Bryan Greene
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Mediums, spiritualists, psychic quackery, and communicating with the afterlife has been going on forever.
The idea of communicating with the dead isn't new.
The ancient Greeks had oracles at Delphi.
They were basically hotboxing themselves in volcanic fumes, and then they would ramble in riddles while kings hung on their every word.
No knock on a good party, but it sounds like what you do at Burning Man if you happen to get stuck in somebody's RV during a sandstorm.
The Romans had augers, guys that would stare at birds' guts to predict the future.
Fast forward to the 19th century, and you get the Victorian spiritualist movement.
Seances and Ouija boards, people in velvet curtains pretending to summon Aunt Edna from the afterlife.
Famous frauds like the Fox sisters made bank knocking on wood and claiming it was the spirits.
Eventually, one of them admitted, yeah, it was just us cracking our toes.
That's right, two sisters cracking their toes and claiming to speak with the dead.
In 2025, they'd either have a show on A&E or a million-dollar foot finder account.
Without belaboring the point, weird people have been saying weird shit for a long time.
And us humans, we're willing to listen.
What, I thought we were in the trust tree in the nest, are we not?