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Aries December 6, 2021 Agnieszka Podolecka, Leslie S. Nthoi 2 citations
Abstract The article argues that “esotericism” can usefully be applied to a number of religious currents in Southern Africa. With a focus on Botswana, we survey a range of practices, from traditional “shamanic” healing to Pentecostal NRM s to New Age spiritualities and neoshamanism, some presented here for the first time. The term esotericism is useful for analysing the religious situation in...
December 3, 2021 Michael Winkelman
This paper presents an empirical model for interpreting evidence of ritual practices and alterations of consciousness, derived from a cross-cultural study. The four main types of religious practitioners—the healer complex (shaman, shaman/healer and healer), the medium, the priest and the sorcerer/witch—are described in terms of their characteristic roles, experience of altered states of...
Frontiers in Psychology November 23, 2021 David Dupuis 90 citations
The use of psychedelics in the collective rituals of numerous indigenous groups suggests that these substances are powerful catalysts of social affiliation, enculturation, and belief transmission. This feature has recently been highlighted as part of the renewed interest in psychedelics in Euro-American societies, and seen as a previously underestimated vector of their therapeutic properties....
Aries November 22, 2021 Z. Kostićová
Carlos Castaneda has been studied mostly as a fraud anthropologist, novelist/philosopher and a contributor to the emerging phenomenon of neo-shamanism. Instead, this article focuses on Castaneda’s individual philosophy and religious system as developed in his written works. A threefold classification is proposed—early, transitional, and late works, complete with chief characteristics of each....
Journal of Ethnopharmacology November 22, 2021 Bruno Gianfratti, Ricardo Tabach, Marna Eliana Sakalem et al. 23 citations
Ethnopharmacological relevanceAyahuasca, a psychoactive beverage prepared from Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis, is originally used by Amazon-based indigenous and mestizo groups for medicinal and ritualistic purposes. Nowadays, ayahuasca is used in religious and shamanic contexts worldwide, and preliminary evidence from preclinical and observational studies suggests therapeutic...
Sexual & Relationship Therapy October 20, 2021 Dee Dee Goldpaugh 22 citations
During the last two decades, psychedelic-assisted therapy has emerged as one of the most promising novel treatments for depression, anxiety, PTSD, and substance use disorders. These medicines have also been used in sacred, ritual settings for, in some cases, centuries. Often referred to as entheogens (meaning “creating the divine within”), psychedelic plant medicines such as psilocybin...
October 14, 2021 Diego Hannon Ovies 1 citation
Although young countercultural travellers and spiritual seekers have visited Latin American indigenous communities for the purposes of drug-induced consciousness expansion and shamanic-assisted spiritual healing since the 1960s, the Millennial generation is playing a pivotal role in the global revitalization of indigenous spiritual practices by producing and spreading information through...
Anthropology of Consciousness September 1, 2021 Stephan A. Schwartz 12 citations
AbstractThe founding of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness (SAC) can only be understood within the cultural context of its heritage. This paper is an historical narrative tracing the intellectual lineage of the SAC. The immediate causes were a series of symposia in 1974, including several on the challenge to anthropology represented by Carlos Castaneda, who attacked the way a...
Pesquisas em Teologia August 31, 2021 Amanda Vicentini 1 citation
O artigo apresenta algumas reflexões sobre como a Doutrina do Santo Daime incorpora no seu eixo doutrinário fundamentalmente elementos do xamanismo amazônico e do cristianismo popular. Essa doutrina fundada por Raimundo Irineu Serra em 1930, no interior do Acre, faz uso da ayahuasca, uma bebida considerada sagrada usada há milhares de anos pelos povos indígenas da região da floresta amazônica....
Вестник антропологии June 10, 2021 Игорь Юрьевич Заринов
В статье рассматривается взаимосвязь трех феноменов, существующих в жизни людей в игровой форме. Впрочем, в такой форме существуют и многие другие проявления человеческой жизни. Три, исследованные в данной работе: лицедейство, юродство и шаманство – по-своему демонстрируют игру как поведенческую систему и один из важных принципов взаимоотношения между людьми. Однако, несмотря на своеобразие...