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Volume: 21, Issue: 1
  • John R. Baker, A Hallucinogenic Tea, Laced with Controversy: Ayahuasca in the Amazon and the United States. By Marlene Dobkin De Rios and Roger Rumrrill.
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  • Francois Blanc, Trance and Shamanic Cure on the South American Continent: Psychopharmacological and Neurobiological Interpretations.
    This article examines the neurobiological basis of the healing power attributed to shamanic practices in the Andes and Brazil in light of the pharmacology of neurotransmitters and the new technological explorations of brain functioning. The psychotropic plants used in shamanic psychiatric cures interfere selectively with the intrinsic neuromediators of the brain. Mainly they may alter: (1) the neuroendocrine functioning through the adrenergic system by controlling stressful conditions, (2) the dopaminergic system in incentive learning and emotions incorporation, (3) the serotoninergic system (...)
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  • Bonnie Glass-coffin, Shamanism and San Pedro Through Time: Some Notes on the Archaeology, History, and Continued Use of an Entheogen in Northern Peru.
    This paper discusses archaeological, historical, and contemporary ethnographic evidence for the use of the San Pedro cactus in northern Peru as a vehicle for traveling between worlds and for imparting the "vista" (magical sight) necessary for shamanic healers to divine the cause of their patients' ailments. Using iconographic, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic evidence for the uninterrupted use of this sacred plant as a means of access to the Divine and as a tool for healing, it describes the relationship between San Pedro, (...)
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  • Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Conference Review: Notes on the "International Congress of Traditional Medicine, Interculturality, and Mental Health," Takiwasi Center, Tarapoto, Peru, June 7–10, 20091.
    English translation by Glenn H. Shepard Jr. Revision by Matthew Meyer This article reports on the recent "International Congress of Traditional Medicine, Interculturality, and Mental Health" held by the Takiwasi Center in Tarapoto in the Peruvian Amazon. The event united 218 researchers and indigenous and religious representatives from 22 countries to present results of scientific discussions and engage in political and ethical debates surrounding the increasingly globalized, transnational, and biomedicalized reach of indigenous medical practices, especially ayahuasca-based therapy and religious practice. (...)
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  • Colin Andrew Ross, Hypothesis: The Electrophysiological Basis of Evil Eye Belief.
    The sense of being stared at is the basis of evil eye beliefs, which are regarded as superstitions because the emission of any form of energy from the human eye has been rejected by Western science. However, brainwaves in the 1–40 Hertz, 1–10 microvolt range emitted through the eye can be detected using a high-impedance electrode housed inside electromagnetically insulated goggles. This signal, which the author calls "human ocular extramission," is physiologically active and has distinct electrophysiological properties from simultaneous brainwave (...)
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  • Mark A. Schroll, The Future of a Discipline: Considering the Ontological/Methodological Future of the Anthropology of Consciousness, Part I.
    Calling for an expanded framework of EuroAmerican science's methodology whose perspective acknowledges both quantitative/etic and qualitative/emic orientations is the broad focus of this article. More specifically this article argues that our understanding of shamanic and/or other related states of consciousness has been greatly enhanced through ethnographic methods, yet in their present form these methods fail to provide the means to fully comprehend these states. They fail, or are limited, because this approach is only a "cognitive interpretation" or "metanarrative" of the (...)
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  • Michael Winkelman, The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity. A Critical Re-Evaluation of the Schism Between John M. Allegro and R. Gordon Wasson Over the Theory on the Entheogenic Origins of Christianity Presented in the Sacred Mushroom and the Cross. By J.R. Irvin.
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