From Shamanic Trance to Spiritual Consciousness: Mapping the Earliest Roots of Human Spirituality

Human spirituality originated not from organized religions or formal philosophy but from early experiential practices within indigenous cultures. These practices, involving trance, ritual, and direct experiential learning, formed the foundational basis for spiritual and mystical experiences. The work argues that such indigenous traditions provided the epistemological and aesthetic roots for later religious and philosophical systems, emphasizing experiential knowledge over doctrinal belief.

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Abstract

The origins of human spirituality extend far beyond organised religions and formal philosophical systems, emerging instead from early experiential practices embedded within indigenous cultures