Ioan P. Culianu: "Mircea Eliade and the ideal of the universal man"

In this essay, which we publish in full on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of Ioan Petru Culianu's birth (January 5, 1950), the Romanian scholar analyzes the life and works of his teacher Mircea Eliade, taking into account both the biographical and the literary aspects. , as well as obviously his role as a "mystagogue" and initiator as regards the hermeneutic question of the Sacred and of the history of religions.

Colin Wilson & Jacques Bergier: that is, the conspiracy of history

Civilization as a conspiracy; history as a trap; an endemic psychic vampirism that has seized an entire civilization: these are the burning themes of two of the key texts of the Alternative Reality between the 60s and 70s: "The parasites of the mind" by Colin Wilson andย "The cursed books" byย Jacques Berger.

Ioan P. Culianu: the Hyperborean shamanism of ancient Greece

cover: Ilyas Phaizulline, "Orpheus at the Empire of the Dead"


Introduction

curated by Marco Maculotti

When it comes to "shamanism" [I], we usually tend to think of the Siberian one [II], from which the term itself derives, or to the Himalayan one, which often synchronizes with the Buddhist and / or Hindu tradition, or to that of the native populations of North America, Mexico and the Andes, as well as that of the Australian aborigines. More rarely, the importance of shamanic practices for the Indo-European peoples is emphasized, although the classical sources are not poor in this regard.