From Mircea Eliade's Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy:

"Regarded in the horizon of homo religiosus--the only horizon with which we are concerned in the present study--the mentally ill patient proves to be an unsuccessful mystic, or, better, the caricature of a mystic.  His experience is without religious content, even if it appears to ( Read more... )

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