resources
links
Intermittent Explosive Disorder and the Berserkergang
Berserkergang: Somafera As a Martial Art
- This is the web site of Rillway Combatives Academy.
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
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
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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
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