En las últimas dos décadas se han realizado diversas investigaciones para dilucidar los efectos terapéuticos de la psilocibina en el cuerpo y la mente de los seres humanos. Uno de los propósitos de este artículo es mostrar que no existe una oposición excluyente entre ciencia y espiritualidad. Para ello es importante reflexionar de manera crítica sobre los marcos conceptuales utilizados...
Ayahuasca geleneksel olarak Amazon havzasındaki yerli topluluklar tarafından manevi, tıbbi ve şamanik amaçlarla yüzyıllardır kullanılan psikoaktif bir içecektir. Ayahuasca kelimesi tipik olarak hem bitkinin kendisine (Banisteriopsis caapi) hem de diğer bitkilerle birleştirildiğinde elde edilen ve genellikle psikedelik bileşik DMT (dimetiltriptamin) içeren içeceği ifade etmektedir. Ayahuascadaki...
The Amero-Indians of the Amazon traditionally use ayahuasca for various physical and psychological ailments. Shamans in the Peruvian Amazon use the psychedelic drug ayahuasca to have various experiences in guided rituals. The goal of this religious experience is to expand consciousness and gain deeper insights. Consumption of the drink can cause harmful psychotic and paranoid reactions, but the...
Cognition in extended brain-body music systems becomes especially agile during psychedelic experience, necessitating a sonic rhetoric emphasizing transformative agency. Rooted in the recursive listening spaces of dub, three forms of psychedelic electronica—ambient house, trip-hop and glitch—foster an echological sensibility unique to records made largely from the bits and pieces of other...
In Catholic theology there exists a rhetoric emphasizing the necessity to re-actualize the image of the Church with the help of socio-humanitarian sciences, which can be viewed as manifesting a change in social logics. This change implies that institutional structures are becoming irrelevant, which causes a crisis within the group, representing the institutional logic in the Church — i.e....
Este artículo presenta un estudio de caso de una mujer que emigró de la selva brasileña a Barcelona hace diecisiete años, y su camino para convertirse en una curandera que trabaja con ayahuasca, kambó (veneno de rana) y sananga (colirio herbal). Se discuten las nociones de autenticidad, communitas y autoatención. Sostenemos que el chamanismo, la religión y la salud son procesos fluidos y...
Abstract Music and psychedelics have been intertwined throughout the existence of Homo sapiens , from the early shamanic rituals of the Americas and Africa to the modern use of psychedelic‐assisted therapy for a variety of mental health conditions. Across such settings, music has been highly prized for its ability to guide the psychedelic experience. Here, we examine the interplay between music...
Abstract The revival of shamanism in Southern Siberia is increasingly characterised by online forms of representation. Through digital ethnographic research conducted in Russian, this paper argues that the internet reproduces non-digital narratives and practices endowing them with global, immediate reach in a very widely recognisable form, thus contributing to the amplification, legitimisation...
The films and live cinema of Vincent Moon are considered in this chapter as ‘psychedelic’: a form of filmmaking and film performances that can open the doors of perception to invisible realms of percepts, affects and durations that are beyond or below ordinary human perception. According to Paul Schrader, films can evoke such spiritual dimensions, in particular through what he called the...
Objetivo: recopilar y analizar el conjunto de datos etnográficos sobre el uso tradicional entre las poblaciones americanas del hongo embriagante Amanita muscaria. Metodología: durante la adquisición de los datos se realiza una cuidadosa evaluación, realizando críticas y correcciones donde se considera que los datos estaban presentados de manera inadecuada desde el punto de vista metodológico....