Dale Nelson Wrote:
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> R. C. Zaehner (Mysticism Sacred and Profane) and
> Huston Smith (Forgotten Truth: The Primordial
> Tradition) have pages on the possible relevance of
> psychedelic experience to spirituality. These
> might be of interest to you, Sawfish.
>
> This is a good opportunity for me to say again
> that poetic consciousness is not always manifest
> in salutary ways. "Primitive" religious cults and
> superstitions may be manifestations of poetic
> consciousness and may also involve needless
> suffering for their adherents or the victims of
> those adherents. Poetic consciousness, I have
> said, has been the natural awareness of human
> beings till recent times; but all mankind is
> "fallen."
>
> You can read Zaehner's article on Charles Manson,
If you really want to understand the Manson phenomenon, I suggest reading the pre-trial interviews of Atkins and Van Houten, and the other interviews & various testimonies of Kasabian, DeCarlo, Watkins, and Watson's account written in prison, and sometimes the parole hearings.
You can gradually get a feel for what it was all about. You won't need--or want--an intermediary interpretation.
> LSD, and mysticism here:
>
> [
www.unz.com]
>
>
> Sociological consciousness, in which abstraction
> and endless pawing through political resentments
> and so on are so common, is unlikely to satisfy
> people. Thus I anticipate a future in which
> sociological consciousness will be augmented by,
> or even superseded by, a depraved and partial
> poetic consciousness. That is the trajectory we
> are on, since (for one thing) wokeism is a
> religion.
Exactly.
And US schools are now madrasas.
> Cf. Pitirim Sorokin's The Crisis of the
> Modern Age, which I haven't read, and F. Baue's
> The Spiritual Society, which I have, though both
> books came before the Woke phenomenon was labeled
> as such. Baue expects the emergence of a "Therian
> Age" that will be religious. But it will be
> extremely inimical to the religion I hold. Drugs
> may well have a role to play in the emerging new
> religion(s).
--Sawfish
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