the raw and the cooked
Identity is a cultural epistemological system that stops you (as a unique being) from experiencing the world. To accept a schematic identity form as one's own is to no longer experience life in the raw. One's life is then mediated, precooked, even prechewed, often predetermined by social mores. You then experience life as a generic type, but not as a unique person.
Shamanism is associated with "wildness". Why? Because it is an approach to life that aims for what is raw, uncooked, undigested (and perhaps, to some degree, it even aims for what is undigestable).
Identity is a cultural epistemological system that stops you (as a unique being) from experiencing the world. To accept a schematic identity form as one's own is to no longer experience life in the raw. One's life is then mediated, precooked, even prechewed, often predetermined by social mores. You then experience life as a generic type, but not as a unique person.
Shamanism is associated with "wildness". Why? Because it is an approach to life that aims for what is raw, uncooked, undigested (and perhaps, to some degree, it even aims for what is undigestable).
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