They Shimmer Within - Rimell, Bruce

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Résumé :
The use of psychedelic drugs plants is rising, and with it the number of reports narrating encounters with otherworldly visionary beings. Approaches to these experiences have often been literal, archetypal or dismissive. Evolutionary psychology and the cognitive science of religion suggest innate and non-imagistic mental foundations for these phenomena arising from easily-triggered evolutionary functions during emotive periods of high cognitive demand. Such functions include agent detection, social intelligence faculties and metacognition. This wide-ranging book explores how our deepest mental processes predispose us as humans to believe in supernatural agents, and presents a new hypothesis of how these same cognitions facilitate the emergence of those agents to become present when psychedelic drugs and plants are ingested. Bruce concludes that visionary beings shimmer within as awe-inspiring products of the mind, an experience which rests at the heart of what it is to be human....

Biographie:
Bruce Rimell is a British artist, poet and independent researcher. Related works include 'Ta Sba Balamil Ta Ch'ulel', a magical poetic travelogue through the Maya cultural landscapes of Southern Mexico, 'White Book', a visionary and mystical poetic text, and 'The Fernal Songs', a wildly imaginative cycle of creative mythology. You can discover his art, and more about his poetry at the website www.biroz.net...

Sommaire:
Bruce Rimell is an internationally-exhibited visual artist and outsider poet from Leeds-Bradford in the UK. Previous publications include 'Echoes For Aphrodite', shortlisted for the 2024 Poetry Book Awards, and a chapbook 'Deo Mithrae' available through The Braag publishing. Forthcoming works include 'Vallum Aelium', a poetic travelogue to Hadrian's Wall, and 'Queeritudes', a small-scale series of narrative poems exploring the beauty of gay sexualities. You can discover his art and poetry at www.biroz.net, or search 'Bruce Rimell Xibalba Books'...