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BTW 63: Sirens, Medusa, and the Beings of the Underworld with Liz Andres

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Sally Kohn: Why do you think some of the liminal beings from history still really resonate for us, like the figures of medusa or the sirens? Some just kind of slip back into antiquity and we're not so interested in them any more. I don't think we ever will have an answer to what that experience really is. And these figures are so connected to that. They give us some kind of lenses and tools to help us think about it and reflect upon it. For me, that connection to death is one of them. That's such a universal human experience, death and dying. The fear and the discomfort or the longing, are all the different emotions around our

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