Portals

Opening Doorways to Other Realities Through the Senses
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-84520-144-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

As Alice in Wonderland discovered, cave entrances, tunnels, spirals and mirrors can transport people to strange worlds where anything is possible. Portals investigates how we move beyond the conscious and physical world using our senses, into other realities of the spiritual and the divine. Portals looks at the techniques used to alter consciousness practised by shamans, monks and other religious specialists. These include the use of drugs, as well as drumming, chanting and meditation. The book provides a new, anthropologically-grounded perspective on the wide-ranging questions about the realities of human consciousness and mystical, spiritual and religious experience.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hume, Lynne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Chapter 1: Entrances and Exits* Chapter 2: Mandalas and Visual Symbols* Chapter 3: Portals of Sound* Chapter 4: Dance and Movement* Chapter 5: Tactile Portals* Chapter 6: Olfactory and Gustatory Portals* Chapter 7: Entheogens as Portals* Chapter 8: An Anatomy of Reality

Über Autor(innen)

Lynne Hume is Associate Professor, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.