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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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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.
"...we do? We wake it up. We wake it up by singing to it, and we do this because we want it to awaken..."
"So, the bard is singing about the Trojan War. Okay?"
"...Whereas Homer, he's just writing about people. He's not writing. He's singing about people of his imagination that are part of the Greek cultural..."
"...of saying this is, let's use a metaphor. A choir. Okay? Singing choir. How does a choir work? Well, Ahura Masta, the Monad, he's..."
"...male was allowed to sleep but had to sing while molomo singing was in progress. Apparently, one of the greatest crimes the pygmy can..."
"...we do? We wake it up. We wake it up by singing to it, and we do this because we want it to awaken..."
"...speak? Because we want to sing. Okay, does that make sense? Singing, creating music, was a way to express ourselves in the same way..."
"...the divine, okay? Also remember that for them, talking is like singing, right? And you cannot capture music in the written form. So it's..."
"When people spoke Shakespeare, it was as though they were singing. And also, there were lots of, like, dance routines within the plays as..."
"...one of thousands of bards that are traveling around Greece and singing legends of the Trojan War and the Golden Fleece. Okay? what they..."
"...the psychedelics are meant to enhance her visuals. Okay? Now she's singing. Before the old woman urged her to enter the tent I saw..."
"...male was allowed to sleep, but to sing while malomo was singing was in progress. Apparently, one of the greatest crimes that a pygmy..."
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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