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The Childhood Ideas That Formed Us

The Childhood Ideas That Formed Us

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Hippie festival, McCrea, La., 1971

Earlier today I recorded an episode of the Sacred podcast, hosted by Elizabeth Oldfield. I had been told that one of the opening questions she would ask me is, What were the big ideas in your childhood?, by which she meant, in part, the ones that formed me. There were a couple of others, but I’m not going to talk about…

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