In the first half, Lisa Garr (email) was joined by author, speaker and facilitator, Gary Douglas, who discussed entities, energies, and becoming aware of consciousness. "Entities are beings that at one time had a body or some kind of physical form and they get stuck in time," he said, noting how entities can affect the things you do. Douglas shared his first experience with an entity which appeared to him as a full torso apparition of a Native American. As soon as the entity was acknowledged as real it went away, he added. Douglas recalled the time the spirit of a deceased friend inhabited a neighbor's baby, causing him to have convulsions. Again, once acknowledged the entity left and the convulsions stopped.

"There's consciousness in every molecule in the universe," he continued. According to Douglas, consciousness includes everything and judges nothing. Molecules do not have a positive or negative reality; good and evil are simply points of view, he explained. Douglas suggested this consciousness can provide information if we ask for it and create change in our lives. He also talked about his daughter's encounter with a strong energy from an antique chest as well as his experience releasing demons in India. Douglas instructed those needing to release a demon to say to it, "Go back from whence you came never to return to me or this reality again—I demand that you leave."

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During the latter half, Clark Elliott, an Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence at DePaul University, shared his remarkable story of how a concussion from a car accident stole eight years of his life, and how the new science of brain plasticity helped him get it back. "There are a thousand ways we break down [after a concussion]... taken all together they can be so troubling and, I think, contribute greatly to this pervasive feeling among those with concussions that we are no longer human," he said. After years of traditional treatments failed Elliott sought the help of a cognitive restructuring specialist to help reconfigure his brain. The therapy essentially reroutes signals from damaged parts of the brain to healthy areas which take over the new function, he explained.