This book takes the reader on a fantastic journey through a wide range of cultures and traditions to examine the phenomenon of ecstatic visionary experiences - from Sumerian Gilgamesh and the Taoist Immortals to the imaginative fiction of Jorge Luis Borges. The author provides a comprehensive tour of otherworldly journeys common from immemorial times among shamans, magicians, and witches, and illustrates their connection with such modern phenomena as altered states of consciousness, out-of-body experiences, and near death experiences.
Out of this World - Otherworldly Journeys from Gilgamesh to Albert Einstein
Ioan P. Culianu
Shambhala
2001
304 páginas
10h 8m
ISBN-13: 9780877734888
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