Soceity of the Anthropology of Consciousness’ Bibliography

Bibliography of Consciousness Studies

The list of references presented below has been compiled from suggestions provided by members and friends of SAC, and can provide a starting point for your own studies. Some of the references listed are from the field of the anthropology of consciousness in sensu strictu, others are from related or tangential fields. Many of these works have played a significant role in the development of the field, although they may no longer be regarded as accurate, up to date, or correct. For example, the works of Castaneda, once thought to be valid anthropological studies, are now more properly viewed as works of fiction. These are nevertheless included here because of the role they played in introducing the notion of “non-ordinary realities” to a wider audience.

Core References (Top 15 References)

Bourguignon, Erika. 1976. Possession. San Francisco: Chandler & Sharp Publishers, Inc.

Castaneda, Carlos. 1968. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Dobkin de Rios, M. 1984. Hallucinogens: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Albuquerque: University New Mexico.

Eliade, Mircea. 1964. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Bollingen Series LXXVI. New York: Pantheon.

Furst, Peter T. 1972. Flesh of the Gods: The Ritual Use of Hallucinogens, P. T. Furst ed. New York: Praeger Publishers.

–Includes: Emboden, William “Ritual Use of Cannabis Sativa: A Historical-Ethnographic Survey”; Fernandez, James W. “Tabernanthe Iboga: Narcotic Ecstasis and the Work of the Ancestors”; Furst, Peter T. “To Find Our Life: Peyote Among the Huichol Indians of Mexico”; La Barre, Weston “Hallucinogens and the Shamanic Origin of Religion”; Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo “The Cultural Context of an Aboriginal Hallucinogen: Banisteriopsis Caapi”; Schultes, Richard Evans “An Overview of Hallucinogens in the Western Hemisphere”; Sharon, Douglas “The San Pedro Cactus in Peruvian Folk Healing”; Wasson, R. Gordon “The Divine Mushroom of Immortality”, “What was the Soma of the Aryans?”; Wilbert, Johannes “Tobacco and Shamanistic Ecstasy Among the Warao Indians of Venezuela.”

Furst, Peter T. 1976. Hallucinogens and Culture. San Francisco: Chandler and Sharp.

Grof, Stanislav. 1975. Realms of the Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research. New York: Viking Press.

Harner, Michael J. 1973. Hallucinogens and Shamanism, M. Harner, ed. New York: Oxford University Press.

–Includes: Boyer, L. Bryce et al. “Shamanism and Peyote Use among the Apaches of the Mescalero Indian Reservation”; Dobkin De Rios, Marlene “Curing with Ayahuasca in an Urban Slum.” In Hallucinogens and Shamanism; Harner, Michael J. “The Sound of Rushing Water”, “The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft”; “Common Themes in South American Indian Yage Experiences”; Kensinger, Kenneth M. “Banisteriopsis Usage Among the Peruvian Cashinahua”; Munn, Henry “The Mushrooms of Language”; Naranjo, Claudio “Psychological Aspects of the Yage Experience in an Experimental Setting”; Siskind, Janet “Visions and Cures Among the Sharanahua”; Weiss, Gerald “Shamanism and Priesthood in Light of the Campa Ayahuasca Ceremony.”

Harner, Michael J. 1980. The Way of the Shaman. San Francisco: Harper and Row.

Masters, R. E. L., and Jean Houston. 1966. The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Myerhoff, Barbara. 1974. Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo. 1975. The Shaman and the Jaguar: A Study of Narcotic Drugs Among the Indians of Colombia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Schultes, Richard Evans and Albert Hofmann. 1979. Plants of the Gods: Origins of Hallucinogen Use. New York: McGraw Hill.

Tart, Charles T. 1969. Altered States of Consciousness, C. T. Tart, ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

–Includes: Aaronson, Bernard S. “Hypnosis, Depth Perception, and Psychedelic Experience”; Bowers, Malcolm B. Jr. and Daniel X. Freedman “‘Psychedelic’ Experiences in Acute Psychosis”; Deikman, Arthur, J. “Deautomatization and the Mystic Experience”; Ludwig, Arnold M. “Altered States of Consciousness”; Maupin, Edward W. “Individual Differences in Response to a Zen Meditation Exercise”; Pahnke, Walter N. and William A. Richards “Implications of LSD and Experimental Mysticism”; Stewart, Kilton “Dream Theory in Malaya”; Tart, Charles T. “The ‘High’ Dream: A New State of Consciousness”; Van Eeden, Frederik “A Study of Dreams”.

Weil, Andrew T. 1972. The Natural Mind: A New Way of Looking at Drugs and the Higher Consciousness. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

A More Complete Bibliography

Aberele, David. 1966. The Peyote Religion among the Navaho. Chicago: Aldine.

Auerbach, Loyd. 1986. ESP, Hauntings and Poltergeists: a Parapsychologist’s Handbook. New York, NY: Warner Books, Inc.

Bateson, Gregory. 1972. Steps to an Ecology of Mind. New York: Ballentine.

Boddy, J. 1994. Spirit Possession Revisited: Beyond Instrumentality. Annual Review of Anthropology 23:407-34.

Bohm, David. 1980. Wholeness and the Implicate Order. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Bolles, Edmund Blair. 1991. A Second Way of Knowing. NY: Simon and Schuster.

Bourguignon, Erika. 1973. Religion, Altered States of Consciousness, and Social Change, E. Bourguignon ed. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Bourguignon, Erika. 1976. Possession. San Francisco: Chandler & Sharp Publishers, Inc.

Campbell, Joseph. 1971. The Portable Jung. NY: Penguin Books.

Capra, Fritjof. 1991. The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism. Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc.

Cardena, Etzel, Steven Jay Lynn, & Stanley Krippner. Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence. E. Cardena, S. J. Lynn, and S. Krippner, eds. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 2000. 476 pp.

Castaneda, Carlos. 1968. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Castaneda, Carlos. 1972. Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan. NY: Simon and Schuster.

Castaneda, Carlos. 1981. The Eagle’s Gift. NY: Simon and Schuster.

Castaneda, Carlos. 1984. The Fire from Within. NY: Simon and Schuster.

Castaneda, Carlos. 1987. The Power of Silence. NY: Simon and Schuster.

Castillo, Richard J. 1995. Culture, Trance and the Mind-Brain. Anthropology of Consciousness. 6(1):17-32.

Coles, Robert. 1990. The Spiritual Life of Children. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co.

Coult, Allan D. 1977. Psychedelic Anthropology: The Study of Man Through the Manifestation of the Mind. Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company.

Deren, Maya. 1983 [1953]. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. New York: New Paltz.

Desjarlais, Robert. 1992. Body and Emotion. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press.

Dobkin De Rios, Marlene. 1972. Visionary Vine: Hallucinogenic Healing in the Peruvian Amazon. Prospect Heights: Waveland.

Dobkin de Rios, M. 1984. Hallucinogens: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Albuquerque: University New Mexico.

Doore, Gary. 1988. Shamans Path: Healing, Personal Growth and Empowerment. G. Doore, ed. Boston: Shambhala.

Eadie, Betty J. 1992. Embraced by the Light. Placerville, CA: Gold Leaf Press.

Efron, Daniel. 1967. Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs, D. Efron, ed. U.S. Public Health Service Pub. No. 1645. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Eliade, Mircea. 1964. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Bollingen Series LXXVI. New York: Pantheon.

Evans-Pritchard, E. 1937. Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande. Philadelphia: Clarendon.

F‡brega, H. 1997. Evolution of Sickness and Healing. Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Finkler, K. 1985. Spiritualist Healers in Mexico. South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin and Garvey.

Fischer, Roland. 1975. “Cartography of Inner Space.” Altered States Of Consciousness: Current Views and Research Problems. Washington: The Drug Abuse Council, Inc.

Flanagan, Jr., Owen J. 1979. The Science of the Mind. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Frecska, E. and Z. Kulcsar. 1989. Social Bonding in the Modulation of the Physiology of Ritual Trance. Ethos 17(1):70-87.

Furst, Peter T. 1972. Flesh of the Gods: The Ritual Use of Hallucinogens, P. T. Furst ed. New York: Praeger Publishers.

Furst, Peter T. 1976. Hallucinogens and Culture. San Francisco: Chandler and Sharp.

Gardner, Howard. 1985. The Mind’s New Science: A history of the cognitive revolution. NY: HarperCollins.

Gilligan, Carol. 1982. In a Different Voice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Goodman, Felicitas D. 1990. Where the Spirits Ride the Wind: Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Grim, John A. 1983. The Shaman: Patterns of Siberian and Ojibway Healing. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press.

Grof, Stanislav. 1975. Realms of the Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research. New York: Viking Press.

Grof, Stanislav. 1980. LSD Psychotherapy. Pomona, Ca: Hunter House.

Grof, Stanislav. 1988. The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner Exploration. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Grof, Stanislav. 1990. The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco.

Halifax, J. 1979. Shamanic voices. New York: E.P. Dutton.

Halifax, Joan. 1982. Shaman: The Wounded Healer. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd.

Harman, Willis W. and Christian De Quincey. 1994. The Scientific Exploration of Consciousness: Toward an Adequate Epistemology. IONS Research Report CP-6. Sausalito: Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Harner, Michael J. 1972. The Jivaro: People of the Sacred Waterfalls. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Harner, Michael J. 1973. Hallucinogens and Shamanism, M. Harner, ed. New York: Oxford University Press.

Harner, Michael J. 1980. The Way of the Shaman. San Francisco: Harper and Row.

Hitchcock, John. 1991. The Web of the Universe. NJ: Paulist Press.

Hoffer, A. and H. Osmond. 1967. The Hallucinogens. New York: Academic Press.

Hofmann, Albert. 1983. LSD, My Problem Child: Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism, and Science. Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher.

Hunt, H.T. 1995. On the Nature of Consciousness. Yale University Press.

Jackson, Michael. 1989. Paths Toward a Clearing: Radical Empiricism and Ethnographic Inquiry. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Jamal, Michele. 1987. Shape Shifters: Shaman Women in Contemporary Society. London: Routledge.

Jung, Carl. 1965. Memories, Dreams, and Reflections.

Kalweit, Holger. 1987. Shamans, Healers, and Medicine Men. Boston: Shambhala, Inc.

Kalweit, Holger. 1984. Dreamtime and Inner Space: The World of the Shaman. Boston: Shambhala, Inc.

Katz, R. 1982. Boiling Energy: Community healing among the Kalahari !Kung. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Krippner, Stanley. 1990. Dreamtime and Dreamwork. S. Krippner, ed. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc.

La Barre, Weston. 1969. The Peyote Cult. New York: Schocken Books.

La Barre, Weston. 1970. The Ghost Dance: The Origins of Religion. New York: Doubleday.

Laughlin, C., McManus, J. & d’Aquili, E. 1992. Brain, Symbol and Experience Toward a Neurophenomenology of Consciousness. New York: Columbia University Press.

Laughlin, Charles D. 1992. Scientific Explanation and the Life-World: A Biogenetic Structural Theory of Meaning and Causation. Research Report CP-2: Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Leshan, Lawrence. 1974. The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist: Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal. New York: The Viking Press.

LeValley, Janet. 2001. CyberEmbodiment: Personalizing the Transpersonal. In The Multiple and Mutable Subject. V. LeMecha and R. Stone, eds. Manitoba: St. Norbert’s Press.

LeValley, Janet. 1997. Doing it in Cyberspace: Cultural Sensitivity in Applied Anthropology. Anthropology of Consciousness. 8(4):113-132.

Lewis, I. M. 1971. Ecstatic Religion: An Anthropological Study of Spirit Possession and Shamanism. Middlesex: Penguin.

Masters, R. E. L., and Jean Houston. 1966. The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

McKenna, Dennis J. & Terence K. Mckenna. 1975. The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching. New York: The Seabury Press.

McKenna, Terence. 1992. New Maps of Hyperspace. In The Archaic Revival: Essays and Conversations. Terence McKenna, ed. San Francisco: HarperCollins.

Metzner, Ralph. 1971. Maps of Consciousness. New York, The Macmillan Company.

Mishlove, Jeffery. 1993. The Roots of Consciousness: The Classic Encyclopedia of Consciousness Studies. Tulsa: Council Oak Books.

Moody, Raymond A. Jr. 1975. Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon–Survival of Bodily Death. New York: Bantam.

Morse, Melvin, with Paul Perry. 1990. Closer to the Light. New York: Ballantine Books.

Mumford, Stan. 1989. Himalayan Dialogues: Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Myerhoff, Barbara. 1974. Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Naranjo, Claudio. 1974. The One Quest. London: the Wildwood House, Ltd.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. 1989. Knowledge and the Sacred. NY: State University of New York Press.

Ornstein, Robert E. 1977. The Psychology of Consciousness. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.

Osis, Karlis & Erlendur Haraldsson. 1977. At the Hour of Death. New York: Avon Books.

Penfield, Wilder. 1975. The Mystery of the Mind. NJ: Princeton University Press.

Peters, Larry G. 1981. Ecstasy and Healing in Nepal: An Ethnopsychiatric Study of Tamang Shamanism. Malibu: Undena Publications.

Peters, Larry G. and Douglass Price-Williams. 1980. “Towards an Experiential Analysis of Shamanism.” American Ethnologist 7: 397-418.

Piaget, Jean. 1962. Play, Dreams, and Imitation. New York: Norton.

Prattis, J. Ian. 1997. Anthropology at the Edge: Essays on Culture, Symbol, and Consciousness. Lanham: University Press of America, Inc.

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Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo. 1971. Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo. 1975. The Shaman and the Jaguar: A Study of Narcotic Drugs Among the Indians of Colombia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Richardson, Janet. 1993. Child Incarnate – Child Divine: A Crosscultural Investigation of Development and Spirituality. Ann Arbor, MI: U.M.I.

Ripinsky-Naxon, Michael. 1993. The Nature of Shamanism: Substance and Function of a Religious Metaphor, Albany: State University of New York Press.

Rouget, Gilbert. 1985. Music and trance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Schmeidler, Gertrude R. 1969. Extrasensory Perception. G. Schmeidler, ed. New York: Lieber-Atherton.

Schultes, Richard Evans and Albert Hofmann. 1979. Plants of the Gods: Origins of Hallucinogen Use. New York: McGraw Hill.

Sharon, Douglas. 1978. Wizard of the Four Winds: A Shaman’s Story. New York: The Free Press.

Shaw, R. 1992. Dreaming as Accomplishment: Power, the Individual, and Temne Divination. In Dreaming, Religion, and Society in Africa. M.C. Jedrej and R. Shaw, eds. Pp. 36-54. Leiden:E.J. Brill.

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Stevenson, Ian. 1977. The Explanatory Value of the Idea of Reincarnation. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 164: 307-308.

Stoller, Paul. 1989. The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Stone, Merlin. 1979. Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: Our Goddess and Heroine Heritage. NY: New Sibylline Books.

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Winkelman, Michael. 1990. “Shaman and other “Magico-Religious” Healers: A cross-cultural study of their origins, nature, and social transformations.” Ethos, 18, 308-352.

Winkelman, Michael. 1992. Shamans, Priests and Witches: A Cross-Cultural Study of Magico-Religious Practitioners. Arizona State University: Anthropological Research Papers No. 44.

Winkelman, Michael. 1996. “Neurophenomenology and Genetic Epistemology as a Basis for the Study of Consciousness.” Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems 19(3):217-236

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Winkelman, Michael. 2000. Shamanism: The Neural Ecology of Consciousness and Healing. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey.

Winkelman, M., & Andritzky, W. 1996. Sacred Plants, Consciousness and Healing. Yearbook of Cross-Cultural Medicine and Psychotherapy, 5. M. Winkelman and W. Andritzky, eds. Berlin: Verlag.

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Wolinsky, Stephen. 1991. Trances People Live: Healing Approaches in Quantum Psychology. CT: The Bramble Co.

Woodside, Lisa and V.K. Kumar and Ronald J. Pekala. 1997. “Monotonous Percussion Drumming and Postures: A controlled evaluation of phenomenological effects.” Anthropology of Consciousness. 8:2-3.

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Zukav, Gary. 1989. The Seat of the Soul. NY: Simon and Schuster.