NeuroQuantology
May 17, 2016
Ede Frecska, Mihály Hoppál, Luís Eduardo Luna
30 citations
Healing methods based on the altered states of consciousness common to spiritual or shamanic traditions escape neuroscientific explanations based on classical physics and classical cognition-denoted here as 'perceptualcognitive' (characteristic of the ordinary state of consciousness) information processing.A second foundation of knowledge-named as 'nonlocal-intuitive' approach-with another way...
PLoS One
April 13, 2016
Aimée Little, Benjamin Elliott, Chantal Conneller et al.
Shamanic belief systems represent the first form of religious practice visible within the global archaeological record. Here we report on the earliest known evidence of shamanic costume: modified red deer crania headdresses from the Early Holocene site of Star Carr (c. 11 kya). More than 90% of the examples from prehistoric Europe come from this one site, establishing it as a place of...
April 8, 2016
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen
1 citation
Shamanic practices continue to be carried out among many indigenous peoples in both rural and urban areas. This article deals with young Indians aged between 14 and 24 in Brazilian Amazonia and the social networks created by collective shamanic rituals. Specifically, it focuses on the ritualistic use of ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi), a hallucinogenic concoction, among the Manchineri living...
Amazônica - Revista de Antropologia
April 6, 2016
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen
8 citations
This article deals with contemporary shamanism among young Indians in Brazilian Amazonia. It explores the meaning of shamanic practices for today’s Amazonian young Indians. The article focuses on the ayahuasca ceremonies practiced by young Manchineri living in both the indigenous reserve and urban areas in the State of Acre, Brazil. Ethnographic fieldwork was carried out between 2005 and 2007....
Sociologia & Antropologia
April 1, 2016
Tiago Coutinho
3 citations
Abstract Setting out from interactions experienced throughout four years of field work studies, I focus on a therapeutic ritual involving ayahuasca consumption led by two young Kaxinawá shamans. The article undertakes the discussion of the equivocal compatibilities that make possible the interaction between Amerindians and non-Amerindians in this context. Citing a number of interactive contexts...
Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
March 1, 2016
Elina Hytönen-Ng
Anthropology and anthropological literature have had an irreversible effect on the practice of contemporary shamanism. In this small-scale study, I look at the complex ways the literature has been recorded, initiated interest, revived and verified the shamanic practices. Over the years, anthropologists have also caused distortions in revived practices as they have left some things unrecorded....
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2016
Gregory Shushan
3 citations
This article discusses near-death experiences as a central theme of Native American afterlife beliefs, and Native Americans' response to Christian missionaries. It argues that NDEs and socio-political factors can explain Native American religious revitalization movements and beliefs in general.
Silhouettes africaines
2016
Alberto Salza
From its evolution in Africa about 100 thousand years ago, the brain architecture of all populations of Homo sapiens has shown a tendency to deal with ‘immaterial objects’ in a spirit world where virtual reality entities operated. The contact with this world was achieved by ‘shamans’, who mastered to enter it, connecting sympathetic and parasympathetic structures by psychointegrators...
Buletin Psikologi
December 1, 2015
Nuzulul Khair
Berbicara 1 masalah pengobatan, baik itu pengobatan fisik maupun psikis, seringkali dibedakan antara pengobatan tradisional dan pengobatan modern. Modern dalam konteks ini berarti biomedis, sedangkan kata tradisional mengesan-kan bahwa pengobatan yang dipraktikkan sejak zaman dahulu (sebelum pengobatanbiomedis di nusantara) yang dipertahan kan sampai saat ini dalam bentuk yangrelatif utuh....
Folklore Electronic Journal of Folklore
December 1, 2015
Валентина Ивановна Харитонова
5 citations
The article reviews various modern practices associated with the concept of revived shamanism.Many of them have an indirect relation to actual shamanism and its revival.However, their adepts can consider themselves followers of traditional shamanism.The author reviews several variants of shamanic activity widely represented in modern Russia, such as: urban shamanism, experiential shamanism,...