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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... humans can see when drinking ayahuasca . He said these spirits are beings that appear to us in human form when they want us to see them and learn something . “ They can transform themselves . Even though a human being can also transform ...
... humans can see when drinking ayahuasca . He said these spirits are beings that appear to us in human form when they want us to see them and learn something . “ They can transform themselves . Even though a human being can also transform ...
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... human trait . But defining human specificity by listing traits that only humans possess has turned out to be a difficult ex- ercise : Either some people do not exhibit the trait or else mem- bers of some other species do . People in ...
... human trait . But defining human specificity by listing traits that only humans possess has turned out to be a difficult ex- ercise : Either some people do not exhibit the trait or else mem- bers of some other species do . People in ...
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... human beings and chim- panzees have been found to be about 99 per cent the same , ge- netically - but they are never ... human evolution and human history . Amongst other things , it allows for innovation by deliberate invention rather ...
... human beings and chim- panzees have been found to be about 99 per cent the same , ge- netically - but they are never ... human evolution and human history . Amongst other things , it allows for innovation by deliberate invention rather ...
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