“If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise — you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind. “
~ Dalai Lama
Spirits, Gods and Magic: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the Supernatural by Jack Hunter
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Across the globe and through time, diverse cultures have developed elaborate systems for understanding and interacting with strange forces and invisible beings. Since the nineteenth century anthropologists have theorised about the nature of the extraordinary experiences and beliefs recounted to them by their fieldwork informants, at home and abroad.
Spirits, Gods and Magic is an introduction to the anthropology of the supernatural.
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Scientists Who Don’t Know That Earth Exists by Michael Tymn: When it comes to the subject of life after death, some people are content to shrug it off and flippantly comment, “Well, we’ll all know some day, won’t we?” My response to that is, “Maybe not as soon as… Read more
Where is God in the Pandemic? by Michael Tymn: The pandemic has ignited another battle between the philistines of atheism and those of evangelical religions. The atheists – more properly, the nihilists – see the God of religion as a mad puppeteer,… Read more
