Das Amazônias
October 8, 2023
Pâmela Damilano Dos Santos
The article brings together some origin myths from different cultural traditions that coexist in Amazonian territories, in an archaeological effort that aims to show the potency of mythical narratives as manifestation of cultural diversity that permeates biodiversity of Amazonian territories. The richness of Amazonian biodiversity is globally valued, however, it is hardly recognized that it is...
International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
October 4, 2023
Ananda Dayal Jamatia -
This paper analyses the role and importance of Ochai (Shaman) in the daily life of the commoners, particularly of the Jamatia tribe, the word ‘Ochai’ is a Kokborok term meaning ‘Shaman’. Shamanism is not confined to a single country or region. It is a widespread phenomenon, existing in various forms across the globe. For instance, in the forests of the Amazon, indigenous tribes have their own...
JACCP JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACY
October 1, 2023
Kelan Thomas
In coming years, pharmacists will begin fielding more questions regarding psychedelic medicine, most notably with the imminent FDA approval of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) expected in 2024 and psilocybin for major depressive disorder (MDD) likely in 2025. Psychedelics are unique medications in many ways, but especially due to the mental...
History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals
October 1, 2023
Keith Williams, Suzanne Brant
7 citations
Abstract Indigenous people have been stewards of sacred plant medicines for millennia. Many of these sacred medicines—such as tobacco, cedar, sage, sweetgrass, and more recently the ayahuasca admixture and psilocybin-containing fungi—have been commercialized via their entry into the global capitalist economy. In this article, we offer readers an introduction to Indigenous gift logic as an...
Journal of Biological Chemistry
October 1, 2023
Xue Chen, Jing Li, Lisa Yu et al.
13 citations
Psychedelic indolethylamines have emerged as potential medicines to treat several psychiatric pathologies. Natural sources of these compounds include 'magic mushrooms' (Psilocybe spp.), plants used to prepare ayahuasca, and toads. The skin and parotid glands of certain toads accumulate a variety of specialized metabolites including toxic guanidine alkaloids, lipophilic alkaloids, poisonous...
Interritórios
September 28, 2023
Maria Betânia Barbosa Albuquerque, Gabriel Gonçalves Serafim Silva
1 citation
O artigo analisa a história de vida, a formação e os lugares outros de conhecimentos percorridos por Sebastião Mota e Francisca Gabriel, duas lideranças de comunidades religiosas e educativas da Amazônia: o Santo daime e a Barquinha, centradas no uso ritualístico de uma bebida conhecida como ayahuasca ou daime. O texto resulta de pesquisa de campo, apoiada nos pressupostos da história oral e de...
American Journal of Psychiatry Residents Journal
September 8, 2023
Lawrence Canale, Dhvanit Raval, Preet Chatha et al.
Psychedelics as therapeutic agents have generated significant attention from clinicians and media sources in recent years. The authors provide an update to the psychiatric trainee on the evidence for psychedelics in the treatment of major depressive disorder and treatment-resistant depression. Many modern clinical trials of the classic, serotonergic psychedelics, such as psilocybin, ayahuasca,...
Feminist Theology
August 12, 2023
Carlos Alejandra Beltrán Acero
This article is an account of my theological journey of spiritual and scientific transformation. It deals with the digestion of god in my life and the production of a new theological mode. My first description deals with the need of writing theology as if there was no censorship. What does it mean to go from war to democracy in theology? Then I register the need to go beyond the theology of...
Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association
August 10, 2023
G. Pearson
The use of psychedelic medications to treat the brain disorders associated with psychiatric illness has re-emerged in recent years as a viable treatment option (Grieco et al., 2022). Historically there is evidence of hallucinogenic use in religious and spiritual rituals dating back to 500 B.C. (Begola & Dowben, 2018). The discovery of LSD (lysergic acid diethylamine-25) in Switzerland in 1943...
Indigenous Religious Traditions
August 4, 2023
Pablo Wright
1 citation
I adapt Michel Foucault’s notion of technologies of the self to carry out a comparative analysis of two ethnographic cases of contemporary South American shamanisms. In these cases, their cosmological and ritual frameworks display ontological thresholds acceded through specific technologies of the self that contest current assumptions about both the Christian and the scientific hegemonic...