He had some ancient-looking... «Wylding Hall»
RamingoWS29 июля 2018He had some ancient-looking volumes under his bed. Leather-bound. Some of them were quite small: the size of your hand. I remember feelign excited, thinking he was going to show me some weird esoteric thing he`d discovered, like an incunabulum or something like that. But it was just a paperback by Mircea Eliade. The Sacred and Profane. "Do you know this?" He held it in those big hands as though it were a butterfly he`d caught. "It`s brilliant. There`s two kinds of time, he says — sacred time and profane time. The outside, everyday world — you know, where you go to work, go to school, that sort of thing — that`s profane time. "But things like Christmas or holidays, any kind of religious, ritual or shared experience, like performing together, or a play — those take place in sacrd time. It`s like this—" He grabbed a pen and drew on the inside cover of the paperback. A little Venn diagram: two intersecting circles. "—a circle within a circle. Do you see? The big circle is profane time. This one`s sacred time. The two coexist, but we only step into sacred time when we intentionally make space for it — like at Christmas, or the Jewish High Holy Days — or if something extraordinary happens. You know that feeling you get, that time is passing faster or slower? Well, it really is moving differnetly. When you step into sacred time, you`re actually moving sideways into a different space that`s inside the normal world. It`s folded in. Do you see?"
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