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A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
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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
THE SOUL AS TEMPLE OF MEMORY THE CELTIC STORIES SUGGEST THAT TIME AS the rhythm of soul has an eternal dimension where everything is gathered and minded. Here nothing is lost. This is a great consolation: the happenings in your life do not disappear. Nothing is ever lost or forgotten. Everything is stored within your soul in the temple of memory.
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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
... See moreJonathan Haidt • L'hypothèse du bonheur: La redécouverte de la sagesse ancienne dans la science contemporaine (PSY. Individus, groupes, cultures) (French Edition)
It is an exploration of how cosmic consciousness projects itself into narrative forms, into story, or what we have come to call “myth,” and then wakes up out of that same story or myth to know itself not as other but as Self.
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
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
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