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Y_5_15 Verified Altered States

Y_5_15 — Altitude Sickness and High-Altitude Consciousness: Mountain Visions

Altitude sickness — a spectrum of syndromes caused by hypobaric hypoxia (reduced oxygen partial pressure at elevation) — produces some of the most dramatic and well-documented involuntary altered states of consciousness

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W_2_08 World Civilizations

W_2_08 — Korean Shamanism (Muism / Musok)

Korean shamanism (Muism or Musok, 무속) is one of the oldest continuous spiritual traditions in East Asia, predating the introduction of Buddhism (4th century CE) and Confucianism to the Korean peninsula. Centered on mudan

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K_4_09 Consciousness

K_4_09 — Consciousness, Virtual Reality, and Simulated Environments

Virtual reality (VR) has become one of the most powerful tools for investigating the construction of conscious experience — particularly body ownership, self-location, embodiment, spatial presence, and the boundaries of

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ZC_4_04 Verified Social Science

ZC_4_04 — Medical Anthropology — Culture, Healing, and the Body

Medical anthropology — the study of how health, illness, healing, and the body are experienced, understood, and managed across cultures — is one of anthropology's most productive subfields, bridging biological and social

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B_4_09 Verified Beings & Entities

B_4_09 — Skin-Walker, Wendigo, and Indigenous Predatory Spirits

Indigenous North American spiritual traditions include powerful predatory spirit entities whose cultural significance, cosmological depth, and moral weight far exceed their common (and often distorted) depictions in popu

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L_5_11 Verified Genetics & Origins

L_5_11 — Genetics of Altitude Adaptation: Tibet, Andes, Ethiopia

High-altitude adaptation represents one of the most dramatic and best-studied examples of natural selection in contemporary human populations. More than 140 million people worldwide live at elevations above 2,500 meters,

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Y_4_14 Verified Altered States

Y_4_14 — Virtual Reality, Immersive Technology, and Altered Perception

Virtual reality (VR) and immersive technologies create genuine altered states of perception — not merely visual illusions but deep modifications of body ownership, spatial awareness, self-identity, and emotional processi

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S_1_07 Verified Future Technology

S_1_07 — Virtual and Augmented Reality

Virtual reality (VR) creates fully immersive digital environments replacing the user's visual field; augmented reality (AR) overlays digital content onto the physical world; mixed reality (MR) blends virtual and physical

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