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September 2, 2003 Jenny Blain
Every story is told for an audience. Pieces of the narrative that follow were addressed, initially, to various audiences: friends, colleagues, co-workers within seidr. The account of my first encounter with oracular seidr was written for two friends; later, part of it was incorporated into a paper given to the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness (Blain, forthcoming) and used again,...
Anthropology of Consciousness September 1, 2003 Robin Rodd
Shamans of the Piaroa ethnic group (southern Venezuela) conceive of power in terms of knowledge derived from visionary experiences. Märipa is an epistemology concerning the translation of knowledge derived from the integrative mode of consciousness, induced primarily through the consumption of plant hallucinogens, to practical effect during waking life. I integrate mythological,...
July 1, 2003 H. Ng
Byneglecting the religious dimension, social work practice has not only negated its social roots, but also deprived both client and worker of a valuable source of help. Chinese shamanic healing is contrasted with casework practice and implications are drawn for re-establishing the `social' dimension in social work practice.
The South African Archaeological Bulletin December 1, 2002 Pieter Jolly 57 citations
San paintings of therianthropes, beings that combine human and non-human features, are described and analysed in order to formulate a theory concerning the meaning of these paintings for the people who made and viewed them.The range of therianthrope paintings is described Four explanations, or theories, concerning the therianthropes are discussed and evaluated in relation to San religious rites...
November 7, 2002 Benny Shanon 225 citations
Abstract This is a pioneering cognitive psychological study of Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. Benny Shanon presents a comprehensive charting of the various facets of the special state of mind induced by Ayahuasca, and analyzes them from a cognitive psychological perspective. He also presents some philosophical reflections. Empirically, the research presented in this book...
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology June 1, 2002 Jordi Riba, P. Anderer, Adelaida Morte et al. 126 citations
Aims Ayahuasca is a traditional South American psychoactive beverage used in Amazonian shamanism, and in the religious ceremonies of Brazilian‐based syncretic religious groups with followers in the US and several European countries. This tea contains measurable amounts of the psychotropic indole N , N ‐dimethyltryptamine (DMT), and β‐carboline alkaloids with MAO‐inhibiting properties. In a...
Self and Self-Transformation in the History of Religions April 18, 2002 Moshe Sluhovsky
Abstract Possession by either divine or demonic spirits is a familiar form of self-transformation. Together with devotional ecstasy, shamanism, trance, and voodoo and Zar ceremonies, possession is included by ethnopsychologists and anthropologists in the large variety of altered states of consciousness, numerous mental states that are “indigenously understood in terms of the influence of an...
Le Portique 2002 Eric Navet 1 citation
Le chaman incarne au mieux les valeurs, exprimées dans le mythe, d’un mode d’être, de penser et d’agir qui vise à préserver un monde fait d’« ordre, d’harmonie, et de beauté » – selon les Indiens Ojibwé des Grands Lacs – qui nous rapproche du premier état de la Création que les Tupi-Guarani appellent la « Terre sans mal ». Comme le rêve, l’usage de psychotropes parfois réservés aux seuls...
Substance Use & Misuse 2002 Paolo Nencini 17 citations
Current psychobiological models of drug addiction are focused on the capability of drugs to cause a pathological exploitation of the neural rewarding system. This approach has emphasized the role of hedonistic factors in the etiology of drug addiction. Comparing primitive and modern settings of intoxication, such as shamanic rituals and rave parties, it is possible to confute this assumption....
Acta biologica Hungarica 2002 I Mészáros, Cs Szabó, Rita I Csákó 3 citations
Pavlov has described hypnosis as a partial sleep. A contemporary approach to this altered state of consciousness will be discussed. Under laboratory conditions subjective and behavioral data will be analyzed after hypnotic induction, shamanic trance and relaxation with listening to music. Role of different cortical regions will be shown after different hypnotic inductions as a function of...