Organizing data from cultures the world over, Mircea Eliade, one ofthe preeminent interpreters of world religion in the twentieth century,lays out the basic patterns of initiation: group puberty rites, entranceinto secret cults, shamanic instruction, individual visions, and heroicrites of passage. The vast information assembled here transcendsusual scholarship. Eliade always affirms the greater experience in allinitiation – the indissoluble tie between humans and the cosmos ofgods, spirits, animals, ancestors, and nature. As Michael Meade writes in his foreword, Eliade “fervently workedat keeping the doors of perception open to the world of sacred symbolsand creative ritual. Through his insistence that we are each thenecessary inheritors of a vast sacred heritage, he has acted as a spiritualelder and distant mentor to me and many students of myth andritual. Like an archeologist of symbols, he has unearthed, preserved,and found new meanings in the rites of our ancestors.”
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🗸 Author(s): Mircea Eliade,Willard R. Taske,Michael Meade
🗸 Title: Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth
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🗸 Languange: English
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