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Healing the Science-Spirit Divide in 34 Minutes

The Emerald

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The Importance of Ritual

Early anthropologists could only see ritual as a crude attempt to bargain with supernatural forces. This type of ritual has been essential to human existence since humans existed. It is not by any means a frivolous ornament on culture, it is evolutionarily essential for humanity. If you don't get it, fundamentally you've never experienced it.

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