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And now, today's podcast episode.

All right, we are back.

Another episode of the Almost Awakened podcast.

Jana, I'm glad that you're joining us for today's episode. Janice Spangler's been with us for a chunk of the summer going into some topics that have been deeply interesting to her and I think to our audience and certainly to me. Today, maybe I'll turn some time over to you. You can kind of introduce the topic.

Take us where you want us to go and we'll get a conversation going.

All right.

Well, today we thought we would talk a little bit about mysticism.

And that's a big word that can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people.

And so maybe to kick us off,

I want to have a little conversation about what that is and what I'm talking about when I am

talking about mysticism and how mysticism, I want to talk about what it is. I want to talk about what it is.

I want to talk about how attitudes that we've had toward mysticism, maybe, how it relates

to religious tradition.

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