Soul Flights

Narratives of soul flights are common in ancient Mediterranean literature, sharing many similarities such as the movement of the soul along a vertical path that is associated with life and death. But they also display significant differences such as peculiar accounts of cosmic realms, idiosyncratic...

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Main Author: DeConick, April D. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Aries
Year: 2017, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 81-118
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Antiquity / History / Literature / Soul voyage / Comparison of cultures / Cognitive science
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AE Psychology of religion
AZ New religious movements
TB Antiquity
Further subjects:B spatial orientations sensory motor schemas intuitive cognition dualism reflective cognition ratchet effect soul spirit gnostic ascent descent
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)