Shamanizm: Drevnyaya religiya v sovremennom mire

Eta audiokniga — itog desyatiletnikh issledovaniy psikhologicheskikh korney shamanizma. Yeye avtor, antropolog Manvir Singkh, zhil sredi shamanov naroda mentavai, izuchal etnograficheskiye trudy i bazy dannykh, vyyavlyaya obshcheye v mifakh, koldovstve i shamanskikh praktikakh raznykh narodov, issledoval tselitel‘skiye pesnopeniya, razyskival znakharey i proritsateley, prisutstvoval na ikh tseremoniyakh v Indii, Andakh i severo-¬zapadnoy Amazonii i, nakonets, nablyudal vozrozhdeniye shamanizma v sovremennom obshchestve — ot Garvardskoy ploshchadi do pustyn‘ Nevady. Eti issledovaniya priveli avtora k vyvodu, chto shamanizm — pochti neizbezhnoye porozhdeniye chelovecheskogo obshchestva, kompleks praktik i verovaniy, voznikayushchiy snova i snova blagodarya svoyey glubokoy psikhologicheskoy privlekatel‘nosti. Audiokniga rasskazyvayet i o vechnoy prityagatel‘nosti shamanizma, i o tom, chto ser‘yeznyy global‘nyy vzglyad pomogayet umerit‘ kul‘turnoye samodovol‘stvo, obnaruzhivaya skhodstvo tam, gde lyudi privykli videt‘ razlichiya i dazhe sobstvennoye prevoskhodstvo.