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Into the Zone

Druid Like Me

Into the Zone

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8629 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Hari’s visit to Stonehenge on the solstice prompts an investigation into the gray zone between being a native and a migrant, and his memories of growing up in Essex during the Thatcher years. He also tracks down an old friend, whose work with Harvard geneticist David Reich overturns centuries of nationalist thinking.

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0:00.0

Pushkin.

0:08.6

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:10.5

This is an I-Heart podcast. Some people are squeezing their way in between the stones. There's people who are standing very quietly,

0:40.2

there's somebody who's doing kind of calisthenic movement.

0:46.9

There's a little hint of marijuana on the air.

0:52.0

Bring forth new opportunities and beginning. One Equinox, i came to see the sunrise at stonehenge

0:58.2

every time someone says stonehenge in a documentary or at least the first time there has to be a cosmic

1:09.0

chord don't complain to me about it I don't make the

1:12.4

rules I think I can hear somebody with a temple gong or a singing bowl or something

1:19.6

like that on the equinox day and night are of almost equal lengths so I've come to

1:27.2

see the sunrise at Stonehenge.

1:34.3

Let's go find where the tones are coming from.

1:42.3

These days you can't get very near the stones out on the middle of Salisbury Plain.

1:51.0

Visitors are kept at a distance to avoid damage.

1:55.0

But British pagans say this site is crucial for their faith.

1:59.0

In the past, they've even fought police to get access to the stones.

2:03.8

So finally, the body that manages the site, English Heritage, agreed that on four days a year,

2:10.6

people could be allowed to worship here.

2:13.1

This is one of those mornings.

2:16.8

The we invoke, O light of light.

2:19.3

Be we invoke, O light of life.

2:23.3

Be thou a bright flame before us.

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