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Acid trip = bible?
    #5417434 - 03/18/06 10:22 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I was born jewish, but ever since I started doing acid and shrooms, I started to get closer to the bible (not in a religious way...yet). I don't believe in god or anything, but when ever I do acid, the majority of the time I have seen crosses. (For example, a recent trip of mine I saw jesus hanging from those electric poles on the side of the road that look similar to "the cross". Now, really all it was, was one of those transistor boxes they have nailed to the top of them) Here are some things in the bible that I can relate to "tripping":

-Water turning red like blood. I have seen many things change color and sometimes think it changes texture.
-A bush on fire talking, not only talking, but the bushes voice is the voice of god. On a very heavy intense trip, I have herd objects talking to me, and I'm sure if your religious it wouldn't be that hard to think your talking to god through a burning bush.
-A whole ocean separating in half. Never had this trip.... but how the hell is it possible if it wasn't a trip?!
-Jesus flying into the sky. the same thing I had to say about the splitting ocean.


I think back then, they didn't have scientists or laws to tell people those things are bad. LSD-25 wasn't invented back then, so I doubt they tripped on acid, but mushrooms were most likely available. I'm not sure what they have over there in the middle east beside hashish. I don't believe in god, but jesus has something to do with acid.... or I could just be a dreamer, which I most likely am


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: thepos]
    #5417568 - 03/18/06 11:18 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Acid allowed me to commune with Christ, and is responsible for my conversion to Christianity. I've heard from several others here that they've had "Christ-like" experiences on acid. But you must remember that your own subjective experience of a substance is not the definitive measure of its effects.

As for the miracles in the Bible, it's important to remember a few things:

1. These stories were mostly written long after they occured, so they could be exaggerated or added later.
2. Some of them can be explained by natural phenomenon. For example, bodies of water have been known to recede during earthquakes.
3. Hallucinogens are not required for mystical experiences to occur. They can occur from fasting, high stress, or in dreams(all of which are states in which the brain produces higher levels of DMT).
4. Some stories may be intended to be interpreted allegorically rather than literally.

Also, where the hell does it say Jesus flew?


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: Silversoul]
    #5417608 - 03/18/06 11:33 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

The day after he died he was lifted by god and "flew up to heaven"


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: Silversoul]
    #5417616 - 03/18/06 11:35 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Not sure about Jesus, but Simon Magus could fly  :cool: :wink:


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: thepos]
    #5417622 - 03/18/06 11:36 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

It said he "ascended into heaven." I wouldn't take that passage too literally. It simply means he went back to the heavenly Father. To say that that means he flew into the sky is to be way to literalist in your thinking.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: thepos]
    #5417623 - 03/18/06 11:36 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Christ's flight is an allegory for the ascension.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: Silversoul]
    #5417627 - 03/18/06 11:36 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Beat me to it.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: thepos]
    #5417920 - 03/19/06 02:49 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

i dont think they had LSD back then, look into Amanita Muscaria. and yee shall find the truth.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: thepos]
    #5418085 - 03/19/06 07:53 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

yeah...


Good thinking there thepos...


imagine?


if you took a collection of trip reports....
made up a red thread, to tie them all together, ..

then gave them out, as a "book of creation" ..


what would that book be a kind to?

I bet the BIBLE... NO offense anyone..

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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: thepos]
    #5419128 - 03/19/06 03:32 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I would propose the readings of Ezechiel :smile:


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: BlueCoyote]
    #5419272 - 03/19/06 04:15 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

DrJ found this on the internet; it's related to my possible dissertation subject -

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/dmt.html

?DMT, Moses, and the Quest for Transcendence? ? Cliff Pickover

It's definitely well worth the read, though related to DMT trips, rather than shrooms - but I still think it'll be of interest to you.

And - if there was a creator God - then he made mushrooms, maybe they were designed with the purpose of helping humanity get closer to the divine?  As it seems it did for Paradigm...

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Acid allowed me to commune with Christ, and is responsible for my conversion to Christianity. I've heard from several others here that they've had "Christ-like" experiences on acid. But you must remember that your own subjective experience of a substance is not the definitive measure of its effects.




Let me know what you make of the article!

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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: thepos]
    #5419340 - 03/19/06 04:43 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I am also Jewish, and I was agnostic until psychedelics also opened me to certain repressed Christian symbols - most notably the crucifix. I read you post with interest, and thought that I'd scan and send this record jacket to The Doors' 'L.A. Woman' album so as to illustrate your vision as belonging to a collective idea.

The language of the Bible - contrary to many or most - is 'midrashic' and mythological, NOT literal. The symbolism needs to be understood, but lots of essentially simple people do not have the insight or predilection for a life-long quest for such knowledge, so they settle for literal interpretation and a faith which allows them to do so.

I am a Jewish-Christian Gnostic - clunky and awkward, it is at least descriptive of some of the major spiritual elements that have been integrated during the last 34 years of spiritual seeking.

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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #5419495 - 03/19/06 05:24 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I visited Israel a few years ago, and I just loved how people greeted each other with shalom I study theology too, and I'm considering (in my final year) studying Hebrew - as I think it's so beautiful... especially the phrase "Barach Ha'ba bashem adonai" which (I believe) translates as "Blessed is he who come in the name of the Lord"

I think people definitely make a mistake of viewing both the New and Old Testaments as literal, we are so caught up in the contemporary manner of historical recording, that they forget that not all time periods did it in the manner we now do.  The Bible, and the Qu'Ran, is far more rich than people give it credit...

... I look forward to the time when I can steal myself away, into nature, and really 'commune' with the texts, and listen to what the spirits tell me

Religion wise, I'm now at a cross-roads, I was raised Christian, but now have moved gradually more towards nature, and the natural religions of paganism.  I'm doing a fair bit of study into Wicca right now, an it gives me a strange sense of coming home - anyone else looking into this area?  Or practise Wicca &/or paganism?  I'd love to discuss it - feel free to PM me, or email me as well!

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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: Gomp]
    #5419672 - 03/19/06 06:02 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

The bible does sound alot like trip reports if you don't look at it in a religious way. I'm not saying I believe some situations happened literally, I'm trying to say I think they were all hallucinations from tripping on something.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: thepos]
    #5419794 - 03/19/06 06:28 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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thepos said:
The bible does sound alot like trip reports if you don't look at it in a religious way. I'm not saying I believe some situations happened literally, I'm trying to say I think they were all hallucinations from tripping on something.




But even trip experiences happen literally... you take the drug (that's actually happening), and then how you perceive the world for a certain period of time following that is guided by the chemicals...

It literally happens - you just see the world in a different way to how you might do otherwise - but who is to say what is reality?  Can we not have dual (or more) realities???

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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: Peyote_Princess]
    #5419925 - 03/19/06 07:01 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

read "the sacred mushroom" by r. gordon watson, or the golden bough by Fraizer. Christ symbolism/mthyology is very similar to the mythology of the other dying/reborn gods (osiris, but closer to dionyisus). The ancient mystery religions surrounding these gods used a "sacrement" to provide an experience of gnosis...so in a certain arch-type kind of way one can formulate a relationship between dying/reborn god symbolism/gnosis and tripping.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: thepos]
    #5419939 - 03/19/06 07:04 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

One other thought---christian symbolism is very prevland in American culture right now, so these images could also just be flashes/shadows from the uncounscious...a trip reflecting all the material your psyche has absorbed over time.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: Taco Chef]
    #5419957 - 03/19/06 07:09 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

novumorganum said:
One other thought---christian symbolism is very prevland in American culture right now, so these images could also just be flashes/shadows from the uncounscious...a trip reflecting all the material your psyche has absorbed over time.




Is this like a Jungian idea of archetype do you think?

Yes - I did a 'philosophy of religion' class last term, and loved it - the tutor recommended Frazer's book, and I shall look out for the other too...

And The Golden Bough is great if you keep it in mind while watching Apocalypse Now which is one of those great movies inmho...

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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: Peyote_Princess]
    #5420114 - 03/19/06 08:04 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

well it doesn't have to be jungian, although that would be one possibility.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: Peyote_Princess]
    #5420373 - 03/19/06 09:07 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

"And The Golden Bough is great if you keep it in mind while watching Apocalypse Now which is one of those great movies inmho..."

Is that because Colonal Kurtz (Marlon Brando) in 'Apocalypse Now' had The Golden Bough with him in his temple, along with Weston's From Ritual to Romance and a copy of the Bible?


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: Peyote_Princess]
    #5422252 - 03/20/06 12:17 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Huh, I think you responded to the original poster :wink:

Once I smoked dmt, I intentionally stopped at the first gate to take a good and loong look.
After coming down, I enjoyed the effects of the lasting syrean rue (priorily ingested) and was intentionally watching into the movie of my brain, until I broke through (the crysanthemum and the lightening tunnel) and did recieve for what I asked for (I wanted to see an angel) :lol:
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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: Peyote_Princess]
    #5422996 - 03/20/06 07:41 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Perhaps this book, which I recently read, would help you to see the Pagan elements that were already merged with Christianity (though largely suppressed by orthodoxy). Christianity is anything but a Jewish religion, as it was at its inception. The Greek concepts of Divine Incarnation, of a God-man, of 'God-clothed-with-flesh,' is strictly Pagan. Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Babylonians, Mesopotamians, etc. all had this idea set in various traditions: Dionysus, Bacchus, Mithras, Osirus, Attis, Tammuz, etc. Moreover, since they all were solar-masculine deities (usually with consorts, or accompanying goddesses), they were ALL said to have been born on December 25th, marking the Winter Solstice and the return of the Light. Like Judaism before it (which originally recognized YHVH's 'Asherah' [Goddess]), Christianity also suppressed the Eternal Feminine (although some people believe Jesus and Mary were married, and thus represented the God & Goddess).

Wiccans, coming from Celtic and other traditions continue to acknowledge Divinity in Duality. In the Biblical Genesis, the Name 'Elohim,' an unusal conjunction of feminine with plural masculine ending suggests that that Name for God is 'Mother-Father.' It is not until after creation that the Name YHVH is used. The Cherubim atop the Ark of the Covenant are said by some Jewish mystics to represent the original Divine Duality that descends from the ONE.

I, for one, symbolize the Logos [Christ] and Wisdom [Sophia] as part of my grasp of these aspects of the ONE. Mary the Mother and Mary the Wise Woman are both Feminine archetypes that need to be integrated into the long-held patriarchal one-sided distortion of God as Mother-Father. Just today I read in Dion Fortune's The Mystical Qabalah that Elohim is more representative of the God that I worship than the 'irascible mountain-god' Jehova/Yahweh.

Anyway, with some digging, one can usually find all the universals in any given tradition without having to travel too far afield of one's roots. One then sees the conspiracies that suppressed under pain of death these universal truths for the sake of power and sexual politics. While maintaining that demonic practices were being eliminated, the Truth is that Christianity became, in HUGE degree, a greater evil than any Pagan religion ever was. Druids never burned alive the millions of human beings that organized Christianity did. I endeavor to become a Christian who embodies Sophia and Logos, Wisdom and Compassion, Head and Heart - directly from the Source - no longer through the doctrines of men.

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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #5424357 - 03/21/06 02:10 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Thank you markos for that input !
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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: BlueCoyote]
    #5426312 - 03/21/06 05:20 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Thanks fo so saying BlueCoyote!


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: thepos]
    #5426880 - 03/21/06 07:04 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

if you want to see the bible compared to an acid trip, read timothy leary's high priest. also, i dissagree with your theory that the bible itself was based on drug trips, as far as i know, psychedelics weren't that popular among the people responsible for writing the bible and you seem to be forgetting that mystical experiences can (and traditionally do) occur without drugs. i think it's a mistake to assume that any out of the ordinary experience must automatically be a result of a hallucinogenic drug. its kinda like those people who whenever they read a strange poem or book, assume the author must have been on drugs when he wrote it.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: Deviate]
    #5427399 - 03/21/06 08:46 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

First of all, I want to second your recommendation of High Priest. That book definitely rules. Second I respectfully disagree with your opinion that the people responsible for writing the Bible weren't on psychedelics. First of all, Who is responsible for writing the bible? None of the gospels are actually named (so we don't have a real author), and scholars can't even tell if they were written by Jews or Greeks. We know at least from the Eleusinian Mysteries that the Greeks enjoyed psychedelic drug use. And Clark Heinrich's book "Magic Mushrooms in religion and Alchemy" has put forward some interesting theories that the Jews used psychedelics as well.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: goatboy7]
    #5427626 - 03/21/06 09:36 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

but that hardly establishes that the writers were on psychedelics. that's the exactly the type of thinking i think is unfounded, the idea that because such and such wrote some mystical text they must have been using drugs. as if all mysticism and spirituality is dependent on psychedelics. it's certainly possible, i'm not denying it that they may have used drugs. i just don't think you can draw that conclusion based on the fact that they wrote mystical texts.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: Deviate]
    #5427849 - 03/21/06 10:21 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I wasn't basing it on the fact that they wrote mystical texts, I was basing it on the fact that the Greeks were known drug users (especially in the mystery traditions) and many believe Jews were too. And those are the 2 big choices as to who wrote the bible.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: goatboy7]
    #5427877 - 03/21/06 10:25 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

but modern day americans are also known drug users, that doesn't mean that every mystical book written by an american was based on drugs.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: Deviate]
    #5427940 - 03/21/06 10:35 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I am not sure what you are saying. Are you looking for 100 percent fact that they used drugs. That type of evidence is almost impossible to find since it was about 2000 years ago. You have to look at it in probability terms. And if you look at it that way, you see that most of the mystics (like the Eleusinian Mysteries) were on drugs.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: goatboy7]
    #5428251 - 03/21/06 11:42 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

i'm simply saying i require more evidence that they were on drugs than simply that drugs were available and they wrote about mystical things. i don't know whether such evidence exists.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: goatboy7]
    #5428738 - 03/22/06 05:47 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Actually, I believe that is is 'few' who believed that the ancient Hebrews used entheogens, not "many." Daniel Merkur is among the authors who believe that and has really stretched interpretations about the 'manna from heaven' being mushrooms and the 'shewbread' being ergot-laden, and he does offer very interesting perspectives. However, let us not forget that even if entheogens were used, there is still the importance of mental 'set' and of course the Source of the Transcendental Experience - the Transcendental Itself (God).

Scholarly consensus is that Hebrews (sometimes multiple authors of one book, as in Isaiah), wrote the books included in the canonical Bible. 'Luke' may have been a Hellenized Hebrew if not a Greek. Many of the pseudepigraphal writings and Nag Hammadi writings were from non-Jews. The author Matthew quoted (misquoted actually!) the Greek Old Testament when he wrote that the Savior was to be born of a "virgin" in Bethlehem. The Greek OT (Septuigint) had only one word for virgin/young wwoman - parthenos. The Hebrew version of the Isaiah text says 'almah' - young woman. The Hebrew for virgin would have been 'betulah.' Parthenogenesis - Greek for virgin birth is the scientific word we have today. So, the Greek language used by Hebrew authors still had a Greek spin to the Gospels at any rate, so in a sense you are still correct. Hebrews never believed in the Hero born of a God and a mortal woman, the Greeks did.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #5429604 - 03/22/06 11:45 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I tend to think that its the reality that people find themselves in that is causing this confusion. If you believe that God is in the sky you have been deceived. If you believe that God is inside you somewhere it becomes a matter of the most efficient ways to get IN. The Bible is a way in. You just have to know the language. Mental imagery. Read for the images. Form a solid image of what is meant by "Manna". Or you might just believe that bread really does fall from the sky! In that case your beliefs conceal the reality, and you find yourself in the dark waiting for a fantasy. The thing is the Truth is an open secret. And only when your eyes are opened can you truly SEE. The Bible itself discloses how Adam and Eve remedied this problem. If you call this a Fall... Good luck. You worship the half-maker or man, the god of the Bible. Remember that Jesus said to those who overcome he will give to them to eat the "hidden manna". Now what do you think they were eating at the Last Supper?? And what do you think needs to be overcome?? Blindness?? Your reality?? Your ego?? How about the understanding of the Truth. And why would he reward you with "hidden manna". Suppose that the proof is in the pudding. I think we can start by rejecting the anthropomorphized God of the Bible altogether. The real God has a plan to swap out the old information with new opportunity in every human being. Some might call this enlightenment, I call it the truth. When you stumble upon this experience in your journey, you will know the only way to remedy the problem. Access to God, or yourself. Then it is clear which is more appropriate, a real experience of God that produced religion, or religion producing the experience of God. Tell you what... If religion produced the real experience of God the world would not be what it is today. We would know what God is thousands of years later. We would have access. What else did Jesus say... "Take heed let no man deceive you." Are you being deceived?? Flip it upside down. Maybe God was the serpent, right?? Research ego death and relate that to dying for Christ.

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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: psyillyazul]
    #5430278 - 03/22/06 02:40 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I had a professor of New Testament in seminary who once told me that 'metaphor is more powerful than LSD.' Sometimes I see the truth in that statement!


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #5431125 - 03/22/06 05:56 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Did he teach you metaphor than??


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: psyillyazul]
    #5431258 - 03/22/06 06:22 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

No. He was an Indian Christian with books on Marxism on his shelf. He was very Literalist and probably saw just a social gospel in the New Testament, nothing deeply symbolic, metaphysical, mystical or metaphorical.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #5433748 - 03/23/06 10:16 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

then?? sorry. (last post)
Do you think this is a problem?? What did you learn from him?? Why are the authorities on the subject literalists?? Seems as though if a literal interpretation is given the mystical is concealed. Now if we are dealing with mystic's visions, surely there is a literal counterpart to produce such visions. How was this addressed?? What if the Gospel is a literal explanation of a mystical approach to God?? Only its being taught by individuals who don't believe in anything of the sort. Do you feel that the reality of mysticism has been written out of reality?? Do you feel that mysticism is literally real?? Do you see a way to produce whats called GOD written in between the lines of the Bible??


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: psyillyazul]
    #5434990 - 03/23/06 03:51 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Literalism is religious myth taken literally, which is to say historically. Christianity is classified as a 'historical' religion, but it has a mystical core. Literalists cannot discern the mystical level, and consequently they do not grok that such a level can be at the core of their faith. The Literalist interpretation is to expect a historical event - a material phenomenon - to occur, based on a literal interpretation of scriptures. The mystical interpretation realizes that the historical story format (midrash) is the outer (exoteric) symbol for the inner (esoteric) or mystical Reality. The literal is not an "explanation" of the mystical - the mystical is THE Reality and it must be experienced. It can be spoken 'about' and written 'about' but the Reality can only be lived.

There was a Man from midnight
Who walked along a road
A Light was His possession
It was a heavy load
He wrapped it all in colors
But left the binding free
For those who felt the hunger
And truly sought to see...

-The Light by Brewer & Shipley


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #5437801 - 03/24/06 10:19 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

It seems to me that the literalists cannot discern the mystical because the Eucharist has been a cracker and a cup of alcohol for so long. Seems as though if a mind expanding sacrament were substituted, the literalist could only then gain access to any kind of mystical interpretation. Might this be the longed for "material phenomenon"?? How might someone live the mystical reality of the Bible while obeying the church?? How can this reality be lived if it is not taught by those claiming to "know" GOD??


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: psyillyazul]
    #5447279 - 03/27/06 12:25 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Do you know GOD??


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: psyillyazul]
    #5448558 - 03/27/06 06:20 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Probably was a time, when 'expectation' (an important aspect relied upon in hypnosis), plus the pomp & majesty, architecture and stained glass, choir and priest in luxurious vestments, all contributed to a state of holy awe. Ever been in Cologne Cathedral or Westminster Abbey, for example? These kinds of structures blow my mind even today - like the 'cathedrals of light' that fill my mind during a beautiful entheogenic excursion, these vaults and arches of mind obviously came to ancient visionaries who were able to fix those visions in stone and glass. The Eucharist was the heart of the Mass and the reception of it was a 'material aid' to contemplation.

At the time that these things could shift the consciousness of the faithful, life was a great deal simpler than today. Today, we need to use the 'material aid' of entheogens to help us cut through the deep encrusted layers of modern bulls**t: a lifetime of TV programming, reinforcing the materialistic consumerism of the American 'Matrix'; the gadget-crazy mentality of late adolescents who would have cell phone components implanted surgically in their heads if possible. I Pods and Gameboys, vulgar hip-hop materialism with all the trimmings, etc.

[On a side note]: I live in south Florida - Miami-Dade County. It's funny that the TV show 'CSI - Miami' (on tonight at 10) is shot through filters making the sky and water surrealistically blue, the grass Disney-cartoon green, and everyone, a golden color. In reality, Miami is the 5th poorest city in the USA, high unemployment, lots of Cuban, Haitian and African-American ghettos, anti-intellectualism runs high, totally nude full alcohol strip clubs abound, no high culture but LOTS of vulgar street culture - a big steaming pile, Miami is. The TV show is a great example to one familiar with the reality to see how (as the Catholics put it) the "glamour of Satan" - the illusion of Maya, is employed to sell this city. I very very rarely meet anyone who realizes The Matrix of it all, is sick of it, and who wants to transcend the bulls**t.

The churches aren't working, and the individual young people aren't seeking transcendence, by-and-large, from what I can see. I don't know if, as Ram Dass' Guru Neem Karolie Baba's perception that "LSD is like Christ in America" applies any longer. The Guru said that the most materialistic country on earth needed to find God in the form of a material. That perception seemed to apply to many of us back in the day, but I'm not seeing any evidence of it 30 years later - not in Florida anyway - the penis (peninsula) of the USA in which Miami is a syphillitic shanker.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #5450891 - 03/28/06 11:13 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Chalk it up... Here we come. Every wonder how under the rule of the Church we strayed so far?? How the authority could so drastically miss the mark?? Or whether the world will be willing to learn this time...?? I fear a bait and switch at critical mass.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: psyillyazul]
    #5454765 - 03/29/06 11:15 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Just a thought. If you don't dig dangling... How about erect?? You ever visit the space needle?? Archetypes... Sheesh!!


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: psyillyazul]
    #5544025 - 04/22/06 12:39 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

you make it man??


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: thepos]
    #5547353 - 04/23/06 12:56 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

When I was in high school I heard my friend suggest the bible was written by drunks. I was very offended. Nowadays I wish it was written by drunks.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: RedNucleus]
    #5550366 - 04/24/06 07:59 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

drunk on that cup-o'CHRIST.


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: Deviate]
    #6012789 - 08/30/06 06:28 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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i dissagree with your theory that the bible itself was based on drug trips, as far as i know, psychedelics weren't that popular among the people responsible for writing the bible and you seem to be forgetting that mystical experiences can (and traditionally do) occur without drugs. i think it's a mistake to assume that any out of the ordinary experience must automatically be a result of a hallucinogenic drug. its kinda like those people who whenever they read a strange poem or book, assume the author must have been on drugs when he wrote it.




What if the human mind created a chemical that induced a psychedelic trip which allowed you to see the __dual reality__ that peyote princess had reffered to? Well there is a convincing study that explains how one could have these mystical experiences.

DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences, by Rick Strassman MD

^Have only read the intro and I pretty excited to read this!^


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Re: Acid trip = bible? [Re: musicturkey]
    #6014253 - 08/31/06 12:31 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

not to dispute your ideas or anything but i find when im on acid, espesialy when its dark out, i can manifest pretty much and pattern/symbol/charictor visualy. if i think about the star of david, here they come flying in from the moonlight. the visual aspect of lsd seems to be directly linked to the imagination. as oposed to shrooms wich seems to distort the quality of what already is.


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