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Indlæser... Books of the Dead: Manuals for Living and Dying (1994)af Stanislav Grof
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. The art of dying and the posthumous journey of the soul have been the subject of extensive literature and visualization in many cultures. Dying before dying, or practice in dying, has been sought throughout human history, not just to overcome fear and give help at the moment of death, but actually to transfigure the quality of life. Stanislav Grof considers some of the most striking and important of the works known collectively as the books of the dead: the ancient Egyptian funerary texts; the Tibetan Bardo Thodol; Maya and Aztec myths of death and rebirth. And from medieval Europe come the Christian visions of the soul's journeys, the danses macabres and dialogues with death, and meditational imagery of mortal decay that recalls Tibetan practices. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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The art of dying and the posthumous journey of the soul have been described and depicted in many cultures. 'Dying before dying', or practice in dying, has been sought throughout history, not just to overcome fear and give help at the moment of death, but to transfigure the quality of life. Stanislav Grof considers some of the most striking and important of the so-called 'books of the dead': ancient Egyptian funerary texts; the Tibetan Bardo Thodol; Maya and Aztec myths of the death and rebirth of the Hero Twins and the Plumed Serpent, Quetzalcoatl. From Europe come Christian visions of the soul's journey, the danses macabres, and imagery of mortal decay that recalls Tibetan practices. The 'books of the dead' are universally relevant as maps of a terrain that each of us will one day traverse. No library descriptions found. |
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I am presuming, from the scraps of knowledge that I have in the area, that the historical detail contained in this book is accurate and this gives a fascinating insight into the views upon death of the Egyptians, Tibetans and Mayans. It is interesting to note the similarities, which leads to the unasked question, at least in this book, as to whether these points of agreement are a form of borrowing or the result of a common source for these beliefs: i.e. was the Christian God, of my belief system, the same deity behind these other, seemingly disparate ideologies?
Mr, or should it be Doctor, Grof sidesteps this issue to head into a series of theories that would have seemed much more at home in the nineteen-sixties, linking the experience of dying with drug induced states. This I struggled to take seriously but, I still enjoyed the book, which is a well illustrated, pleasant trawl through the death rituals and beliefs of the aforementioned civilisations. ( )