Integral Transpersonal Journal
April 1, 2020
Sven Doehner
The focus and principle interest of this essay, called The Listening Voice, is The Art of Transformation. My approach recognizes the overlap that clearly exists between the Alchemical Psychology articulated by C.G. Jung and James Hillman, and the native ancestral wisdom kept alive to this day in what we now call Shamanism. Both offer laws, principles and practices to guide the individual in...
Anthropology Today
April 1, 2020
Kristina Jonutytė
This article looks at the attempted trek of a ‘warrior shaman’ Alexandr Gabyshev from Yakutsk to Moscow, where his aim was to try to drive ‘the demon’ Putin out of the Kremlin. In particular, it explores Russian online responses to Gabyshev's campaign, as well as local reactions in the region where he was arrested, Buryatia. It is argued that the discourses of support are a sort of ‘removal’...
Fieldwork in Religion
March 31, 2020
Anna Lutkajtis
20 citations
Mushrooms containing psilocybin have been used in Indigenous healing ceremonies in Mesoamerica since at least the sixteenth century. However, the sacramental use of mushrooms was only discovered by Westerners in the early to mid-twentieth century. Most notably, the meeting between amateur mycologist Robert Gordon Wasson and Mazatec curandera María Sabina in 1955 resulted in the widespread...
Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies
March 23, 2020
D. J. Moores
2 citations
For complex reasons, Carl Jung was apprehensive of ecstatic rites in which participants dance to hypnotic drumming and transcend normal states of ego. He was also strongly opposed to the use of LSD, mescaline, and other psychotropic agents often used in such rites, cautioning that psychedelics facilitate access to unconscious energies one is ill-equipped to absorb. This paper represents a...
Sibirica
March 1, 2020
Marisa Karyl Franz
1 citation
In the late imperial era, the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera) in St. Petersburg produced a series of guidebooks for visitors that provided an account of the changes in the gallery spaces and collections within the museum. Among the changes was a reorganization of the collection that brought about the removal of a gallery dedicated to Russian ethnography, which had...
Journal of Tropical Ethnobiology
January 30, 2020
Herwig Zahorka
1 citation
The Dayak Benuaq Ohookng people believe in many and diverse territorial ghosts/spirits (wook) who exist in the environment, some of which have the power to remove the soul (juus) of a human body part or organ and, at the same time, implant disease. Consequently, this body part or organ gets sick. The mission of the shamans (pembeliatn), as mediums to the spiritual world, is to identify the...
Journal of Anthropological and Archaeological Sciences
January 27, 2020
Jay Hansford C. Vest
Bornof orality, Native American shamanic traditions and healing practices are exclusively organic in manifestation [1]. In this context, the healing ritual assumes an organicism.
Asian Education and Development Studies
January 6, 2020
Ya-ning Kao
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of Zhuang shamanic narrative songs at three festivals to explore how and why a narrative song genre that originated with Zhuang shamans is separated from shamanic ritual contexts and re-contextualized at festivals under the cultural policies instigated by the People’s Republic of China in the post-socialist era....
Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics
2020
Nestor A. Manichkin
The article dwells upon connection between the two most important Kyrgyz traditions: shamanism ( bakshylyk ) and storytelling ( zhomokchuluk ). It considers the general cultural and social field that forms some features that are characteristic of both shamans and storytellers, as well as the traces of pre-Islamic culture that can be found in the world of the Kyrgyz epic. Special attention is...
Mundo Amazónico
2020
Jimmy Weiskopf
1 citation
This is the final episode of a three-part story about a visit to Iquitos at the time of the new millennium by the narrator, who lives in Colombia and has been drinking yajé (ayahuasca) with its indigenous shamans. For a book he is writing about the subject, decides to investigate its uses in Iquitos, where his host and guide to the rituals there is “Zappa”, an American expatriate who exports...