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Consciousness and the Novel
David Lodge
Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping--even rediscovery--by the natural sciences, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. As the richest record we have of human consciousness, literature, David Lodge suggests, may...
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Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse
David Jay Brown
An interview wth the late Dr John Mack (actually a pair of interviews edited together, one from several years back and one conducted about a year before his passing) appears in the new book Conversations on the Edge of Apocalypse by David Jay...
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The Philosopher's Secret Fire
Patrick Harpur
How is it that the same myths are perpetuated through different cultures at different times? Could it be something to do with the universal imagination? This text re-evaluates Western culture in terms of a tradition which has been neglected or ignored, called "secret" or "occult" - but which is now once again stepping...
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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
by Lewis Hyde
One of the most intriguing and provocative questions my colleagues and I at the Center have faced is, "How does social and cultural change come about?" Lewis Hyde addresses this question in Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art (1998). The "trickster" is an archetypal figure that exists in every...
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