MIRRORS, PORTALS, AND MULTIPLE REALITIES

• Published in: Zygon®
• Main Authors: MacDonald, George F., Cove, John L., Laughlin, Charles D., McManus, John
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Open Library of the Humanities 1989
• Subjects: Labyrinth; Tsimshian; Tsimshian*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.1989.tb00975.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1467-9744.1989.tb00975.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-9744.1989.tb00975.x

Abstract. A biogenetic structural explanation is offered for the cross‐culturally common mystical experience called portalling , the experience of moving from one reality to another via a tunnel, door, aperture, hole, or the like. The experience may be evoked in shamanistic and meditative practice b...