Social Analysis: Journal of Cultural and Social Practice
March 1, 2016
Vanessa Grotti, M. Brightman
Shamanic knowledge is based on an ambiguous commensality with invisible others. As a result, shamans oscillate constantly between spheres of intimacy, both visible and invisible. A place of power and transformation, the spirit world is rarely described by native interlocutors in an objective, detached way; rather, they depict it in terms of events and experiences. Instead of examining the...
Medwave
January 21, 2016
Beatriz Rodríguez-salgado, Jorge Gómez-arnau Ramírez, Daniel Sánchez-mateos et al.
There is growing interest in plants with psychoactive effects among consumers with different levels of experience. This has generated a need for updated knowledge among medical professionals and other health workers. These plants, which may be used in shamanic healing ceremonies or rituals or just for traditional purposes, have emerged in the Western world as new psychoactive drugs; largely...
Boletín del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
2016
Paola González
17 citations
AEl arte diaguita preincaico presenta una lógica visual caracterizada por el empleo de complejas simetrías, ilusión de movimiento y vibración, infinita variabilidad a partir de elementos geométricos acotados, horror vacui, atracción hipnótica, entre otros.Estas características, así como la asociación de este arte a un alter ego animal (jaguar) y la evidencia de consumo de alucinógenos, permiten...
Indian Journal of Psychiatry
2016
Gurudas Khilnani, Rekha Thaddanee, Ajeet Kumar Khilnani et al.
Sir, Ms. Sufentanyl, a charming “China girl,” and Ms. Mescaline, the cute Mexican lady, were invited by Mr. Marijuana at a dinner in “Chinese restaurant” in an “angel dusty” evening. Ms. Mescaline felt “ecstatic” and “Echo de la pensee” and on the occasion she “DRESS”ed herself with “heavenly blue” frock and adorned her eyes with mascara of “belladonna.” Ms. Sufentanyl wore a necklace with...
Saúde e Pesquisa
December 31, 2015
Bruno Acharezzi, Gabriela Carolina Tangerino, Gabriel Sperandio Milan et al.
4 citations
Introdução: O chá de Ayahuasca geralmente é utilizado para alcançar o êxtase da experiência espiritual dentro do contexto do xamanismo. Seu preparo se dá com a maceração do cipó da Banisteropsis caapi com as folhas da Psycotria viridis. O efeito ocorre pela metabolização do chá no fígado e intestino delgado, aumentando o nível de serotonina no organismo. Métodos: Utilizaram-se ratos Wistar...
November 13, 2015
K. T. Vangkilde
The ability to foretell the future―and, as such, to conquer and determine it―is an essential preoccupation of contemporary business, which supposedly distinguishes the winners from the losers. The business of fashion is perhaps the case in point, being inherently concerned with continually staking out new paths into the future. In this article, I explore how fashion designers deal with this...
October 16, 2015
Chris Nunn
The differences between SoS theory and quantum consciousness ones imply that it should be possible to make predictions of phenomena allowable in SoS theory but forbidden in all quantum consciousness ones, which isn&s;t necessarily an easy task given Richard Feynman&s;s dictum that &s;anything not forbidden in quantum theory is compulsory&s;. One of the SoS claims is that there is likely to be...
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion
September 3, 2015
Michael Stoeber
6 citations
Abstract The comparative study of mysticism began in the mid-19th century, with the development of the modern meaning of the word, which had begun to be used as a substantive, with the classification of “mystics” in the 17th century. This differed from the traditional Greek Christian use of the adjective mystikos, to qualify rituals, scriptures, sacraments, and theology as “mystical” contexts...
September 1, 2015
Zeljko Jokic
This phenomenologically oriented ethnography focuses on experiential aspects of Yanomami shamanism, including shamanistic activities in the context of cultural change. The author interweaves ethnographic material with theoretical components of a holographic principle, or the idea that the “part is equal to the whole,” which is embedded in the nature of the Yanomami macrocosm, human dwelling,...
River teeth
September 1, 2015
Nathan Thornburgh
The Root of All Things Nathan Thornburgh (bio) Halfway through our hour-long Skype call, Carlos Tanner warns me that he is going to “cross over.” He means that our conversation is about to leap from things that make sense in this world—how his new baby is sleeping, how many students are enrolling in his school—into things that only make sense if you are very deep in the world of ayahuasca, a...