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...
Revista Brasileira de História da Ciência
July 29, 2023
Vinícius Maurício de Lima, Maria Gabriela Silva Martins da Cunha Marinho
Nosso objetivo foi analisar a inter-relação entre ayahuasca e ciência na cobertura jornalística da primeira metade do século XX. Embora o “Renascimento psicodélico” seja associado aos anos 1960-1970, quando pesquisas sobre substâncias psicoativas foram suspensas devido às políticas antidrogas e ao sensacionalismo midiático, questionamos como era a cobertura jornalística sobre pesquisas com a...
Advances in Mental Health
July 13, 2023
Jorge Valdiviezo‐oña, Lizbeth Toscano-Molina, Juan Fernando Chávez et al.
4 citations
Objective To map the studies reporting the use of psychedelics in clinical and non-clinical settings by people reporting an eating disorder (ED) and their outcomes.Method To be included, peer-reviewed articles had to be written in English or Spanish and had to address the usage of psychedelics by people reporting an ED. Searches were conducted on PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science. Data on key...
O Mosaico
July 11, 2023
Matheus Moura Silva
Este artigo tem como foco o processo criativo de uma história em quadrinhos a partir do uso de ayahuasca. A história em questão se chama, AyauhuayA, e foi escolhida para este trabalho por se tratar de um encontro com um ser espiritual durante transe psicodélico. Na introdução do artigo é dado o panorama da pesquisa, realizada no contexto da tese defendida em 2018, no PPGACV/FAV-UFG. São...
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...
Revista Tocantinense de Geografia
July 5, 2023
Vanessa Maria Alves Lima Sales, Campêlo Fernanda Cristina da Silva, Marivaldo Cavalcante da Silva
O Santo Daime é uma doutrina religiosa originária da região amazônica, fundada pelo denominado Mestre Irineu. É caracterizado pelo uso ritualístico da ayahuasca, um chá de propriedades psicoativas, e agrega elementos simbólicos de outras culturas religiosas/espiritualistas, como o xamanismo, catolicismo popular, umbandismo, kardecismo, entre outros. Tal doutrina encontra-se em expansão, tanto...
Interações
July 3, 2023
Ana Rosa Cloclet da Silva, Jéssica Martins Alves
A complexidade na configuração das religiões e formas de religiosidade contemporâneas tem desafiado os pesquisadores a buscarem parâmetros interpretativos, adequados ao estudo das recomposições inéditas entre práticas e saberes tradicionais com novos conteúdos. É este o caso do neoxamanismo, cujas práticas e conteúdos simbólicos ressignificam elementos do xamanismo ameríndio, com propósitos...
Brain Network and Modulation
July 1, 2023
Javier Hidalgo Jiménez
2 citations
N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is the simplest psychedelic tryptamine and is produced naturally by many plant and animal species, including humans. While classical psychedelics, such as lysergic acid diethylamide, or psilocybin, are gaining interest because of their therapeutic potential, DMT has yet to be fully investigated. However, preliminary clinical evidence suggests that DMT and/or...