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

…The definitive work on shamanism, or the great classic work on shamanism is called shamanism, the archaic techniques of ecstasy by Mircea Eliade and Eliade was a Romanian who educated in France and became a brilliant academic, wrote one of the best books…

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

…a toxified planet? This is where the humility comes in. I think we have to seriously consider the possibility that, as Mircea Eliade says in his wonderful study shamanism, the archaic techniques of ecstasy. He says the shaman is one who can pass through…

…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…

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