c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…language which is visible, which is. It's pure magic, it's pure linguistic intent which you behold with your eyes and you feel like Moses before the burning bush or something. You say, my God, I didn't know humans were wired for this kind of a thing.…
…one piece taking refuge in the smoke of the sacred wheat became a reverend of truth cannabis. The Bible is the oil that Moses used to heal the people around and he turned to the ground planting seeds for me and you create creative creative creative…
…by later centuries, especially the Renaissance, because it was taken at face value and assumed to be at least contemporary with Moses, if not much older. So the Renaissance view of hermeticism was based on a tragic misunderstanding of the true antiquity of…
…with a boy from a coal mining town in Colorado. So I do mangle these things. The Preschi peologi were Orpheus, Moses, and primarily Hermes Trismegistus. Hermes Trismegistus was the primary source, from the point of view of the Renaissance, of this whole…
…last night's lecture that this is based on a mission misunderstanding. The Renaissance believed that Hermes Trismegistus was older than Moses. We know now, thanks to Isaac and Marie Casaubon, two philologists of the early 17th century, that definitely the…
…his teat in a tub for to wash the future of his fates. But ere he swiftly took it out again, by the might of Moses, the very water was evaporated and all the gunnesses had met their exodus. So that ought to show you what a punch and junchie choppy…
…language which is visible, which is its pure magic. It's pure linguistic intent, which you behold with your eyes and you feel like Moses before the burning bush or something. You just say, my God, I didn't know humans were wired for this kind of a…
…and a jerk. And you say to them, well, you know, have you read Plato or have you studied Nagarjuna? Do you know what Moses mammonides has to say about this? And why do you follow this guy? He probably hasn't even read these people. Do you know that…
…this whole business of hermeticism. The Renaissance really believed that Hermes Trismegistus was a great teacher of antiquity who preceded Moses, who was, in time older than Moses, and they had what they called the prisci theologica, the three theologians,…
…really believed that Hermes Trismegistus was a great teacher of antiquity who preceded Moses, who was, in time older than Moses, and they had what they called the prisci theologica, the three theologians, and they were Hermes Trismegistus, Moses, and Orpheus,…
…time older than Moses, and they had what they called the prisci theologica, the three theologians, and they were Hermes Trismegistus, Moses, and Orpheus, in that order. The reason that I say western civilization is built on a series of misunderstandings is…
…attacked the dating of the hermetic Corpus and argued, correctly that this could not possibly have been written in a period preceding Moses, that, in fact, this was post christian, written no earlier than the first century AD. This is the equivalent of us…
…generation of theologians that followed Christ, who canonized the christian religion. And he placed Hermes Trismegistus as older than Moses, older than Pythagoras, older than Plato. And then it wasn't until Marikasbone corrected that problem. See, we forget how…