Shamanism: A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing
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This book examines shamanism from evolutionary and biological perspectives to identify the origins of shamanic healing in rituals that enhance individual and group function. What does the brain do during "soul journeys"? How do shamans alter consciousness and why is this important for healing? Are shamans different from other kinds of healers? Is there a connection between the rituals performed by chimpanzees and traditional shamanistic practices? All of these questions and many more are answered in Shamanism, Second Edition: A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing. This text contains crosscultural examinations of the nature of shamanism, biological perspectives on alterations of consciousness, mechanisms of shamanistic healing, as well as the evolutionary origins of shamanism. It presents the shamanic paradigm within a biopsychosocial framework for explaining successful human evolution through group rituals. In the final chapter,"the author compares shamanistic rituals with chimpanzee displays to identify homologies that point to the ritual dynamics of our ancient hominid ancestors.
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Although limited, the adaptive cycle we have presented, stands as a supplemental theory for the adaptive functions of religion that have been proposed by Rappaport (1999) and Winkelman (2010).
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- Authors
- Winkelman, M. J.
- Corresponding author
- Winkelman, Michael J.
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO, LLC
- Published
- 2010
- OpenAlex
- W4392993378
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- 155
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- FWCI
- 5.43
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Jungian Analytical Psychology
- Keywords
- shamanism, shamanic healing, altered states of consciousness, soul journey, collective ritual, biopsychosocial model, hominid ancestors
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