TY  - BOOK
AU  - 
ED  - State University of New York Press
TI  - The nature of shamanism: substance and function of a religious metaphor 
SN  - 0791413853
AV  - BL2370.S5 R52 1993
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Abany, N.Y.
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Shamanism
KW  - Experience (Religion)
KW  - Metaphor
KW  - Religious aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and index; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Personal Dialectic; Shamanism and Culture: Configurations of a Religious Metaphor; Cultural Ethos and Mysticism; Hunting Magic; Master of the Animals - The Lady of Wild Things; The Spiral and the Labyrinth; Shamanism and Ancient Egyptian Religion; Shamanistic Metaphors, Techniques, and Appurtenances42; Mongolian Shamanism; The Celtic Religion; The Role of the Shaman; Substance and Function of Shamanism; Definitions and Problems; "Answering the Call," Initiation, and Shamanic Enlightenment; The Shamanistic Experience; Shamanism and Psychopathology; The Psychotropic Universe: Cosmology of the Spirit World; Cosmic Transformations; Corresponding Realities and Otherworlds; Numerical Potencies; Rock Crystals and the Hexagonal Universe; Reason and Order; The Ritual Drug Complex: Ethnobiology of Heaven and Hell; The Drug Ceremonial; Psychoactivity and Mechanisms of Hallucinations; Phosphenes; The Botanic Experience: Hallucinogens in Archaeology and Ethnohistory; The Old World; The New World; The Quest for Magical Plants and the Origins of Cultivation; The Power of Metaphors: Phenomenology of Symbolic Forms; Language,Perception, and Reality; Metaphor, Myth, and Transcendence; Visionary Experiences and Art; Phosphenes and Shamanistic Symbolism; Shamanistic Parallels and Survivals; Notes; Bibliography; Index
ER  -