{"product_id":"persephone-unveiled-isbn-9781556435812","title":"Persephone Unveiled","description":"\u003ci\u003ePersephone Unveiled\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the goddess in all her guises, as the daughter of Demeter; the Queen of the Underworld; the archetypal female healer; and as a central figure in the Eleusinian Mysteries, where celebrants experienced sacred visions through secret rituals fueled by an LSD-like substance. The author examines the known details about the psychoactive agent and explores the Mysteries' influence on, and relationship to, early Christianity. Guided meditations, using active imagination techniques, help readers summon an experience with the goddess.\"Stein has created the most powerful and authoritative book I have ever read on the nature and consequence of divine revelation.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Peter Manchester, associate professor of philosophy at Stony Brook University and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Syntax of Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beginning where other scholars leave off, Charles Stein crosses the radiant field of the Goddesses to touch the lip of the ineffable. Instead of being silenced, he elucidates—quietly at first, ecstatically later, bearing witness to the timeless visionary core of the ancient Mysteries in what, in fact, is a profoundly reasoned approach that resonates Now.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Nor Hall, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Moon and the Virgin, Those Women\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIrons in the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In Charles Stein the Mysteries have found their true Speaker. They have always needed a scholar who was a philosopher, a philosopher who was a poet, and Stein is all three, in generous measure. Stein understands being and Being, and how the Mysteries' great gfit is the ability to leap the gap between them.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Rached Pollack, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Body of the Goddess\u003c\/i\u003ePoet and independent scholar Charles Stein is the author of eleven books of poetry including \u003ci\u003eThe Hat Rack Tree\u003c\/i\u003e (Station Hill Press) and the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eFrom Mimir's Head\u003c\/i\u003e. His examination of the poet Charles Olson's use of C.G. Jung, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret of Black Chrysanthemum\u003c\/i\u003e, is a classical study of that poet's work. Stein edited \u003ci\u003eBeing = Space x Action: Searches for Freedom of Mind in Art\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMathematics and Mysticism\u003c\/i\u003e for North Atlantic Books. He holds a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Connecticut and a B.A. in ancient Greek from Columbia University. He lives in Barrytown, New York, with classical guitarist Megan Hastie.","brand":"North Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300380889317,"sku":"NP9781556435812","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781556435812.jpg?v=1767734673","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/persephone-unveiled-isbn-9781556435812","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}