Mircea Eliade

TELEGRAM: “ONE IS DEVOURED BY TIME, NOT BECAUSE ONE LIVES IN TIME, BUT BECAUSE ONE BELIEVES IN ITS REALITY, AND THEREFORE FORGETS OR DESPISES ETERNITY“. MIRCEA ELIADE MIRCEA ELIADE WAS A ROMANIAN HISTORIAN OF RELIGION, PHILOSOPHER, AND PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. HE WAS A LEADING INTERPRETER OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, WHO ESTABLISHED PARADIGMS IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES THAT PERSIST TO THIS DAY. HIS THEORY THAT HIEROPHANIES (A HIEROPHANY IS A MANIFESTATION OF THE SACRED) FORM THE BASIS OF RELIGION, SPLITTING THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF REALITY INTO SACRED AND PROFANE SPACE AND TIME, HAS PROVED INFLUENTIAL. ONE OF HIS MOST INSTRUMENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO RELIGIOUS STUDIES WAS HIS THEORY OF ETERNAL RETURN. #historyandphilosophy #philosophyofreligion #mirceaeliade #eliade #religion #myth #sacred #terrorofhistory #eternalreturn #axismundi #transconscious 00:00 MIRCEA ELIADE 02:00 THE GENERAL NATURE OF RELIGION 02:43 SACRED 03:09 ORIGIN MYTHS AND S