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Ferre
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 Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 4:53 am Post subject: Might the Gods be Alkaloids |
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Might the Gods be Alkaloids
Alex Polari de Alverga
I. Introduction.
The question related in the title of our presentation addresses the role and use of psychoactive plants, throughout the process of human evolution, as inducers of altered states of consciousness. We will closely analyze the consciousness of the shaman, and give a detailed description of the "miração", a particular state of mystical experience and visionary ecstasy induced by the sacramental beverage called "SANTO DAIME" (ayahuasca, yage, caapi, etc.). The experience brought about by this sacrament is similar in nature only to that of triptaminics. Lastly, we will describe the entheogenous experience as a paradigm for a new awareness, centered in the true Self.
II - A Brief Theology of Entheogens.
We shall begin this chapter by going back 3 million years in time, when human beings, standing out from other superior primates, began their slow evolution towards self-awareness. During the following period, the brain tripled its weight and 500 thousand years ago, the neo-cortex was shaped. We can surmise that human consciousness, in primordial times, was ample "ID" governing a slow embryo of an ego in the process of development. According to Anthroposophy, the monads of spiritual principles, promoting life and human evolution, that were then incarnating on our planet were not yet adjusted to the physical bodies of these first human beings. Rudolf Steiner said that they had a broad awareness of the spiritual plane and of the auras of beings and objects around them, but that they lacked a clear and distinct perception of themselves. This perception only emerged after the etheric and physical bodies of man became fully integrated. At this point, human consciousness was ceasing to be a "consciousness of misty clairvoyance" in order to acquire more clarity in the apprehension of the material world.
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VERY interesting...
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