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Mircea Eliade - Bird as symbol of the spiritual person
Identifier
007037
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
He is describing out of body experiences as such I have included it as an experienceA description of the experience
Mircea Eliade – Shamanism Archaic techniques of ecstasy
By flying into the air, in bird form or in their normal human shape, shamans as it were proclaim the degeneration of humanity. For as we have seen, a number of myths refer to a primordial time when all human beings could ascend to heaven, by climbing a mountain, a tree or a ladder, or flying by their own power, or being carried by birds. The degeneration of humanity henceforth forbids the mass of mankind to fly to heaven; only death restores men – and not all of them – to their primordial condition; only then can they ascend to heaven, fly like birds….