Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #346711 in Books
• Published on: 2003-02
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 329 pages

Today's Books - September 2004
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Customer Reviews

Thought provoking
A good read that has become a metaphysical reference book for me. Entertaining, well-written, and thought provoking. I can't wait to read more of his work!

bad book or bad translation?
I was expecting an interesting point of view about this topic, but what I found was kind of confusing, i found contradictions between ideas, they were not clearly exposed.I was expecting maybe more philosophy related subjects. But I read the spanish version, and I am not pretty sure if it was appropiate translated.

The World Soul Gains a Modern Voice
This is a book that urgently needed to be written, an intelligent and genuinely thoughtful examination of anomalous phenomena like "UFO" and "fairy" sightings. I've spent time in rural India where these types of experiences are still amazingly common. In India the World Soul or anima mundi is called the mahat ("great mind") and is understood as the source of many extra-ordinary phenomena. On the one hand they are recognized as hallucinations (maya); on the other, they reflect the incursion of the tanmatras (subtle matter) into our physical experience, and in that sense are completely real.
I'm grateful to Harpur for reintroducing the World Soul to jaded Western readers who may have lost sight of the mysterious "Other World" which co-exists with our modern rational universe in such an uneasy manner. He's onto something important here. This book is a classic; I'm certain people will still be reading it a century from now.