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Books / Origins of the Sacred — The Ecstasies of Love and War Origins of the Sacred Point-iIntroduction xvii PART ONE – ORIGINS OF THE SACRED The Evolution of Man in NatureCHAPTER 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 CultureCHAPTER 5 – DANGEROUS ECSTACIES: The Call to Ritual Drama 163 5.1 Hunting 168 CHAPTER 6 – THINKING IN THE THEATER OF THE GODS: The Magic of Metamorphosis 6.1 Shaman, His Mask and His Drum CHAPTER 7 – ACTING IN THE THEATER OF THE GODS: The Mysteries of the Sacrificial Violence 268 7.1 Housing the Sacred 269 PART THREE: OCCLUSIONS OF THE SACRED – Moving from Myth into HistoryCHAPTER 8 – THE ECSTASIES OF LOVE AND WAR 8.1 Genesis 3: Adam and Eve (Love) 341 Appendix: Etymologies of the Sacred in the Ancient World 399 Notes 429 |
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Origins of the Sacred, the Ecstasies of Love and War— Dudley Young The brave new world of suffering is not progressLike the Book: The Master and his Emissary – Iain McGilchrist As the title implies, the objective of the McGilchrist book is to warn that the rational mind’s control of the intuitive mind is psychological piracy, and is the corruption of society. That conclusion is fatally wrong. The idea that anyone or anything at all has even the slightest control or not, is the error. The very idea, force-power-and-control is the error. The idea that intuition can be empowered, or that true power lies in the right hemisphere is an error many orders worse than the error that reason in the left hemisphere is where the power ought to be. It is the same error next tier. Origins of the Sacred has the same theme of false liberation from authoritarianism as The Master and his Emissary, as do many other supposedly enlightened or ‘woke’ hypotheses. The book only illustrates, as it reflects the tortured psyche of its author turned against the supposed stasis of conservatism and tradition, that the brave new world of supposedly suffering-together is not progress, but word-metastasis. Total software-female global village surveillance is not being together. It is corruption and tyranny.
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