American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric Genetics
June 17, 2005
Ulrich Ott, Martin Reuter, Juergen Hennig et al.
96 citations
Absorption represents a disposition to experience altered states of consciousness characterized by intensively focused attention. It is correlated with hypnotic susceptibility and includes phenomena ranging from vivid perceptions and imaginations to mystical experiences. Based on the assumption that drug-induced and naturally occurring mystical experiences share common neural mechanisms, we...
Ukrainian Religious Studies
June 14, 2005
Mykhailo G. Murashkin
The formulation of the problem is that neither religious nor scientific, or worldview, appear in real life as something self-sufficient. They depend on each other. Analysis of recent research on this issue assumes self-sufficiency as a subjective
Progress in transplantation
June 2005
Mary Jo Kreitzer, Cynthia R Gross, Xin Ye et al.
In 2001, more than 24000 solid-organ transplant surgeries were performed in the United States. Although survival rates have steadily risen over the past 2 decades, transplant recipients commonly experience a myriad of symptoms after transplantation that compromise quality of life. Anxiety, depression, and insomnia frequently occur despite excellent function of the transplanted organ. Use of...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
June 1, 2005
Marlene Dobkin De Rios
19 citations
Roger Rumrrill, a journalist headquartered in Lima, Peru who is a noted expert on the Peruvian Amazon, interviewed Guillermo Arrévalo, a Shipibo urban shaman in Pucallpa, who utilizes ayahuasca in curing rituals. Sr. Arrévalo comments on the phenomenon known as drug tourism, where urban men and women provide tours for foreigners, for a price, to experience drug-induced mystical experiences in...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
June 1, 2005
David E. Stuckey, Robert F. Lawson, Luís Eduardo Luna
43 citations
The current study examined QEEG power and coherence of ayahuasca experiences with two experienced participants in a Brazilian jungle setting. An exploratory case series design was adopted for naturalistic field research. EEGs recorded during visual imagery was compared to eyes-closed baselines. The most important findings were increases in global EEG coherence in the 36-44 Hz and 50-64 Hz...
Science, Religion, and the Human Experience
May 19, 2005
Thomas A. Carlson
Abstract: This essay questions common assumptions about science as distinct from religion. Carlson starts by noting the intimate and practically inseparable connection between science and technology, arguing how “techno-science” is involved not only in producing knowledge of the world, but also a sense of what it means to be human. This sense of humanness involves a connection of techno-science...
Transcultural Psychiatry
March 1, 2005
Albert Yeung, Yong Xu, Doris F Chang
To investigate the prevalence and illness beliefs of sleep paralysis (SP) among Chinese patients in a psychiatric out-patient clinic, consecutive Chinese/Chinese-American patients who attended psychiatric out-patient clinics in Boston and Shanghai were asked about their lifetime prevalence, personal experience and perceptions regarding the causes, precipitating factors, consequences, and...
Transcultural Psychiatry
March 1, 2005
Samuel Law, Laurence J. Kirmayer
Traditional and contemporary Inuit concepts of sleep paralysis were investigated through interviews with elders and young people in Iqaluit, Baffin Island. Sleep paralysis was readily recognized by most respondents and termed uqumangirniq (in the Baffin region) or aqtuqsinniq (Kivalliq region). Traditional interpretations of uqumangirniq referred to a shamanistic cosmology in which the...
Spiritus
March 1, 2005
Beverly J. Lanzetta
3 citations
Accounts within the Christian mystical tradition of moral behavior in the lives of the great mystics are manifold, among them the suffering gentleness of Francis who tended to beggars, lepers, and the crippled; the speculative incisiveness of Meister Eckhart who demarcated the importance of helping those in need from the practice of mystical piety; and the verdant voice of Catherine of Siena...
Australian critical care : official journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses
February 1, 2005
Leanne Sheen, Jenny Oates
Critically ill patients who require mechanical ventilation in intensive care units (ICUs) are usually sedated with drugs such as Morphine and Midazolam in order to facilitate ventilation, relieve pain and lower metabolic demands. Participants in this research were sedated to the point of 'medically induced unconsciousness' in that they were non eye opening nor responsive to verbal directives. A...