Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 30, 2026
Zen Revista, 10 History
preprint
The painted caves are the human record's deepest sanctuaries: Altamira's bison, whose 1880 publication by Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola was twenty years dismissed as forgery; Lascaux's bulls and horses; Chauvet's lions and rhinos, whose 1995 publication and 2001 radiocarbon dates made the cave the art's oldest; the Cueva de las Manos's hands and hunts in Patagonia. This article presents a...
Routledge eBooks
August 27, 2026
Yehuda Israely
Chapter 11 asks what lies beyond structure: what happens when the signifier fails, and who stands at the edge of the community of the signifier. It begins from Lévi-Strauss’s reference to the “signified without signifier,” and follows a concrete figure of it: Fu, the village fool who circles the border between village and forest, present in the community yet outside its discourse, clinging to...
August 22, 2026
Esteban Llano-Piedrahíta
Amid climate disruption and biodiversity loss, interest has grown in entheogens – visionary substances rooted in Indigenous cosmologies – as catalysts of ecological consciousness and healing. This phenomenological study pursues three aims: clarify how ceremonies shape ecological awareness, describe unity experiences linked to ethical change, and assess life transformations after ritual...
Arts
August 20, 2026
Zhilong Yan, Manyi Pei
This study examines the mediumistic paintings of Guo Fengyi (郭鳳怡 1942–2010) through the lens of Daoist inner contemplation (neiguan 內觀) and traditional Chinese medicine. Guo developed distinctive self-cultivation techniques, including Ziran Chaoneng Gong (自然超能功 Natural Superpower Qigong), Qi’e Gong (企鵝功 Penguin Qigong 氣功), and Liu Ling Shuzi Gong (劉陵數字功 Liu Ling Numerology Qigong), which...
Language Documentation and Description
August 19, 2026
This article deals with a particular ritual chant of the Northern Magar, who live in the foothills of the Dhaulagiri Massif in the north-western part of central Nepal. The song is called lawa kheti or Parched Grain Chant and constitutes one in a multitude of different oral texts, as sung by the local healers or shamans (ramma) in the course of their séances. All chants of the Magar shamans are...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 18, 2026
Christian Dombrowe
preprint
Abstract The scholarly, legal, and regulatory discourse on deliberately altered states of consciousness lacks a neutral vocabulary: its inherited terms — hallucinogen, psychedelic, entheogen — each embed a verdict on the nature of the states they name, forcing a position before argument begins. This essay proposes two process-oriented terms to close the gap. Noopoietics (from νοῦς and ποίησις)...
Oriental Journal of History Politics and Law
August 10, 2026
Yakupov Aydos Kiyasatdinovich
This article analyses the religious beliefs of the nomadic peoples of the Southern Aral Sea region – Saka–Massagetae, Sarmatians, Kangly, Huns, and early Turkic ethnic groups – who inhabited the area from the 7th century BCE to the 8th century CE, from a religious studies perspective. Totemism, animism, shamanism and cosmological world–views are examined through the Animal Style art,...
Comparative Studies in Society and History
August 6, 2026
Matt Tomlinson
Abstract Recent work on metaphysical healing practices extends William James’s observations on what he called the “mind cure.” Four titles are reviewed on the topics of mindfulness, ayahuasca use, Spiritualism, and shamanism. In the United Kingdom, advocates join forces with parliamentarians to promote mindfulness as the key to ensuring a psychologically healthy nation. At commercial ayahuasca...
Deleuze and Guattari Studies
August 1, 2026
Catarina Pombo Nabais
This article examines fabulation as a political practice, exploring its role in dismantling clichés and generating new possibilities for life. It draws a cosmic politics from Deleuze and Guattari's theory of literature and their metaphysics of dreams, more specifically, from the distinction between fiction and fabulation, and the role of the insomniac dream as the vision and audition of a...
Tamaddun nuri
July 30, 2026
O‘tkir Aralov
This article discusses the classification of Uzbek shamanic invocations based on their performance style, ritual context, and the communicative actions of the performer. It argues that a shamanic invocation should be understood not merely as a verbal text but as a syncretic folkloric phenomenon that is fully realized in the course of its performance. The study also examines the performance of...