Shamanic laughter and reality from Jennifer Frances Armstrong on Vimeo.
The wisdom and reality-consolidating measure of shamanic laughter. Nietzsche, Marechera and Bataille all seem to recognise just how much shamanic laughter consolidates and recognises the tragic nature of life in a way that the conventional traditions of asceticism can't seem to muster. Those keep you holding on for a perfect time in an unspecified future, thus extending the illusion and the misery. Tragic laughter recognises things as they are and breaks the spell.
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