Behavioral and Brain Sciences
January 2018
Leander Steinkopf, Mícheál De Barra
Singh's analysis of shamanism is regarded as a contribution to the evolutionary study of healing encounters and evolutionary medicine. Shamans must create convincing healing spectacles, while sick individuals must convincingly express symptoms and suffering to motivate community care. Both have a shared interest in convincing onlookers. This is not restricted to shamanic treatment, but is still...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
January 2018
Simon Schindler, Jeff Greenberg, Stefan Pfattheicher
Shamans deal with events that involve the threat of death. They help buffer death anxiety because, through their claimed supernatural abilities, they can provide both hope for averting death and evidence for existence of a spirit world offering continuance beyond death. Thus, managing the threat of mortality probably played a major role in the development and maintenance of shamanism.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2018
Shadab Tabatabaeian, Carolyn Dicey Jennings
7 citations
Singh's cultural evolutionary theory posits that methods of inducing shamanic altered states of consciousness differ, resulting in profoundly different cognitive states. We argue that, despite different methods of induction, altered states of consciousness share neurophysiological features and cause shared cognitive and behavioral effects. This common foundation enables further cross-cultural...
Journal de la Société des Américanistes
2018
David Dupuis
15 citations
Takiwasi est à la fois une clinique de traitement des addictions et l’un des principaux « centres chamaniques » d’Amazonie péruvienne. Chaque année, une clientèle internationale participe à des stages impliquant l’usage ritualisé de préparations émétiques, du breuvage psychotrope ayahuasca ainsi que des retraites dans la jungle, des conférences et des groupes de parole. Les activités proposées...
Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
2018
Dennis J. Mckenna, Jordi Riba
67 citations
New World indigenous peoples are noted for their sophisticated use of psychedelic plants in shamanic and ethnomedical practices. The use of psychedelic plant preparations among New World tribes is far more prevalent than in the Old World. Yet, although these preparations are botanically diverse, almost all are chemically similar in that their active principles are tryptamine derivatives, either...
Staps
December 19, 2017
Nancy Midol, Marceau Chenault, Laurel McEwen
4 citations
Les activités en STAPS sont en première ligne pour des expériences sensibles et cognitives sur les études des pratiques de consciences. Dans le domaine des apprentissages, nous n’avons pas assez pris en compte l’intelligence du corps inconscient, celui qui réagit à l’environnement sans qu’on ait pu en prendre conscience et qui anticipe l’action consciente. La conscience est un rapport au monde...
Conceição|Conception
December 12, 2017
Bya Braga, Patrícia Miranda Pinheiro
1 citation
O artigo nasce de pesquisa em andamento no PPGArtes (Doutorado interinstitucional) da Escola de Belas Artes da UFMG, sobre o ato poético performativo realizado por Tereza de Colares, no Chão de Tupinambá, em Colares-Pará, utilizando o Chá Sagrado com a Ayahuasca. Segue-se a busca de uma cartografia poética no campo das artes da cena, desenhada em práticas orais, corporais e improvisações...
Journal of Landscape Ecology
December 1, 2017
Michael Freikman
5 citations
Abstract In this paper I will present the assemblage of pottery vessels and objects of luxury dated to the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods discovered in the Zarda Cave in Western Samaria, Israel. The context in which this assemblage was found is strongly reminiscent of other proto-historic depositions found in Israel. As determent of objects of value found in the deep and dark caves cannot...
Religião & Sociedade
December 1, 2017
Glauber Loures de Assis, Jacqueline Alves Rodrigues
11 citations
Resumo Este artigo procura discutir a patrimonialização da ayahuasca, bebida psicoativa de origem amazônica usada ritualmente por religiões institucionalizadas, como o Santo Daime, União do Vegetal e Barquinha; povos indígenas, como os Yawanawa e os Ashaninka; e toda uma gama de pessoas que vão dos vegetalistas peruanos aos neoxamãs que habitam as grandes metrópoles. A partir das discussões em...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
November 27, 2017
James M. Honeycutt
Research has demonstrated the health benefits of a wide range of spiritual practices such as meditation and prayer, and similar nonspiritual practices like mindfulness. Shamanism is a spiritual practice that uses dream recall during ecstatic trances, and scientific research has shown health benefits of dream recall. Researchers have long realized the importance of intrapersonal communication...