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Mysteries of Ancient Egypt with Dr. Kara Cooney

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

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The Tension Between the Spirit and the Body

The Egyptians may have originated the idea of these two realms where a good person goes or a bad person goes. The rich will always find a way to negotiate around through material things, right? So there are these little things called heart scarabs that are meant to be a green stone. It has a text on it saying, Oh, heart of my mother, do not speak against me in the hall of judgment. And you put that on to the heart of the dead because the dead person is going to stand in front of a scary tribunal full of gods with like heads of fire and like eyes that shoot lasers. They're at mine might explode.

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