Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasnow. Many of you may receive my Sunday weekly

commusing article where I address a breadth of issues from the spiritual to the physiological,

to the sociopolitical. And on occasion, I will also record an audio version of these articles and release it here as a bonus episode.

Well, I've done my damnedest to make today's exhortation equally reflective and entertaining.

I'm as much dedicated in podcasting and in life to the hysterical as I am to the historical.

So I ask my family members for a little grace if I occasionally take some creative license around the edges.

A primary purpose here today is to amuse you while also amusing myself.

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Without further delay, here's today's missive titled, Who Am I?

In 1901, a young man was sitting on the holy mountain Arunachala in South India.

When a scholar came to him with a burning question, it is the same existential question that every curious person has posed from time immemorial.

The scholar was Sri Siva Prakasam Pili.

The young man was to become the renowned Saint-Sri Ramana Maharshi.

The question was, who am I?

There are many spokes from which to approach the hub of this inquiry,

ranging from the prosaic to the mystical. I will start here, and perhaps in the excavation of my own

history, you will be inspired to examine your own.

I am an unqualified mutt.

My maternal lineage is Scottish, English, Swedish, and a little petite Franca.

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