Quotes by : James David Lewis-Williams

Perhaps the most striking feature of the west European Upper Palaeolithic, one on which many writers....

Some researchers believe that dreaming is what happens when sensory input to the brain is greatly diminished:....

The Upper Palaeolithic figures known as ‘wounded men’ occur at Cougnac and Pech Merle, two sites....

In altered states of consciousness, the nervous system itself becomes a ‘sixth sense’ that produces....

A shaman’s activities as a sorcerer, or his own conscious act of entry into the supernatural world,....

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....

Entering a cave” or rock was a metaphor for a shaman’s altered state; therefore, caves (and rocks....

Primary consciousness is a state of being aware of things in the world – of having mental images in....

San religion is built around belief in a tiered universe. As do other shamanistic peoples throughout....