THE INVISIBLE PYRAMID

by Loren Eiseley ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, 1970

This is Eiseley in an even more reflective, lyrical mood than in his earlier books. It is a slim volume in which the recurrent motif is man's potential to make the decision to survive or to be destroyed. He is a ""world eater"" who, like the slime mold, may end up by busting forth, catapulting spores and departing. Man has passed through a natural mode of existence in his evolution, coming to a second life which is of language and the mind. Now he must re-enter the earlier mode, incorporating the wisdom of the ancient philosophers or prophets of religion, and by so doing perhaps enter into a third more transcendent state of being. For those sympathetic with Eiseley's nature-science-mysticism the writing will please, and as always there are the personal stories of encounters, dreams, or visions of past or future. It is a quiet contemplative book, less rich in science, more revealing of the author's sense of the ""autumn light,"" both in his own life and in that of man in the universe.

Pub Date: Oct. 1, 1970

ISBN: 080326738X

Page Count: -

Publisher: Scribners

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1970

Categories: NONFICTION