Past Lives
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
We haven’t gotten existential about death in a while, so let’s talk about past lives! We touch upon the religious and philosophical origins of rebirth and reincarnation, and discuss the modern interest and study of past life regression.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of death, parapsychology, pseudoscience, child death, religious persecution, war, World War II, colonialism/cultural appropriation, mental illness, scientific experimentation, and racism.
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- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books
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Transcript
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| 0:22.0 | Welcome to Spirits podcast. I try to do a little different inflection every time, Julie. I just really keep it fresh. I really appreciate it. A boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia. See, I said it more declarative that time. And this is episode 209, past lives. A fun little roundup. See, when you're not here and I do it for you, I always try to mimic the inflection that I think you're going to do it in, which is very important to me. I was like, |
| 0:25.3 | they need to know that usually this is Amanda, but they're still getting the same show. Yeah, |
| 0:29.7 | I apologize for having an unexpected little element there. I know when that happens in podcasts, |
| 0:33.5 | I listen to them, just like, what's happening? It's okay. I'm sure our listeners forgive us for that. |
| 0:38.1 | Particularly, I think, Julia, our newest patrons, Mads, Kristen, Sean, and Alex, welcome. We are so, so happy to have you with us. |
| 0:46.1 | You join the ranks of such distinguished patrons as our supporting producer level patrons. |
| 0:50.5 | Alicia, Allison, Deborah, Hannah, Jen, Jessica, Keegan, Nieselkins, Landon, Liz, Megan Linger, Megan Moon, Phil Fresh, Polly, Riley, Sarah, and Skyla. |
| 0:58.9 | They are all wonderful, wonderful people in this life and the next. Absolutely. And how about Julia? |
| 1:04.5 | Those real legends that outlast our individual lives? 100% true of our legend level patrons. Audra, Drew, Francis, Jack Marie, |
| 1:12.8 | key, Lada, Mark, Morgan, Necrofancy, |
| 1:15.2 | Renegate, and BMEY up Scotty. |
| 1:16.9 | What wonderful people. |
| 1:18.1 | I feel like I knew you in a past life. |
| 1:20.7 | And I appreciate that you're in my current life. |
| 1:22.9 | I feel like you are that sort of extended relative |
| 1:25.3 | that you only see kind of once a year, |
| 1:28.2 | but somehow gets you the perfect present. And you're like, whoa, what? You're like, wow, so good. Thank you. Thank you for that. |
| 1:34.1 | You know me better than I know myself. Speaking of which, that is how I feel about your book |
| 1:37.4 | recommendations, Julia. So please tell me what you have been reading, watching and listening to this week. |
| 1:41.6 | All right. So my book recommendation for this week is probably one that I feel like a lot of our listeners have probably read already, but I'm finally reading it |
| 1:48.5 | after the ongoing recommendation from a friend of mine, Josh Rubino. It is Gideon the Ninth by |
| 1:54.2 | Tams and Muir and who boy, if you like disaster lesbians. I do. If you like necromancers in space. |
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