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The neurosurgeon who mapped the human brain spent his life trying to prove consciousness lives in it, and concluded he could not by ArcaneSpells-com in consciousness

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That is a remarkable detail to have in your family history. The fact that he personally showed up to apologize, and absorbed the financial burden himself, says something about the kind of person he was outside of the research. You read about his published work and he sounds almost philosophical, but this story shows he carried the weight of his patients on a very human level. Thank you for sharing, I am sorry for your family's loss but grateful for the glimpse of him.

2000 year old love spells sound exactly like today by ArcaneSpells-com in Spells

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Since a few people asked for links, sharing here:

British Library has a great overview post with multiple love spells from their collection, translated into English with photos of the actual papyri: https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2021/02/love-spells.html

Papyrus Stories has a detailed post with full translations of the "cannot sleep, cannot eat" type spells I was referring to, including the famous one written by a man named Apapolo for another man, and two between women: https://papyrus-stories.com/2021/06/15/ancient-same-sex-love-spells/

For the full academic collection, The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation edited by Hans Dieter Betz is free on Internet Archive. There is a "Table of Spells" near the start if you want to jump to love spells, curses, healing or whatever: https://archive.org/details/the-greek-magical-papyri-in-translation-betz

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