226 research outputs found
An Application of Structuralism to the Dynamics of Style and A Presentation of Paintings
No full text(Statement of Responsibility) by Clancy Cavnar(Thesis) Thesis (B.A.) -- New College of Florida, 1982(Electronic Access) RESTRICTED TO NCF STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY, AND ON-CAMPUS USE(Bibliography) Includes bibliographical references.(Source of Description) This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. The New College of Florida, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.(Local) Faculty Sponsor: Mead, Gai
Creating Awareness on Sexual Abuse in Ayahuasca Communities: A Review of Chacruna’s Guidelines
No full textThe creation of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines’ Ayahuasca Community Guide for the Awareness of Sexual Abuse aims to assist individuals within the psychedelic community to understand the common scenarios that can lead to abuse during ayahuasca consumption. Codes of conduct are typically and rightfully held up to scrutiny; the process of collaboratively crafting these guidelines for the awareness of sexual abuse in ayahuasca contexts has been no exception
Reseña sobre la Guía para la concientización sobre el abuso sexual en las comunidades ayahuasqueras
No full textA medida que los psicodélicos se mueven por todo el mundo y entran en las conversaciones principales, existe una mayor necesidad que nunca de tener claras las pautas apropiadas para su uso. En este artículo, académicos y activistas experimentados recopilaron información de diferentes sitios para producir un punto de partida integral para las pautas de abuso sexual. El informe ofrece consejos de mejores prácticas y tiene como objetivo crear conciencia sobre este importante tema a medida que nos esforzamos por promover el uso seguro y los espacios seguros para las experiencias psicodélicas
Focusing Qualitative Simulation Using Temporal Logic: Theoretical Foundations
No full textthis paper took place while the author was visiting the Qualitative Reasoning Group at the Dept. of Computer Sciences of the University of Texas at Austin. G. Brajnik and D.J. Clancy / Focusing qualitative simulation 2 formation about the trajectory of a variable or relationships between the trajectories of interconnected variables. Such information allows the modeler to restrict the simulation to a region of the state space and to specify time--varying input variables. The Temporally Constrained Qsim (TeQsim, pronounced tek'sim) algorithm combines the expressive power of these two paradigms by interleaving temporal logic model checking with qualitative simulation. Temporal logic is used to specify qualitative and quantitative trajectory information that is incorporated into the simulation to constrain and refine the resulting behaviors. Qualitative simulation constructs a set of possible behaviors consistent with a model of a dynamical system represented by a qualitative differential equation (QDE). The Qsi
Ayahuasca’s attractions and distractions: examining sexual seduction in shaman-participant interactions
No full textAyahuasca tourism is a rapidly growing set of enterprises in which participants and shamans become global tourists or visitors within their own towns or countries, or abroad, in an explosion of diverse encounters. This variable set of hosts and guests partakes in shamanic rituals in which the ayahuasca brew is consumed within ritual settings with the aim of producing hallucinogenic visions deemed to be personally beneficial to all participants.
Whereas only a few decades ago, the ayahuasca experience required that a lone traveler make his or her way to the forests of South America, now notions of local, global, space, and place converge as shamans and tourists travel throughout the world to perform and participate in a diversity of ayahuasca ceremonies. For example, an eighty-year-old Shipibo shaman who once mostly healed within his community in Pucallpa, Peru, began to travel nationally and then around the world, while his apprenticing son began to appear in international films as a healer and opened a tourist’s lodge. Some newcomers to the rituals, also interested in bringing ayahuasca to a larger public, have introduced it in dance raves. Not only are more people eager to participate in ceremonies, but also more individuals want to become ayahuasqueros (shamans who heal with ayahuasca). Furthermore, the ingredients of the brew are now available for purchase on the Internet. Moreover, many Euro-American ayahuasca tourists who have apprenticed shamans are now based in
South America and travel throughout the world performing ayahuasca rituals. These are but a few examples of the novel expansion of ayahuasca ritual practices.
The inventive global expansion of ayahuasca rituals creates a set of encounters that bring together individuals with highly divergent epistemologies and
experiences, creating a sundry montage of cognitive, emotional, and practical cultural systems rife with contradictions and potential misunderstandings.
Although these are also settings for positive exchanges, as would be expected, the convergence of translocal and transnational flows of communication, knowledge, and practices also comes with its challenges. This study focuses on a more obscure, yet growing, consideration of what
happens when various belief systems are brought together within transnational ritual contexts by examining the relationship between sex, seduction, and gendered power relations in the context of ayahuasca rituals. By “sex” and “seduction,” I refer to sexual imagery, meanings, attraction, arousal, and/or the physical sexual act in relation to the ayahuasca ceremony or ceremonial space. Initially, I will examine the historical, symbolic, and practical relationships between ayahuasca and sex. I will focus on how, in the historical and contemporary associations of sex with ayahuasca, the adoption and reinvention of ayahuasca rituals is part of the ongoing challenges that ayahuasca usage and practices undergo. Through an analysis of local and global narratives, the paper also engages with Amerindian epistemologies and theories of perspectivism, countertransference, and “the male gaze” to examine local concerns and interactions between shamans, their apprentices, and ayahuasca participants, and how they variably position themselves as authorities, intermediaries, and gendered individuals. In the broadest sense, I will explore gender relations between shamans and local as well as nonlocal participants and the resultant ensuing debates about sex and sexuality as discussed among locals and web-based audiences. Importantly, this discussion is not meant to detract from the legitimacy ayahuasca rituals deserve
Psychedelic Medicines: A Paradigm Shift from Pharmacological Substitution Towards Transformation-Based Psychiatry
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The CCCC-IP Annual: Top Intellectual Property Developments of 2015
No full textIntroduction to the 2015 Annual Clancy Ratliff, University of Louisiana at LafayetteWho's Failing Who? Six Questions To Consider Before Adopting the FI Grade Kristi Murray Costello, Arkansas State UniversityStamp of Authenticity: Using the Maya Angelou Forever Stamp To Explore Quotation and Authorship Steven Engel, Marygrove CollegeCatfishing, Authorship, and Plagiarism in First-Year Writing Kathrin Kottemann, South Louisiana Community ColllegeCultural Commentary and Fair Use: Bob Englehart, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Two Flags Matthew Teutsch, University of Louisiana at LafayetteA Prince, Some Girls, and the Terms: A Canary in the Cave? Craig A. Meyer, Texas A&M University-KingsvilleDefeat Devices as Intellectual Property: A Retrospective Assessment from the DMCA Rulemaking William Duffy, University of MemphisHow Does the Rise of the 'Kilo-Author' Affect the Field of Composition and Rhetoric? Wendy Warren Austin, Southern New Hampshire UniversityAll She Had To Do Was Stay: How Apple Music Got Taylor Swift and Avoided Bad Blood Laurie Cubbison, Radford UniversityA Copyright Ruling Puts the "Happy" Back in Happy Birthday (and Brings an End to the Mortification of Restaurant Servers and Patrons) Kim Dian Gainer, Radford UniversityUnderstanding Open Access: When, Why & How To Make Your Work Openly Accessible Traci Zimmerman, James Madison Universit
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