Episode Summary: You Are Here Because Something Else Is Not
Originally recorded in October 2023 as part of Luchiana’s Season of the Witch series on Patreon, now released into the wild.

This cozy-ominous episode of Mystic Theory is a love letter to the dead. Or rather—all the dead things you’re made of.

Inside this episode:
→ Why your phone, your car, and your body are all powered by death
→ What fossil fuels and mammoth moms have in common
→ The haunting truth: you are a stack of ghosts who learned to talk
→ A reverent ode to Mitochondrial Eve and Grandmother Tetrapod
→ And the spooky-cool reason you’re only here because something else is not

It’s part existential, part spiritual, part weird science—and all October.

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Sources & Things Mentioned:

Soil composition - Nat Geo 

Humus - Nat Geo 

Fossil fuels - Nat Geo 

Fossil Fuels - Smithsonian Ocean 

99% of plastic  - Center for International Environmental Law 

Every Cell In Your Body Is Infused With The Collapse Of A Star - Huffpost 

How the Sun was born - Nat Geo 

Fossil Record Tetrapod - UC Berkeley  

Ancient 4-limbed fish reveals origin of human hand 

Waco Mammoth Monument 

Maranasati Meditation - Mindfulness of Death  

Want to feel thrilled to be alive? Try death meditation - LA Times 

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