The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World - David Abram "Masks & Headbands" many of us have learned

many of us have learned to be our own worst critic rather than our own best friend

Drawing on the wisdom from Buddhism

a direction also inhabited by fear and death

(Paperback)

as well as a foreword by Godfrey Devereux

The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World - David Abram "Masks & Headbands" many of us have learnedDavid Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight of hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which even at its most abstract echoes the calls and cries of the earth. On every page of this