| Description |
xiii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction: Mythology Resurrected -- Part One: Trance -- 1. The Sound of One Hand Clapping -- 2. Proprioception -- 3. Sublime Trance -- Part Two: Myth -- Indo-European Myth -- 4. What is Myth -- 5. Greco-Roman Esoterism -- 6. Sisyphus and the Stone -- 7. Myth and Animals -- 8. Recapitulation -- 9. The Three Worlds -- The First World -- The Second World -- The Third World -- Three-World Trance -- 10. The Number of the Beast -- 11. The Mantras of Myth -- 12. Sacred Geography -- 13. Sacred Architecture and Art -- 14. The Siege of Troy -- 15. The Crack in the Cosmic Egg -- 16. Dream, Death, Birth -- 17. The Mysteries of Eleusis -- 18. Jason and the Argonauts -- Judeo-Christian Myth -- 19. Judeo-Christian Esoterism -- 20. The Myth of The Christ -- 21. Sin and Salvation -- The Legacy of Myth -- 22. Myth: The Historical Foundation of Western Learning -- Part Three: Science -- Myth and Science -- 23. The Three ages of Man -- 24. On the Possibility of an A Priori Experience -- Psychoscience -- 25. Master Mechanic Isaac Newton -- 26. Clerk Maxwell Waves Goodbye -- 27. Heisenberg Isn't Sure -- 28. Darwin and the Temple of Solomon -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Newton's Three Laws -- Appendix B: Maxwell's Equations -- Appendix C: Quantum Mechanics and Psychogeometry -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Analysis |
Myths |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-347) and index |
| Subject |
Human body -- Mythology.
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Myth.
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Mythology.
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Shamanism.
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Trance.
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| LC no. |
92046586 |
| ISBN |
0892814098 |
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