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The dragon: Nature of spirit, spirit of nature

Politics & Social Sciences

HUXLEY, Francis

Social Sciences

Collier Books

The first investigation of the Lewis Carroll riddle from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The Raven and the Writing Desk

Harper

The Invisibles: Voodoo Gods in Haiti.

McGraw=Hill

Over the centuries men have believed that a startling variety of objects and places, people and experiences, are possessed of a strange and overwhelming power. These rites and symbols, beliefs and tabus, which have seemed supernatural and invested with mystery, here come to be considered sacred. Here, Francis Huxley explores some of these sacred mysteries through which men have tried to explain the inexplicable, and control the uncontrollable. Through the sacred man tries to achieve communion with the divine, and also with his own physical nature. He sets apart, physically or ritually, things that overwhelm him. In particular, Huxley explores the symbolism of the sacred, because it is really in symbolic terms that the sacred can be approached. But because of man's susceptibility to them, symbols can wield their own power: the enactment of a sacred rite can bring about a supernatural experience, an actual experience of the sacred. These shared human experiences - as in rites of reproduction, puberty, the seasons, the stages of life and death - become a primary basis for man's relationship with other men. Huxley shows how through celebrations of the sacred men have discovered their origin and understood the meaning of their lives. This lavishly illustrated book, with over 250 illustrations in black and white and 32 pages in full color, shows some of the objects that men have singled out in their search for the sacred. And, some of the ways men have represented, in art, the world that is apart, sacred, and divine.

The Way of the Sacred: The Rites and Symbols, Beliefs and Tabus, that Men have Held in Awe and Wonder, through the Ages

Doubleday and Company, Inc.

This is 'an imaginative social anthropologist's view of the sacred.[which] brings together examples of rituals, beliefs and tabus from many societies and many religions to show how celebrations of the sacred allow man to know their origins, to understand the meaning of their societies and come to terms with death. Above all, it involves the symbolism of the sacred'.

The way of the sacred

Religion & Spirituality

Aldus Books : distributed by Jupiter Books

The raven and the writing desk

Literature & Fiction

Thames and Hudson

This is a 500-year survey of writings on the world's shamans - the healers, sorcerers, conjurers and tricksters. Jeremy Narby and Francis Huxley trace Western civilization's attempts to understand the ancient knowledge of shamans around the world and have collected observations about and interviews with shamans from more than 60 missionaries, botanists, anthropologists, ethnographers and psychologists spanning from 1535 to 2000. The contributors convey everything from fear, suspicion and condescension to respect, fascination and adulation. The essays are by such thinkers as Claude Levi-Strauss, Black Elk, Franz Boas and Carlos Castaneda.

Shamans Through Time : 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge

Anthropology

Gardners Books

Describes the mythological background of dragons, shows examples of the dragon motif in art, and discusses the meanings associated with dragons

The Dragon: Nature of Spirit, Spirit of Nature (Art & Imagination)

New Age & Spirituality

Thames&Hudson

In an inspired text, Francis Huxley discusses the many roles played by the symbol of the eye. A generous selection of illustrations, drawn from sources as diverse as the ancient Egyptians and surrealist painting, complements Huxley's survey. Illustrated.

The Eye: The Seer and the Seen (Art and Imagination Series)

Reference

This is a book about the paths that man has traditionally followed in approaching the sacred. dw 1989 320pp

The Way of the Sacred

Mythology & Folk Tales

BLOOMSBURY

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