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La possession en Asie du Sud 1999 Elisabeth Schômbucher
In this contribution, a form of possession mediumship among the Vāḍabalija, a South Indian fishing caste is analysed. Anthropological studies of this form of possession have generally emphasized its therapeutic effect. A possession séance is in the first place a verbal event. It is through language that reality is created. Therefore, the focus here will be on the text spoken during possession....
Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1999 Myron J. Stolaroff
In the fall of 1996 issue of the Buddhist magazine Tricycle, various teachers of Buddhist meditation practice commented on the value of psychedelic experiences, with opinions of them ranging from helpful to harmful. Here, the author hopes to explain these conflicting viewpoints by describing important aspects of employing psychedelics that must be taken into account for effective results. These...
American Journal of Psychotherapy 1999 R Meares
This paper suggests that traumatic memories are represented in a way that is qualitatively different from nontraumatic memories. The argument depends upon a concept of self, derived from Hughlings Jackson and William James, which is double, involving not only mental life but reflection upon it. Trauma is seen as causing an uncoupling, or dedoubling, of consciousness. The traumatic diminishment...
Reviews in the Neurosciences 1999 F Sams-Dodd
Phencyclidine (PCP) is a hallucinogenic drug that can mimic several aspects of the schizophrenic symptomatology in healthy volunteers. In a series of studies PCP was administered to rats to determine whether it was possible to develop an animal model of the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. The rats were tested in the social interaction test and it was found that PCP...
Acta Medica (Hradec Kralove Czech Republic) 1999 M Koupilová, J Herink, Otakar Krs 5 citations
Behavioural effects of two experimental neurotoxins, mescaline and DSP-4 (N-(2-chloroethyl)-N-ethyl-2-bromobenzylamine), on retention of spatial orientation were studied in the T - maze. The stereotaxic administration of both neurotoxins into the selected brain structures was chosen to reveal this effect. The intensity and time course of the neurotoxic effect were dependent on the brain area...
Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science December 4, 1998 Anil K. Seth, Gerald M. Edelman
Conventional approaches to understanding consciousness are generally concerned with the contribution of specific brain areas or groups of neurons. By contrast, it is considered here what kinds of neural processes can account for key properties of conscious experience. Applying measures of neural integration and complexity, together with an analysis of extensive neurological data, leads to a...
Psychological Reports December 1, 1998 J Houran, C Williams
We examined the relationship of tolerance of ambiguity to severe global factors and specific types of anomalous or paranormal experience. 107 undergraduate students completed MacDonald's 1970 AT-20 and the Anomalous Experiences Inventory of Kumar, Pekala, and Gallagher. Scores on the five subscales of the Anomalous Experiences Inventory correlated differently with tolerance of ambiguity. Global...
Psychological Reports December 1, 1998 James Houran, Rense Lange
50 college students completed the Anomalous Experiences Inventory, the AT-20 measure of tolerance of ambiguity, and a frequency of dream recall questionnaire. Using path analysis we show that precognitive dreams can be modeled as accidental 'hits' with increased dream recall and the interpretation of such hits as 'meaningful coincidences' seems facilitated by a belief in the paranormal. As...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs December 1, 1998 Charles S. Grob, George Greer, Mariavittoria Mangini 15 citations
(1998). Editors' Introduction: Hallucinogens at the Turn of the Century. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs: Vol. 30, Therapeutic Ue of Hallucinogens, pp. 315-319.
Drug and Alcohol Review December 1, 1998 W Hall
This paper reviews evidence on two hypotheses about the relationship between cannabis use and psychosis. The first hypothesis is that heavy cannabis use may cause a "cannabis psychosis"-a psychosis that would not occur in the absence of cannabis use, the symptoms of which are preceded by heavy cannabis use and remit after abstinence. The second hypothesis is that cannabis use may precipitate...