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Food as Medicine: What Our Ancestors Already Knew
Modern wellness culture loves a revelation. Every few years a new diet arrives. Atkins in the early 2000s. Raw food in 2010. Paleo in 2013. Keto in 2018. Carnivore in 2020. Each one packaged as a discovery, a breakthrough, the thing we've finally figured out. We treat food science like it's new. Like we are the first people to ask what we should be putting in our bodies and why. Our ancestors would find this baffling. For most of human history, the relationship between food a
Cerissa Leese
May 274 min read
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Empire, Fear, and Myth
Witch hunts were never about witches. They were about fear looking for a body. When societies face instability such as economic strain, environmental disruption, or political unrest, they search for meaning quickly. And when meaning is rushed, it becomes myth. When myth is repeated enough, it becomes doctrine. When doctrine is enforced, it becomes control.
That pattern did not die with the gallows.
Cerissa Leese
Jan 73 min read
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The First Witch: Pre-Accusation Magic
Before the word witch ever existed, there were women and men who listened more closely than others. Not to spirits, not to omens, not to imagined forces—but to the land, to the body, to the breath of the seasons. They lived in a world without clocks or electric noise, without the hum that keeps the modern mind distracted.
Cerissa Leese
Dec 6, 20254 min read
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