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Iasos began receiving music in his head from another dimension when he was a college student in 1965. He called it 'Paradise Music', and it was unlike anything he had ever heard. These incoming signals, and his efforts to translate them into sounds for human ears, set him on his life's journey. Today, Iasos is recognized as one of the fathers of 'new age' music. We visited him in Marin County, California, where he took us on a hike, played the Pipes of Pan, and debated with us about heavy metal music.
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Main credits
Hurwitz-Goodman, Jacob (film director)
Hurwitz-Goodman, Jacob (film producer)
George, Nick (film director)
George, Nick (film producer)
Iasos (on-screen participant)
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Music, Iasos.
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But is paradise music?
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It\'s an earth reproduction
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of musical patterns that exist
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here now on higher dimensions
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so people can hear it in their
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consciousness.
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Others can\'t hear it, but
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remember it when they hear some
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people, they\'ve heard loud music.
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And not only does it remind
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them of higher dimensions, but it
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even makes them homesick for it
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because in general, things tend
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to be much more harmonious there.
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Professor Joel Funk
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in the psychology department
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of Plymouth State College in New
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Hampshire is very curious to know
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what happens to people when they
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have a near-death experience.
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He found out a few general things,
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most of them were met by very loving
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people, most of them
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went through a tube of light.
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And most of them heard heavenly
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music.
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So he was curious what was a heavy
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music like.
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So he played for them a lot of
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classical music, a lot of new music,
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some jazz.
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And you\'re supposed to read the
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music in terms of what came close.
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Did any of it come close?
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And there\'s one piece that always
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got the highest rating, curiously.
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And that piece was the piece I did
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called the Angels of Comfort.
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Music is a conductor
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of emotions.
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Musicians are merchants
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selling emotions served
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on a platter song.
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And for any type of emotion you can
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possibly imagine there are
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musicians, a specialized
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music generating that emotion.
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You\'re young with show
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and you\'re getting the pay, you jump
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around, you run around and
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really just just
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all the stress built up over the
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last few weeks, months
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was all just gone.
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It was all vented out,
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having a fantastic time so far.
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Funny because I\'m at the opposite
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end of the spectrum from heavy
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metal. Yeah, it\'s so destructive
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plants it what it\'ll
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kill. Let\'s just play that heavy
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metal.
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That\'s kind of the surface of
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heavy metal music, but
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in a way it\'s like a release valve
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for people who are angry
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and the way they consider it is.
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This is like therapy was not really
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released. It\'s expressing the anger
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they\'re experiencing, which actually
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we think it feeds
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into side reinforces it.
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Okay, we\'re going be taking a right
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turn on the next right here.
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So let me explain something.
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The definitely negative.
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Here\'s an interesting definition
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that came back
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positive is that what unifies
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human rights?
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And negative is that what separates
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and polarizes?
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This is me, that\'s you, I don\'t like
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you. It\'s a separate.
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We\'re different.
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Love is a unifying force that
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connects well.
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You know what you\'re screaming is
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someone that\'s separated for some.
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I don\'t see how that is going to
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create more love and unity.
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Everybody feels like moving to go
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for it, but not limited to normal
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Earth concepts of what dance is
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supposed to be.
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You\'ll have a lot more fun that was.
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When I was at Cornell, I had a
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movement on campus.
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It was in Overshare Park and
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we used to play for fraternity
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parties.
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People want to dress up warmly and
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dance.
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We specialize in bossa nova,
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but at a certain point or on my
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third year there, I started hearing
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unusual music.
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And I knew this is not normal
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routine, as it is very heavily
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myself, I used to call it paradise
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music.
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It was so heavily so
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filled with love, harmony and
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beauty.
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And the interesting thing is it was
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not only unusual music,
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but also the sounds that were
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creating that music is so unusual.
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It was not conventional instruments
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like trumpet, piano, violin, so
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it was unusual sounds and this is
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before synthesizers existed
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in the beginning.
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What was magnificent was a far
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cry from what I hear in my head
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because of the limitations of the
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technology.
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But progressively over the years,
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the technology has been improving
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and my abilities by the technology
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I needed has been improving.
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So I\'ve been getting progressively
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closer and closer to more
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accurately.
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I\'m picturing what I\'ve been hearing
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in my mind. Now it\'s really close.
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In the early 70s, perhaps 71 to
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72, I had one
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of the most profound
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interdimensional spiritual
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metaphysical experiences of my life,
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where I very suddenly
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sensed a particular being
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on higher dimensions, cheekiness
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female partner were both looking at
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me. They were smiling, but I finally
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remembered them.
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I remembered this being and I
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had made an agreement to work
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together.
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It doesn\'t matter what his name is,
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but his name is Vista, and
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I love him very much and I\'m
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deeply honored to be working with
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him. Unlike a stepped
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down transformer for this story,
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a local branch office for Vista.
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You can think of it either way.
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There\'s plenty of negative emotions
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on Earth. Earth does not need more
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negative emotions.
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I wouldn\'t do that if they paid me.
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Which is why, you know, if you get
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hired to do a soundtrack for a movie
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and the tell me over here one happy.
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That\'s great. I\'ll do it over here.
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We want extended Gradle.
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Do we hear we want tension suspense?
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I\'m not going to do that.
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And if they say over here, we
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want anger or fear of
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never do that.
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And that\'s not why I\'m here on
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Earth. I wouldn\'t do that no matter
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how much they paid me.
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It\'s against my principles.
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There\'s already enough suffering on
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Earth. I don\'t want to add to the
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suffering. I want to add
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to the joy.
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For most of my career, I found out
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basically ignored.
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And Oprah passed by me and just
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ignored.
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This last two or three
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years, suddenly there\'s
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a revival of increased interest in
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Guatemala, but now people are
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getting excited music 75
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old and so
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what surprised me was the degree to
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which the public totally ignored
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what I was doing for most of my
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career with this last
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two and a half three years is when
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switching off in the opposite
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direction.
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Why do you think that is because the
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planetary vibrations are increasing
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as they\'re increasing, people are
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raising consciousness as people are
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raising consciousness, more and more
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people are getting into the
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conscious range where they can
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appreciate what my music\'s been
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putting up a lot.
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What about
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the.
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Excellent.
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Thank you.
Distributor: Means TV
Length: 9 minutes
Date: 2018
Genre: Expository
Language: English
Grade: 10-12, College, Adults
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