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Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts: The Mystical Tradition of Ancient Egypt
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by Jeremy Naydler
Sales Rank: 175258
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Cover Type: Paperback with 480 pages
Published by: Inner Traditions December 9, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0892817550
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0892817559
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
Weighs: 1.8 pounds
Product Review
John Anthony West, author of The Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt
: Erudite, rigorously developed, impeccably supported, observing all scholarly ground rules, yet revolutionary in its implications. This book should engage serious readers the world over.
Robert Moss, author of Dreamgates: An Explorers Guide to the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death
: 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 humanitys encounters with the more-than-human.
Normandi Ellis, author of Awakening Osiris
: A magnificently convincing piece of work.
Michael Baigent, Caduceus, Issue #66 : This is an important book for it places our focus for understanding these ancient texts where it should be, upon profound human experience.
The Journal of Esoterica, July 2006 : ". . . 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."
Jules Cashford, Temenos Academy Review, Sept 2006 : "This exciting study 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."
Product Description
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
looks at the similarity between the pharaohs 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 Naydlers 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.
Reader Reviews
Jeremy Naydler has rescued the deep wisdom of Egypt - experiential insight into the deeper reality and how we can travel there for initiation and empowerment - from the Egyptologists. For all of us who have long suspected, or remembered, that the palace tombs and pyramid texts of Egypt are about much, much more than funerary arrangements, here is ringing confirmation that the Egyptians traveled beyond the gates of death while very much alive, not only to bring back first-hand knowledge of the afterlife, but to enter into sacred union with the gods and enthrone their power in the body, and so acquire the spiritual and sexual potency to marry the worlds. Shamanic Wisdom of the Pyramid Texts is 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
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