DREAMS, ILLUSION AND OTHER REALITIES

In this dazzling book—which analyses scores of stories from the Puranas, Mahabharata, Ramayana and Yogavasishtha, among other texts—one of the world’s great scholars of Indian and world mythology writes about our myths, dreams and illusions and what they tell us about reality; about self and non-self; about our perception of the world and the world’s perception of us; about ‘our dreams of God and God’s dream of us’. ‘Wendy Doniger…weaves a brilliant analysis of the complex role of dreams and dre...See More