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    <body><![CDATA[Mircea Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Princeton, 1951)<br/><br/>I didn't keep count of how many times during this survey Eliade says he's just touching on the very surface of the scholarship of a given topic, or that in the limited space provided, he can only manage the barest men...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14033499">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a somewhat interesting book...required reading for a class on John Milton. Isn't that odd? We were to make connections between Milton's authorship of Paradise Lost and the Shaman's ecstatic experience.<br/>A heavy book, written by a scholar, not a new age Llewellyn author.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Certainly made me see the Passion of Christ in a different light. Totally fascinating.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Worldwide survey of perhaps every known mode of shamanism... Eliade's erudition is enough to split open one's upper cortex.  Which is exactly the point of being a &quot;visitor between worlds;&quot; burst through those closed psychic gates.  Great example of becoming so immersed in a subject that it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20599444">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The study on shamanism. My first deeper insight into the primitive religions. It was insightful to find there the sources of fantasy genre as it is today.<br/>The variety of detailed descriptions of shamanisms can be a little too much for ones not studying the subject. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A huge tome devoted to the study of shamanism. Although a lot of the information is quite outdated the overall quality of the text is excellent. Tons of ethnographic examples from many cultures, culled by Eliade while he sat in his armchair.]]></body>
    
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