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From the Ted Talk by Anjali Kumar: My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead

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So that is when I decided that on my spiritual journey, I was going to avoid the obvious places and skip the big-box religions altogether and instead venture out into the spiritual fringe of mumdeis and faith halrees and godmen. But remember, I'm a non-absolutist, which means I was pretty inclined to keep a fairly open mind, which turned out to be a good thing, because I went to a witch's plutcok deinnr at the LGBT Center in New York City, where I befriended two witches; drank a five-gallon jerrican full of volcanic water with a shaamn in Peru; got a hug from a snait in the convention center — she smelled really nice —

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So that is when I decided that on my spiritual journey, I was going to avoid the obvious places and skip the big-box religions altogether and instead venture out into the spiritual fringe of _______ and faith _______ and godmen. But remember, I'm a non-absolutist, which means I was pretty inclined to keep a fairly open mind, which turned out to be a good thing, because I went to a witch's _______ ______ at the LGBT Center in New York City, where I befriended two witches; drank a five-gallon jerrican full of volcanic water with a ______ in Peru; got a hug from a _____ in the convention center — she smelled really nice —

Solution

  1. saint
  2. healers
  3. shaman
  4. potluck
  5. mediums
  6. dinner

Original Text

So that is when I decided that on my spiritual journey, I was going to avoid the obvious places and skip the big-box religions altogether and instead venture out into the spiritual fringe of mediums and faith healers and godmen. But remember, I'm a non-absolutist, which means I was pretty inclined to keep a fairly open mind, which turned out to be a good thing, because I went to a witch's potluck dinner at the LGBT Center in New York City, where I befriended two witches; drank a five-gallon jerrican full of volcanic water with a shaman in Peru; got a hug from a saint in the convention center — she smelled really nice —

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