Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry Into KnowledgeJeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2005 - 267 sidor Anthropologist Jeremy Narby has altered how we understand the shamanic cultures and traditions that have undergone a worldwide revival in recent years. Now, in one of his most extraordinary journeys, Narby travels around the globe-from the Amazon basin to the Far East-to probe what traditional healers and pioneering researchers perceive about the intelligence present in all forms of life. "Intelligence in Nature" offers overwhelming illustrative evidence that independent intelligence is not unique to humanity. Indeed, bacteria, plants, animals, and other forms of nonhuman life display an uncanny proclivity for self-deterministic decisions, patterns, and actions. The Japanese possess a word for this universal knowing: chi-sei. For the first time, Narby presents an in-depth anthropological study of this concept in the West. He not only uncovers a mysterious thread of intelligent behavior within the natural world but also probes the question of what humanity can learn from nature's economy and knowingness in its own search for a saner and more sustainable way of life. |
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... forest . This is like their breakfast . " It was difficult to know what the macaws had in mind as they feasted on clay . But they were obviously enjoying a very social breakfast before a day of solitary foraging in the forest canopy . I ...
... forest . This is like their breakfast . " It was difficult to know what the macaws had in mind as they feasted on clay . But they were obviously enjoying a very social breakfast before a day of solitary foraging in the forest canopy . I ...
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... forest retreat . For a month he took antibiotics as pre- scribed by the doctors , then set about healing himself with plants . In the meantime , the police identified the man who set the trap in the forest , an impoverished colonist ...
... forest retreat . For a month he took antibiotics as pre- scribed by the doctors , then set about healing himself with plants . In the meantime , the police identified the man who set the trap in the forest , an impoverished colonist ...
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... forest . Flores has spent most of his life going between worlds - forest and city , indigenous and mestizo , traditional and modern . He is both an indigenous person and a cultural hybrid . When he walks barefoot through the forest ...
... forest . Flores has spent most of his life going between worlds - forest and city , indigenous and mestizo , traditional and modern . He is both an indigenous person and a cultural hybrid . When he walks barefoot through the forest ...
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