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"Magic is dispelled at the moment it is questioned, and shamanism stops working at the moment science puts it to the test. Since the Age of Reason, Western science (compounded by Christian laws) has condemned shamanism and all similar magical endeavors such as witchcraft, sorcery and seance... It almost goes without saying that Western religion has viewed shamanic magic as mere supersition."
"This book starts from the insight that the very existence of shamans today challenges the overarching First versus Third World order, or West versus East binary worldview staged by Western imperialism... The shaman is the infectious parasite... in taking shamans' magic seriously, [this book] exposes the concealed violence of science, media and technology to critique. It names them as the imperial forces of our time."
"We can never know for sure that a shaman's magic is true, nor can we prove that it is false. This is the power of shamanism. Its indeterminacy challenges truth-value systems and exposes how people shape truths to address specific needs in certain times and places. .."
"DEEMING ON THING AS ORIGINAL VERSUS ANOTHER, REFERENCING THE HISTORIC PAST FOR THE SAKE OF THE FUTURE, AND USING OTHER CULTURES AS BARTERS OF AUTHENTICITY TO DEFINE ITSELF."
"... while today's cyberculture can challenge the modernist paradigm, at the same time, it more often reifies and extends its imperial visions." is this in my effort to write down these words? i only mean to remember them
"The shaman is a sheman as well as animal, spirit, healer, foreseer, receiver, and deliverer - precisely the things already condemned, troubling and too broad for scientific explanation. The shaman is also a man-animal-machine, the medium that connects this world and the next, and thus is also beyond philosophy."
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