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By Allen Ashby

Stonehenge is a Phenomenology of the mind's eye. It seeks to discover and elucidate 12 separate points of the mind's eye because it interacts with us in our day-by-day lives. in particular it appears on the imagination’s function as: the resource of our inner most own reviews, the writer of our thoughts, because the agent of our confusion, as a trickster, a facet of the erotic, and because the foundation of not anything. It additionally examines the function of the mind's eye because the author of our rituals, perceptions and judgment, as a destroyer, the floor of our being, an actor, and eventually, as a lifestyle.

Each of the 12 chapters is situated in pictures that are usually taken from literature, and naturally the identify itself is taken from a spot of the earth that remains a secret, from a box of damaged and fallen stones within the Salisbury undeniable in England. the purpose of the philosophical attempt here's to stroll round the mind's eye as you can stroll round the circle of these stones, preserving the secret alive inside.

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