stackyFACTSGesundheit essentially means spiritual breakthrough. Emanuel Swedenborg actually maintained a detailed diary of his sneezing fits, convinced they were direct markers of his mystical progress.
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Nothing relieves the anxiety of an impending apocalypse quite like a guy insisting we already missed it. Swedenborg was a brilliant scientist who suffered an…
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Emanuel Swedenborg was a brilliant eighteenth-century scientist who abruptly shifted gears at age fifty-six after claiming Jesus appeared to him and unlocked…
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