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1 | Introduction: A Personal Dialectic | 1 |
2 | Shamanism and Culture: Configurations of a Religious Metaphor | 13 |
Cultural Ethos and Mysticism | 13 | |
Hunting Magic | 23 | |
Master of the Animals - The Lady of Wild Things | 25 | |
The Spiral and the Labyrinth | 33 | |
Shamanism and Ancient Egyptian Religion | 37 | |
Shamanistic Metaphors, Techniques, and Appurtenances | 42 | |
Mongolian Shamanism | 56 | |
The Celtic Religion | 59 | |
The Role of the Shaman | 62 | |
3 | Substance and Function of Shamanism | 69 |
Definitions and Problems | 69 | |
"Answering the Call," Initiation, and Shamanic Enlightenment | 71 | |
The Shamanistic Experience | 92 | |
Shamanism and Psychopathology | 101 | |
4 | The Psychotropic Universe: Cosmology of the Spirit World | 105 |
Cosmic Transformations | 105 | |
Corresponding Realities and Otherworlds | 112 | |
Numerical Potencies | 121 | |
Rock Crystals and the Hexagonal Universe | 123 | |
Reason and Order | 127 | |
5 | The Ritual Drug Complex: Ethnobiology of Heaven and Hell | 131 |
The Drug Ceremonial | 131 | |
Psychoactivity and Mechanisms of Hallucinations | 142 | |
Phosphenes | 148 | |
6 | The Botanic Experience: Hallucinogens in Archaeology and Ethnohistory | 151 |
The Old World | 153 | |
The New World | 166 | |
The Quest for Magical Plants and the Origins of Cultivation | 184 | |
7 | The Power of Metaphors: Phenomenology of Symbolic Forms | 187 |
Language, Perception, and Reality | 187 | |
Metaphor, Myth, and Transcendence | 192 | |
Visionary Experiences and Art | 197 | |
Phosphenes and Shamanistic Symbolism | 202 | |
Shamanistic Parallels and Survivals | 204 | |
Notes | 209 | |
Bibliography | 257 | |
Index | 273 |
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