BOUNDARIES OF THE SOUL

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CONTENTS

LI ST OF FI GURES iv
ABSTRACT v
DECLARATI ON vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS viii
PREFACE ix

PART I

I MAGI NI NG THE REAL

CHAPTER 1: I MAGI NI NG THE REAL 4

1.1 I ntroduction: The Topic 4
1.2 Personal Context 10
1.3 Outline of thesis 18

CHAPTER 2: THE EVOLUTI ON OF THE NARRATI VE PSYCHE 23
2.1 I ntroduction 23
2.2 The Cave Painters and Their Paintings: The Dawn of
Mythopoeic Sensibility 28
2.3 A Universal Mythopoeic Consciousness 34
2.4 Shamanism and Shamanic Consciousness 37
2.5 Gnosticism 44
2.6 From Hermeticism through Sufism to Romanticism 46
2.7 The I maginal Realm and Mythopoeic Thought 48
2.8 The Disenchantment and the New Enchantment 49

PART I I

PROSPERO’S BOOKS: EMPI RI CAL AND TEXTUAL RESEARCH

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY AND METHODS 54
3.1 Methodology 54
3.2 Research Design 55
3.3 The Research Group 55