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Letting mixtures rot in jars brings spiritual awakening

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Leaving your leftovers on the counter for six months was once considered a profound esoteric practice. Fermentation was viewed as the crucial stage where decaying matter finally generated new spiritual life. Of course, this mostly just produced massive bacterial colonies, but it sounded incredibly profound in 17th-century journals.

Letting mixtures rot in jars brings spiritual awakening
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