How is studying Anthropology useful?

To understand what a human being actually is beyond any one religion. To see that religions were things that people thought up along the way. Often we act like religions (especially if we are raised in one) is the "Gospel Truth" when in reality it came from a bunch of old men mostly who wanted to control the people around them (especially the women and children).

So, studying anthropology and psychology together helped me to understand all this and to realize I am and everyone is something very different than they often realize if they haven't really studied who human beings are and where they really came from.

For example, I discovered that I was a natural Shaman by studying Cultural Anthropology. I learned that a shaman is someone who has psychologically died but their body lives on somehow and that a shaman lives in the world of the living and the world of the dead both at once because of this psychological death. And I learned that Shamans because they live in the world of the living and the world of the dead often can heal people because of this.

 I also learned of all the Creation stories of especially native American religions. Each Tribe has it's very own creation story that when you think about it is equally as valid as any other larger religion.

Because of this I encourage people to write their own creation stories of their experience of the universe and how they came to be here on earth in all ways.

I also learned that all qualities of humans have at least two sides, usually a good side and a bad side.

For example, I tend to be stubborn sometimes to a fault. However, if I turn this quality over to something more useful this same quality is about determination which is very helpful in marriage and family and not giving up on your wife and children and having the determination to do that as long as you live.

So, anthropology can help you see who humans have been for hundreds of thousands of years or more and see who they were along the way and through this process envision who they might be in the present and future.

Studying anthropology I found to be one of the most useful things I have ever done in just better understanding who I was in the cosmos of being a human being here on earth and who we all came from around the world. I learned to be less myopic that I was taught to be in religion by my parents who never went to college and so were sort of amazed at the person I became in my life. So, I was also better able to help my parents cope with their lives from studying Anthropology too.

By God's Grace