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This text examines anew the concept known as "the dreaming" using research on consciousness studies. This examination tackles the thorny subject of Aborigines and religion and offers an alternative explanation of "dreamtime." No previous study has focused on Aboriginal spirituality using a multidisciplinary approach to consciousness. This study details a vast amount of existing documentation, carefully considers what Aborigines have to say about the meaning of "dreaming," and offers a new interpretation in light of what we now know about consciousness. The author's research also suggests that Aborigines had ways of accessing what many regard as different levels of consciousness.
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Lynne Hume is a senior lecturer in the department of studies in religion at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. She has a doctorate in anthropology and lectures in Aboriginal religion, new religious movements, women in religion, and religion and the decorated body.
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- PublisherMelbourne University Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 052285012X
- ISBN 13 9780522850123
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Aboriginal people from different areas of Australia have expressed the idea of ancestral presence as a kind of power that is present in land, certain paintings, some dance performances, songs, blood and ceremonial objects. This complex Aboriginal concept is translated into English as The Dreaming, or The Dreamtime. In Ancestral Power, Lynne Hume looks at the extent to which aspects of the Dreaming may have been linked to experiences in altered states of consciousness. Did Aboriginal people ever employ techniques for entering such states? Could the Dreaming have been based on, among other things, the interface between culture, environment and altered states of consciousness? With these questions in mind, she examines the existing literature on Aboriginal cosmology and practices, together with studies of Aboriginal art, data from anthropologists and ethnomusicologists, and statements by Aboriginal people from many different regional areas of Australia. Ancestral Power suggests that Aboriginal spirituality is much more complex and compelling than the early missionaries could ever have imagined. Australian Aborigines have expressed the idea of ancestral presence as a power existing in land, painting, dance, song, blood and ceremonial objects - a concept known in English as the Dreaming. This text examines how aspects of the Dreaming may have been linked to altered states of consciousness. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780522850123
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