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Jiang's shorthand for the older human assumption that the world is alive with spirits and agencies rather than inert matter alone.
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animistic
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...go back to most of human history, okay, most cultures were animistic, shamanistic, meaning it was just assumed that there are ghosts and spirits..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...go back to most of human history, okay, most cultures were animistic, shamanistic, meaning it was just assumed that there are ghosts and spirits..."
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"...go back to most of human history, okay, most cultures were animistic, shamanistic, meaning it was just assumed that there are ghosts and spirits..."
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"It's just weird to me how for the vast majority of human history, we just assume that the universe is conscious, that there is..."
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"...go back to most of human history okay most cultures were animistic shamanistic meaning it was just assumed that there are ghosts and spirits..."
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"...The earliest religion in every society, the most primitive religion is animistic, shamanistic religions, where the shamans are communicating always with the spirit world...."
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"...egalitarian society, which was fluid, which was dynamic, and they were animistic, which meant that they believed that everything had God in it, okay?..."
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"...So, the first layer is the original layer which is the animistic layer. Okay? So, different gods come together and they create humans. The..."
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"...go over them briefly. The first is what we call the animistic, and this is basically during the Ice Age when we were hunter..."
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"...same continuous cycle okay so this is the idea of the animistic worldview from then we moved on to the polytheistic polytheistic many gods..."
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"So the animistic period is the most natural. It's what makes the most sense. Quite honestly, if animals had a religion, it would probably..."
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"...here. And as we discussed in class, this religious belief is animistic, meaning we believe that we all come from one source, the Mother..."
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A source-grounded reading of Dante's Paradise as a school for intuition: heaven is not a ranked hotel but a measure of receptivity, vows test free will beyond institutional obedience, memory may belong to the...
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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The stream begins as a thank-you and career update, but its real pressure is larger: leave China, refuse the influencer trap, build schools, democratize creativity, and prepare communities for a world Jiang thinks is...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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Gimbutas's Old Europe becomes Jiang's Paradise Lost: a Mother Goddess civilization where art, writing, sexual agency, and nonviolent social control show that war, property, and patriarchy are historical arrivals, not human nature.
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