Our ancestors preserved their secrets for the people living in their time, as well as for those living in a future they could only imagine—for us. They sensed that future generations would need the same emotional anchors and psychological strength to prevail in the struggles of war, climate extremes, and social chaos that they’d experienced in their day, which they suspected would return. From the ancient Sanskrit Vedas, believed to have originated over 7,000 years ago, to the Mahabharata, the teachings of the Buddha, the “lost” texts of the Judeo-Christian Bible, and the sacred mysteries of
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