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The Dream on the Rock: Visions of Prehistory
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher State Univ of New York Pr
Publication date July 2, 2014
Pages 126
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781438448749
ISBN-10 1438448740
Dimensions 0.25 by 6 by 8.75 in.
Weight 0.45 lbs.
Original list price $25.95
Other format details university press
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Examines the relationship between rock art, shamanism, and the origins of human existence.

The Dream on the Rock takes an interdisciplinary approach to contextualizing and historicizing the phenomenon of shamanism from the Neolithic Age until the beginning of the Iron Age. Fulvio Gosso and Peter Webster argue that rock art and other ancient materials provide a glimpse of the fundamental role played by nonordinary states of consciousness in our social and evolutionary prehistory. Ultimately, the authors offer a comprehensive exploration of shamanism, religion, and the origins of human consciousness, along with evidence that hallucinogenic plants may have played a key role in this process.

“This study establishes the use of psychoactive sacraments as the primordial experience that stimulated the evolution of human consciousness and its sense of the divine. It also documents the developing history of this shamanic event through an examination of cave and rock art worldwide, not only in paintings and engravings, but in the strange phenomenon of cup-marks carved in stone in the Alpine region, which may have played a role in the ritual use of the psychoactive Amanita muscaria mushroom. It is the first book to examine the full range of evidence and to place central Europe also in this context.” — Carl A. P. Ruck, author of Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess: Secrets of Eleusis

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Hardcover
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With Fulvio Gosso | from State Univ of New York Pr (December 1, 2013)
9781438448756 | details & prices | 126 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $65.00
About: The Dream on the Rock takes an interdisciplinary approach to contextualizing and historicizing the phenomenon of shamanism from the Neolithic Age until the beginning of the Iron Age.
Paperback
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With Fulvio Gosso | from State Univ of New York Pr (July 2, 2014)
9781438448749 | details & prices | 126 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 0.25 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $25.95
About: Examines the relationship between rock art, shamanism, and the origins of human existence.

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