Michael Winkelman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3617752 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Winkelman |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Winkelman |
| ASSINATURA | WINKELMAN M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Arizona State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 415 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Whose Hope? Power, knowledge, and the decolonization of psychedelic ethics
The global expansion of psychedelic research, clinical translation, and policy reform has intensified debates concerning safety, equity, cultural appropriation, and Indigenous rights. A prominent contribution to these discussions is the Hopkins–Oxford Psychedelic Ethics (HOPE) Consensus Statement (Jacobs et al., 2024), which proposes a foundational ethical framework for a field undergoing rapid institutionalization. HOPE advances important commit…
Pilgrimage and Healing
Divination and Healing
Magic
Anthropological theories about the techniques broadly labeled magic and related practices as sorcery, witchcraft, divination, and ritual curing are in need of reformulation. Theoretical considerations of these phenomena within anthropology have neglected to consider the basic assumptions of magical belief, instead departing from Western cultural assumptions that beliefs about magic are empirically untenable and that there can be no such cause-and…
The entheogenic origins of Mormonism
Historical documents relating to early Mormonism suggest that Joseph Smith (1805-1844) employed entheogen-infused sacraments to fulfill his promise that every Mormon convert would experience visions of God and spiritual ecstasies. Early Mormon scriptures and Smith's teachings contain descriptions consistent with using entheogenic material. Compiled descriptions of Joseph Smith's earliest visions and early Mormon convert visions reveal the interna…
Introduction
This introduction to the special issue reviews research that supports the hypothesis that psychedelics, particularly psilocybin, were central features in the development of religion. The greater response of the human serotonergic system to psychedelics than is the case for chimpanzees' serotonergic receptors indicates that these substances were environmental factors that affected hominin evolution. These substances also contributed to the evoluti…
The "Kamasutra" temples of India
The essay proposes that entheogenic mushrooms and shamanic experiences are encoded in the Khajuraho Temples of India. Erotic sculptures of Khajuraho have statues with limbs depicted in strange positions, separated from the body or with orientations that are anatomically impossible. These represent dismemberment experiences typical of shamanic and mystical initiation, a phenomenon with precedents in Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The central place…
Shamanism and Possession
Shamanism and possession are central concepts in the religious practices of many “premodern” societies, with substantial similarities manifested across cultures and time that reflect their basis in human nature. Shamans and possession both involve ritual alteration of consciousness but differences between them are illustrated by cross‐cultural studies and the distinctive experiential features associated with their respective activities. Shamans' …
Consciousness
Consciousness involves the integrative functioning of awareness, sensations, perceptions, memory, cognitions, sense of self, and worldviews. Anthropology studies cross‐cultural differences in these basic elements of consciousness to illustrate the interaction of biological and cultural factors in the development of human consciousness. These interactions produce cross‐cultural variation in consciousness in the imprinting of cultural influences in…
Drugs in prehistory
Archeological investigations of ancient psychoactive substances
Perspectives biogénétiques et neurophénoménologiques sur l’altération de la conscience
Les altérations de la conscience manifestent une capacité énigmatique qui mobilise nos plus profondes capacités de connaissance. Leurs manifestations rituelles et spontanées partagent à travers toutes les cultures de mêmes propriétés, manifestant des similitudes dans le vol de l'âme, la possession et les expériences mystiques, qui reflètent les caractéristiques intrinsèques de la nature et de la biologie humaines. Le lien entre la nature phénomén…
Political and Demographic-Ecological Determinants of Institutionalised Human Sacrifice
This paper assesses causes of institutionalised human sacrifice through analyses of cross-cultural data sets, extending previous cross-cultural research that found significant ecological predictors of human sacrifice in population pressure and environmental circumscription measures. Societies with human sacrifice have intensive agriculture, fixed residence and high population density. However, human sacrifice is not significantly correlated with …
Shamanic Cosmology as an Evolutionary Neurocognitive Epistemology
The biological foundation for a shamanic epistemology is indicated by the cross-cultural distribution of a shamanic cosmology derived from knowledge obtained during altered consciousness. These special forms of consciousness involve integrative brain conditions that access ancient ways of knowing, expressive systems which have evolutionary roots in the communicative and social processes involved in animal displays or rituals. These were augmented…
Shamanism in Cross-Cultural Perspective
This article reviews the origins of the concept of the shaman and the principal sources of controversy regarding the existence and nature of shamanism. Confusion regarding the nature of shamanism is clarified with a review of research providing empirical support for a cross-cultural concept of shamans that distinguishes them from related shamanistic healers. The common shamanistic universals involving altered states of consciousness are examined …
Singing to the Plants
Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon . Stephan V. Beyer . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2009 . 544 pp . Beyer's book developed from trips to the Amazon out of an interest in jungle survival that extended to a personal absorption with Amazonian spirituality. Although purportedly about "mestizo shamanism of the upper Amazon" (p. xi), it covers a broader context, including: part 1, "Shamanic Healin…
The Shamanic Paradigm
Cross-cultural findings establish the empirical evidence for a common form of worldwide hunter-gatherer shamanism, as well as differentiating these shamans from other types of shamanistic healers. These diverse practitioners have contributed to a confusion regarding the nature of shamanism because they share similarities in their common biogenetic foundations. These involve a cultural universal involving community ritual in which the induction of…
The Holy Mushroom
Those Who Touch Tuareg Medicine Women in Anthropological Perspective by Susan Rasmussen
Death and the Anthropologist
Modes of Religiosity
Modes of Religiosity:. Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission. Harvey Whitehouse. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004. 208 pp
Culture and Health
Figures, Tables, and Exhibits. Special Features. Preface. Medical Anthropology's Perspectives. Chapter Overviews. Special Features of the Text. Dedication. The Author. ONE: APPLIED MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND HEALTH CARE. Culture and Health. Culture, Ethnomedicines, and Biomedicine. Cultural Competence in the Health Professions. Concepts of Health. Systems Approaches to Health. Chapter Summary. TWO: DISEASE, ILLNESS, SICKNESS, AND THE SICK ROLE. Exp…
Drug Tourism or Spiritual Healing? Ayahuasca Seekers in Amazonia
This research addresses the question of whether Westerners who seek traditional spiritual medicine known as ayahuasca can be best characterized as "drug tourists" or as people pursuing spiritual and therapeutic opportunities. Participants in an ayahuasca retreat in Amazonia were interviewed regarding their motivations for participation and the benefits they felt that they received. These findings from the interviews were organized to reveal commo…
Understanding Consciousness Using Systems Approaches and Lexical Universals
The numerous perspectives offered on consciousness reflect a multifaceted phenomenon that results from a system of relations. An etymological approach identifies linguistic roots of the meanings of consciousness and illustrates their concern with self-referenced informational relationships of an organism with its environment, a "knowing system" formed in the epistemological relations between knower and known. Common elements of contemporary model…
La Voz del Kultrun en la Modernidad
The Signs of All Times
Mental Imagery Cultivation as a Cultural Phenomenon
The ability to experience mental imagery is innate in human beings. "Mental imagery cultivation" is proposed to identify technological traditions devoted to the deliberate, repeated induction of enhanced mental imagery, usually in select individuals. Mental imagery enhancement training increases the vividness and the controlledness of mental imagery for its functional and adaptive value. Mental imagery cultivation is usually embedded within magic…
Trance States
Pilgrimage and Healing
Magic
Comparison of aspects of magical belief and practice with elements identified in experimental parapsychology suggests that some magical phenomena may have their basis in what parapsychology in call psi. Similarities are found between magic and parapsychology in (1) conditions that facilitate the manifestation of magical and psi phenomena, (2) the mental processes implicated as effective in producing magical and psi phenomena, (3) the basic princi…
Shamanism and Cognitive Evolution (with comments)
Shamanic referents in Upper Palaeolithic cave art indicate its pivotal role in the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition. Etic models of shamanism derived from cross-cultural research help articulate the shamanic paradigm in cave art and explicate the role of shamanism in this transition. Shamanism is found cross-culturally in hunter-gatherer societies, constituting an ecological and psychosociobiological adaptation that reflects the ritual and co…
The Evolution of Consciousness? Transpersonal Theories in Light of Cultural Relativism
This paper examines some of the principal theories in transpersonal psychology on the nature of the evolution of human consciousness within the context of anthropological perspectives of ecological and neoevolutionary adaptation and cultural relativism. New perspectives on the evolution of consciousness are provided by the work of transpersonal psychologists. These transpersonal perspectives are particularly important because they depart from tra…
Shamanism as Neurotheology and Evolutionary Psychology
Universals of shamanism reflect innate brain processes and representational systems and fundamental aspects of consciousness. Shamanic universals involve psychophysiological dynamics of altered states of consciousness (ASCs) and visionary experiences, metaphoric representations produced through integration of innate representational modules, and rituals that produce psychophysiological healing responses. ASCs reflect natural brain processes invol…
Introduction
This introduction to the special issue reviews research that supports the hypothesis that psychedelics, particularly psilocybin, were central features in the development of religion. The greater response of the human serotonergic system to psychedelics than is the case for chimpanzees' serotonergic receptors indicates that these substances were environmental factors that affected hominin evolution. These substances also contributed to the evoluti…
Complementary Therapy for Addiction
Objectives. This article examines drumming activities as complementary addiction treatments and discusses their reported effects. Methods. I observed drumming circles for substance abuse (as a participant), interviewed counselors and Internet mailing list participants, initiated a pilot program, and reviewed literature on the effects of drumming. Results. Research reviews indicate that drumming enhances recovery through inducing relaxation and en…
Aztec Human Sacrifice
Ecological, religious, and social predictors of institutionalized human sacrifice are assessed through cross-cultural analysis. While human sacrifice has no significant correlations with measures of agricultural potential, protein, total food, food storage adequacy, and famine risk, there are significant positive correlations with population density, population pressure, and war for land and resources. Population pressure and war for land and res…
Political and Demographic-Ecological Determinants of Institutionalised Human Sacrifice
This paper assesses causes of institutionalised human sacrifice through analyses of cross-cultural data sets, extending previous cross-cultural research that found significant ecological predictors of human sacrifice in population pressure and environmental circumscription measures. Societies with human sacrifice have intensive agriculture, fixed residence and high population density. However, human sacrifice is not significantly correlated with …
The Evolution Of Consciousness
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness
Understanding Consciousness Using Systems Approaches and Lexical Universals
The numerous perspectives offered on consciousness reflect a multifaceted phenomenon that results from a system of relations. An etymological approach identifies linguistic roots of the meanings of consciousness and illustrates their concern with self-referenced informational relationships of an organism with its environment, a "knowing system" formed in the epistemological relations between knower and known. Common elements of contemporary model…
Modes of Religiosity
Modes of Religiosity:. Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission. Harvey Whitehouse. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004. 208 pp
Science in the New Age
Science in the New Age: The Paranormal, Its Defenders and Debunkers, and American Culture. David Hess. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. ISBN 0-299-13824-0 (p) 0-299-13820-8 (c) $42.50 (cloth), $17.95 (paper
The "Kamasutra" temples of India
The essay proposes that entheogenic mushrooms and shamanic experiences are encoded in the Khajuraho Temples of India. Erotic sculptures of Khajuraho have statues with limbs depicted in strange positions, separated from the body or with orientations that are anatomically impossible. These represent dismemberment experiences typical of shamanic and mystical initiation, a phenomenon with precedents in Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The central place…
La Voz del Kultrun en la Modernidad
La Voz del Kultrun en la Modernidad: Tradicion. Cambio en la Terapeutica de Siete Machi Mapuche(The voice of the drum in modernity: Tradition and change in the therapy of seven Mapuche machi). Ann Mariella Bacigalupo. Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Catolica de Chile,2001 .271pp
Therapeutic Effects of Hallucinogens
This paper reviews some of the evidence indicating that hallucinogens or psychedelic substances have therapeutic effects. The general character hallucinogen use in non- Western societies is briefly reviewed to present data about the characteristic beliefs and uses associated with these substances. Evidence for therapeutic effectiveness is addressed from several perspectives: the findings from clinical medicine on effects of LSD; a general model o…
Schamanismus und rituelles Heilen im Alten Peru
Walter Andritzky. Schamanismus und rituelles Heilen im Alten Peru (Shamanism And Ritualistic Healing In Ancient Peru) (Verlag Clemens Zerlig, Mehringdamm 51, Berlin 61), 1989,. vols., 526 pp. ISBN 88468‐041‐2
Shamanism and Altered States of Consciousness
Magic
Comparison of aspects of magical belief and practice with elements identified in experimental parapsychology suggests that some magical phenomena may have their basis in what parapsychology in call psi. Similarities are found between magic and parapsychology in (1) conditions that facilitate the manifestation of magical and psi phenomena, (2) the mental processes implicated as effective in producing magical and psi phenomena, (3) the basic princi…
Maria Sabina
Mental Imagery Cultivation as a Cultural Phenomenon
The ability to experience mental imagery is innate in human beings. "Mental imagery cultivation" is proposed to identify technological traditions devoted to the deliberate, repeated induction of enhanced mental imagery, usually in select individuals. Mental imagery enhancement training increases the vividness and the controlledness of mental imagery for its functional and adaptive value. Mental imagery cultivation is usually embedded within magic…
Frequently used medicinal plants in Baja California Norte
Trance States
The Signs of All Times
A Cross-cultural Study of Shamanistic Healers
The issue of cross-cultural similarities and differences in trance practitioners engaged in healing is examined, based on a formal quantitative cross-cultural study and analysis. The findings suggest distinct types of healers: shamans, shaman/healers, healers, and mediums. The data illustrate not only some universals of healers, but more importantly it reveals systematic differences between the shamans of hunting and gathering societies, the sham…
Shamanism and Altered States of Consciousness
In this article, the issue of shamanism and altered states of consciousness (ASC) is reviewed from a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspective. It is suggested that in spite of considerable differences in the uses of these terms, there are conceptual and empirical grounds for distinction among different types of trance practitioners. The authors argue that shamanism is a cultural adaptation of hunting and gathering societies to the biologi…
Psychoactive Properties of !Kung Bushman Medicine Plants
This article addresses some of the recent controversy over the role of psychoactive substances in the !Kung Bushmen healing ceremonies and trance induction. Although some contemporary works on the !Kung and their healing ceremonies give no evidence of the use of psychoactive plants, an examination of the available biochemical and pharmacological literature on the properties of these plants indicates that most contain psychoactive or toxic substan…
Ethnobotanical treatments of diabetes in Baja California Norte
This paper provides a brief review of the current biomedical knowledge on some of the medicinal plants used in the treatment of diabetes in Baja California Norte. In general there is very little biochemical knowledge of the specific modes of action in the treatment of diabetes, but most of the plants have been found to contain substances (e.g., glucosides, alkaloids) frequently implicated as having anti-diabetic effects. Furthermore, clinical stu…
Books Recevied for Review
Open Mind, Discriminating Mind: Reflections on Human Possibilities, by Charles T. Tart. (San Francisco: Harper & Row), 1990
The Evolution Of Consciousness
Schamanismus und rituelles Heilen im Alten Peru
Walter Andritzky. Schamanismus und rituelles Heilen im Alten Peru (Shamanism And Ritualistic Healing In Ancient Peru) (Verlag Clemens Zerlig, Mehringdamm 51, Berlin 61), 1989,. vols., 526 pp. ISBN 88468‐041‐2
Conscious Evolution
Janet Lee Mitchell. Conscious Evolution. Ballantine Books, 1990, 210 pages
Shamanism and Altered States of Consciousness
The Return of Dr. Fritz
Teaching About Culture Shock
Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness
Therapeutic Effects of Hallucinogens
This paper reviews some of the evidence indicating that hallucinogens or psychedelic substances have therapeutic effects. The general character hallucinogen use in non- Western societies is briefly reviewed to present data about the characteristic beliefs and uses associated with these substances. Evidence for therapeutic effectiveness is addressed from several perspectives: the findings from clinical medicine on effects of LSD; a general model o…
Shamans, priests, and witches
Projecting Anthropology to the Public
The Spirit of Shamanism
The Evolution of Consciousness? Transpersonal Theories in Light of Cultural Relativism
This paper examines some of the principal theories in transpersonal psychology on the nature of the evolution of human consciousness within the context of anthropological perspectives of ecological and neoevolutionary adaptation and cultural relativism. New perspectives on the evolution of consciousness are provided by the work of transpersonal psychologists. These transpersonal perspectives are particularly important because they depart from tra…
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness
Science in the New Age
Science in the New Age: The Paranormal, Its Defenders and Debunkers, and American Culture. David Hess. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. ISBN 0-299-13824-0 (p) 0-299-13820-8 (c) $42.50 (cloth), $17.95 (paper
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