the Fall
- What is shamanism?
- Where does shamanism come from?
- What is shamanism for today?
- What are ancestral burdens and how are they passed down?
- What are Leaver and Taker cultures, the Great Forgetting and the Great Remembering?
- What is the Fall?
- What is the myth of human supremacy?
- What is the under-world, and how is it different from the Lower-World?
- Why does Therapeutic Shamanism bring shamanism and psychotherapy together?
- What can shamanism offer Hakomi?
- What can shamanism offer logotherapy and the search for meaning?
- What can shamanism offer person-centred therapy?
- What can shamanism offer Process Work?
- What can shamanism offer Reichian work?
- What can shamanism offer somatic and body-centred therapy?
- What is neurodiversity, and how does Therapeutic Shamanism see it?
- What is trauma, and how does Therapeutic Shamanism understand it?
- What are the Wild Mind and the Domesticated Mind?
- What does domestication do to us?
- Who is Iain McGilchrist, and what do the two halves of the brain have to do with animism?
- Who is Paul Levy, and what does he mean by wetiko?
- Who is Steve Taylor, and what is his idea of “the Fall”?
- What does it mean to live as if it is all sacred?
- What is wétiko, and what is co-wétiko?
- Why is gratitude an animist practice?
- Do animists believe in reincarnation, and what are “past lives”?
- What did Jared Diamond mean by calling farming “the worst mistake in the history of the human race”?
- Who was David Graeber, and what does The Dawn of Everything say about the Fall?
- Who was Paul Shepard, and what did he mean by “coming home to the Pleistocene”?
- Are humans a self-domesticated species?
- How do gender and sexuality figure in shamanism?
- How has spirituality been used to justify domination?
- Is mediumship healthy, from a shamanic point of view?
- Isn’t the Fall just “noble savage” romanticism?
- What are pre-Fallen, Fallen and post-Fallen shamanism?
- What can shamanism offer compassion-focused therapy?
- What can shamanism offer ecotherapy and ecopsychology?
- What did James C. Scott show about early states and grain?
- What did the Fall do to us?
- What is collective trauma?
- What is the difference between a shaman, a priest, a medium and a medicine person?
- Who is Alberto Villoldo, and what is the Four Winds Society?
- Who is John Zerzan, and what is anarcho-primitivism?
- Who is Tyson Yunkaporta, and what is Sand Talk?
- Who was Daniel Quinn, and what did Ishmael teach?
- Why have shamans been persecuted, and what happened to shamanism under states and world religions?
- What does Robin Dunbar say about how religion evolved, and how big can a tribe be?
- What is the difference between a hunter-gatherer and an agricultural society?
- What is the “evolved nest”?
- Who is Christopher Ryan, and what does Civilized to Death say?
- Who is Hugh Brody, and why does he call farmers the true nomads?
- Who is Philippe Descola, and what are his four ways of seeing the world?
- Who was Joseph Campbell, and what is the hero’s journey?
- What are the sacred and the profane?
- What does Daoism teach about humans and nature?
- What is kinship, and why do animists extend it beyond humans?
- How did hunter-gatherers raise their children?
- What did Ernst Cassirer teach about myth as a way of knowing?
- What did Giambattista Vico teach about myth and the first human world?
- What did Owen Barfield mean by original participation?
- What does David Fideler mean by restoring the soul of the world?
- What does Karen Armstrong say about sacred nature?
- Why do De Smedt and De Cruz call animism a philosophy?
- Are today’s indigenous cultures the same as original animist cultures?
- Was farming a mistake?
- Were hunter-gatherers peaceful?
- What does ‘fiercely egalitarian’ mean?
- What is a reverse dominance hierarchy?
- Why did some peoples avoid the state?
