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Mircea Eliade - Rebirth as the means of gaining environmental control
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022979
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A description of the experience
Mircea Eliade – Shamanism Archaic techniques of ecstasy
The Siberian shamans will be recalled; the candidate witnesses the dismemberment of his own body… his bones are put together again and fastened with iron, his flesh is renewed and on returning to life the future shaman has a ‘new body’ that enables him to gash his flesh with knives, run swords through himself, touch white hot iron and so forth. It is remarkable that the Indian fakirs are reputed to perform the same ‘miracles’