Making Selves and Meeting Others in Neo-Shamanic Healing

Ethos ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nofit Itzhak
Keyword(s):  
Shamanic Healing

Shamanic Healing

2014 ◽  
pp. 1647-1650
Author(s):  
Meg Bowles
Keyword(s):  
Shamanic Healing

Esotericism in Botswana

Aries ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Podolecka ◽  
Leslie Nthoi
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
New Age ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
African Christianity ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
Shamanic Healing ◽  
First Time

Abstract The article argues that “esotericism” can usefully be applied to a number of religious currents in Southern Africa. With a focus on Botswana, we survey a range of practices, from traditional “shamanic” healing to Pentecostal NRM s to New Age spiritualities and neoshamanism, some presented here for the first time. The term esotericism is useful for analysing the religious situation in Southern African contexts for three reasons. First, through a typological understanding of esotericism as initiation-based knowledge systems, we define one part of the landscape (usually termed “shamanism”) as constituting a form of “indigenous esotericism”. Second, through the European colonial expansion, this indigenous esotericism faced a violent rejection campaign that parallels the construction of “rejected knowledge” in Europe. While this forced many practices underground, they have resurfaced within Southern African Christianity. Third, “western” esoteric currents have recently been imported to Southern Africa and enter into dialogues with the “indigenous” forms.

Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama: Health and Medicine in Native North American Religious Traditions

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 281
Author(s):  
Michelene E. Pesantubbee ◽  
Ake Hultkrantz
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Native North American ◽  
Shamanic Healing ◽  
Ritual Drama

Shamanic Healing Techniques

1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rioux
Keyword(s):  
Shamanic Healing

The Art of Shamanic Healing

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
Wade Davis
Keyword(s):  
Shamanic Healing

Journey Into Healing: The Transformative Experience of Shamanic Healing on Women With Temporomandibular Joint Disorders

EXPLORE ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 371-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Vuckovic ◽  
Jennifer Schneider ◽  
Louise A. Williams ◽  
Michelle Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Temporomandibular Joint ◽  
Temporomandibular Joint Disorders ◽  
Transformative Experience ◽  
Shamanic Healing

Matters of Life and Death: The Story of Elijah and the Widow's Son in Comparative Perspective

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Lasine
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Case History ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Medical Case ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Narcissistic Personality ◽  
Shamanic Healing ◽  
1 Kings

AbstractThis paper examines the concept of death projected by 1 Kgs 17:17-24 and other accounts of miraculous resuscitation. Viewed as a medical case history, Elijah's reviving of the widow's son raises difficult questions. Was the boy really dead, "only mostly dead," or merely gravely ill? Scholars often answer such questions by claiming that ancient Israelites did not consider corpses "to be 'totally' dead for a couple of days," and regarded death as "an enfeebled form of life." This paper challenges these claims by comparing Elijah's actions to those of other biblical and ancient Greek healers, as well as to Mesopotamian and shamanic healing practices. Why do healers like Elijah end up getting into bed with their patients? Examples in modern stories by Flaubert and Kafka reveal the kinship between the healer and the scapegoat, and suggest that miraculous healers tend to display narcissistic personality traits. Analysis of Greek sources and the Mount Horeb episode (1 Kings 19) indicates that this may also be the case for ancient healers like Elijah, Empedocles, and Asclepius, and that narcissism is itself a defense against death.

Acceptability of shamanic healing for treating psychostimulant dependence: a pilot survey

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Alison H Oliveto ◽  
Michael J Mancino ◽  
Jeff Thostenson ◽  
Sandra Ingerman ◽  
Suzanne Day ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Survey ◽  
Shamanic Healing

An annotated translation of the ‘eye disease incantation’ in Dongba script

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-116
Author(s):  
Jiquan He ◽  
Xiuyun Zhao
Keyword(s):  
High Rate ◽  
Eye Disease ◽  
Early Writing ◽  
Writing System ◽  
Shamanic Healing ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Annotated Translation ◽  
Special Category

The ‘eye disease incantation’ is a special category of manuscript recorded by the Naxi Dongba for the purpose of healing through the power of incantation and meditation. Up to now, very few Dongba texts with incantations have been discovered or published, and Dongba texts which record incantations as well as depict scenes of meditation are even more rare. There are three ways to record Dongba script found in these texts: record the language completely; express the meaning via pictures; and create an expression that combines meaning and sound. The structure of the glyphs is characteristic of an early writing system which was mainly composed of pictographs and associative compounds. However, the high rate of phonetic loan glyphs and the appearance of pictophonetic glyphs show the characteristics of a mature writing system. This type of manuscript has value for studying the evolution of the relationship between Dongba language and script, and shamanic healing culture.

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