Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
June 1, 2005
Marlene Dobkin De Rios
19 citations
Roger Rumrrill, a journalist headquartered in Lima, Peru who is a noted expert on the Peruvian Amazon, interviewed Guillermo Arrévalo, a Shipibo urban shaman in Pucallpa, who utilizes ayahuasca in curing rituals. Sr. Arrévalo comments on the phenomenon known as drug tourism, where urban men and women provide tours for foreigners, for a price, to experience drug-induced mystical experiences in...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
2003
Roger Walsh
36 citations
Despite 40 years of dialogue, debate still continues over whether psychedelics are capable of inducing genuine mystical experiences. This paper first reviews the arguments against this possibility and shows that all of them contain shortcomings. One reason the debate still continues is that there has been no adequate theory of mystical states and their relationship to the factors which produce...
University of Limerick Institutional Repository
2002
Judith Pettigrew, Yarjung Kromchai Tamu
2 citations
no abstract
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
December 1, 2000
E L Lewton, V Bydone
In this article, we elucidate how the Navajo synthetic principle sa'ah naagháí bik'eh hózh [symbol: see text] (SNBH) is understood, demonstrated, and elaborated in three different Navajo healing traditions. We conducted interviews with Navajo healers and their patients affiliated with Traditional Navajo religion, the Native American Church, and Pentecostal Christianity. Their narratives provide...
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
December 1, 2000
D Milne, W Howard
Diagnosis plays a central, primary role in the therapeutic process across cultures. In this article, the authors examine the role of diagnosis in two Navajo religious healing traditions, the Traditional Navajo religion and the Native American Church (NAC), and examine a case study of a diagnostic encounter between an NAC diagnostician and a Traditional patient. The authors assert that, for...
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
December 1, 2000
J F Garrity
Of the three religious healing traditions that coexist within the contemporary Navajo health care system, the Native American Church (NAC) and Pentecostal Christianity are more actively involved in the treatment of alcohol and substance abuse than is Traditional Navajo healing. This article examines these two more recent healing traditions as religious responses to the contemporary Navajo...
Anthropology of Consciousness
June 1, 1999
Grant J. Rich
6 citations
This is an interview with Erika Bourguignon, who has been a presence in the anthropology of consciousness for decades. Her work has examined possession, altered states of consciousness, religion, psychological anthropology, and shamanism. Her own fieldwork in Haiti has been augmented by book‐length comparative work with Lenora Greenbaum as well. In a 1996 article in Ethos, Melford Spiro notes...
Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
February 1, 1999
A Jolly
This paper looks at the concept of the indigenous healer and draws on experiences of those closely involved with the progress of one soldier who, after feeling unwell, believed he was destined to become a shaman. Initially treated by Western methods, which failed to resolve his situation, he returned to Nepal to consult with the local traditional healers. He spent six weeks in Nepal and was...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
1989
Gary Bravo, Charles S. Grob
38 citations
This article reviews the role of psychedelic drugs as potential tools for psychiatric research and practice. The decline in the utilization of these substances is linked to social reactions, which led to psychedelics being scheduled as controlled substances and consequently unavailable for human research. Three different paradigms for the use of psychedelics in psychiatry are reviewed: the...
Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne Seria Literacka
October 21, 2026
Viktoria Vasileva
The article is devoted to the history of the ethnographic film Dream Time (1982/1999) by Soviet/Latvian cameraman Andris Slapiņš (1949–1991), which was the result of a long-time work of research expeditions organised in the 1980s by the Folklore Commission of the Union of Soviet Composers. The focus of the musical folklore researchers and the cinematographer was on the live shamanic traditions...