The Covid-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on society, leading to a rapid
closure of businesses, places of work, worship, social engagement, schools and …

Our hominin ancestors inevitably encountered and likely ingested psychedelic mushrooms
throughout their evolutionary history. This assertion is supported by current understanding …

Highlights•Rituals are meaningful actions marked by rigidity, formality, and repetition.•Group
rituals promote cognitive, affective, and behavioral group commitment.•Group rituals not only …

The cross-cultural practice of shamanism reflects an innate capacity for altered states of
consciousness (ASC's) that are elicited by stress, deliberately sought in shamanic rituals …

Religious rituals are associated with health benefits, potentially produced via social
bonding. It is unknown whether secular rituals similarly increase social bonding. We …

Collective gatherings are often associated with the alignment of psychophysiological states
between members of a crowd. While the process of emotional contagion has been studied …

Religious rituals are universal human practices that play a seminal role in community
bonding. In two experiments, we tested the role of mu-opioids as the active factor fostering …

This article examines the experience of online worship among 13 participants
'attending'virtual services in Cambridge. We focus upon an online formal Eucharistic service …

Along with landscape degradation and loss of biodiversity there is also a co-occurring loss
of cultural and linguistic diversity. When species become rare, there is a corresponding loss …

Objectives: Religiosity and spirituality (R/S) have been negatively associated with several
mental health problems, including delinquency. The study aimed to investigate the …