Glossary
The religious practice centered on a shaman who mediates between the visible world and the spirit world, often through animal imagery.
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Jiang claims that the year 2026 in China marks a historically unusual moment because most of human history and most cultures assumed an animistic or shamanistic world full of ghosts and spirits.
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Jiang says premodern societies widely assumed a spirit-filled world, whether in Homeric Greece, India, or animist and shamanic traditions.
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In this animist-shamanic model, the soul is permanent, the spirit world is more real than the visible world, and human action must maintain cosmic harmony.
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Jiang reads prehistoric monuments, animal-human pillars, figurines, flutes, and cave paintings as evidence that early religion was celebrated through art, music, and shamanic animal imagery.
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Singing to the forest wakes it up happy and restores well-being; Jiang reads this as communicating with spirits in the same pattern as shamanic spirit-world travel.
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"at work including spiritual forces and also your ego is shut shutting down right exactly and so your ego shut down and so you're..."
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"the vast majority of human history we just assume that the universe is conscious that there is a god that there are spirits all..."
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"Okay. This is what I believe. We go back to Homer and the Iliad and the Odyssey. During that period in human history, it..."
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"...their religion was, but we suspect that it was animism and shamanism. Okay? Remember that animism is the belief that we all come from..."
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"Okay? And the other thing is that the soul is permanent. You can never kill it. Okay? The body and the soul are different...."
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"Okay? Including in China, including in Europe. This is Gopalatepe. And you can see that this is a teal pillar. And it's meant to..."
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"...We celebrated our religion through music and through art. And through shamanism. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? Yes? It's a figurine. It's a..."
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"everything goes well in our world, in our forest, but at night when we are sleeping, sometimes things go wrong because we are not..."
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"...Byzantium and the Caliphate had taught the Khazars at their primitive shamanism was not only barbaric and outdated compared to the great monotheistic creeds,..."
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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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