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Sam Alaimo's avatar

This is one realm in which entheogens can probably add a ton of value to civilization. A bit of ibogaine is enough to rocket us into the meaning and depth of femininity, and not merely as an intellectual concept, but a deeply human sensation. Great piece.

Michael Woudenberg's avatar

Yes. It’s no wonder that entheogens played such an important role in both male and female rituals in the past. Often, the Maiden would transition through a ceremony and the same for the Mother to Crone. The ceremonies were led by the Crones.

Have you dug very far into the historical and religious import of entheogens? A book that comes to mind is “The Immortality Key” https://amzn.to/4nqBaJa. It postulates that Christianity began from the mystery religions wih extensive use of plant medicine.

Sam Alaimo's avatar

I have read almost nothing about them but what I come across in pre-state ethnographies. I just savored doing them and introspecting. I have heard the theory of this book—fascinating.

Michael Woudenberg's avatar

The book is really good and goes back to pre-state explanaition as well as how the foundations wove through the organization of states. It’s definitly worth the read.

Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

Many thanks for describing so well the current human condition (plebes only) in the so-called modern mass-societies of the Western hemisphere !!!

Leaders of the White Empire need taxes to fund their boundless greed on global scale for which even the female tax-cattle MUST contribute until they have implemented AI strongly enough to replace the human workforce almost entirely and make the annoying "useless eaters" obsolete for good.

Traditional families will be made extinct or illegal and the few human Maidens still "desired" by those "elites" will be bred in artificial wombs; won't ever be Mothers or even reach Crone-age, being simply "disposed-of" in due time ...

Welcome to the new digital, totally soulless feudalism !!!

Michael Woudenberg's avatar

If we aren't careful.

Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

"WE" don't count any more ...

Never even did.