What group or individual could take responsibility for the West appropriating Sami culture in the most barbaric ways at Christmas time? Their shamans were generous enough, early last century, to share with outsiders some spiritual practices involving red and white fly agaric mushrooms in that season, only to have elements of those rituals stolen an

The amazing thing discovered by brain researchers is that humans never actually lose memories—we just lose access to them, but they still somehow guide our actions. We might lose conscious access to the traumatic memory of our hair catching fire, yet still remain afraid of flames, for example. Part of us remembers.