The Body of Myth: Mythology, Shamanic Trance, and the Sacred Geography of the BodyInner Traditions / Bear & Co, 1994 - 369 sivua Long ago the ancestors of the Greeks, Romans, and Hindus were one people living on the Eurasian steppes. At the core of their religion was the "shamanic trance," a natural state but one in which consciousness achieves a profound level of inner awareness. Over the course of millennia, the Indo-Europeans divided and migrated into Europe and the Indian subcontinent. The knowledge of shamanic trance retreated from everyday awareness and was carried on in the form of myths and distilled into spiritual practices--most notably in the Indian tradition of yoga. J. Nigro Sansonese compares the myths of Greece as well as those of the Judeo-Christian tradition with the yogic practices of India and concludes that myths are esoteric descriptions of what occurs within the human body, especially the human nervous system, during trance. In this light, the myths provide a detailed map of the shamanic state of consciousness that is our natural heritage. This book carries on from the works of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell to show how the portrayal of consciousness embodied in myth can be extended to a reappraisal of the laws of physics; before they are descriptions of the world, these laws--like myths--are descriptions of the human nervous system. |
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THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING | 12 |
PROPRIOCEPTION | 20 |
SUBLIME TRANCE | 24 |
MYTH | 31 |
WHAT IS A MYTH? | 32 |
GRECOROMAN ESOTERISM | 39 |
SISYPHUS AND THE STONE | 45 |
MYTH AND ANIMALS | 53 |
JUDEOCHRISTIAN ESOTERISM | 222 |
THE MYTH OF THE CHRIST | 233 |
SIN AND SALVATION | 247 |
MYTH The Historical Foundation of Western Learning | 263 |
SCIENCE | 271 |
THE THREE AGES OF MAN | 272 |
ON THE POSSIBILITY OF AN A PRIORI EXPERIENCE | 277 |
MASTER MECHANIC ISAAC NEWTON | 290 |
RECAPITULATION | 65 |
THE THREE WORLDS | 68 |
THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST | 109 |
THE MANTRAS OF MYTH | 113 |
SACRED GEOGRAPHY | 129 |
SACRED ARCHITECTURE AND ART | 142 |
THE SIEGE OF TROY | 157 |
THE CRACK IN THE COSMIC EGG | 170 |
DREAM DEATH BIRTH | 189 |
THE MYSTERIES OF ELEUSIS | 195 |
JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS | 216 |
CLERK MAXWELL WAVES GOODBYE | 294 |
HEISENBERG ISNT SURE | 297 |
DARWIN AND THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON | 302 |
APPENDICES | 313 |
Newtons Three Laws | 314 |
Maxwells Equations | 324 |
Quantum Mechanics and Psychogeometry | 329 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 344 |
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Achæans Achilles ancient animal Aphrodite Apollo archaic Artemis Asopus Athena auditory awareness body bone brahman brain breath brows called century B.C. Christ Christian cognition consciousness cranium Cronus death Demeter derived describes ears earth Eleusinia Eleusinian Mysteries Eleusis entity equations esoteric esoteric description example experience eyes father figure first-world frontal bone frontal suture goddess gods Greek myth Hades hearing heart heaven Hector Hera Heracles Hesiod Hindu Homer human Iliad Indo-European initiation internal Jesus karma light mantra mass means meditation Menelaus mind mysteries mythic nature nerves nervous system Odysseus olfactory organism ousia Pāda Patanjali perception philosophy phon phoneme physical Plato Poseidon practice prāṇāyāma pratyaya proprioception puruşa recapitulation religion respiration sacred samādhi samyama Sanskrit second world sense shaman Sisyphus skull smell soul sound space stereognosis sutra technique temple Theogony Thetis third world Three Worlds tion touch trance trans Trojans Troy Upanisads vision visual word yoga Yoga-Sutra yogi yogic Zeus