Journal of Travel Medicine
July 1, 2009
Marlene Dobkin De Rios, Roger Rumrrill
48 citations
One country's sacrament is another's illicit drug, as officials in South America and the United States are well aware. For centuries, a hallucinogenic tea made from a giant vine native to the Amazonian rainforest has been taken as a religious sacrament across several cultures in South America. Many spiritual leaders, shamans, and their followers consider the tea and its main component -...
Chemical & Engineering News
February 16, 2009
NERVE RECEPTOR BINDS HALLUCINOGENIC LIGAND A hallucinogenic compound found in psychoactive snuffs and sacramental teas used in native shamanic rituals in South America has helped elucidate the role of a receptor found throughout the nervous system ( Science 2009, 323, 934). The sigma-1 receptor was known to bind many synthetic compounds, and it was originally mischaracterized as a receptor for...
Institutional Repositories DataBase
January 20, 2009
Andrei P. Samar
2 citations
The Nanai people belong to the Tungus-Manchurian language family. Their use of dogs in hunting and fishing activities has great importance in their traditional culture. Its economic role is well reflected through its images in their worldview, ceremonies, and folklore. Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the system of Nanai beliefs was represented by a synthesis of traditional views...
Folklore Electronic Journal of Folklore
2009
Marina Hakkarainen
Two opposite worlds are represented in the traditionalistic discourse about the Markovo village of Chukotka: the traditional world of the older generation, and the modern world of the young people.While elders are regarded as keepers of indigenous knowledge and shamanic powers, it is thought that youngsters who are living in the present-day urbanized village have lost connection with all these...
Folklore Electronic Journal of Folklore
2009
Tatiana Bulgakova
1 citation
Every radical change that Nanai experienced in the 20th century divided the young people of this indigenous minority in Russia in two groupsradicals and conservatives, sharing values of the older generation.This way, in the period of establishing the Soviet power, radicals were members of the Young Communist League (Komsomol) who repressed shamans, whereas conservatives were those young people...
Religion and the Arts
2009
Frédéric Laugrand, Jarich Oosten
1 citation
Abstract This paper examines the dynamics of the representation of the “sea woman,” sometimes known as Sedna, among the Inuit of Northeastern Canada in myths, shamanic experiences, and modern artistic representations. The varying representations of the sea women are connected to shamanic practice. The sea woman does not have a clearly defined iconography; this lack of definition gave shamans...
2009
Christopher D Lynn
4 citations
This study tests the hypothesis that long–term experience of Apostolic Pentecostal glossolalia or “speaking in tongues” reduces the reactivity of biological stress response to normal or "daily" stressors. Glossolalia is a form of religious dissociation. Dissociation is a universal capacity often conflated with “trance.” It refers to the partitioning of awareness associated with a variety of...
Global Networks
December 9, 2008
Kenneth W. Tupper
107 citations
Abstract Ayahuasca commonly refers to a psychoactive Amazonian indigenous brew traditionally used for spiritual and healing purposes (that is as an entheogen). Since the late twentieth century, ayahuasca has undergone a process of globalization through the uptake of different kinds of socio‐cultural practices, including its sacramental use in some new Brazilian religious movements and its...
Medical Hypotheses
December 1, 2008
Bruce G Charlton
12 citations
The most frequently discussed role for genetic engineering is in relation to medicine, and a second area which provokes discussion is the use of genetic engineering as an enhancement technology. But one neglected area is the potential use of genetic engineering to increase human spiritual and religious experience - or genospirituality. If technologies are devised which can conveniently and...
Fieldwork in Religion
November 27, 2008
Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Edward Macrae
1 citation
This issue of Fieldwork in Religion is comprised of original and translated articles about a collection of related Brazilian religions that all utilize the consciousness changing substance named ayahuasca.The ayahuasca religions have been the object of systematic research in Brazil at least since 1983 when Clodomir Monteiro da Silva presented his MA dissertation on the role played by the Santo...