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May 25, 1994 Robert M. Torrance
Ecstatic or visionary shamanism is not a discrete phenomenon but the form of the experience of religion in tribes in which the questing impulse, common in some measure to all, finds fullest expression. It customarily coexists with calendar rites, sacrifice, divination, or spirit possession, and even when the shaman has been displaced by priestly officiants, he or she may reappear on the fringes...
Hispana 1994 J. D. Lewis‐williams 49 citations
ABsTR4CZ-Southern African Rock Art is taken as a starting point in order to argue the shamanic character of European Upper Palaeolithic Parietal Art.The author identWes c4fferent stages of production and consumption ofrock-art depictions.AII ofthem are embedded in rituals that constituted, reproduced and sometimes subverted poiver relations.Multiple ethnographic analogies are useful in order to...
Religion October 1, 1993 Willard R. Johnson 1 citation
This paper presents an interview on the visions of the contemporary Native American shaman Luciano Perez. Born of southern Mexican Indian (P'urepecha) ancestry in Laredo, Texas, on 31 December 1950, he was trained in shamanic practice by the Lakota Sioux spiritual leader Leonard Crow Dog. He begins the interview with general comments on visions, how he experiences them and how they have matured...
Anthropology of Consciousness September 1, 1993 Michael Winkelman
This paper examines some of the principal theories in transpersonal psychology on the nature of the evolution of human consciousness within the context of anthropological perspectives of ecological and neoevolutionary adaptation and cultural relativism. New perspectives on the evolution of consciousness are provided by the work of transpersonal psychologists. These transpersonal perspectives...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs April 1, 1993 Marlene Dobkin De Rios, Charles S. Grob
" Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia ." Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 25(2), pp. 177–178
Social Science & Medicine May 1992 R R Desjarlais
To date, little attention has been paid to the cultural philosophies of experience which shape human behavior. The present paper contends that culturally constituted 'aesthetics' of everyday life underlies moments of health, illness and healing among Yolmo Sherpa of Helambu, Nepal. The author examines cultural understandings of bodily and social experience to show how implicit aesthetics--from...
Bulletin de l Ecole française d Extrême-Orient 1992 Jacques Lemoine 6 citations
Techniques of Direct Action: Miao-Yao Variations in Shamanic Healing by Jacques Lemoine Shamanism among the Miao-Yao group, here represented by the Hmong and the Mien-Yao, is a healing technique, its only concern being the curing of pernicious disease. It is a way of communication with the unseen part of the phenomenal world by direct intrusion of the shaman through trance. The trance of the...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1991 William J. Serdahely
Letter from William J. Serdahely to the editor discussing how some people might have become shamans by virtue of a near-death experience.
Leonardo 1991 Timothy Michael O’Neill
A s an artist exploring altered states of awareness since 1975, both solo and in tandem with shamanistic performance artist Kristine Ambrosia, I have been forced constantly to move between the actual experience of oracular states in performance art and the specialized researches necessary to communicate my experience and improve the quality of perception of my inner reality. My initial wave of...
December 1, 1990 S. Blackmore, A. Blake, L. Tarassenko
Books about dreaming range from the 'how to transform your life in no time at all' variety, through psychoanalytic interpretation, to modern cognitive theory—usually with very little overlap between them. In this new book, Hunt attempts to span the entire range of ideas in explaining the multiple forms of dream experience. Dream research has arrived at a hiatus, claims Hunt. The previous...