Consciousness Quote by James David Lewis-Williams

“I now argue that entry into Upper Palaeolithic caves was probably seen as virtually indistinguishable from entry into the mental vortex that leads to…

— James David Lewis-Williams

going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche.

— Barbara Hurd

The cave is a dark, shadowy place. It's a place that's very close and yet distant at the same time, and it's a place…

— Gerald Stern

caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a…

— Barbara Hurd

Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you…

— Joseph Campbell

The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

— Joseph Campbell

“Portals and doorways are common symbolic constructs that represent transformative rites of passage. To look for a literal portal would be like trying to…

— Dan Brown

Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable.

— William Stone

[Modern science] passed through a long period of uncertainty and inconclusive experiment, but as the instrumental aids to research improved, and the results of…

— Thomas George Bonney

If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream…

— Gregory Colbert

There is a spiritual realm that is available to all who find its many entrances.

— James Melvin Washington

Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning.…

— George MacDonald