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B_2_11 Verified Beings & Entities

B_2_11 — Wild Man, Sasquatch, and Hairy Hominid Traditions

The figure of the "wild man" — a large, hairy, human-like being dwelling in wilderness — constitutes one of the most persistent and geographically widespread archetypes in human tradition. From Enkidu in the Epic of Gilg

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Y_4_11 Credible Altered States

Y_4_11 — Trance States Across Cultures

Trance — an altered state of consciousness characterized by narrowed or shifted attention, altered sense of self, reduced awareness of external surroundings, and modified responsiveness — is one of the most universal fea

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Y_4_13 Verified Altered States

Y_4_13 — Collective Effervescence and Group Altered States

Collective effervescence — Émile Durkheim's term (The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, 1912) for the heightened emotional energy generated when people gather and act together in coordinated ritual — describes a group

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Y_4_03 Verified Altered States

Y_4_03 — Shamanic Practices / Altered States Synthesis

Shamanic practices represent humanity's oldest spiritual technology, attested across every inhabited continent from at least 30,000 BCE (Upper Paleolithic cave art) to the present day. Despite vast cultural distances — g

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Y_3_07 Credible Altered States

Y_3_07 — Music, Consciousness, and Altered States

Music is one of the most powerful modulators of conscious experience available without pharmacological intervention. Neuroimaging reveals that music engages an extraordinarily distributed network: auditory cortex (superi

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F_3_09 Verified Lost Connections

F_3_09 — Musical Instrument Diffusion and Shared Traditions

Musical instruments represent some of the oldest artifacts of human culture and their distribution patterns across the globe illuminate deep connections — and sometimes startling independent inventions — among widely sep

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