BOUNDARIES OF THE SOUL

BOUNDARI ES OF THE SOUL: The Mythic I magination, Place and Shamanic Consciousness in Literary Form. Fra Mauro's Mappamundi, 145 ...

i CONTENTS LI ST OF FI GURES iv ABSTRACT v DECLARATI ON vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS viii PREFACE ix PART I I MAGI NI NG THE REAL CHAPTE ...

ii PART I I I ...

3.4 The Questionnaire 3.5 The Questions 3.6 Serendipity and Textual Research CHAPTER 4: RESPONSES OF THE SHAMANS, READERS AND W ...

iv LI ST OF FI GURES Figure 1 The Yellow Mare pictograph in the Cave of Lascaux. 28 Figure 2 Hand dots in the Chauvet Cave. 30 F ...

v ABSTRACT I n the Western cultural tradition there is a particular aspect of consciousness discernable in certain fictive liter ...

vi place continuum, a continuum that parallels states of consciousness from the participation mystique to the de-centred self. ~ ...

vii DECLARATI ON This thesis contains no work which has not been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma in the Un ...

viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I could not have completed this dissertation without the help and encouragement I received during these man ...

ix PREFACE I experience a recurring dream in which I am moving upwards, aware of a vast open landscape; a copse of trees stands ...

x nuances depending on each individual’s cultural and psychological endowment. I do not dispute this but rather ponder the exten ...

Michelangelo’s Creation, from the Sistine Chapel. PART I I MAGI NI NG THE REAL Between the world of pure spiritual Lights (Luces ...

refers to self-reflective awareness ... and yet we know virtually nothing about what consciousness is, or how it works (Radin, 1 ...

contextual underpinning provided by the various chapters. However, if the reader feels the need, in advance, for an explanation ...

CHAPTER 1 I MAGI NI NG THE REAL 1.1 I ntroduction: The Topic I f, as Patrick White suggests, the writer’s purpose is to ‘imagine ...

something that has been identified in many guises and which may be an aspect of the I maginal Realm. What then are the correspon ...

we find in their responses evidence that each of us longs to transcend our ego identity and assume another persona and that we o ...

My third epiphany was in 1998 at a performance of Martin McDonagh’s play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, when I heard the protagon ...

animates a site or locale. That same vital animating principle, acting on the level of consciousness of the individual or group, ...

The primary existential question of the origin of the self and its ultimate destiny is implicitly and inextricably linked to pla ...