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Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts by Jeremy Naydler. A radical reinterpretation of the Pyramid Texts as shamanic mystical wisdom rather than funerary rituals. This emphasis on funerary interpretation has served only to externalize what were actually experiences of the living, not the dead, king.

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A radical reinterpretation of the Pyramid Texts as shamanic mystical wisdom rather than funerary rituals * Reveals the mystical nature of Egyptian civilization denied by orthodox Egyptologists * Examines the similarity between the pharaoh's afterlife voyage and shamanic journeying * Shows shamanism to be the foundation of the Egyptian mystical tradition To the Greek philosophers and other peoples of the ancient world, Egypt was regarded as the home of a profound mystical wisdom. While there are many today who still share that view, the consensus of most Egyptologists is that no evidence exists that Egypt possessed any mystical tradition whatsoever. Jeremy Naydler's radical reinterpretation of the Pyramid Texts--the earliest body of religious literature to have survived from ancient Egypt--places these documents into the ritual context in which they belong. Until now, the Pyramid Texts have been viewed primarily as royal funerary texts that were used in the liturgy of the dead pharaoh or to aid him in his afterlife journey. This emphasis on funerary interpretation has served only to externalize what were actually experiences of the living, not the dead, king. In order to understand the character and significance of the extreme psychological states the pharaoh experienced--states often involving perilous encounters with alternate realities--we need to approach them as spiritual and religious phenomena that reveal the extraordinary possibilities of human consciousness. It is the shamanic spiritual tradition, argues Naydler, that is the undercurrent of the Pyramid Texts and that holds the key to understanding both the true nature of these experiences and the basis of ancient Egyptian mysticism.

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Publisher
Inner Traditions International, The Limited
ISBN-10
0892817550
ISBN-13
9780892817559
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30770463

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Book Title
Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts : the Mystical Tradition of Ancient Egypt
Author
Jeremy Naydler
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Archaeology, Shamanism, Mysticism, Ancient / Egypt
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
480 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
22.7 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Bl2443.N39 2005
Reviews
A splendid melding of fine scholarship and passionate engagement with themes that are vitally important to us today. It is must reading not only for lovers of Egypt, students of shamanism and religion, and modern practitioners of soul travel, but for all of us who hunger for the real history of humanity's encounters with the more-than-human., Erudite, rigorously developed, impeccably supported, observing all scholarly ground rules, yet revolutionary in its implications. This book should engage serious readers the world over., A model of how to engage with religious literature and, still more widely, with the sacred dimension of life. . . . Serves as a mirror to our own consciousness, reflecting back to us objective spiritual realities which have fallen out of contemporary discourse, and waking us up to deeper layers of our own humanity. . . . An essential book for all of us who long to experience the greater possibilities of the human psyche., . . . the Pyramid texts are revealed as initiatory texts that give voice to a potent shamanic wisdom, which provides the key to understanding both the true nature of these experiences and the basis of ancient Egyptan mysticism., This is an important book for it places our focus for understanding these ancient texts where it should be, upon profound human experience.
Table of Content
Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part One Mysticism in Ancient Egypt 1 Introduction: The Encounter with the Sacred Religious Egypt Mysticism and Ancient Egypt A Question of Boundaries Subjective Engagement Shamanism in Relation to Ancient Egyptian Religion The Call to Awakening 2 Egyptology: The Death and Rebirth of Mysticism in Ancient Egypt Mysticism and the Realm of Death Egyptology: Mysticism Denied The Knowledge of the Egyptians The Idea of Progress Were the Egyptians Practical Rather Than Mystical? The Rebirth of Egyptian Mysticism 3 The Mystical versus the Funerary Interpretation of Ancient Egyptian Religion A Clash of Views Mysticism and the Experience of Death The Eleusinian Mysteries and Other Mystery Religions The Funerary Interpretation of the Osiris Myth The Mystical Embrace of Osiris and Horus The Sed Festival 4 The Pyramids as the Locus of Secret Rites The Living in Relation to the Dead The Meaning of the Sed Festival The Sed Festival and the Step Pyramids Fourth Dynasty Pyramids and the Sed Festival Fifth and Sixth Dynasty Pyramids and the Sed Festival The Pyramid Texts and the Sed Festival 5 A Question of Method Phenomenology and the Ideal of Presuppositionless Inquiry On Approaching the Phenomena with Empathy The Challenge to Phenomenology Standing Reductionism on Its Head A Question of Motivation Part Two The Shamanic Roots of the Pyramid Texts 6 The Pyramid of Unas The Pyramid Texts The Pyramid Temples and Causeway of Unas The Pyramid of Unas Location of Texts The Interpretation of the Pyramid Texts 7 The Sarcophagus Chamber Texts The North-Wall Offering Liturgy The Twelve South-to-East-Wall Texts (Utts. 213-24) The Passage between the Chambers The East Gable (Utts. 204-5, 207, 209, 210-12) 8 The Antechamber Texts The West Gable (Utts. 247-53) The Fifteen West-to-South-Wall Texts (Utts. 254-58, 260-63, 267-72) The Eleven North-Wall Texts (Utts. 302-12) 9 From the Antechamber to the Entrance Corridor The East Gable (Utts. 273-76) The Snake Spells (Utts. 277-99 and Utts. 226-43) The Two Remaining East-Wall Utterances (Utts. 300-301) The Entrance Corridor (Utts. 313-21) 10 The Recovery of Ancient Egyptian Mysticism The Features of Ancient Egyptian Mysticism The Phenomenological Approach to Ancient Egyptian Religion Ancient Egypt and Western Esotericism Appendices 1 Summary of Utterances in the Pyramid of Unas 2 List of Utterances in the Five Double-Chamber Pyramids at Saqqara Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index
Copyright Date
2005
Lccn
2004-023223
Dewey Decimal
299/.3182
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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