In the course of this book there are quite a few occasions in which the etymology of certain words is considered. I have no training in this specialized field, and so have relied on the expertise of others. First and foremost among them is Ernest Klein, a scholar, rabbi and concentration camp survivor who was conversant in over forty languages. I have owned his remarkable work—Klein’s Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language—since the mid-1970s, and it is the most frequently opened book on my shelf. I still remember when I first discovered it in a library, and was lost for a couple of hours traveling along the crisscrossed paths of languages that it so lucidly illuminated.
If that sounds like a love affair, so too might my relationship with Eric Partridge’s works. While in my early twenties I devoured his classic book, Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English, and later acquired his etymological dictionary, Origins. It is organized very differently from Klein’s, and that makes them perfect complements for any etymological question.
My particular interest in the Proto-Indo-European roots of English has been well served by Robert Claiborne’s book, The Roots of English. It is basically a dictionary of the reconstructed PIE roots that have led to English words, supplied with an ample index of the English words that have derived from them. Using the book gives one a better feel for the energy of each root, and for how that energy found its diverse paths into English.
Finally, I have made liberal use of John Ayto’s Dictionary of Word Origins—which, though not redolent of the scholarly depths displayed by the other volumes, has an engaging, relaxed and very informative approach that often delivers context missing from the somewhat drier tone of the other three. To all of these authors, and all of these books, I would like to express my gratitude.
The above-mentioned works are:
Ernest Klein, Klein’s Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1971).
Eric Partridge, Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (New York: Greenwich House, 1983).
Robert Claiborne, The Roots of English (New York: Random House, 1989).
John Ayto, Dictionary of Word Origins (New York: Arcade Publishing, 1990).
1 Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973), p. 5.
2 Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (New York: Knopf, 1993), p. v.
3 Ibid., p. 280.
4 Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973), p. 1.
5 Ibid., p. 391.
6 Ibid., p 20.
7 Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (New York: Doubleday, 1988), p. 174.
8 Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973), p. 11.
9 Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (New York: Doubleday, 1988), p. 70.
10 James Kullander, “Men Are from Earth, and So Are Women,” The Sun, issue 368 (August 2006).
11 John Mansley Robinson, An Introduction to Early Greek Philosophy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968), p. 8.
12 Anne Marie Owens, “Boys’ Brains Are from Mars,” The National Post, May 10, 2003.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid.
15 Louis MacNeice, Collected Poems (London: Faber and Faber, 1979), p. 30, from the poem “Snow.”
16 John Mansley Robinson, An Introduction to Early Greek Philosophy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968), p. 94.
17 Rimer and Masakazu (translators), On the Art of the No Drama (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), p. xii.
18 Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973), p. 16.
19 Ibid., p. 218.
20 Ibid., p. 111.
21 Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 122.
22 Alan Alda, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed (New York: Random House, 2005), p. 160 (emphasis mine).
23 Simon Callow, Being an Actor (London: Methuen, 1984), p. 173.
24 Susan Sontag, A Susan Sontag Reader (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1982), p. 98.
25 Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (New York: Doubleday, 1988), p. 5 (emphasis mine).
26 Ibid., p. 6 (emphasis mine).
27 Bohm, David, The Essential David Bohm (New York: Routledge, 2003), p. 264.
28 Ibid., p. 287.
29 Stephen Mitchell (translator), Tao Te Ching (New York: HarperCollins, 2000), p. 24.
30 Lancelot Law Whyte, The Next Development in Mankind (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003), p. xv (emphasis mine).
31 Richard Tarnas, The Passion of the Western Mind (New York: Ballantine Books, 1993), p. 47.
32 Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973), p. 15 (emphasis mine).
33 Jared Diamond, “The Last Americans,” Harpers Magazine, June 2003, p. 51.
34 A Bit Rich (December 14, 2009) can be downloaded as a PDF at neweconomics.org/publications/bit-rich.
35 Matthew Fox and Rupert Sheldrake, Natural Grace (New York: Doubleday, 1996), p. 41.
36 Larry Dossey, Space, Time, and Medicine (Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1982), p. 82.
37 Wade Davis, Light at the Edge of the World (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2007), text-only edition, p. 138.
38 Ibid., p. 139.
39 Barry Commoner, “Unraveling the DNA Myth” (Harper’s Magazine, February 2002), p. 40.
40 Lancelot Law Whyte, The Next Development in Mankind (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003), p. 36.
41 Taken from the Web site for the Alcor Life Extension Foundation www.alcor.org (emphasis mine).
42 Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics (Boston: Shambhala, 1985), p. 131.
43 Lee Smolin, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (New York: Basic Books, 2001), p. 63.
44 Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics (Boston: Shambhala, 1985), p. 138.
45 David Ruelle, Chance and Chaos (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991), p. 76.
46 Barry Commoner, “Unraveling the DNA Myth” (Harper’s Magazine, February 2002), p. 43.
47 Clive Cookson, “To Make a Person” (Financial Times, March 22/23, 2003), p. v.
48 Anne McIlroy, “Code 2” (Globe and Mail, March 11, 2006), p. A5.
49 Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound, The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1968), p. 22.
50 I. A. Richards, The Philosophy of Rhetoric (London: Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 94.
51 Ibid., p. 72.
52 Ibid., p. 35.
53 Some of that research is available to download at prevnet.ca.
54 Lewis Mumford, The Myth of the Machine (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1966).
55 D. W. Winnicott, Home Is Where We Start From (New York: Norton, 1990), p. 63.
56 Samuel B. Mallin, Art Line Thought (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996), p. 269.
57 Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound, The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1968), p. 22.
58 Matthew Fox and Rupert Sheldrake, Natural Grace (New York: Doubleday, 1996), p. 116.
59 John Mansley Robinson, An Introduction to Early Greek Philosophy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968), p. 35.
60 Thomas King (editor), All My Relations (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990), p. ix.
61 Selected Poetry and Prose of Blake, edited by Northrop Frye (New York: Modern Library, 1953), p. 123.
62 Guy Davenport (translator), Herakleitos and Diogenes (San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1983), p. 22.
63 John Mansley Robinson, An Introduction to Early Greek Philosophy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968), p. 95.
64 I heard Alexander express this in an interview on CBC radio some years ago. I wrote it down and it stayed with me, although neither the date nor the show it appeared on managed to.
65 Jose M.R. Delgado, Physical Control of the Mind (New York: Harper & Row, 1969), p. 59.
66 Ibid., p. 62.
67 Joseph Campbell, Transformations of Myth through Time (New York: Harper & Row, 1990), p. 112.
68 Dalai Lama, How to Practice (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002), p. 37.
69 John Mansley Robinson, An Introduction to Early Greek Philosophy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968), p. 104.
70 Ibid., p. 95.
71 Stephen Mitchell (translator), Tao Te Ching (New York: HarperCollins, 2000), p. 28.
72 David Papineau, Thinking about Consciousness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 1.
73 Steven Pinker, “The Mystery of Consciousness” (Time, January 29, 2007), p. 48.
74 Eric R. Kandel, “The New Science of Mind” (Scientific American Mind, April/May 2006), p. 64.
75 Eric Steinhart, “Persons versus Brains: Biological Intelligence in Human Organisms” (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Biology and Philosophy 16, 2001), p. 19.
76 Ibid., p. 11.
77 Ibid., p. 14.
78 Ibid., p. 15.
79 Ibid., p. 15.
80 Ibid., p. 18.
81 Ibid., p. 21.
82 Byron Robinson, The Abdominal and Pelvic Brain (available online at meridianinstitute.com/eamt/files/robinson/Rob1ch12.htm), chapter 12, pp. 6–8.
83 Michael Gershon, The Second Brain (New York: Quill, 2003), p. 50.
84 Candace B. Pert, The Molecules of Emotion (New York: Touchstone, 1999), p. 27.
85 Ibid., p. 193.
86 Gyorgi Doczi, The Power of Limits (Boston: Shambhala, 1985), p. 3 et al.
87 Fritjof Capra, Uncommon Wisdom (New York: Bantam, 1989), p. 136 (emphasis mine).
88 Paul Canali, from his Web site evolutionaryhealinginstitute.com.
89 Eric Steinhart, “Persons versus Brains: Biological Intelligence in Human Organisms” (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Biology and Philosophy 16, 2001), p. 11.
90 Brian Stross, The Mesoamerican Sacrum Bone: Doorway to the Otherworld (retrieved from research.famsi.org/aztlan/uploads/papers/stross-sacrum.pdf), p. 4.
91 Oscar Sugar, “How the Sacrum Got Its Name,” Journal of the American Medical Association 257, no. 15 (1987): 2061–63.
92 Stephen Mitchell (editor), The Enlightened Mind (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), p. 191.
93 Ezra Pound and Ernest Fenollosa, The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan (New York: New Directions Books, 1959), p. 31.
94 Stephen Mitchell (translator), Tao Te Ching (New York: Perennial Classics, 2000), p. 28.
95 Guy Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981), p. 270.
96 Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson, Dancing in the Flames (Boston: Shambhala, 1997), p. 211.
97 Frankfort, Frankfort, Wilson, Jacobsen, and Irwin, The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), p. 6.
98 Larry VandeCreek, Scientific and Pastoral Perspectives on Intercessory Prayer (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 1998), p. 28.
99 Matthew Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh (New York: Harmony Books, 1999), p. 67.
100 Ibid.
101 Andrew Harvey, Light upon Light (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1996), p. 85.
102 Guy Davenport (translator), Herakleitos and Diogenes (San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1983), p. 21.
103 Charles L. Harper (editor), Spiritual Information (Philadelphia: Templeton Press, 2005), p. 237 (emphasis mine).
104 Guy Davenport (translator), Herakleitos and Diogenes (San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1983), p. 18 (emphasis mine).
105 Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy (New York: Harper and Row, 1970), p. 5.
106 Ibid., p. 12.
107 Thomas Merton, Thomas Merton on Zen (London: Sheldon Press, 1976), p. 7.
108 Stephen Mitchell (editor), The Enlightened Heart (New York: Harper & Row, 1989), p. 133.
109 Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson, Dancing in the Flames (Boston: Shambhala, 1997), p. 191.
110 Thomas Merton, Thomas Merton on Zen (London: Sheldon Press, 1976), p. 15.
111 Stephen Mitchell (translator), Tao Te Ching (New York: Perennial Classics, 2000), p. 93.
112 Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, and the Sickness unto Death, translated by Walter Lowrie (New York: Doubleday, 1954), p. 165.
113 Dylan Thomas, “The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower,” from The Top Five Hundred Poems (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992), p. 1056.
114 Richard Tarnas, The Passion of the Western Mind (New York: Ballantine Books, 1993), p. 47.
115 Pico Iyer, “Leonard Cohen: Several Lifetimes Already” (Shambhala Sun, September 1998).
116 Robert Graves, The Greek Myths, vol. 1 (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1983), p. 284.
117 Raymond Bernard Blakney, Meister Eckhart: A Modern Translation (New York: Harper & Row, 1941), p. 98.
118 Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (New York: William Morrow, 1984), p. 314.
119 Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery (New York: Vintage Books, 1971), p. 54.
120 Connie Barlow (editor), From Gaia to Selfish Genes (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998), p. 89.
121 Walter Wager (editor), The Playwrights Speak (New York: Dell, 1968), p. 152.
122 Guy Davenport (translator), Herakleitos and Diogenes (San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1983), p. 11.
123 John Tarrant, Bring Me the Rhinoceros (Boston: Shambhala, 2008), p. 173.
124 Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson, Dancing in the Flames (Boston: Shambhala, 1997), p. 216.
125 Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics (Boston: Shambhala, 1985), p. 140.
126 Jonah Lehrer, “The Neuroscience of Screwing Up” (Wired, January 2010, vol. 18, no. 1).
127 John Bartlett (editor), Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown, 1968), p. 723.
128 Anand Giridharadas, “Are Metrics Blinding Our Perception?” (New York Times, November 21, 2009).
129 Anne McIlroy, “Inside the Search for the God Particle” (Globe and Mail, Toronto, September 10, 2008), p. A15.
130 Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature (New York: Dutton, 1979), p. 30.
131 Edith Hamilton, Huntington Cairns, and Lane Cooper, The Collected Dialogues of Plato (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961), p. 49.
132 Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973), p. 217.
133 Quoted in “Can This Black Box See into the Future” (RedOrbit News, redorbit.com).
134 James Jeans, The Mysterious Universe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930), chapter 5.
135 Marion Woodman, The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter (Toronto: Inner City Books, 1980), p. 66.
136 Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life? and Mind and Matter (London: Cambridge University Press, 1969), p. 145 (emphasis mine).
137 Nick Herbert, Elemental Mind (New York: Penguin, 1994), p. 3.
138 Ibid., p. 5.
139 Ibid., p. 201 (emphasis mine).
140 Ibid., p. 230.
141 Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973), p. 217.
142 Luther Standing Bear, Land of the Spotted Eagle (Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, 2006), p. 193.
143 John Mansley Robinson, An Introduction to Early Greek Philosophy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968), p. 97.
144 Thomas Merton, Thomas Merton on Zen (London: Sheldon Press, 1976), p. 41.
145 Larry Dossey, Healing Words (New York: Harper San Francisco, 1993), p. 87.
146 Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), p. 62.
147 Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology (New York: Penguin, 1976), p. 44.
148 Andrew Harvey, The Return of the Mother (Berkeley: Frog Books, 1995), p. 353.
149 The Bible, Psalms 46:10.
150 T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets (Orlando, FL: Harcourt Books, 1971), p. 15.
151 Said by Marion at a workshop I attended in Guelph, Ontario, “Dancing in the Flames,” organized by Barbara Susan Booth for the Sacred Wisdom Center, December 1–3, 2006.
152 Guy Davenport (translator), Herakleitos and Diogenes (San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1983), p. 18.
153 Hugh Brody, The Other Side of Eden (New York: North Point Press, 2000), p. 242.
154 Peter Payne, Martial Arts (London: Thames and Hudson, 1987), p. 47.
155 Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity (New York: Vintage, 1951), p. 46.
156 William Littler, “Dancing at 60—One Woman’s Testimonial” (Toronto Star, September 30, 1976).
157 Guy Davenport (translator), Herakleitos and Diogenes (San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1983), p. 14.
158 Paul Reps, Square Sun Square Moon (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1974), p. 59.
159 Stephen Mitchell (translator), Tao Te Ching (New York: Perennial Classics, 2000), p. 100.
160 Ibid., p. 76.
161 Larry Dossey, Space, Time, and Medicine (Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1982), p. 84.
162 Paul Reps, 10 Ways to Meditate (New York: Weatherhill, 1982), p. 11.
163 Plato, The Last Days of Socrates, translated by Hugh Tredennick (London: Penguin, 2003), p. 127.
164 Thomas Merton, Thomas Merton on Zen (London: Sheldon Press, 1976), p. 79.
165 Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity (New York: Vintage, 1951), p. 73.
166 Stephen Mitchell (translator), Tao Te Ching (New York: Perennial Classics, 2000), p. 93.
167 Ibid., p. ix.
168 Eugenio Barba and Nicola Savarese, The Secret Art of the Performer (London: Routledge, 1995), p. 237.
169 Ibid.
170 Eugenio Barba, The Paper Canoe (London: Routledge, 1995), p. 35.
171 D. Lyman (translator), The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave (Cleveland, OH: L.E. Barnard, 1856), p. 16.
172 Joseph Campbell, Transformations of Myth through Time (New York: Harper & Row, 1990), p. 12.
173 Andrew Harvey (editor), The Essential Mystics (New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996), p. 155.
174 Thomas Merton, Thomas Merton on Zen (London: Sheldon Press, 1976), p. 80.
175 Yasunari Kawabata, Japan the Beautiful and Myself (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1969), p. 58.
176 Eugenio Barba, The Paper Canoe (London: Routledge, 1995), p. 9.
177 Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973), p. 388.
178 Matthew Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh (New York: Harmony Books, 1999), p. 61.
179 Ibid., p. 60.
180 Retrieved from planetproctor.com (2001, vol. 9).
181 Matthew Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh (New York: Harmony Books, 1999), p. 60.
182 Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973), p. 345.
183 Ibid., p. 267.
184 T. S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933), eight published lectures given at Harvard University. Eliot’s original words were, “The chief use of the ‘meaning’ of a poem, in the ordinary sense, may be … to satisfy one habit of the reader, to keep his mind diverted and quiet, while the poem does its work upon him: much as the imaginary burglar is always provided with a bit of nice meat for the house-dog.”
185 Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973), p. 350.
186 Ibid., p. 237.
187 Ibid., p. 163.
188 Ibid., p. 389.
189 Stephen Mitchell (translator), Tao Te Ching (New York: Perennial Classics, 2000), p. 50.
190 The Bible, Luke 39–46.
191 Joseph Campbell quotes this passage in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973), p. 191. It is from a translation of Poetic Edda, “Hovamol,” by Henry Adams Bellows (New York: American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1923), p. 139. For simplicity’s sake, I altered the translation slightly, amending the original “Othin” to the more familiar “Odin.”
192 Michael Murphy and Rhea A. White, In the Zone (New York: Penguin, 1995), p. 26.
193 This article is available at gladwell.com.
194 Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964), p. 64.
195 This article is available at gladwell.com.
196 Nick Herbert, Elemental Mind (New York: Penguin, 1994), p. 185.
197 Ervin Laszlo, “Subtle Connections: Psi, Grof, Jung and the Quantum Vacuum,” 1996. This article is available online at goertzel.org/dynapsych/1996/subtle.html.
198 Stephen Mitchell (translator), Tao Te Ching (New York: Perennial Classics, 2000), p. 64.
199 From “Schrodinger’s Surfboard” by Steve Hawk in Harper’s Magazine (July 1994).
200 Larry Dossey, Space, Time, and Medicine (Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1982), p. 74.
201 Alan Watts, Does It Matter? (New York: Vintage Books, 1971), p. 22.
202 Alan Watts, “The World as Emptiness,” Part 2, p. 5, available online at deoxy.org/w_world.htm.
203 From an interview with David Jay Brown, May 27, 1994, available online at mavericksofthemind.com/hou-int.htm.
204 From an interview on CBC radio.
205 Lee Smolin, The Life of the Cosmos (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 221.
206 Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (New York: D. Appleton, 1871), p. 44.
207 Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder (New York: Harper and Row, 1987), p. 45.
208 David Niven, The Moon’s a Balloon (Philadelphia: Coronet Books, 1973), p. 283.
209 This popular quote appears at sfheart.com/Einstein.
210 J. Von Rintelen, Beyond Existentialism (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1961), p. 28.
211 Stephen Mitchell (translator), Tao Te Ching (New York: HarperPerennial, 2000), p. 94.
212 Peter Payne, Martial Arts: The Spiritual Dimension (London: Thames and Hudson, 1981), p. 36.
213 John Mansley Robinson, An Introduction to Early Greek Philosophy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968), p. 95.
214 This quote is excerpted on the Web site of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which Mitchell helped to found: noetic.org/about/history.cfm.
215 Hiroyuki Aoki, The Zero Point of Consciousness and the World of Ki (San Francisco: Shintaido of America, 1989), p. 9.
216 Surendranath Dasgupta, A History of Indian Philosophy, vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973), p. 134.
217 Matthew Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh (New York: Harmony Books, 1999), p. 20.
218 Brewster Ghiselin (editor), The Creative Process (New York: Mentor Books, 1957), p. 90.
219 Bash, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1974), p. 105.
220 Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea (available online at everything2.com), chapter 6.
221 Karlfried Graf von Dürckheim, Hara: The Vital Centre of Man (London: Unwin, 1971), p. 91 (emphasis mine).
222 Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973), p. 59.
223 James Hillman, The Soul’s Code (New York: Random House, 1996), p. 87.
224 Moshe Feldenkrais, Body and Mature Behavior (New York: International Universities Press, 1981), p. 131.
225 Sophocles, Sophocles 1 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965), p. 46.
226 Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973), p. 337.
227 Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson, Dancing in the Flames (Boston: Shambhala, 1997), p. 159.
228 Charles Davis, Body as Spirit (New York: Seabury Press, 1976), p. 60 (emphasis mine).
229 Stephen Mitchell (translator), Tao Te Ching (New York: Perennial Classics, 2000), p. 71.
230 Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (New York: Doubleday, 1998), p. 41.
231 Stephen Mitchell (editor), The Enlightened Heart (New York: Harper & Row, 1989), p. 57.
232 Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Seeing Stone (New York: Scholastic, 2002), p. 164.
233 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship (London: SCM Press, 2001), p. 44.
234 Julius Lester, The Pharaoh’s Daughter (San Diego: Harcourt, 2000), appendix.
235 Jean Houston, Jump Time (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2000), p. 38.
236 James Hillman, The Soul’s Code (New York: Random House, 1996), p. 260.
237 Thomas Byrom (translator), The Dhammapada, “Section 12: Yourself.” Available online at thebigview.com.
238 Alphonse Goettmann, Dialogue on the Path of Initiation: The Life and Thought of Karlfried Graf Dürckheim (electronically published by Nottingham Publishing), p. 27. Available online at: tedn.hypermart.net/trans1.htm.
239 The study was published in the March 2009 issue of the Public Library of Science (PLoS One). The quote is from GeorgiaDailyDigest.com, “Financial Advice Causes ‘Off-Loading’ in the Brain,” March 25, 2009.
240 Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), p. 36.
241 Russell Hoban, The Medusa Frequency (New York: Viking, 1987), p. 68 (emphasis mine).
242 Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), p. 39.
243 Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History (New York: Doubleday, 2003), p. 345.
244 Curtis White, “The Spirit of Disobedience,” Harper’s Magazine (April 2006).
245 Ovid, The Metamorphoses (New York: Mentor, 1960), p. 274.
246 Shinichi Suzuki, Nurtured by Love (Los Angeles: Alfred Publishing, 1983), p. 62.
247 Matthew Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh (New York: Harmony Books, 1999), p. 200.
248 William Golding, Free Fall (London: Faber and Faber, 1979), p. 186.
249 Ibid., p. 187.
250 Alden Nowlan, Selected Poems (Toronto: House of Anansi, 1996), p. 145.
251 Arthur Miller, “The Shadow of the Gods,” Harper’s Magazine (August 1958).
252 Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness (Boston: Beacon Press, 1987), p. 61.
253 Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1983), p. 27.
254 Arthur Finley Scott (editor), Modern Essays, vol. 2 (London: Macmillan, 1947), p. 161, in the essay by Sir James Jeans, “Our Home in Space.”
255 Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), p. 63.
256 Malcolm Gladwell, “The Physical Genius,” section 1, available at gladwell.com.
257 Donald Winnicott, Playing and Reality (New York: Routledge, 1999), p. 52.
258 Donald Winnicott, Playing and Reality (New York: Routledge Classics, 2005), p. 64.
259 Donald Winnicott, Playing and Reality (New York: Routledge, 1999), p. 65.
260 Terry Tempest Williams, “In the Shadow of Extinction,” New York Times, February 2, 2003.
261 Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Tribe of Tiger (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994), p. 119.
262 Stephen Kellert and Edward Wilson (editors), The Biophilia Hypothesis (Washington: Island Press, 1993), p. 210, from an essay, “Searching for the Lost Arrow: Physical and Spiritual Ecology in the Hunter’s World” by Richard Nelson.
263 Hugh Brody, The Other Side of Eden (New York: North Point Press, 2000), p. 255.
264 Andrew Harvey, Son of Man: The Mystical Path to Christ (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1998).
265 Jay Gluck, Zen Combat (New York: Ballantine Books, 1962), p. 178.
266 The Bible, Ecclesiasticus 3:19.
267 Ibid., Matthew 5:5.
268 Hiroyuki Aoki, The Zero Point of Consciousness and the World of Ki (San Francisco: Shintaido of America, 1989), p. 9.
269 Ibid., p. 8.
270 Frankfort et al., The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), p. 6.
271 Zeami Motokiyo, Fushikaden (translation by Shidehara Michitaro and Wilfred Whitehouse in Monumenta Nipponica 4–5, 1941–42, p. 236).
272 Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2000), p. 96.
273 Deitrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison (New York: Macmillan, 1972), pp. 9–12.
274 Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), p. 173.
275 Shirley Darcus Sullivan, Psychological Activity in Homer: A Study of Phren (Ottawa: Carlton University Press, 1988).
276 Richmond Lattimore (translator), The Odyssey of Homer (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), p. 307 (emphasis mine).
277 Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound, The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1968), p. 19.
278 Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993).
279 William J. Mitchell, The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994), p. 59.
280 Paul Benedetti and Nancy DeHart (editors), Forward through the Rearview Mirror: Reflections on and by Marshall McLuhan (Toronto: Prentice-Hall, 1996), p. 116.
281 Frankfort et al., The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), pp. 5–6.
282 Ibid., p. 6.
283 Ibid., p. 11 (emphasis mine).
284 Marija Gimbutas, The Civilization of the Goddess (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), p. viii.
285 Dr. Mallory graciously reviewed an early version of this chapter, and offered many invaluable corrections. In one of them, he used this provocative phrase.
286 Marija Gimbutas, The Language of the Goddess (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989), p. 321.
287 Marija Gimbutas, The Civilization of the Goddess (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), p. x.
288 Hodder’s article “Women and Men at Catalhoyuk” appeared in Mysteries of the Ancient Ones, a special edition of Scientific American.
289 Ian Hodder, “Contextual Archaeology: An Interpretation of Catal Huyuk and a Discussion of the Origins of Agriculture” (London University Institute of Archaeology Bulletin, 1987), p. 43–56.
290 Marija Gimbutas, The Civilization of the Goddess (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), p. viii.
291 Margaret Ehrenberg, Women in Prehistory (London: British Museum Press, 1989), chapter 3.
292 Marija Gimbutas, The Civilization of the Goddess (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), p. 342.
293 David Anthony, Dimitri Y. Telegin, and Dorcas Brown, “The Origin of Horseback Riding,” Scientific American, December 1991.
294 John Keegan, A History of Warfare (New York: Random House, 1994), p. 161.
295 Ibid., p. 189.
296 Marija Gimbutas, The Civilization of the Goddess (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), p. 352.
297 Ibid., p. 394.
298 Ibid., p. 401.
299 John Mansley Robinson, An Introduction to Early Greek Philosophy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968), p. 97.
300 Stephen Mitchell, The Enlightened Mind (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), p. 7.
301 Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act 2, scene 1.
302 J. P. Mallory, In Search of the Indo-Europeans (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1991), p. 12 (emphasis mine).
303 Ibid., p. 184.
304 David Anthony et al., “The Origin of Horseback Riding,” Scientific American, December 1991.
305 J. P. Mallory, In Search of the Indo-Europeans (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1991), p. 141.
306 Thorkild Jacobsen, The Treasures of Darkness (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1976), p. 11.
307 Marija Gimbutas, The Civilization of the Goddess (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), p. 399.
308 Ivan Illich and Barry Sanders, A.B.C.: The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind (New York: Random House, 1988), p. 13 (emphasis mine).
309 From “The End of the Wild,” a documentary from the CBC radio series Ideas.
310 The Bible, John 1:1.
311 Karl Jaspers, The Origin and Goal of History (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1953), p. 2.
312 Joseph Campbell, The Inner Reaches of Outer Space (New York: Harper & Row, 1988), p. 40.
313 Hugh Brody, The Other Side of Eden (New York: North Point Press, 2000), p. 293.
314 Stephen Mitchell (translator), Tao Te Ching (New York: Perennial Classics, 2000), p. 94.
315 John Mansley Robinson, An Introduction to Early Greek Philosophy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968), p. 228.
316 Plato, Timaeus and Critias (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1983), p. 61 (emphasis mine).
317 John Bartlett (editor), Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown, 1968), p. 115.
318 Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, quoted in “The Heart of Nothingness” by Harry Eyres, Financial Times, November 5–6, 2005, p. W7.
319 Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity (New York: Knopf, 1971), p. 172.
320 Simon Baron-Cohen, “The Extreme Male Brain Theory of Autism,” from Trends in Cognitive Sciences 6 (2002): 248–54. Available online at vaccinationnews.com.
321 Hugh Brody, The Other Side of Eden (New York: North Point Press, 2000), p. 242.
322 John Mansley Robinson, An Introduction to Early Greek Philosophy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968), p. 157.
323 Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu (Boston: Shambhala, 2004), p. 63.
324 Kakuzo Okakura, cited in Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives by C.A.S. Williams (New York: Dover, 1976), p. 132.
325 Jocobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend: St. George, available online at fordham.edu/halsall/basis/goldenlegend/gl-vol3-george.html.
326 Richard Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche (New York: Penguin, 2006), p. 77.
327 Dalai Lama, How to Practice (New York: Pocket Books, 2002), p. 161.
328 Alan Watts, Tao: The Watercourse Way (New York: Pantheon Books, 1975), p. 25.
329 Dalai Lama, How to Practice (New York: Pocket Books, 2002), p. 165.
330 Stanislav Grof (editor), Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984), p. 138.
331 Alan Watts, “The World as Emptiness,” part 3, p. 11, available online at deoxy.org/w_world.htm.
332 Lionel Giles, Taoist Teachings: The Book of Lieh-Tzu (published 1912, republished by forgottenbooks.com in 2008), p. 52.
333 Stephen Mitchell (editor), The Enlightened Mind (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), p. 111.
334 Stephen Mitchell (translator), Tao Te Ching (New York: Perennial Classics, 2000), p. 11.
335 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractus Logico-Philosophicus (London: Routledge, 2001), p. 87, proposition 6.4311.
336 Alexander Lowen, Bioenergetics (New York: Penguin Books, 1984), p. 194.
337 Karlfried Graf Von Dürckheim, Hara: The Vital Centre of Man (London: Unwin, 1971), p. 125.
338 John E. Sarno, The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (New York: Regan Books, 2006), p. 20.
339 Ibid., p. 11.
340 Ibid., p. 87.
341 David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster (New York: Little, Brown, 2006), p. 35.
342 Eugenio Barba and Nicola Savarese, A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology (London: Routledge, 1995), p. 41.
343 Guy Davenport (translator), Herakleitos and Diogenes (San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1983), p. 16.
344 Ibid.
345 Ibid., p. 23.
346 Hiroyuki Aoki, The Zero Point of Consciousness and the World of Ki (San Francisco: Shintaido of America, 1989), p. 11.
347 Ibid., p. 13.
348 Mu Soeng, The Diamond Sutra (Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2000), p. 62.
349 Alan Watts, Tao: The Watercourse Way (New York: Pantheon Books, 1975), p. 25.
350 Thomas Ryckman, The Reign of Relativity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 217.
351 Guy Davenport (translator), Herakleitos and Diogenes (San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1983), p. 18.
352 Stanislav Grof, Beyond the Brain (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985), p. 73.
353 From an interview with Daniel Redwood, available online at healthy.net/LIBRARY/interviews/redwood/grof.htm.
354 Thomas Merton, Thomas Merton on Zen (London: Sheldon Press, 1976), p. 6.
355 Peter Payne, Martial Arts: The Spiritual Dimension (London: Thames and Hudson, 1981), p. 46.
356 Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature (New York: Dutton, 1979), p. 10.
357 Natalie Curtis, The Indian’s Book (New York: Dover, 1968), p. xxiv.
358 Jean Houston, Jump Time (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2000), p. 57.
359 Ibid., p. 59.
360 The Bible, Revelation 3:8.
361 Ibid., John 8:7.
362 Yasunari Kawabata, Japan the Beautiful and Myself (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1969), p. 56.
363 Andrew Harvey, The Way of Passion (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2001), p. 35.
364 Larry Chang (editor), Wisdom for the Soul (Washington, DC: Grosophia, 2006), p. 265.
365 Andrew Harvey, The Return of the Mother (Berkeley: Frog Books, 1995), p. 312.
366 Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973), p. 229.
367 Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu (Boston: Shambhala, 2004), p. 40.
368 Stephen Mitchell (editor), The Enlightened Heart (New York: Harper and Row, 1989), p. 45.
369 Stephen Mitchell (editor), The Enlightened Mind (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), p. 114.
370 Matthew Fox and Rupert Sheldrake, Natural Grace (New York: Doubleday, 1996), p. 83.
371 Stephen Mitchell (translator), Tao Te Ching (New York: Perennial Classics, 2000), p. 64.
372 Evelyn Underhill (editor), The Cloud of Unknowing (Charleston, SC: BiblioBazaar bibliobazaar.com, 2007), p. 10.
373 Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea (available online at everything2.com), chapter 7.
374 David M. Edwards, Worship 365 (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman, 2006), p. 133.
375 Stephen Mitchell (translator), Tao Te Ching (New York: Perennial Classics, 2000), p. 71.
376 Richard Feynman, Six Easy Pieces (Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1995), p 117.
377 Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters (New York: Bantam, 1980), p. 63.
378 John Gribbin, In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat (New York: Bantam, 1984), p. 170.
379 David Darling, Zen Physics (New York: HarperCollins, 1996), p. 132.
380 Ibid., p. 134.
381 Larry Dossey, Healing Beyond the Body (Boston: Shambhala, 2001), p. 208.
382 Guy Davenport (translator), Herakleitos and Diogenes (San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1983), p. 18.