Maps of meaning: the architecture of belief

Preface: Descensus ad Inferos

1. Maps of Experience: Object and Meaning

2. Maps of Meaning: Three Levels of Analysis

Normal and Revolutionary Life: Two Prosaic Stories

Neuropsychological Function: The Nature of the Mind

Mythological Representation: The Constituent Elements of Experience

3. Apprenticeship and Enculturation: Adoption of a Shared Map

4. Appearance of Anomaly: Challenge to the Shared Map

Introduction: The Paradigmatic Structure of the Known

Particular Forms of Anomaly

Rise of Self-Reference, and the Permanent Contamination of Anomaly with Death

5. Hostile Brothers: Archetypes of Response to the Unknown

Introduction: The Hero and the Adversary

Adversary: Emergence, Development and Representation

Heroic Adaptation: Voluntary Reconstruction of the Map of Meaning

Alchemical Procedure and the Philosopher's Stone. Conclusion: The Divinity of Interest

Introduction

Divinity of Interest.