RECENT ARTICLES
- Consilience in Developing a Multidisciplinary Framework of Spirituality: Scientific Commentary on Chatlos, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science . doi: (2025)
- Winkelman, M. J., Barnard, G. W., Blainey, et al. (2024). Psychedelic Christianity: Commentary and reply: Commentaries on: McCarthy & Priest (2024). Psychedelic Christianity: From Evangelical hippies and Roman Catholic intellectuals in the sixties to clergy in a Johns Hopkins clinical trial. Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 8(2), 153-190.
- Shamanism and Psychedelic, Religious, Spiritual, and Mystical Experiences', in David Yaden, and Michiel van Elk (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Psychedelic, Religious, Spiritual, and Mystical Experiences. Oxford: Oxford Academic. (2024)
- Neurophenomenology and Neuroepistemology Approaches to Integrating Constructivist, Perennialist, and Universalist Perspectives on Mystical Experiences, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 59(2), 382–409. doi: (2024)
- An Ethnological Model for Assessing Social Evolution of Siberian Shamans. Social Evolution & History, Vol. 23 No. 1 , pp. 49–75. (2024)
- Shamanism: psychopathology and psychotherapy. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 1–18 (with Brouwer, A., Winkelman, M. J., & Raison, C. L.) (2023)
- Chinese Wu, Ritualists and Shamans: An Ethnological Analysis. Religions 14, no. 7: 852. (2023)
- Shamanism: psychopathology and psychotherapy. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 1–18 (with Brouwer, A., Winkelman, M. J., & Raison, C. L.) (2023)
- The potential of psychedelics for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, European Neuropsychopharmacology, Volume 76, 3-16, (Michael James Winkelman, Attila Szabo, Ede Frecska) (2023)
- From Shamans to Sorcerers: Empirical Models for Defining Ritual Practices and Ecstatic Experience in Ancient, Medieval and Modern Societies. In: The Routledge Companion to Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient World, Edited By D. Stein, S. Costello & K. Foster. London: Routledge, pp. 41-70. (2022).
- Does India have entheomycology traditions? A review and call to research. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge, 21(2), pp 341-352 (Winkelman, M.J., Allen, J.W., Lamrood, P., Maillart-Garg, M., Sinha, B.L., & Shah, N.C.) (2022)
- Psychedelics, Sociality and Human Evolution. (With José Manuel Rodríguez Arce). (2021) Frontiers in Psychology.
- An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. (2021)
- The evolved psychology of psychedelic set and setting: Inferences regarding the roles of shamanism and entheogenic ecopsychology. Frontiers in Pharmacology 12, Article 619890. (2021)
- Anthropology, Shamanism and Hallucinogens. In C.S. Grob and J. Grigsby (eds.) Handbook of Medical Hallucinogens (pp. 46-67) NY: Guilford Press. (2021).
- A cross-cultural study of the elementary forms of religious life: shamanistic healers, priests, and witches, Religion, Brain & Behavior, 11(1):27-45. doi: (2021).
- The evolutionary origins of the supernatural in ritual behaviours. In P. Craffert, J. Baker and M.J. Winkelman (eds.) The Supernatural After the Neuro-turn (pp. 48-68). (2019).
- The supernatural as innate cognitive operators. In P. Craffert, J. Baker and M.J. Winkelman (eds.) The Supernatural After the Neuro-turn (pp. 89-106). (2019).
- Shamanic alterations of consciousness as sources of supernatural experiences. In P. Craffert, J. Baker and M.J. Winkelman (eds.) The Supernatural After the Neuro-turn. p. 127-147. (2019).
- Vaccination with Kambo against Bad Influences: Processes of symbolic healing and ecotherapy. The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 51(1): 28-48. (Hesselink, J. & Winkelman, M.). (2019).
- Introduction: Evidence for entheogen use in prehistory and world religions. Journal of Psychedelic Studies: Psychedelics in History and World Religions 3:43–62. (2019).
- The “Kamasutra” temples of India: A case for the encoding of psychedelically induced spirituality. Journal of Psychedelic Studies: Psychedelics in History and World Religions 3:81-103 (M. Maillart-Garg and M.J. Winkelman). (2019).
- The entheogenic origins of Mormonism: A working hypothesis. Journal of Psychedelic Studies Special Issue: Psychedelics in History and World Religions 3:212-260. (R. Beckstead, B. Blankenagel, C. Noconi and M.J. Winkelman). (2019).
- Shamanism and Possession. In The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. (2018).
- An ontology of psychedelic entity experiences in evolutionary psychology and neurophenomenology. Journal of Psychedelic Studies. 2(1): 5-23. doi: (2018)
- Consciousness. The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Hilary Callan, ed. John Wiley. doi: (2018)
- Mechanisms of psychedelic visionary experiences: Hypotheses from evolutionary psychology. Front Neurosci. 11, article 539. doi: (2017).