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Re:The Shamanic View of Mental Illness (2010) by mikelyons on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:05PM (#14103535)
People don't understand the mechanics of belief and don't realize that they're being just as dogmatic in their rationalism and scientism as the most fundamentalist religions.
Re:The Shamanic View of Mental Illness (2010) by vertex-four on Thursday April 13, 2017 @05:57AM (#14105517)
Especially some of the actual practices surrounding it - I've had some really bad experiences with e.g. the Less Wrong crowd tending towards assuming there is no value to human emotion, and so failing to even make a basic attempt of integrating into a community rather than dominating it with debate-is-the-only-form-of-conversation, attacks on people's identities under the guise of "you asked a question, that means you want me to tear you apart", and more.