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I'm Clyde Lewis, and this is Ground Zero.

The numbers call tonight 503-2-2-5-0-860.

That's 503-2-2-5-0-860.

You know, there have been many times on this program that we've questioned the very nature and structure of reality.

It's always good to give a reality check every so often.

Many writers, both fictional and non-fictional, that have shown us that at times it is not always wise count on reality.

Times reality cannot be trusted conventional wisdom is saying that you shouldn't always bank on your normalcy bias because odds are things will loll back into

their stage of normal and then the skeptics will once again use that space to inform you

that all the spiritual and paranormal things you've experienced are the result of some psychotic break.

It's all a show. It's all a theater presentation. You've fallen for the wrong thing.

Truth be known that there are far more causal engineers in this world that have written about

the human experience that goes far beyond this imaginary matrix that we've constructed for ourselves.

Remember Robert Anton Wilson was talking about how we basically have created this matrix,

this idea in our minds that we're safe, that our decisions sometimes we really, really, really hit the

nail on the head and make things safe again. Make America great again, if you want to coin

the phrase for the occasion today of the inauguration. Two of the most pervasive themes

in the ancient world are the memory of the golden age.

And then from the golden age comes the fear of doomsday, the fear of the apocalypse.

And most of us have cellular memory of those days of gold and then the remembrance of a

doomsday scenario where a major event kills off a great number of people.

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