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🗓️ 31 March 2025
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During my daily Metropolitan Museum visits, an ancient marble sculpture connected to the Eleusinian Mysteries—one of history's best-kept secrets—inspired me to start a major creative project, “Secrets of Adulthood.”
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0:48.0 | Ever since I started researching my book Life in Five Senses, I visited the Metropolitan Museum |
0:53.4 | every day. On one visit, for something to do, |
0:56.8 | I visited a marble sculpture from the site of the L. Eucinian Mysteries. I have long been fascinated |
1:03.6 | by the L. Eucinian Mysteries. More than three and a half thousand years ago, for more than |
1:09.3 | a thousand years, from about 1600 BCE to 392C, |
1:14.4 | people traveled to Elusis in Greece for a nine-day initiation that culminated in the revelation |
1:22.4 | of a great secret. What fascinates me is that even though countless people were initiated over |
1:32.1 | centuries, no one ever betrayed the secret. Even today, all we know is that there were things |
1:42.9 | recited, things shown, and things perform. |
1:48.5 | This is extraordinary, because it's very hard to keep a big secret. |
1:55.4 | As I gazed at the marble relief of the goddesses Demeter and Persephone, standing with a boy, |
2:02.2 | are reflected on this aspect of human nature. Whether it's a speakeasy, a gossip session, an Agatha Christie novel, |
2:08.4 | a friend's medicine cabinet, research into the origins of the universe, or the Elysinian mysteries, |
2:14.7 | we all want to learn the secret. I reflected, keeping information secret |
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