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- Ancestors, the - Art - David Lewis-Williams from The Mind in the Cave
- Asclepius - The Egg
- Baldrs draumar - Odin goes to Hel
- Benjamin, Walter - On Hashish - The dive
- Bern Zinc tablet
- Blodeuwedd
- Brittany - Isle de Sein and the Realm of the Dead
- Brittany - Ys
- Charles Hopkins on Orpheus
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The First Day
- Clare, John - Wilt thou go with me sweet maid
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - In the Caves of the Unconscious
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - On the depressive phase
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - On the depressive phase
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - The atavistic tendencies of mania
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - The horrors and insights of the depressive phase
- Dante - Inferno - Canto 02 - 07
- Dante - Inferno - Canto 08
- Dante - Inferno [anger]
- Dante - Inferno [egg shape]
- Dante - Inferno [envy and discontent]
- Dante - Inferno [gluttony]
- Dante - Inferno [obsession]
- David Lewis-Williams - Cave art
- David Lewis-Williams - Caves and spiritual experience
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mrs Eileen M. Gullick
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mrs Myles Reese of Codsall, Staffs
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mrs Winifred Burles, of Bath has several OBEs
- Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 127
- Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 168
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 03 Burnt Norton III
- Empedocles - On Nature - 233-364
- Gnostic Gospels - Mechizedek
- Grof, Dr Stanislav - Diving to the Underworld
- Heinz Insu Fenkl - Drums and drumming 002228
- Hesiod - Theogony - 02 Order of creation
- Hesiod - Works and Days - The five ages of man
- Holderlin, Johann - The course of life
- Howard Storm - And his terrifying rebirth experience
- Isaac Luria - Nefilat ‘appayam
- Joan Halifax - On shamanism
- John Milton - Il Penseroso
- Jung, C G - The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature - On the dive
- Kerberos - As described in Ovid's Metarmorphosis
- Leary, Timothy - DMT hell trips
- M A Czaplicka - Siberian shamanism - The young shaman Enchu
- Madame Guyon
- Master Naong - Song of the Pure Land
- Masters and Houston - The dive
- Mayan - Popol Vuh - 08 The Story of Blood Moon
- Mayan - Popol Vuh - 11 The Spirit beings of disease
- Mayan - Xbalanque
- McKenna, Terence - On the realm of DMT
- Mircea Eliade - A initiation ceremony
- Mircea Eliade - Altaic shamanism and the descent to the underworld
- Mircea Eliade - Australian aboriginal beliefs on death
- Mircea Eliade - Australian Aboriginal Initiation rites
- Mircea Eliade - Batu Ribn rises at the Centre of the World
- Mircea Eliade - Describes Doing the dive
- Mircea Eliade - Inuit beliefs of death
- Mircea Eliade - Kahuna ascent of the spirit on death
- Mircea Eliade - On Drum Maps and Drumming
- Mircea Eliade - On Ostyak shamans
- Mircea Eliade - Sami out of body flight
- Morrells, Luce and feeling the vibes of the crypt at Glastonbury
- Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo - And the underworld
- Norse - Jelling
- Paul Devereux - Inca paths
- Paul Devereux - Mayan - Chichen Itza cave
- Pinchbeck, Daniel - DPT - the jaded emptiness and sublime beauty of the evanescent empire
- Poetic Edda - Baldr's Dreams [extract]
- Poetic Edda - Völuspá [extract]
- Poetic Edda - Völuspá [extract]
- Poetic Edda - Völuspá [extract]
- Porphyry - The cave as the symbol of the perceptible cosmos
- Previn, Dory - Mythical Kings and Iguanas
- Reichel-Dolmatoff – The Tukano Indians - Hell and the Abyss
- S'RÎMAD BHÂGAVATAM – Canto 11, Chapter 05 – Of those who kill their soul and miss the peace
- Sacred geography - Ancient Egyptian - Abu Simbel
- Sefer ha-bahir – Para 29 – The letter Heh
- Seven Ages of Man - 06 Dwarfs/The Neanderthals - On caves as cathedrals
- Shaikh Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani - Irshad al-‘awamm - Darkness and Light
- Shaikh Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani - Irshad al-‘awamm - Earth and Underworld
- Shaikh Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani - Irshad al-‘awamm - Levels and layers
- Sikhism – Japji 34
- Soustelle - Aztecs and Mexica - The three routes on death
- Swedenborg, Emanuel - The True Christian Religion - Lower earth
- The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
- The Book of Taliesin - Marwnat Madawg - Llyfr Taliesin XLI
- The Homeric Hymn to Demeter - 01
- The Papyrus of Ani – Spell 84 - From How to Assume the Form of a Heron
- Thelmar, E – 20 I seemed to be sent out of my body into a sort of Limbo
- Tirgereh - Prayer to the Celtic goddesses
- Uxmal - Mayan - Governor's Palace
- Uxmal - Mayan - The Nunnery
- Vaughan Williams - Flos Campi
- Vaughan Williams - Symphony no 6
- Vaughan, Henry - The World
- Viscount Adare - Experiences in Spiritualism with Mr D D Home - 13 A question and answer session with spirit beings
- Vitebsky, Piers - Siberian shaman
- Vitebsky, Piers - The experiences of the Sora shaman
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - Chalchatongo and Mictlan, the Aztec land of the dead
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - Caves as the place of rebirth
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - Celtic and Egyptian Mysteries compared
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - Mithras Mysteries
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - Tara as the centre of the Irish Mysteries
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - The Pyramids as the site of the Mysteries
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - The Three Circles of Existence
- Yram - And the realm of the disembodied soul
- Zimmer, Dr Heinrich - Karma-loka