Quantum Anthropology: Man, Cultures, and Groups in a Quantum Perspective

Abstract

Free download of e-book: https://www.academia.edu/28881906/Quantum_Anthropology_Man_Cultures_and_Groups_in_a_Quantum_PerspectiveThe book offers a fresh look on man, cultures, and societies built on the current advances in the fields of quantum mechanics, quantum philosophy, and quantum consciousness. The authors have developed an inspiring theoretical framework transcending the boundaries of particular disciplines in social sciences and the humanities. Quantum anthropology is a perspective, studying man, culture, and humanity while taking into account the quantum nature of our reality. This framework redefines current anthropological theory in a new light, and provides an interdisciplinary overlap reaching to psychology, sociology, and consciousness studies.Contents:1. Introduction: Why Quantum Anthropology?2. Empirical and Nonempirical Reality3. Appearance, Frames, Intra-Acting Agencies, and Observer Effect4. Emergence of Man and Culture5. Fields, Groups, Cultures, and Social Complexity6. Man as Embodiment7. Collective Consciousness and Collective Unconscious in Anthropology8. Life Trajectories of Man, Cultures and Societies9. Death and Final Collapses of Cultures and Societies10. Language, Collapse of Wave Function, and Deconstruction11. Myth and Entanglement12. Ritual, Observer Effect, and Collective Consciousness13. Conclusions and Future Directions

Participation in Alternative Realities: Ritual, Consciousness, and Ontological Turn

“…Whereas the experience of everyday reality is shaped by basic alterations constituted by the borders of categories, in the transcendent sphere, such borders may be blurred or even missing. Borders crumble, and the minds of people get into contact with the sphere that Trnka and Lorencova [6] call the realm of potentiality. This realm includes pre-existing possibilities from which some may be actualized during the course of a ritual.…”

“…Furthermore, Trnka and Lorencova [6] point out that ritual is effective in the sense that it affects the information underlying forms of potentialities. We can understand information as the "alterity which makes the alterity" [7], [8], [9], [6]. Difference/alterity is the basis of our cognition and of the concepts created in our mind.…”

“…with entities that we can see, hear, smell, or touch. Trnka and Lorencova [6] posit that actualizations cannot be in direct contradiction,since our minds are pre-established for working with differences. We are not able to accept "A" and "non-A" at the same time.…”

“…Thus, it is possible to stay in the place of ritual in the form of a man, and at the same time, walk somewhere far from it in the form of a jaguar. Non-locality is a part of the experience of alterity during rituals, and one may even seek links to the notions comparing a reality experienced in ritual to a kind of quantum-like reality [6].…”

“…In the course of ritual, the ritual specialist (shaman, priest) connects first with the realm of extended possibilities [6], and through his charismatic action helps the other participants of ritual to (more or less) reach this realm, too. The connection established in this way spreads gradually to the other participants of ritual, and they can thus share states of consciousness, experiences, emotions, beliefs, and collective cognition.…”