Trance, Altered States and Connected Consciousness in Italian Shamanism

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00:00 Introduction: Altered States

01:42 Methodology

06:20 Definitions of trans-cultural & indigenous Shamanism

10:52 Psychologising forms of Shamanism

12:37 The tradition of Segnature

16:10 The two generations of practitioner

19:05 Altered states in the two generations

27:16 Magical practices

28:02 The Malocchio Ritual

34:35 Biotransenergetica

40:57 De Martino’s definition of magic

48:28 Consciousness and the self

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