Altered States of Consciousness within a General Evolutionary Perspective: A Holocultural Analysis
- 1 August 1977
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Behavior Science Research
- Vol. 12 (3) , 197-216
- https://doi.org/10.1177/106939717701200303
Abstract
This paper represents a reanalysis of data from earlier studies sup porting the hypothesis that cultural patterning of altered states of con sciousness (trance) conforms to a monothetic general evolutionary scale of sociocultural behavior. Global correlations using holocultural method ology show trance type to be positively correlated with four selected evolutionary variables, two related to societal complexity and two related to subsistence economy.Keywords
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