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Witches, Gods, and Voices - Dr. Tanya Luhrmann, Stanford Anthropology

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Is There a Baby Coming to You?

Prayer team members are trained to look for images that sort of pop out, am. And so the person who is praying will often put their hand on his or her shoulder and let thoughts come to them. So once people have that experience, they have a sense of, oh, al right, this can happen. They start just narrating their day to god - it's a powerful social practice. People also really focus on the sensory details. They'll try to see and hear and smell and touch and taste all that inside their mind. Is that is theit is the external mind talking back?

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