While looking into The Golden Bough for stories of pagan New Year celebrations, I came across something even grander: The origin of the shift in our way of thinking, that is we, of the West, and our soul attachments to state or self.
It begins, “The religion of the Great Mother, with its curious blending of crude savagery and spiritual aspiratio…
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