Quotes by : James David Lewis-Williams

The portable animal statuettes were therefore far more than decorative trinkets: they were reified three-dimensional....

The principal aim of a vision quest is to ‘see’ a spirit animal that will become the quester’s....

Rock art sites were symbolic vaginas, and entry into the wall of a rock art site was thus akin to intercourse.....

There were at least four contexts in which San shamans acquired insights into the spiritual world: –....

The behaviour of the human nervous system in certain altered states creates the illusion of dissociation....

To understand the ‘wounded men’ of Upper Palaeolithic art, I now consider somatic hallucinations;....

The first two-dimensional images were thus not two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional things....

Certainly, the sensory deprivation afforded by the remote, silent and totally dark chambers, such as....

Consciousness has evolved biologically and can therefore be explained biologically.

The notion that an image is a scale model of something else (say, a horse) requires a different set of....