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Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty – Other People’s Myths: The…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOther People’s Myths celebrates the universal art of storytelling, and the rich diversity of stories that people live by. Drawing on Biblical parables, Greek myths, Hindu epics, and the [...]
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Art As Spiritual Activity: Rudolf Steiner’s Contribution to the …
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Through the introduction by Michael Howard and Steiner’s ten lectures, this volume offers an account of the sources and purposes of art, as well as a particularly helpful approach to […]
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Robert L. Van De Castle – Our Dreaming Mind
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this brilliantly researched and thorough study, internationally recognized dream authority Robert L. Van de Castle examines the vital role that dreams have played throughout history, from the [...]
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Ronald Hayman – A Life of Jung
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCarl Jung was one of the world’s most influential psychoanalysts. With the exception of Freud, who chose him as the first president of the International Psychoanalytic Association, no [...]
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Robert K.G. Temple – The Sirius Mystery
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPublication of The Sirius Mystery in 1976 set the world abuzz with talk of an extraterrestrial origin to human civilization and triggered a 15-year persecution campaign against Robert Temple by [...]
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Bernard McGinn – The Foundations of Mysticism; Origins to the Fi…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this first volume of the highly-acclaimed Presence of God series, Bernard McGinn explores the origins of Christian mysticism, from early Jewish apocalyptic writings to pre-Christian Greek [...]
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Adrian Snodgrass – The Symbolism of the Stupa
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn his preface to The Symbolism of the Stupa Prof. Craig Reynolds writes ”The stupa is a symbolic form that pullulates throughout South Southeast and East Asia. In its Indian […]
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The Wheel of Time Sand Mandala: Visual Scripture of Tibetan Buddhism
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHere is a stunning visual introduction to the artistic and spiritual heart of Tibetan Buddhism. According to the monks who create it, the Kalachakra Sand Mandala, also known as the […]
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A Blue Fire: The Essential Introduction to James Hillman’s Arche…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA vitally important introduction to the theories of one of the most original thinkers in psychology today, A Blue Fire gathers selected passages from many of Hillman’s seminal essays on [...]
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Travels to the Nanoworld: Miniature Machinery in Nature and Technology
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOur lives are about to be changed by new technologies that operate on a scale too small to be seen by even the most powerful optical microscopes. Devices measured in […]
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Paths to the Power of Myth: Joseph Campbell and the Study of Religion
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsNoel presents “a compelling analysis of one of this century’s great teachers” (Spiritual Studies Center Book News)–“a welcome academic response to the tremendous [...]
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The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsNow in its 30th printing, this classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization. This book is in Good [...]
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Reclaiming the Canon: Essays on Philosophy, Poetry, and History
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHerman Sinaiko is renowned for his gifts as a guide to exploring and appreciating the humanities. This book brings to general readers Sinaiko’s thoughts on, and invitations to read or […]
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Graham Hancock – The Mars Mystery: The Secret Connection Between…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn asteroid transformed Mars from a lush planet with rivers and oceans into a bleak and icy hell. Is Earth condemned to the same fate, or can we protect ourselves […]
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Graham Hancock – Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark o…
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe fact of the Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the grant historical mysteries of all time. To believers, the Ark is the legendary vesel holding the stone […]
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Graham Hancock – Fingerprints of the Gods: The Quest For Earth&#…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCould the story of mankind be far older than we have previously believed? Using tools as varied as archaeo-astronomy, geology, and computer analysis of ancient myths. Graham Hancock presents a [...]
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David Rothenberg – Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and …
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“The peacock’s tail,” said Charles Darwin, “makes me sick.” That’s because the theory of evolution as adaptation can’t explain why nature is so [...]
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James William Gibson – A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New …
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA surprising and enlightening investigation of how modern society is making nature sacred once again. For more than two centuries, Western cultures, as they became ever more industrialized, [...]
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Forbidden Asia
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSince The Turkish Bath (1863) by the French painter Ingres, the Far Eastern woman has to many been a symbol of pleasures out of reach or forbidden. Seafaring explorers, military […]
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Colin Wilson – Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThroughout history, Western culture has been bedeviled by false prophets, charlatans, and self-appointed messianic figures. Their appetites for destruction and depravity have led to broken lives [...]
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Animal Spirits: An Illustrated Guide
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsExplores how animals, in the past and present, have been seen as repositories of spiritual energy, and discusses animal myths and symbols, and beliefs about animal intelligence and the soul […]
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American, African, and Old European Mythologies
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMythologies offers illuminating examples of the workings of myth in the structure of societies past and present—how we create, use, and are guided by systems of myth to answer fundamental […]
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Ellen Handler Spitz – Art and Psyche : A Study in Psychoanalysis…
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this provocative, closely argued book, Ellen Handler Spitz explores three principal psychoanalytic approaches to art. The first considers the relations between an artist’s life and work; the [...]
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Ritual of the Wind: North American Indian Ceremonies, Music, and Dance…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsStudy of the ceremonies and rituals of various indigenous north american tribes. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear […]
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Giza: The Truth: The People, Politics, and History Behind the World…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe first responsible assessment of the entire range of theories behind Giza, this exhaustively researched book plunges into the history of recent explorations of the legendary site. Essential [...]
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Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsContemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open it up effectively to critical analysis? Anywhere or Not at All is […]
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Lyle Campbell – Historic Linguistics: An Introduction
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis accessible, hands-on text not only introduces students to the important topicsin historical linguistics but also shows them how to apply the methods described and how to thinkabout the [...]
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Fluid Flesh: The Body, Religion And The Visual Arts
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHow do we relate the body we have and the bodies we see to the mind, or to the soul? Fluid Flesh addresses the relationship between the body, religion, and […]
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Rethinking Imagination: Culture And Creativity
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDiscusses the different ways in which the concept of imagination has been construed, and provides fascinating glimpses of the role of imagination in the creation and management of Modernity. This [...]
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Art and Spiritual Transformation : The Seven Stages of Death and Rebir…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsArt and Spiritual Transformation presents a seven-stage journey from the darkened soul to the light of spiritual illumination that is possible through the world of art. Finley Eversole introduces [...]
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Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSoma has been shrouded in mystery for centuries. It is simultaneously a sacred hallucinogenic plant used in secret rituals, a personified God, and an important cosmological principle. Summarizing [...]
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John Willats – Art and Representation : New Principles in the An…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn Art and Representation, John Willats presents a radically new theory of pictures. To do this, he has developed a precise vocabulary for describing the representational systems in pictures: the [...]
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Mythical Beasts: Traditions and Tales of Favorite Fabled Creatures
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMost of the mythical monsters and beasts that live in our literature and lore — some wild and dangerous, others noble and gentle — were born in the fertile crescent […]
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W.J.T Mitchell – Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDiscusses the nature of images, examines the connection between images and words, and analyzes the ideological meaning of images This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read […]
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Reading Blake’s Designs (as-is, no dustjacket)
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this innovative study, Christopher Heppner constructs a new assessment and interpretation of William Blake as an illustrator of texts that were not his own. Ranging over topics such as […]
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The Levant: A Fractured Mosaic
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the outset of the 21st century, perhaps the most interesting feature of the Levant (in Arabic, Bilad al-Sham), in the midst of an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim Arab world, is […]
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The Greek Qabalah: Alphabetic Mysticism and Numerology in the Ancient …
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from students of Ancient History and early Christianity, to Qabalists and modern magicians. Extensive notes and citations from […]
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Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the printed images known in India as “calendar art” or “bazaar art,” the color-saturated, mass-produced pictures often used on calendars and […]
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Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the turn of the last millennium, a powerful Native American civilization emerged and flourished in the American Midwest. By A.D. 1050 the population of its capital city, Cahokia, was […]
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Andrea Aromatico – Alchemy: The Great Secret
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMedieval alchemists, forerunners of today’s chemists, sought to transmute base metals into gold. This lively illustrated history explores intriguing aspects of this mix of science, [...]
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Doctor Illuminatus: A Ramon Llull Reader
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor this new anthology, Anthony Bonner has chosen central texts from his acclaimed two-volume compilation Selected Works of Ramon Llull (Princeton, 1985). Available for the first time in an [...]
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H. P. Blavatsky – Isis Unveiled Vol II
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsISIS UNVEILED was H. P. Blavatsky’s first major literary effort, a critical response to the growing materialism in both scientific and religious institutions, and a vindication of the [...]
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H. P. Blavatsky – Isis Unveiled
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsISIS UNVEILED was H. P. Blavatsky’s first major literary effort, a critical response to the growing materialism in both scientific and religious institutions, and a vindication of the [...]
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Jacques Ranciere – Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime o…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsComposed in a series of scenes, Aisthesis–Rancière’s definitive statement on the aesthetic–takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941. Along the way, we view the Belvedere […]
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Rosemary Clark – The Sacred Tradition in Ancient Egypt: The Esot…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the heart of the monumental splendor of ancient Egypt was a spiritual goal, the elevation of human life from its material condition to its original divine nature. And the […]
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Molefi Kete Asante – Kemet, Afrocentricity And Knowledge
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Asante’s book, Kemet,Afrocentricity,and Knowledge, continues his project of forging a new discipline out of the many strands of Black Studies. Like his previous works, this is a [...]
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Knowledge for the Afterlife: The Egyptian Amduat – A Quest for I…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEvery evening the sun becomes old and weak and finally sets behind the Western horizon. Yet, it rises again in the morning, rejuvenated. How is that possible? How could the […]
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The Veil of Isis : An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsNearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words “Phusis kruptesthai philei.” How the aphorism, usually translated as [...]
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Michael Leja – Reframing Abstract Expressionism : Subjectivity a…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn the wake of World War II, the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, and other New York School artists participated in a culture-wide initiative […]
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Victor Stoichita – A Short History of the Shadow
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this investigative tour de force, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges to beset Western artists – the depiction and […]
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