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Iona Miller - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Pineal Gland, DMT & Altered State of Consciousness
Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research, 2013Co-Authors: Iona MillerAbstract:Endogenous and synthetic DMT and their relation to pineal function have been the subject matter of numerous popular and scientific articles, crossing many disciplines. Correlations for visionary and psi-conducive states have been widely suggested. Numerous spiritual technologies have been retrieved from Traditional Cultures and new technologies based in frequencies and resonance have been concocted and sold to the public. Yet, in 2010, even the leading researcher Rick Strassman says that “we don't know if DMT does appear in the pineal…[or, if] endogenous DMT activity increases during particular non-drug altered states, such as dreams and near-death experiences.” If it were, it would help explain the psychedelic characteristics of those altered states." This strongly suggests that new assays for low levels of endogenous DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, bufotenine, and metabolites in different tissues would be very useful. Such experiments were conducted in 2012 with positive results. Nevertheless, a review of the history and speculation on the psychoactive compounds remains of great interest to both researchers and the general public. What do these things mean? The jury remains out, and we are wise to remember that theories remain just that. Baselines need to be established for normal waking consciousness, and comparisons made for a variety of states of consciousness. But perhaps the greatest result of such research is new understanding of what it means to be fully human.
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Review Article Pineal Gland, DMT & Altered State of Consciousness
2013Co-Authors: Iona MillerAbstract:Endogenous and synthetic DMT and their relation to pineal function have been the subject matter of numerous popular and scientific articles, crossing many disciplines. Correlations for visionary and psi-conducive states have been widely suggested. Numerous spiritual technologies have been retrieved from Traditional Cultures and new technologies based in frequencies and resonance have been concocted and sold to the public. Yet, in 2010, even the leading researcher Rick Strassman says that “we don't know if DMT does appear in the pineal…[or, if] endogenous DMT activity increases during particular non-drug altered states, such as dreams and near-death experiences.” If it were, it would help explain the psychedelic characteristics of those altered states." This strongly suggests that new assays for low levels of endogenous DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, bufotenine, and metabolites in different tissues would be very useful. Such experiments were conducted in 2012 with positive results. Nevertheless, a review of the history and speculation on the psychoactive compounds remains of great interest to both researchers and the general public. What do these things mean? The jury remains out, and we are wise to remember that theories remain just that. Baselines need to be established for normal waking consciousness, and comparisons made for a variety of states of consciousness. But perhaps the greatest result of such research is new understanding of what it means to be fully human.
Jeremy S. Brooks - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Buddhism, Economics, and Environmental Values: A Multilevel Analysis of Sustainable Development Efforts in Bhutan
Society & Natural Resources, 2011Co-Authors: Jeremy S. BrooksAbstract:Approaches linking conservation with development often ignore the impacts of economic change on Traditional Cultures. While some researchers suggest that development enhances environmental values, others maintain that it threatens Traditional beliefs and norms that foster respect for the environment. In this article, I explore how economic factors, religious factors, and community norms are associated with environmental values in 13 villages in three communities in Bhutan. Using multilevel logistic regression, I analyze four environmental values questions and find that economic rather than religious factors are better indicators of environmental values, supporting the “conservation and development” approach. Further, Traditional community norms show little relationship with environmental values. However, a national-level environmental norm resulting from government efforts and based, in part, on Buddhist principles, may be emerging. Though economic factors are clearly crucial, Bhutan's development approac...
T N Jenkins - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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putting postmodernity into practice endogenous development and the role of Traditional Cultures in the rural development of marginal regions
Ecological Economics, 2000Co-Authors: T N JenkinsAbstract:Abstract Post-modernity has led to a re-evaluation of tradition. This paper considers one aspect of this re-evaluation — the role of Traditional Cultures and their implications for a rural development process which is economically, socially and environmentally sustainable in the marginal regions of Europe. The links between Traditional Cultures, territoriality and sustainability suggest that a culturally homogeneous world is an unattractive prospect in sustainable development terms. Actor-network theory is explored as an approach which can be used to inform policy, in particular by conceptualising how a re-valorisation of cultural resources can provide local actors with strategic capacity for endogenous development and for the harnessing of extra-local forces in a market economy. Against this background, current European Union agricultural policy directions are considered, and an alternative approach is proposed under which Traditional Cultures are explicitly treated as resources in the creation of rural development networks. Such networks treat territorial locality as an asset, facilitate the animation of local and regional development, and connect localities and local actors with wider national and international markets and development frameworks. The rural development path for marginal regions that emerges integrates tradition with the imperatives of the postmodern world in which economic rationality is combined with an appropriate degree of local developmental control.
Gregory A Bryant - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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prosody in infant directed speech is similar across western and Traditional Cultures
Journal of Cognition and Development, 2015Co-Authors: Tanya Broesch, Gregory A BryantAbstract:When speaking to infants, adults typically alter the acoustic properties of their speech in a variety of ways compared with how they speak to other adults; for example, they use higher pitch, increased pitch range, more pitch variability, and slower speech rate. Research shows that these vocal changes happen similarly across industrialized populations, but no studies have carefully examined basic acoustic properties of infant-directed (ID) speech in Traditional societies. Moreover, some scholars have suggested that ID speech is culturally specific and does not exist in some small-scale societies. We examined fundamental frequency (F0) production and speech rate in mothers speaking to both infants and adults in three Cultures: Fijians, Kenyans, and North Americans. In all three Cultures, speakers used higher F0 when speaking to infants relative to when speaking to other adults, and they also used significantly greater F0 variation and fewer syllables per second. Previous research has found that American mo...
Elizabeth Lipski - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Traditional non western diets
Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 2010Co-Authors: Elizabeth LipskiAbstract:In Traditional Cultures, balancing health with a balanced lifestyle was a core belief. The diseases of modern civilization were rare. Indigenous people have patterns of illness very different from Western civilization; yet, they rapidly develop diseases once exposed to Western foods and lifestyles. Food and medicine were interwoven. All Cultures used special or functional foods to prevent disease. Food could be used at different times either as food or medicine. Foods, cultivation, and cooking methods maximized community health and well-being. With methods passed down through generations, cooking processes were utilized that enhanced mineral and nutrient bioavailability. This article focuses on what researchers observed about the food traditions of indigenous people, their disease patterns, the use of specific foods, and the environmental factors that affect people who still eat Traditional foods.
