You Are the Mountain: Modeling Religious Experience in Light of Cognitive Neuroscience
Bryan Rill (Florida State University) In recent years insights from cognitive neuroscience have led anthropologists to reconsider constructs of culture and experience. Neuroanthropology now provides evidence that patterned practices have the […]
Reexamining Near-Death and Other Experiences of the Beyond in Cultural Perspective
Jeffery L MacDonald (Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization) Reexamining Near-Death and Other Experiences of the Beyond in Cultural Perspective: Implications for the Anthropology of Consciousness Since the birth of anthropology, human […]
A Neuroanthropological Comparison of Anomalous Experiences During Meditation and Ethnographic Accounts of Shamanic Flight
M. Diane Hardgrave (Southern Methodist University and College of Southern Nevada) Accounts of anomalous experience during meditation in an earlier study (Hardgrave 2010), revealed a striking similarity with characteristics found in […]
Defraying the Costs of “Analysis Paralysis”
Christopher D Lynn (University of Alabama) Defraying the Costs of “Analysis Paralysis”: A Neuroanthropological Model of Dissociation, Deafferentation, and Trance Human intellectual efforts frequently seek to extend awareness and expand […]
CONSCIOUSNESS, MYTH AND PSYCHE
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONSIDERATION of JOSEPH Campbell’s CONTRIBUTION to CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY The Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness and the Joseph Campbell Foundation have collaborated to honor the legacy […]
“The Four Functions of Myth & the Divided Brain: How Campbell’s Model Nourishes the Hemispheres.”
Andrew Dean Gurevich (Mt. Hood Community College) “As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world — that is the Myth of the atomic age […]
Hermes Adds A Mythic Dimension to Complexity Theory, Attachment Theory, and Ecopsychology
Dennis L. Merritt (Jungian Analyst) Joseph Campbell was the greatest popularizer of mythology and introduced millions to the mythopoetic dimension of the human psyche. The Homeric Hymn to Hermes can be […]
The Hero’s Journey and Personal Mythology As Pathways in Mind-Body Healing
Donald Patrick Moss (Saybrook University) The concept of life as a journey dates back at least to Dante’s Divine Comedy, in which the protagonist becomes lost in a dark wood at […]
The Scholar With a Thousand Faces: Joseph Campbell’s Enduring Legacy
Robert Walter (Joseph Campbell Foundation) Much has been written about Joseph’s Campbell’s legacy since his untimely death in 1987. His contributions to the study of literature, film and television are well-traveled […]