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Fascinating book supplied by a reputable book seller:very quick, professional service.The book was well packaged and arrived in excellent condition.

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Just to say anyone wants to deal with Irene Hena I can recommend the dealer unreservedly. Book was second hand, but in very good condition, exactly as advertised.Delivery prompt and efficient.Price was also very fair and reasonable. I have been very tardy writing this review as the book was sent to a friend of mine on leave in California, so that he could hand carry it back to me and save on international postage.I work in the Middle East. Anybody reading the review and noting the dates, it took that time to get to me by hand and for me to look through and check condition. The book was delivered to the California address as requested, very promptly.
I would certainly deal with this seller again.I hope my late review does not in any way adverseley affect the seller. Rated 5 star by me for price, efficiency and condition of book.
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A picturebook says more than 10,000,000 words...
If you're considering a trip to the Motherland, definitely buy this book! The pictoral essay translates a million cultural norms and customs for the Westerner/Asian. These images are "provocatively considerate" of the ancient peoples of Eastern Africa, which is unusual. These images also transport you back to a time when (in my opinion) Mankind lived simpler, easier lives.

I really enjoyed the images of the Christian influences including the rock churches of Ethiopia.

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I know the book and it's very good like all the books of carol beckwith,it's the only one i didn't got ,but i am still waiting for the delivery....

Truly the best

As a repeat visitor to beautiful Ethiopia, and a pretty darn good photographer, the last thing I want my friends to do is to pick up this book before they see MY pictures. My best ones are drab next to this fabulous work of Fisher and Beckwith. So many books on Ethiopia cover either just the north, with it's religious architecture and history, or just the south with its beautiful tribal people only recently touched by the encroachment of modernity. But this book covers it all, and stunningly so. If you can afford only one book of glorious photography on tribal Africa, make it this one. There is a reason for the consistent 5-star ratings.

(Later note: two newer books by different authors/photographers focus just on the tribal areas of the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. If that's your interest, then also check out Gianni Giansanti's "Vanishing Africa" and Hans Silvester's "Ethiopia - Peoples of the Omo Valley.") ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Terence Mckenna, Graham Hancock, José Argüelles, Daniel Pinchbeck, Robert Bauval, John Major Jenkins, Semir Osmanagić. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 April 3, 2000) was an American author, public speaker, metaphysician, psychonaut, philosopher, ethnobotanist, art historian, and self-described anarchist, anti-materialist, environmentalist, feminist, Platonist and skeptic. During his lifetime he was noted for his knowledge of psychedelics, metaphysics, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, mysticism, Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, biology, geology, physics, phenomenology, and his concept of novelty theory. Terence McKenna grew up in Paonia, Colorado. He was introduced to geology through his uncle and developed a hobby of solitary fossil hunting in the arroyos near his home. From this he developed a deep artistic and scientific appreciation of nature. At age 16, McKenna moved to, and attended high school in, Los Altos, California. He lived with family friends because his parents in Colorado wished him to have the benefit of highly rated California public schools. He was introduced to psychedelics through The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley and the Village Voice. One of his early experiences with them came through morning glory seeds (containing LSA), which he claimed showed him "that there was something there worth pursuing." In 1964, circumstances required McKenna to move to Lancaster, California, to live with a different set of family friends. In 1965, he graduated from Antelope Valley High School. McKenna then enrolled in U.C. Berkeley. He moved to San Francisco during the summer of 1965 before his classes began, was introduced that year to cannabis by Barry Melton and tried LSD soon after. As a freshman at ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=241681 ... Read more

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Chapters: Pillars of Hercules, Location Hypotheses of Atlantis, Bimini Road, Graham Hancock, Augustus le Plongeon, Ignatius L. Donnelly, Antillia, Robert Sarmast, Frank Collin, David Gibbins, Werner Wickboldt, Orichalcum, a Dweller on Two Planets, Hans Schindler Bellamy, Evenor, Spartel, Sonchis of Sais, Akakor, Mneseus. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 128. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Location hypotheses of Atlantis are various proposed real-world settings for Atlantis island, ( ) a lost civilization mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 B.C. In these dialogues, a character named Critias claims that an island called Atlantis was swallowed by the sea about 9,200 years previously. This story was passed down to him through his grandfather, Dropides who in turn got it from Solon, the famous Athenian lawmaker who translated it from Egyptian language. Plato's dialogues locate the island in the Atlantic Pelagos Atlantic Sea, "in front of" the Pillars of Hercules ( ) and facing a district called modern Gades or Gadira (Gadiron), a location that many modern scholars associate with modern Gibraltar; however various locations have been proposed. A 17th century artwork of Olof Rudbeck dissecting the world and revealing the secret location of Atlantis (which he believed to be hidden in Sweden.) He is surrounded by other well-known figures of antiquity such as Plato, Aristotle and Homer. Hypothesized locations of Atlantis in the Mediterranean.Most theories of the placement of Atlantis center on the Mediterranean, influenced largely by the geographical location of Greece from which the story is derived. Andalusia is a region in modern day southern Spain which once included the "lost" city of Tartessos, which disappeared in the 6th century BC. The Tartessians...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2725929 ... Read more

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How psilocybin mushrooms facilitate a direct link to the wisdom of Nature and the meaning of life

• Examines the neurochemistry underlying the visionary psilocybin experience

• Explains how sacred mushrooms help restore our connection to the natural intelligence of Nature

• Reviews the research on psilocybin’s ability to dispel anxiety in the terminally ill and its helpful effects on obsessive-compulsive disorder

It has been more than 50 years since sacred mushrooms were plucked from the shamanic backwaters of Mexico and presented to the modern world by R. Gordon Wasson. After sparking the psychedelic era of the 1960s, however, the divine mushroom returned underground from whence it mysteriously originated. Yet today, the mushroom’s extraordinary influence is once again being felt by large numbers of people, due to the discovery of hundreds of wild psilocybin species growing across the globe.

In The Psilocybin Solution, Simon G. Powell traces the history of the sacred psilocybin mushroom and discusses the shamanic visionary effects it can induce. Detailing how psilocybin acts as a profound enhancer of consciousness and reviewing the research performed by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), Johns Hopkins University, and the Heffter Research Institute on psilocybin’s ability to dispel anxiety in the terminally ill and its helpful effects on obsessive-compulsive disorder, he examines the neurochemistry, psychology, and spirituality underlying the visionary psilocybin experience, revealing the interface where physical brain and conscious mind meet. Showing that the existence of life and the functioning of mind are the result of a naturally intelligent, self-organizing Universe, he explains how sacred mushrooms provide a direct link to the wisdom of Nature and the meaning of life. ... Read more

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This is a book about the Holy Grail said to contain the miraculous powers of Jesus Christ and used at his Last Supper. ... Read more