The invisible, more-real dimension where the essence or soul resides and that the shaman can see or communicate with.
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shadow dimension
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...perception behind every tangible form every plant and animal is a shadow dimension a place invisible to ordinary people but visible to the shaman..."
Key Notes
Jiang says the visible world is only one level of perception and that a more-real shadow dimension, where the soul resides, is visible to the shaman.
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"...tangible means concrete, physical, okay? Every plant and animal is a shadow dimension, a place invisible to ordinary people but visible to the shaman...."
"This is the realm of the He Spirit, a world of deified ancestors where rocks and rivers are alive. Plants and animals are human..."
"...perception behind every tangible form every plant and animal is a shadow dimension a place invisible to ordinary people but visible to the shaman..."
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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.
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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