Show Notes
What happens when a sacred text survives but its interpretive tradition does not? Taoist Master Michael Steenrod explores the “headless text,” from Christianity and the rapture to the Western Tao Te Ching, and asks how ancient writings can be interpreted honestly once their original context is gone.
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