Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
May 21, 2019
Christine S. Vanpool
Many archaeologists suggest that shamanic practices are ancient, starting at least 30,000 y ago (1⇓–3). As an analytical concept, anthropologists define shamans as religious practitioners who interact directly with the spirit world to help their people. Shamans in each culture have their own practices and are called by different names (e.g., chayanyi , curanderos , or vegetalistas ). Shamanic...
Neurología
May 4, 2019
F.j. Carod-Artal
132 citations
Objectives: The archaeological, ethno-historical and ethnographic evidence of the use of hallucinogenic substances in Mesoamerica is reviewed. Results: Hallucinogenic cactus, plants and mushrooms were used to induce altered states of consciousness in healing rituals and religious ceremonies. The Maya drank balché (a mixture of honey and extracts of Lonchocarpus) in group ceremonies to achieve...
Человек
March 7, 2019
A. Nedel, V. Samokhvalov
The paper is a dialogue between the psychiatrist and the philosopher on schizophrenia and the problems of consciousness, personality, “norms” and “deviations” in human psychic life. Considering some classical and contemporary approaches to schizophrenia, the paper offers a new gaze at this phenomenon of human cultural history. Parallels are drawn between schizophrenia and mythology as well as...
Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society
March 2019
Deborah Helsel
Fresno, California, is home to more than 30,000 Hmong. The purpose of this research was to explore the utilization of Hmong shamans 40 years after the first Hmong immigrants arrived in the United States. Hmong shamanism is examined to identify and analyze changes to shamans' practices or patients. Using grounded theory, semistructured interviews were conducted with a convenience sample of 20...
Latin American Antiquity
March 1, 2019
J. Gasco
The two volumes reviewed here examine specific plants and fungi that humans used in the past and present and that are either psychoactive (they alter the perceptions of the user) or “heighten sensory experience and amplify the perceived properties of things” (Marcy Norton, foreword to Schwartzkopf and Sampeck). These substances are ingested in some way, but they are not dietary staples. There...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
March 1, 2019
Romana Kress, Margaret Kerr
This paper will show the results of a study into the experience of using ritual in contemporary psychotherapy*. Dr. Kress and Kerr have named this experience psycheritual as it is relevant for psychotherapy work and is a form of transition ritual which has transformative properties. Psycheritual can be defined as: an intentional act of communication between the conscious and the unconscious,...
Cahiers d anthropologie sociale
February 13, 2019
David Dupuis
8 citations
Dans le débat qui l’oppose aux époux Wasson, Claude Lévi-Strauss présente l’expérience hallucinogène comme strictement informée par la culture. Bien que cette thèse soit largement partagée par les anthropologues, ces derniers sont restés peu diserts sur la manière dont les représentations partagées d’un groupe social structurent l’effet des hallucinogènes. Cet article vise à dessiner quelques...
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
January 16, 2019
Åke Hultkrantz
The Spirit Lodge is a variety of shamanism characterized by its divining functions. Herein lie its limitations: the shamanistic trance is there, and so are the helping spirits, but the curing activity so typical of shamanism is absent, or principally absent. The act of divining shows a certain affinity with the shamanistic pole-climbing performances and may originally have been related to...
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
January 16, 2019
Nils G. Holm
21 citations
Scholars have always been interested in distinctive phenomena in culture and religion. Thus the accounts and achievements of yogis and mystics received attention at an early stage. There is a similar tendency with shamans, different kinds of sorcerers and with the "group-hysterical" phenomena that have appeared from time to time. There is, on the other hand, no major collection of research...
The Hum of the World
January 15, 2019
Cura Marcelly, Olívia Fernandes Amorim, Érika Filomena de Freitas et al.
THE ARTICLE IS AN APPROACH ABOUT THE POINTS OF INTERSECTION BETWEEN WESTERN THOUGHT AND THE CONCEPTION OF ORIGINATING PEOPLES ABOUT THE MEANING ATTRIBUTED TO DISEASE AND HEALING. IN VIEW OF THIS, OUR CENTRAL OBJETIVE IS TO ESTABLISH RELATIONS BETWEEN THESE TWO KNOWLEDGE, SIGNALING THEIR DISSONANCES AND SYMMETRIES. IT WAS NECESSARY CUT OUT BECAUSE IT POINT PRACTICES THAT CONCERN A MULTIPLICITY...