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Tonight, I'd like to tell a story in all her some teachings that may be boy up your heart in this time.

The story is a story about medicine and its ancient story from India comes from my dear friend and colleague Michael Mead who runs Mosaic Multicultural Foundation and if you're interested in

fantastic myths and stories for our time, go to Mosaic Multicultural Foundation.org, their website or

dot com.

So this story in India takes place some long time ago

when a young boy was out playing with a ball in the fields near his home and

a poisonous snake came up and the boy was interested in the snake and the snake

bit the boy with a load of venom and the boy screamed and became violently ill and

the parents rushed out and saw the snake as it was

disappearing and saw the snake bite and the boy was already very sick and they knew

that the hospital was many miles away and they only had a cart to take them and they didn't know what to do.

So they carried the boy to the nearest holy shrine where there was a

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