Out of This World: Otherworldly Journeys from Gilgamesh to Albert Einstein

ISBN-13: 9781570626500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 304 str.

I. P. Couliano; Lawrence E. Sullivan

Opis

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.