Beschreibung:
A series of essays by experts on the enhancing subject of how our minds link together, now as in the past, through our experience of dreams, contact with the dead and dying, and listening to or creating music.
This study of dreaming, death and shared consciousness develops a context that is humanistic, comparative and evidence-based in its engagement with the work of cultural anthropology, ethnomusicology and the study of the imagination. It also reaches into current research on consciousness at the interface of neuroscience, anthropology, sociology, musicology, computer studies, psychology/parapsychology, literature and cognitive studies, in the process of drawing its content from a range of original writing from diverse disciplinary and cultural backgrounds.
Preface‘There’, Ruth FinneganWalking with dragons, Tim IngoldThe double language of dreaming, Barbara TedlockHome as dream space, Kate PahlIn the land of dreams: wives, husbands and dreaming, Irma-Ritta Järvinen and Senni TimonenPre-dreaming: telepathy, prophecy and trance, Gerd Baumann with Walo Subsin and doctoral studentsTrance and sacred language in religious Daoism, Phyllis Ghim-Lian ChewEveryday trancing and musical daydreams, Ruth HerbertAn angel of modernity: Karlheinz Stockhausen's musical vision, Morag Josephine GrantHow do singers and other groups synchronise to form communities? Guy HaywardThe un-speak-able language of united sensing: taste the wine! Gianmarco NavariniThen… Ruth FinneganCodaFurther readingBibliography