Shamanism: A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing Winkelman Michael
Shamanism: A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing Winkelman Michael What does the brain do during "soul journeys"? Are shamans different from other kinds of healers? How do shamans…
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Shamanism: A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing Winkelman Michael
What does the brain do during "soul journeys"? Are shamans different from other kinds of healers? How do shamans alter consciousness and why is this important for 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. 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. 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