"We have talked a little bit about American culture, African cultures, and how they limit a person's perception of themself. Dr. Jennifer Frances Armstrong was raised through most of her formative years in Rhodesia, a colony within Africa. To her, Zimbabwe is home, although she was uprooted as a teen and moved to Australia in a time of great political turmoil. I think you might be very interested in what she has to say. She talks a lot about abandoning the culturally inflicted political identities and expanding as a human being, disregarding your given role in society and jumping into different experiences that can teach you things you wouldn't otherwise learn, and strengthening your character. She refers to this way of life as Intellectual Shamanism. (Which lends no implications to the mystical use of "Shaman", as that is typically viewed as a practitioner of some sort of magic, which is clearly not a real thing.)"
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