Michael James Winkelman

Articles

Mimesis and the origins of religion, Book Symposium: How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures By Robin Dunbar. Religion, Brain and Behavior doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2023.2168736 (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).

Psychedelics, Sociality and Human Evolution. Frontiers in Psychology. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.729425 (With José Manuel Rodríguez Arce). (2021). 

An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-021-09523-9 (2021). 

The evolved psychology of psychedelic set and setting: Inferences regarding the roles of shamanism and entheogenic ecopsychology. Frontiers in Pharmacology 12, Article 619890. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2021.619890 (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:10.1080/2153599X.2020.1770845/ (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. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1651 (2018). 

An ontology of psychedelic entity experiences in evolutionary psychology and neurophenomenology. Journal of Psychedelic Studies. 2(1): 5-23. DOI: 10.1556/2054.2018.002. (2018). 

Assessment of Alcohol and Tobacco Use Disorders Among Religious Users of Ayahuasca. Frontiers in Psychiatry  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00136 (Barbosa, P., Tófoli. L., . . .. & Winkelman, M.). (2018).   

Consciousness. The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Hilary Callan, ed. John Wiley.  DOI: 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1572.  (2018).

Shamanism and the brain. In Clements, N.K. (ed.) Religion: Mental religion (pp. 355-372). MacMillan Interdisciplinary handbooks. USA: MacMillan. (2017). 

Mechanisms of psychedelic visionary experiences: Hypotheses from evolutionary psychology. Front Neurosci. 11, article 539. DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00539. (2017).