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“It is the task of San shamans to activate their supernatural potency, to cause it to ‘boil’ up their spines until it explodes in their heads and takes them off to the spirit realms – that is, they enter a state of trance at the far end of the intensified trajectory.”

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Book:The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

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“The elaborately executed art on the ceiling in the Altamira cave did not fit current notions of Palaeolithic ‘savagery’; it was too ‘advanced’ for the period.”

Upper Palaeolithic Art

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“I argue that the first image-makers were acting rationally in the specific social circumstances ... they were not driven by ‘aesthetics’.”

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Book:The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

Source: The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

“The picture of change in human society that emerges from this recent research throws new light on that aspect of the Transition that has been called the ‘Upper Palaeolithic Revolution’ and the ‘Creative Explosion’ – that time when recognizably modern skeletons, behaviour and art seem to have appeared in western Europe as a ‘package deal’.”

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“Art was not simply a foregone conclusion, the final link in a causal chain. It was not the inevitable outcome of an evolving ‘aesthetic sense’, as some writers suggest.”

Upper Palaeolithic Art

Book:The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

Source: The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

“The first point to notice is that the Transition cannot be explained by climatic change alone: human change was not the direct result of marked environmental change. The crucial period did see a colder climate peaking at about 35,000 years ago, but Neanderthals had survived previous climatic instability.”

Upper Palaeolithic Art

Book:The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

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“According to Martindale’s view, as we drift into sleep we pass through: – waking, problem-oriented thought, – realistic fantasy, – autistic fantasy, – reverie, – hypnagogic (falling asleep) states, and – dreaming.”

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“In altered states of consciousness, the nervous system itself becomes a ‘sixth sense’ that produces a variety of images including entoptic phenomena.”

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“The behaviour of the human nervous system in certain altered states creates the illusion of dissociation from one’s body (less commonly understood in hunting and gathering shamanistic societies as possession by spirits).”

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Book:The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

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