This paper examines the death view and customs of the orok, which belong to the three major indigenous peoples of Sakhalin Island along with the paleoasiatic nivh and tungusic evenki. The orok link life and death with the presence or absence of a soul. Life is a state in which the soul resides in the body, and death is a state in which the soul is separated from the body. The funeral protocols...
Chemické listyAugust 15, 2023Michal Jurášek, Lubomı́r Opletal, Pavel Drašar
The article describes the red toadstool, Amanita muscaria, in the mirror of history, natural medicine, content of substances, and toxicity, as well as within the context of shamanic, ritual, and religious practices. Based on scientific reasons, a strong warning against any experimentation with the consumption of the mushroom itself, or preparations prepared from it, is delivered. Full text...
Research with hallucinogens suggests that non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSCs), particularly mystical-type experiences, predict improvements in various affective disorders and substance use disorders (SUDs). Little is known, however, about the therapeutic potential of NOSCs induced by mind-body practices such as meditation, yoga and breathwork. We conducted a literature review in online...
BDSM and kink practitioners sometimes describe scenes that induce altered dream-like states with blurred boundaries and vivid transcendent imagery. Firsthand accounts illustrate the intensity and transformational character of such experiences, which can be characterized as ecstatic. The activities of alternative sexualities are a modern iteration of humanity’s archetypal fascination with...
En Líneas GeneralesAugust 2, 2023Martín Mac Kay Fulle, Julio Rubacado Yong, Martín del Carpio Perla
Both anthropology and ethnohistory have addressed shamanism for a long time. In the five continents, especially in Asia and Africa, shamans and shamanism have been important subjects and have generated extensive academic literature on the origins of culture and especially of religion. Unfortunately, in the case of the central Andes, these studies have focused much more on contemporary shamans...
In this chapter, Murty evaluates Mircea Eliade&s;s thesis that there are similarities and differences between Yoga and psychoanalysis, between Yogic insight and other types of intuition, between samādhi and hypnosis, Haṭha Yoga and athletics, and Yoga and Shamanism. Murty argues that in the Yoga philosophy, the subconscious is not merely libido; “it is the source of egoistic intentions and...
Book Review| August 01 2023 Review: Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition, by G. William Barnard Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition. By G. William Barnard. Columbia University Press, 2022. 384 pages. $140.00 hardcover; $35.00 softcover; ebook available. Tarryl Janik Tarryl Janik University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Search for other works...
This work aims to apply the theories of new materialities to the study of the material culture of the Formoso’s stilt village, a pre-colonial settlement from the 9th-10th centuries AD, located in the Baixada Maranhense. The appliqués of the ceramic vases at this archaeological site present several cosmological information regarding the transformation or metamorphosis of bodies, aspects that are...
My art (Figures 1-7) revolves around the theory and practice of cultural resistance, which I call the ‘dreamweapon’ or the shamanic aspect of the fight for social justice. Through repetitive patterns, highly saturated colours, stark black and white alteration and abstracted anthropomorphisms, these paintings unleash an excess of spirits, a profusion of phantasmata, pineal eyes in ecstatic...
The magician has access to different planes of perception. In mythological terms these are often represented metaphorically or diagramatically in a cosmic system as levels. As an apprentice sorcerer, Carlos Castaneda’s first requirement was to find a special ‘spot’ on the floor inside don Juan’s house. The temple in essence is nothing other than the location of the magical encounter. However,...