reading Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane (Harcourt), which I am enjoying. Jerome Rothenberg refers to Eliade in Pre-Faces. trying to understand the religious and/or spiritual (I infer a difference between the two terms, religion to me being formalized and structured social tool (opiate) while spirituality is an individual um search for meaning) from outside rather than in. buddhism attracts me for just that, it is within, and it isn't structured so much.