Anthropology of Consciousness
September 1, 2003
Robin Rodd
Shamans of the Piaroa ethnic group (southern Venezuela) conceive of power in terms of knowledge derived from visionary experiences. Märipa is an epistemology concerning the translation of knowledge derived from the integrative mode of consciousness, induced primarily through the consumption of plant hallucinogens, to practical effect during waking life. I integrate mythological,...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
September 1, 2003
Ede Frecska, Keith D. White, Luis E. Luna
12 citations
An early theoretical analysis supposed changes in hemispheric integration as the basis of altered state of consciousness induced by psychoactive drugs. Brain imaging studies revealed right cortical activation after administration of hallucinogens. Recent studies on binocular rivalry suggest that interhemispheric switching is the neural substrate of the perceptual oscillations observed during...
Neurologic Clinics
August 1, 2003
A. Whatham, Patrik Vuilleumier, T. Landis et al.
Conscious experience is an essential part of normal human life and interaction with the environment. Yet the nature of consciousness and conscious perception remains a mystery. Because of its subjective nature, consciousness has been difficult to investigate scientifically, but clues have been gained through studies involving patients with cortical lesions. During the past decade, the...
International Journal of Neuroscience
July 2003
Petr Bob
History of the study of dissociation begins in the second half of the nineteenth century. It begins in the works of Hughlings Jackson and Pierre Janet, and markedly influences development of psychoanalysis and other psychological trends. According to the modern definition, dissociation represents a disturbance or alteration in the normally integrative functions of identity, memory, or...
Choice Reviews Online
July 1, 2003
148 citations
Prologue 1. Addicted to Nothingness: Narcotics and Literature 2. The Voice of the Blood: Transcendentalism and Anesthetic Revelation 3. The Time of the Assassins: Cannabis and Literature 4. Induced Life: Stimulants and Literature 5. The Imaginal Realms: Psychedelics and Literature Epilogue Bibliography Notes Acknowledgments Illustration Credits Index
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
April 2003
Pierre Rainville, Donald D Price
Recent developments in the philosophical and neurobiological studies of consciousness provide promising frameworks to investigate the neurobiology of hypnosis. A model of consciousness phenomenology is described to demonstrate that the experiential dimensions characterizing hypnosis (relaxation and mental ease, absorption, orientation and monitoring, and self-agency) reflect basic phenomenal...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 2003
I. M. Lewis
18 citations
Altered States of Consciousness is an umbrella term applied in the study of psychological, sociological and religious phenomena that are regularly encountered experientially in the study of trance, possession, and shamanism, all of which have complex and problematic links with music. Beginning with trance, and stressing the pervasive sexual imagery invoked, this paper reviews the role ofASC in...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 2003
Thomas B. Roberts
121 citations
The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience. By Benny Shanon. 2001. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 475 pages. $35 (paperback). ISBN 0199252939
Reports of Practical Oncology & Radiotherapy
2003
Alicja Heyda
Emocje i sposoby oddychania są wzajemnie współzależne – określone emocje powodują określony sposób oddychania. Z drugiej strony sposób oddychania może zmieniać emocje lub postrzeganie własnych doznań, takich jak ból lub lęk. Techniki pracy z oddechem były stosowane już od tysiącleci w terapii i praktyce duchowej. Służyły między innymi do uspokajania umysłu, leczenia oraz podtrzymywania zdrowia...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
2003
Charles D. Laughlin, Jason Throop
27 citations
The majority of the world’s cultures encourage or require members to enter alternative states of consciousness (ASC) while involved in religious rituals. The question is, why? This paper suggests an explanation for the culturally prescribed ASC from the view of Fisher information. It argues from the position, first put forward by Emile Durkheim in his magnum opus, The Elementary Forms of the...