scholarly journals Shamanic Healing Ceremonies, Hypnosis and the Survival of the Suggestibles

Author(s):  
Stanley Krippner
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Author(s):  
Meg Bowles
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Aries ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Podolecka ◽  
Leslie Nthoi

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.





1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rioux
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1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
Wade Davis
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EXPLORE ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 371-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Vuckovic ◽  
Jennifer Schneider ◽  
Louise A. Williams ◽  
Michelle Ramirez


2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Lasine

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.



2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Alison H Oliveto ◽  
Michael J Mancino ◽  
Jeff Thostenson ◽  
Sandra Ingerman ◽  
Suzanne Day ◽  
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Ethos ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nofit Itzhak
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