The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
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The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote highlights the profound significance of sacred spaces in shaping our understanding of reality.
Mircea Eliade emphasizes that the experience of sacred spaces is foundational to human existence and understanding. When the sacred is manifested in a physical environment, it reveals a deeper truth, allowing the ordinary world to emerge and be recognized as meaningful.
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SacredSpaceRealityExistencePhilosophy
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about the importance of cultural sites, this quote can underscore the significance of sacred spaces.
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The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.'
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In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.
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For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality.
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Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditioned by the materialistic and scientific ideology of psychoanalysis, that is, a historical product.
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