Transpersonal Psychology Review
2010
Mark A. Schroll
This article examines the physics of psi that grew out ofan interview by the author with Stanley Krippner on 4 November 2004. This interview took place in a coffeehouse near the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where Krippner met with students and professionals answering questions for four hours. The topics included parapsychology, dream analysis, clinical psychology, shamanism, human rights...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
2010
Harry T. Hunt
9 citations
Although transpersonal psychologies of self realization emphasize individual development, earlier shamanic traditions also showed a central societal aspect and group based consciousness. Indeed, many have understood the transpersonal movement as developing towards an abstract globalized neo-shamanism. That altered states of consciousness, whether as integrative realizations of the numinous or...
Sibirica
2010
Tatiana Bulgakova
This article discusses the sociological hierarchies among Nanay shamans. The shamans evaluate one another and the community also evaluates them, ranking them in myriad informal ways in terms of effectiveness with spirits and healing power. These rankings come about through discursive activities associated with recounting shamanic healing and other ritual practices. While shamans try to maintain...
2010
A. Spadafora
The article reflects on the way dream experiences have been addressed by anthropology, taking up my fieldwork experience with Pilaga women of the Gran Chaco Region. It discusses the assumptions, implicit or explicit, of some anthropological approaches to the analysis of dreams and their excessive concentration on the relation of dreams to shamanism and mythology. Based on ethnographic material...
European Psychiatry
2010
S.B. Lee
The author interprets the neurophenomenology of Korean Shamanistic healing ritual from the perspectives on contemporary cognitive neuroscience and psychoneuroimmunology. In the traditional society of Korea, Shaman's healing performance has been one of the most dominant healing methods for the ordinary people. The field of neuropsychology and psychoneuroimmunology helps to articulate...
DergiPark (Istanbul University)
2010
Fuat Aydın
Âke Hultkrantz is a researcher of Swedish comparative religion. He began his career as field study of American Indians from the graduate period. This studying determinated his later life of field study. Until his die at 2006 he studied firstly American Indians and then religion of Asian people, especially shamanism. He felt the inadequacy of researcher's methodology that was used for the...
LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas)
2010
Jacques Gauthier
2 citations
A partir do conceito de Corpo sem Órgão criado por Guattari e Deleuze em “Mil Platôs”, e em interação com “As Três Ecologias” de Guattari, o autor coloca o devir-vazio de inspiração budista como condição de surgimento dos outros devires, numa lógica de dessubjetivação inspirada em Simondon. A noção de mandala encontra a de platô e a vacuidade bem-humorada, consciente da impermanência das coisas...
Tibetan Ritual
December 8, 2009
Jared R. Lindahl
Abstract Despite the obvious influence of Tibetan Buddhism upon the religious landscape of Mongolia, Mongolian Buddhism is not simply Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia, just as Tibetan Buddhism is not simply Indian Buddhism in Tibet. Previous scholarship on the ritual manuals that engage Mongolia’s local deities has tended to consider these rituals as instances of the corruption of Buddhism by...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
December 1, 2009
Marlene Dobkin De Rios
1 citation
This article examines the evidence for plant hallucinogenic use (possibly Brugmansia, Brunfelsia chiricaspi, Desfontainia R., Anadenanthera peregrina, Banisteriopsis sps, Psychotropia viridis and Virola theidora) by the San Agustin culture, an extinct peoples who resided in the Magdelena River area of Colombia from the third century B.C. until the sixteenth century A.D. Based on thematic...
University of Hawaii Press eBooks
September 1, 2009
Laurel Kendall
The ability to speak the words of the spirits (kongsu) is central to shamanic practice, and the opening of a prospective shaman's “gates of speech” (malmun) is the central task of an initiation ritual. This chapter tells the story of a bashful, reticent initiate, Chini, and the initiating shamans' struggles to open her gates of speech. The analysis of hours of video, and the opportunity to...