Altered States of Consciousness within a General Evolutionary Perspective: A Holocultural Analysis
Behavior Science Research August 1, 1977 Erika Bourguignon, Thomas L. Evascu 76 citations
This paper represents a reanalysis of data from earlier studies sup porting the hypothesis that cultural patterning of altered states of con sciousness (trance) conforms to a monothetic general evolutionary scale of sociocultural behavior. Global correlations using holocultural method ology show trance type to be positively correlated with four selected evolutionary variables, two related to...