Index

A

Abraham, Nicolas, 40

Agassiz, Louis, 78

Akhenaton, 2

Alexander the Great, 20 , 40 , 55 -56, 58

Anthropic principle, 77

Archaeology, 5 , 9 -10, 13 . See also Psychoanalysis

Aristotle, 7 , 47 , 55 , 92

Arrian, 56

Astrology, 75 -76

Asvaghosa, 54

Avery, Oswald, 100

B

Bachelard, Gaston, 85

Bacon, Sir Francis, 95

Bateson, Gregory, 91 -92, 112

Bateson, William, 100

Baudelaire, Charles, 5 , 9 , 14 , 18 , 30 , 94

Baudrillard, Jean, 105

Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, 89

Benjamin, Walter, 17 -18

Bergson, Henri, 112

Bernstein, Jeremy, 55

Bertalannfy, Ludwig von, 112

Bhagavad-Gita , 46 , 47 -48, 51 , 79

Boehme, Jacob, 99

Bohm, David, 128 -129

Bohr, Niels, 50 -51, 54 -55, 95

Boileau, Nicolas, 81 -82

Brain, human, 9 , 84 , 115 -122, 124 -125, 127 -130

Breasted, J. H., 2 -3

Brook, Peter, 48

Buddha, the, 16 -17

Budge, Sir Wallis, E. A., 35 -36

Butler, Samuel, 112 , 114

Byron, Lord, 129

C

Cairns, John, 107

Calvino, Italo, 116 -117

Camus, Albert, 103

Capra, Frank, 58

Capra, Fritjof, 55

Carnarvon, Earl of, 31

Carter, Howard, 23 , 31

Cassirer, Ernst, 120

Cervantes (Don Quixote ), 80 -81, 83

Champollion, Jean-François, 25 , 30

Chargaff, Erwin, 102 , 108 -109

Chopin, Frédéric, 115 -116

Cicero, 60

Cinema, 32 -34, 40 , 58 , 66 . See also Hieroglyphics

Cities: unconscious, 8 -9;

unreal, 14 -17

Clair, René, 32 -33

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 43 , 81

Crewe, F. A. E., 113

Crick, Francis, 100 -103

Cuneiform, 25

D

Daniken, Erich von, 64 -65

Dante, 15 , 16

Darwin, Charles, 45 , 90 , 92 , 100 , 104

Dawkins, Richard, 96 , 104 , 105 , 106 , 108 , 110

Democritus, 49

Derealization, 6 -8, 10 , 18 -19, 20 , 47 , 52 -53

Derrida, Jacques, 27 , 34 -36, 40 -41

Descartes, René, 2 , 50 , 82 -84, 95

DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid), 95 -97, 100 -109, 110 -114

Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 23 -24

Dörpfeld, Wilhelm, 14

Dreams, 2 , 12 -13, 21 , 29 -31, 34 , 80 -84. See also Hieroglyphics

E

Einstein, Albert, 51 , 68 -69, 116 , 130

Eisenstein, Sergei, 32 -33

Egypt, ancient, 20 -41, 56 , 85 , 133

Egyptology, 21 , 23 , 31 -32, 38 -39, 101

Ed Chatibi of the Harranites, 64

Eliot, T. S., 14 -17

Eratosthenes, 38

Eternity, 13 , 21 -22, 32 , 40 , 45 , 47 , 63

Evans, Sir Arthur, 5

Evolution, 45 , 84 -86, 90 , 92 , 94

Existentialism, 3 , 103 -104

F

Fakhry, Ahmed, 38

Feagin, Jean, 107

Fibonacci progression, 87

Fliess, Wilhelm, 12 , 13 , 31

Forgetting, 2 -3, 133 . See also Oblivion

Frazer, Sir James, 116

Freemasonry, 56 -58

Freud, 2 , 6 -10, 12 -14, 15 , 16 , 17 , 29 -31, 35 , 39 , 74 -76, 125

Freund, Karl (The Mummy ), 33 -34

Frobenius, Leo, 19 , 64

G

Galaxy, 60 -64, 70 -73, 76 , 89 , 125

Galla Placidia, 11 -12, 64

Gaur, Albertine, 28 -29

Genesis , 5 , 24 , 30 -31, 45 , 64 -67, 96 -98

Genetic engineering, 96

Gnosticism, 64 -66, 76 -77

Golding, William, 79 , 92

Gould, Robert Freke, 57

Gribbin, John, 77

Grotefrend, Georg, 28 -29

H

Hallucination, 11 -12

Hannibal, 13

Hardenberg, Friedrich von (Novalis), 132

Hawking, Stephen, 77

Hegel, G. W. F., 22 , 26 -28, 35 -36, 37 -38, 40 , 46

Heidegger, Martin, 132

Heisenberg, Werner, 50 -51

Heraclitus, 94 , 96 , 114

Herodotus, 20 , 22 , 24 , 37 , 40

Hieroglyphics, 9 , 25 -31, 32 , 39 -40. See also Writing

Hilton, James, 58

Hipparchus, 38

Holography, 66 , 129

Homer, 5 , 80 , 91 , 108

I

Imperialism, 20 -21, 23 , 33 -34, 42 -47, 55 -56

India, 14 , 17 , 21 , 42 -59

Individuality, 2 , 52 -53, 122 -123

Irwin, John T., 22

J

Jaffe, Sam, 58

Jantsch, Erich, 93

Jasper, Herbert, 124 -125

Jaynes, Julian, 40

Jesus Christ, 12 , 22 , 56 , 115

Jonas, Hans, 64

Jones, Sir William, 42 -45, 49

Joseph (Vizier of Egypt), 24 , 30 -31

Joyce, James:

Finnegans Wake , 49 -50;

Ulysses , 61 -63, 68

Julian the Apostate, 115

Jung, Carl, 2 , 11 -13, 15 , 16 , 17 , 46 , 64

K

Kant, Immanuel, 2 , 70 -76, 123

Karloff, Boris, 33

Kena Upanishad , 121 , 122

Khufu, 20 , 37 -38

Kipling, Rudyard, 57 -59

Kircher, Athanasius, 36

Koldewey, Robert, 5 , 14

Kuhn, T. S., 106

L

Lashley, Karl, 121 -122, 124

Le Corbusier, 87

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von, 26 , 99

Leucippus, 49

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 132

Lingua adamica , 99

Linnaeus, Carolus, 90

Loeb, Jacques, 109 -110

Lovelock, James, 92

Lucretius, 49 , 89 , 90

M

McDougal, William, 113

Mahabharata, The , 48 -49

Memory, 1 -4, 11 , 45 , 52 -53, 118 , 121 -130, 131 -133. See also Myth

Miller, Stephan, 107

Milton, John, 80 , 93

Modernity, 5 , 16 -19, 33 , 43 , 132

Monod, Jacques, 96 , 103 -104, 105 , 108 , 110 , 114

Mozart, 87

Myth, 6 , 18 , 19 , 60 -61, 89 -92, 96 , 120 , 126 -127, 129 , 132 -133. See also Memory

N

Napoleon, 2 , 20 -21, 22 , 37 , 41 , 55

Newton, Sir Isaac, 50 , 98 -99, 100

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 56

O

Oblivion, 131 , 133

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 2 , 47 -49, 51 , 53 , 59

Overbaugh, Julie, 107

Ovid, 60 , 90 , 120 , 126 -127

P

Pascal, Blaise, 62

Paul, Jean, 13

Penfield, Wilder, 124 -125

Plato, 7 , 22 , 56 , 67 -68, 77 , 112 , 117 -118, 132

Plutarch, 133

Pope, Alexander, 99

Pound, Ezra, 6 , 8 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 19

Pribram, Karl, 128 -129

Prigogine, Ilya, 89 , 93 , 109

Prophecy, 78 -81

Proust, Marcel, 2 , 123 -130, 133

Psychoanalysis, 6 -14, 18 , 29 -31, 40 , 75 -76

Pyramids at Giza, 20 -21, 27 -28, 36 -41, 65 , 85 , 87

Pythagoras, 38 , 42 , 56

Q

Quantum physics, 50 -55

R

Ramses II, 24

Rees, Martin, 77

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 60

Robinet, J. B., 85

Rutherford, Lord, 49

S

Sanskrit, 43 -45

Santillana, Giorgio de, 68

Schlegel, Friedrich von, 36 , 45

Schliemann, Heinrich, 5 , 9 , 10 , 14

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 56

Schrödinger, Erwin, 2 , 51 -55

Seashells, 1 , 78 -93

Seeing, 119 -120

Serres, Michel, 36 -37, 89

Shakespeare, 63 , 80

Shaw, Janet, 107

Sheldrake, Rupert, 3 , 110 -114

Shelley, Percy, 24 -25

Sherrington, Sir Charles, 63 , 125

Simpson, Larry, 107

Smyser, J. W., 82

Sperry, Roger, 128

Spinoza, Baruch, 56

Sri Bhagavadam Purana , 48 -49

Stars, 1 , 60 -77

Steitz, Joan Artgetsinger, 106 -107

Stengers, Isabelle, 109

Strachey, James, 75

Stuart, Kenneth, 107

Subiela, Eliseo, 66

Sublime, the, 2 , 41 , 72 -74

T

Taoism, 54 -55, 69

Thales, 36 -37

Theatres, 32

Thom, René, 112

Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth, 87 -89

Thucydides, 22

Tintoretto, 61

Tompkins, Peter, 38 -39

Torok, Maria, 40

Tutankhamen, 23 , 31

U

Unconscious, the, 1 -3, 6 -10, 11 -14, 18 -19, 23 , 33 , 40

Underground, 5 -6, 15 -16, 17 -18

Upanishads, The , 46 , 51 , 122

V

Valéry, Paul, 5 , 14 , 86 -87

Virgil, 87 , 108

W

Waddington, C. H., 112

Watson, James, 100 -103, 105 , 108

Weissman, August, 100 , 111

Whitehead, Alfred North, 52 , 112

Whitman, Walt, 115 -116, 129

Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 53 -54

Wilson, E. O., 105

Wincklemann, J.J., 13

Wordsworth, William, 2 , 80 -81, 83 -84, 88 , 92 -93

Writing, 28 -29, 34 , 117 -119, 123 , 132 -133. See also Hieroglyphics

Y

Yeats, 112 , 114