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Interview with Manvir Singh on Gurus & Shamans

Decoding the Gurus

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The Rise and Fall of Human Social Flexibility

The book argues that human societies were much more flexible in the deep past, but they also exhibited these three fundamental freedoms. It's reproducing a fall from Eden story, or a fall from Gray story,. But again, I do want to highlight that the project of bringing together this ethnographic and archeological evidence to demonstrate human social flexibility is a great one.

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