2 papers in the library · publishing 2025-2026
Comparative Studies in Society and History August 6, 2026 Matt Tomlinson
Abstract Recent work on metaphysical healing practices extends William James’s observations on what he called the “mind cure.” Four titles are reviewed on the topics of mindfulness, ayahuasca use, Spiritualism, and shamanism. In the United Kingdom, advocates join forces with parliamentarians to promote mindfulness as the key to ensuring a psychologically healthy nation. At commercial ayahuasca...
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute November 5, 2025 Matt Tomlinson
In Spiritualism, mediums ritually foreground and background their agency and that of people in the spirit world in the same act. Spiritualist mediums take responsibility for the expressions they produce for audiences: the words they formulate or convey, the healing they transmit, and the writings and paintings their hands bring into the world. Yet they deny responsibility at the same time by...