Program for the Society of Anthropology of Consciousness meeting
Bridging Nature and Human NatureSAC/ATP ConferencePortland, OR; April 1-5, 2009Preliminary ScheduleWednesday April 1Noon-6:00pm RegistrationHigh School AnthropologyChair: Michael P. Sweeney3:00pm – 4:00pm – Student Presentations4:00pm-4:20pm – Question and Answer4:20pm-6:40pm – Break6:40pm-8:40pm – DinnerThursday April 2Paganism Ancient and Modern—A Re-ExaminationChair: Mark Shekoyan8:30am-8:45am – Ritual Practice and the Trace of Self in a Thelemic Magical LodgeGrant H. Potts8:45am-9:00am – Drugs, Virgins and Vision: Self-Knowledge among the Ancient GreeksDavid Hillman9:00am-9:15am – Scientific Illuminism: Aleister Crowley's System for Bridging Science and SpiritualityMark Shekoyan9:15am –9:30am – Question & Answer9:30am-9:40am – BreakMind/body Approaches to Biomedicine and Medical AnthropologyChair: M. Diane Hardgrave9:40am-9:55am – Medical Marijuana: The Therapeutic Effects of Altered ConsciousnessWendy Chapkis9:55am–10:10am – Chemicals, Not Symbols: The Chemical Ecology of Shamanism as a Healthcare SystemRobin Rodd10:10am-10:25am – Shifting Mind-Bodies: The Socialization of Holism in an American School of Chinese MedicineSonya Pritzker10:25am-10:40am – Ibogaine in the Treatment of Opiate AddictionJohn Harrison10:40am–10:55am – Meditation, Stress Reduction and Immune ResponseM. Diane Hardgrave10:55am–11:20am – Question & Answer11:20am-11:35am – BreakReassessing Indigenous CultureChair: Donna DuBois11:35am-11:50am – Beyond the Valley of the Dolls: Formative Period Symbol and Ritual at Copan, HondurasDavid Cummins11:50am-12:05am – The Role of Nature in Human Development in Shoshoni TraditionMaria Glowacka and Drusilla Gould12:05am-12:20am – Entheogenic Response to the Stress of Racism: The Case of Jews and BlacksEnoch Page12:20am-12:35pm – The Shamanic Consciousness of the Jeffers PetroglyphsDaniel Zielske12:35pm-12:55pm – Question & Answer12:55pm-2:15pm – LunchPoetry Reading1:15pm-2:15pm – (outside during lunch) Bridging Nature and Human NatureDon EulertReawakening the Heart/Mind of Psychotherapy and Health CareCo-Chair(s): Sara Lewis and Trilia Chen2:30pm-2:45pm – Technics & Rituals of ConsciousnessTobias c. van Veen2:45pm-3:00pm – Panprotopsychism: As Evident Through Neuroplasticity and Experienced as PhenomenologyAnne Mulholland3:00pm-3:15pm – Awakening Clear Mind: Bodhicitta as a Pathway to Resilience Among Tibetan Refugees Exposed to Severe TraumaSara Lewis3:15pm-3:30pm – Speaking to the Dragon: Addressing Existential Crisis in Complex Trauma & Traumatic Grief Using Archetypal TherapyNoga Zerubavel3:30pm-3:45pm – The Relevance of Gender Balance in Mexico's Shamanic TraditionsSharon G. Mijares3:45pm-4:00pm – Cultural Trauma and the Formation of the Collective Identity in Inupiat and Eskimo Youth, 1980-1999Barbara J. Pepek4:00pm-4:25pm – Question & Answer4:25pm-6:35pm – Break andThe Paleolithic Origins of the Labyrinth – Lecture and Experiential WorkshopJodi Lorimer4:25pm-6:35pmMicropsychokinesis – Direct Mind-Matter Interaction WorkshopRobert Harper & Rachel Cooper8:00pm—9:00pm or TBAFriday April 3Dreams and Sufism Breakfast RoundtableChair: A. Muhammad Ma'ruf8:10am-8:25am – From Pollution to Purity: Zar Spirits, Possession and Trance in CairoHager El Hadidi8:25am-8:40am – Dream Inspired Discourses: explorations with English speaking MuslimsA. Muhammad Ma'ruf8:40am-9:00am – Question and AnswerBreak – 9:00am-9:10amSymposium on Consciousness: The Non-locality Hypothesis—A Multi-Disciplinary ApproachChair(s): Robert Harper & Rachel Cooper9:10am-9:25am – A Medium Anthropologist At Large: Culture, Meaning and MediumshipSome Epistemological ConsiderationsPaul D. Biscop9:25-9:40am – Furthering the TruthRachel Cooper9:40am-9:55am – Another Inconvenient Truth? Why Inconvenient?Robert Harper9:55am-10:10am – An Exploration into the Remote-Sensing Abilities of Young ChildrenRana McKinnon10:10am-11:30am – Question & Answer11:30am-11:40am – BreakCultural Relativity and AuthenticityChair: George Williams11:40am-11:55am – Visiting Nurses’ Agency Related to Cultural RelativismClaudia Weiner11:55am-12:10pm – Cultural Relativity and AuthenticityGeorge Williams12:10pm-12:25pm – Spin As Creative ConsciousnessBethe Hagens12:25pm-12:40pm – When Does Authenticity Supersede Relativism?Stanley Krippner12:40pm-1:00pm – Question & Answer1:00pm-2:15pm – Lunch1:15pm-2:15pm SAC Board MeetingEco-Literacies: Reading, Writing and Mapping NatureChair: Matthew C. Bronson2:30pm-2:45pm – Dangerous Literacy: How Reading and Writing Destroyed the WorldMatthew C. Bronson2:45pm-3:00pm – Seeing the Small Picture: Models and Maps of the Middle East Or Seeing the Small Picture: On Muddled Maps and Models of the Middle EastMira Z. Amiras3:00pm-3:15pm – Transforming Traditional Literacy in the Iu-Mien CommunityJeffery L. MacDonald3:15pm-3:30pm – Interpreting the Writing on the Wall: Paleolithic Cave ArtGeri-Ann Galanti3:30pm-3:45pm – Linguistic Gestation: Conscious Processing or Processing Consciousness?Tim Lavalli3:45pm-4:10pm – Question & Answer4:10pm-4:20pm – Introduction/Announcement of the Workshop “Utilizing Past-Life Regression as a Consciousness Bridging Technique”Sean Topping4:20pm-6:20pm – Break and DinnerTalking with Animals: Accessing the More-than-Human World for Creativity and Problem Solving1 ½ Hour Free Workshop with Matthew Bronson6:30pm—8:00pmUtilizing Past-Life Regression as a Consciousness Bridging TechniqueExperiential WorkshopSean Topping and Julia Ingram8:15pm-9:15pmSaturday April 4Sacred Brews, Ayahuasca Controversies and A Clash of Cultures—Indigenous and PostmodernChair: Evgenia Fotiou8:45am-9:00pm – Revisiting Wasson’s Soma: Exploring the Effects of Preparation on the Chemistry of Amanita MuscariaKevin Feeney9:00am-9:15am – Hoasca Ecologies: Environmentalism in the Centro Espírita Beneficente União do VegetalBrian Anderson9:15am-9:30am – Ayahuasca–Bridging Worlds: Exploring Indigenous Practices for Modern ApplicationsStephen Trichter9:30am-10:00am – The Healing Power of the Icaros: An Analysis of Ayahuasca ExperiencesSusana Bustos10:00am-10:15am – The Feminization of AyahuascaEvgenia Fotiou10:15pm-10:30am – Reflections on A Hallucinogenic Tea Laced with ControversyMarlene Dobkin de Rios and Roger Rumrrill10:30am-11:00am – Question & Answer11:00am-11:15am – BreakBateson, Postmodernism and ShamanismCo-Chair(s): Constantine Hriskos & Sarah Williams11:15am-11:30am – “Let Not Thy Left Hand Know What Thy Right Hand Doeth:” Yoga Nidra/iRest in a College ClassroomSarah Williams11:30am-11:45am – Failsafe in ConsciousnessIan Prattis11:45pm-12:00pm/Noon – Spiritual Emergencies and Ecological DistressDavid Lukoff12:00pm/Noon-12:15pm – Between Self and Other: The Conflict in ComplementarityHillary S. Webb12:15pm-12:30pm – The Primordial Journey Home: Self, Society, and the WorldConstantine Hriskos12:30pm-12:55pm – Question & Answer12:55pm-2:15pm – LunchThe History and Future of EcopsychologyChair: Mark A. Schroll2:30pm-3:40pm – Brief 10 minute comments by Ralph Metzner, Stanley Krippner, Alan Drengson, Adele Getty, Robert Greenway, Daniela Maffei and Mark A. Schroll3:40pm-4:15pm – Conversation forum Metzner, Krippner, Getty, Greenway, Drengson, Maffei; moderated by Schroll4:15pm-4:30pm – Question & Answer4:30pm-6:00pm – Break5:30pm-6pm – SAC Business MeetingPrimordial Remembrance for an Era in Crisis6:15pm-6:25pm – Opening Comments—Remembering Indigenous Mind6:25pm-6:40pm – Roads Taken/Not Taken Humanistic Psychology to the PresentRobert Greenway6:45pm-7:05pm – Primordial Remembrance for an Era in CrisisMark A. Schroll7:05pm-7:20pm – Wisdom of the EldersIan Prattis7:20pm-7:30pm – Practices and Technologies Toward RememberingStanley Krippner7:30pm-7:50pm – TBA7:50pm-9:10pm – Conversation Forum on Remembrance and Stratigies for the Future David Lukoff, Stanley Krippner, Adele Getty, Matthew Bronson, Evgenia Fotiou, Robert Greenway, Diane Hardgrave, Alan Drengson, TBA, moderated by Mark A. Schroll9:10pm-10:00pm – Question and AnswerSunday April 5A Spectrum of Systemic IncongruityChair: TBA9:00am-9:15am – The Nursing Home AffectKadie Burton9:15am-9:30am – Albert Hoffman, LSD and the Formation of the Lost Field ofParapsychophramacologyDavid Luke9:30am-9:45am – The Obstacle Is the Path: Reflexivity, Mimesis, and the Humanizing of Consciousness StudiesBrett A. Stroud9:45am-10:00am – Terence McKenna, Entheogenesis and the Trance-nationalistsGraham St John10:00am-10:15am – The Narrative Mode of Horoscopic InterpretationTimothy P. Grove10:15am-10:40am – Question and Answer11:00am-12:30pm – LunchShamanic/Alchemical Divination--An Experiential Introduction: A WorkshopRalph Metzner8:15pm-9:15pm