A monograph on the shamanism of Mircea Eliade, like his "Treatise on the History of Religions" (1949), is devoted to the search for the meaning of byggia - overcoming the "profane" time. The author contrasts him with his concept of hierophania - a sacred, sonorous feeling of cosmic "Unity." In part, this is an attempt to revise, perhaps even justify one's own experience of being introduced to a profanized history, thinking about the renewal of personality through the experience of "suffering, death and resurrection," which, according to the author, is the ultimate goal of "archaic techniques of ecstasy."