Plato, Shamanism and Ancient Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plato, Shamanism and Ancient Egypt write by Jeremy Naydler. This book was released on 2005. Plato, Shamanism and Ancient Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts
Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts write by Jeremy Naydler. This book was released on 2004-12-09. Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A radical reinterpretation of the Pyramid Texts as shamanic mystical wisdom rather than funerary rituals • Reveals the mystical nature of Egyptian civilization denied by orthodox Egyptologists • Examines the similarity between the pharaoh’s afterlife voyage and shamanic journeying • Shows shamanism to be the foundation of the Egyptian mystical tradition To the Greek philosophers and other peoples of the ancient world, Egypt was regarded as the home of a profound mystical wisdom. While there are many today who still share that view, the consensus of most Egyptologists is that no evidence exists that Egypt possessed any mystical tradition whatsoever. Jeremy Naydler’s radical reinterpretation of the Pyramid Texts--the earliest body of religious literature to have survived from ancient Egypt--places these documents into the ritual context in which they belong. Until now, the Pyramid Texts have been viewed primarily as royal funerary texts that were used in the liturgy of the dead pharaoh or to aid him in his afterlife journey. This emphasis on funerary interpretation has served only to externalize what were actually experiences of the living, not the dead, king. In order to understand the character and significance of the extreme psychological states the pharaoh experienced--states often involving perilous encounters with alternate realities--we need to approach them as spiritual and religious phenomena that reveal the extraordinary possibilities of human consciousness. It is the shamanic spiritual tradition, argues Naydler, that is the undercurrent of the Pyramid Texts and that holds the key to understanding both the true nature of these experiences and the basis of ancient Egyptian mysticism.
Egyptian Shaman: The Primal Spiritual Path of Ancient Egypt
Egyptian Shaman: The Primal Spiritual Path of Ancient Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Egyptian Shaman: The Primal Spiritual Path of Ancient Egypt write by Nick Farrell. This book was released on 2011-10-01. Egyptian Shaman: The Primal Spiritual Path of Ancient Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Experience the Primal Spiritual Path of Ancient Egypt The spiritual traditions of Ancient Egypt are well documented and are at the forefront of the Western Mystery and Magical Tradition. But they are a gloss over a more primal "shamanic" tradition which gets to the essence of Nature and its relationship with humanity, life and death. This book is a practical manual for those who wish to explore that primal spirituality using Egyptian symbolism. As Egypt was one of the village cultures, so Egyptian shamanism was one of the first to operate in an urban environment, making its techniques suitable for modern times. Egyptian Shaman paints the picture of what it was like to be a village priest in Ancient Egypt before describing the practical techniques which would have been employed during those times. These techniques, which have never been revealed before, have been adapted for modern minds with the intention of making this a practical spiritual path. The book controversially contains a chapter on exorcism and dealing with the dead, which many have claimed are subjects which should not be published. It shows how later Egyptian texts, such as the Book of the Dead, were Shamanic guide books to the Underworld. This is a book containing the keys to transmute, not only the self, but the whole planet.
Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth
Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth write by Algis Uždavinys. This book was released on 2008. Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Secret Teachers of the Western World
The Secret Teachers of the Western World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Secret Teachers of the Western World write by Gary Lachman. This book was released on 2015-12-08. The Secret Teachers of the Western World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Running alongside the mainstream of Western intellectual history there is another current which, in a very real sense, should take pride of place, but which for the last few centuries has occupied a shadowy, inferior position, somewhere underground. This "other" stream forms the subject of Gary Lachman's epic history and analysis, The Secret Teachers of the Western World. In this clarifying, accessible, and fascinating study, the acclaimed historian explores the Western esoteric tradition--a thought movement with ancient roots and modern expressions, which, in a broad sense, regards the cosmos as a living, spiritual, meaningful being and humankind as having a unique obligation and responsibility in it. The historical roots of our "counter tradition," as Lachman explores, have their beginning in Alexandria around the time of Christ. It was then that we find the first written accounts of the ancient tradition, which had earlier been passed on orally. Here, in this remarkable city, filled with teachers, philosophers, and mystics from Egypt, Greece, Asia, and other parts of the world, in a multi-cultural, multi-faith, and pluralistic society, a synthesis took place, a creative blending of different ideas and visions, which gave the hidden tradition the eclectic character it retains today."--Publisher's description.
