The Washing of the Waters, Part 1
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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The idea of healing via immersion in sacred or special waters dates back to prehistory, and it’s still alive and well in the modern world. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe consider the myth, history and reality and healing waters.
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| 1:01.0 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. |
| 1:13.0 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam. |
| 1:17.0 | And I'm Joe McCormick. And today we wanted to kick off a series examining something I recently became interested in due to a specific historical anecdote, which we're going to get to in a maybe a later part in the series. |
| 1:32.0 | But we're kicking off a series on a very common belief across many human cultures throughout history. |
| 1:40.0 | The belief that you can heal your body or purge your sicknesses by bathing or soaking in water, especially in certain places containing special waters. |
| 1:52.0 | But in many cases, just by bathing in waters or waters of a certain temperature. |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah, this is, I think, a great topic because it relates to something that everyone has experience with, which is soaking in water, colder hot. |
| 2:06.0 | The feeling of feeling restored by such practices. |
| 2:13.0 | But then there's a, it covers a lot of ground as well. |
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