I suppose this is the best place to post this link. Excellent reading, though I haven't quite finished it yet:
http://www.hermetic.com/bey/taz_cont.html
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</font><blockquote><font size=\"1\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif\">quote:</font><hr /><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif\">...in all human beings the desire to enter into contact with the sacred is counteracted by the fear of being obliged to renounce the simple human condition and become a more or less pliant instrument for some manifestation of the sacred.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif\">-Mircea Eliade <i>Shamanism</i>
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