Episode 75 - This is Your Brain on Drums

We're back! Anna and Amber are marching to a very special beat this week, as we talk about sound-induced trances and other ways in which people achieved altered states in the past. Tune in, turn on, and join us!

The Stonehenge Experience - Dr. Rupert Till (Bradshaw Foundation)

The lost sounds of Stonehenge (BBC News)

Songs of the Stones: An Investigation into the Acoustic Culture of Stonehenge (Journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music)

EEG (electroencephalogram) (Mayo Clinic)

The impact of music on the bioelectrical oscillations of the brain (Acta Medica Lituanica)

Auditory Beat Stimulation and its Effects on Cognition and Mood States (Frontiers in Psychiatry)

The lost sounds of Stonehenge (BBC News)

Trance and Dance in Bali (via Library of Congress)

Altered States of Consciousness (Human Research Area Files) 

Lonchocarpus (Wikipedia)

Dacia (United Nations of Roma Victrix)

Dance as a spiritual practice — meeting the shaman in me. (Medium)

I Was Skeptical About Ecstatic Dance (The New York Times)

Archaeologists find richest cache of ancient mind-altering drugs in South America (Science)

Chemical evidence for the use of multiple psychotropic plants in a 1,000-year-old ritual bundle from South America (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Photo credit: Stonehenge, Salisbury (retouched), via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany.