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Mircea Eliade has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ... In his…
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It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that…
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The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes…
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The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils…
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The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent…
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Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A…
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To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood…
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It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because…
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For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for…
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The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
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In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of…
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The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because…
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There's no way to put a limit on what one may accomplish individually if the intent is an impeccable intent. Don Juan's…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes…
— Thomas Berry
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Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved
— Michael Harner
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He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.
— Michael Harner
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Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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It has always been the role of the shaman to go into an altered state of consciousness and track down where the…
— Sandra Ingerman
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I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic.…
— Alan Moore
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I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'...
— Bill Hicks
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Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down.
— Mark Plotkin
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The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.
— Ted Andrews
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No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone…
— Dennis McKenna
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You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell…
— Ben Kingsley
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