…a sense of loss, but a kind of anger, a kind of fury directed against the natural world. And if you know the story of Gilgamesh, you know that he spurned the goddess Inanna and she sent a bull to convince him. And this is. And he destroyed the bull.…

…and they chopped down the tree of life. This is what GilgaMesh was all about. So GilgAmesh is like a transitional figure. Gilgamesh rejects the goddess, destroys the cow, forces the shaman to go with him into the wilderness to cut down the tree of…

…into the wilderness to cut down the tree of life. How much more explicit does the symbolism have to be? And of course, Gilgamesh is the paradigmatic dominator. He is almost the founder of the theory of dominator culture because he is a builder of cities,…

…is a builder of cities, a general of armies, a master of women, although of, not of the goddess. The strange thing about Gilgamesh is his sexual ambivalence. His obvious discomfort in the presence of women is so much a part of that myth. Well, so this.…

…to commit these atrocities has been present in the western tradition for a very very long time. I mean, you go back to Gilgamesh and you discover what's going on in Gilgamesh is that Gilgamesh rejects the goddess and the goddess sends the bull as her…

…in the western tradition for a very very long time. I mean, you go back to Gilgamesh and you discover what's going on in Gilgamesh is that Gilgamesh rejects the goddess and the goddess sends the bull as her emissary to Gilgamesh, which I take to be a…

…tradition for a very very long time. I mean, you go back to Gilgamesh and you discover what's going on in Gilgamesh is that Gilgamesh rejects the goddess and the goddess sends the bull as her emissary to Gilgamesh, which I take to be a symbol of the…

…discover what's going on in Gilgamesh is that Gilgamesh rejects the goddess and the goddess sends the bull as her emissary to Gilgamesh, which I take to be a symbol of the mushroom, obviously. And Gilgamesh rejects the cosmic bull, rejects the goddess, and…

…the goddess sends the bull as her emissary to Gilgamesh, which I take to be a symbol of the mushroom, obviously. And Gilgamesh rejects the cosmic bull, rejects the goddess, and then he gets his shaman friend Enkidu, who is very reluctant about this prize,…

…of this stuff. And at that point, you get the appearance of historical civilizations. You have kingship. Kingship, the age of Gilgamesh. I mean, my God, when you read. The Story of GIlgaMesh, you just wonder what's going on. GIlGaMesh spurned the goddess,…

…stuff. And at that point, you get the appearance of historical civilizations. You have kingship. Kingship. You know, the age of Gilgamesh. I mean, my God, when you read the story of Gilgamesh, you just wonder what's going on. Gilgamesh spurned the goddess…

…historical civilizations. You have kingship. Kingship. You know, the age of Gilgamesh. I mean, my God, when you read the story of Gilgamesh, you just wonder what's going on. Gilgamesh spurned the goddess and the goddess sent a bull, which to me is, you…

…You know, the age of Gilgamesh. I mean, my God, when you read the story of Gilgamesh, you just wonder what's going on. Gilgamesh spurned the goddess and the goddess sent a bull, which to me is, you know, symbolic of the mystery of the mushroom, the…

…armies, urban concentrations, canonized law, suppression of a goddess religion in favor of a religion of male warrior figures. The age of Gilgamesh, all of the agriculture, all of that comes at once. And I think it represents a break with the gaian mind,…

…psychedelic mushroom connection. A break with that and a profound alienation then from the natural world that issues into history. I mean, Gilgamesh, for crying out loud, the earliest piece of literature out of that area that we have is a story about a…

…loyalty and gets him to help him cut down the world tree. They go off into the wilderness, Enkidu, the shaman figure, and Gilgamesh, the wily king figure, and they cut down the world tree. This is the earliest piece of literature out of that area. So.…