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Shamans’ gardens: sites of creative equivocation between Indigenous and internationalized ayahuasca shamanism

Journal de la Société des Américanistes
If ayahuasca shamanism is now well studied, the medicinal plant gardens that form a standard element of ayahuasca centers have received less attention.
Françoise Barbira-Freedman, Stephen Hugh-Jones   +1 more
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Transcending time and place in the context of Covid-19

Ciencias Sociales y Religión, 2021
During 2020, because of Covid-related restrictions, opportunities to travel to sacred heritage sites dramatically decreased and Pagans’ and shamans’ gatherings and rituals necessarily moved online.
Kathryn Rountree
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Sacred, secular, or sacrilegious? prehistoric sites, pagans and the Sacred Sites project in Britain [PDF]

, 2008
This paper explores issues and tensions developing within today's Britain around prehistoric 'sacred sites' and their appropriation by a wide range of interested or concerned groups. In examining and theorising competing constructions of 'sacredness' and
Blain, J., Wallis, R. J.
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Esoteric Psychology [PDF]

The author proposes a field as a new sub-branch of psychology, called Esoteric Psychology. This would be a sub-branch of Cognitive Psychology. The author claims that even the newest forms of psychology are not able to investigate special or higher states
Klein, Barry
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Chapter One: Beneath the Spanish Moss: The World of the Root Doctor [PDF]

, 2008
The spiritual practice of the Shaman is most likely the oldest spiritual tradition on Earth. Shamanism is a way in which humanity has sought a psychic connection to the world of healing, life and death, as well as a sense of social and individual balance.
Montgomery, Jack G., Jr.
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Shaman Pots, Sympathetic Magic, and Spinning Souls among the Medio Period Casas Grandes: Altered States of Consciousness in Other-than-Human Persons

Religions
Medio Period (AD 1200 to 1450) Casas Grandes shamans used tobacco and possibly other entheogens to initiate trance states that allowed their spirits to travel across the cosmos. These trance experiences involved a sense of vertigo and soul flight that is
Christine S. VanPool
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Yanomami humanitarian tragedy: an urgent colonial heritage issue. [PDF]

Braz J Psychiatry, 2023
Lima MG, Fidalgo TM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Nanai Fairytales about the Cruel Bride

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2011
Fairytale plots are studied in the present article in the context of the shamanic practise of the Nanai people; they are mainly dealt with from an emic perspective.
Tatiana Bulgakova
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Breathe Easy. [PDF]

Fam Med, 2023
Nelson EE.
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'Everybody's creating it along the way': ethical tensions among globalized ayahuasca shamanisms and therapeutic integration practices. [PDF]

Interdiscip Sci Rev, 2023
Marcus O.
europepmc   +1 more source