Decoding The Gurus
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Interview with Manvir Singh on Shamanism, Gurus, and various other topics *AUDIO*
🕑 Added 2022-10-14 11:23:45 +0000 UTCThe audio of the video!
"First off there is no Matt for this interview. Some might say it's because he got the timing confused and was lost in a whiskey haze, others say he was battling Bullsharks on the Noosa river. Whatever the cause... you have something of an anthopology fest.
Manvir is a great researcher who produces really fascinating papers and it is thus impossible for Chris not to geek out. Might be a bit more academic than usual as a result but hopefully you enjoy.
We discuss a variety of topics including the parallels between gurus, shamans, and prophets. Graeber & Wengrow's book and whether intermittent fasting works."
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Lina Neild Robinson
Great interview full of references to cool academic stuff. Unfortunately, I couldn’t note anything down because I was walking the cat in her fancy harness to ensure she doesn’t kill anything and nothing kills her— yay, Queensland!
Christopher Kavanagh
I'll tell Manvir!
Jennifer Nelson
Very interesting interview, thank you! I'm not convinced by his proposed coinage "xenize" (based on Greek xenos) because xenos doesn't mean fundamentally other or otherworldly, it just means someone from a different land/country, like foreigner or stranger (it can also mean enemy). It doesn't imply anything non-human about that person. His talking about that made me think of the satire by Seneca titled Apocolocyntosis Claudii, which translates to the "pumkinification of Claudius" where the emperor Claudius becomes pumpkinified instead of deified (i.e. turns into a pumpkin instead of a god) after he dies. Seneca's coined word is a play on apotheosis, to become a god: apo - theo - sis. So I suppose a word could be coined based on the Greek word for holy man, dikaios, which would be something like "apodikaiosis" - maybe?
