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If you want to understand ESR, you should read this that he wrote back in 1995: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/dancing.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings

• yellowapple 7y ago
  > Rituals are programs written in the symbolic language of the unconscious mind. Religions are program libraries that share critical subroutines. And the Gods represent subystems in the wetware being programmed. All humans have potential access to pretty much the same major gods because our wetware design is 99% shared. > Only...that cold and mechanistic a way of thinking about the Gods simply will not work when you want to evoke one. For full understanding, the Apollonian/scientific mode is essential; for direct experience, the Dionysian/ecstatic mode is the only way to go. That resonated surprisingly strongly with me.