Some snippets of things I may elaborate on later: I. Doctors are neutered shamans Doctors are shamans, neutered from magical potential, but given broad, technical, isolated knowledge. We need more shamans for our social health. They have the psychotechnologies to help us collectively re-orient what is relevant and meaningful to us. As Vervaeke points out, collective ritual was a way of making our culture more intelligent; roles are reversed, we are forced to ‘see’ outside our current perspectives, often with the help of ritual substances that take us “out of our mind”. Nowadays medicine does none of this. Doctors for the most part are trained to treat us as biomechanical machines. There is no culture, no social health within the current medical system. I’m grateful that modern germ theory exists but can’t we agree that dancing around a fire is just as legitimate for healing as ingesting a barbiturate?
Neutered shamans, moods, anti-materialism
Neutered shamans, moods, anti-materialism
Neutered shamans, moods, anti-materialism
Some snippets of things I may elaborate on later: I. Doctors are neutered shamans Doctors are shamans, neutered from magical potential, but given broad, technical, isolated knowledge. We need more shamans for our social health. They have the psychotechnologies to help us collectively re-orient what is relevant and meaningful to us. As Vervaeke points out, collective ritual was a way of making our culture more intelligent; roles are reversed, we are forced to ‘see’ outside our current perspectives, often with the help of ritual substances that take us “out of our mind”. Nowadays medicine does none of this. Doctors for the most part are trained to treat us as biomechanical machines. There is no culture, no social health within the current medical system. I’m grateful that modern germ theory exists but can’t we agree that dancing around a fire is just as legitimate for healing as ingesting a barbiturate?