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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...
Rayah Al-Islam July 28, 2026 Hendra Saputra
This article examines the practice of shamanism disguised as ilmu hikmah, a form of spiritual knowledge or esoteric practice believed to produce supernatural effects through the use of prayers (doa), litanies (wirid), Qur'anic verses, or other prescribed religious recitations, from the perspective of Islamic theology (aqidah). This phenomenon remains prevalent among Indonesian Muslim...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) July 26, 2026 Naeem Ahmed Rasheed preprint
Among the thousands of stamp seals recovered from the Indus (Harappan) Civilization, a small handful depart from the standard single-animal format to present dense, multi-figure narrative scenes. M-1186A from Mohenjo-daro is the most elaborate of these. In two registers it shows a horned figure standing within a pipal (sacred fig) tree, a kneeling worshipper, a large markhor goat, a human head...
Indigenous Ecologies, Sustainability, and Worldviews in Context July 24, 2026 Gedong Maulana Kabir
Indigenous cosmologies challenge Western anthropocentrism by extending the concept of personhood to non-humans, such as spirits and other elements of nature. This study examines how Indigenous religions view these non-human entities, interact with them, contribute to conservation efforts, and negotiate legal frameworks. In accordance with the PRISMA protocol, a thematic analysis was performed...
Routledge eBooks July 23, 2026 Peter Meineck
Inspired by Aristotle&s;s elliptical comments on catharsis in Poetics, scholarship since has been primarily interested in how Greek tragedy is, or is not, cathartic. Through the past eight chapters I have attempted to trace cathartic performance through Paleolithic and Neolithic shamanism, the cultural exchange of Bronze Age purification practices detected in epic, archaic Greek concepts of...
Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology July 20, 2026 Евгений Александрович Попов
Целью статьи является анализ этнографического материала, содержащего аутентичные данные по обрядовости и ритуальности в шаманизме северных алтайцев, проживающих на территории Республики Алтай (тубаларов, челканцев, кумандинцев) (алтайский шаманизм). Акцент сделан на выявлении сакрального комплекса алтайского шаманизма. Проблема исследования заключается в отсутствии систематизации сакральных...
University Of Wales Trinity Saint David Research Repository July 20, 2026 Matthew Tooley
This study examines human communicative experiences with non-corporeal entities, focusing on the relationship between lived experiences and the expectations established within three spiritual traditions: Shamanism, Spiritualism, and New Age. While these traditions differ in historical origin, cultural framework, and modes of ritual expression, each provides sanctioned avenues and methodologies...
Etuaptmumk The Journal of Two-Eyed Seeing July 17, 2026 Ronald Jene Ellis
Since osteopathy was conceived by a single man, I have a belief that I cannot shake. I think that if I could know where the ideas that influenced A.T. Still came from, I could better understand osteopathy—and, as a result, practice it more effectively. Perhaps I am not the only one who thinks this way? I have often heard it said that A. T. Still learned traditional medicine from Native...