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- What can Mary Oliver’s poetry teach us about attention to the living world?
- What can Wittgenstein teach us about language and the spirit world?
- What did Alan Watts teach about insecurity and the ego?
- What did Albert Camus teach about revolt, limits and false consolation?
- What did Anna Tsing mean by modular simplification and feral proliferation?
- What did Arne Næss teach about deep ecology?
- What did Arnold Mindell bring to psychotherapy?
- What did Asifa Majid find about how languages name smells and senses?
- What did Barham and Everett argue about language in stone tools?
- What did Brian Goodwin and Mae-Wan Ho argue about living wholes?
- What did Christopher Boehm find about how early humans kept power in check?
- What did Christopher Stone argue in Should Trees Have Standing?
- What did Cormac Cullinan mean by Earth jurisprudence?
- What did Daniel Dennett mean by the intentional stance?
- What did David Bohm mean by the “implicate order”?
- What did Deborah Bird Rose mean by double death and shimmer?
- What did Denis Noble mean by biological relativity?
- What did Descartes teach about mind and body, and why do animists reject the split?
- What did Donald Davidson argue about metaphor and different realities?
- What did Donna Haraway teach about companion species?
- What did E. O. Wilson mean by biophilia?
- What did Edith Fiore write about the unquiet dead?
- What did Eduard von Hartmann say about why achieving never settles a life?
- What did Emerson and Thoreau teach about nature and the self?
- What did Empedocles teach about the four elements, Love and Strife?
- What did Epictetus teach about living in accordance with nature?
- What did Ernst Cassirer teach about myth as a way of knowing?
- What did Frans de Waal show about empathy in animals?
- What did František Baluška argue about cognition in cells and plants?
- What did Freya Mathews argue about matter and the ecological self?
- What did Friedrich Nietzsche teach about power, and about amor fati?
- What did Giambattista Vico teach about myth and the first human world?
- What did Gilbert Ryle mean by a category mistake?
- What did Gilles Deleuze teach about desire, hierarchy and the rhizome?
- What did Godofredo Stutzin argue about the rights of nature?
- What did Guy Deutscher find about whether language shapes thought?
- What did Hal and Sidra Stone discover about our many selves?
- What did Hans Vaihinger mean by the philosophy of “as if”?
- What did Hans-Georg Gadamer teach about understanding and the limits of method?
- What did Hegel teach about history, freedom and the state, and how does it answer the Fall?
- What did Husserl teach, and how did the world come to be seen as dead matter?
- What did J. J. Gibson mean by affordances?
- What did Jacques Ellul teach about technique, rest and idolatry?
- What did James C. Scott show about early states and grain?
- What did Jane Goodall’s work with chimpanzees show?
- What did Jared Diamond mean by calling farming “the worst mistake in the history of the human race”?
- What did Jean-François Lyotard mean by the differend?
- What did Jean-Jacques Rousseau say about the state of nature and inequality?
- What did Jean-Paul Sartre teach about the gaze and bad faith?
- What did Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei say about imagination?
- What did Jerrold Katz say about animist sentences as nonsense?
- What did Karl Popper argue about science, and what does it mean for shamanic work?
- What did Krishnamurti teach about the self?
- What did Lynn Margulis teach about symbiosis and the porous individual?
- What did Malidoma Somé teach about ritual and community?
- What did Max Scheler teach about sympathy?
- What did Michael Polanyi mean by tacit knowing?
- What did Michel Foucault teach about madness and the medical gaze?
- What did Monica Gagliano’s experiments suggest about plants learning?
- What did Nakagaki show with slime moulds in mazes?
- What did Nelson Goodman and Hilary Putnam say about many true versions of the world?
- What did Nurit Bird-David say about animism as relational knowing?
- What did Owen Barfield mean by original participation?
- What did Paul Ricoeur teach about narrative identity?
- What did Paul W. Taylor argue about respect for nature?
- What did Plato teach about the living cosmos, and why did he downgrade the material world?
- What did Prigogine and Kauffman say about self-organisation?
- What did Richard Lee learn from the !Kung about sharing?
- What did Sapir and Whorf actually claim about language and thought?
- What did Sarah Blaffer Hrdy mean by “mothers and others”?
- What did Schelling teach about nature as a living, self-organising process?
- What did Simone de Beauvoir teach about othering and ambiguity?
- What did Simone Weil teach about affliction and attention?
- What did Socrates mean by his daimonion, and by intellectual midwifery?
- What did Stanislav Grof mean by a spiritual emergency?
- What did Stephen Harrod Buhner teach about plants?
- What did Suzanne Simard find about how trees are connected?
- What did Terrence Deacon argue about purpose in nature?
- What did Thom van Dooren write about extinction and living with others?
- What did Thomas Kuhn argue about paradigms?
- What did W. V. Quine argue about justifying experience?
- What did Wilfrid Sellars mean by the manifest and scientific images?
- What did Wilhelm Dilthey teach about understanding other people’s worlds?
- What did William James learn from the varieties of religious experience?
- What did Wilson Van Dusen find about the presence of other worlds?
- What did Zhuangzi teach about humans inside nature?
- What do Lakoff and Johnson say about metaphor and the body?
- What does Andreas Weber argue in Biopoetics?
- What does David Fideler mean by restoring the soul of the world?
- What does Gabor Maté say about trauma and addiction?
- What does Karen Armstrong say about sacred nature?
- What does Paco Calvo argue in Planta Sapiens?
- What does Robin Dunbar say about how religion evolved, and how big can a tribe be?
- What does Stefano Mancuso say about plant senses and intelligence?
- What does Steven Pinker argue about language and thought?
- What has Tanya Luhrmann found about voices and spiritual experience?
- What is ‘dark green religion’?
- What is existentialism, and how does it differ from an animist view of meaning?
- What is Jeremy Narby’s “cosmic serpent”?
- What is Joanna Macy’s work, and how does it connect with shamanism?
- What is Robert Wolff’s original wisdom?
- What is the Foundation for Shamanic Studies?
- What is the Gaia hypothesis, and who was James Lovelock?
- Which women philosophers of ancient Greece taught about the daimonic?
- Who is Alberto Villoldo, and what is the Four Winds Society?
- Who is Bill Plotkin, and what is soul initiation?
- Who is Bruce Lipton and what is the biology of belief?
- Who is Christopher Ryan, and what does Civilized to Death say?
- Who is David Abram, and where does the phrase “more-than-human world” come from?
- Who is David Whyte?
- Who is Derrick Jensen, and what is the myth of human supremacy?
- Who is Eduardo Kohn, and how do forests think?
- Who is Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and what is perspectivism?
- Who is Francis Weller, and what does he teach about grief?
- Who is Graham Harvey, and what is the new animism?
- Who is Hugh Brody, and why does he call farmers the true nomads?
- Who is Iain McGilchrist, and what do the two halves of the brain have to do with animism?
- Who is Jeff Brown, and what is grounded spirituality?
- Who is Jerome Lewis, and what can the BaYaka teach us about equality?
- Who is Joan Halifax?
- Who is John Zerzan, and what is anarcho-primitivism?
- Who is Jonathan Horwitz?
- Who is Ken Wilber, and what is the pre/trans fallacy?
- Who is Mariana Caplan?
- Who is Martín Prechtel?
- Who is Michael Winkelman, and what does science say about shamanism and the brain?
- Who is Noam Chomsky, and what does linguistics say about how language shapes thought?
- Who is Paul Levy, and what does he mean by wetiko?
- Who is Philippe Descola, and what are his four ways of seeing the world?
- Who is Piers Vitebsky?
- Who is Richard Schwartz?
- Who is Robert Falconer, and what is The Others Within Us about?
- Who is Robin Wall Kimmerer, and what is Braiding Sweetgrass about?
- Who is Sandra Ingerman, and what is her approach to soul retrieval?
- Who is Sherri Mitchell, and what are her Sacred Instructions?
- Who is Starhawk?
- Who is Steve Taylor, and what is his idea of “the Fall”?
- Who is Thomas Metzinger?
- Who is Tim Ingold?
- Who is Tyson Yunkaporta, and what is Sand Talk?
- Who was A. Irving Hallowell, and where does the phrase “other-than-human persons” come from?
- Who was Abraham Maslow, and what did he get right and wrong?
- Who was Alfred North Whitehead, and what is process philosophy?
- Who was Alice Miller?
- Who was Arnold van Gennep, and what are the three stages of a rite of passage?
- Who was Bert Hellinger?
- Who was Bruno Latour?
- Who was Carl Jung?
- Who was Carl Rogers, and why does he matter to Therapeutic Shamanism?
- Who was Carlos Castaneda, and why are his books controversial?
- Who was Daniel Quinn, and what did Ishmael teach?
- Who was David Graeber, and what does The Dawn of Everything say about the Fall?
- Who was Donald Winnicott?
- Who was Eugene Gendlin?
- Who was Gregory Bateson, and what is an “ecology of mind”?
- Who was Gustav Fechner, and did he think plants have souls?
- Who was James Hillman?
- Who was John Rowan, and what are subpersonalities?
- Who was John Welwood, and why did he coin the term “spiritual bypassing”?
- Who was Joseph Campbell, and what is the hero’s journey?
- Who was M. Scott Peck, and what is The Road Less Travelled about?
- Who was Marshall Sahlins, and what is “the original affluent society”?
- Who was Martin Buber, and what is an I-Thou relationship?
- Who was Martin Heidegger, and what did he mean by “being”?
- Who was Mary Douglas, and what did Purity and Danger show?
- Who was Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and what has the body to do with knowing?
- Who was Michael Harner, and what is core shamanism?
- Who was Mircea Eliade, and what do critics say is wrong with his idea of shamanism?
- Who was Paul Shepard, and what did he mean by “coming home to the Pleistocene”?
- Who was Pierre Clastres, and what is “society against the state”?
- Who was Ron Kurtz?
- Who was Sheldon Kopp?
- Who was Stephen Levine, and what did he teach about dying?
- Who was Thich Nhat Hanh?
- Who was Ursula K. Le Guin, and what can her stories teach about how to live?
- Who was Val Plumwood, and what did being hunted by a crocodile teach her?
- Who was Victor Turner, and what are liminality and communitas?
- Who was Viktor Frankl?
- Who was Wilhelm Reich?
- Who were Alexander Lowen and John Pierrakos?
- Who were the Presocratic philosophers, and which of them saw the world as alive?
- Why do De Smedt and De Cruz call animism a philosophy?
- Why does Manvir Singh think shamanism is universal?
