Medical toxicology and adverse drug experience
1988
J F Buchanan, C R Brown
'Designer drugs' are substances intended for recreational use which are derivatives of approved drugs so as to circumvent existing legal restrictions. The term as popularised by the lay press lacks precision. Contrary to the popular belief that 'designer drugs' are original creations, the majority of these agents are 'borrowed' from legitimate pharmaceutical research. They merely represent the...
Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior
October 1987
J W Boja, M D Schechter
Eight male rats were trained to discriminate 2.0 mg/kg N-ethyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDE) from its vehicle using a two-lever, food-motivated operant discrimination task. Once trained, the rats showed a dose-dependent decrease in discriminative accuracy following administration of decreased doses of MDE (ED50 = 0.75 mg/kg). Administration of 1.5 mg/kg 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine...
Journal of Religion and Health
March 1, 1984
J R Haule
"Soul-making" (cf. Jung and Hillman) is the process of integrating spiritual and bodily imagery into an intimated wholeness transcending conscious comprehension. Pierre Janet's case of the psychotic mystic, Madeleine, reveals that the patient had been "making" her own-soul even though his theory had no provision for soul. Janet's soul-stripping theory is contrasted with a soul-making approach,...
Ethnologia Europaea
December 31, 1983
Hans Sebald
7 citations
Ideal-type shamanism is compared with Franconian folk magic. Franconia, a central province of Germany, experiences the end phase of a tradition of dualistic folk magic, including white and black witchcraft. While there are similarities between shamanism and Franconian magic - good or evil spirits amenable to magical manipulation, psychosomatic effects, "justice magic" -, differences prevail....
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
1982
Antoon Geels
Since the turn of the century, mystic researchers have pointed to the similarities between mystics on the one hand, and artists, poets, mathematicians, musicians, in short, all those who are involved in creative activity. One common denominator, using the terminology of the day, is a state of inspiration, a sort of creative ecstasy, an immediate insight of some form. However, the question of...
Journal of Drug Issues
July 1, 1977
Charles W. Swain
The concern of this article is to examine the conceptual framework within which drug-induced ecstasy has been compared to and/or used to interpret religious mysticism. No attempt is made to theorize about the “true” nature of either kind of experience; rather the author articulates the underlying assumptions and examines the social setting within which such discussions are carried on. The...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
June 1, 1972
William F. Kiely, Ernst Gellhorn
150 citations
The relationship of the trophotropic and ergotropic systems of autonomic-somatic integration and their relevance to a variety of emotional states and levels of consciousness is reviewed. The importance of proprioceptive afferent feedback to the reticular formation and hypothalamus for the maintenance of ergotropic responsivity is indicated together with the beneficial clinical effects of...
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
August 1, 1967
Odd Nordland
Our usual conception of the shaman is, indeed, that he employs monotonous effects to fall into ecstasy and arrive at the state of trance: he sings and dances alone, or along with others. The auditory stimulations and the motoric movements, in increasing intensity, and the emotional induction from the crowd around him result in his falling into a trance in the end, and the disconnecting of...
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
June 1, 1967
Y Shimazono, Katsumi Ando, Takashi Tanaka et al.
4 citations
S ummary In 45 normal subjects changes in the horizontal eye movements following the administration of psychotropic drugs have been studied. 1. Following the administration of amobarbital (250 mg, i.v.) and chlorpromazine (1.0mg/kg, i.m.), rapid eye movements (R) decreased gradually until they disappeared altogether. 2. LSD 25 (0.5 or 1.0γ/kg, i.m.) produced increase of R in 80% and markedly...
Nature
1964
N. J. Giarman
This Special Issue of Neuropharmacology on psychedelics provides a timely and comprehensive update on progress following the previous Neuropharmacology Special Issue “ Psychedelics: New Doors, Altered Perceptions ” . Remarkable advances have been made in basic and clinical research on psychedelics in the five years since 2018. It is partly based on the seminar series focused on psilocybin...