Ptolemy Tompkins' spellbinding plunge into the history and meaning of Mesoamerican civilisations - first published a decade ago - is more compelling now than ever. Combining scholarly knowledge with visionary perception and sensitivity, he examines the Mayan, Aztec, and other related cultures from the perspective of each region's shifting understanding of the human soul. A profoundly spiritual and ecological thread runs through this enlightening work: despite their amazing achievements, these civilisations eventually crumbled because they lost touch with their sense of community, their true natures and their environments. Above all, Tompkins vividly reveals how violence became a deeply flawed, but powerful strategy for accessing the ever-retreating realm of the spirit, which had once guided and directed human life.
- ISBN10 1402748825
- ISBN13 9781402748820
- Publish Date 1 March 2008 (first published 9 May 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 14 September 2012
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Sterling Publishing Co Inc
- Imprint Sterling
- Edition Revised ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240
- Language English