Robert Lawlor

Voices of the First Day

Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this absorbing work, Lawlor explores the essence of their culture as a source of and guide to transforming our own world view.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
• Original edition
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 202mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 903g
• ISBN-13: 9780892813551
• ISBN-10: 0892813555
• Artikelnr.: 22097440

Autorenporträt

Robert Lawlor (1938–2022) was a writer and film producer who lived in Australia and studied aboriginal culture firsthand. His published works include Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice (Thames & Hudson, 1982), Earth Honoring: The New Male Sexuality (Inner Traditions 1991), and the translation of the works of Schwaller de Lubicz and Alain Daniélou.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Earth Dreaming
Part One - In The Beginning Was The Dreaming
Chapter 1. Images of Our Origins
Chapter 2. Time and Space in the Dreaming
Chapter 3. Dreaming and Creation
Chapter 4. Colonization and the Destruction of the Dreaming
Chapter 5. Revelation, Paradise, and Fall: The Myth of the Golden Age
Chapter 6. Earth Dying, Earth Reborn
Chapter 7. In The Womb of the Rainbow Serpent
Chapter 8. Seed Dreaming
Part Two - Living The Dreaming
Chapter 9. Coming Into Being
Chapter 10. The Cycles of Initiation
Chapter 11. Aboriginal Sexuality
Chapter 12. Dreamtime and the Sense of Being
Chapter 13. The Aboriginal Kinship System
Chapter 14. Dream, Earth, and Identity
Part Three - Totemism and Animism
Chapter 15. Totem and Society
Chapter 16. Totem and Image
Chapter 17. Hunter-Gatherers and Totemism
Chapter 18. Totem and Mind
Chapter 19. Totem and Animism
Part Four - Death and the Initiations of High Degree
Introduction
Chapter 20. Death - Expanding into the Dreaming
Chapter 21. Death - The Prepared Journey
Chapter 22. Wise Women and Men of High Degree
Chapter 23. Preserving the Seed
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index