The psychological and parapsychological experience of the East in general, and of yoga in particular, is unchallengeably more extensive and more orga… - Mircea Eliade

Tu îţi mai aduci aminte cine a spus că miracolele sunt irecognoscibile, în sensul că sunt camuflate printre întâmplările de toate zilele, că sunt împlinite, în aparenţă, de către oameni care seamănă cu noi toţi, oamenii de rând?

It is only through the discovery of History — more precisely by the awakening of the historical consciousness in Judaeo-Christianity and its propagation by Hegel and his successors — it is only through the radical assimilation of the new mode of being represented by human existence in the world that myth could be left behind. But we hesitate to say that mythical thought has been abolished. As we shall soon see, it managed to survive, though radically changed (if not perfectly camouflaged). And the astonishing fact is that, more than anywhere else it survives in historiography!

Mă întreb chiar dacă istoria nu ne apare atât de absurdă tocmai din cauza acestei confiscări monstruoase în profitul unui singur fel de a vedea lumea, a unui singur comportament, care nu poate fi decât limitat şi, deci, fals...