Instinct and Revelation: Reflections on the Origins of Numinous Perception

by Alondra Oubré

Instinct and Revelation revolves around the hypothesis that ritual behavior and imaginative awareness in early hominids may have helped to spawn the evolution of the human brain and human consciousness. Using an integral perspective comparable with systems theory, the book carefully interweaves fact and theory from physical and cultural anthropology, psychobiology and the brain sciences, psychology, and to a lesser degree, eastern philosophy. This book breaks from tradition by discussing from a primarily anthropological perspective the origin of human consciousness within a philosophical framework that embraces precepts from human evolution, evolutionary psychology, the neurosciences, biocultural anthropology, and cultural symbolic anthropology.

320 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Alondra Oubré
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Alondra Oubré received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and her M.A. in Anthropology and Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley. Based in Los Angeles, she is currently a medical writer and research consultant to leading global pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies as well as major healthcare institutions in the United States. Her publications address a diverse array of topics in biomedicine, plant drug research, integrative medicine, and human biodiversity, including the nature-nurture debate over the ethnic achievement gap.