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Title	Authors
Einstein's Intuition	Thad Roberts
APerfectUniverse ?	Thad Roberts
Maps of Meaning - The Architecture of Belief	Jordan Peterson
The Art and Science of Logic	Daniel Bonevac
Origins of the Sacred — The Ecstasies of Love and War	Dudley Young

Current Focus — Reading.
The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce	Harvard Univ. Press
CP1 Principles of Philosophy	1931
CP2 Elements of Logic	1932
CP3 The Mathematics of Logic	1932
CP4 The Simplest Mathematics	1933
CP5 Pragmatism and Pragmaticism	1934
CP6 Scientific Metaphysics	1935
CP7 Science and Philosophy	1958
CP8 Reviews, Correspondence and Bibliography	1958
The Book of Why—The New Science of Cause and Effect	Judea Pearl 2018
Causality — Models, Reasoning and Inference	Judea Pearl 2009
Because Without Cause Non-Causal Explanations in Science and Mathematics ?	Marc Lange 2017
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language	Umberto Eco 1984
Laws and Lawmakers	Marc Lange 2009
Thinking, Fast and Slow	Daniel Kahneman 2011

Spiral Dynamics, Mastering Values, Leadership and Change	Beck & Cowan
Difference and Repetition	Giles Deleuze
A Thousand Plateaus	Deleuze, Guattari
Reasons and Persons	Derek Parfit
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5 — 5th Edition	American Psychiatric Association
HideAndSeek ?	Neel Burton
Cosmopolis — The Hidden Agenda of Modernity	Stephen Toulmin
Quantum	Manjit Kumar
The Symbolic Species	Terrence W. Deacon
Incomplete Nature	Terrence W. Deacon
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind	Julian Jaynes
Semiotics, The Basics	Daniel Chandler
Living Without Free Will	Derk Peerboom
Breakdown of Will	George Ainslie
Handbook of Psychology — 2003	Wiley & Sons
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 10 volumes — 1998	Routledge
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Logic 3^rd edition:)	A.C. Grayling
In Over Our Heads	Robert Kegan
Immunity to Change	Kegan & Lahey
The Evolving Self	Robert Kegan
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics	Marc Lange
Gödel's Theorem, An Incomplete Guide to its Use and Abuse	Torkel Franzén
Gödel, Escher, Bach. An Eternal Golden Braid.	Douglas Hofstadter
I am a Strange Loop	Douglas Hofstadter
Against Method	Paul Feyerabend
Object-Oriented Ontology A New Theory of Everything	Graham Harman
The Abuse of Casuistry — A History of Moral Reasoning	Jonsen & Toulmin
The Letters of Michel de Montaigne	Michel de Montaigne
My Traitor's Heart	Rian Malan
Your Brain at Work	David Rock
The Nonsense of Free Will, Facing Up to a False Belief	Richard Oerton
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy	Louis Cozolino
Brain, Mind and the Structure of Reality	Paul L. Nunez
The Master and His Emissary	Iain McGilchrist
The User Illusion	Tor Nørretranders
The Right Side of History	Ben Shapiro
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels	Alex Epstein
The Tyranny of Choice	Renata Salecl
Out of Control	Paul Kelly
Stiffed	Susan Faludi
Nothing Matters	Ronald Green
Time to Tell	Ronald Green
A History of Western Philosophy	C. Stephen Evans
Knowledge in the Blood	Jonathan D. Jansen
God Against the Gods	Jonathan Kirch
Where Good Ideas Come From, The Natural History of Innovation	Steven Johnson
The Politics of Life Itself	Nikolas Rose
The Psychology of Humor	Rod A. Martin
Inside Jokes — Using Humor to Reverse Engineer the Mind	Hurley, Dennett & Adams
The Happiness Hypothesis, Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom	Jonathan Haidt
Naked Economics, Undressing the Dismal Science	Charles Wheelan
Origins of Human Communication	Michael Tomasello

Origins of the Sacred — The Ecstasies of Love and War

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Introduction xvii

PART ONE – ORIGINS OF THE SACRED The Evolution of Man in Nature

CHAPTER 1 – PERCEIVING THE WORLD: Science Versus Mythology 5

CHAPTER 2 – IN THE BEGINNING: From Monkey to Man 49

CHAPTER 3 – MALE VERSUS FEMALE: The Paleolithic Beginnings of Love and War 79

CHAPTER 4 – ON THE DANCING GROUND: Divinity Discovered and Innocence Lost 120

PART TWO – ILLUMINATIONS OF THE SACRED The Lawlines of Culture

CHAPTER 5 – DANGEROUS ECSTACIES: The Call to Ritual Drama 163

    5.1 Hunting 168
    5.2 War and Cannibalism 183
    5.3 Beauty 188
    5.4 Erotic Love 195

CHAPTER 6 – THINKING IN THE THEATER OF THE GODS: The Magic of Metamorphosis

    6.1 Shaman, His Mask and His Drum
    6.2 Language and the Magic of Representations
    6.3 Pollution and Chaos
    6.4 Sacred Swarms
    6.5 Trickster and Hermes: The Give and Take of Things That Change

CHAPTER 7 – ACTING IN THE THEATER OF THE GODS: The Mysteries of the Sacrificial Violence 268

    7.1 Housing the Sacred 269
    7.2 Sacrifice: The Mutilating Ecstasy 287
    7.3 The Scapegoat 298
    7.4 Dionysus and the Origins of Tragedy 306
    7.5 The Lamentation of Isis/Osiris 313

PART THREE: OCCLUSIONS OF THE SACRED – Moving from Myth into History

CHAPTER 8 – THE ECSTASIES OF LOVE AND WAR

    8.1 Genesis 3: Adam and Eve (Love) 341
    8.2 Genesis 4: Cain and Abel (War) 347
    8.3 The Epic of Gilgamesh 354
    8.4 Homer: Odysseus and the Cave of Polyphemos 364
    8.5 Finale: Poseidon and the Cretan Sea-Bull 384

Appendix: Etymologies of the Sacred in the Ancient World 399

Notes 429
Bibliography 463
Index 469

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