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Article: Beyond Mysticism.(Beyond Mysticism: The Rise of Homo Sapiens)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- December 1, 2006
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Beyond Mysticism
Max Cohen
PublishAmerica
PO Box 151, Frederick, MD 21705-0151
1424141974, $19.95 www.publishamerica.com
"Beyond Mysticism: The Rise Of Homo Sapiens" by independent scholar Max Cohen is a fascinating and iconoclastic study of how the mystical thinking originated out of humankind's neolithic past when knowledge of the world and the forces that comprise it were thought to be revealed by supernatural sources to a chosen few for the management of humans in their family, tribal, clan, and eventually cosmopolitan lives. The hallmarks of mystical knowledge based belief systems include specifically organized ...