Escape from EvilFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Denial of Death, a penetrating and insightful perspective on the source of evil in our world. “A profound, nourishing book…absolutely essential to the understanding of our troubled times.” —Anais Nin “An urgent essay that bears all the marks of a final philosophical raging against the dying of the light.” —Newsweek “Brilliant and challenging…adds another bit of reason to balance destruction…It is, in the best sense of the words, both scientific and philosophical…of the highest importance.” —Los Angeles Times |
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Page 7
... means of symbolically dying and being reborn via ritual the individual was elevated to new states of being . Life was not a curve as we see it , where birth is zero and death a return to zero . For primitive man birth was zero , but ...
... means of symbolically dying and being reborn via ritual the individual was elevated to new states of being . Life was not a curve as we see it , where birth is zero and death a return to zero . For primitive man birth was zero , but ...
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... means of communal rituals of cosmic regeneration . * And so we have come full circle in our overview of the primitive world . We started with the statement that primitive man used the dual organization to affirm his organismic self ...
... means of communal rituals of cosmic regeneration . * And so we have come full circle in our overview of the primitive world . We started with the statement that primitive man used the dual organization to affirm his organismic self ...
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... means to step into a hut that has a sacred fire , a hut filled with technologists who know the secret ways of rejuvenating earthly life ? I have already talked about what this did for the individual as a cosmic hero , but it bears ...
... means to step into a hut that has a sacred fire , a hut filled with technologists who know the secret ways of rejuvenating earthly life ? I have already talked about what this did for the individual as a cosmic hero , but it bears ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
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