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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewThis is a marvellous book, in more than one sense. Building on earlier work by her and others on storytelling, communication, and community, this edited volume by Ruth Finnegan follows the ordinary experiences of everyday life to venture into questions beyond the ordinary, in the domain of the mystical and the enchanted, as an inquiry about imagination and the human mind.
Table of ContentsPreface ‘There’, Ruth Finnegan, Walking with dragons, Tim Ingold The double language of dreaming, Barbara Tedlock Home as dream space, Kate Pahl In the land of dreams: wives, husbands and dreaming, Irma-Ritta Järvinen and Senni Timonen Pre-dreaming: telepathy, prophecy and trance, Gerd Baumann with Walo Subsin and doctoral students Trance and sacred language in religious Daoism, Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew Everyday trancing and musical daydreams, Ruth Herbert An angel of modernity: Karlheinz Stockhausen's musical vision, Morag Josephine Grant, How do singers and other groups synchronise to form communities? Guy Hayward The un-speak-able language of united sensing: taste the wine! Gianmarco Navarini Then… Ruth Finnegan Coda Further reading Bibliography
