links

• Berserkergang-art - scholarly article on berserkergang
• Lycanthrope - site dedicated to serious discussion of berserks, werewolves, etc.
• nuclearodin - personal page of an Odinist/berserk, contains articles relevant to these subjects
• The Vaults of Erowid - "documenting the complex relationship between humans and psychoactives", info on entheogens in history and practice
• Maenads - info and pics, also other Dionysian links
• Temenos of Dionysos / Maenads - oenochoe's site, includes papers on the maenadic dances and being a modern maenad
• Uppsala / Berserkergang - wayland's site, history and practice of the viking beserkergang
• The Kataragama-Skanda Website - extensive site on all aspects of this Sri Lankan cult
• Wolf Warriors - information on cults of the Dacians, Romans and Vlachs
• Sadhus, Holy Men of India - great photos, details the different sects of sadhuism
• Body Modification E-zine - tattooing, piercing, scarification, modern primitives, rituals, and online store
• ***Sufi Ritual*** - an incredible video of ecstatic practice (clicking on this link will open/download an 8mb mpeg)

bibliography

• Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief by Andrew Newberg, Eugene D'Aquili and Vince Rause
• Aghora: At the Left Hand of God by Robert Svoboda
• Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience by Gananath Obeyesekere
• Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul by Ariel Glucklich
• Synchronicity by C.G. Jung
• Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers by Schultes, Hofmann and Ratsch
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
• Zen and the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel
• The Creative Loop: How the Brain Makes a Mind by Erich Harth
• Ecstatic Body Postures by Belinda Gore
• Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions by Catherine Bell
• Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill
• Man and His Symbols by C.G. Jung
• Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade