SOCIETY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE APRIL 5-9, 2000

3:30 Discussion

3:45 Break

4:00 Plenary: An Ecological Organic Paradigm: A Framework of Analysis for Moral and Political Philosophy

James Rutherford

7:00 Invited Session: The History of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness

Prisms of Culture and Consciousness: The Origins and Development of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness

Plenary: Stephan Schwartz

Plenary: Constantine Hriskos

Discussants: Michael Winkelman, Geri-Ann Galanti, Dan Alford, Jeff MacDonald, John Baker, Mira Zussman

 

Thursday April 6

Session: Dreaming and Consciousness

Chair: Iain Edgar

8:00 Dreaming, Adaptation, and Consciousness: The Social Mapping Hypothesis

8:15 Real Experiences, Wrong View

8:30 Discussion

8:40 Consciousness, Anthropology and the Dream

9:20 Break

Session: Shamanic Healing

10:10 Shamanic States of Consciousness: What am I Doing Here?

10:25 Break

10:45 Post-Maoist Shamanism: Healing and Health Care in Rural China

11:15 Lessons from Shamanic Healing in Brief Psychotherapy with U.S. Latinos

11:30 Becoming the Medicine: American Acupuncturists Discuss Healing and Possession States

Claire Cassidy

11:45 Discussion

1:30 Plenary: The Shamanic Paradigm in Evolution, Healing and Consciousness

Michael Winkelman

2:10 Dissociation and Imagination: Thirty Years of Confusion Between Them

2:50 Break

Session: Ecology and Consciousness: Shamanism's Challenge to Euroamerican Science

3:00 Introduction

3:25 The Ecopsychology of Liberation: The Hebrew Prophets as Mystics of Political Ecology

3:40 Disussion

3:50 Break

4:00 Plenary: Re-inventing the Mythos of Euroamerican Science: Mythic Insights From an 11-year Recurring Dream

Mark Schroll

7:00- WORKSHOP: Introduction to Shamanic Journeying and Healing (by subscription)

10:00 Jonathan Horwitz

8:30 Passing is believing: ethnic consciousness of Asian residents in Japan

Eika Tai

8:45 Buddhist Cleric or Lay Person? The Blurring of Identities in Contemporary Taiwanese Buddhism

Scott C Hurley

9:00 Discussion

9:00 Break

9:30 Liminality in Ageing: Spiritual Aspects of Communitas Across Age Groups

9:45 Ropes That Bind: Slave Consciousness and the Breakdown of the Master

Larissa Chapman

10:00 Social Action and Consciousness in a Global Context

10:15 An Indigenous Charter from Brazilian Shamans.

10:30 Matriarchy, Minotaurs and Magic: The Once and Future Woman

Barbara Joans

10:45 Discussion

11:00 Break

11:10 Plenary: Conscious and Cultural Confusions in Nonverbal and Verbal Communication

J.Edward Hazelton

 

1:00 Plenary: Music and Consciousness: Auditory Consciousness as a Perceptual "World" in the Cross-modal Theory of Perception

Barbara Crowe

1:40 Break

1:45 Near Death Experiences and the Orphic Journey

Jeff MacDonald

2:00 Death, the Ultimate Change of Consciousness, and the Near Death Experience

2:15 Alcohol and the Sacred in Mexico and Spain

Tim Mitchell

2:30 The Engineering of PSI – Explorations in Applied Remote Viewing

Stephan Schwartz

2:45 Discussion

3:00 A Course in Miracles Online: Cyber Consciousness and Channeled Guidance

3:15 Proprioception, Reflection, Recognition: Positive Affect of Paradigmatic Form

3:30 The Concept of Personality in Sufism: Its Implications for Scientists

4:00 Virtual Nature versus Ecologies of the Heart: A Brief Comparison

Lourdes Giordani

4:15 Discussion

4:30 Break

Session: Theory and Consciousness

Chair:

4:45 Anthropological psychologizing and what we need to know about it

5:00 Consciousness, Self-Organization, and the Holy Grail

5:30 Fire and Ice

Marshall Pease

5:45 Discussion

10:00 (by subscription)

J.Edward Hazelton

Saturday April 8

Session: Hallucinogens and Consciousness

Chair: John Baker

8:30 Hallucinogens and the Altered State in Venezuela

8:50 Plenary: Hallucinogens and Culture: A Long, Strange Trip Indeed!

9:30 Break

9:40 Plenary: Entheogens, Culture, and Consciousness: Questions Answered and Questions Asked

Thomas B. Roberts

10:20 Plenary: Phantastica: A psychopharmacological profile of divinatory and magic plants used in shamanistic contexts

José Luis Diaz

11:00 Break

11:00-Board of Directors Meeting

12:30

Session: Language and Consciousness

Chair: Mira Zussman

1:00 Plenary: Language, Intentionality, and Consciousness

Paul Kockelman

1:40 Sacred Language and Consciousness

2:10 Preserving the Forbidden--From Tatouage to Tamazight

2:40 Discussion

3:00 Break

3:10 Plenary: Talking Heads: Twenty Years of Teaching Language and Consciousness

3:40 Break

4:00- Experiential Workshop: Language and Consciousness

6:00 Dan Moonhawk Alford and Matthew C. Bronson

7:00- Workshop: Shamanic Extraction Healing: Theory and Practice (by subscription)

10:00 Leslie Conton

REGISTRATION:

GENERAL- $95 (1 DAY $30)

SAC MEMBER- $80 (1 DAY $20)

SAC STUDENT- $55 (1 DAY $20)

IF PAID BY MARCH 17th; $20 additional at the conference

Payment of full conference fees entitles you to a $50 discount on the Science of Consciousness Conference.

Submit credit card info via email at kano@aaanet.org or call 703 528-1902 x3003

WORKSHOPS Additional $25/each ($15 for SAC members or conference presenters)

Introduction to Shamanic Journeying and Healing (Thursday)

Body Consciousness (Friday)

Language and Consciousness (Saturday afternoon)

Shamanic Extraction (Saturday evening)

Sunday Brunch/Address ($25 for everybody)

HOTEL REGISTRATION: Clarion Santa Rita 88 E. Broadway, Tucson, AZ. Call 520 622-4000 and ask for SAC Conference rates ($79 double)

For further information see: www.sacaaa.org or email: michael.winkelman@asu.edu