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Why Ancient Underworld Myths Illuminate Modern Medical Trauma

My cancer treatment feels like descending to Hades and I find more comfort in Orphic hymns than in hospital chaplains.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Life-threatening illness initiates descent experiences that ancient wisdom traditions understood better than modern medicine.

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