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

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.

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

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

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

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

Amazing interview

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

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."

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?

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".

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

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

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.

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.

Observations on Evangelicals: 39:11

T.M is creative doubter

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

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

EPHESIANS 6:10-20 KJV

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

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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.

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.

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.

Harry Potter comes to mind, here.

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

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

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Magic seems real because magic IS real.

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

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Boring as 'ell!