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Mircea Eliade - On the Ghost Dance religion
Identifier
011448
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Mircea Eliade – Shamanism Archaic techniques of ecstasy
The founder of the Ghost Dance religion, like all the principal prophets of that mystical movement, had an ecstatic experience that determined his career. He climbed a mountain in trance and met a beautiful woman dressed in white, who revealed to him that the Master of Life was on the summit of the mountain