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[caption id="attachment_17662" align="alignright" width="190"] The Hieros Gamos of the Sun and Moon (from Rosarium Philosophorum, published in 1578)[/caption] Let’s pick up some threads from last week, namely “initiation” as we discussed it, and the modern...

One of Joseph Campbell’s key innovations was mapping his model of a heroic story-cycle onto so-called “rites of passage” as they were so eloquently dubbed by anthropologist Arnold van Gennep (1873–1957). Centuries earlier, however, the...

Earthrise

1986 saw the publication of three seminal books: The Society of Mind by MIT cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky, On the Plurality of Worlds by philosopher David Lewis, and The Inner Reaches of Outer Space by...

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