SPIRIT TALES AND MAGIC
Our host; Dr.G had his first paranormal experience at only eight years old. With over five decades of storytelling, magic and paranormal story collection he is an award winning story teller on a mission to revive firelight and the telling of stories!
SPIRIT TALES AND MAGIC
The Memory Makers: Why Time Is More Than Just Minutes Passing
Death has a way of reframing our relationship with time. After experiencing clinical death three years ago, Dr. G returns to the microphone with a profound meditation on time, mortality, and memory that will leave you questioning your own relationship with life's most precious resource.
"Rich or poor, you are given the same 24 hours in a day," Dr. G reflects, sharing the emotional journey that began on what he calls "the greatest Monday of my life" and ended with him collapsing in a restaurant, temporarily stepping outside time's boundaries. Unlike typical near-death accounts, there were no bright lights or deceased relatives—just a flash of anger followed by an overwhelming peace and the realization that "at that point, time didn't exist."
This episode weaves personal experience with philosophical insight as Dr. G introduces the concept of "stilling the room"—that magical moment of silence after a collective gasp and before applause erupts. It becomes a powerful metaphor for the experiences worth pursuing: "Give your times to the ones who still your room...discard the people who will be reckless with your heart and embrace the ones who make you feel alive." From his window overlooking what he jokingly calls "the deep hood," Dr. G observes the transition between day people and night people, another poignant reminder of time's passing and our place within it.
Whether you're fascinated by paranormal experiences, philosophical discussions about mortality, or simply seeking perspective on how to spend your own precious time, this episode offers rare insight from someone who has briefly stepped beyond life's boundaries and returned with wisdom to share. We'd love to hear your own stories about time or spiritual encounters—connect with us at spirittalesandmagic.com or through our show line.
Good evening everybody. It's Dr G from Spirit Tales and Magic. We'll apologize for the absences, but it's been quite a terrible year for medical things and we'll let it go at that. I was going through some of my snail mail, which I still like getting snail mail One of our listeners in California, Doc, how many days and how many days? I know you know what I mean. Well, yes, I do. It's 170 days until Halloween and that makes it only 140 days until Doctober.
Speaker 1:So a little background on a couple of things. The podcast has co-host AI, so I do that to make transcripts of the podcast, and it has difficulty sometimes with things like Doctober or October and sometimes it anticipates the end of your sentence and fills it in the way it thinks it should be just usually not good. So same guy, doc, remember when we used to talk so much about time? Give me your thoughts on time, not the thoughts that we invented it, because my wife and I are currently writing a book about how we invented time and it became our master, which is an interesting concept that I believe in. But yes, we as humans did invent time. It started back in the sundial days and then it was pocket watches and wrist watches and time clocks and all those wonderful things and wristwatches and time clocks and all those wonderful things.
Speaker 1:Since I died three years ago I look at time a little differently than some people do when Cassandra and I got together, shortly after that, she had a little bout with cancer. One of my daughters is currently having that bout now my uncle Thomas Gerald Griffith. We had a lot of ups and downs together and he always I was on the list of people he needed to see and talk to, and I was horribly glad that I ran into him in a department store and we talked for a while, because I had already left the area that he was in. I was thousands of miles away. I just had to stop there for a visit and you know, guess we have to get together. Yeah, it's great. We have plenty of time to do that. Let's do it. And Tommy's time ran out the day that I died.
Speaker 1:And if you're a frequent flyer of the podcast, you know you've heard this before, but I just want to touch base on it before I give you something else I'm up to and this little thing I did about time. We are currently not in the studio, by the way, so this will be my fifth attempt at recording this. My throat gets a little bit out of line. You're going to hear me clear my throat sometimes and maybe even take a drink Plus, because we're not in the studio. You're going to maybe hear some background noise and if, when I play it back, it's too bad and I can't eliminate it, we'll rerecord it at a later date. Okay, we're up to speed now.
Speaker 1:The day that I had my incident was the greatest Monday of my life. Probably was the greatest Monday of my life. Probably we had done a show and a podcast and a Zoom all at the same time on Halloween Eve. The second half of that was done on Halloween. Everything worked out fine. The Zoom people were happy, the people in the live show were happy. The experiment, or trick, if you will, that we did in two parts worked out for everybody at home that was doing it.
Speaker 1:Cassandra and I had a great night, went out, had some great dinner after the show, and I had a great night, went out, had some great dinner after the show, and the next morning I was just going down to the local Home Depot to get some items that I needed and I stopped at a restaurant that we frequented frequented enough that everybody there knew us. When I'd walk in they'd say hey, magic. And they'd take me to a table and turn around and bring my food because I didn't have to order, because they know what I want and walked into the restaurant, played $20 in the slot machine, got up to continue my journey and fell over dead. At that moment I was out of time. I have written several things about time and, for those of you who know about Franklin Smith, part of his thesis was on time and I do not have it written down in front of me and I'll try and remember it.
Speaker 1:And I usually get emotional when I start talking about it. But think of it this way Rich or poor, you are given the same 24 hours in a day. The minutes will go by, they turn to days, weeks, even years, and in the span of time, short or long, life, either way, will bring tears, smiles and memories. The tears will dry Smiles, sorry to say, they're always going to fade. That leaves us, my friends, with just the memories. So for me, it's here that we realize the best things in life really can't be bought or even just seen. They've got to be felt. It's that feeling when you're just about ready to cry, or maybe your first epiphany, if you will. How about the one kiss that you feel, cleared down to your very soul, from the top of your head to the ends of your toes, the one that you never forget? In my world, in the entertainment business, it's called stealing the room. That's not stealing the room, it's stilling. Stilling the room is that moment of silence that occurs after the gasp and right before the standing ovation.
Speaker 1:We can't change time. Time will march on by us, leaving us as insignificance, to its journey through itself, to its journey through itself. So we can only endeavor to build memories that are worthy of the journey. Give your times to the ones who still your room. Remember. Time goes beyond you. So, for me, take the moments that are worth living for. When you do not, time is going to leave you with a memory of failure. So look deep into eyes, build memories that heal you. Still someone's room or be in a room that gets stilled. Discard the people who will be reckless with your heart and embrace the ones who make you feel alive. Love your parents and your siblings. I can assure you I've lived it. Time will take us all. In the grand scheme of time we're minuscule, but in memories we like time can go on forever.
Speaker 1:So where I'm sitting right now, I'm in total darkness. The monitor screen is blacked out, there are no lights anywhere. It's because I have a window open. I don't have the window open. I don't have the window open. I have the blinds open that face out into what we jokingly refer to as the deep hood. So I'm observing the people. I'm watching employees close their businesses, scurry to their cars and begin to get out of the area.
Speaker 1:I'm watching the shift between the day people and the night people. If you will, you may hear me talk about that sometimes. There's a lot of different people in societies, but, say, from a law enforcement or a pursuer of dark doers, if you will, there are the day people and the night people. The hardcore day people they don't know the hardcore night people and the hardcore night people don't know the hardcore day people. There's that little tiny window where the two of them coexist. A moment, if you will, in time. I'm watching some of the street people and some of the homeless folks drug dealers, people who need the drug dealers trying to be nice. Homeless people, homeless people and people who pretend to be homeless, who are not sometimes falling into the category of drug dealers or other nefarious, if you will, folks.
Speaker 1:I've always been a people-watching kind of person it's the parapsychologist, I guess. But you look at people. In the year and a half that I've been here, I've seen a couple of people run out of time. I wonder, did they feel like I did on the day hey, everything's great. Then you wake up in the hospital, in my case. But when the actual event happened I didn't see relatives or bright lights, none of that. I was angry for a moment and then, all of a sudden, there was this great peace and a realization that at that point time didn't exist.
Speaker 1:What's your story about time? Do you have one? They say in the spirit world there is no concept of time. I certainly could believe that, and while I was only momentarily not here, if you will, I came back, so apparently it wasn't my time to move on to whatever comes comes next. So thank you, john, for prompting the discussion about time. We have a lot of things coming up, getting back in the swing of things, and again it's about 140 days until October.
Speaker 1:I would love to know your stories about time or about a spirit you encountered, if you believe that you've encountered one, and what time felt like to you at that moment. So we're going to leave you with that for this moment. My daughter wrote our moniker, if you will. There is indeed a world unseen, a world that exists all around us all the time and every now and then, for whatever reason, we catch a glimpse of it and the dead get in Love to hear your stories. You can reach us at spirit tales and magic dot com. You can call us on the show line that you can get from the website, and I always say whatever you're doing, stop and tell a ghost story. It's good for you. Good night from Phoenix, dr G. Spirit Tales and Magic.
