Beschreibung:
From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos comes a provocative hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated.
Preface: Descensus ad Inferos1. Maps of Experience: Object and Meaning2. Maps of Meaning: Three Levels of AnalysisNormal and RevolutionaryLife: Two Prosaic StoriesNeuropsychological Function:The Nature of the MindMythological Representation:TheConstitutent Elements of Experience3. Apprenticeship and Enculturation: Adoption of a Shared Map4. The Appearance of Anomaly: Challenge to the Shared MapIntroduction: The Paradigmatic Structure ofthe KnownParticular Forms of AnomalyThe Rise ofSelf-Reference, and the Permanent Contamination ofAnomaly with Death5. The Hostile Brothers: Archetypes of Response to the UnknownIntroduction:The Hero and the AdversaryThe Adversary: Emergence,Development and RepresentationHeroic Adaptation:Voluntary Reconstruction of the Map ofMeaningConclusion: The Divinity of Interest