and what were the spirit guides messages. What is this thing called imagination, because people will think oh you're just imagining this. These words are coming to you. Imagination by our definition now means that you're making something up. Which basically means across the board to your imagination means you made it up. Earlier you'd asked me you told me before we started filming about that. Merlin is one of your favorite spirit guides so let me tell you about a story about Merlin. Someone once said to me how can you channel Merlin he's just a character in a story he's not he's not he never was real. I can channel Tchaikovsky and I can channel Tesla and I can channel George Washington, and they ran Lincoln or whoever, because they're real, but Merlin's not real well let me explain this to you. Authors are channels. Yes, their channel is open. And what if Merlin is a spirit guide. I don't believe in spirit guides I said he goes yes I said okay so what if Merlin is a spirit guide that has been around since the beginning of time, and wants to get his message about transformation and magic through to the people. But he's not going to incarnate. Take a lifetime. And so he speaks to the author. The author begins to write it 500 years ago or whenever it was, and that, and that archetype of Merlin as the wizard is so strong that it shows up as Dumbledore and Harry Potter and shows up as Gandalf and Lord of the Rings, it's the same archetype Merlin with the white beard and the long white hair speaks in a particular way. Why, because that is actually what he sounds like when I channel Merlin that is what he sounds like. He has that kind of accent he has that kind of gravely voice. And so he has come through to people in this way. So there's no such thing as you thinking, was this real or not, because you don't have any proof of anything for 20,000 years ago, or 100,000 years ago. What are we basing this on knowledge. Oh my God it's debated all the time what is true what is not true what's a fact what's not a fact. Shaman, psychics, intuitives have been talking about Atlantis for a long time. Lemuria, Lyra, the Pleiades. Yes. Andromedans, and we have been giving detailed channelings of what the beings from those places are like. We've been channeling locations of star systems we've been channeling where there's energy centers in the different parts of the world and every year we're finding something else out, whether it's from ancient aliens. And now, oh suddenly now CNN the New York Times everyone is made is meeting that UFOs are real from the Pentagon down 10 years ago they weren't right, which brings us to 2020. So my teacher, since we're talking about teachers the teacher that I had the longest I wanted to actually take a moment to honor his name is Alex Murray, Alex Murray is passed away this year, and he was the first channeler I went to in New York City. In the 90s, as a young man and he gave me a message that I would be doing this work. So, incredibly gifted psychic medium and channeler and had a circle in his home every Tuesday night on the Upper West Side. And I call him New York's best kept secret because he was in the top I mean, in my top three channelers of all time, but he never, he never kind of wanted to go out there big in the world. Anyway, when 2012 was coming up and everyone was getting ready for the Mayan calendar you know the date 2012 I think it was December 21. I asked him. I said Alex, what's going to happen on that day. There's nothing Riz. I said, nothing. Because it's off by years. Oh, how interesting. He doesn't probably told me that the count that our perception of the Mayan calendar was off by eight years. He goes it's not for another eight years the change. So obviously 2020. Wow. And you know, this happened and you were aware. Oh you told me this is it, but I had no idea what it was going to look like. And as intuitives and psychics, we like to imagine it that everyone just starts glowing with rainbows and going hey, I'm awakening, but he knew he didn't know about the pandemic he just said the big awakens in eight years. Many times the messages from the guides they don't tell you exactly what's going to happen but they tell you the time period of this is where the shift will be very powerful. So, obviously, what happened in that year has changed the world and how we live. Yeah. And has made, and I will tell you from from the trenches are working on the front lines with people is that after the first year which was last year after the pandemic. Now people are really hungry and energized for deep personal transformational work. They are ready. I lead retreats all around the world every year my wife and I we have a company called sacred Earth retreats. And we go to Egypt we got the power centers in Egypt in Japan and Ireland, Machu Picchu, Columbia, Ireland, India. And every year we go. And the last year has been unprecedented with how many people want to join these retreats because they're, they're realizing the institutions are not giving them the answers. So, you know, you get politically with people, you're either on this side or that side. And now it's starting to be where both of those sides are going I don't even know if my side is the right one anymore. I don't want your side but then again I'm questioning my own side. So what's the, what's the other side well we'll figure it out there's there's there's something new there's a new perspective coming. I have a question so I know we're going to get to some channeling. And I'm so excited for whomever doesn't know you yet or experience you in this way to have that yummy experience. But I want to harken back to something you said, at the beginning of this. And just briefly wrap that piece up that you said. It was something on your mind, and you've noticed somebody said to you have you notice people going a little crazy and you said indeed you have what was, what was the through line there. What I was talking about was that you may have to go crazy to get to sanity you may have to die 1000 times to realize how important life is. Sometimes meaning, get your heart broken or go through stuff. Right.  Yeah, got your life out of. They made you who you are today. Yeah, that's the process of creation is that you take something to break through, you know, I have a feeling already that the topic we are talking about the guides want to continue. So, when as soon as I said about 2020 and things changing they went okay, I just felt them come in to go. Yeah we're going to step. I'm going to tag them in like WWF. I love this so much. And by the way folks over 100 different beings if it's okay that I call them that energies come through you well known. I did tell Riz, I'm just saying up front my request, and we don't know if it's going to be met because, as you all know this will be divine whomever comes through whatever comes through I'm open and ready. I made a request. First, for the Elohim, because I was like, that would be beyond. And if not, Merlin awesome. And then again, I'm let go so. And then after because I want to hear what your experience was like at my circle because so we met at my circle. I didn't remember that when we sat down, because it was months ago, but I'm curious, but we'll save that for the end. Okay. So, um, let's see who comes through. And if you're ready. I mean I'm ready. I'm going to kind of lay back a little bit this way. Is that okay. Yes. Yes, you look amazing.  Okay, you need to look at me just need to listen. All right. Are we ready. Yes, ready. Thank you. If you really want to drop in with me. Drop in with me and let's just let's close our eyes just for a few moments. Close our eyes like this. And I want you to just take a nice deep breath in through your nose. Hold the breath for a moment and blow it out. Just imagine a beautiful light coming from the point between your eyebrows and surrounding you in a circle of light. Expanding waves and ripples like ripples in a pond, waves of light going up and around you and behind you in every direction, sending light and love and blessings to yourself to anything and everyone around you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'll see you later I feel the guides coming through. Just give me a moment and I'll see you after they leave me. Beautiful. I'm Phineas. Hello Phineas. When one mentions transformation. When one is changing the form of one thing to another though your scientists have told you that matter cannot be destroyed. And only it is possible for it to change its form. And so as you have been studying your metaphysics or your paranormal or your supernatural. What is important to remember is that your perspective on that which is metaphysical, meaning that which is larger or wider or beyond your perception of things in the physical. Through the trees, though you cannot take a picture of it, you may only take a photo of the winds effect on a thing. If a tree is blown over all the energy of the wind blowing through the trees, you may see the flutter. And so you say, ah, there is breeze, there is the wind. And so that which is metaphysical only refers to that which is beyond your current physical perceptions. And so the metaphysical indeed is the physical but simply in a wider understanding. Your dog can hear frequencies that are beyond your own capabilities of listening, can't they. The dog can hear a whistle. And that frequency is beyond the capacity of you to hear it. It does not mean that it is not there. You simply cannot hear it molecules, atoms, things that you need a microscope to see your eye cannot see it. And so you have developed a technology that can permit you to see beyond what your physical eyes are capable of. So you have a telescope or a microscope. And so that which you refer to as the paranormal, you have this very slippery term called normal, and that normal is what you see as a consistent experience in life. That two plus two is four and that is normal if it were to equal five that would not be normal nor would it compute according to your own calculations and your own mathematical systems. That which is considered to be paranormal or supernatural. It's actually the natural world. It is just a part of the natural world that you have not yet studied, nor have had the experience fully to immerse yourself in the course of study to understand that which is the natural or paranormal paranormal is normal. It is part of your reality to have spirit or entities as you refer to them. They are intelligent, sentient personalities, essences, that which you refer to as entities or ghosts.  That is what you're referring to in your physical existence and so what we are referring to is your entire understanding and your perspective day to day of what this reality called earth is and your navigation being rough or smooth over these waters.  It is not necessarily the terms that you deem to be factual regarding your environment. For example, there are certain people who are imprisoned, but do not feel imprisoned. Their mood is not depressed nor angry. They have surrendered to that experience. And so their cells and their body are quite healthy. And yet they are in a state of imprisonment physically that you would never wish for yourself. Now a person may be living outside of the prison walls, having the freedom to do most likely anything that is legal in your society. And yet they feel imprisoned. That is usually due to their traumas or their experiences emotionally day to day. And that feeling of imprisonment is their reality, thereby creating energy within the body of discontent. And so the cells, the bones, the nervous system, the immune system shall respond accordingly to the emotional vibration of the being. Are you following us? I am following you, thank you. So when you say that, what piques my curiosity, Phineas, is how would somebody reverse that? So these feelings, these thoughts are populating the body, the bones, the cells, the experience, and making that someone's reality. I understand the idea of accessing feelings or changing feelings and thoughts, but that's very easily said. How can someone literally re-do, re-write what's going on physically and experientially in their life? If someone can re-write, one must re-educate, or de-program, then reprogram. Let us clarify. First, if we were to ask you, where do your feelings come from? Where do your feelings come from? Some might respond from my heart. Some may respond that they do not know. They simply are there. Perhaps one will say that their feelings come from a divine energy, a higher source, God, the universe, and that is where their feelings come from. Yet they own their own feelings. They say that I am happy. I am angry. I am sad. Your feelings are the direct result of your core beliefs. Your beliefs about right and wrong create your emotional reality, nothing else. Let us give you a simpler example. In certain cultures, there are behaviors that will be considered acceptable or not acceptable socially regarding their own moral compass. For example, if you were to sit before a guru in certain eastern countries, but you were to wear your shoes or face the bottoms of your feet toward the guru, that would be a sign of disrespect. And that feeling would occur because the belief is that you do not show the bottoms of your feet, for they are considered, again, another core belief, to be dirty or have an energy that is polluted in some way. Therefore, remove that behavior from you and point your feet away from the guru. There are simple table manners in different countries. If one were to belch after a meal in certain countries, it would be considered feeling or an expression of satisfaction with the meal, and not an eye would blink at the table. Try that in a western society. You may be thrown out of that home. Certainly, you will not be invited again. But behaviors, the reactions to those behaviors are due to the beliefs that the person holds. Let us give another example. If you are watching a sporting event, let us say that it is baseball, football, basketball, and your team is losing the game. This would create frustration, anger, sadness, disappointment, perhaps anger. And they are consistently flubbing their opportunities, not playing consistently in a quality manner, in the manner that you wish for them to play in, so that you might experience winning. The joy of winning, the elation of your team in victory. And so, as your team is losing, as the minutes go by, and the clock is ticking down to the final seconds, where the execution of your team, and they are banished back to their locker room in defeat, as that is approaching that moment. And the emotional energy is building. The feeling of anxiousness and anger could be changed. Instantly, how? What if you were to say to that person, do you wish to feel the feeling of triumph and winning? They would perhaps shout at you and say, of course I do. Then you say, well, I have a solution for you. Root for the other team. They are jubilant and winning. Well, what do you think the chances of them making that switch would be? And that is because their beliefs are in loyalty. Whatever the version of loyalty, now their loyalty is to losing. Let us say that that team would continue to lose every single game for many years to come. At what point would that fan give up their love for that team? Their fierce loyalty eventually would come to an end. And we all know that there are some who will take it to the grave. They will stand with their losing team till the end of days. And that is because they believe in loyalty by the definition that they have kept. And they will do it no matter what. If it causes them great pain, they will stay in it. The inflexibility of your perspectives and your beliefs will strangle you. Everything in nature has flexibility. Even the mountain which seems to be stoic and powerful and solitary is flexible. Does it not have avalanches and shed its rocks? Does it not get weathered by the wind and the storms and the snow and the sun and the rain? Even the volcano knows it must erupt to change and to shift. And so flexibility is everywhere in the animal kingdom, the plant kingdom. As a human being who is here in the school of earth must be flexible. Do not hold to your opinions so tightly, be flexible. Very often neutrality is powerful as a gear because then you are being able to be moved into a better place. Your pandemic was the first time in history of humankind where every human being on the face of the earth would have to experience the same event in exactly the same way. Not any religious movement nor any natural disaster encompassed the entire earth. And so as metaphysicians, as spiritual students and explorers and master teachers and training, you wish for oneness. You felt perhaps a leader would come and unite you. Oh, that would be too problematic for you have too many strong core beliefs. You believe in skin color and gender or non-gender, you believe in ethnicities, you believe in ageism and all sorts of things prevent you from finding one person to lead you all.  And that is you have a very powerful mechanism within you to consistently grow and seek higher ground, higher elevated thinking change. You are always wanting more. Think about it. Everything that you do and experience you want more. Imagine if you were to give up everything that you own because you say you want less. It is because you want more of something else. You want less of this and more of that.  It is because you want more, not less. If you wish to even leave the earth, you no longer wish to be alive. It is because you want more of something else, not this. It is in your nature. More is the energy that is consistently happening in all of reality, even in the plant kingdom. More seasons, more change, more withering, drying, going down into the earth, fertilizing again and sprouting up again in the spring. It is beyond your control. Oh, you may resist it. You may resist change. But it is happening. Every moment, even the cells in your body are changing. Every moment is new. And now this moment is new. And now this moment is new. Let us wait a moment. Ah, and now this moment is new. We have experienced three moments. And here's the fourth and now the fifth. Everything is now. And so in 2020, as they say hindsight is 2020. And in this discussion, our hindsight is about 2020. It was to create an energy of oneness. Where the focus of the people was about life and how they wanted to live it, whether or not they believed in the origins or the backstories about this virus or not matters not. You may be on either side of the fence or underneath or above it or within the fence itself. It does not matter. What matters is it got you thinking how you would rather live. And so great emotion began to come forth where the core beliefs and opinions began to be expressed amongst the people. Friends were becoming defriended and new friends. Alliances began simply because another person believed what you believed. And so evolution was not going to happen. The way the pretty way that many of you had wanted to. It would happen in this way. And this way would allow you to go through all of the motions and emotions that were necessary for your breakthroughs. Now you are coming into this new world, this new earth you may call it, but it is simply the same old school with the same old tried and true principles, which is your reality is how you feel. You have been sad at parties. Everyone is celebrating. It is a joyous occasion. Perhaps even the party is for you. Even at your own party you might be sad as others are celebrating you. You are not feeling like celebrating yourself. It could also be true that you are at a very sad event. Perhaps you're at a funeral while everyone is in mourning, but you are connected to the soul of the person who has deceased. You are seeing their grace and beauty on the other side. And so your connection intuitively allows you to be more at peace at the funeral. And so your inner world is one at peace, while others in this sad situation are in mourning and pain. So your external environment does not dictate your inner reality. Your reality is what you feel no matter where you are. Beautiful. Thank you. May I ask you who is helping us through this time of transition? Not of this world helping you. Your future selves are helping you. Since you have been studying the nature or the concept of time, consider this. If you were to replace the words, the universe. The next time you ask yourselves, why is the universe doing this to me? Why is God doing this to me? Why is anything doing this to me? Replace it with this phrase. Why is my future self assisting me in this way? Use those words, my future self instead of the universe. Why is the universe doing this to me? Why is my future self assisting me in this way? In this way, understand that everything is for your assistance, for your grand purpose. And that grand purpose is the realization of oneness.  May I ask, I recently heard that the indigenous shamans foretold that the next shamans were going to come from the West, and not the ones that are being born, not young, but those of us who are established and here already to help bring the world into a new era. I know personally I'm very called to that. Can you speak about us being homo-luminous or luminous beings as shamans today, the everyday people? I understand the concept and truth of what you are referring to as yin and yang, commonly described as the feminine and masculine energies. Are you familiar? Yes, absolutely. Currently, with the state of things, it becomes problematic to refer to the yin and yang in the masculine feminine terminology, for it has been dragged through the mud as being associated with gender. Now, gender itself is unnecessary in this discussion. Yin and yang refers to the intuitive, the receptive, the nurturing, or the progressive, or the forthcoming, proactive, protective energies. And so that is the yang. The ocean is the yin and yang. The flow of the ocean, the shore could be yin or yang. Now, understanding this as the shamanic healing is expanding as you are returning to the gifts from nature to help you connect to those energies, whether it is through the food or it is through the sacred medicinal healing that the shamans have their transcendental experiences and are now always becoming quite popular in your society. The shaman is there to bring you from darkness into light, so to speak, to bring you from the darkness of the womb. We are not referring to darkness as evil, darkness as the unknown, the womb in the mother is dark, and yet all life comes from it. Therefore, the light comes from the darkness, and the shaman is there to bring you to that. And so, yes, now is the understanding beyond ageism where only those who are indigenous, and yet, my dear, the chapters of Earth's history, or, let us say, the authority of knowledge is not necessarily in lineage. There are many very popular musicians since you are referring to music, legendary musicians whose children do not possess the personalities of their forebears, their ancestors. Their path was not to play music, though they have knowledge of the underpinnings and the behind the scenes of that art. Many legendary artists do not have legendary artists' children, do they? Correct. And so, it is the rose that springs from the concrete between.  And so, where you will find it will be in unexpected faces, unexpected accents, unexpected backgrounds. But since you are beings that incarnate repeatedly, the wise will understand to be open to understand that it speaks through. There are many ethnicities that you identify that may come through another. There may be an African voice channeled through a child of another skin color, and the reverse may be true for that which you refer to as the other side does not have skin color or ethnicity. Though the personality that the spirit guide chooses to come through may have inflections, may have personalities and essence and certain qualities that you identify with as reminiscent of certain ethnicities that are here. For, as Phineas, as we come through the channeler, there is a certain European accent in the being. That is because the energy must use the tongue and the mechanisms of the channeler. Channelers channel in their own language. They do not necessarily or often channel in another language. For, the mechanism is used for what it is there for. You do not treat a sports car as you treat a horse and buggy or a rocket ship, though they all prepare you forward, don't they? Yes. We are very pleased that our connection with you. I extend your hearty greeting across the waves of consciousness and shores of knowledge to you and your listeners and viewers. We leave you with this. You are made of starlight, no matter what you have been through, no matter what traumas you have experienced, no matter if you feel you do not believe in love anymore, your lack of belief in those areas further reinforces that indeed you are loving. For only a loving being could know or recognize the lack of it. Only one made of light could recognize the lack of it. And so do not be swept away by your fears and sadness about the current state of affairs in the world. That is only the bad news, my friends. There is awakening happening of all ages. There is magic happening around you at this very moment in the very room you are sitting in listening to this transmission.  Do not feel weakened by your sensitivities. Surrender to them as one would surrender to an embrace, to a dance, to music, to the light. And you will find within yourself the peace that you have been searching for and your purpose. You may direct this energy in any capacity. Spiritual work is not only intuitive healing work. In the traditional sense it can be done in any manner, in any profession. Allow yourself to surrender to the magic and the love that you are. I am finished and I agree to. That was so beautiful. Surrender to the magic, and I'm writing that down in the love that you are. And while Riz is coming back, I'll just give him some time and grace to fully come back and remind you, he's got several books, some written by him, and some written also by he and his wife. You can see the spelling of his name here, and that's also his website.com.  I always say, I always say, good morning. Good morning. Like a little map that I take on. Phineas is. He was an American clockmaker, right? From the 1800s, a mentalist. He was a founder of new thought. Oh, did you, did you research him? Yes. Phineas. He also, that life, he was reincarnated. He was a teacher. Actually, I believe who's a rabbi named Phineas, is the great, great grandson of another spiritualist rabbi named Eleazar. So you might look that up, but he reincarnated twice. He incarnated twice with the name Phineas. When I first started channeling these guides, I never looked them up. My wife started looking them up when she came into my life. She said, are these people, I never thought to even, we didn't really Google things 15 years ago. So I, I wasn't doing that. And I'll tell you an interesting story about Ram Dass, came to one of my circles. And it was just, I did a circle in Hawaii. And I had channeled Emmanuel at that circle. And I know it's funny that I don't know a lot, sometimes about the guys that I channel, but because I'm just channeling them. And I feel I know about them, what I'm supposed to know about them. So I channeled Emmanuel and the circle finished. And I, and I sat and talked with him and he had trouble speaking. He was in a wheelchair towards that time of his life, but he had a helper and he had, he said, when did you start channeling Emmanuel? And I had a think and I told him the year and he looked at his assistant, they both kind of opened their eyes really wide and nodded. So apparently there was someone who was channeling Emmanuel books. And Ram Dass was writing the forward or the preface to those books. And that channeler passed away the same year that I started channeling Emmanuel. So it's almost like a handoff. And, and I asked Ram Dass, I said, is this the same energy signature as the Emmanuel that you experienced for all those years? He said, absolutely. I thought that was really fascinating and interesting. But there are some channelers out there, but that the guides only channeled with them. I've met people who channel. And I know that that guide is only going to come through that message. And I think it's going to be, it's going to be, it's going to be like Phineas and Red Eagle pretty much only come through me, but all the others, I think other people have channeled them. Maybe next time we'll get the Elohim. Okay. Yes. Well, this was beautiful. And what was shared was beautiful. And you asked me. So you asked me what was my experience when I met you. And it was Red Eagle who came through when I met you. It was pretty incredible. And your place is named after him. Yeah. So you came and you, did you know what you were coming to when you came to the circle? Ish.  Okay. That Barb sent out, but because I'm familiar, of course, but otherwise I knew it was going to be a very unique experience.  So I was aware. And it was beautiful how you went around.  And what I found profound, I'm going to really call myself out. It's, it's uncomfortable, but I think it's good to be uncomfortable and vulnerable. But Red Eagle spoke to me. And said, What is it about driving? What's going on around driving? And I was like a gassed. Like I was, I was on in Snot, not constantly, but I used to, and I was healed from it. And then it came back. It was in very particular circumstances. Okay. And I had literally just come back from a trip. And had that experience of complete. I mean, gripping a wheel. Like losing my mind and ready goals spoke to me. because I don't know everybody there. I felt really called out. But at the same time, this was huge, right? Cause when you're going through panic, it is real. It's big. Nobody understands it till it happens. And then you go, okay, now I understand. I have so much sympathy for people that panic attacks. Exactly. And somebody who says to someone who's panicking, relax, it's okay. Or chill, like it makes it worse. Were you there by yourself or did you have anybody with you? I had my partner with me. Okay. Did your partner know about this? Yeah. Cause he was in the truck while it was happening. So he must have been like, what is going on at this channeling circle? I can imagine for people who don't, you know, because, you know, it's just the way it is. When you go to a psychic or a channeler, you really want it to be real. And sometimes it doesn't hit or doesn't connect. By the way, sometimes that doesn't mean the psychic's not real. It just means that on that day, you just weren't going to get the message that you wanted to get. But I will say, but, but, but, but it was so powerful because Red Eagle broke down panic attacks and let everybody there know it is actually has nothing to do with panic on whatever that situation is. But let me explain that there's something else going on. He went into it and what was gorgeous is A, other people when Red Eagle got to them admitted also to having panic attacks. That's it Debbie, this is where healing happens is that we have to be vulnerable and just say it everyone. You know, we grew up in generations where our parents didn't talk about their emotions and the teachers didn't talk about their emotions and certainly men were not allowed to talk about their emotions. We just have to start that, that inner dialogue just needs to come out and just be vulnerable and receive. And that is how, that's actually how I tell them, just vulnerable and receive. You know, Red Eagle is this big Native American energy that comes through me. And he used to make the joke because I used to ask him, why would you come through me? And he goes, because that way people get to Indians for the price of one. That's so good.  Like it was, I always just, this was my look. Indian squared. Totally. So he brings such humor to it and maybe we'll do something in the future where we can kind of drop in about panic attacks and anxiety because that's a big thing that people need to know about. And it's very prevalent today. And I, and you know, it didn't occur to me until we're talking about this. I actually have not had one since then. Maybe you've got like an energy healing that guy just dropped in and said, we're gonna zap her. It happens, man. Yes. All right. It's huge. Thank you. So it was, you know, exactly what you're saying. It was like going right to the heart of something very dear to me because it was messing my life. And I didn't know when it was gonna pop up. It was rare, but when it popped up, it was completely debilitating. And here I am, this visible person, you know, writing books, book coach, podcasts, this and that. And it's like, even me, even me, whether it's, right? Whether it's the energy of the world or what I'm going through that it was manifesting in this way to get my attention. But he was brilliant how he broke it down. Great sound, right? It was just a master teacher. And what we've been talking about and one of the things that I'm focusing on now, you know, I do readings, people can get, they can go to my website and find out about my readings, phone readings and retreats. And one of the things that I'm introducing this winter is I'm doing a whole program of healing the inner child. I never do in-person stuff really anymore, but I'm going to be doing some in-person one-on-one work where I'm literally taking people where we're spending a few hours, just me and them at the farm and going to see the animals and getting the messages from the animals and talking about life like wisdom walks. So I'm doing these things. I want to know about this, it sounds awesome. If anyone's really wants to know about this kind of stuff that I offer, please go to my website and follow me on Instagram and hopefully put my Instagram handle so people can reach out to us. And I'm glad to connect with you guys, so audience, and thank you for having me. So I have a question for you here at the end.  Anything you want the listeners to know that we haven't covered? Oh my God, what would I like them to know? Well, anytime anyone asks me that my real belief system is this, is that it's never too late to change things. That's what I want you to know. It's never too late to change things and things really can change. Just give yourself, take another deep breath and say that everything that you've experienced so far in your life, that was really your path. Don't resist it.    And so that was your training. And this is not the time to give up on love or give up on joy or give up on peace. This is not the time. This is the time to actually reinforce that even more. So rebirth yourself. Okay, that's what I want them to know. Meme. Thank you. That was beautiful. And this is Dare to Dream, Riz. What are you next, Dare to Dream? What are your future dreams and goals? My dreams are funny. You know, I really wanna bring what I do to the world. But what I'm really about, besides what I'm about comes through my work. But I wanna show that in more and more ways. So I really want people to start to come back to joy, but coming back to joy is a process. I believe that the highest vibration in the world is not peace, but celebration. Peace is great, but then there's one step up, which is I'd rather have six billion people dancing together than just meditating together. So what's next for me? I have personal projects. I make music also, by the way. I could never give up the music no matter how much I did all my psychic and spiritual work. I still have to pick up the guitar. I still have to write music. I still have to put it out there. So I'm really in my creative vibe right now. And I'm really looking forward to my Halloween party on Saturday. I love Halloween. So I have to Halloween, even though everybody's watching this Halloween finished. What are you going to be for Halloween? What are you and Araya getting dressed as? Say it now, because this will air after, right? Well, yeah. It's no, it's starting tomorrow night. So I'll let you know. I can't send me pictures. Yeah, Araya's going to be Elvira. I'm going to be, I'm going to be actually a famous classic legendary WWF wrestler. That's all I'm going to say. Oh my God. Check out your Instagram page on Monday. I want to see the pictures. Okay. Totally. Thank you so much for coming in the show. You're awesome. I wish you all the best. You as well. And I end today's show with this quote from Neil Donald Walsh's Conversations with God book. You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage. A helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow. A healer in time of injury. A teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth. 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Well, it all comes back to awareness and it comes back to patience. So I have to be aware of when I'm living through a scarcity lens and then just say, all right, you don't have to view it this way, you know, life does not need to be zero sum, you know, just because they chose you to be the keynote speaker instead of me doesn't make me less than unless I choose to make me feel less than. I mean, I think in Vegas alone, they're like 6,000 speaking events in any given year.  So while I'm over here in my feelings crying and worried about one event I didn't get, there are literally tens of thousands of other events that I can get.  That's not the case.


Our next speaker, I'm thrilled also to present, he's an assistant professor of operations management in the Saltz, the Sattel's faculty management at McGill University. His research focuses on the application of predictive analytics and optimization methodologies to improve operational decision in retailing. A self-professed art addict is developed to really important packages that he's actually going to show us today. Please help me welcome Ramnath Vadyanathan. Thanks so much for having me here. And so this is a good talk to be after right after the I-Python talk, because I mean, many of you would have followed like all the nice things that people in Python say about R and people in R say about Python. So Jake's kind of really up the ante for me, but I'll try to sort of do my best. So it's a quick thing. As Aideen said, I'm a professor at Montreal. And my research essentially focuses on retailing, mainly product variety, and stuff like that. So the reason I put this up, so the very first time that I gave a talk on data visualization, so I was basically taking a bus down to New York. And at the border, I mean, immigration, they asked me a question, so what do you do? I said, develop a professor. I do operations management and statistics. What are you going to talk about? Well, I'm going to talk about interactive visualizations, the kind that you see in New York Times. And he's like, does this make sense? So basically, I got rid of for like half an hour, and then he was a good guy. I basically spent time explaining to him, and then he said, oh, now this makes sense. OK, good, good. Have a good talk. So since then, I think I've gotten better. So every time at the border, I make sure that I just convey the right amount of information, and I'm good. So what's my talk about? So my talk is going to be focused on an R package that I wrote called RCharts. And the whole idea of this package is to essentially take what people typically do with R in terms of how people create plots with R, but instead of giving you static plots, essentially giving you interactive plots. So in very simple terms, I think Jake's kind of made my job really easy. So what Jake's done with MPL and kind of going to D3, I've done the same thing with RCharts. With one difference, and I think I want to point out the difference right up front, Jake has done a really awesome job with writing the JavaScript library that plugs in, and essentially ultimately does D3. I have kind of taken the easy way out, because when I started doing D3, I was kind of not really comfortable coding that much of JavaScript. So I said, hey, people have already built wrappers on top of D3, like NVD3 and a whole bunch of it. So I essentially piggyback on those libraries, so I don't write a lot of JavaScript code. It's essentially interpreting things that are there. So let me kind of quickly get you comfortable with what RCharts can do. So the main difference between how people think about plots in R versus, let's say people think about plots in JavaScript, at least in my mind, is that the primitives are very different. So in D3, in JavaScript, you build a plot like pretty much point by point, line by line, axis by axis. But when you do stuff in R, so how many people here have used R? Just a quick show of hands. OK, good. So as you know, in R, you're very used to plotting by just saying, OK, here is X, here is Y, here is my data set. Give me the plot I need. So I'm not really bothered about too much about the other things. So here is one of the libraries that I plugged into RCharts. It's a library called Polycharts. That's actually based on the grammar of graphics. Too bad that it's not open source. It's free for non-commercial use. So the idea is to sort of say, OK, so this is a scatter plot where I have a data set called empty cars, which essentially has mileage and weights of cars. So the notation there is saying, give me a plot of miles per gallon versus weight. And you will find these variables in the data set called empty cars. And by the way, I want a plot that has points as the basic type. So once you do that, you see this plot. And I'm not sure if you can see the, at least you can see some kind of a hover. It's very small. But the idea is that this is an interactive plot. It's essentially being there is JavaScript code that is generating this plot on the floor. Now, once I did this with one library, one of the things I found was that, and this is something I always puzzle with, every library kind of takes its own tack in terms of data structures, in terms of whether it wants array of objects, object of arrays, wide data, long data. So one of the things I wanted to do was to say, OK, you know what, I think as an R user, I don't want to be really exposed to the finer details. I just want my plot. So basically, I did use the same approach and plugged in a few other libraries. So this is an example from a library called high charts. And again, the same idea. So I want a plot of pulse versus height. And the dataset is again a built, inbuilt dataset in R. But this time, I want to size the points based on age, group them based on exercise. And the type of chart I want is a bubble chart. And these are the title and the subtitle. So once you do this, you get this nice high chart, which as you can see, for some reason, revealed JS tends to rescale things. So my plots are much smaller than what I expected them to be, but it's all right. So you can see that high charts has a lot more functionality in terms of what you can do. So you can kind of zoom in and zoom out and all that stuff. And all this, you just get for just writing a few lines of code. So the high chart binding actually was written by my co-author, Thomas, who is in Sweden. So the basic idea is, as I said, think in terms of data. Data is the primitive that people working in R usually think about. And then you want an interactive plot with just the same lines of code that you would typically use when you do a static plot. So I can kind of go on and on about this. And initially, I mean, this project started as a hobby project last summer, where I was teaching statistics. And I wanted to kind of impress my students with some interactive kind of graphs. Statistics is not the subject that a lot of people really like. And then once I found that there was a pattern, then it became pretty much an academic quest to sort of say, hey, can I find a library? Can I plug it in? So I think as of date, I think I plugged in close to 10 or 15 libraries, JavaScript libraries, wrapper libraries, not D3. So the idea is that now I can kind of use any one of those libraries to get the plot that I want. So this is an example of another library called MorrisJS, which actually does pretty neat time series plots. And these JavaScript libraries allow you more interactivity, like click and other things. But I mean, with a few lines of code, you can pretty much get only the hover and maybe interact kind of behavior. So this is something that is still something that I'm working on. Another library called DimpleJS, which actually is very powerful. The name is a little unfortunate, but I think it's a very powerful library built on top of D3. So if you go to the RCharts website, you will see all the libraries that have been integrated. We're in the process of integrating more libraries. And the objective is to let the R user take advantage of all the wonderful work done by JavaScript developers and essentially, and interestingly enough, it also provides a community for the people developing JavaScript libraries. It provides another community which uses them. In fact, for some of these libraries, like PolyChart, I think R users filed more GitHub issues than the JavaScript users. So it's kind of interesting to me that it's not just we are kind of taking, but we're also contributing back to the JavaScript community. Now motivated by that, I kind of wrote another package called Rmaps and no guesses here, takes the same idea. So instead of charts, like, can I do interactive maps, right? And here again, I mean, I didn't want to kind of get into primitives. So I said, okay, look at the libraries that already exist. So there is leaflet, which does really need maps. So I'm just gonna quickly rush to the code here. So this is just initiating a leaflet object, setting a lat long, choosing a provider. I like Stamon's watercolor maps. And then I want a marker. And then finally, I'm saying print the map. And then you get a map like this. And you can point on it. And Rmaps exposes you to the full API of what leaflet or pretty much everything that leaflet exposes you to Rmaps tries to expose people to that. Another one of my favorite examples. So, and many of these examples came about because of kind of phishing expeditions. So for example, I was looking at a library called Crosslet, which is a combination of cross filter and leaflet and that's some really nifty things. So I said, ah, this is a really nice JavaScript library that can be used to visualize spatial data. So the data set I'm using here is actually a data set from visualizing.org. It's a data set that has web indices on multiple dimensions across countries. So what I'm saying here is look, I mean, I always tend to think of pretty much any plot as like an X, Y. I know that it's probably not the best way to do it, but it simplifies my life. So here I'm saying, okay, the X variable, I want you to think about it as the country, the Y variable, I want these four variables to be plotted, and the data set where you'll find these variables is web index, and I want you to render it using Crosslet. So once I do that, and actually this particular one, I think it's more fun executing it live. So, let me just go down to this. Okay, okay, so I'm just gonna execute this, and as you can see here, okay, okay, there you go. So here you have a coroplet, and of course there's a lot of data missing, and the nice thing is that you have all these numerical variables on the top where you can actually filter by multiple variables, and you can see which countries kind of have indices in these ranges, right? And Crosslet, I mean, bulk of the work is done by Crosslet, so as I said, I don't write a lot of JavaScript code. I study the JavaScript code that is written by other people and basically provide an interface from R where I try to think about, okay, how would somebody dealing with data think about this plot, and the way I would think about this plot is, okay, there are some numerical variables, there is a country variable, and essentially that's basically what's gonna give me the plot to this. So this is Crosslet. Now you can also do custom visualizations. I'll get into this a little later, okay? Now just creating visualizations is not sufficient. Being able to share visualizations is extremely critical, right? And here's my rationale usually, whenever you want a tool to be used by people, you want to make sure that it doesn't change their workflows too much, right? That's the best way to get people to use a tool. So if I think about how people in R typically use R, I mean, when they do static plots, they don't have to kind of jump through hoops to share things, right? Because images, static images are easy to kind of have in the document. But when it comes to interactive visualizations, it's not the same case, right? There are a lot of dependencies. You have JavaScript assets, you have CSS assets, you have data, you have all these kind of things, right? Now it's not terribly complicated to kind of ship everything when you share, but easier you make it, people are gonna be more likely to use it. So that's the design principle that I always use when I design packages of this kind, where I say, okay, I really want to make sure that it doesn't deviate on people's workflows, okay? So here is again a simple chart. It's actually a multi-bar chart. So I'm just writing the code to create the multi-bar chart. And now there are many mechanisms that people want to share their visualizations, right? So one is just a simple save. So here the idea is that I'm just taking the plot I created and I'm just saying, okay, save it. And you will see there is an argument called CDN equals true, which is saying, okay, you know what, don't link to the local library on my machine, but link all the CSS assets from an online repository, okay? So that's essentially what it does, okay? Now I thought that this would solve the issue because I mean, these assets are online, so when somebody shares it, it's gonna be fine. But there is a problem, right? So a lot of times when I link to something online, and for example, in this case, NVD3, they decided to change the links to some of their JavaScript assets. And somebody who was using our charts, they were giving a talk, one day it was working, the chart was working, the very next day the chart wasn't working and nothing changed, right? So then this kind of prompted me to do something a little different where I added another option called standalone where the idea is that the entire chart and the JavaScript assets, the CSS assets, everything is gonna be bundled into one single standalone page, okay? So it's a lot of, I mean, if you look at the HTML, it's really ugly because what it does is it converts everything to data URIs. But the nice thing is that, I mean, with this HTML, people can share without really having to worry about things breaking for anybody, okay? Now, one of the things that Jake was talking about was this whole notion of reproducibility, right? And I think reproducibility is really critical. So a lot of times I'm not just interested in sharing the chart, I'm also interested in sharing the code that came with the chart and I want to maintain things in sync, okay? Now there are two ways to maintain things in sync. One way to maintain things in sync is what Jake talked about, which is the good old iPython notebooks, okay? The other way for those of you who are more proficient in R and kind of more comfortable with R, you would know that RStudio has a format called R Markdown, okay? And essentially what R Markdown does is, let me just increase the font size so that you can see things better. So what R Markdown does is it allows you to mix code with, allows you to mix code with the end product, okay? So it's just like iPython notebooks. In fact, there's a lot of similarities between the two to the extent that it's actually possible to automatically convert an R Markdown notebook to an iPython notebook and I do that quite a lot. So for example, the slide deck that you just saw where I showed you the high charts plot, this code is live in the document, okay? So which means that if I change this code and I execute it, my slides will change automatically, okay? Now you can do the same thing with iPython notebooks too. And of course, you wanna make things really simple for people to use again, as I said, that's the objective. So for example, if I wanted to show the same plot in an R notebook, I would essentially use the show method and basically embed it as an iframe and then choose things to be delivered from a CDN, okay? So these are a couple of other ways to kind of share the same plot. You could inline the iframe whole bunch of things, okay? Now, sometimes you just wanna kind of share a quick prototype, right? You don't wanna kind of go through the process of like saving and then shipping, emailing. And so here, again, I'm very inspired by people who built out the packages. So Mike, I think D3, one of the very good things about D3 is this whole thing that you could publish to gists and you could really view things amazingly, right? And I think it's really triggered movement where people share examples and can easily take advantage of things. So now I wanted to do the same thing with R charts. So basically provide people with a function that would allow them to publish their charts online, okay? So let me again just do a quick demo of this. So let me just make sure that I have this code here. So this code, all that it does is it just creates a chart, okay? So I'm gonna run this code, okay? So my plot is good. So now all that I'm gonna do is if I wanna publish this, I'm just gonna invoke the publish method and say, okay, hair versus eye color. And so what it's doing in the backend is it's using our package called httr and it's saving the HTML and pushing it to the gist and it returns a link to a viewer that I kind of borrowed from open source code online. And so now you have the chart show up here, okay? Now in this case, I only shipped the plot. I didn't ship the code with the plot, okay? I could do a live demo on that but I just wanna make sure that I wrap up my talk in time. If you shipped it with code, it's very easy to ship it with code.  So this is kind of very, very similar, model very similar to Mike's blocks. So only difference is that in the case of blocks, people wanna see the HTML code. In the case of our charts, I believe people wanna see the R code because that's what's generating everything, right? So now if I built a functionality, you can't see things here but that's all right. So what it's doing is it's essentially opening this up in a web app. So it's an R-based web app which I will talk about in a few minutes. And the nice thing is that it allows people to play with code without really having our charts installed on their computer, okay? So in this case, for example, if everything is good, it should show up the plot, yeah. So you see the very same plot being built online as what you saw there. So the whole idea is that there's an ecosystem where people can publish their code with their plots and somebody can just directly go there, either copy the code to their R session or I mean they don't wanna do that, just play with things, they could hit the edit button and it essentially takes them to that, okay? So the main point I wanna make here is that when building tools of this kind, I think being able to create is one thing but also being able to share and making it really easy to share, especially for people who are typically used to sharing static assets, I think is really key and the simpler you make it, the more people are gonna use it, okay? So this is as far as embedding goes. Now I will talk more about this in just a bit but you can also do the same thing in iPython notebooks. So I'll talk about the iPython R kernel which was built recently, which actually provides you another way to build self-contained, fully reproducible, dynamic, interactive documents, okay? But again, these are only the means, right? Both iPython notebooks are marked down and the means to do it, they provide you a very nice way to kind of tie things up. Now we just talked about creating charts. Now what about customizing them, right? So you wanna basically do more with the same chart. So here's an example of a scatter plot that I had shown you before and in this case, only difference is that I'm coloring the points based on the number of gears. Now suppose I wanna add an interactive control to this chart where I wanna let the user dynamically pick the x-axis variable, right? Now there are multiple ways to do this. One way that was shown yesterday where Sam when he talked about MVC frameworks, he talked about how you could use angular, ember, backbone to really create this, right? So again, I'm gonna do a live demo of this to show you what can be done. So here all that I'm doing is I'm creating the chart and so you have the chart here, okay? Now, suppose I want to add an interactive control, right? So I wanna add an interactive control and here is what I wanna do with the control. I want the control to essentially control the x-variable. I want to initialize the x-variable to weight and I want the control to be populated with all the column names from this data set called empty cards, okay? So let me run this and now if I print this plot, you will see that it has added a interactive control on the left side, okay? Now this is completely client-side. This is completely client-side which means that I could just take the HTML, ship it off, just making sure that the assets are all linked online. Now what's happening in the backend is that it's actually writing AngularJS code, okay? So I will just show you the source. It's probably the most unidiomatic JavaScript, so please don't judge me on this. It's like how it happens in an R programmer writes JavaScript. So you can see all these controllers over here, okay? So what I did with R charts, I basically said, okay, now when you think about a control, I wanna specify the bare minimum set of things, right? And what's a bare minimum set of things I need to specify? I just need to say, okay, here is the variable I wanna control, here is what I wanted to put in that variable and here are the options I want you to kind of add to it, okay? Now you can do more with this. Let me actually show you an example with this here. So sometimes you want to be able to, let me just change this, give me a second. Sometimes you also wanna be able to do data manipulation in the front end, so in this case for example, I have a bar chart, okay? And I wanna add a filter, okay? Essentially what the filter does is it allows me to switch between males and females in the data set. So now if I run this whole plot, you will see that it's added a box here. Now of course, there is overlapping bars here, so I haven't figured out the way to kind of summarize it automatically, but if I switch to female or male, you will see that the data is actually getting filtered. Now all this is happening on the client side, so what's happening is that R is writing low-dash code which actually does all this stuff, okay? Now before you think that this is kind of like a clean translation from R to JavaScript, which I hope you're not thinking about it, this is very hacky. The whole idea is to identify the primitives which I again said and so there's a lot of templating involved here, okay? So let me now quickly show you how R charts works, okay? And I think this is kind of important because it'll show you how, what happens in the background and why I believe that this approach can actually be ported to other languages and then essentially like it makes things mean R, Python, everybody can coexist peacefully, right? Which is what I always want. So here is a simple example of a library called UV charts that's again a wrapper on top of D3, okay? And this is actually the actual JavaScript chart. Now if you kind of break this JavaScript plot into multiple pieces, I'm sure you can't read that over here but essentially what it's saying here is that these are the assets being used by the plot, okay? So what I do is I have a config file in R charts where the config file says, okay, these are the plots that I want to be, these are the files I want to be using for my JavaScript and CSS, okay? Now going to the actual JavaScript code, if you look at it, this is the actual JavaScript code that writes the plot. Now if you think about JavaScript code, I tend to think about it in two parts. One is what's the data and what's boilerplate, okay? And essentially what you wanna do is you don't want the user to worry about the boilerplate, okay? So what I've done here is I've abstracted it out to a template, I use mustache templates and so my reason for choosing mustache is the logicless templating framework and pretty much every language has support for mustache, right? And this is something I consciously made a choice because I really wanted to be able to do this in Python, Ruby and other languages. So now this is the dataset and here is the pain point that's always, in fact when I look back to all the code I wrote, most of the code that I wrote is to translate between a data frame which is the standard in R to a choice of JSON that the developer of a particular library makes, okay? And you'll be amazed at the range. People choose all different kinds of data structures, wide, long, array of objects named, I mean it's a whole gamut of things and I believe that standardizing some of that I think will really make things simpler, okay? So for example, just assuming that people are gonna use a D3.csv or a D3.json to read in the data, I think we'll simplify things a bit, okay? So there is the code here, so what this code does is just does the transformation from the data to the JSON, okay? So once I do that, all that I have to do now is to wrap this code into an interface, okay? And I'll quickly go over the interface. So what I'm doing here is I'm instantiating a new object of the R charts class. I'm setting the library to UV charts which is actually a folder that contains all of this and then I'm setting a few things. I want a bar chart. I want my categories to be the names in the data set. This is the data set and I want you to put it in the DOM element called chart one, okay? So once I do this, I have this plot, okay? Now I can make things even simpler by wrapping it into a piece of code called UV plot where now the user doesn't have to worry about any of the conversions internally. As far as the user goes, switching from one library to one other is seamless, right? Now why would anyone wanna do that? Well, what I've seen is that I always find features in one library that I like, which I don't find in the other library for certain things. So I keep switching between libraries for the kind of plots that I want, okay? So now you have a UV plot functionality and now people just have to plug in their x, y and other things, okay? Okay, so now so far I've shown you simple plots. You can also do pretty complicated plots using all this, okay? So now I kind of debated between doing this in R Markdown versus IPython Notebook. Finally decided that okay, maybe I should do it in the IPython Notebook. So this is actually a recreation of New York Times had a chart on strikeouts where strikeouts across the years, right? So let me just execute all the cells here. Hopefully nothing fails. And so one of the things you can see here is what all that I'm doing here is I'm using a data set that's built into R called a lemon that has all these databases. So the data is built in and I am essentially using the grammar of graphics available in polycharts, okay? So you can see I will publish these IPython Notebooks so they can take a deeper look at it. So for example, what I'm doing here is I'm just creating a first layer that's consisting of points where it's strikeouts per game versus year with a tooltip, okay? Now I want to add a line. If you remember the New York Times interactive there is a line that shows the means of every single year, okay? Now that's pretty easy to do here. All that I'm doing here is I'm kind of specifying another layer and let's say just to show you that this is kind of dynamic. You can see that it's actually drawing on top of the previous layer, okay? So I'm drawing a line and everything else is copied from the previous layers. Now finally, let's say the team, actually I had it as Boston Red Sox. I changed it at the last minute. So let me just change it here again, okay? Although I might have to re-execute the entire notebook. Just give me one second because the layers are all, okay. There you go. So now you have another line added which shows you only stuff for the Boston Red Sox, okay? Now if you remember the New York Times interactive it was not just showing you one particular team, right? You could choose what teams you wanted. And so Jake kind of spent a lot of time talking about the IPython interactive features. Now for R, there is an amazing web framework built by the guys from RStudio called Shiny that allows you to do pretty much the same thing. And actually it allows you to do a lot more at least in terms of features I've seen. It allows you to do a lot more. And so all that I've done here is I've just wrapped this whole thing up into a function called plot team which basically takes the team's name and creates the plot that you want, okay? Now all that I want to do to make this a web app is I want a dropdown menu that has the team names and then when I switch the names there it should basically give me the correct plot, okay? So to make sure that I'm not kind of putting everything in the dropdown I'm just selecting a threshold where I want the teams to have appeared at least 30 times. It's an arbitrary threshold, you can change it. And now this is essentially Shiny, okay? Now what Shiny does is Shiny allows you to specify a UI and a server. So in this case the UI is written completely in R where I want to just add a interactive dropdown menu. And so this is the UI and my, let me just write this piece of code here. And what I want is on the output side I essentially want it to plot the team, okay? But I don't want the team to be hard coded. I want the team name to be picked up from the input side, okay? So in this case I just want plot team input dollar team. So essentially the way Shiny is a reactive framework just like Angular, only differences that is basically completely R-based. So now if I, let me just make sure this is good. Okay, okay, everything goes right. I should get the stuff. So now you see, so this is actually a Shiny R application and if I select a different team here, Chicago Cubs, you can see that the plot changes, okay? Now the main difference I want to point out in terms of interactivity is that this one is kind of happening on the server side. The previous thing I showed you was happening completely on the client side. Here whenever somebody's clicking on the dropdown and picking a different team it's actually running back to the R server and saying, hey, the guy's changed the team so just give me another plot, okay? So we are actually recreating multiple plots pretty much like what the IPython notebook does, okay? So if you want to learn more, there is a lot of stuff, there is a gallery on our charts here and I'm constantly looking for ideas for libraries to incorporate. So this again, actually thanks to Chris View who built this website for D3 and allowed me to share the same code base for my gallery, okay? So I think I'm out of time. So thank you so much. If you have questions, I'll be happy to take questions and Irene, feel free to stop me when I need to leave the stage.