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This book serves as a readable introduction to the work of Mircea Eliade, anthropologist of religion and one-time fascist, and to the concept of "time" as it differs between cultures. The primary distinction drawn by the author is between our modern sense of homogeneous (even isotropic, according to some physicists) time proceeding historically through cause and effect and the more common sense, historically and culturally speaking, that time is patterned and repetitive. This book gave me some small insight into the causal assumptions behind the I Ching and the Bible. It did not much discuss the vagaries of our own lived times, but it certainly spoke to the fact that we don't really experience time as homogeneous. This in turn helped me appreciate the more traditional notions of time represented in the book and to reflect about how the physical sciences have alienated us from our lived experience. I read this book for a class at Union Theological Seminary--probably Neale's "Religious Symbol" course.

While the author made some valid points I just couldn't get past his idle slacker state. This man needs to grow up and stop encouraging the chavs to piss and smoke away all their benefit money which is paid for by my hard earned cash