altered consciousness
31Deindividuation — is a concept in social psychology regarding the loosening of social norms in groups. Sociologists also study the phenomenon of deindividuation, but the level of analysis is somewhat different. For the social psychologist, the level of analysis is …
32Minimally conscious state — Classification and external resources MeSH D018458 Minimally Conscious State (MCS) is a disorder of consciousness distinct from Persistent vegetative state and Locked in syndrome. Unlike persistent vegetative state, patients with MCS have partial …
33trance — An altered state of consciousness as in hypnosis, catalepsy, or ecstasy. [L. transeo, to go across] death t. a condition of suspended animation, marked by unconsciousness and barely perceptible respiration and heart …
34Introduction — There are shamans who may be able to heal, and others who may be successful at controlling game animals. Some shamans alter consciousness or use trance, others shape shift and journey to other worlds. Some mediate between their communities and …
35trance and hallucinations — The term trance comes from the Latin noun tran situs, which means passage. It is used as a generic term for various states of altered consciousness, notably those characterized by a markedly narrowed consciousness. Trance states are often… …
36Hegelians (The Young), Feuerbach, and Marx — The Young Hegelians, Feuerbach, and Marx Robert Nola Largely through lectures delivered at the University of Berlin, Hegel built up a circle of followers, mainly contemporaries or pupils, who were intent on working out aspects of the… …
37Brain Chemistry — Western science views the brain as the source of human consciousness, and increasingly sophisticated understandings of brain chemistry have prompted some researchers on shamanism to consider brain chemistry and the role of the human central… …
38Entoptic phenomena — Entoptics (from the Greek, meaning “within vision”), also known as phosphenes, are complex and diverse luminous geometric images derived from the human central nervous system, produced specifically within the optic cortex and characteristic of …
39Greenwood, Susan — Anthropologist and Pagan teaching undergraduate courses on shamanism and altered states of consciousness at the University of Sussex in Great Britain. Greenwood has written widely on nature religion and magic, taking a critically sympathetic… …
40Rock Art — Paintings (also known as pictographs) and engravings (also known as petroglyphs) on rock surfaces in caves or rock shelters and on boulders and exposed rock in the open landscape. The current “shamanistic interpretation” of some rock art… …
