Shamanism

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Freud became famous for interpreting dreams, albeit from a paternalistic, Jude-Christian, and heteronormative societal point of view.  Carl Jung’s dream interpretations are also interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIz5P3zketE Shamanism, as mentioned in the chapter, began in Siberia and was carried over to the “New World” [aka North America] around 20,000 years ago by the first settlers into North America via Alaska.  Our Native Americans with their “medicine men” were actually shamans who arrived from Siberia 20,000 years ago. Anthropologists have known for a long time that all human cultures have figured out some means [alcohol, hallucinogens] to alter consciousness in order to communicate with deceased ancestors, and also to break up the monotony of everyday living.