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SPIRIT LANDS

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2015
Collins & Brown (Verlag)
978-1-84340-224-4 (ISBN)

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Riddles are writ large on the ancient earth of the Americas. They take the form of mysterious patterns, geometric designs and effigies, and ritual "roads". The best-known of such pre-Columbian features are the "Nazca lines" in Peru, but in fact they are also to be found elsewhere in the Americas in discrete locations stretching from Manitoba in the north, through the California sierras, down through Mexico, Central America, and even the Amazon Basin. This book will show many examples of these ground markings, tell their story, and offer solutions to the puzzles they present. These features have long remained unexplained, and many of them are unknown to the general public. Consequently, no book has ever dealt with them as a whole before, and their neglect has left the few popularly-known examples of them subject to uninformed and sensationalist speculation of the "ancient astronaut" variety. Spirit Lands puts that right, presenting new information about the enigmatic markings, revealing what they were really about. It will show that they represented different kinds of magical landscapes, linked variously to totemism, to shamanism, and to sorcery.
They are the remnants of spiritual geographies or "mindscapes" belonging to prehistoric American Indians that will be brought back into focus by this singular, richly illustrated work.

Paul Devereux has written or co-written over 20 books in the last 20 years or so, and a large number of academic papers, mostly on the themes of archaeology, geophysical phenomena and consciousness studies. He carried out research and writing for the Channel 4 television series 'Secrets From The Dead: Sounds Of The Stone Age' on which his succesful Vega title Stone Age Soundtracks is based. Fairy Paths and Spirit Roads is his most recent successful publication for Vega. Devereux is a Fellow of the International Consciousness Research Laboratory (ICRL) based at Princeton University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.2015
Zusatzinfo	300 illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 270 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Bildbände ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
ISBN-10	1-84340-224-6 / 1843402246
ISBN-13	978-1-84340-224-4 / 9781843402244
Zustand	Neuware