At raves, young men and women dance to electronic music from dusk to dawn. Previous
scholarship treats the rave as a hypertext of pleasure and disappearance. However, such a …

In the course of a recent conversation, Professor Eliade reminisced about a French
publisher who invited Eliade to contribute a book to a series he was editing. When Eliade …

This paper explores the rave as a form of socially produced spiritual healing. Raves come in
many different forms, but can be defined generally as all-night dance parties featuring loud" …

ABSTRACT Building on Erwin Goffman's (1974) notion of frame, the article approaches the
'festive'as a socially produced conceptual structure by means of which people organize their …

LSD belongs to the class of drugs that, taken orally, can produce dramatic psychological
experiences. There appears to be a wide range of response to LSD. Commonly there are …

Discusses the concept of the vision of God in Sufi Qur'an CommentariesFirst in-depth study
of the concept of the vision of God in Sufi eschatology, not only focusing on the hereafter, but …

The external and the inner influences which discernibly evoke despair prove to have a
common denominator-the experience of loss. In a previous paper (1959), I attempted to …

Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity considers indigenous peoples' struggles for human
rights, anxieties about anthropocentric mastery of nature, neoliberal statecraft, and …

The interpretation is offered that the fusion of Deer, Maize, and Peyote, particularly as
achieved during the Peyote Hunt resolves a series of contradictions in Huichol life-societal …

If you are a" fan" of the fantasy books by Tolkien, CS Lewis, Charles Williams or Chesterton,
then this is a book worth reading. It is a collection of essays by various authorities in …