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Article: Holy men and their sky journeys: a cross-cultural model.
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- Biblical Theology Bulletin
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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Abstract
Insights from cultural anthropology, a science that compares cultures, and cognitive neuroscience, a discipline that deals with the one thing that all human beings have had in common for millennia: the human body, contribute to the construction of a model for analyzing and interpreting sky journeys made in alternate states of consciousness (ASCs) and reported in ancient literature.
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The authors of some ancient documents from the circum-Mediterranean world report making trips to the sky (see Couliano). While John, the author of Revelation, did that at least once (Rev 4:1-2), Paul likely did it more than once (2 Cor 12:1, ...
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