If you communicate with plants, is that normal or suspicious? If you sense life in rocks are you sensitive or are you seen as a bit odd? Mythbusting Reality examines the ways in which classical Western and traditional Indigenous understandings of the world can differ in the ways people communicate with each other, the nature of interactions with physical places, ideas of animate and inanimate qualities and non-physical entities and even time travel.

These notions can involve more than just cross-cultural differences in language and custom, but can extend to pose fundamental questions of the nature of the physical and spiritual world and the ways we communicate and engage with it. In this course you will not only explore how these Western and traditional Indigenous understandings of reality can differ, but also how differences can be seen by the other as improbable, impossible, deviant or heretical. You will also explore how more recent advances in physics and consciousness studies reinforce-or contradict-long held ideas.

In this course you will develop skills in examining these theories and in applying them to an understanding of a range of social issues which confront individuals in contemporary society.