In this book John Michael Greer turns his attention to the intellectual underpinnings and superstructures of the Pagan and magical movements. Pagan...
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Mar 30, 2011
Janet
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This book is a mature, scholarly exploration of the spiritual, philosophical and moral legitimacy of polytheism as a spiritual path.
Modern Western culture tends to view monotheism as the only truly mature and legitimate form of religiosity, based on the idea that cultures "grow out of" polytheism to embrace monotheism. Greer, a critic of the "myth of progress" which claims that every new stage of human cultural development is necessarily better than the previous one More...
Modern Western culture tends to view monotheism as the only truly mature and legitimate form of religiosity, based on the idea that cultures "grow out of" polytheism to embrace monotheism. Greer, a critic of the "myth of progress" which claims that every new stage of human cultural development is necessarily better than the previous one More...
Aug 19, 2011
Ancestral
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I found the first chapter of this book extremely difficult to understand and I could not comprehend its inclusion in the book. I gained nothing from the first chapter and, honestly, little more from the rest.
From the second chapter onwards, I was able to follow the arguments being put forward for polytheism (as opposed to monotheism or atheism), but I am not sure I agreed with them. Some of the logic appeared circular to me: Greer seemed to disprove reasoning used by monotheists and More...
From the second chapter onwards, I was able to follow the arguments being put forward for polytheism (as opposed to monotheism or atheism), but I am not sure I agreed with them. Some of the logic appeared circular to me: Greer seemed to disprove reasoning used by monotheists and More...
May 21, 2011
Angela
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Awful! To begin with it's written like a college thesis. Secondly, I felt like I was being scammed on something but the twisting of words was so awful I couldn't pin point what exactly the author was being shifty on. I wouldn't recommend this one to anyone.
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