The Body (An Encyclopedia of Archetypal Symbolism Vol. 2)

About this book

The first volume of An Encyclopedia of Archetypal Symbolism was a stunning collection of color images and text organized around mythic themes that follow the solar calendar from cosmos and creation to death transformation and rebirth. In this second volume the focus is the human body as a carrier of deep psychological insights and sacred meanings. Whether idolized or abused the body is the object of much fascinated attention even obsessive preoccupation in the contemporary Western world. What has been missing from our cultures preoccupation is an appreciation of the bodys organs as symbols of the deepest contents of the human psyche. This book surveys the richness of meaning found in a wide range of beautiful sacred images from the worlds traditions and explains what the symbolism of our physical form teaches us about the inner realities of our consciousness spirit and divine essence.