…of the Arundo donax plant. Well, the roots of this plant contain large amounts of DMT. Well, think about the symbolism here. Orpheus was a God of music. Orpheus was a flutist, and Orpheus made a descent into the underworld in search of his beloved.…

…Well, the roots of this plant contain large amounts of DMT. Well, think about the symbolism here. Orpheus was a God of music. Orpheus was a flutist, and Orpheus made a descent into the underworld in search of his beloved. And the so called orphic strain…

…plant contain large amounts of DMT. Well, think about the symbolism here. Orpheus was a God of music. Orpheus was a flutist, and Orpheus made a descent into the underworld in search of his beloved. And the so called orphic strain in greek religion is the…

…dealing 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…

…on at Eleusis or at Delphi or with the dionysian cults. But there didn't seem to be a psychedelic plant. But the story of Orpheus is the story of a magic flute player who goes into the underworld and loses his lover there or escapes with it depending…

…having its psychoactive principle under the ground in its roots. It is arguably some kind of orphic trope of some sort. I mean, Orpheus, you recall, made a journey into the underworld, was a player of a magical flute, so forth and so on. There's a lot…

…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 because they…