By Fulvio Gosso,Peter Webster
ISBN-10: 1438448740
ISBN-13: 9781438448749
ISBN-10: 1438448759
ISBN-13: 9781438448756
The Dream at the Rock takes an interdisciplinary method of contextualizing and historicizing the phenomenon of shamanism from the Neolithic Age until eventually the start of the Iron Age. Fulvio Gosso and Peter Webster argue that rock paintings and different old fabrics supply a glimpse of the elemental position performed by means of nonordinary states of cognizance in our social and evolutionary prehistory. finally, the authors supply a accomplished exploration of shamanism, faith, and the origins of human attention, in addition to proof that hallucinogenic crops can have performed a key position during this process.
“This research establishes using psychoactive sacraments because the primordial event that inspired the evolution of human recognition and its feel of the divine. It additionally records the constructing heritage of this shamanic occasion via an exam of cave and rock paintings around the globe, not just in work and engravings, yet within the unusual phenomenon of cup-marks carved in stone within the Alpine area, that can have performed a job within the ritual use of the psychoactive Amanita muscaria mushroom. it's the first publication to ascertain the entire diversity of facts and to put vital Europe additionally during this context.” — Carl A. P. Ruck, writer of Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess: secrets and techniques of Eleusis
Fulvio Gosso is a psychoanalyst and one of many founders of the Italian Society for the research of Consciousness.
Peter Webster is a retired chemist.
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