BOUNDARIES OF THE SOUL

somehow connecting the hand and the pigment with the cave wall surface (Lewis- Williams, 2002:217-8). I n some instances, there ...

Figure 4. Australian aboriginal handprints (www.angelfire.com/ id/ croon/ australia/ handprints.jp^ g) Many of these ‘gestures t ...

figure and who appears to be wearing a bird-like mask or beak. A broken spear and a staff, topped by a bird, appear at the botto ...

brain chemistry, and therefore utterly irrational, may strike some researchers, like me, as being too reductive. The Aurignacian ...

2.3 A Universal Mythopoeic Consciousness Firstly, the therianthropic and hybrid figures in the cave pictographs seem to be a uni ...

There were also fabulous wild beasts – such as the Nemean Lion, the golden-fleeced ram and the winged horse Pegasus. I n Hindu m ...

was born in a dungeon, a metaphorical cave. I t is interesting to note that the Grotto (cave) of Lourdes, where so many miracle ...

mythic narratives. Eliade persued such thinking in his seminal work in 1964 and was followed by Rugley, (1993); Ryan, (1999); Pe ...

caves of Les Trois Freres in Southern France, thought to date from around 12,000 BCE. This pictograph represents a therianthropi ...

was one of intense desire ... it was something quite different from ordinary life ... something as they would say now, ‘in anoth ...

We are told in the Midrash, a collection of biblical exegesis, the story of Joseph, interpreter of dreams and of his coat of man ...

adorned themselves in garments of feathers. I f true, then it would also mean that some semblance of this shamanic tradition was ...

Bates explains that the Middle-Earth sorcerer lived out a view of life termed wyrd: a way of being which transcends our present ...

spirits who controlled their fates. So-called medicine men serve a similar function and are comparable to the Apollonine oracles ...

thread, the ancient, charismatic praxis of shamanism is essentially, in the ancient Gnostic sense, that one’s deepest self is no ...

he insinuates the suprasensible world that is neither the empirical world of the senses nor the abstract world of the intellect: ...

2.6 From Hermeticism through Sufism to Romanticism I t would be remiss not to include some observations regarding Hermeticism in ...

perceive analogies with the post-participation mystique mindset following the breakdown of the bicameral mind, of a more origina ...

2.7 The I maginal Realm and Mythopoeic Thought I n the ninth century, the I slamic historian Tabari described a strange region, ...

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (roughly translated as Strife of Love in a Dream). Part fictional narrative and part scientific treati ...