Time and Mind
June 24, 2026
David S. Whitley
What do hunter-gatherer rock art motifs portray, and what does this tell us about their religious experiences? David Lewis-Williams was instrumental in establishing the connection between certain cultures’ corpora of art, shamanism and altered states of consciousness imagery. But one aspect of that spectrum of consciousness has been previously understudied. This is the place of Jung’s ‘Big...
Time and Mind
August 11, 2025
A. Whitehead, Christopher L. Scott, Jennifer C. French
1 citation
Upper Palaeolithic parietal art is frequently found deep within cave systems where illumination technologies were required for art production. Kedar, Kedar, & Barkai hypothesise that the oxygen consumption of illumination technology, combined with the poor ventilation of deep cave chambers, resulted in a hypoxia-induced altered-state-of-consciousness which incentivised ritual activity and...
Time and Mind
January 2, 2021
B. Pothier
1 citation
ABSTRACT The ‘Chu Silk Manuscript’, or ‘Zidanku Silk Manuscript 1ʹ, estimated to date back to 300 BCE, and considered to be the earliest known Chinese manuscript containing illustrations, features the depiction of plants on its four corners. Although there is an academic consensus in considering these plants as ‘mythical trees’, my study suggests that some of the plants depicted present...
Time and Mind
July 3, 2018
Charles D. Laughlin
7 citations
While discussions of meditation by psychologists tend to focus upon various forms of East Asian yogic practice, other systems of meditation occur across cultures. Meditation is defined in neuropsychological terms that allow the phenomenon to be examined in ethnographic situations. Anthropologists have found that meditation on culturally salient symbols is widespread among the world’s spiritual...
Time and Mind
October 2, 2014
Jenny Walklate
3 citations
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size James Fadiman, PhD, certainly has a central position in alternative academic research. He has been researching, and sometimes using, psychedelics for the last 40 years; you cannot deny that he has experience. This book is surrounded with praise, on the back and inner leaf, so he is clearly held in great esteem by others in the field. But...
Time and Mind
2011
Charles D. Laughlin
16 citations
The most common alternative state of consciousness among human beings is dreaming. All normal humans sleep, and during sleep they dream. Still, dreaming is a phenomenon of mystery and confusion for many Westerners, and of fascination to scientists wishing to understand how the mind works, both in terms of neuropsychology and within the context of culture. The neuropsychology of dreaming is...
Time and Mind
2011
David Luke
6 citations
(2011). The Light from the Forest: The Ritual Use of Ayahuasca in Brazil. Time and Mind: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 361-364.
Time and Mind
2010
David Luke
34 citations
After a long, slow journey from the leather armchairs of its forefathers to out-of-body travels over Amazonian jungles, the anthropology of psi has progressed through a number of historical, methodological, and ontological developments. The course of this transformation from the detached and disbelieving dismissal of the occult to the engaged and emic entertainment of psi as a scientific...
Time and Mind
2010
Michael Winkelman
3 citations
(2010). Introduction: Anthropologies of Consciousness. Time and Mind: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 125-134.
Time and Mind
2008
Charles D. Laughlin, C. Jason Throop
54 citations
The neurophenomenology of time-consciousness is presented. This lays a foundation for exploring the ways that society and culture influence the experience and interpretation of time without losing sight of the embodied, neurophysiological and universal aspects of time-consciousness. The neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) are summarized as they relate to temporal perception and cognition....
Time and Mind
2008
Benny Shanon
43 citations
A speculative hypothesis is presented according to which the ancient Israelite religion was associated with the use of entheogens (mind-altering plants used in sacramental contexts). The hypothesis is based on a new look at texts of the Old Testament pertaining to the life of Moses. The ideas entertained here were primarily based on the fact that in the arid areas of the Sinai peninsula and...