ISSN 1751-696X
18 papers in the library · 188 citations · publishing 2008-2026
Time and Mind October 15, 2026 James Hampson
How can hunter-gatherer worldviews be gleaned from the archaeological record? By intertwining archaeological and ethnographic studies, this article considers the relationships between rock paintings and quartz in several regions of the Americas, Europe, Australia, and Southern Africa. It demonstrates that concepts of animism, shamanism, and neurology explain at least some of the similarities in...
Time and Mind October 11, 2026 Sevil Mehdilou, Fariborz Dolatabadi, Masoomeh Yaghoobi
This article proposes a four-layer phenomenological–semiotic model of appresentation, understood as the symbolic and affective co-presence of unseen dimensions within embodied spatial experience. Drawing on phenomenology, archetypal symbolism, and theories of cultural memory, the study conceptualizes sacred architecture as a dynamic field in which symbolic meaning and lived presence emerge...
Time and Mind September 19, 2026 Brian A. Stewart, Peter J. Mitchell
Inspired by the insights of David Lewis-Williams, rock art research has changed significantly over the past half-century. As he has shown, interpretations of hunter-gatherer rock paintings and engravings in southern Africa depend inextricably on working back and forth between the surviving imagery and its location, on the one hand, and insights from (principally San) ethnographic data on the...
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 April 3, 2025 A. Skinner
ABSTRACT The structural similarity of animist ontologies across world regions hints at common underlying threads between them. This contribution examines the neurophenomenological context of animist experience, focusing on how a sense of consciousness and relationality can emerge as a primary feature of environmental experience rather than an imposed interpretation. While shamanic cosmologies...
Time and Mind October 2, 2022 M. R. Lami, Mónica Fernández
We are pleased to present a collection of stimulating research papers that delve into various realms of scientific inquiry, shedding new light on captivating subjects. In this issue, we embark on a journey that spans the enigmatic presence of a mushroom cult in the Southern Levant, ancient divination practices, rock art research, and the symbolic significance of prehistoric architecture. These...
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 October 2, 2018 C. Laughlin
ABSTRACT This article hypothesizes that the root meaning of the concept mana (including cognate terms in other Pacific languages) derives from the direct experience of psychic energy which may then be interpreted in individual traditions as associated with personal power, healing, shamanic skill, transmission of status, political authority, orientation to land, efficacy, and so forth. I posit...
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 April 3, 2015 Caroline Tully, Sam Crooks 20 citations
Cult scenes illustrated in miniature on administrative stone seals and metal signet rings from Late Bronze Age Minoan Crete are commonly interpreted as “Epiphany Scenes” and have been called “shamanic”. “Universal shamanism” is a catch-all anthropological term coined to describe certain inferred ritual behaviors across widely dispersed cultures and through time. This study re-examines evidence...
Time and Mind October 2, 2014 Jenny Walklate 3 citations
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 unfortunately, his book is presented in a sensationalist...
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...