Attention: This is the episode that started the podcast -- the story of the maxim Know Thyself, the Prophetess at Delphi, Apollo and the python, Zeus and the omphalos, and the much more ancient Egyptian origins of the injunction.

What did it mean to the ancients? Is it still relevant today, or has it cone the way of alchemy and phrenology?

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