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Podcast: Numinosum Radio
Episode: Initiatory Dismemberment in North and South America, Africa, and Indonesia
Description: Sometimes a man or a woman is made to hear the dead, and to reconnect the dead with the living, if for a moment, if by use of their own bodies, if only with their speech. No one else will do it; no one has the time, or the ability, or even suspects it needs to be done. It is simply this person’s lot, as it turns out. Of course, this makes this person appear to be insane, and naturally they are insane. Completely, undeniably so. That doesn’t make what they are doing any less necessary however. The...