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#95: Collective Consciousness (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)
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A Full Moon Protects Crop Health
Cultural beliefs are often literally false, but metaphorically true. Consider farmers in highland guatemalaw a long standing tradition to both plant and harvest crops only when the moon is full. A belief in the power of the moon to directly affect crops effectively satiates predators by concentrating the harvest into brief periods during which time crop predators cannot eat all of everyone's crops. This means that the cover story isn't true, but when people behave as if it were, they prosper. In its modern tabloid form, astrology is bunk. But astrology has probably not been so everywhere and for all time. Yet among the mogan those who believe in those gods survive at higher rates than those
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