Hop and Medicinal Plants
December 28, 2022
Vanessa Eveline Vlaic, Andreea Ona
The therapeutic use of the substance psilocin produced by the fungi from the genus named Psilocybe has been an interesting but also controversial topic of discussion among researchers since the 1950s until now. These fungi can synthesize several alkaloids such as psilocybin, which has hallucinogenic properties, but also muscarine, which is a toxic substance that stimulates that part of the...
Conceição|Conception
December 8, 2022
Maurício Augusto Perussi de Souza
2 citations
O artigo examina o espetáculo Virgin Suicides (2017), concebido pela encenadora alemã Susanne Kennedy para o Münchner Kammerspiele. Partindo do livro homônimo de Jeffrey Eugenides, do Livro tibetano dos mortos e do áudio Psychedelic Experience (1964), de Timothy Leary, a encenadora explora ao limite três de seus estilemas mais recorrentes: o playback, as vozes acusmáticas e as máscaras. É...
Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology
November 25, 2022
Людмила Санжибоевна Дампилова, Валентина Виссарионовна Миндибекова
В отечественной этнографии и фольклористике вопрос о совмещении функций шамана и сказителя в сравнительном аспекте на междисциплинарном уровне является одной из актуальных проблем. Цель работы состоит в выявлении функциональных связей шаманов и сказителей. В ходе исследования впервые путем сравнительного анализа функций шаманов и сказителей у близких по традиции народов Сибири определен единый...
Royal Society of Chemistry eBooks
November 23, 2022
Jovana Vunduk, Alona Yu. Biketova
4 citations
Far from being among the hottest scientific topics and a cultural hype, mushrooms have a long history of cultural uses. Food and medicinal uses are the best known and most recorded ones. Who feasted on mushroom-loaded extravagant banquets? Which species are considered among the tastiest? Which ancient texts spoke about mushroom medicine? What is the future of medicinal mushroom use, and how has...
Studia Mythologica Slavica
November 23, 2022
László Kürti
For a long time, Hungarian scholars debated the origin and structure of Hungarian folk religion and folk beliefs. This article considers the relevance of shamanism to Hungarian folk belief, especially the complex surrounding the táltos. This Hungarian magical practitioner reveals connections both with historical magical specialists and with recent ethnographical materials. There are, however,...
Biomolecules
November 2, 2022
Giordano Novak Rossi, Lorena T. L. Guerra, Glen B. Baker et al.
29 citations
Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew traditionally used in indigenous and religious rituals and ceremonies in South America for its therapeutic, psychedelic, and entheogenic effects. It is usually prepared by lengthy boiling of the leaves of the bush Psychotria viridis and the mashed stalks of the vine Banisteriopsis caapi in water. The former contains the classical psychedelic...
Planta Medica
November 1, 2022
Matteo Politi, Giorgia Tresca, Luigi Menghini et al.
19 citations
The herbal preparation ayahuasca has been an important part of ritual and healing practices, deployed to access invisible worlds in several indigenous groups in the Amazon basin and among mestizo populations of South America. The preparation is usually known to be composed of two main plants, Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis, which produce both hallucinogenic and potent purging and...
JSW
October 28, 2022
Abdul Kholiq, Ahmad Munawar Ismail, Kartika Indah Permata et al.
2 citations
Three possibilities can occur when religion enters a society already having its own culture and traditions: acceptance, rejection, and adjustment. This study analyzed the socio-religiosity of the Kalang people, a minority ethnic group in Kendal, following the arrival of Islam into their lives. Highlighting how they practiced their worship and presented their identity in the majority of Muslim...
Religion, Brain & Behavior
October 24, 2022
Benjamin C Campbell
6 citations
ABSTRACT The San trance dance has attracted considerable attention in terms of ethnography and rock art, as well as the human capacity for altered states of consciousness. However, its implications for shamanic ritual and associated states of consciousness remain undeveloped without understanding the brain mechanisms involved. Here I integrate previous models of trance with findings from...
Archives of Psychiatry Research
October 20, 2022
Din Duraković, Ante Silić, Vjekoslav Peitl et al.
1 citation
The paper deals with a case report of a 41-year-old man who in search of the meaning of life in a so-called “shamanic ritual” drank tea made from the San Pedro cactus as well as paste made of the same plant. The hallucinations were post poned and started after 9.5 hours caracterised by a psychotic reaction with symptoms of catatonia. He was admitted to our Department of Psychiatry where he was...