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Book Synopsis The Significance of Ancient Religions in Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development by : Ernest Noel Reichardt
Download or read book The Significance of Ancient Religions in Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development written by Ernest Noel Reichardt and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Significance of Ancient Religions by : E. Noel Reichardt
Download or read book The Significance of Ancient Religions written by E. Noel Reichardt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Significance of Ancient Religions: In Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development The title of this work refers especially to the ancient religions of Oriental Paganism. The revelation of God in the figure of Jehovah is only dealt with, in the first place, to emphasise His complete separateness from the deities worshipped in those heathen cults; and in the second place to show that the conception of evolution which the study of these religions unfolds, leads us to the historic proof of the assumptions of Judaism and Christianity. The separateness of Jehovah is not sufficiently emphasised in current works on Comparative Religion; and if I am to develop my theme without prejudice, it is necessary that it should be clearly impressed on the reader, and that he should constantly bear it in mind. For what I propose to show in this work is that these ancient religions embody within themselves a continuous progression of ideas which - studied in the light of all our modern knowledge, and with special reference to their psychological value - completely reveal to us the evolutionary process responsible for the historical progression of humanity. I mean by the historical progression of humanity that perspective of human evolution during the last eight thousand years which embraces all the facts established by history, by anthropology, by the study of Comparative Religion, and by archæology. These religions are the expression of the development which has actually taken place in humanity during this period. The evolutionary process revealed in these religions is that of one continuous wave of vital energy acting unceasingly on a pre-existing form of life for many thousands of years, and lifting it to higher levels of capacity and of intelligence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Significance of Ancient Religions in Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development by : E. Noel Reichardt
Download or read book Significance of Ancient Religions in Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development written by E. Noel Reichardt and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1912 Edition.
Book Synopsis The Significance of Ancient Religions in Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development - Scholar's Choice Edition by : Ernest Noel Reichardt
Download or read book The Significance of Ancient Religions in Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Ernest Noel Reichardt and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Significance of Ancient Religions in Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development by : Ernest Noel Reichardt
Download or read book The Significance of Ancient Religions in Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development written by Ernest Noel Reichardt and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Significance of Ancient Religions by : E. Noel Reichardt
Download or read book The Significance of Ancient Religions written by E. Noel Reichardt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Significance of Ancient Religions: In Relation to Human Evolution and Brain Development It is especially to be noted that this conception does not imply anything with regard to the exact relation between mind and brain. The reader may have whatever ideas he likes on this subject without prejudice to the postulate which I have advanced. It is admitted by all psychologists at the present day that the brain is the organ of mind, and there is only difference Of opinion on the further ques tion as to the exact nature of the relationship. This rela tionship does not come within the purview of this work; nor, indeed, is there any reason why the obscurity which surrounds it should hinder our efforts to establish a clear understanding of human evolution and psychology. We are as incapable Of' stating or of conceiving the ultimate relations of force and matter as we are those of mind and brain; but this incapacity has not prevented us from so dealing with forces and materials as to produce the brilliant achievements of mechanical science. And in the same way we may leave the ultimate relations of mind and brain on one side and pass on to extract, from the sequences Of events in human life and human consciousness that history pre sents to our view, the knowledge of evolution and of psychology that will enable us to deal intelligently with the problems that more immediately confront us in our daily lives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World by : Martin Bommas
Download or read book Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World written by Martin Bommas and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World brings together scholars and researchers working on memory and religion in ancient urban environments. Chapters explore topics relating to religious traditions and memory, and the multifunctional roles of architectural and geographical sites, mythical figures and events, literary works and artefacts. Pagan religions were often less static and more open to new influences than previously understood. One of the factors that shape religion is how fundamental elements are remembered as valuable and therefore preservable for future generations. Memory, therefore, plays a pivotal role when - as seen in ancient Rome during late antiquity - a shift of religions takes place within communities. The significance of memory in ancient societies and how it was promoted, prompted, contested and even destroyed is discussed in detail. This volume, the first of its kind, not only addresses the main cultures of the ancient world - Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome - but also look at urban religious culture and funerary belief, and how concepts of ethnic religion were adapted in new religious environments.
Book Synopsis Ancient Religions by : Vergilius Ferm
Download or read book Ancient Religions written by Vergilius Ferm and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ancient Egyptian Religion by : Henri Frankfort
Download or read book Ancient Egyptian Religion written by Henri Frankfort and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating study finds underlying unity in Egyptian religions — the concept of the changeless. Relation of religion to Egyptian society, government, art, more. 32 halftones.
Book Synopsis Wilderness in Mythology and Religion by : Laura Feldt
Download or read book Wilderness in Mythology and Religion written by Laura Feldt and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilderness is one of the most abiding creations in the history of religions. It has a long and seminal history and is of contemporary relevance in wildlife preservation and climate discourses. Yet it has not previously been subject to scrutiny or theorising from a cross-cultural study of religions perspective. What are the specific relations between the world’s religions and imagined and real wilderness areas? The wilderness is often understood as a domain void of humans, opposed to civilization, but the analyses in this book complicate and question the dualism of previous theoretical grids and offer new perspectives on the interesting multiplicity of the wilderness and religion nexus. This book thus addresses the need for cross-cultural anthropological and history of religions analyses by offering in-depth case studies of the use and functions of wilderness spaces in a diverse range of contexts including, but not limited to, ancient Greece, early Christian asceticism, Old Norse religion, the shamanism-Buddhism encounter in Mongolia, contemporary paganism, and wilderness spirituality in the US. It advances research on religious spatialities, cosmologies, and ideas of wild nature and brings new understanding of the role of religion in human interaction with ‘the world’.
Book Synopsis Hellenistic Mystery-Religions by : Richard Reitzenstein
Download or read book Hellenistic Mystery-Religions written by Richard Reitzenstein and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by : A. H. Sayce
Download or read book The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia written by A. H. Sayce and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia" by A. H. Sayce. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis The Immortality Key by : Brian C. Muraresku
Download or read book The Immortality Key written by Brian C. Muraresku and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on The Joe Rogan Experience! A groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics have played in the origins of Western civilization, and the real-life quest for the Holy Grail that could shake the Church to its foundations. The most influential religious historian of the 20th century, Huston Smith, once referred to it as the "best-kept secret" in history. Did the Ancient Greeks use drugs to find God? And did the earliest Christians inherit the same, secret tradition? A profound knowledge of visionary plants, herbs and fungi passed from one generation to the next, ever since the Stone Age? There is zero archaeological evidence for the original Eucharist – the sacred wine said to guarantee life after death for those who drink the blood of Jesus. The Holy Grail and its miraculous contents have never been found. In the absence of any hard data, whatever happened at the Last Supper remains an article of faith for today’s 2.5 billion Christians. In an unprecedented search for answers, The Immortality Key examines the archaic roots of the ritual that is performed every Sunday for nearly one third of the planet. Religion and science converge to paint a radical picture of Christianity’s founding event. And after centuries of debate, to solve history’s greatest puzzle. Before the birth of Jesus, the Ancient Greeks found salvation in their own sacraments. Sacred beverages were routinely consumed as part of the so-called Ancient Mysteries – elaborate rites that led initiates to the brink of death. The best and brightest from Athens and Rome flocked to the spiritual capital of Eleusis, where a holy beer unleashed heavenly visions for two thousand years. Others drank the holy wine of Dionysus to become one with the god. In the 1970s, renegade scholars claimed this beer and wine – the original sacraments of Western civilization – were spiked with mind-altering drugs. In recent years, vindication for the disgraced theory has been quietly mounting in the laboratory. The constantly advancing fields of archaeobotany and archaeochemistry have hinted at the enduring use of hallucinogenic drinks in antiquity. And with a single dose of psilocybin, the psychopharmacologists at Johns Hopkins and NYU are now turning self-proclaimed atheists into instant believers. But the smoking gun remains elusive. If these sacraments survived for thousands of years in our remote prehistory, from the Stone Age to the Ancient Greeks, did they also survive into the age of Jesus? Was the Eucharist of the earliest Christians, in fact, a psychedelic Eucharist? With an unquenchable thirst for evidence, Muraresku takes the reader on his twelve-year global hunt for proof. He tours the ruins of Greece with its government archaeologists. He gains access to the hidden collections of the Louvre to show the continuity from pagan to Christian wine. He unravels the Ancient Greek of the New Testament with the world’s most controversial priest. He spelunks into the catacombs under the streets of Rome to decipher the lost symbols of Christianity’s oldest monuments. He breaches the secret archives of the Vatican to unearth manuscripts never before translated into English. And with leads from the archaeological chemists at UPenn and MIT, he unveils the first scientific data for the ritual use of psychedelic drugs in classical antiquity. The Immortality Key reconstructs the suppressed history of women consecrating a forbidden, drugged Eucharist that was later banned by the Church Fathers. Women who were then targeted as witches during the Inquisition, when Europe’s sacred pharmacology largely disappeared. If the scientists of today have resurrected this technology, then Christianity is in crisis. Unless it returns to its roots. Featuring a Foreword by Graham Hancock, the NYT bestselling author of America Before.
Book Synopsis Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms by : Gerard Russell
Download or read book Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms written by Gerard Russell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as incarnations of God, another reveres Lucifer in the form of a peacock, and yet another believes that their followers are reincarnated beings who have existed in various forms for thousands of years. These religions represent the last vestiges of the magnificent civilizations in ancient history: Persia, Babylon, Egypt in the time of the Pharaohs. Their followers have learned how to survive foreign attacks and the perils of assimilation. But today, with the Middle East in turmoil, they face greater challenges than ever before. In Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms, former diplomat Gerard Russell ventures to the distant, nearly impassable regions where these mysterious religions still cling to survival. He lives alongside the Mandaeans and Ezidis of Iraq, the Zoroastrians of Iran, the Copts of Egypt, and others. He learns their histories, participates in their rituals, and comes to understand the threats to their communities. Historically a tolerant faith, Islam has, since the early 20th century, witnessed the rise of militant, extremist sects. This development, along with the rippling effects of Western invasion, now pose existential threats to these minority faiths. And as more and more of their youth flee to the West in search of greater freedoms and job prospects, these religions face the dire possibility of extinction. Drawing on his extensive travels and archival research, Russell provides an essential record of the past, present, and perilous future of these remarkable religions.
Book Synopsis The Abrahamic Religions: a Very Short Introduction by : Charles L. Cohen
Download or read book The Abrahamic Religions: a Very Short Introduction written by Charles L. Cohen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book of Genesis, God bestows a new name upon Abram--Abraham, a father of many nations. With this name and his Covenant, Abraham would become the patriarch of three of the world's major religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Connected by their mutual--if differentiated--veneration of the One God proclaimed by Abraham, these traditions share much beyond their origins in the ancient Israel of the Old Testament. This Very Short Introduction explores the intertwined histories of these monotheistic religions, from the emergence of Christianity and Islam to the violence of the Crusades and the cultural exchanges of al-Andalus. Each religion continues to be shaped by this history but has also reacted to the forces of modernity and politics. Movements such as the Reformation and that led by seventh-century Kharijites have emerged, intentioned to reform or restore traditional religious practice but quite different in their goals and effects. Relationships with states, among them Israel and Saudi Arabia, have also figured importantly in their development. The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction brings these traditions together into a common narrative, lending much needed context to the story of Abraham and his descendants. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Book Synopsis Ancient Symbol Worship by : Hodder Michael Westropp
Download or read book Ancient Symbol Worship written by Hodder Michael Westropp and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Religion in Ancient History by : Samuel George Frederick Brandon
Download or read book Religion in Ancient History written by Samuel George Frederick Brandon and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book on the origin of religion and includes articles based on related interest.
