真实的幻象——萨满教神话的神经心理学成因

A Real phantom——The neuropsychological origination of shaman myth

用于研究萨满在精神昏迷状态下所体验的内视情景的神经心理学模式被南非人类学家大卫·路易斯威廉姆斯等西方学者运用到对近代原始人艺术以及人类史前艺术的考察之中,为我们对史前艺术发生学的研究提供了一个新的视角。本文在此基础上又大胆地将此模式运用到对神话成因的研究之中,推翻了神话来自人类出于某种目的而杜撰的传统观点,揭露了神话在神经心理方面的成因,并找到了史前艺术同神话之间的本质性关联。

The neuropsychological model which studies the entoptic phenomena in shaman altered states of consciousness, has been employed to the observation on prehistoric arts by some western scholars such as David Lewis-Williams. Based on this, the author boldly applies neuropsychological model to the research about origination of myth, and discovers that myth is originally not from our ancestor’s literary creation, but from the visions which shamans experience in ecstatic jouney. By this perspective, author also finds the intrinsic relationship between prehistoric art and myth.