Witches, Psychiatrists, and Evangelicals with Tanya Luhrmann - Conversations with History

(Visit: www.uctv.tv/) Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Stanford's Tanya Luhrmann for a discussion of her work as a psychological anthropologist. Professor Luhrmann looks back at her formative experiences and reviews her insights on how different communities-witches, psychiatrists, and evangelicals-learn to experience their world through practice and adjustment to the ambiguities of the modern world. Series: "Conversations with History" [1/2014] [Humanities] [Show ID: 26026]

[@sergeyfox2298]

Tanya Lurhnann has helped clarify my own previous evangelical experiences I believed I had. I now understand how I became an evangelical Christian, a charasmatic supernaturalist Christian. I am an atheist now but this has peeled away yet not invalidated my "spiritual" experiences.

[@passionatebraziliangirl.4801]

Wow, this scholar Tanya Lurmann is very open minded and fascinating person with awesome insights, thank you for this interview.

[@kevin_dasilva]

11:34 wow, what an amazing perspective on acting. That makes total sense. It is much more about being extremely self-aware (at least of your mannerisms and maybe emotions) and being able to apply that consciously, than anything else. Of course I don't want to simplify it to the level where you ignore the artform, but it seems like a very valid observation

[@eottoe2001]

Reminds me of an Anne Sexton poem: "I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light by light: lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind. A woman like that is not a woman, quite. I have been her kind."

[@john1107]

Interesting to note that practitioners of witchcraft in the UK come from middle-class/educated backgrounds.

[@chrystals.4376]

The ones she violated her trust with, yes. But there’s a lot more to the Magic user communities than Middle Class and College educated people.

[@ericblack1127]

This captured a valuable and useful intellectual vantage point--a vantage point based in experience and scholarship. Very much appreciated.

[@abtheflagman]

Amazing interview

[@johnrolle6645]

I used the wrong word in previous post. I used word "affect" with regard to a mindset. The proper word to have used was "effectuate".

[@Thomas_Geist]

12:39: Love the attempt to link, praying, with psychosis. Who is this nut case?

[@datdat2020]

I have a few friends with which I engage in these types of interactions 28:45

[@datdat2020]

Observations on Evangelicals: 39:11

[@polyglot8]

The interviewer looks like one of Tim Conway's disguises on the old Carol Burnett show.

[@donokeefe3960]

I don't think Prof. Luhrmann really engaged with the logical scientific argument for "fate," or the illusion of choice. She just cast doubt on it without actually making a counter argument. Anyway, her insights about how Evangelicals interact with god were very useful, and it was an interesting talk overall. Thank you.

[@parker5944]

That's cool. Doubt is fine! If not for doubt we wouldn't have truth :D

[@icdou8928]

I'm not religious but can clearly see how we have just walked away from the Creator.

[@homayounshirazi9550]

What this discussant is talking about is a description of dissociative mental mechanisms that most of us engage in daily. When does such self-engaging mental activity become "pathological" is arbitrarily given the distinction of psychosis. "Thinking" out loud is one such example. In such times reality is firmly in one's grip but the benefit of having looked at all aspects of an issue is explored to the "satisfaction" of that individual. Schizophrenia is not a good example to substitute for dissociative acts we engage in but it serves as a pathway to exploring this phenomenon. Neuroscience has much to learn from such examples as "thinking" before it understands the heterogeneity of mental processes. There is no "magic bullet" anywhere that I know of! Please let us know when it is found.

[@engeldeeter]

I think my friend Mark may be a witch. I'm thinking of attempting to drown him to find out for sure but I cannot swim and he was on a school swim team years ago so this may prove difficult. What do you suggest?

[@engeldeeter]

***** I'm reporting your lack of a sense of humor and your ridiculous name to my friend Mark

[@gabrielleangelica1977]

Get your head examined...💢

[@CAnasagal1]

T.M is creative doubter

[@robertallen5422]

"First thing comes to mind...Does Tanya own a comb?"

[@heyalicia2551]

Robert Allen, Not the comment I would expect from someone using your profile picture. just sayin....

[@jaimeparedes9188]

Or maybe there is another plane of existence that is real and you actually tapped into it?

[@broquestwarsneeder7617]

or maybe there isn't even a maybe there, seeing as religion is so obviously just made up by human beings and you actually have to make a reasonable case for why it isn't so, other than just being a derphead?

[@lockandloadlikehell]

@@broquestwarsneeder7617 *WAT*

[@beautifulaether]

EPHESIANS 6:10-20 KJV

[@johnrolle6645]

Harry Potter comes to mind, here.

[@mlstar1695]

Maybe she can tell me why I Love Lori Bruno soooooooo very much ... 🧙‍♀️🐱🧙‍♀️💗💞❤ She told me that I was just like her 😇🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️🐱

[@mlstar1695]

Tell what class she took , please !

[@johnrolle6645]

In Judaism, what is the tradition of setting a place for the prophet Elijah at the Passover Feast? The pastor's suggestion, for instance, of pouring a cup of coffee for God or having one with Him is probably not as cookey as it initially sounds. People who had parents who, like this woman describes her father to have been, have passed on in wonderful fashion wisdom and principles to live by perhaps in a moment of crisis may be able to affect or access that parent or teacher's mindset in the moment to bolster or buoy them. The "practice" of having a cup with the Lord gives the idea of God and immediacy. Sometimes it seems as if the well read and erudite intelligentsia are quick to indict and condemn believers for being somehow mentally or emotionally dysfunctional. To err or falter is human but at the root of religion is the regenerative power of redemption. God loves to fix and repair stuff.

[@corneliusharris2955]

But you have to have a belief in the practice or the effect won’t work. Same with Christian prayer, you have to have conviction or some kind of certainty that your prayers are being heard and translated to the sender, who is God, however that is interpreted or personified. I would distinguish actual witchcraft from prayer because it forbids the practice of witchcraft in the Bible. Why would it forbid idle Gods if the Bible itself is a form of idolatry and sorcery? Its interesting and yet no conclusion can be made without having an actual experience with both practices to test its validity. I guess the more pressing question would be, by who’s standards are we basing rationality, exactness, and what we deem common place on, in the grand scheme of things, to feel the need to shift someone’s else’s psychological experience, to fit some moral inflation of the primitiveness or sophistication of a individual, couple, or group, and civilization? A lot of psychiatrist would benefit on a course in psychological anthropology. Fascinating commentary.

[@JCResDoc94]

I don't think the horned guy is traditionally the good guy in most Holy books professor =S Yet I can't get funding for humor and healing in cancer research.lol jks. Gr8 interview. it is fine work. =D

[@johnnybates7580]

Holy moly. She admitted she was able to fool her own mind into a psychosomatic episode. Impressive. I doubt I could fool myself like that. Is that an American trait or a female trait? I don't think I could fool myself to that degree.

[@xKoTo]

Wow. That's a pretty ignorant assumption....

[@johnnybates7580]

@@xKoTo it's called a question.

[@Blonde111]

People fool themselves all the time. Your sexist ignorant remark just proves you have no interest or desire to understand the world if it is not like you. That thinking is what causes all the strife in this world.

[@girlperson1]

Magic seems real because magic IS real.

[@Chematronix]

Santa Claus seems real because Santa Claus IS real.

[@mellonlord4616]

bigots are so annoying.

[@Chematronix]

You can't fool me Kevin Spacey! Go back to your protein shakes! Tho, Santa is been slow on deliveries lately... I wonder what in the devil happened to him? (Now you see why do I believe in Santa. Why do you believe in the devil?)

[@ADEehrh]

Ya and someday you'll get to live in hevan in a manson and get a new young stong body then spend eternity prasing god and singing songs; Ya that'll happen!

[@ADEehrh]

@tzi tzi man you paranoids are soooo gulible!

[@brianetchieson5958]

Their use of the word 'magicians' as opposed to 'witches' is really jarring. Also, last I checked, M.Z.B. was not a witch.

[@latonyadarlene4244]

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[@davidmayhew8083]

St. Christopher? That's Catholic. Baptist don't believe in Saints.

[@patriciahealey2927]

Weird dude high pitched mo fo

[@angelikaweienberger-peters9230]

Androgene

[@ronalrocco4922]

Boring as 'ell!