Элиаде, Мирча

Mircea Eliade Romania 1907 – 1986 Teachers: James Frazer; Robert Graves; Joseph Campbell; Margaret Murray; Nae Ionescu; influenced by Tommaso Campanella; Ananda Coomaraswamy; Aldous Huxley; Mahatma Gandhi Students: Robert Ellwood; Will Parfitt; Friends: Maitreyi Devi; Sorana Ţopa; Nina Mareş; Georges Bataille; Carl Jung; Henry Corbin; Gershom Scholem; Paul Radin; Saul Bellow Organizations: posthumous member of the Romanian Academy. Author: autobiographical Novel of the Nearsighted Adolescent; A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 1 (trans. Willard R. Trask), 1978; Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism (trans. Philip Mairet), 1991; Myth and Reality ,1963; Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (trans. Philip Mairet),1967 ; Myths, Rites, Symbols: A Mircea Eliade Reader, Vol. 2, Ed. Wendell C. Beane and William G. Doty, 1976 Patterns in Comparative Religion, 1958; Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, 2004 ; The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History (trans. Willard R. Trask), 1971; "The Quest for the 'Origins' of Religion", in History of Religions 4.1 (1964); The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion (trans. Willard R. Trask), 1961; Yoga: Immortality and Freedom; Man and the Sacred; Occultism, Witchcraft and Cultural Fashions; Shamanism; Comments: ; somewhat fascist leaning, but not anti-semetic; Alchemy; Shamanism; Yoga; Gnostic; Romanian philosopher; Quote: The co-incidence of opposites is an extraordinary state where our usual condition - feeling like a fragment torn away from the source of Life, experiencing nostalgia for the primal Unity, is exchanged for a plenitude in which all opposites exist without conflict" quotes by Will Parfitt in The Living Qabalah pg. 198 Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mircea_Eliade