Adventures of the Mind: A Fascinating History of Magic, Ritual, and Mass Suggestion from Primitive Man to the Present Day

by Arturo Castiglioni

1946. This volume does not present a chronological history of events that may be explained in connection with psychological causes; such would mean rewriting the history of humanity. This book is an attempt to present some historical facts that appear to have a common character in their origin, development and consequences, without claiming that the psychological causes were the most important and, still less, the only ones determining them.

402 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1946

Reviews

[Jenny Gervais · Rating 1 out of 5]

Seeing as almost no one on the planet seems to have read this I feel I should review. It took me longer to read this than any book before. The content was interesting but the writing was boring. The range of topics was just so wide that as soon as I became interested we had moved on to the next. The binding and type of this book is beautiful, and I love the way the pages feel. If I ever read the word ‘analogous’ again I’ll lose my mind. I’m tempted to go through and count how many times that word is used…I bet it’s the most it’s been used in any book ever written. I sadly would not recommend this book.

[David Lawson]

Found this at a book sale for about 10 cents. It seemed intersting enough to read outside of my normal realm of fantasy/science fiction.

[Louise · Rating 4 out of 5]

Boring, and not what I was hoping it would be.