SHAMANIC WISDOM IN THE PYRAMID TEXTS : THE MYSTICAL TRADITION OF ANCIENT EGYPT
Book ID/图书代码： 06568005B00881
English Summary/英文概要： To the Greek philosophers and other peoples of the ancient world, Egypt was regarded as the home of a profound mystical wisdom. While there are many today who still share that view, the consensus of most Egyptologists is that no evidence exists that Egypt possessed any mystical tradition whatsoever. Jeremy Naydler’s radical reinterpretation of the Pyramid texts - the earliest body of religious literature to have survived from ancient Egypt - places these documents into the ritual context in which they belong. Until now the Pyramid texts have been viewed, primarily, as royal funerary texts that were used in the liturgy of the dead pharaoh or to aid him in his afterlife journey. This emphasis on the funerary interpretation has served only to externalise what were actually experiences of the living, not the dead, king. In order to understand the character and significance of the extreme psychological states the pharaoh experienced - states often involving perilous encounters with alternate realities - we need to approach them as spiritual and religious phenomena that reveal the extraordinary possibilities of human consciousness. It is the shamanic spiritual tradition, argues Naydler, that is the undercurrent of the Pyramid Texts and that holds the key to understanding both the true nature of these experiences and the basis of ancient Egyptian mysticism.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 对于古希腊哲学家和其他生活在远古世界的人们来说，埃及充满着深奥的神秘智慧。虽然现在仍有许多人还坚持这样的想法，但是多数埃及学者们达成了一个共识，至今还没发现有任何证据表明古埃及存在过什么神秘传统。而这本书 从全新地角度，诠释了《金字塔文》-----《金字塔文》是迄今为止保留下来最早的一套古埃及宗教文学宝库，分析了金子塔文所牵涉到的一些有关宗教仪式的问题，恰恰对此提出了证据。
到今天为止，人们还是认为《金字塔文》主要记载在法老葬礼中使用的皇家葬文，据说这些文字还可以帮助他的死后生活。JEREMY NAYDLER强调说这些神秘的文本与其说是在刻画亡故国王的生平，还不如说是撰写在世国王列传。尽管国王列传经历了心理和生存上的极度窘迫，遭受了种种现实的责难，但是这些故事却和萨满教的文学典故中记载的资料惊人的相似。 其实，《金字塔文》远不是一本记载古埃及伤葬信条的葬文类书籍，它是一部启示性的宝典，集中表现了萨满教的博大精深，而这样的经典作品则让我们深层次认识了国王列传，以及古埃及神秘主义的源头。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Jeremy Naydler, is a philosopher and cultural historian. He is author of Temple of the Cosmos and Goethe on Science. He lives in Oxford, England.
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