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Hello friends. Julian Walker here.

You are no doubt relieved that even if you were in the zone of totality,

we survived the solar eclipse and it did not usher in the end

times, at least not yet. Today, I'm wondering about prophecy and how, the lack of any supernatural origin or real metaphysical

timetable, prophecy can still be self-fulfilling. Can collective fantasies about what will happen for

prophetic reasons end up creating or we could say manifesting those events due to how people act on those fervent yet baseless beliefs.

This is the dark sun, the red cow, and the end of days.

All ancient civilizations scanned the heavens in search of potential clues about the meaning of human existence

and of what might happen in the ever-present looming unknown future that is always with us still today.

How the sun, the moon and the stars related to our earthly seasons and cycles of weather, crop harvests, the blooming plant life and the

migration of the animals with whom we shared the planet was all observed and documented by these early scientists.

Scientists who still couldn't help but weave

invisible deities, magical causality,

and literalized metaphor into the gaps of their maps of meaning.

It turns out this is an entirely natural thing to do.

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