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Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks 2010 Barnaby B. Barratt
If there is a sense in which the entire universe exists within the energetic composition of every human body, then there is a sense in which Lhe subtle energies of our embodiment, impaci ihe entire universe. This is a centra] aspect of the agenda of transpersonal psychology; although more aptly, we will refer to them in the plural, as psychologies, since they are a diverse grouping of...
Cahiers de littérature orale 2010 Juha Pentikäinen
Sur les tambours des chamanes Sâmes sont dessinées leurs représentations mythiques du monde. Ces cosmologies sont figurées autour d’un soleil central et sont structurées selon un modèle sacré tripartite. Ce sont de véritables cognitive maps utilisées lors des séances de transe chamanistique. La face interne de ces tambours est elle aussi porteuse de significations ésotériques et rituelles (le...
2010 Graham Harvey, Robert J. Wallis
Few religious traditions have generated such diversity and stirred imaginations as shamanism. In their engagements with other worlds, shamans have conversed with animals and ancestors and have been empowered with the knowledge to heal patients, advise hunters, and curse enemies. Still other shamans, aided by rhythmic music or powerful plant helpers, undertake journeys into different realities...
Explore 2010 Nancy H Vuckovic, Jennifer Schneider, Louise A Williams et al. 9 citations
To evaluate participants' perceptions of illness, healing process, and experience of effects from shamanic treatment as reported from in-depth interviews. Consistent with a whole systems research model, qualitative methods were used to evaluate the outcomes and experiences of clinical trial participants. Quantitative results are reported elsewhere. Twenty participants completed five visits with...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies October 31, 2009 S. Beyer
In the Upper Amazon, mestizos are the Spanish-speaking descendants of Hispanic colonizers and the indigenous peoples of the jungle. Some mestizos have migrated to Amazon towns and cities, such as Iquitos and Pucallpa; most remain in small villages. They have retained features of a folk Catholicism and traditional Hispanic medicine, and have incorporated much of the religious tradition of the...
Anthropology of Consciousness September 1, 2009 H. Sidky 23 citations
ABSTRACTThis study, which is based upon ethnographic data collected between 1999 and 2008 in Nepal, examines the connection between the shaman's altered states of consciousness (ASC; i.e., what goes on inside the healer's mind/brain) and therapeutic changes that take place in the patient's mind/body. Unlike other studies that primarily emphasize the shaman's internal psychological state, this...
Journal of Religion and Health June 1, 2009 Carl Allen Hammerschlag 7 citations
An American transcultural psychiatrist, and a Mexican engineer deeply involved with the Huichol Indians, build a team that heals a decade-long epidemic caused by sorcery. Huichol children in boarding schools became possessed by demonic witchcraft that transformed them into aggressive animals. Many local shaman had been called in to treat the illness but had been unsuccessful. The team found a...
Transpersonal Psychology Review 2009 Adam J. Rock
Previous studies have linked shamanic practices to high levels of altered personal meaning and reductions in mood disturbance. However, these studies have neglected to investigate whether the effect of shamanic stimulus conditions on mood disturbance is moderated by altered meaning. Moreover, previous research has not evaluated whether, during shamanic journeying, there exists an indirect...
2009 Dawne Sanson 8 citations
Shamanic phenomena have always been part of the human consciousness and modern Western shamans (neo-shamans) are seeking to (re)-claim what some would see as their (lost) heritage. The literature on neo-shamans focuses primarily on core shamanism or re-constructed shamanisms as practised in parts of Britain, the United States, and Northern or Western Europe. This chapter, an annotated...
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute September 1, 2008 Nathan Porath
This article explores therapeutic shamanic sounds in relation to Orang Sakai ideas of (altered) consciousness. The argument given is that within a shamanic epistemology the very idea of producing sound involves an assumption of the material existence of non‐physical beings as sound‐makers. Such sounds are conceived to be as materially real as are ordinary physical sounds. The article argues...