Ui sahak
April 2021
Sooyoun Kim
This study focused its investigation on esoteric Buddhist treatment methods during Goryeo. In Goryeo, they published dharani scriptures related to illness. Beomseo-chongji-jip, a collection of dharanis, contains few dharanis for treatment. The publication of a dharani scripture was a precondition of dharani-based Buddhist prayers. There had been cases of treating illness through Buddhist...
April 1, 2021
Geoff J. Bathje, Jon Fenton, Daniel Pillersdorf et al.
23 citations
preprint
Ayahuasca has gained the attention of researchers over the past decade as psychedelic-assisted therapy for MDMA and psilocybin have progressed through FDA approved clinical trials. In spite of the increase in research, there are relatively few clinical studies of ayahuasca and little qualitative research on the therapeutic or healing uses of psychedelics in general. The present study included...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
March 12, 2021
Jerry B. Brown
53 citations
Brain Muraresku is a practicing attorney and a student of ancient languages (Greek, Latin and Sanskrit), whose twelve-year odyssey through the archives of Western religion culminated in the publication of The Immortality Key (TIK).According to Muraresku, this work, which "presents the pagan continuity hypothesis with a psychedelic twist," addresses two fundamental questions: "Before the rise of...
Anesthesia & Analgesia
February 17, 2021
Peter G. Brindley
49 citations
It is tough to write about psychedelics without a few gratuitous puns. Regardless, Michael Pollan’s “How to Change Your Mind” is definitely “mind expanding” and deserves my “highest” recommendation. Published in 2019, this book comprehensively and presciently covers a topic of increasing interest: whether psychedelic agents can revolutionize mental health. Pollan is not a Medical Doctor but is...
Anthropologica
February 2, 2021
Juan Carlos Molano Zuluaga
Este artículo se enmarca desde una provocación de carácter teóricometodológico basado en la experiencia intercultural de audición que tuvo en la década de 1970 el antropólogo colombiano Luis Guillermo Vasco con las prácticas chamánicas de los emberá chamí. Este lineamiento permite determinar algunos cuestionamientos con respecto a la posicionalidad en campo de este antropólogo en lo que...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
January 19, 2021
Michael A. Winkelman
2 citations
Crowley uses his personal engagement with Buddhism and a review and analysis of ancient texts as a basis to address evidence for entheogenic substances in Tibetan Buddhism. Crowley provides a wide-ranging analysis of an idea that has gained increasing popularity—and controversy—that ancient Buddhist practices involved the use of entheogens. Crowley provides analyses of myth and ritual practices...
January 15, 2021
Jessica Rocha
This is a cartographic record that suggests ways to envisage the formation and expansion of the Santo Daime doctrine. From the daimist liturgy and the institutionalized practices in the Santo Daime / ICEFLU, also from their dissent, the narrative mapping the Marian subjectivities to ritualize the use of Marijuana was mapped, and how relations with Exu are conceived and ritualized. We pay...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
January 15, 2021
Mark S. Ferrara
24 citations
AbstractThis paper demonstrates that cannabis can evoke “peak-experiences”—the name psychologist Abraham Maslow gave to fleeting moments of expanded perception indicative of self-transcendence—when used alongside more traditional religious practices such as meditation, fasting, contemplative prayer, and sacramental ritual. For that reason, religious seekers around the globe have deployed...
Time and Mind
January 2, 2021
B. Pothier
1 citation
ABSTRACT The ‘Chu Silk Manuscript’, or ‘Zidanku Silk Manuscript 1ʹ, estimated to date back to 300 BCE, and considered to be the earliest known Chinese manuscript containing illustrations, features the depiction of plants on its four corners. Although there is an academic consensus in considering these plants as ‘mythical trees’, my study suggests that some of the plants depicted present...
Study of Religion
2021
Tatiana Bulgakova
The generalization of the field material collected by the author allowed to identify two groups of interrelated factors that form the mentality of those Nanai people who practice shamanism. There were two principles identified, the goal-setting and detecting the resources required to achieve the desired results. On the one hand, an irrational worldview, the idea of the accessibility of the...