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The forest ritual wakes the forest when illness, bad hunting, death, or danger suggest the forest has fallen asleep and stopped looking after its children.
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Harmony
The forest ritual wakes the forest when illness, bad hunting, death, or danger suggest the forest has fallen asleep and stopped looking after its children.
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Jiang clarifies that humans do not connect to a separate divine spirit; they already coexist with the divine and use ritual to harmonize material life with the spirit world.
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Jiang argues that the Amazonian and Pygmy cases share the same religious idea: humans are part of nature and must help nature maintain balance and harmony.
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Because war causes mayhem and chaos in the spirit world, this religion supports harmony, caretaking, non-conflict, egalitarian equality, and artistic worship.
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The animal ritual is framed as compensation: killing animals for meat requires forgiveness and a return of the animal's soul to preserve balance and harmony.
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"So if you disrespect them, they will not only kill you, but they would forget about you forever. So this is how they explain..."
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"...well. So you practice rituals in order to maintain balance and harmony in the world, okay? The world is a script. In living, you..."
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"So you said about human trying to connect with the divine spirits, right? So do they consider - Okay, sorry."
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"...what we're trying to do is we're trying to be in harmony with the divine."
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"Okay? Do you understand? Yeah. Okay? Because in this world, there's no separation between the material and the spiritual. It's all one world together...."
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"pygmies okay the pygmies um and there's a very famous book by a british anthropologist uh by the name of um colin turnbull okay..."
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"...and chaos in the spirit world. Our job is to maintain harmony and balance in this world. We're caretakers, okay? It means we should..."
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"It means we have to be artistic because we have to celebrate and worship the spirit world. Does that make sense? So again, for..."
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"the cave celebrating animals why are we doing that why are we animals why are we doing that why are we animals why are..."
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"...this animal back in the spirit world to maintain balance and harmony in nature does that make sense guys okay so why is it..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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