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associated with the loss of habitual temporal-spatial contextual moorings. A mind at time one and the same mind at time two are unconnected. They are wholly other.
In much the same sense, for Eliade, sacred time, like space, is neither homogenous nor linearly continuous. Sacred time is circular, recoverable and reversible. Past, primordial, mythical time can exist in the present. Religious festivals are recurrently ontological, allowing the recovery of the sacred time such that their past and present expressions are the same. Rebirth is new birth. In the language of the North American Indian Tribe, the Yokuts, the term for world (cosmos) and year are the same. A year and the world has gone by, only to start again. The Dakota Tribe says that the Year goes around the World. As Elaide has said, "...at each New Year...the world (is) recreated and to do this is also to create time...the sick man becomes well because he begins life again with its sum of the energy intact." Healing by becoming another or renewed self may become a frontier science in the yet unexplored field of phase transition medicine.
The quality of separateness, discontinuity in states, as occurs in the same-different inside world, is much like that found in the stages of anesthesia. Each stage of anesthesia is ganz andere from the others. In Stage I anesthesia, fast frequency, low voltage brain waves are observed and accompanied by a two Martini-like, mildly activated, sedated but exhilarated high. Stage II, the next deeper stage of anesthesia, is marked by the sudden emergence of intermittent bursts of high amplitude brain waves, and animals and man demonstrate bizarre postures, hallucinatory phenomena, fixed staring, and sometimes movements that look like acting out some symbolic drama. This stage marks the beginnings of the loss of responsiveness to painful stimuli. In the sudden drop into Stage III, a low voltage mix of mostly slow and some fast brain waves can be seen associated with depressed consciousness, complete insensitivity to pain, slow regular respiration and an unexcitable cardiovascular system. Stage IV is the deepest stage of anesthesia. This state is characterized by very low voltage, almost flat brain waves, a loss of spontaneous breathing, the collapse of blood pressure and, finally, cardiac irregularities and death in cardiac arrest. These are both discontinuous and global brain state phase transitions.

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