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Ferre
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 Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 3:21 pm Post subject: Shamanism and the Drug Propaganda |
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Read: Shamanism and the Drug Propaganda: The Birth of Patriarchy and the Drug War
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As the Roman ecology became industrial, so did the rites of passage. Experience of the original tribal rites of transformation became buried in the overlay of politicized legend upon legend, which overlay included, inherently, rules restricting the shamanic experience. Politically acceptable - that is, mandatory - legend replaced mythos, the transforming words of the Mother, so that rites of passage became rites of submission. Symbology replaced experience, idolatry replaced ecstacy. This is the psychological equivalent of ecocide, since what is being peddled is servitude, not freedom; guilt, not creativity; repentance, not ecstacy; supplication, not dance; a wafer, not a mushroom; rote, not song. (page 266)
. . . Although the memory of these cults was shamanic, their practice was often symbolic, Euhemeristic, disconnected. Castration was actually taken to mean castration by some hysterical devotees of Cybele, and Christ, the vegetal ecstacy replaced by physical agony. The aristocratic Romans, who were often Eleusinian initiates, found this perverted 'enthusiasm' disgusting and dangerous, and banned it under the Lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficiis, as they did the circumcision of non-Jews.
As Apuleius shows, the genuine entheogenic 'initiations' were often quite expensive, and necessarily surrounded by a wall of exclusivity and secrecy. But a wall easily and often pierced by those who could afford it or who had the knowledge. As their lush wall paintings show, the mysteries were celebrated at Pompeii. ... As [a] Roman glass mosaic indicates, the association of a rabbit with a Soma mushroom was common 'mystery' code. (page 268)
The Gnostic Philo, elucidating the rationalism Plato derived from Eleusinian shamanism, metaphorized the Manna given to the Israelites in the Sinai as the Divine Logos bestowed on man for his sustenance. This is obviously a prototype of the eucharistic wafer. "Now the house of Israel called its name manna; it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey". The Manna was symbolized by the unleavened bread, matzo, matsoth, which, interestingly enough, simply means 'dehydrated, and is cognate with the mazones of the Dionysiac feasts, which included dehydrated entheogenic mushrooms. The word is related to matzevot, stones, used by the ancients, as in the Epic of Gilgamesh, to denote 'stoned' just the way we do today, and as a synonym for mushrooms, as the Aramaic kepha (stone) and pitra (mushroom). We also have Sumerian medical tablets from c. 2250 BC which prescribe 'the manna-plant' in conjunction with fir and pine, indicating entheogenic mushrooms. The ritual use of both matzo and the eucharist, of course, also gives the impression of an entheogenic substitute. ... (page 277)
Contemporary American inquisitors, heirs of Cotton Mather and Harry Anslinger, would deny that their attitude is theological or inquisitorial; the fact that their law is identical to the Codex Theodosianus is just coincidence: "The rest, however, whom We adjudge demented and insane, shall sustain the infamy of heretical dogmas, their meeting places shall not receive the name of churches, and they shall be smitted first by divine vengeance and secondly by the retribution of Our own initiative, which we shall assume in accordance with the divine judgement. ... We determine that to these, indeed, that is the Manichaeans, Borborits and pagans, as well as the Samaritans, Montanists, Tascodrogits and Ophyts, all testimony as well as all other legal actions are prohibited." That is, my opinion of my sacraments is legally irrelevant, since they are deemed demented and insane and therefore subject to prohibition; all evidence to the contrary shall be inadmissable and I shall be smitted with retribution at the State's initiative; that is de facto contemporary American law. |
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Rev. Steven Wilson
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I understand they grow quite well in sterilized brown rice flower and vermiculite.
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