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Homo communicans (on communication not only social)

Cite: , Homo communicans (o komunikacji nie tylko społecznej), "Kultura - Media - Teologia", 2022( 49) nr 1, s. 77-102.

DOI: 10.21697/kmt.49.4

Human communication with surrounding world is many-sided determined by nature, history, economy, culture, society, psychical processes and many other factors and elements, which play parts in communications acts and processes. Modus of existence. actors involved in communication, their ontology and patterns of behavior create universum considerably more extensive then customary conception of “social communication”, practically restricted to one- or two – directed, mediatized or direct interpersonal communication. We must to pay more attention to unattended investigation such phenomena and practices as intracommunication, communication with the deceased, communication with animals (real existed or imagined), communication with Transcendence or Absolut (God, gods), communication with forces of nature. We can speak on many communication channels and different states of conscious of the participants of communication acts (dream, ecstasy, religion visions, ritual dancing, shamanism).

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Bartosz Jastrzębski

ORCID: 0000-0002-6823-0705

Jerzy Jastrzębski

ORCID: 0000-0002-5904-3000