“The shamanic ‘miracles’ not only confirm and reinforce the patterns of the traditional religion, they also stimulate and feed the imagination, demolish the barriers between dream and present reality, open windows upon worlds inhabited by the gods, the dead, and the spirits.”
Eliade, Mircea. “The Epilogue to Shamanism.” In Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse toward an Ethnopoetics, edited by Jerome and Diane Rothenberg, 61. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1983.
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