Japanese Journal of Physiological Psychology and Psychophysiology
1989
Kazuhiko Fukuda
3 citations
In Japan, there is a set of experiences called kanashibari, which is symptomatically identical to sleep paralysis with or without hypnagogic hallucinations. In a former study (Fukuda et al., 1987a), the author and co-workers have investigated this phenomenon by a questionnaire method and have found that among the normal population the phenomenon is apparently more common than has been usually...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
1989
Andrew N. Leak
Sartre’s theorisation of desire does not permit of a concept of perversion. All sexual attitudes, from algolagnia to zoophilia, are ultimately reducible to variations on the essential aim of sexual desire: the ‘perpetual attempt of an embodied consciousness to come to terms with the existence of others’.1 In L’Etre et le néant this aim is stated to be impossible a priori. In later works such as...
The British Journal of Psychiatry
1989
A relatively normal 16-year-old Chinese woman with a six-month history of compulsive water drinking resulting in a comatose state is reported. The drinking was perpetuated by an enjoyable altered state of consciousness after ingestion of an average of 20 litres of water per day. Treatment by fluid restriction and, later, simple education was successful. The subjective dimension of an altered...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
1989
W Emboden
32 citations
Contemporary reference to the role of water lilies and mandrakes (Nymphaea and Mandragora, respectively) in ancient Egyptian healing, and subsequent research on the iconography of the water lily in Mayan shamanistic ritual, suggest the possible importance of these plants as adjuncts to shamanistic healing in dynastic Egypt. Although the usual interpretation of the water lily and the mandrake...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
1989
H A Senn
4 citations
The literature on shamanism generally describes a specially gifted individual who is able to contact and communicate with a realm where spirit beings offer wisdom and help, and who actively transmits this knowledge to others. There seem to be approximately five features that define shamanism: the necessity of a "call"--an illness or accident that signifies the necessity of the individual to...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
1989
P A Wright
20 citations
A review of the literature suggests that a common psychobiological process is associated with various altered states of consciousness (ASC) utilized by shamans, meditators, and mediums. However, the shamanic state of consciousness (SSC) can be differentiated physiologically from possession trance states. The psychophysiological literature on different types of trances and on seizure conditions...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
1989
H Wautischer
3 citations
In a state of voluntary trance or meditation, the perception of reality appears to extend beyond the usual spatial and temporal boundaries that are normally perceived by the sense organs. It is argued that the problems of validity and reliability of trance experiences for scientific discourse are in principle no different than the problems associated with ordinary perception. The shift in early...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
1989
R Noll
11 citations
Within anthropology, investigations of shamans and their altered states of consciousness have followed some of the prescriptive problems inherited from the discipline of psychology, coloring the assumptions and perspectives of students of shamanism. These inherited problems include the following: conscious/volitional versus unconscious/involuntary mentalisms; contentual objectivism versus...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
July 1, 1988
T E Oxman, S D Rosenberg, P P Schnurr et al.
To compare the subjective experience of different forms of altered states of consciousness, computerized content analysis was applied to 66 autobiographical accounts of schizophrenia, hallucinogenic drug states, or mystical ecstasy and to 28 autobiographical control accounts of important personal experiences. The patterns of lexical choice used by the four groups were significantly different in...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1988
Kenneth Ring
7 citations
Not long ago, I invited students in one of my undergraduate courses to participate in a simple experiment."I'm going to mention a word," I said, "and I want you to write down a number from -5 to + 5 in response to that word.The number you choose should reflect your gut feeling about this word.If you feel favorable toward it, choose some positive integer; if you feel unfavorable, choose a...