Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind: Descending Underground in the Search for Ultimate Truth

by Yulia Ustinova

Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind analyses techniques of searching for ultimate wisdom in ancient Greece. The Greeks perceived mental experiences of exceptional intensity as resulting from divine intervention. They believed that to share in the immortals' knowledge, one had to liberate the soul from the burden of the mortal body by attaining an altered state of consciousness, that is, by merging with a superhuman being or through possession by a deity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199548560
• ISBN13: 9780199548569
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.5"