World Art
January 2, 2020
D. S. Farrer
1 citation
Dreamwork recorded in the Malay art world questions the occult power of artistic agency. As I did participant observation in Malaysia and Singapore, the artist Mohammad Din Mohammad divulged knowledge of Sufi lore, shamanic healing, and Malay martial arts (silat). On a quest to comprehend, discover, create and articulate esoteric skills, secret knowledge and mysterious artifacts, the artist...
Psychological Perspectives
January 2, 2020
Oreet Rees, Leanne Whitney
5 citations
The sleep paralysis nightmare has been reported from antiquity to modernity across manifold cultures. Many people who experience nocturnal assaults by dark entities, demons, hags, or incubi during sleep paralysis ascribe them to evil spirits with varying degrees of malevolence. The majority report the episodes as terrifying, mysterious, and uncanny. Known in the neurocognitive literature as...
2020
Ludmila Škrabáková, Ondřej Sekanina, Miroslav Horák et al.
RESUMENEste capítulo se encuentra estructurado en forma de ensayo.El objetivo de los autores radica en describir algunos principios clave del chamanismo peruano y tailandés mostrados a través de la pintura.El texto contiene una interpretación de 5 obras del artista peruano Dimas Paredes y 7 obras de la artista tailandesa La Inthonkaew, que sigue una introducción teórica y breves pasajes...
The journal of psychedelic psychiatry
2020
George T Naratadam, Jason Narikkattu, Safeer Shah
Historical evidence has shown the potential efficacy of psychedelic drugs in the treatment of psychiatric diseases. Reporting psychedelic drug experiences in biomedical academic literature is critical to the progress of psychedelic psychiatry research and the potential implementation of psychedelics as therapeutics. Ayahuasca is a plant-based compound with hallucinogenic properties used by...
PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDIES - Revista da Abordagem Gestáltica
2020
Everton de Oliveira Maraldi
2 citations
The present study explored the phenomenological characteristics of anomalous experiences (AEs) reported during Umbanda rituals, a mediumistic Brazilian religion, with the aim of comparing AEs reported during rituals involving the use of Ayahuasca (an entheogen frequently used in some Umbanda contexts) and rituals without the use of this substance. In order to do so, we compared individuals with...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
2020
Helle Kaasik, Kairi Kreegipuu
31 citations
The study aims to describe ayahuasca users in Estonia and compare their mental health and quality of life to those of nonusers. Ceremonial practices, motivation for ayahuasca use, use-related experiences, and subjective consequences of use are described. We conducted a cross-sectional case-controlled study of thirty ayahuasca users and thirty nonusers matched by gender, age, and education. The...
December 31, 2019
Barbara Glowczewski
This chapter is based on the transcript of a one hour filmed conversation with an Indigenous healer, a Yalarrnga ritual leader who grew up in the desert community of Boulia and studied archaeology and anthropology at James Cook University: Lance Sullivan was invited to France in 2017 by the festival of Shamanism and Ancient Traditions that gathered 200 healers from around the world. He then...
Revista Laboratorio
December 10, 2019
Enrique Flores
El presente artículo aborda la disposición poética y barroca presente en el rito de la ayahuasca, en el que el poeta argentino Néstor Perlongher participó. Desde su perspectiva existen diversas tensiones experimentadas en el ritual chamánico, las que se organizan en tres parejas contradictorias: fuerza y forma, apolíneo y dionisíaco, cuerpo y expresión. Estas tensiones llevan al sujeto y /o...
PARALELLUS Revista de Estudos de Religião - UNICAP
December 2, 2019
Drance Elias Da Silva, João Paulo Reis Braga
A Ayahuasca é uma bebida enteógena feita por meio da união de duas plantas: um cipó chamado Mariri (Banisteriopsis caapi) e as folhas de uma árvore chamada Chacrona (Psychotria viridis). O Chá Ayahuasca vem sendo usado há milhares de anos em rituais religiosos indígenas, e há algumas décadas em religiões urbanas como o Santo Daime e a União do Vegetal. A Ayahuasca é considerada uma bebida...
Ui sahak
December 2019
Yongjun Cho
The main thesis of this research is to discuss the shamanistic medical activities as seen in the Recipes for Fifty-two Ailments written in the Mawangdui Silk Manuscript, to corroborate them with handed-down literature and other underground written attestations in early China, and to inquire its characteristics. In the Eastern Zhou dynasty, medicine already emerged with specialized and...