The basic principle of folklore is constant—unveiling the hidden riches within the ordinary things of everyday life: a fine contribution to, and coordination with, the humanities. Examples are the study of the oral/orality; life stories of the obscure; practices of ‘hidden’ amateur musicians, studied ethnographically rather than through written scores or the ‘great’ composers; research by...
The immanent power of charisma surfaces in the revival of shamanism. An undifferentiated and monistic cosmos is embodied in shamanic practices that enable full participation in the unfolding of phenomena. As the most archaic of religious practices, shamanism makes the web of cosmic connections concretely present in, and inseparable from, charisma. Communication between the visible and invisible...
This chapter introduces briefly some ideas presented by Guy Claxton, the author of The Wayward Mind: An Intimate History of the Unconscious . It suggests that people&s;s explanations for the oddities have changed over time from the "outward" to the "inward" stories. Compulsive behaviour, epileptic seizure, ADHD, Tourette&s;s syndrome, psychosomatic disorder, and panic disorder are contemporary...
Traumatic experiences have been linked to the development of altered states of consciousness affecting bodily perception, including alterations in body ownership and sense of agency, the conscious experience of the body as one’s own and under voluntary control. Severe psychological trauma and prolonged distress may lead to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).Together, symptoms of derealization...
The coupling between respiration and neural activity within olfactory areas and hippocampus has recently been unambiguously demonstrated, its neurophysiological basis sustained by the well-assessed mechanical sensitivity of the olfactory epithelium. We herein hypothesize that this coupling reverberates to the whole brain, possibly modulating the subject's behavior and state of consciousness....
April 24, 2018Ana Paula Silva Campagnoli1 citation
\n A temporalidade compõe os atos da pessoa no mundo. A subjetividade assume papel importante, a partir dela é que o tempo adquire sentido e significado. Desta forma, a percepção subjetiva do tempo torna-se essencial para a percepção da realidade, delineando uma distinção entre o decurso temporal dos eventos vividos ao longo da vida, o que implica que o processamento da informação temporal é...
N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a powerful serotonergic psychedelic whose exogenous administration elicits striking psychedelic effects in humans. Studies have identified DMT and analogous compounds (e.g., 5-hydroxy-DMT, 5-methoxy-DMT) alongside of an enzyme capable of synthesizing DMT endogenously from tryptamine, indolethylamine-N-methyltransferase (INMT), in human and several other mammalian...
Primordial consciousness and its language undergirds numerous phenomena of everyday life. In addition to dreaming and mother-infant bonding, which were described in chapter 4 . Several of these are described, including the manifestly pathological (psychosis), and more ordinary phenomena including belief systems, ordinary and extreme, altered states of consciousness whose manifestations can seem...
April 17, 2018L. Bullough Vern, J. Madigan Timothy
The upsurge of interest in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) is no doubt precipitated by the fact that more than ever before, people can be "brought back from death&s;s door." NDEs are somewhat like the out-of-body experiences (OBEs) that are commonly encountered and do not occur in near-death situations. It is reported that during OBEs a similar sense of separation from one&s;s body, even a...
The cerebellum plays a key role not only in motor function but also in affect and cognition. Although several psychopathological disorders have been associated with overall cerebellar dysfunction, it remains unclear whether different regions of the cerebellum contribute uniquely to psychopathology. Accordingly, we compared seed-based resting-state functional connectivity of the anterior...