Why are people drawn to experiences like ceremonies, trance dancing, drumming, hypnosis, and even psychedelics? These are non-ordinary states of consciousness associated with theta rhythm in our brains and potentially disrupt our usual habits
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Barbara Mainguy is a psychotherapist in Maine in the United States who works with individuals and groups from the five Indigenous tribes of Maine as well as managing a private practice. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto (philosophy), Concordia University (creative arts therapy) and the University of Maine (clinical social work). She and Lewis have almost completed a new book on Therapeutic Persuasion.
Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona is a general practitioner and a psychiatrist who works primarily with Indigenous North Americans in Maine, USA, with Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness. He is interested in narrative and relational approaches as being especially suited to indigenous people but useful for everyone. He is on the clinical faculties of medical schools at the University of New England and the University of Vermont and is associated with Coyote Institute and the University of Maine, in Orono, Maine. His most recent book is Remappng Your Mind.
