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The Nurture Assumption
The Nurture Assumption
Judith Rich Harris | 2021 | Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences
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"A grandmother from New Jersey uses genetics, ethnography, and child psychology to refute the dogma that parents shape their children's intelligence and personality. A major influence on my own book “The Blank Slate.”"

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Breaking Open the Head:  A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism
Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism
Daniel Pinchbeck | 2003 | Contemporary, Education, Mind, Body & Spiritual
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I stumbled upon this book in my college library years ago; this narrative/ethnography of shamanic culture juxtaposed with our modern society's obsession with being "woke" gave me a new perspective on MANY things, and even caused me to switch my major to Anthropology so I could keep reading this stuff.