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Rios, Marlene Dobkin de was born on April 12, 1939 in New York City. Daughter of Bernard and Anne Dobkin.
(The area of traditional folk healing with plant hallucino...)
The area of traditional folk healing with plant hallucinogens, such as the Peruvian urban setting studied here, is a unique human laboratory that is of interest to medical anthropologists, biologists, psychologists, and students of anthropology in general. One of the earliest firsthand observations of a practicing shaman and his use of native herbal medicines and psychedelic pharmaceuticals, this text makes an important contribution to understanding culture, illness, and healing.
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(Lsd, Spirituality, and the Creative Process: Based on the...)
Lsd, Spirituality, and the Creative Process: Based on the Groundbreaking Research of Oscar Janiger, M.d. by Marlene Dobkin De Rios. Park Street Pr,2004
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( One country's sacrament is another's illicit drug, as o...)
One country's sacrament is another's illicit drug, as officials in South America and the United States are well aware. For centuries, a hallucinogenic tea made from a giant vine native to the Amazonian rainforest has been taken as a religious sacrament across several cultures in South America. Many spiritual leaders, shamans, and their followers consider the tea and its main component - ayahuasca - to be both enlightening and healing. In fact, ayahuasca (pronounced a-ja-was-ka) loosely translated means spirit vine. In this book, de Rios and Rumrrill take us inside the history and realm of, as well as the raging arguments about, the substance that seems a sacrament to some and a scourge to others. Their book includes text from the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances and interviews with shamans in the Amazon. One country's sacrament is another's illicit drug, as officials in South America and the United States are well aware. For centuries, a hallucinogenic tea made from a giant vine native to the Amazonian rainforest has been taken as a religious sacrament across several cultures in South America. Many spiritual leaders, shamans, and their followers consider the tea and its main component - ayahuasca - to be both enlightening and healing. In fact, ayahuasca (pronounced a-ja-was-ka) loosely translated means spirit vine. Ayahuasca has moved into the United States, causing legal battles in the Supreme Court and rulings from the United Nations. Some U.S. church groups are using the hallucinogen in their ceremonies and have fought for government approval to do so. The sacrament has also drawn American drug tourists to South America to partake, say authors de Rios and Rumrrill. But they warn that these tourists are being put at risk by charlatans who are not true shamans or religious figures, just profiteers. In this book, de Rios and Rumrrill take us inside the history and realm of, as well as the raging arguments about, the substance that seems a sacrament to some and a scourge to others. Opponents fight its use even as U.S. scientists and psychologists continue investigations of whether ayahuasca has healing properties that might be put to conventional use for physical and mental health. This book includes text from the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances and interviews with shamans in the Amazon.
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(The work of Amazon folk healer don Hilde incorporates a m...)
The work of Amazon folk healer don Hilde incorporates a modern spiritualistic perspective into the traditional healing arts of the region. Medical anthropologist Marlene Dobkin De Rios examines don Hilde's methods in relation to folk tradition and modern research on the immune system. She finds that many traditional techniques stimulate the production of endorphins-natural painkillers that stimulate the body's own healing powers.
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(An exploration of how LSD influences imagination and the ...)
An exploration of how LSD influences imagination and the creative process. • Based on the results of one of the longest clinical studies of LSD that took place between 1954 and 1962, before LSD was illegal. • Includes personal reports, artwork, and poetry from the original sessions as testimony of the impact of LSD on the creative process. In 1954 a Los Angeles psychiatrist began experimenting with a then new chemical discovery known as LSD-25. Over an eight-year period Dr. Oscar Janiger gave LSD-25 to more than 950 men and women, ranging in age from 18 to 81 and coming from all walks of life. The data collected by the author during those trials and from follow-up studies done 40 years later is now available here for the first time, along with the authors' examination of LSD's ramifications on creativity, imagination, and spirituality. In this book Marlene Dobkin de Rios, a medical anthropologist who has studied the use of hallucinogens in tribal and third world societies, considers the spiritual implications of these findings in comparison with indigenous groups that employ psychoactive substances in their religious ceremonies. The book also examines the nature of the creative process as influenced by psychedelics and provides artwork and poetry from the original experiment sessions, allowing the reader to personally witness LSD's impact on creativity. The studies recounted in LSD, Spirituality, and the Creative Process depict an important moment in the history of consciousness and reveal the psychic unity of humanity.
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medical anthropologist psychotherapist
Rios, Marlene Dobkin de was born on April 12, 1939 in New York City. Daughter of Bernard and Anne Dobkin.
Bachelor in Psychology, Queens College, 1959; Master of Arts in Anthropology, New York University, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, 1972.
Professor anthropology California State University, Fullerton, 1969—2000, professor emeritus, since 2000. Associate clinical professor Psychiatry department University California, Irvine, since 1989. Administrator health science National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, Maryland, 1980—1981.
(The area of traditional folk healing with plant hallucino...)
(The work of Amazon folk healer don Hilde incorporates a m...)
( One country's sacrament is another's illicit drug, as o...)
(Lsd, Spirituality, and the Creative Process: Based on the...)
(An exploration of how LSD influences imagination and the ...)
(Book by Dobkin de Rios, Marlene)
Fellow American Anthropological Association. Member APA.
Married Yando Rios, November 7, 1969. 1 child, Gabriela.