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Hypnotic Behavior: The Differentiation of Trance and Demand Characteristic Variables
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Performance, trance, possession and mysticism : an analysis of the Rātib al-Rifāīyah in South Africa
… art' through harmonic triggers for inducing trance
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The significance of music in the performance of svikwembu ritual practices amongst the Shangana Tsonga people of semi-urban southern Mozambique
… practitioners of svikwembu. Svikwembu includes trance (spirit possession), divination, consultation (leu pahla), exorcism (kufemba) and healing practices. Music activity has different functions in each of the above-mentioned practices. Specific instruments (gocha, ngoma, ntxomana, and whistle) …
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Emancipating the Dancing Body: Bridging the Interdependency of Aesthetic Theory with Separated Roles in Contemporary Dance to Solidify the Phenomenology of Creative Movement Causation
… ostensibly disregarded as being the forgotten trance in dance. Through the interpolation of topics and concepts exclusive to the fields of political theory, aesthetics, philosophy and hermeneutics, selected segments from works by prominent thinkers from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel through …
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Division of the earth : gender, symbolism and the archaeology of the southern San
… explain many features of the art by reference to trance states, altered consciousness and neurophysiological constitution. Rain, rather than trance, is proposed as the central element of San ritual/religious practices. Finally, the treatment of (or failure to consider) gender(ing) in the …
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Hypnosis as an Analgesia in Labor and Delivery
… and Fakirs have used it for centuries to induce trance-like states and develop apparently super-normal powers. | As the Greeks associated medicine with magic it is no wonder that they picked up hypnosis from the Egyptians. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, Said, "The affections suffered by the …
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Rituals of Power in Southern Africa: an Investigation of the Healing Dance of the !Kung in the Context of African Rituals of Power
… enters a state of !aia. !Aia is described as a trance or altered state by most researchers. During !aia, experienced dancers are able to heal all present. The healer lays his/her hands on the participants and "pulls" out their sickness. In order to discuss the !Kung dance, I have chosen to offer …
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Marriage in death : ritual representations of Belizean Garifuna ('Black Carib') society.
… Ritual groups , constituted by possession trance and shamanic designation , celebrate kinship and Garifuna mythico-history . The symbolic merging of heart and grave forms the ritual basis of descent and a focus for Garifuna ethnicity . Against a h i story of deportation and minority status …
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Navigating Pain: Women's Healing Practices in a Hindu Temple
… and healing through participation in possession trance rituals, are, however, condemned by an Indian state that espouses biomedical psychiatry as the only legitimate mental health system for the country. In the context of such a polarized mental health arena in India, this dissertation seeks to …
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Confession and intimacy in England, 1851-1913
… practice, obscenity legislation and, finally, trance mediumship; the final chapter turns to the Society for Psychical Research, and examines the way secrets took on evidentiary value in what I argue was an intimate science. Overall, this thesis argues that confession was not only the site of …
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Witches, Masques and Lutes: Scoring the Magical Within Masques and Plays
… The lute’s sensuous qualities include the trance-like and sweeting sounding timbre of the instrument as well as the construction of the body likened to both male and female anatomy. Witches were noted for their unbridled rebellious nature or rather non-conformist attitude toward what was …
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A Rhetoric of mysticism
… can be found in the language of hypnotic trance induction, and as an adjunct to the second study, the hypnotic susceptibility of 81 subjects was assessed and results indicated that subjects with mystical inclinations were more susceptible to hypnosis than those without. The general support …
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Der Begriff der Aura und einer Kunst ohne Aura im Werk von Walter Benjamin
… of its perception to another. After the hashish trance, the perceiver can not remember the essence of an object - it's aura. The aura has an ambiguity, as well as various meanings in Benjamin's works: a) The aura is used in bourgeois art appreciation and criticism as a criteria to access art. …
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The origins of Christian ecstasy: a critical survey.
… in order to separate the genuinely entranced from the 'merely' enhanced. ' (II) In our next chapter, 'Ancient Mediterranean Ecstasies: Types and Levels', the aim is to assess various types of ancient Mediterranean experience, both collective and individual, which are candidates for the …
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Transmembrane glycoprotein gp41 of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type I : gene synthesis, recombinant expression and immunological characterization
… gp41T3 with apoptotic TNFα, FasL, TRAIL, APRIL, TRANCE and VEGI. Gp41 may be considered as a vaccine target due to its antigenicity shown in this study, but its apoptotic and auto-immune potential argue for care. The ecto-domain seems to elicit antibodies that do not prevent the progression to …
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The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Haiti
… spiritual tools such as divination, possession, trance, and power objects to address the material problems of plantation life. Finally, I argue the persistence of these spiritual practices demonstrates a remarkable durability of Kongolese ontology on both sides of the Kongolese Atlantic …
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Chorus for chimeras: a series of etchings towards the development of a personal iconography incorporating symbols, mythologies and ritual
… to undergo a symbolical metamorphosis during the trance state. This metamorphosis entails a ritualistic suffering, death and resurrection as well as a ceremonial incarnation: an animal or spectral form appropriate to him or her or the occasion. My investigation into the transformation processes …
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Proactive lucidity: Superconsciousness, creativity, and the virtually real
… dreaming, within-dream visions, and similar trance-like re/visualisations. This study finds proactive lucidity to be an invaluable problem-solving resource in helping people cope creatively with life issues. The latter chapters summarise the participants' insights into what they discern as …
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MODERN AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLACIER MARRIAGE IN GILGIT-BALTISTAN, PAKISTAN.
… daśhman, khalifa, and akhón, which includes trance, rituals, and prophecies. Using this form of knowledge, climate change is interpreted as a result of spiritual disruption, disrespect of spirits, and failure to observe taboos and rituals. Ecological knowledge is developed by farmers, …
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