The Shamanic Odyssey: Homer, Tolkien, and the Visionary Experience 9781594773969, 9781594775017, 159477501X
The indigenous view of the world, as living and interconnected, can also be found in Western literature, beginning with
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English Pages 167 pages Year 2012
Table of contents :
Cover Image
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1: The Flight of the Eagle and Condor
Chapter 2: Snake Medicine
Chapter 3: Poseidon's Curse: The Rupture with the Indigenous Mind
Chapter 4: Rapturous Song
Chapter 5: The Plant Goddess Circe
CIRCE AS RESIDENT PLANT DIVINITY
CIRCE AS POTNIA THERON
COURTING THE MISTRESS OF ANIMALS
Chapter 6: Animal Becoming
THE INTENSIFIED TRAJECTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Chapter 7: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Intensified Trajectory of Consciousness
THE HEALING POWER OF ANIMAL TRANSFORMATION Chapter 8: Descent to HadesChapter 9: Bound to the Mast:Initiation versus Addiction
Chapter 10: Healing the Eye of the Cyclops
Afterword
Appendix A: A Brief Orientation to Homer and the Odyssey
Appendix B: The Prophecy of the Eagle and Condor
Footnotes
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Author
About Inner Traditions Bear & Company
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