Interview with Manvir Singh on Gurus & Shamans

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Social Sciences, Science, Leisure, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

We are back with another academic-themed interview with the evolutionary/cultural/cognitive anthropologist Manvir Singh. That's right two anthropologists from the same relatively obscure field on the same podcast but don't hold that against Manvir, we promise he's much more insightful than Chris!

Indeed, Manvir joins us to share his expertise on Shamanism and to examine whether there are any significant parallels between Shamans and Gurus. Along the way, you will gain new esoteric knowledge into things such as the differences between prophets, gurus, and shamans; whether evolutionary anthropology is all bunk; and the importance of linguistic and kinetic performances for generating credibility and authority.

Matt was absent during the interview so he could not keep Chris' tangents in check but he does participate in the ever-extending discussions in the intro and outro segments. Here you will discover the respective grievances that our hosts have been mongering, as well as how Matt deals with some critical feedback from disgruntled psychoanalysts!

In short, there is something for everyone. So open your third eye and join us on an ecstatic spirit flight as we reveal the secret cosmic mysteries of the modern gurus (for those brave enough to listen).

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0:00.0	You're going to be here. Oh, good. Hello and
0:25.0	welcome to Dakota the Guru's the podcast where a psychologist
0:31.0	Matthew Brown and a cognitive anthropologist,
0:35.0	Christopher Kavanaugh.
0:36.6	I'm from Australia.
0:37.8	He's from Northern Ireland a long time ago.
0:41.2	We, uh, let me start again.
0:43.0	What? No, that was good and you called me a cognitive anthropologist. That was very happy with that.
0:49.7	That's right, but there's a lot of little bits I have to mention I've got to get on the right order and if I mix it up it gets confusing.
0:55.2	You think all the people will like they'll get all angry and just turn off the podcast now?
1:00.0	They'll be like, what was that? They get it right. They have expectations about the spiel, they like the spiel, they get upset when it changes.
1:07.0	That was 90% of the spiel, what was the missing bet?
1:10.0	I think all of the jigsaw pieces were there, but they didn't quite connect together in the way they were meant to
1:15.3	That's okay. That's okay everyone knows you know what's going on you know what's going on you know who we are
1:19.2	You know who he is you know who I'm I'm not that long out of Northern Ireland man let's just be curious not that long ago.
1:26.7	It's not that logo. Okay so you're still connected to your routes you know
1:30.3	That's right. I'm still Chris from the block you don't like me it's like generations ago so I've like been officially you know
1:38.6	demembered I'm no longer a part of the club, the Irish club.
1:43.0	I'm still like it.
1:45.0	Oh no, I will say I got ship because of the Dylan Moran thing.
1:51.0	I read a thread in Reddit about that yeah the Irish they're revolting as
1:57.2	Yeah, they're revolting as they tend to do because they're saying I'm wrong
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