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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the celestial Gandharvas of the Rigveda to the hidden kingdom of Shambhala, from the inner-earth civilisation of Agartha to the island paradise of Avalon - every major human civilisation has imagined a world of superior beings existing just beyond the reach of ordinary perception. In Worlds Within the World, historian and Vedic Jyotish practitioner VB Darshan maps this global mythology with the tools of comparative mythology, cultural anthropology, and religious history. Across thirty chapters and seven parts, he traces the structural grammar common to hidden world traditions worldwide, examines the textual and anthropological evidence for each tradition, and asks the questions that matter: Why does every culture produce these myths What do they reveal about human longing, ecological wisdom, and the limits of ordinary perception Readers will encounter: The Gandharvas - Vedic celestial musicians and nature-keepers - and their hidden Himalayan world Shambhala and the Beyul tradition of Tibetan Buddhism Agartha: the inner-earth civilisation and its troubled modern history Hyperborea, Avalon, Thule, El Dorado, and the Western hidden world canon Indigenous traditions from Australia, Africa, Mesoamerica, and the Pacific Modern echoes in lost continent theory, UFO mythology, and theoretical physics A Jyotish analysis of the planetary signatures associated with hidden world consciousness Written with scholarly rigour and the insight of a practicing Jyotishi, Worlds Within the World is an essential contribution to the literature of comparative mythology and the history of the human imagination.…