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Breathing Life Flows Through Chaos: Reconfiguring the Effectiveness of Five‐Finger Breathing in Mental Health First Aid

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This article questions the moral and causal certainties attributed to the clinical assumptions of the breath of chaos. Instead of seeing chaos as an exceptional intruder that causes problems in health, I suggest that chaos underlines the changing conditions of health and it's an intrinsic part of breathing and everyday life. I discuss the five‐
Yuxin Peng
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Tantra or Yoga. Clinical Studies, Part 3: Comparative Paper

Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara
Several clinical studies show how tantric practices and exercises of Vedic traditions—such as Yoga—or Theravada or Mahayana Buddhism have a significant psychobiological impact.
Oscar R. Gómez
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Personal and relational experiences on meditation journeys following developmental trauma: An IPA study of adults who experienced an inconsistent evolved developmental niche

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, Volume 99, Issue 1, Page 201-218, March 2026.
Abstract Objectives In recent decades, research has increasingly highlighted the devastating effects of childhood trauma and relational processes that violate human development. However, the unique dynamics of such early‐life deprivations in adults who practice meditation, a context where the complexity of such wounding (and healing) may become ...
Anna‐Maria Frastali, Adhip Rawal
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Anxious Projections: Mass Hysteria and the Problem of Interpretation

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 4, December 2025.
Abstract Stories of “mass hysteria” among teenage girls have often graced the headlines of Nepal's local and national newspapers, creating a public spectacle of a strange and mysterious form of affliction. Treatments include both shamanic rituals and psychosocial interventions, a new therapeutic modality that has gained prominence over the past two ...
Aidan Seale‐Feldman
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Transitional Space: An Opening of the Experiential Realm Beyond the Mind

Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara, 2019
This article describes how Donald Winnicott’s radical existential psychoanalytic understanding of transitional awareness and transitional relatedness intertwines both our personal psychology and our innermost experience of our own existential ontology ...
Rudolph Bauer
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Rola metafor w soteriologii wczesnego buddyzmu tantrycznego

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2023
The functions of new metaphors in early tantric Buddhism are analysed in the paper. Two models of religious practice are concerned. According to both of them, the goal of tantric practice is permanent modification of the practitioner’s cognitive activity.
Marek Szymański
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Introduction: Convergences and religious change in Asian religions

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 258-267, August 2025.
Abstract This introduction to the special issue examines various approaches to understanding religious change in Asia. It revisits models for religious change—particularly rupture and repair, both featured in prior TAJA issues—and acknowledges their usefulness while also highlighting their limitations.
Kendall R. Marchman
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Imaginative Realization in the Vijñānabhairava Tantra

Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies, 2017
Among the religious traditions that developed in ancient India, the Tantric tradition offers one of the most vigorous efforts at vindicating the powers of the imagination.
Óscar Figueroa
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Tantric religion and social change

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 268-279, August 2025.
Abstract During the period between the seventh and 11th centuries, several religious innovations occurred in Indic religions (which I refer to anachronistically as ‘Hinduism’). In particular, during this period, we see the rise of tantric traditions based on a new revelation of texts, some of whose followers regarded themselves as transcending the ...
Gavin Flood
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The God Who Is Visible to All: Healing and Sun Worship in Śrīvidyā Tantra

Religions
The aim of this paper is to discuss sun worship and healing practices in Samayācāra Śrīvidyā, a Hindu tantric tradition. Thus, I use anthropological and philological perspectives to show how the contemporary Samayācāra Śrīvidyā guru of Śrī Lalitāmbikā ...
Maciej Karasinski
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