People around the world are gathering in wilderness settings with the intention to initiate contact with UFOs using various techniques.
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New Age beliefs, alternative wellness practices and political conspiracies all fall under the umbrella of stigmatized knowledge, which can be attractive to anyone, no matter their political leanings.
People have died after taking the banned frog secretion Kambô, and even when things go right there’s a lot of vomiting.
What is shamanism, who practises it and what does it involve?
The moth cocoons are the first archaeological evidence of shamanic ritual paraphernalia in southern Africa.
Hidden forces are always at work in the world, and people always want to control them, a cognitive anthropologist explains. Enter the human universal of shamanism.
With almost 30 percent of South Koreans either Protestant or Catholic, faith plays a big role in how people think about relations with the North.
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