Jiang says ancestor skulls mediated communication with the spirit world and could be imagined as a way to learn secrets, making this a method of scientific discovery within that belief system.
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Jiang says ancestor skulls mediated communication with the spirit world and could be imagined as a way to learn secrets, making this a method of scientific discovery within that belief system.
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"Does that make sense? Right? Because otherwise, how do you know your religion is correct? Only by performing magic can you show that this..."
"...a shadow over the village. Okay? So that's their method of scientific discovery. Does that make sense? To communicate with the spirit world through..."
"at every major scientific discovery it all came to the person in a dream or when he was or it sort of popped into..."
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