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Interview with Manvir Singh on Gurus & Shamans

Decoding the Gurus

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The Pushback to Shamanism as a First Profession

In your paper, you're talking about like shamanism as one of the potential first professions to emerge in societies and cross culturally recurrent profession. So I can imagine some more progressive liberal minded people somewhat reactive to the notion of seeing shamans as a profession. But on the other hand, I know from anthropology that shamans very much regard what they're doing. Yes, as a calling, but also as that's the profession, then that's the, that's what they do.

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