William Irwin Thompson

But the invocation of a phony myth of scienticism is not as worthwhile as the recollection of a genuine myth.

Hockett and Ascher go back to the period of dessication in the Pliocene when the forests were disappearing and the savannah was opening up.

In Faraday's vision of the interpenetrability of matter, or in Whitehead's vision of the prehensive unification of space-time, is expressed the Unitive state of the mystic.

The cabbalism of the number seven is emphasized, for in hell seven judges at each of seven gates take one of these divine laws away from her.

Esoterically, if indeed the seven laws are the seven chakras, then the untying of the knots which bind the physical body to the subtle would remove the etheric and astral body to wander in hell in the out-of-the-body state.

Civilization is, through the numinosity of divine kingship, the mediation between the impossible heights of the gods and the terrifying depths of the underworld.

Because the poems are an investigation into the nature of time, it is important to be aware of the overall temporal architectonic of the love-cycle.

Here, interestingly enough, the mediation of the opposites is seen in the male pair bonding of Gilgamesh and Enkidu.

Utnapishtim hears his wife's plea and tells Gilgamesh where he can find a miraculous plant of invigoration and rejuvenation.

The structural anthropologist urges us to ignore the orthodox who labor so patiently trying to eliminate the apocryphal variants from the one true text.