[[Mircea Eliade]] delved deeply into shamanism. [[Jordan Peterson]] calls what the shamanism the oldest philosophical/religious enterprise that we have any record of.[^1] His description of this as a philosophical and religion enterprise treats philosophy and religion as inseparable, which goes beyond philosophy in the traditional sense that started the rational theorizing of the Greeks. This is a better sense of philosophy and religion for comparative studies as certainly diving into ancient Chinese rites and ideas would require such a loose sense of philosophy and religion. The shamanic rituals of 350,000 years ago are "equivalent to analysis of the potentially creative breakdown of the individual human personality and its reconstitution on more solid ground," an early variant of the idea of death and rebirth as a path upwards. [^1]: Lecture 1, [[PA Personality and its Transformations]]