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This Tantric Life with Layla Martin

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The Truth About Witches

I grew up within sight of Stonehenge and like Hampshire and the new forest. I would propose that many of the stories that often get told, let's say in the last 20 to 30 years, especially in the Starhawk onwards, are anthropologically on dubious ground. So yes, the truth of that can be totally legit, but take neo-paganism. It was it was basically a sort of memeplex. It was a marketing campaign. And the one that breaks my heart, I've never had a story I wanted to believe in more that I think I don't think I can hang my hat on anymore is the story of the perennial nature of the sacrificial king

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