Show notes
David and Tamler return to Mircea Eliade's The Sacred and Profane and discuss the chapter "Sacred Time and Myths." How does viewing time as circular give us a periodic window into the sacred? What does it mean to reactualize the creation of the universe in ritual and to view time as "starting anew"? How did Christianity radically change the experience of time by locating the incarnation of the sacred in the historical past?
Highlighted moments
isn't that almost like definitionally true? Like, like, like part of the word plausible?
“I genuinely feel like we've lost the psychology in social psychology, like, where we don't even interact with people anymore, which is such an ironic feature of modern social psychology”
“we understand time through space. Like all of our metaphors for time are spatial. And so, like, space we feel like we have a great handle on. But time, we need space. That's our lens.”
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