Este artículo explora uno de los principales rasgos del arte chamánico visionario: el sobredimensionamiento de las figuras o de algunas de sus partes significativas. A través de diversos registros arqueológicos y contemporáneos, se brindan elementos valiosos para interpretar como representaciones explícitas de la capacidad extática o visionaria, ciertas imágenes de arte prehispánico o...
The author analyzes the basic ideas of the alternative Tengrian discourse related to general issues of Siberian Turkic religions. It is shown that since the 18th century, Shamanism had been viewed as the traditional Siberian Turkic religion; however, this established academic concept was challenged in the post-Soviet period. We demonstrate that the Tengrian discourse is rooted in two key ideas:...
Daoist Celestial MedicineCommunity, Cultivation, and Compassion Jack Schaefer (bio) What is the connection between Daoist practitioners and medicine? At first glance, people may see Daoism only as a path of self-cultivation. While this is certainly true, there are many aspects to Daoist cultivation that go beyond the study of philosophy and meditation. Medical care is actually an important...
Professor Aldhouse-Green is a respected archaeologist, editor of The Celtic World (London and New York: Routledge, 1995), a major work. But her present book shows the perils of not sticking to one’s last. Her attempts to relate motifs of Welsh Mabinogion stories to archaeology and anthropology (as on gender, shape-shifting, shamanism) lack success, despite a systematic approach, which is this.
The use of psychedelic substances has intrigued, benefited, and challenged humanity for millennia. These substances, found regularly in nature, are known to induce non-ordinary states of consciousness. They provide heightened sensory, emotional and cognitive experiences, which include augmented visual imagery, changes in thought, mood, and awareness, perception of space-time and reality and, in...
Indigenous Amazonian shamanic ayahuasca practice is embedded in a nature-based context and is employed as an ecological mediating agent and in collective environmental decision-making processes by some of the groups that use it. Phenomenologically, the ayahuasca experience is often rich in nature-based themes and content, and its usage has been associated with eliciting shifts in perspectives...
Trance states include various practices characterized by a modulation of consciousness, but with their own specific characteristics and induction techniques. They have been very seldom scientifically studied, and their phenomenological similarities and differences are poorly documented. This paper will focus on two types of Western trances developed after the leaders were trained in traditional...
Auto-induced cognitive trance (AICT) is a modified state of consciousness derived from shamanic tradition that can be practised by individuals after specific training. The aim of this work was to characterize the phenomenological experiences of AICT, using text mining analysis. Free recalls of subjective experiences were audio-recorded in 27 participants after five pseudo-randomized...
This article shows the political adaptations of the yajé ritual in the Ecuadorian Amazon. It focuses on the siekopái's practices of resistance, negotiation, and self‐affirmation around three contemporary issues: the recognition of their ancestral territory, the demand for reparations for environmental damage resulting from oil exploitation, and the management of care during the COVID‐19...
Se muestra una revisión de investigaciones sobre adicciones. Se consideró especialmente la producción de literatura latinoamericana, donde las adicciones son abordadas desde perspectivas teórico-metodológicas que incluyen análisis provenientes de: ciencias sociales de la religión; etnografías sobre drogas; antropología médica. Particularmente, se profundiza en los modelos de tratamiento de las...