The International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies
July 17, 2026
Prerona Das, Mamta Anand
The article discusses the abandonment of shamanic beliefs among the Naga indigenous tribes, reflecting a cultural stigmatization inflicted by colonialism. The article contextualizes two select novels, “Spirit Nights” and “Son of the Thundercloud” by Easterine Kire, situating the narratives within the Indian decolonial discourse. Employing a close textual reading method, the article reassesses...
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July 17, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola
Explores mental alchemy as a systematic science of consciousness transformation rooted in the Hermetic tradition. Drawing on The Hermetic Code by Ajarn Shaman Shu. Available: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=uxXsEQAAQBAJ | OrishaUniversity.com
Entangled Religions
July 16, 2026
Maciej Karasinski, Fathima Fasleena
The article explores the cultural significance of the sacred groves (kāvus) of Kerala and their relationship to various notions of nature, ecology and indigenous spirituality. We employ a mixed method of research that combines textual sources and oral exegesis as well as anthropological fieldwork to investigate the spaces within the kāvus that are designated for Tantric healing and empowerment....
Religions
July 16, 2026
Qi Zhao, Ruijia Zhang
Due to its brilliant literary narrative and profound ideas, Xiao Hong’s Tales of Hulan River has had a profound influence on the history of Chinese modern literature. Academia has conducted in-depth discussions on Tales of Hulan River, but these have largely overlooked the folk shamanic rituals and their crucial significance in this novel. The expression of literary narrative ideas cannot be...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
Osain: Orisha of Herbalism — Sacred Botany, Healing, and Ecological Intelligence in Yorùbá Theology Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University Abstract: This academic paper presents a rigorous scholarly study of Osain, the Orisha of herbs, forest medicine, and ecological...
Open MIND
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University This paper offers a comprehensive, initiated insider reinterpretation of Patañjali's eightfold system (aṣṭāṅga) through a Dravidian-Tamil Siddha lens, placing the Yoga Sutras in conversation with South...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
KRIYA Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University This article presents an authoritative, initiated-insider account of the methods, lineage history, and embodied practices synthesized in the book KRIYA (Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Swamikal, & Shumake, 2026). Writing from a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
BREATHE, B*TCH Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University This paper presents a scholarly examination of the book BREATHE, B*TCH (Shumake, Oluwo, Ajarn, & Swamikal, 2026) through the combined lenses of initiated insider scholarship and textual-historical analysis. The lead...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
Shurooms Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University This paper presents an initiated, cross-initiatory inquiry into entheogens and spiritual awakening as articulated in the co-authored volume Shurooms (Shumake et al., 2024). Combining emic autoethnography from initiated...
Open MIND
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
Shiva Mind Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University This article presents the central arguments and scholarly context of Shiva Mind, a collaborative monograph that advances a theology and phenomenology of "Shiva consciousness" as cosmic mind, situated within Dravidian...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
Thai Theravada Buddhism Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University This paper presents a synthesis and scholarly appraisal of the co-authored book Thai Theravada Buddhism (Shumake et al., 2026), foregrounding the forest tradition, meditation methodology, and the lived...
Open MIND
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
Ganesha: Break the Chain Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University This article presents a scholarly exposition and critical framing of the book Ganesha: Break the Chain by the present authors, a work that proposes a cross-cultural, practice-based paradigm for breaking...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Shumake, Robert S. (ajarn Shaman Shu | Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Phd | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal)
Shurooms: The First Ethnomycological Study from Within the African Initiatory Tradition — Ewe, Soma, and the Ceremonial Architecture of Psilocybin Healing (N = 300+) This flagship paper presents the first ethnomycological study of psilocybin ceremony authored from within the African initiatory tradition — not by an outside observer, clinical researcher, or journalist, but by an initiated...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
The Divine Pymander Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University This paper offers a sustained scholarly analysis of The Divine Pymander (Shumake, Osainbola, Ajarn, & Swamikal, 2026), an interpretive translation and commentary on the Corpus Hermeticum that foregrounds the...
Revista de Arqueología Americana
July 10, 2026
Giorgio Samorini
For over five decades, there has been a significant quantitative discrepancy between the traditional knowledge of psychoactive plants of Old World and New World. While some 20th century scholars believed that it was motivated by cultural differences between the populations of the two regions of the globe, this consideration failed to take into account that the acquisition of awareness of the...
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
July 1, 2026
Athanasia Kontouli, Michael J Hove, Alexandre Lehmann et al.
This review integrates anthropological and neuroscientific perspectives to elucidate music-induced trance processes and their relevance to non-ordinary states of consciousness (NSCs). The objectives are to deepen the understanding of trance phenomena, delineate links across diverse trance expressions, and inform future neuroscientific research. Drawing on anthropological insights, we examine...