Abandon Your Gods to Access Your Superpower.

Back then, solar eclipses were cloaked in scary uncertainty. But a Greek philosopher was said to have predicted the sun’s disappearance. His name was Thales. He lived on the Anatolian coast — now in Turkey but then a cradle of early Greek civilization — and was said to have acquired his unusual power by abandoning the gods.

— “The Eclipse That Ended a War and Shook the Gods Forever,” William J. Broad in The NY Times
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