„Manche Jungen behaupteten, sie sei verrückt, aber das bezweifelte er.“

„A central claim of this book has been that the evolution of religion is underpinned by the mystical stance, a capacity that depends in part...

„First, Moralizing High Gods were a late development (…). Second, preceding this, there was often a long phase of ritual complexity and propitiatory worship based...

„Taken together, these various studies suggest that attending a religious service and engaging in the rituals involved does activate the endorphin system, and this enhances...

„In animal play, the combination of rapid, vigorous, often jerky movements combined with a great deal of physcial contact, mouthing and rough-and-tumble is about as...

„There seems to be something that is psychologically very fundamental about the size and stability of a community size of around 150.“

„(…) whenever relationships within the community or camp start to become overly fractious, someone calls for a trance dance.“

„A study of 21’000 American adults found that those who never attended religious services had a risk of dying during the eight-year-follow-up period that was...

The Mystical Stance