With bold black-and-white portraits and landscapes; Cariou indelibly captured the strict; separatist; jungle-dwelling; fruit-of-the-land lifestyle—popularized by reggae legends Bob Marley; Peter Tosh; and Burning Spear—in images never before seen; until now. In Yes Rasta—the phrase spoken by true Rastafari when greeting each other—Cariou's direct; classical photographs reveal men whose style and attitude are as distinctive as their dreadlocks. Men who have left the modern world of Babylon in pursuit of their own independence. Men whose lives are intertwined with the tropical landscape; and whose rituals; symbols; philosophies; religion; medicine; agriculture; family structure; and remarkable strength make the definitive statement of self-reliance.
#1747310 in Books Riverhead Books 1997-10-01 1997-10-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.90 x .70 x 6.00l; .66 #File Name: 1573226297255 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. open mind toward other realitiesBy Ralph S. ashbrookBloom is a clear-thinking critiche seriously considers the mystical content of much Eastern traditiona fascinating and thought-provoking read6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Bloom TriumphantBy Larry HedrickYes; Harold Bloom can be infuriating at times; as when he finds Mormonism to be intellectually rigorous and shoves Jung aside as hardly worthy of comment. Yet OMENS OF MILLENNIUM has tremendous heart; and I; for one; feel; well; blessed that Bloom has spent untold hundreds of hours sounding out the depths of gnosticism so that he could return with something to enrich all our lives. For Bloom is himself a gnostic prophet in this book; and his connection with the inmost mystery of life is astonishing. I have never read such an honest and hard-won work. In comparison with this; what usually passes for spiritual discernment in America at this time is the merest piffle. Everyone is free to imagine that they inhabit some lofty plateau from which they can observe the grunting; sweating Bloom with superiority and amusement; but there are places in this book that will take you closer to the light than anything written in the last century. It will be your very great loss if you read OMENS OF MILLENNIUM with a mind that is less than fully open.3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Great bookBy cooperandreThis book is very insightful; like other reviewers I do not agree with a few things; but over all the book is filled with interesting and historical views on Angels; dreams; resurrection; and religion. I really enjoyed the section on near death experiences; and Freud's ideas of dreams were a bit strange but I am not well read on Freud's psychoanalysis work however sometimes I wonder if he was drinking a bit too much Absinthe. I am also far from anything of an expert on Judaism; Islamic Sufism or basically any other beliefs outside of Catholic or Christian; so the chance to learn a bit on all of them was a wonderful opportunity. The last section there was some part that he brought up the fact that some religions predict the end of the world; like Millerites and Jehovah's witnesses by the way how many times did they predict the world was going to end? I have to ask them the next time they come to my door. Over all I have to say what a wonderful book.
