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History of the Concept of Mind - Volume 2: The Heterodox and Occult Tradition (Paperback, New Ed)
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History of the Concept of Mind - Volume 2: The Heterodox and Occult Tradition (Paperback, New Ed)
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Exploring the 'roads less travelled', MacDonald continues his
monumental essay in the history of ideas. The history of heterodox
ideas about the concept of mind takes the reader from the earliest
records about human nature in Ancient Egypt, the Ancient Near East,
and the Zoroastrian religion, through the secret teachings in the
Hermetic and Gnostic scriptures, and into the transformation of
ideas about the mind, soul and spirit in the late antique and early
medieval epochs. These transitions include discussion of the
influence of Central Asian shamanism, Manichean ideas about the
soul in light and darkness, and Neoplatonic theurgy,
'working-on-god-within'. Sections on the medieval period are
concerned with the rediscovery of magical practices and occult
doctrines from Roger Bacon to Francis Bacon, the adaptation of
Neoplatonic and esoteric ideas in the medieval Christian mystics,
and the survival of these ideas mixed with natural science in the
works of von Helmont, Leibniz and Goethe. The book concludes with
an investigation of the many forms of dualism in accounts of the
human mind and soul, and the concept of dual-life which underpins
our aspiration to understand how humans could have an immortal
nature like the gods.
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