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July 11, 2023 Heidi Haanila
The capacity to reflect on oneself is of utmost importance to human personhood. To elaborate on the manifold forms of reflective self-consciousness, this article endorses a multidimensional conception of self, according to which self-reflection essentially involves an experiential dimension. While classical analyses of reflective self-consciousness have highlighted unique epistemic and...
Open Access Government July 10, 2023 Erika Dyck 1 citation
The history of psychedelics and why psychedelic stories matter Erika Dyck argues that how people learn about psychedelics today matters, based on the histories of these drugs and how they have been and should be used in clinical medicine. While these substances have piqued the interest and influenced the attitudes of individuals across academia, culture, and medicine, expanding before and well...
Frontiers in Psychology July 7, 2023 Alessandro Guardascione 2 citations
This paper presents a critical comparison between two phenomenological accounts of schizophrenic experience: on the one side, Blankenburg’s seminal work on the basal disturbance (Grundstörung) of schizophrenia as loss of natural self-evidence (Natürlichen Selbstverständlichkeit); on the other side, Tatossian’s insight, briefly elaborated in a lecture presented in Heidelberg in 1994 and largely...
July 7, 2023 Neil Carrier, Lisa L. Gezon
This chapter focuses on drugs in spiritual and religions contexts, considering their role in altered states of consciousness, divination and healing. The first part of the chapter presents the sub-discipline of ethnobotany and its contribution to anthropological ideas about hallucinogenic plant substances and their wider connection of drugs to shamanism and the spirit world. It also discusses...
Казанский педагогический журнал July 1, 2023 Е.в. Гончаренко, Sofia Argun, Е.к. Карелина et al.
Данная работа является продолжением авторской классификации жестов обмана в безынструментальной детекции лжи. Статья про транс-жесты была ранее опубликована в Казанском педагогическом журнале в 2022 году. В настоящем исследовании анализируется трансовая пантомимика у приматов, детей и взрослых респондентов. Раскрываются филогенетические, этологические и онтогенетические аспекты трансовых...
BJPsych Open July 1, 2023 Muhammad Ishrat Husain, Nicole Ledwos, Elise Fellows et al. 41 citations
Background Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of psilocybin have reported large antidepressant effects in adults with major depressive disorder and treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Given psilocybin's psychedelic effects, all published studies have included psychological support. These effects depend on serotonin 2A (5-HT2A) receptor activation, which can be blocked by 5-HT2A receptor...
June 30, 2023 Matt P D Gwyther, Jane E. Aspell 3 citations preprint
Flotation-Reduced Environmental Stimulation Therapy (REST) and mindfulness meditation (MM) are known to induce altered states of consciousness (ASC) and self-consciousness. In this study, we use a phenomenological and predictive processing (PP) framework to compare the interventions alongside the psychedelic experience. Ego-dissolution scores were greater than ego-inflation scores in both...
June 29, 2023 Giselle de Nie
This chapter investigates evidence in late sixth-century miracle stories of the experiential role of what must be many different kinds of noncommon-sense states of consciousness. Modem psychologists approach the great variety of these modes of consciousness from an experimental angle. The sixth-century bishop and hagiographer Gregory of Tours tells us an extraordinary story in which he lets us...
Religions June 29, 2023 M. Winkelman 22 citations
The relationship of wu (巫) to shamanism is problematic, with virtually all mentions of historical and contemporary Chinese wu ritualists translated into English as shaman. Ethnological research is presented to illustrate cross-cultural patterns of shamans and other ritualists, providing an etic framework for empirical assessments of resemblances of Chinese ritualists to shamans. This etic...
Religion, Brain & Behavior June 29, 2023 Péter Rácz 1 citation
Possession trance is an altered state of consciousness resulting from spirit possession, belief in an alien entity residing in the self. Though treated as an individual psychopathological condition in Western medicine, cultural anthropology has long tied possession trance, and trance and possession phenomena in general, to marginalization by increasingly complex and inflexible social...