Trance states and accessing implicit memories: A psychological genomic approach to reconstituting social memory during religious rituals

Article Abstract:

The relationship between efforts by members of diverse social groups to regain, reconstruct or remember disappearing cultural pasts- in which life was believed to have better and more meaningful and the distinctive forms taken in the ritual and other practices of different religions is discussed. It is proposed that religious rituals enable participants to enter in to trance, or other altered states of consciousness (ASC), contribute positively to the reconstruction of social memories and make it possible for seemingly forgotten beliefs and practices to be retrieved.

Psychological aspects, Group identity, Social identity, Ritual, Rituals, Rites and ceremonies, Collective memory

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Body rhythms, social rhythms in digital societies

Article Abstract:

The notion of 'technique of the body' that is classically elaborated in order to affirm the body in action as a relational matrix of the digital sociality is discussed. The notion of 'body technique' is applied to genetic determination and to the synchronism of body rhythms, and is proposed as a methodological key, which is useful to reconstruct the relational fragmentation that afflicts modern digital societies.

Influence, Technological innovations, Developmental biology

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