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In the pre-modern world people had a very different relationship to death and there wasn’t anything like anxiety as its experienced today. Psychedelics are esse
by DiscourseFan 2y ago
In the pre-modern world people had a very different relationship to death and there wasn’t anything like anxiety as its experienced today. Psychedelics are essentially an attempt to bring someone back to a more “authentic” experience of life before technological controls settled in. Perhaps its better to take the chance? I think so, but I want others to recognize it as a genuine risk that is truly unpredictable and not a personal failing on the part of the user.
- griffzhowl 2y agoI wonder what you mean by saying there wasn't anything like anxiety as it's experienced today in the premodern world. The term "anxiety" comes from Latin "anxietas", and Old English had "angsumnes", both with apparently similar meanings, so it seems the idea has been around for a while, and most likely because it's a basic human emotional condition that could occur in various circumstances throughout history and prehistory. As for a relationship to death, it's difficult to generalise over all people throughout history, but for example in medieval Europe where you had a seemingly quite vivid belief in the possibility of hell after life, that could result in some extreme anxiety of the most inescapable kind. Maybe that accounts for some of the more extreme behaviours of those times, who knows.
- Wytwwww 2y ago> and there wasn’t anything like anxiety as its experienced today You know that how exactly? We really do not have even remotely enough data to be able to make such boldly absurd claims.