Instinct and revelation. Reflections on the origins of numinous percep
Editorial LE LIVRE DE POCHE
España peninsular
- Editorial LE LIVRE DE POCHE
- ISBN13 9789056995270
- ISBN10 9056995278
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 299
- Año de Edición 1996
- Encuadernación Tela
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Antropologia.temas GeneralesInstinct and revelation. Reflections on the origins of numinous percep
Editorial LE LIVRE DE POCHE
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
Instinct and Revelation revolves around the hypothesis that ritual behavior and imaginative awareness in early hominids may have helped to spawn the evolution of the human brain and human consciousness. Using an integral perspective comparable with systems theory, the book carefully interweaves fact and theory from physical and cultural anthropology, psychobiology and the brain sciences, psychology, and to a lesser degree, Eastern philosophy. This book breaks from tradition by discussing from a primarily anthropological perspective the origin of human consciousness within a philosophical framework that embraces precepts from human evolution, evolutionary psychology, the neurosciences, biocultural anthropology, and cultural symbolic anthropology.
The book's central theme is that ritual awareness, accompanied by transcendental experience or one of its precursors, may have existed in proto-humans who lived over one million years ago. The author proposes that some form of transcendental consci