Romanian Journal of Pediatrics
December 31, 2019
Viorela Nițescu
Conform definiiei stabilite de Monitorul European pentru Droguri i Toxicomanie (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction -EMCDDA), o "substan psihoactiv nou este considerat orice substan narcotic sau psihotrop n form pur sau n preparate, care nu este controlat prin Conveniile privitoare la droguri ale Naiunilor Unite i care reprezint o ameninare la adresa sntii umane comparabil...
Entangled Religions
December 17, 2019
Ines Weinrich
The Muslim theologian Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111) is one of the most often cited authors when it comes to "music and Islam." His “Book on the Etiquette of Listening and Ecstasy” (*Kitāb Ādāb as-samāʿ wa-l-wajd*), translated into English more than a hundred years ago, is widely circulated among Muslims in the East and West, in Arabic and English, in print and on the internet. This paper...
Revista Laboratorio
December 10, 2019
Enrique Flores
El presente artículo aborda la disposición poética y barroca presente en el rito de la ayahuasca, en el que el poeta argentino Néstor Perlongher participó. Desde su perspectiva existen diversas tensiones experimentadas en el ritual chamánico, las que se organizan en tres parejas contradictorias: fuerza y forma, apolíneo y dionisíaco, cuerpo y expresión. Estas tensiones llevan al sujeto y /o...
Pediatric Clinics of North America
December 1, 2019
Janet F Williams, Leslie H. Lundahl
22 citations
Club drugs and "other" abusable substances are briefly overviewed as a reminder about the wide variety of known and unknown substances used by adolescents, the high potential for direct and interactive substance use effects to manifest acutely and chronically, and the vigilance needed to anticipate and recognize the new effects and drug-drug interactions arising as novel substances continue to...
November 26, 2019
Alan Page Fiske
What are often called ‘mystical’ experiences of union with divinity or with nature, as well as experiences on MDMA (Ecstasy, Molly) on sometimes other hallucinogenic drugs, typically consist of exceptionally strong kama muta motes. The communal sharing motives that ecstatic motes generate are so strong that they often transform identity and social relations. The phenomenology of mystical...
PEOPLE: International Journal of Social Sciences
November 15, 2019
Candice L Shelby
World-wide, researchers and practitioners in psychiatry are increasingly interested in the effectiveness of such substances as MDMA, LSA, and psylocibin in treating such disorders as addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other types of depressive and anxiety. Although most of these substances were declared illegal in most countries during the 1970s, research into their use was...
November 8, 2019
Igor Alexandre Martins
Reminiscences of the origin of art, deeply linked to the production of sacred images, when mythologies and cosmologies projected the construction of reality and culture, is the main starting point of this research, which suggests to analyze creative processes in art, including the use of psychoactives promoting a performance of ecstasy.For that, this work draws on a historical background that...
Journal of Forensic Sciences
November 1, 2019
Antoinette S Spoelder, Jan K G Louwerens, Stefanie D Krens et al.
12 citations
4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine (2C-B) is a designer drug. In Europe, 2C-B is easily obtained and used for recreational purposes. It is known for its stimulating effects similar to those of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, although in higher doses it has more hallucinogenic effects. Here, we report a case of 2C-B ingestion, confirmed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, in...
Insight the psychological dimensions of society
October 11, 2019
Zhydko Maksym
The methodological and theoretical problems for the study of consciousness in psychology, the specifics of changes that occur with the human psyche under the influence of digital technologies are considered. The purpose of the work is to analyze the phenomenology of states of consciousness in the context of the digital future shock and to create on its basis a modern topological model of...
September 10, 2019
Nevill Drury, Gregory Tillett
Shamanism is the magic of ecstasy, of leaving the body and soaring to great heights of mystical illumination. Mircea Eliade, the famous scholar of comparative religion calls the shaman ‘the technician of the sacred’. In the strict anthropological sense, shamanism is best represented in Siberia and in South and Central America among the native Indian tribes. Perhaps the most impressive role of...