Proposed Criteria for the Necessary Conditions for Shamanic Journeying Imagery
Despite renewed interest in shamanic patterns of phenomenal properties such as journeying imagery, these phenomena are neither well defined nor sufficiently understood. Consequently, we propose criteria pertaining to four necessary conditions for a visual mental image to qualify as a shamanic journ...
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description | Despite renewed interest in shamanic patterns of phenomenal properties such as journeying imagery, these phenomena are neither well defined nor sufficiently understood. Consequently, we propose criteria pertaining to four necessary conditions for a visual mental image to qualify as a shamanic journeying image. Finally, we demonstrate how these necessary conditions may be used to extrapolate a scoring system that allows one to empirically test, via falsificationism, a visual mental image’s ostensible shamanic status.
Keywords: shamanism—shamanic journeying imagery—necessary conditions |
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spelling | doaj.art-c8785f91f0174eb7bb4140c9696991462022-12-22T03:27:00ZengSSEJournal of Scientific Exploration0892-33102010-05-01222Proposed Criteria for the Necessary Conditions for Shamanic Journeying ImageryADAM J. ROCK0STANLEY KRIPPNER1ADAM J. ROCK Deakin University Melbourne, VIC, Australia e-mail: rock@deakin.edu.auSTANLEY KRIPPNER Saybrook Graduate School San Francisco, CADespite renewed interest in shamanic patterns of phenomenal properties such as journeying imagery, these phenomena are neither well defined nor sufficiently understood. Consequently, we propose criteria pertaining to four necessary conditions for a visual mental image to qualify as a shamanic journeying image. Finally, we demonstrate how these necessary conditions may be used to extrapolate a scoring system that allows one to empirically test, via falsificationism, a visual mental image’s ostensible shamanic status. Keywords: shamanism—shamanic journeying imagery—necessary conditionshttp://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/view/137 |
spellingShingle | ADAM J. ROCK STANLEY KRIPPNER Proposed Criteria for the Necessary Conditions for Shamanic Journeying Imagery Journal of Scientific Exploration |
title | Proposed Criteria for the Necessary Conditions for Shamanic Journeying Imagery |
title_full | Proposed Criteria for the Necessary Conditions for Shamanic Journeying Imagery |
title_fullStr | Proposed Criteria for the Necessary Conditions for Shamanic Journeying Imagery |
title_full_unstemmed | Proposed Criteria for the Necessary Conditions for Shamanic Journeying Imagery |
title_short | Proposed Criteria for the Necessary Conditions for Shamanic Journeying Imagery |
title_sort | proposed criteria for the necessary conditions for shamanic journeying imagery |
url | http://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/view/137 |
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