– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011)
In the light of such impossible potentialities and possible actualizations, human nature begins to be seen as fundamentally contextual and unconditioned, that is, as dialectical. Hence the data of anthropology with respect to shamanism and the realization, already intuited by the magnetic theorists with their studies of mediums and somnambulists, that the ecstatic and his or her environment constitute a single system. So, for example, many shamans have claimed that they cannot access their magical powers without the presence of a group. And similarly, the social group is continually influenced by the presence and dramatic rituals of the shaman. Together, the psyche of the shaman (or medium, or somnambulist) and the cultural group “make each other up.”
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