How To Learn From Your Ancestors | Spring Washam
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This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello, my fellow suffering beings, how we doing? Today we've got a bit of a doozy for you. So many of us are interested in our family tree.
We do things like 23andMe or Ancestry.com. We look at black and white photos and quiz our older relatives about the forebears we never had a chance to meet. We want to know what are our roots, what made us. Today we're going to take this very natural human impulse to a deeper and for many of you much stranger place. Before I dive into the basic information about this episode, let me just say a quick word about my attitude when it comes to magic.
I, as I think you probably know, am naturally a quite a skeptical person. I'm a journalist and agnostic. I was raised by scientists, blah, blah, blah. But I'm also a Buddhist. Not in the sense that I pound the table and declare that things like enlightenment or rebirth or
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