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Mircea Eliade - The trials and terrors of Initiation
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000821
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Mircea Eliade – Shamanism Archaic techniques of ecstasy
It will be remembered that candidate shamans or the heroes of certain myths sometimes find themselves in apparently desperate situations. They must go ‘where night and day meet’, or find a gate in a wall, or go up to the sky through a passage that opens but for an instant, pass between two constantly moving millstones, two rocks that clash together, through the jaws of a monster and the like