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Organizing data from cultures the world over, Eliade lays out the basic patterns of initiation: group puberty rites, entrance into secret cults, shamanic instruction, individual visions, and heroic rites of passage. The vast information, assembled so beautifully, transcends usual scholarship. Eliade always affirms the greater experience in all initiations - the indissoluble tie between humans and the cosmos of Gods, spirits, animals ancestors, and nature.
The absence of initiation in our culture has left modern men and women often isolated from each other, from the invisible powers beyond, and from the myths that sustain daily life. The primal soul desire for symbolic rituals pushes youth into substitutes for initiatory experience: gangs, suicide, car crashes, teenage pregnancy, street drugs. These "symptoms" show the unquenchable urge for existential transformation and the need for elders, mentors, and rituals.
This book is about crossing - from confusion to knowledge, from innocence to experienced elder.
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Rites and symbols of initiation: the mysteries of birth and rebirth
1994, Spring Publications, Distributed in the U.S. by Continuum Pub. Group
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Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth
June 1980, Harpercollins College Div
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Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth
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Rites and Symbols of Initiation
April 1975, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Rites and symbols of initiation: the mysteries of birth and rebirth
1975, Harper & Row
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Rites and Symbols of Initiation.
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Rites and symbols of initiation: the mysteries of birth and rebirth
1958, Harper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-165) and index.
Originally published: New York : Harper Bros., 1958, in series: The Library of religion and culture.
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