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"MANIFESTATIONS OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS COMPLETE SET OF AUDIOTAPES IN BINDERS FOR $140 CONFERENCE CODE: SAC99
Wednesday, March 24th 001 Personal Soundings 1 $10.00 Chair: Pablo Ignacio Valero, California College of Arts and Crafts 4:10-4:30 pm “Ancestral Beings” Natalie Tobert 4:30-4:50 pm “Human Culture is Human Consciousness
(Are We Prisoners of Our Own Device?)” Gregory M. Nixon 5:10-5:30 pm “The Foundation of Cytherics: On an Underground Theme
in Western Classical Consciousness” Josef Chytry 5:30-5:50 pm Discussion Thursday, March 25th 002 Consciousness in Cyberspace: Stories From The Virtual
Trenches 1 $10.00 7:00-7:20 pm “Word Wars: Why It’s So Hard to Get Along With
People On-Line” Matthew C. Bronson 7:20-7:40 pm “Retromythology in Virtual Communities” Tim Lavalli Worlds Away Technologies, Fujitsu 7:40-8:00 pm “Creating and Sustaining Sacred Space in On-Line
Avatar Communities” Janet LeValley 8:00-8:20 pm Discussion 003 Polythematic Representations of Consciousness 1 $10.00Chair: Ruth-Inge Heinze, UC Berkeley 8:40-9:00 am “Uncoiling the Splendor: Self, Symbol and Interiority
in Becoming a Kundalini Yoga Teacher” Mark Thomas Shekoyan 9:00-9:20 am “Involuntary Memory: Walter Benjamin’s
Images of Remembering in Anthropological Perspective” Hsuta Lin 9:20-9:40 am “The Colonization of Cosmos and Culture:
Coevolution, Modernity, and the Invisible Other” Pablo Ignacio Valero 9:40-10:00 am “The Essence and Original Personality in Physicalspace and Thoughtspace” Ralph B. Allison Los Osos, CA 10:00-10:20 am Discussion 004 Religious Representations of Consciousness 1 $10.00Chair: Margaret Mackenzie, California College of Arts and Crafts 10:40-11:00 am “Mantra and Consciousness Expansion in
India” Ian Prattis 11:00-11:20 am “Encounters with Ban Jhankri: Shamanic Initiation
by Abduction in Nepal” Leslie Conton 11:20-11:40 am “Collective Baha’i Identity Through Embodied
Religious Persecution: ‘Be Ye as the Fingers of One Hand, the Members of One
Body’” Curtis Humes Katherine Ann Clark 11:40-12:00 noon Discussion 005 Castaneda and Consciousness Studies, Part 1 2 $17.00Co-Chairs: Constantine Hriskos, Colby College; Michael J. Winkelman, Arizona State University 1:30-1:45 pm “Castaneda and Consciousness Studies: Notes on
the Revolution before Postmodernism” Constantine Hriskos 1:45-2:00 pm “The Teachings of Castaneda” Edith Turner 2:00-2:15 pm “A Castaneda Way of Knowledge: Implications of
an Anthropological Legacy” Amy Smith 2:15-2:30 pm “Consciousness is that Part of Consciousness of
which we are Conscious: How the Ancient Seers and Shamans of Mexico Short-Circuited the
Energy-Body” Roy Wagner 2:30-2:50 pm Discussion 3:00-3:15 pm “Reflections on Castaneda: Positing a Non-Ordinary
Reality, Challenging Boundaries and Relativizing Ethics” Yves Marton 3:15-3:30 pm “Epistemological Perspectives on
Castaneda” Michael J. Winkelman 3:30-3:45 pm “Beyond Anthropology: Non-Ordinary Reality in
Ordinary, Everyday Life” Bernard McGrane 3:45-4:00 pm Discussion 006 Roundtable: Castaneda and Consciousness Studies, Part 2 1 $10.00Co-Chairs: Michael J. Winkelman, Arizona State University; Constantine Hriskos, Colby College 4:15-5:30 pm — Dan Moonhawk Alford, CSU Hayward Friday, March 26th 007 Sites of Contestation and Mediation in Shamanism 1 $10.00Chair: Don A. Habibi, University of North Carolina at Wilmington 8:40-9:00 am “Seidhr as Women’s ‘Witchcraft’:
Contested Shamanistic Practice in Reconstructionist Religion” Jenny Blain 9:00-9:20 am “Sun Dance Visions and the Ute Community: The
Problem of Outsider Participation” Barry Michrina 9:20-9:40 am “Voice, Power, and Politics: Neglected Ingredients in
the Respectful Exchange of Indigenous Healing Wisdom” Richard Katz 9:40-10:00 am “Sangomas as Mediators in Witchcraft
Accusation Trials” John Hund 10:00-10:20 am Discussion 008 Ritual Functions of Hallucinogens $10.00Chair: Michael Naxon, Central American Institute of Prehistoric and Traditional Cultures at Belize 10:40-11:00 am “Redemption and Hallucinogens, I”
Marlene de Rios 11:00-11:20 am “Redemption and Hallucinogens, II”
John R. Baker 11:20-11:40 am “Cross-Personal Commonalities in the
Ayahuasca Experience” Benny Shanon 11:40-12:00 noon Discussion 009 Art and Theory: Bridging Consciousness and Imagination 1 $10.00Chair: Lydia Nakashima Degarrod, UC Berkeley 1:50-2:10 pm “Equatorial Theory in Anthropological Practice:
Finding the Ground Between the Poles of Extreme Relativism” Jerrod Hansen 2:10-2:30 pm “The Imagination of Matter, Pre-Columbian Cultural
DNA, and Maize Cultivation” Kathleen Rogers 2:30-2:50 pm “Consciousness and the Development of Yuman
Earthen Art” Jay von Werlhof 2:50-3:10 pm “The Power of Song: Song Prayers in Native American
Rock Art” Carol Patterson 3:10-3:30 pm Discussion 010 Quantum Shamanics 1 $10.00Chair: Helmut Wautischer, Sonoma State University 3:50-4:10 pm “Some Stories of Shamanic Discovery in Modern and
Contemporary Physical Science and Mathematics” Stephen Gamboa-Eastman 4:10-4:30 pm “Cultural Manifestations of the Anthropopathy
of Human Consciousness” Richard L. Amoroso 4:30-4:50 pm “Quantum Anthropological Linguistics” Dan Moonhawk Alford CSU Hayward 4:50-5:10 pm Discussion Saturday, March 27th 011 Transformative Passages 1 $10.00 Chair: John L. Caughey, University of Maryland 8:40-9:00 am “Dancing at the Edge of Chaos: Wildness &
Ceremony in a Brazilian Spirit Possession Religion” Daniel Halperin 9:00-9:20 am “Sound and Form: Ornamental Designs as Coded
Scripts of Extra-Sensory Physics” Renate Dohmen 9:20-9:40 am “The Tree of Worlds in the Nordic-Germanic and
the Algonquian Cosmology” Ralph Metzner 9:40-10:00 am “Shamanistic Transformation in the Rainforest
of Belize: A Personal Journey” Noga Weinstein 10:00-10:20 am Discussion 012 The Magic of Literature 1 $10.00 Chair: Markate Daly, San Francisco State University 10:40-11:00 am “Ritual Literacy and Religious Literature Development in the
Iu-Mien Refugee Community” Jeffery L. MacDonald 11:00-11:20 am “Magic and Religion Revisited: Dream Divination and Gender in
the Ancient Mediterranean” Laurel Holmstrom 11:20-11:40 am “Mythos Renewed: Potentials Toward the Reactualization of Creative Consciousness” Brian Thompson Lewis & Clark College 11:40-12:00 noon “Culture and Indifference” Blanca H. Parfait Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina 12:00-12:20 pm Discussion 013 Ways of Healing 1 $10.00 Chair: Claire M. Cassidy, Bethesda, MD 2:20-2:40 pm "Transactions in Power: Healing in Urban Russia" Galina Lindquist University of Stockholm, Sweden 2:40-3:00 pm "Influence of Medical Education on Attitudes and
Assessments of Medical Professionals Concerning Medical Therapies and Therapists"
Peter Kaiser 3:00-3:20 pm Discussion 014 Sitings of the Imaginary 1 $10.00 Chair: Josef Chytry, California College of Arts and Crafts 3:40-4:00 pm "The Gaston Bachelard Center for Imaginary and
Rationality Studies" Jennifer Marie Eustis 4:00-4:20 pm "Cartoons and Myths: Playing with Consciousness"
Lourdes Giordani 4:20-4:40 pm "Potential Influence of Virtual Reality Technology on
Human Consciousness" Michal Malinowski 4:40-5:00 pm "Personal Narratives: Transpersonal Selves" Moira Killoran Institute of Noetic Sciences 5:00-5:20 pm Discussion 015 Banquet and Keynote Address 1 $10.00"The Varieties of Dissociative Experience" Stanley Krippner Saybrook Institute Sunday, March 28th 016 Consciousness in Life and Death 1 $10.00 Chair: Kathleen Young, Western Washington University 9:00-9:20 am "Kosova Consciousness" Kathleen Young 9:20-9:40 am "Images of Death on the Stage" Elizabeth Wilson 9:40-10:00 am "The Duality of Consciousness in America and the
Need to Reconcile with Nature and the Natural Self" Jackson Milikan 10:00-10:20 am "Death and the Corpse: An Analysis of the Treatment
of Dead Bodies in Contemporary Society" Elizabeth Emerick 10:20-10:40 am Discussion 017 The Heat is On 1 $10.00 Chair: Amy Smith, Salt Lake City, UT 11:00-11:20 am "Communication, Consciousness, and Technology: On
Exchanging Information, Being Aware, and Keeping Machines in Their Place" Roxana C.
Wales 11:20-11:40 am "Awakening in Corporate America: Shifts in
Managerial Consciousness through Ethnographic Team Process" Linda Haviland 11:40-12:00 noon "Burning Consciousness – Transformative Community or, How I
Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Burn" Lee Gilmore 12:20-12:40 pm Discussion |
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