Mexican Indigenous Psychologies, Cosmovisons, and Altered States of Consciousness

IF 1.6 4区 心理学 0 PHILOSOPHY
Nuria Ciofalo
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Indigenous psychologies are informed by their cosmogonies and cosmologies, philosophies, spirituality and religions, traditions and customs, and knowledge and praxis systems. This paper reviews some conceptions of consciousness, psyche, spirit, mental and physical health, relations to all Earth Beings (human and nonhuman), ancestors, nature, and altered states of consciousness among the Nahua and Maya of Mexico. Colonization has threatened these rich legacies by imposing the conquerors' cosmologies. However, these Indigenous communities continue to use plants, mushrooms, and some animals to generate altered states of consciousness, enacting sacred rituals and healing. The conclusion recommends learning from these knowledge and praxes systems and their related consciousness and spiritual states to expand the emergence of decolonial psychology that may offer alternatives to address the challenges of our time.
墨西哥土著心理学、宇宙观和意识状态的改变
土著心理学的知识来源于他们的宇宙论和宇宙论、哲学、灵性和宗教、传统和习俗以及知识和实践体系。本文回顾了墨西哥纳华人和玛雅人关于意识、心灵、精神、心理和身体健康、与所有地球生物(人类和非人类)的关系、祖先、自然和意识改变状态的一些概念。殖民化将征服者的宇宙观强加于人,威胁着这些丰富的遗产。然而,这些土著社区继续使用植物、蘑菇和一些动物来产生改变的意识状态,制定神圣的仪式和治疗。结论建议从这些知识和实践体系及其相关的意识和精神状态中学习,以扩大非殖民心理学的出现,这可能为解决我们时代的挑战提供替代方案。
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