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What is an altered states of consciousness
What occurs when an individual may have mental experiences that transcend ordinary experiences
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What is 8 days
How many days does it take to perform a Sun Dance?
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What is Religion
As the Native American population of the US suffered what was one of the big ways to cope with stress?
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Unitary State
What mental state would you be in if you felt the divisions of self and outside world disappear and feel oneness with the universe?
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What is the Stigmata
The marks on the body of Jesus Christ
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What is a change in emotional expression
What occurs when an individual experiences sudden and unexpected displays of emotional extremes, the individual may become detached and uninvolved?
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What is New Life Lodge or Lodge of the Generator
The Cheyenne’s name for Sun Dance is Oxeheom what is its meaning?
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What is the late 19th century
In what time period were Native Americans losing land, their traditional lifestyles were disappearing, disease had decimated many native communities, The official policy of the US government was to destroy Native American cu
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Phantastica
What category of drug produces a mental state of hallucination?
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What is Ancient Maya
In this ancient culture, male rulers mutilate their foreskin
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What is a perceptual distortion
What occurs when an individual experiences hallucinations, increased visual imagery, synesthesia, in which one form of sensory experience is translated into other form, such as in seeing or feeling sound?
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What is the Sun Dance
Theme of renewal, Spring, Summer Solstice represents what?
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What is Ritual
Meditation, revelation, prayer, and the use of native plant materials-for example, tobacco and Sage are elements of what?
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Hypnotica
What category of drug would you consume if you needed sleep?
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What is the sympathetic System
The arousal system of the brain
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1.What is Solitary confinement, prolonged social and stimulus deprivation, altered states while falling asleep or waking up, dreaming, 2. What is third degree tactics, spirit possession states, ecstatic trance, 3. What is prolonged vigilance, intense men
What are 3 examples of factors that can bring about an altered state of consciousness?
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Who are the Yanomamo
Hekura are tiny humanlike spirits that populate their world to what group?
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What is the Holiness church
In what church do you enter an altered state of consciousness with concentration in prayer and loud music with a repetitive beat?
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Inebiantia
What altered state of consciousness initially starts with cerebral excitement, but is followed by depression?
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What is unitary state
When one feels as being "one" with the universe
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What is Fasting
What is often seen as a sacrifice to a deity and often accompanies religious rituals. It can be an important element in the training of religious specialists in which it is seen as a form of discipline.
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Rastafarians
The Philosopy of ital levity belongs to what group?
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What is The Kung Group
In this group in an altered state of consciousness They can see the inside of a person and travel to the home of the gods. They experienced intense emotions in the sense of ascending and flying which is interpreted as traveling into the heavens.
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Entopic Phenomena
In Paleolithic art the 3rd stage of what phenomena does people feel they have change into an animal that has been painted on the walls of a cave?
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Who is Homosapiens
What group replaced the Neandertals
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