David Luke
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 660398 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Luke |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Luke |
| FIRMA | LUKE D |
| AFILIACIONES | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2141-2453 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
An investigation into the varieties of extended difficulties following psychedelic drug use
Psychedelic drugs show promising therapeutic potential; however, some users experience extended difficulties following their use. This study investigated the prevalence, severity, duration, and associated coping strategies of post-psychedelic difficulties. We conducted an online survey of 159 participants, all of whom reported experiencing difficulties lasting more than one day after psychedelic use within the past 2-10 years. Participants rated …
Smokable "Vine of the Dead"
Introduction: Virtually no studies have looked at psychopharmacological combinations as models of the near-death experience (NDE), which is inadequate given the evidently complex neurochemistry occurring near- or at death. An example of such a combination is "changa," a smoked mixture of the psychedelic N,N-DMT and monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI)-containing plants, and as such has been referred to as "smokable ayahuasca" (vine of the dead). On…
Change in occupational burnout measures in emergency medical service workers after a psychedelic experience induced by a single self-administered dose of psilocybin mushrooms
Background and AimsThis naturalistic mixed methods field study, aimed to assess the potential of a psilocybin induced experience, to help Emergency Medical Service Workers (EMSW) to address psychological and stress related symptoms stemming from a challenging working environment, known to contribute to occupational burnout (OB).MethodsThis exploration was conducted with an intentional sample of five participants, recruited through an online surve…
Apophenia, absorption and anxiety
Background and Aims Little is known about individual differences in Hallucinogen Persisting Perceptual Disorder (HPPD). This study investigated visual processing style and personality across two HPPD types (HPPD I and HPPD II) and a Non-HPPD group. Methods An online survey was delivered to participants sourced from online HPPD and psychedelic user groups and forums (N = 117). Using one-way ANOVA, respondents were compared across four measures of …
Anomalous Psychedelic Experiences
This article explores the nature of psychedelically induced anomalous experiences for what they reveal regarding the nature of “expanded consciousness” and its implications for humanistic and transpersonal psychology, parapsychology, and the psychology and underlying neuroscience of such experiences. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this essay reviews the nature of 10 transpersonal or parapsychological experiences that commonly occur spontane…
Response to Weddington
In this response to George Weddington’s critique of their recent article, the authors argue that Weddington rightfully critiques them for not paying enough attention to the role of psychoanalysis (exemplified by Frantz Fanon) in Afro-pessimist theory and for not giving primacy to the political ontology of blackness in Afro-pessimist thought. However, his critique is hindered by his mischaracterizing the authors’ argument as saying that black poli…
Reply to “Ayahuasca turned on my mind’s eye
In a recent article in this journal, Dos Santos et al. (2018) report a case of ayahuasca use by a man with aphantasia. This account is the first such report of the use of a psychedelic agent by someone with aphantasia. Surprisingly, the case, SE, reported an improvement in their visual imagery following one particular instance of ayahuasca use. In support of Dos Santos et al.’s (2018) favored psychological explanation for improvement and their su…
Critical Race Theory, Afro-Pessimism, and Racial Progress Narratives
Much work in the sociology of race and ethnicity centers on an underlying narrative of racial progress. Progress narratives are typically conceptualized as a linear process of slow, yet inevitable, improvement. Drawing on Critical Race Theory and Afro-Pessimism, theoretical perspectives that emerged outside of the discipline of sociology, this paper urges a rethinking of linear progress narratives. First we elucidate the central tenets of these t…
Assembly
Assembly involves putting a product together from component parts. Assembly lines involve dividing up tasks and organizing them sequentially to build multiple copies of the same product. Workers on assembly lines typically perform a single, simple task, and parts move on conveyor belts as workers pick up these parts and install them. Historically, assembly line production techniques were adopted to increase efficiency, standardization, and contro…
Job Creation
Job creation can be loosely defined as increasing the number of jobs in the labor market. Job creation can occur in a number of ways, including job creation by the state through active labor market policies, job creation through Keynesian demand management, job creation through investment, and “natural” job creation within firms. Active labor market policies (ALMP), in general, are government measures that seek to improve the functioning of the l…
A Hallucinogenic Tea, Laced with Controversy
The Light from the Forest
(2011). The Light from the Forest: The Ritual Use of Ayahuasca in Brazil. Time and Mind: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 361-364
Rock Art or Rorschach
The recourse to entopic phenomena as an explanation of certain geometric rock-art imagery has generated considerable debate among archaeologists and anthropologists of consciousness, and even among neuropsychologists, to a lesser degree. Surprisingly little has been discussed concerning the philosophical location of this debate in relation to the mind-body problem of consciousness, however, and a new perspective presented here on the experience o…
Anthropology and Parapsychology
After a long, slow journey from the leather armchairs of its forefathers to out-of-body travels over Amazonian jungles, the anthropology of psi has progressed through a number of historical, methodological, and ontological developments. The course of this transformation from the detached and disbelieving dismissal of the occult to the engaged and emic entertainment of psi as a scientific possibility is discussed. Following a century of obscurity …
Archaeologies of Consciousness
Development Management in Africa
A study of development management in Africa. It argues that the new task of development management is to encourage dynamic interactions among public, private and voluntary institutions, as well as external agencies and donors, in an effort to raise living standards and improve economic performance
Goethe's Collected Works
Central Agencies, State Capacity and the Current Wave of Structural Adjustment Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa
Liberia
Roman Elegies. The Diary
Faust Part One
The Politics of Economic Decline in Sierra Leone
But this observation is also a reminder that under colonial rule, Sierra Leone had received considerable notoriety for several reasons: an important naval base, commercial centre, and seaport; a hot-bed of political agitation and perennial challenge to British authority; and a centre of education - the so-called 'Athens of West Africa'.1In more recent times, however, Sierra Leone jas not caught the attention of international commentators and the …
Continuity in Sierra Leone
(1988). Continuity in Sierra Leone: From Stevens to Momoh. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 67-78
Elections in Independent Africa
Planning and Evaluation in Aid Organisations
Critical Race Theory, Afro-Pessimism, and Racial Progress Narratives
Much work in the sociology of race and ethnicity centers on an underlying narrative of racial progress. Progress narratives are typically conceptualized as a linear process of slow, yet inevitable, improvement. Drawing on Critical Race Theory and Afro-Pessimism, theoretical perspectives that emerged outside of the discipline of sociology, this paper urges a rethinking of linear progress narratives. First we elucidate the central tenets of these t…
The Politics of Economic Decline in Sierra Leone
But this observation is also a reminder that under colonial rule, Sierra Leone had received considerable notoriety for several reasons: an important naval base, commercial centre, and seaport; a hot-bed of political agitation and perennial challenge to British authority; and a centre of education - the so-called 'Athens of West Africa'.1In more recent times, however, Sierra Leone jas not caught the attention of international commentators and the …
Elections in Independent Africa
Black Colonialism
Regionalism in Africa
With the end of the 1980s as well as the third decade of the post-colonial era in view, the contours of the African predicament are not hard to decipher. The facts and figures on high rates of population growth, urbanization, unand underemployment, inflation, debt servicing and interest payments, and low levels of food supply, productivity, research and development, and foreign exchange are, by now, quite familiar. Environmental vicissitudes dese…
An investigation into the varieties of extended difficulties following psychedelic drug use
Psychedelic drugs show promising therapeutic potential; however, some users experience extended difficulties following their use. This study investigated the prevalence, severity, duration, and associated coping strategies of post-psychedelic difficulties. We conducted an online survey of 159 participants, all of whom reported experiencing difficulties lasting more than one day after psychedelic use within the past 2-10 years. Participants rated …
Central Agencies, State Capacity and the Current Wave of Structural Adjustment Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa
Reply to “Ayahuasca turned on my mind’s eye
In a recent article in this journal, Dos Santos et al. (2018) report a case of ayahuasca use by a man with aphantasia. This account is the first such report of the use of a psychedelic agent by someone with aphantasia. Surprisingly, the case, SE, reported an improvement in their visual imagery following one particular instance of ayahuasca use. In support of Dos Santos et al.’s (2018) favored psychological explanation for improvement and their su…
Continuity in Sierra Leone
(1988). Continuity in Sierra Leone: From Stevens to Momoh. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 67-78
Parties and elections in Africa
Apophenia, absorption and anxiety
Background and Aims Little is known about individual differences in Hallucinogen Persisting Perceptual Disorder (HPPD). This study investigated visual processing style and personality across two HPPD types (HPPD I and HPPD II) and a Non-HPPD group. Methods An online survey was delivered to participants sourced from online HPPD and psychedelic user groups and forums (N = 117). Using one-way ANOVA, respondents were compared across four measures of …
Response to Weddington
In this response to George Weddington’s critique of their recent article, the authors argue that Weddington rightfully critiques them for not paying enough attention to the role of psychoanalysis (exemplified by Frantz Fanon) in Afro-pessimist theory and for not giving primacy to the political ontology of blackness in Afro-pessimist thought. However, his critique is hindered by his mischaracterizing the authors’ argument as saying that black poli…
The Development of Modern Trade Unionism in Sierra Leone, Part I
With the SLPP as the party of government, Sierra Leone became an independent state within the British Commonwealth on 27 April 1961. In the period between the constitutional talks in London and the first held on the basis of universal suffrage in Sierra Leone (between August 1960 and May 1962), new political realignments became apparent. These resulted in divisions over questions of political strategy within the labor movement. The realignments b…
The Development of Modern Trade Unionism in Sierra Leone, Part II
The political economy of an African public enterprise
In most of the post‐colonial states of sub‐Saharan Africa, both the size of the state bureaucracy has grown and its functions proliferated. Whatever the economic rationale of public sector organizations, they do not exist and operate in a social and political vacuum. This paper argues that they are typically an integral part of a patron clientelist political and economic system on which the foundations of government sometimes depend. The conseque…
Continental Crisis
Books/Livres
Selected Tales
The political economy of an African public enterprise
In most of the post‐colonial states of sub‐Saharan Africa, both the size of the state bureaucracy has grown and its functions proliferated. Whatever the economic rationale of public sector organizations, they do not exist and operate in a social and political vacuum. This paper argues that they are typically an integral part of a patron clientelist political and economic system on which the foundations of government sometimes depend. The conseque…
Continental Crisis
Contemporary Sierra Leone
Dock Workers of the Port of Freetown
(1985). Dock Workers of the Port of Freetown: A Case Study of African Working-Class Ambivalence. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 547-567
Parties and elections in Africa
The Lagos Plan of Action and Africa's Future Economic Relations
The Lagos Plan of Action and Africa's Future
The Development of Modern Trade Unionism in Sierra Leone, Part I
With the SLPP as the party of government, Sierra Leone became an independent state within the British Commonwealth on 27 April 1961. In the period between the constitutional talks in London and the first held on the basis of universal suffrage in Sierra Leone (between August 1960 and May 1962), new political realignments became apparent. These resulted in divisions over questions of political strategy within the labor movement. The realignments b…
The Development of Modern Trade Unionism in Sierra Leone, Part II
Regionalism in Africa
With the end of the 1980s as well as the third decade of the post-colonial era in view, the contours of the African predicament are not hard to decipher. The facts and figures on high rates of population growth, urbanization, unand underemployment, inflation, debt servicing and interest payments, and low levels of food supply, productivity, research and development, and foreign exchange are, by now, quite familiar. Environmental vicissitudes dese…
Labour and Parastatal Politics in Sierra Leone
In its description of lower-paid workers in an African public corporation, this volume presents an original contribution to the discussion of class formation in contemporary Africa. Primarily an empirical study of the Dock Workers' Union at the Sierra Leone port organization, analysis is made of the union's attitudes, relation with management, political elites, and views of other trade unions. Written for students of political economy, sociology,…
Black Colonialism
Continental Crisis
Planning and Evaluation in Aid Organisations
Continuity in Sierra Leone
(1988). Continuity in Sierra Leone: From Stevens to Momoh. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 67-78
Elections in Independent Africa
Roman Elegies. The Diary
Faust Part One
The Politics of Economic Decline in Sierra Leone
But this observation is also a reminder that under colonial rule, Sierra Leone had received considerable notoriety for several reasons: an important naval base, commercial centre, and seaport; a hot-bed of political agitation and perennial challenge to British authority; and a centre of education - the so-called 'Athens of West Africa'.1In more recent times, however, Sierra Leone jas not caught the attention of international commentators and the …
Central Agencies, State Capacity and the Current Wave of Structural Adjustment Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa
Liberia
Goethe's Collected Works
Development Management in Africa
A study of development management in Africa. It argues that the new task of development management is to encourage dynamic interactions among public, private and voluntary institutions, as well as external agencies and donors, in an effort to raise living standards and improve economic performance
Political science (21 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Geography (13 obras) · History (12 obras) · Economics (11 obras) · International Development and Aid (10 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · African history and culture studies (9 obras) · Development economics (9 obras) · Art (8 obras)