2018 SAC Spring Conference
This year’s conference, Altered States, Sound, Ritual and Healing Today, Both in Traditional Cultures and Non Traditional, will be held from March 22-25 at Sofia University in Palo Alto, CA. […]
2018 Call for Papers
SAC 37th Annual Conference March 22th –25th, Palo Alto, CA Altered States, Sound, Ritual and Healing Today, Both in Traditional Cultures and Non Traditional Healing is one function attributed to […]
SAC 37th Spring Conference CFPs
Call for Papers SAC 37th Annual Conference March 22th –25th, Palo Alto, CA Altered States, Sound, Ritual and Healing Today, Both in Traditional Cultures and Non Traditional. Healing is one […]
Transforming Energy into Action
SAC 37th Annual Conference March 29th – April 1st Encinitas, CA Transforming Energy into Action The concept of “subtle energy” is fundamental to many of the esoteric principals and spiritual […]
FOSTERING EMOTIONAL “IMMUNITY” TO TERROR AND TRAUMA: RITUAL AS A SOURCE OF HEALTH RESILIENCE FOR INDIGENOUS INDIAN CONSERVATION REFUGEES
Friday, November 18 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM Hilton, Room: Salon B Presenting Author: Jeffrey Snodgrass Colorado State University I assess the attentional mechanisms and psychosomatic processes by which ritual practice produces […]
A COMPARATIVE CRITICAL PHENOMENOLOGY OF DRUG ADDICTION AMONG MESTIZOS IN THE UPPER HUALLAGA VALLEY, PERU
Friday, November 18 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM Hilton, Room: Salon B Presenting Author: Pablo Seward Delaporte Stanford University Among low-income mestizo peasants of the Upper Huallaga Valley in the Peruvian Amazon, […]
KINDLING VOICCES
Friday, November 18 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM Hilton, Room: Salon B Presenting Author: Tanya Luhrmann Stanford University Many psychiatric clinicians and scientists assume that the voices associated with serious psychotic illness, […]
PERCEIVING THE PROBABLE: PSYCHOPHYSICS AT THE THRESHOLD
Wednesday, November 16 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM Minneapolis Convention Center, Room: 200H Presenting Author: David Miller University of Rhode Island Psychophysics has made major contributions to the study of awareness and […]
USING CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE AS A METHODOLOGY TO STUDY NON-ORDINARY STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Wednesday, November 16 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM Minneapolis Convention Center, Room: 200H Presenting Author: Kelsey Armeni Naropa University This piece is part of a contemplative paper on the use of […]
BRAIN DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS: HARD TO GET EVIDENCE
Wednesday, November 16 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM Minneapolis Convention Center, Room: 200H Presenting Author: Benjamin Campbell University of Wisconsin, Milwauke An evolutionary perspective assumes that consciousness is the product of the […]