Voices
13 July 2027 · United States
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Luhrmann returns to questions developed in When God Talks Back and How God Becomes Real. The range of experiences places the book between anthropology and the study of mind, rather than presenting voice-hearing through a single explanatory lens.
About the book
Anthropologist T. M. Luhrmann explores experiences of hearing voices through fieldwork with religious practitioners, artists, meditators and psychiatric patients. She considers how attention, culture and relationships shape thoughts that seem to come from elsewhere, and what these experiences may reveal about the boundaries of consciousness.
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