Clinical Neurophysiology
November 27, 2019
Olivia Gosseries, Matteo Fecchio, Audrey Wolff et al.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2019.11.011 1388-2457/ 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of In This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativ Cognitive trance is defined as a volitional, purposeful and selfinduced modified state of consciousness (inherited from shamanic traditional practice), characterized by lucid but narrowed awareness of...
Approaches
November 24, 2019
Giorgio Scalici
Among the Wana people of Morowali, Central Sulawesi, music serves as a connection between the human world and the hidden world of spirits and emotion. For this reason, music has a central role during the momago, the main Wana healing ritual. Music makes it possible for shamans to tap power from mythical time. By examining the momago, I will clarify the role and the importance of music for Wana...
November 13, 2019
Robin van Löben Sels
This chapter begins with definitions and the history of the attribute of respiration as it has always related to the mystery of the breath, which in turn is associated with life and death and, as life force, connected to spirit and soul. Connections are explored between the breath and instinctual expression of strong affects, and connections with the inspirations of the inner world and the...
November 13, 2019
Robin van Löben Sels
This chapter explores the multifaceted meanings of the shamanic attribute of silence, its relationship to private, inner realities, such as the secret world of feeling; its role as the source all creativity and of all religious experience; and its negative connotations, as in ‘falling silent’ before shocking, dangerous, or numinous experiences and/or as a place to hide from reality or conceal...
November 8, 2019
Igor Alexandre Martins
Reminiscences of the origin of art, deeply linked to the production of sacred images, when mythologies and cosmologies projected the construction of reality and culture, is the main starting point of this research, which suggests to analyze creative processes in art, including the use of psychoactives promoting a performance of ecstasy.For that, this work draws on a historical background that...
Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies
October 1, 2019
B. T. Ter Haar
In traditional China, Buddhism was not a separate religious tradition or culture practiced in isolation from the rest of Chinese religious culture. This applied not only to people outside the monastic context, but also to people within that context. Even shamanic and medium practices could take place within a Buddhist context. Shamanic is here defined as spirit travel or communication whilst...
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
October 1, 2019
P. Sreekumar
expand as ethnobotanists make new discoveries (including perhaps kuśa/darbha grass, used throughout Vedic ritual). “Vedic and ayahuasca rituals” (chapter 15) compares textual accounts of soma rites with ethnographic accounts of rituals in the Brazilian Santo Daime church, where ayahuasca is the main sacrament; in Clark’s estimation, psychedelic experiences constitute the church’s raison d’être....
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
September 24, 2019
Alan Piper
A series of illustrations in a 15th century Timurid manuscript record the mi’raj, the ascent through the seven heavens by Mohammed, the Prophet of Islam. Several of the illustrations depict Burāq, the fabulous creature by means of which Mohammed achieves his ascent, with distinctive features of the Amanita muscaria mushroom. A. muscaria or “fly agaric” is a psychoactive mushroom used by...
September 10, 2019
Nevill Drury, Gregory Tillett
Shamanism is the magic of ecstasy, of leaving the body and soaring to great heights of mystical illumination. Mircea Eliade, the famous scholar of comparative religion calls the shaman ‘the technician of the sacred’. In the strict anthropological sense, shamanism is best represented in Siberia and in South and Central America among the native Indian tribes. Perhaps the most impressive role of...
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
September 1, 2019
Michael L. Cepek
In this essay, I analyze the production of value in the shamanic complex of the indigenous Cofán people of eastern Ecuador. While acknowledging the ethical nature of human existence and the generative power of human action, I describe the shaman as a paradoxical figure with regard to the efforts that produce him and the criteria that orient his actions. The shaman occupies a central social...