The Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness became a section of the American Anthropological Association in 1990. Until then, the group that would become SAC was known as the Association for the Anthropological Study of Consciousness (AASC). During the five years of its existence, AASC published a quarterly known as the AASC Newsletter, which in 1989 was renamed the AASC Quarterly. On this page, you can see the contents of each issue that was produced during those five years, and you can download .pdf versions of all of these issues. You must have Adobe Reader to download these files. If you do not have Adobe Reader installed on your computer, you may download a free copy by clicking here. Volume 1, Number 1 - March 1985 (8 pages) Contents From the Editor Geri-Ann Galanti 1 AASC News 1 Funding 2 Conferences 2 Organizations 3 Physicist's Corner: The Hopi Rain Dance Todd Blatt 3 Research Reports: Spiritual Helpers I have Met Ralph Allison 4 Book Review: Still Living?, by Myra Shackley Geri-Ann Galanti 6 Book Review: The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt Dennis Dutton 6 Book Review: The Alexandria Project, by Stephan A. Schwartz Joseph K. Long 7 In Progress - The Meditation Project 8 Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1985 (8 pages) Contents AASC News 1 Publications 2 Research Reports: Healing Voices of Brazil Edson Queiroz 3 News: "Ecstasy" Banned Dennis H. Dutton 5 Reseach Briefs: Italian Stigmatic 5 Conferences 6 Resources 6 Book Review: Culture and Personality, by Victor Barnouw Joseph K. Long 6 Reports: Septrionism - A Modern Mystical Group Starting in Orange County Marlene de Rios 7 Volume 1, Number 3 - December 1985 (8 pages) Contents From the Editor... Geri-Ann Galanti 1 AASC News 1 Research Reports: Magico-Religious Practitioner Types Michael Winkelman 2 Physicist's Corner: A Physicist's View of Telepathy Stephen Gayer 5 Conferences 6 Resources 6 Book Review: The Human Cycle, by Colin Turnbull Patricia Hunt-Perry 7 Book Review: Mute Evidence, by Daniel Kagan and Ian Summers Donald Sutherland 7 Graduate Programs 8 Volume 2, Number 1 - March 1986 (8 pages) From the Editor... Jeffery L. MacDonald 1 AASC News 1 News 2 Research Reports: Mediumship and Multiple Personality: Philosophy anf the Trickster Ralph G. Locke 2 Abstracts from Two Articles by Patric V. Giesler in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 6 Research Reports: Myth and Consciousness Roger W. Wescott 7 Volume 2, Number 2 - June 1986 (12 pages) Psychodrama, Past Life Regression, and other Therapies used by Spiritist Healers Sidney M. Greenfield 1 From the Editor... 3 AASC News 3 Transition 6 Mind Control and Deprogramming Geri-Ann Galanti 7 Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1986 (8 pages) Contents Altered States & Revitalization Amomg American Women Linda Miller Van Blerkom 1 From the Editor... 3 AASC News 3 Conferences 3 The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Magical Practice in Contemporary England T.H. Luhrmann 3 Publications 6 Abstracts from papers given at the AASC sponsored symposium "A Summary of Data and Theories from Parapsychology Relevant to Psychological Anthropology" 7 Volume 2, Number 4 - December 1986 (12 pages) Contents Sapping and Zapping Ralph B. Allison 1 From the Editor... 3 AASC News 3 News 3 Great Pyramid Chambers Discovered Jeffery L. MacDonald 5 Spiritual Encounters P.M.H. Atwater 6 Resources 7 Book Review:The Serpent & the Rainbow, by Wade Davis Geri-Ann Galanti 8 Organizations 10 Abstracts 10 Requests 11 Index of Volumes 1 and 2 11 Volume 3, Number 1 - March 1987 (12 pages) Contents The Mystic Light Steven G. Herbert 1 From the Editor... 3 AASC News 3 Report on the Annual AASC Conference Jeffery L. MacDonald & Geri-Ann Galanti 3 Transition 5 Conferences 5 Announcements 5 Books & Articles 5 Organizations 11 Requests 11 Funding 11 Resources 11 Volume 3, Number 2 - June 1987 (8 pages) Contents The Transpersonal Archaeologist: An Interchange of Science and Intuition M. Steven Shackley 1 From the Editor... 2 AASC News 2 Conferences 2 Books & Articles 2 The Mystery of Healing - Science and an Ancient Art Come Together Stephan A. Schwartz 4 Book Review: Transformations of Consciousness: Conventional and Contemplative Perspectives on Consciousness, by Ken Wilbur, Jack Engler, and Daniel Brown Michael Winkelman 5 Requests Volume 3, Number 3 - September 1987 (8 pages) Contents How Anthropology Showed Me Who I Am J.B. 1 From the Editor... 3 AASC News 3 Organizations 3 Joining the Medium's Table: Part One - A Brazilian Healing Odyssey Matthew Bronson 3 Publications 4 The Story of the Sisiutl Ariadne Bursewicz 7 Volume 3, Number 4 - December 1987 (12 pages) Contents Black Elk's View of American Culture William S. Lyon 1 From the Editor... 3 AASC News 3 News 3 Conferences 4 Announcements 4 Joining the Medium's Table: Part II - Healing the Spirit Matthew Bronson 5 Book Review:The Miracle of Existence, by Henry Margenau Robert S. Gable 8 Book Review: Shamanism, Colonialism, & the Wild Man, by Michael Taussig Lisa Ann Mertz 9 Transition: Chongyam Trunpa: Practical Mystic Felicia Campbell 10 Requests 11 Resources 11 Index of Volume 3 11 Volume 4, Number 1 - March 1988 (12 pages) Crisis Intervention Techniques for Spontaneous PSI Experiences: Western and Non-Western Approaches Cynthia Siegel 1 From the Editor... 3 AASC News 3 Conferences 4 Call for Papers 4 Workshops 4 Publications 4 Pinnacles of Power: Personal Impressions of the 1988 AASC Conference Dan Hawkmoon Alford 5 A Comparison of Western and Non-Western Approaches to the Poltergeist Phenomena George Sniegowski 7 Volume 4, Number 2 - June 1988 (12 pages) Re: Pris Kay Rawlings 1 From the Editor... 3 AASC News 3 Reflections on Pris Lee... Geri-Ann Galanti 3 A Charisma Model of Telepathic Communication James M. Donovan 4 Book Review: The Infinite Boundary: A Psychioc look at Spirit Possession, by D. Scott Rogo Ralph B. Allison 9 Book Review: Margins of Reality: The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World, by Robert G. Jahn and Brenda J. Dunne Joseph K. Long 9 Conferences 11 Organizations 11 Publications 11 Volume 4, Number 3 - September 1988 (12 pages) Method or Madness? The Transpersonal Anthropologist in the Field Leslie Conton 1 From the Editor... 3 AASC News 3 Organizations 3 A Cross-Cultural Study of Trance Practitioners Michael Winkelman 4 Response to Donovan: Right Point, Wrong Substantiation Patric V. Giesler 7 Book Review: On Dreams and Death: A Jungian Interpretation, by Marie-Louise von Franz Rene Lawson 9 Reader's Exchange 11 Conferences 11 Publications 11 Volume 4, Number 4 - December 1988 (12 pages) Who Are the Shamans of the Twentieth Century? Ruth-Inge Heinze 1 From the Editor... 3 AASC News 3 President's Message Jeffery L. MacDonald 3 Orisa - Its Transformation in the United States: A Historical Perspective, 1950's-Present Marilyn Omifunke Torres 5 Parapsychological Tests with Shamanistic Mediums in Garhwal Himalaya (India) Alok Saklani 9 Book Review: The Way of the Actor: A Path to Knowledge and Power, by Brian Bates Dan Hawkmoon Alford 10 Requests 11 Reader's Exchange 11 Index of Volume 4 11 Volume 5, Number 1 - March 1989 (12 pages) From Umbanda to the Kabbalah: A Personal Odyssey Sidney M. Greenfield 1 From the Editor... 3 AASC News 3 1989 AASC Conference Report Jeffery L. MacDonald 4 Conferences 11 Volume 5, Number 2-3 - June-September 1989 (20 pages) - Special Issue on Trance and Possession Varieties of Possession Experience Etzel Cardeņa 1 From the Editor... 3 AASC Annual Conference 3 AASC News 4 Transition 4 Call for Papers 4 Organizations 4 Levels of Possession Awareness in Afro-Brazilian Religions Alejandro Frigerio 5 Publications 12 Book Review: The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture, by Walter L. Williams Rodney Simard 18 Book Review: Animated Earth, by Daniel K. Statnekov Joseph K. Long 18 Volume 5, Number 4 - December 1989 (16 pages) Lucid Dreams and Shamanism Ian Kanair 1 From the Editor... 3 AASC Affiliates with AAA 3 AASC Annual Conference 4 Psychics & Shamans: Psychotics in Control? Geri-Ann Galanti 5 Book Review: Dreaming: Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations, edited by Barbara Tedlock Joseph K. Long 12 Book Review: A Litttle Course in Dreams, by Robert Bosnak Deborah Jay Hillman 13 Index of Volume 5 15