…I'm sure it doesn't deal with the psychedelic experience by name, but it is a psychedelic book. It's called the phenomenon of Life by Hans Jonas Jonas. And if you can find this book, what a read. It's a group of essays. And one of the essays, he is…

…it doesn't deal with the psychedelic experience by name, but it is a psychedelic book. It's called the phenomenon of Life by Hans Jonas Jonas. And if you can find this book, what a read. It's a group of essays. And one of the essays, he is talking…

…So there is a great affinity. If any of you are interested in this kind of thing, I highly recommend a book by Hans Jonas called the phenomenon of life. It's a book of philosophical essays, but there's one essay in there called Gnosticism and the modern…

…and Christianity in some sense. And yet what it really did was it just stripped away the baroque trappings. Hans Jonas was very acute in pointing out that third century hellenistic Gnosticism and heideggerian philosophy are essentially the same thing.…

…what happened? I mean, it's very interesting. Some of you who are interested in Heidegger may know a wonderful essay by Hans Jonas called the gnostic temperament. And what he's saying in there is that the attitude, the psychology of the late roman empire,…