Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Oliver Sacks, Alfred K. Knopf, 2007

In this book Dr. Sacks has revisited some of the knowledge and wisdom of the ancients regarding music. The power of music has been known in the world since the ancient Chinese, Egyptians, and other great civilizations down to Shakespeare’s time and more recently. Shakespeare said that good music “can [...]

Jesus Christ, Sun of God

Ancient Cosmology and Early Christian Symbolism
by David Fideler

This 430-page book covers a wide range of aspects of cosmological symbolism important to ancient Greek philosophers and early Christian writers. It is not about the historical Jesus but about the representation of Jesus and other divine figures as symbolic [...]