How Social Worlds Shape Our Minds - Tanya Luhrmann
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56:34

How Social Worlds Shape Our Minds - Tanya Luhrmann

by Mind & Life Institute

Rated
4.9
Type
talks
Activity
Meditation
Suitable for
Everyone
Plays
558

In this episode, Wendy speaks with anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann about how practices embedded in social realities change our minds and our experiences. They discuss her research on unusual spiritual experiences (voices, visions), her work with magic practitioners and evangelical Christian communities, the boundary between reality and imagination, the psychological constructs of absorption and porosity, and how they relate to these spiritual experiences, and much more.

Mental HealthImaginationEnergy AbsorptionPorosityAnthropologyMoralityShifting RealitiesVoicesVisionsMagic PractitionersChristianitySpiritual ExperiencesMental TrainingCultural SpiritualitySpiritual HealthAbsorption ScalesEthical CommunitiesImagination And RealityImagination In MeditationMental ConstructionsPorosity Of Mind World BoundariesPrayersSpiritual Curiosity ProjectsSpirits

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