MIRCEA ELIADE AND IOAN PETRU CULIANU ON NARCOTICS AND RELIGION
MIRCEA ELIADE AND IOAN PETRU CULIANU ON NARCOTICS AND RELIGION

Summary/Abstract: "In 1932, the Romanian journal Cuvdntul [The Word] published an article on Aldous Huxley signed by the young Mircea Eliade. Comprised of several episodes, the text was partly eulogistic and partly critical. At that time Huxley had not yet published any of his great books. He used to collect the excellent contributions he had made to the daily press into volumes for publication. Although Eliade was known to do the same, he found in this sufficient reason for criticism: "A mentality of an apothecary, of a man who cures his patients by prescribing narcotics and laxatives, who abhors all [surgical] interventions, who is not interested by the root causes of the illness, yet suffers along with the sick and shows him compassion, offering him powders and herbs to postpone the greater "[...]

• Details
• Contents