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  1. Understanding Consciousness Using Systems Approaches and Lexical Universals.Michael Winkelman - 2004 - Anthropology of Consciousness 15 (2):24-38.
    The numerous perspectives offered on consciousness reflect a multifaceted phenomenon that results from a system of relations. An etymological approach identifies linguistic roots of the meanings of consciousness and illustrates their concern with self-referenced informational relationships of an organism with its environment, a "knowing system" formed in the epistemological relations between knower and known. Common elements of contemporary models suggest that consciousness involves interacting components of a system, including: attention-awareness; phenomenal experiences; self reference; action-behavior, including representations and learning; use of (...)
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  • The Evolution of Consciousness? Transpersonal Theories in Light of Cultural Relativism.Michael Winkelman - 1993 - Anthropology of Consciousness 4 (3):3-9.
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  • Shamanism as the Original Neurotheology.Michael Winkelman - 2004 - Zygon 39 (1):193-217.
    Neurotheological approaches provide an important bridge between scientific and religious perspectives. These approaches have, however, generally neglected the implications of a primordial form of spiritual healing—shamanism. Cross‐cultural studies establish the universality of shamanic practices in hunter‐gatherer societies around the world and across time. These universal principles of shamanism reflect underlying neurological processes and provide a basis for an evolutionary theology. The shamanic paradigm involves basic brain processes, neurognostic structures, and innate brain modules. This approach reveals that universals of shamanism such (...)
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  • Laughter: A Scientific Investigation.Grant Jewell Rich - 2001 - Anthropology of Consciousness 12 (2):61-63.
    Laughter:. Scientific Investigation. By Robert R. Provine. 2000. New York: Viking. $24.95 (cloth).
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  • Consciousness, evolution, and spiritual growth: A critique and model.Allan Combs & Stanley Krippner - 1999 - World Futures 53 (3):193-212.
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  • The Meeting of Science and Spirit: Guidelines for a New Age:The Meeting of Science and Spirit: Guidelines for a New Age.Michael Adzema - 1993 - Anthropology of Consciousness 4 (2):24-25.
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