In constant interactions with the select contributions of late Gregory Masakarinec, this paper analyzes the practices of shamanism as he had portrayed, mainly through his writings. While engaging with his ideas and portrayal, I will relentlessly engage with other relevant literature from different genre of medical anthropology which have dealt with health, illness and healing practices....
The work is aimed at identifying the image of the sable in the traditional worldview and rituals of the Buryats. The chronological boundaries of the study are determined by the time of functioning and translation of the com-plex of traditional beliefs and rituals among the Buryats — the end of the 19th — middle of the 20th century. Geo-graphically, the study is focused on the Baikal region,...
Aboriginals of Latin America have used DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine) in ritualistic ceremonies for centuries. Nevertheless, there are limited data on web users' interest concerning DMT. We aim to review the literature and explore the spatial-temporal mapping of online search behavior concerning DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, and the Colorado River toad via Google Trends over the past 10 years (2012-2022) while...
МЕДИТАЦІЯ ЯК ПСИХОЛОГІЧНА ПРАКТИКА РОБОТИ З ДУХОМАнотація.У статті здійснено теоретичний розгляд медитації як психологічної практики роботи з духом.Визначено, що медитаціяце інтенсивний, проникаючий у глибини психіки роздум, занурення в предмет, ідею, процес, який досягається шляхом зосередженості на одному об'єкті й усуненні всіх факторів (зовнішніх і внутрішніх), що розсіюють увагу.Медитація...
Because daughter is also mother Janice Lee (bio) Sometimes, a very old, familiar voice speaks or writes through me. Recently, these are the words that keep writing themselves: 딸도 엄마니까 because daughter is also mother 버린딸도 엄마니까 because an abandoned daughter is also a mother The words become unfamiliar memory which becomes a geologic record of consolidation, reconsolidation, untangling,...
Soul belief is a universal of human culture and belief in multiple souls is common, especially in pre-modern traditions. This essay illustrates how a three-folded structure appears in the soul concepts of Mongolian shamanistic traditions. The reported accounts of the three souls among various Mongolian ethnic groups are somewhat divergent — especially in their consciousness-related attributes —...
The main elements of Hungarian primitive religion are based on Eurasian shamanism. Similarities are found in the shamanistic folk cultures of the Mansis and the Hantis, the closest relatives in the Ugric language family, and the Samoyeds in northeast Siberia. However, after the acceptance of Christianity, Hungarian shamanism gradually declined under the Christianization policy of the Hungarian...
The healthy conscious brain is thought to operate near a critical state, reflecting optimal information processing and high susceptibility to external stimuli. Conversely, deviations from the critical state are hypothesized to give rise to altered states of consciousness (ASC). Measures of criticality could therefore be an effective way of establishing the conscious state of an individual....
Abstract Chapter 2 analyzes the campaign rhetoric against shamans, the mainstay of religious life in the Yan’an region. The campaign took male shamans and their ritual power as the chief targets of attack. The Party newspaper strategically paired journalists’ accounts with shamans’ own confessions to condemn ritual healing practices as “murderous business.” Two parallel narratives were designed...
Abstract: This book offers the first comprehensive examination of the tenacity of Shamanic Bon practices, as they are lived and contested, in the presence of an invalidating force—Buddhism. Through a rich ethnography of Goleng and nearby villages in central Bhutan, the book investigates why people, despite shifting contexts, continue to practice and engage with Bon, which has survived over a...