c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…unwelcome by the gardener. And then the story, it goes through its changes. And there's a very interesting point in there where Yahweh is walking in the garden, talking, let's decently assume to himself, since it's hard to know who else, but it's a…
…it's the story of a whole lot of tension over who's going to take or not take a certain plant which confers knowledge. And Yahweh, wandering in the garden, says to himself, if the man and the woman eat of the fruit, they will become as we are, the…
…and it's a woman who's in trouble. What she does is she eats a forbidden fruit. It's forbidden to her by a male, by Yahweh, and she also corrupts her roommate. And they. And if you read. If you read in the older recensions, like the Q document or…
…very clear, says that their eyes were opened. The issue is not that this is a poisonous plant. At one point in the story, Yahweh, walking in the garden, mumbles to himself, if they eat of the fruit of the tree of life, they will become as we are.…
…which happens to be the case. They are naked. So in other words, they see, they grok their true existential condition. And Yahweh, wandering around, mumbling to himself in the garden, says this thing that these people have done, what if they eat of the…
…children into the chaos of history. It's interesting to read in Genesis why this was. It was because they will become as we are, says Yahweh. They will become as we are if they eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. I suggest to you that this is…
…she turned inward into herself, and she brought forth a monster monstrosity. And this monstrosity is the God of the Old Testament, Yahweh, Jehovah. And when she saw what she had done, that she had brought forth this monstrosity, she flashed through a whole…
…of work and travail. Okay, my interpretation of this is, first of all, this is a story told by a dominator culture. It's the Yahweh culture, the volcano storm God, Yahuwah. So it's being told from a dominator point of view. But what it is is it's the…
…is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant. Because, you know, and it specifically says they will become Yahweh says they will become as we are if they get into this. So you see, this is a lot on my mind at the…
…which happens to be the case, they are naked. So in other words, they see, they grok their true existential condition, and Yahweh, wandering around, mumbling to himself in the garden, says this thing that these people have done, what if they eat of the…