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An Ancient Solution to Modern Problems

Hidden Brain

CHAPTER

The Ritual Paradox, Unpack That Idea for Me

The ritual paradox is that on the one hand, people attribute tremendous meaning and importance to those rituals. And yet when I ask them why they do it, they very often cannot come up with an answer. So you had first-hand experience of what it was like to participate in one of these rituals. When you were a small boy growing up in Greece, I understand when you were eight years old, your dad took you on an important, let's call it an expedition. Can you describe where he took you and what you saw?

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