…taking your eye off the ball, a certain assumption that things are simpler than they are almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called the rupture of plane. That indicates you know that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power beyond, behind…

…terms of the magical pre cartesian attitudes toward matter, this is what they were going for. And in a sense, you know, merci. Eliade said this. He said, it's ironic that the 20th century, with its scorn for the magical notions of the 16th century, has…

…There are two schools about the basis of shamanism, shamanistic experience. One is the older school, exemplified by Mercy Eliade, who holds that all narcotic shamanism is decadent. He prefers drumming, dancing, self mutilation, even ordeal poisons. All precede…

…shuttles, space colonies, starships of the hardware, speed of light, spin, dizzy drive type, all of these are, as merci, Eliade says, self transforming images of flight that speak volumes about man's aspects. Inspiration to self transcendence. So that we are…

…they are creating near psychedelic or pseudo psychedelic states. Now a brilliant and respected commentator on comparative religion, like Merci Eliade, who I quote whenever it suits my purpose, totally disagreed with this and said no. What he called narcotic…

…There are two schools about the basis of shamanism, shamanistic experience. One is the older school, exemplified by Merci Eliade, who holds that all narcotic shamanism is decadent. He prefers drumming, dancing, self mutilation, even ordeal poisons. All precede…

…shuttles, space colonies, starships of the hardware, speed of light, spin, dizzy drive type, all of these, these are as merci, Eliade says, self transforming images of flight that speak volumes about man's aspiration to self transcendence. So that we are our…

…know, it's not a popular point of view. So since I'm outside of all of that, I can just say, you know, I read Eliade on shamanism and I think these people did a fine job. But I don't catch the flavor from any of this orthodox anthropological reporting…

…definitive work on shamanism, or the great classic work on shamanism is called shamanism. The archaic techniques of ecstasy by Mercia, Eliade and Iliad. Was a Romanian who educated in France and became a brilliant academic. Wrote one of the best books ever…

…noticing something about the fantasies of these viennese housewives and then Jung splicing in the myths, and then the surrealists and Eliade, and then the drug people come along and Huxley and so forth. Until finally people say, as that wonderful line in…