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Lots of people have written very trippy things without having done psychedelics at all. Here’s something I was just learning about in a podcast recently — 2000
by empath75 6y ago
Lots of people have written very trippy things without having done psychedelics at all.
Here’s something I was just learning about in a podcast recently — 2000 years old abd similar to the kind writing that pkd was doing after his breakdown.
https://biblehub.com/library/clement/the_stromata_or_miscellanies/chapter_vi_the_mystic_meaning_of.htm https://biblehub.com/library/clement/the_stromata_or_miscell...
- pmoriarty 6y agoWhile I agree that very strange and possibly "psychedelic" things can be written without using psychedelics or other means of attaining altered states of consciousness, particularly if one is mentally ill, I'm not convinced the 2000 year old works the article you link to discusses weren't themselves influenced by access to some altered state of consciousness, perhaps through psychedelics. Psychedelics and other means of altering consciousness have been used throughout human (and possibly even pre-human) history. In reference to the link you cited, there has been evidence that cannabis, which can have psychedelic effects at high doses, was used in ritual contexts in biblical times in ancient Israel. Here is a recent article discussing some new evidence of this: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/world/tel-arad-shrine-israel-cannabis-study-scn/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/world/tel-arad-shrine-israel-...
- empath75 6y agoOkay, but he was a Greek in Egypt.