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Conceptualizing Spirit Possession: Ethnographic and Experimental Evidence

We report the findings of a programmatic series of studies designed to investigate the cognitive underpinnings of cross-culturally recurrent forms of possession belief. Possession phenomena are frequently portrayed in the anthropological literature as incompatible with common cultural assumptions and biases guiding Western notions of ‘‘self’’ and ‘‘personhood’’ and as resisting generalization a...

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Dissociative trance and spirit possession: Challenges for cultures in transition.

The cross-cultural validity of dissociative possession and trance disorders is a matter of some debate, limiting research and meaningful interpretation of prevalence data. Intimate to these concerns is the status of spirit possession categories studied in the social sciences, particularly anthropology. These two categories are phenomenologically related and display similar epidemiological assoc...

The Spirit of Alchemy in Modern Industry.

MSS. intended for publication and books, etc.intended for review should be se:nt to the Editor of &IecE; Garrison-.. ludsoia, N. Y~ THE SPIRIT OF ALCHEMY IN MODERN INDUSTRY NEVER in the history of the world has there been such a time of intense human activity as the present: never a time of such gigantic undertakings, such marvelous achievements. Notwithstanding, the curve of progress is still ...