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Symbolic thinking is not the exclusive privilege of the child, of the poet or of the unbalanced mind: it is consubstantial with human existence, it c… - Mircea Eliade
" "Symbolic thinking is not the exclusive privilege of the child, of the poet or of the unbalanced mind: it is consubstantial with human existence, it comes before language and discursive reasoning. The symbol reveals certain aspects of reality — the deepest aspects — which defy any other means of knowledge. Images, symbols and myths are not irresponsible creations of the psyche; they respond to a need and fulfill a function, that of bringing to light the most hidden modalities of being..
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About Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade (13 March 1907 {O.S. 28 February} – 22 April 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. His most enduring and influential contribution to religious studies was possibly his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply record or imitate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them.
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Printre marile anomalii ale lumii moderne se numără şi faptul că ştiinţa şi filosofia ne învaţă viaţa şi moartea. Gândiţi-vă o clipă la absurditatea acestui lucru: oameni care cunosc viaţa din laborator, o cunosc prin analize, îi cunosc fenomenele ei, şi oameni care gândesc asupra vieţii dintr-un cabinet, tocmai aceştia sunt chemaţi să ne înveţe cel mai esenţial şi cel mai decisiv fapt: existenţa noastră, moartea noastră. De altfel, ei nu fac decât să completeze şi să articuleze experienţele noastre negative, nefiinţa noastră.
When the sacred manifests itself in any hierophany, there is not only a break in the homogeneity of space; there is also a revelation of an absolute reality, opposed to the nonreality of the vast surrounding expanse. The manifestation of the sacred ontologically founds the world. In the homogenous and infinite expanse, in which no point of reference is possible and hence no orientation can be established, the hierophany reveals an absolute fixed point, a center.
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