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The Celtic mind had a wonderful respect for the mystery of the circle and the spiral. The circle is one of the oldest and most powerful symbols. The world is a circle; the sun and moon are too.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
Mythology is the authentic record of those periods of transition when the diviner sparks were gradually assuming the bodies of mortality.
Manly Hall • What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of Its Disciples: A Study Concerning the Mystery Schools
by Mircea Ellade:
“Eliade shows how deeply our lives are shaped by invisible structures of meaning—rituals, symbols, and sacred spaces—making you reconsider how even the most modern technology platforms subtly echo ancient patterns of human belonging.”
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à mesure que la science, la technologie et l’ère industrielle avançaient, le monde occidental se «désacralisa». Du moins, c’est l’idée avancée par l’historien des religions Mircea Eliade. Dans Le Sacré et le Profane*384, Eliade montre que la perception du sacré est un universel humain. Malgré leurs différences, toutes les religions ont des lieux (t
... See moreJonathan Haidt • L'hypothèse du bonheur: La redécouverte de la sagesse ancienne dans la science contemporaine (PSY. Individus, groupes, cultures) (French Edition)
This balance was vital since the Celts were a rural, farming people. This mythological and spiritual perspective has had an immense subconscious effect on how landscape is viewed in Ireland. Landscape is not matter nor merely nature, rather it enjoys a luminosity. Landscape is numinous. Each field has a different name and in each place something di
... See moreJohn O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
To paraphrase Antoine Saint-Exupéry, we may say: rituals are in life what things are in space.
Byung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
In his seminal 1957 The Sacred and the Profane, Romanian historian Mircea Eliade discusses the nature of religious experience. For the religious person, Eliade argues, the sacred becomes as a “fixed point,” a central frame of reference, around which their lived experience revolves.
To quote Eliade:
Revelation of a sacred sp... See more
The Magic Circle
Writing in 1957, Eliade argued that the world we live in had lost its hierophanies—that all things were part of the same flat reality.