Medical Anthropology
1984
Marlene Dobkin De Rios
15 citations
This article examines the vidente, or seer phenomenon in the Peruvian Amazon city of Pucallpa, Peru, where fieldwork was conducted in 1977 and 1979. With the discovery of natural opiate-like substances in the body, called endorphins, researchers in the brain sciences were intrigued by man's ability to create his own opiate-like response to pain, ecstacy and stress. Paranormal phenomena, often...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
October 1, 1983
Thomas B. Posey, Mary E. Losch
253 citations
Jaynes' elaborate theory of the evolution of human consciousness speculates that unconscious language use by the right hemisphere produced frequent auditory hallucinations in primitive people [1]. Jaynes offers some explanation as to why hearing voices would now be less common. It is parsimonious, however, to predict that hearing voices is still common, although usually unreported, in the...
American Ethnologist
August 1, 1983
Richard Noll
Shamanism and schizophrenia are examined as altered states of consciousness. A state‐specific approach to the phenomenology of these altered states is employed to demonstrate that the existence in the anthropological literature of the “schizophrenia metaphor” of shamanism and its altered states is untenable. A current psychiatric diagnostic manual is utilized to show that significant...
Archives of General Psychiatry
August 1, 1983
Michael M. Vardy
145 citations
We studied whether patients hospitalized for LSD psychosis are clinically separable from acute schizophrenics. The family histories, manifest symptoms, premorbid adjustment, and profiles on an extensive test battery were analyzed for 52 LSD psychotics and 29 matched first-break schizophrenics. The LSD patients did not differ from schizophrenics in incidence of psychosis or suicide among the...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
June 1, 1983
Daniel Brown, Michael Forte, Philip Rich et al.
20 citations
A survey of 122 subjects was conducted to investigate the differences in the phenomenological quality of the experiences engendered by three types of awareness discipline: self-hypnosis (21 subjects), waking dreaming (49 subjects) and mindfulness meditation (25 subjects from a 2-week retreat, and another group of twenty-seven subjects from a 2-day weekend retreat). A questionnaire, the Profile...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
June 1, 1983
F. G. Greene
"This study reviews and analyzes evidence for a rare but persistently reported facet of out-of-body experience (OBE)/near-death experience (NDE) phenomenology designated the "multiple-body/split-consciousness" effect. Those who experience this effect describe the sensation of possessing and in some instances simultaneously occupying a multiple number of "bodies" at varying locations, sometimes...
Developmental pharmacology and therapeutics
1983
I J Chasnoff, W J Burns, R P Hatcher et al.
As phencyclidine hydrochloride (PCP) has become one of the more frequently abused drugs in the United States, there has been increasing interest in its effect on the fetus and neonate of the pregnant abuser. Two groups of women enrolled in a comprehensive perinatal addiction program were studied: 7 women abused PCP prior to and during pregnancy, and these women were compared to a group of 27...
PSYCHOLOGIA
1983
Michael C. Dillbeck
6 citations
This paper addresses the empirical testability of the Vedic psychological theory found in the Bhagavad-Gita.It is suggested that research on a meditation practice which is consistent with the descriptions of the Bhagavad-Gita may be used to assess the theory's testability.Research on the Transcendental Meditation (TM) and TM-Sidhi program is reviewed as evidence relating to the following...
December 31, 1982
Philip C. Almond
68 citations
Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism,...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
December 1, 1982
Stuart W. Twemlow, Glen O. Gabbard, L. Coyne
Abstract: This study reports the results of a multivariate analysis of data from 33 subjects who had near-death experiences. The analysis examined the relationship between the phenomenology of the experience and preexisting conditions. Five clusters were derived: Low Stress, Emotional Stress, Intoxicant, Cardiac Arrest, and Anesthetic. The heuristic value of these clusters is discussed. The...