July 13, 2023 I've been slowly making my way through a history book by Jackson Lears Animal Spirits. He described some well known authors, preachers, controversial charlatan figure, philosophers, economics writers etc. who have describes the spirits and sometimes unseen forces of nature that somehow we can capture and use for our human ends. He goes into some of the folklore of the native American tribes in which a kinship and respect is practiced with wolves, deer, buffalo, etc. The interaction between the unseen animal and other spirits and energies and human interactions include attempts to morally guide us to be better people and are utilized to attempts healing and cures for various ailments. Commercial charlatan such as Mesmer are described with the sexualization of the energy now described as electricity and other physically interactive forces that the purveyor can harness. As I write I am only 100 pages into this book but am motivated to puzzle and understand t