Browsing: Soma

CANNABIS CULTURE – Like the cultural taboos that have surrounded the use of cannabis aka The Devil’s Weed, the name of Aleister Crowley, who fashioned himself the Beast 666 of the Bible’s Book of Revelation, can conjure up fears of insanity, debauchery and hedonism. A pioneer of free-love and the mystical use of drugs, Crowley wasRead More

CANNABIS CULTURE – Jerry and Julie Brown have said of their own work, “we believe that The Psychedelic Gospels should be studied with the same rigor applied to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Gnostic Gospels”, which is considerable self praise. Having read their book, I think Psychedelic Trope would have been a more fitting title.

CANNABIS CULTURE – Curiously, the identity and ritual use of Soma, as well as the use of entheogens, has been a shared area of interest of some very well known Masonic figures.

CANNABIS CULTURE – The Indo-European language is the mother tongue of many modern dialects. Even before this language was spoken the ancestors of these people, the proto-Indo-europeans, were ritually using cannabis — a technique of worship that continued for thousands of years and spread throughout the ancient world, leading to its continued use in variousRead More

CANNABIS CULTURE –  Nepenthe was an ancient herbal infused wine, that appears in Homer’s famous tale The Odyssey. Its use to quell grief in a funerary setting has caused many researchers to identify it with cannabis.

CANNABIS CULTURE – Just as the identification of the Fly agaric mushroom as Soma has been widely accepted, the Harmaline containing plant Syrian rue has come to be identified with the Persian Haoma,
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