Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Introduction: Mythology Resurrected

PART ONE: TRANCE

1. The Sound of One Hand Clapping
2. Proprioception
3. Sublime Trance

PART TWO: MYTH

Indo-European Myth
4. What is Myth
5. Greco-Roman Esoterism
6. Sisyphus and the Stone
7. Myth and Animals
8. Recapitulation
9. The Three Worlds
• The First World
• The Second World
• The Third World
• Three-World Trance
10. The Number of the Beast
11. The Mantras of Myth
12. Sacred Geography
13. Sacred Architecture and Art
14. The Siege of Troy
15. The Crack in the Cosmic Egg
16. Dream, Death, Birth
17. The Mysteries of Eleusis
18. Jason and the Argonauts

Judeo-Christian Myth
19. Judeo-Christian Esoterism
20. The Myth of The Christ
21. Sin and Salvation

The Legacy of Myth
22. Myth: The Historical Foundation of Western Learning

PART THREE: SCIENCE

Myth and Science
23. The Three ages of Man
24. On the Possibility of an A Priori Experience

Psychoscience
25. Master Mechanic Isaac Newton
26. Clerk Maxwell Waves Goodbye
27. Heisenberg Isn't Sure
28. Darwin and the Temple of Solomon

APPENDICES
Appendix A: Newton's Three Laws
Appendix B: Maxwell's Equations
Appendix C: Quantum Mechanics and Psychogeometry

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

J. Nigro Sansonese teaches physics and mathematics and has practiced raja yoga for twenty years

Reviews

". . . a fresh and innovative view. What Sansonese has discovered and very nicely documented, is the symbolic presence of the human organism in those least 'physical' of all events, myth and dream. Even the very attentive and sophisticated reader will marvel at the detail and subtlety Sansonese has brought to his investigation."
*Steve Larsen*

"Much like a musical composition by Claude Debussy, this is an impressionistic book, full of mythological and physiological allusions that affect the reader with "Eureka"-type discoveries. The book's organization is unorthodox, yet it succeeds in convincing the reader that there is definitely a physical connection between the human body and mythologies. Sansonese, who has practiced raja yoga for years and here shows how yoga can be used as an effective means of attaining a deeper self-consciousness, reveals himself to be a natural successor to Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung. Readers in public and academic libraries who appreciate and delight in the juxtaposition of science and religion, East and West, will especially enjoy this esoteric volume."
*Gary P. Gillum, Brigham Young Univ., Library Journal (Sunday , May 01, 1994)*