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terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2019

Meditações - to exorcise the idea of time

What kind of experience is the experience of change? Mythology offers abundant proof that the experience of change is associated with an awareness which causes anxiety and is difficult to accept: the awareness of limits, of death, of the transitory nature of everything about human life. Consciousness of time and consciousness of death are clearly related. Chronos is a threatening god who eats his progeny. All religions have tried to exorcise the idea of time through the invention of a sacred time that, as Mircea Eliade has shown, has the role of cancelling out historical time from a person’s life, with the experience of the return of identical things, the reversibility of time’s arrow, the suspension of the future (Eliade, 1959a, 1959b).

Simonetta Tabboni

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