Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe
April 10, 2025
István Sántha, László Lajtai
ABSTRACT This study explores the significance of origin myths in shaping ethnic and national identity, focusing on Hungarian narratives and their evolution. Hungarian origin stories range from Uralic, Turkic, and medieval Christian myths to more recent Turanic and globalist views, reflecting the influence of political factors from the Habsburg and Soviet eras to modern nationalist and globalist...
Time and Mind
April 3, 2025
A. Skinner
ABSTRACT The structural similarity of animist ontologies across world regions hints at common underlying threads between them. This contribution examines the neurophenomenological context of animist experience, focusing on how a sense of consciousness and relationality can emerge as a primary feature of environmental experience rather than an imposed interpretation. While shamanic cosmologies...
European Psychiatry
April 1, 2025
E. E. Morales Castellano, P. Rivero Rodríguez, Marina Martínez Grimal et al.
Introduction The relationship between psychosis and ayahuasca use is a topic of considerable interest and debate in the scientific and medical community. Ayahuasca is traditionally used in shamanic ceremonies in the Amazon, composed mainly of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and the leaves of Psychotria viridis, which contain DMT (dimethyltryptamine), a powerful hallucinogen. Ayahuasca induces...
Migrating Minds
March 25, 2025
Bernardo Schiavetta
From the 1950s onwards, the opening of the research field of the History of Religions to esoteric beliefs and practices worldwide was made possible by cosmopolitan, agnostic, and interdisciplinary positions that eventually responded to the constitutive cosmopolitan nature of esotericism itself. This article aims to show that, if Esotericism exists traditionally as an internal phenomenon in many...
Revista del Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
March 16, 2025
C. G. Musso
Shamanic activity has been documented in all hunter-gatherer societies past and present without exception. The role of the shaman is primarily characterized by dominating the ecstatic experience, a trance where the shaman believes make his soul leaves his body acquiring the ability to explore the level of spirits, which in his view is the basis of his power healing and control over the forces...
Clinical Toxicology
March 1, 2025
Ella P Edwards, Laurence A Gray, Muhammad E M O Elamin et al.
2 citations
Ibogaine is a psychoactive alkaloid derived from the root bark of the West African shrub Tabernanthe iboga. It is not licensed in the United Kingdom but is used by individuals to alleviate drug or alcohol use. A retrospective analysis of telephone enquiries involving ibogaine between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2022 to the United Kingdom National Poisons Information Service was performed....
Quantum Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
February 28, 2025
Andamar Pradipta, Alexander Stark
Shamanistic figures play pivotal roles in cultures across the globe as spiritual healers, divinators, or fortune tellers. In Indonesia, shamanistic figures are represented by dukuns who are understood as shamans who possess supernatural abilities to heal or help with other problems. However, new-age spiritualism and its practices such as tarot reading and meditation have affected how...
BMC Psychiatry
February 28, 2025
John Perna, Justin Trop, Roman Palitsky et al.
15 citations
This case highlights the tensions between legal and underground psychedelic use within psychedelic therapy training programs, psychiatry and neo-shamanism, and the use of psychiatric interventions (i.e., ECT) and energy medicine to address prolonged adverse effects from psychedelics. Clinicians should be aware of these potential conflicts between psychiatric conceptualizations of PAEs and...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
February 20, 2025
Broc A. Pagni, Andreas Halman, Jerome Sarris et al.
7 citations
The durability of ayahuasca's effects on mental health and the influence of clinical diagnoses on therapeutic response is unclear. Adults with no prior exposure to ayahuasca (n = 66) participating in neo-shamanic ayahuasca ceremonies completed questionnaires at baseline, 7 days, and 1, 6, and 12 months. Mixed models were used to characterize temporal trajectories in mental health, alcohol and...
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l ACSI
February 7, 2025
Jenna Hartel, James L. Kent Cydelic, Tim Gorichanaz et al.
Inspired by the conference theme, Leaps and Stumbles, our panel takes a quantum leap beyond conventional notions of information. We provide a systematic consideration of information phenomena during altered states of consciousness generated by ingestion of “magic mushrooms.” Our exploration is anchored in the book, Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason (Kent, 2010) and...