Negotiating with evil. Power artefacts, shamanic relics and brain responses in African healing practices
Silhouettes africaines 2016 Alberto Salza
From its evolution in Africa about 100 thousand years ago, the brain architecture of all populations of Homo sapiens has shown a tendency to deal with ‘immaterial objects’ in a spirit world where virtual reality entities operated. The contact with this world was achieved by ‘shamans’, who mastered to enter it, connecting sympathetic and parasympathetic structures by psychointegrators...