Exploring shamanic journeying: repetitive drumming with shamanic instructions induces specific subjective experiences but no larger cortisol decrease than instrumental meditation music.

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Published in PLoS One on July 07, 2014

Authors

Bruno Gingras1, Gerald Pohler1, W Tecumseh Fitch1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

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