…deep into the past with great density of reference. I mean this is where I learned about MacRobius and dos etheus and Dionysius, the pseudo areopagus and all those folks that you just never hear about. It was my introduction to the underbelly of western…

…were able to act out the way of the ancestors. It's terrible. The most horrific thing that is put against the women followers of Dionysius was that they devoured their children at the height of their frenzy. This is a human crime for which so far as I…

…psychedelics and away from the booze. And it happened again with Pythagoras and again with buddha well and it happened with Dionysius turning into bacchus into bacchus it was the vine, it was wine. The early bacchus is a frightening figure whose…

…with it. Let me see the ancient model of the universe with the angels in it and everything came down to us from pseudo Dionysius. So this was some kind of encapsulation of ancient wisdom that they like to do in Alexandria, like wrap up a package and…

…god incarnate. This is a claim, this was an idea that had been around for a few hundred years. You all have heard of Dionysius, who most people tend to connect to bacchus, the drunken late roman god of wine. But the early Dionysius is a much, much…

…all have heard of Dionysius, who most people tend to connect to bacchus, the drunken late roman god of wine. But the early Dionysius is a much, much weirder figure. The early Dionysius is an androgyne, always in the company of women, a god of ecstatic…

…connect to bacchus, the drunken late roman god of wine. But the early Dionysius is a much, much weirder figure. The early Dionysius is an androgyne, always in the company of women, a god of ecstatic frenzy. And what the enemies of the dionysian religion…

…frenzy. And what the enemies of the dionysian religion always claimed was, first of all women were the major followers of Dionysius and they would intoxicate themselves in some way and then holding hands, dance through the countryside and rend their clothing…

…menaides, ate their own children. This was the lie spread about the dionysian religion. Well the story of the birth of Dionysius is very interesting because his father was zeus, the hidden higher all father analogous to god the father in Christianity but…

…years deep into the past with great density of reference. I mean this is where I learned about microbius and dosethius and Dionysius the pseudo areopagus and all those folks that you just never hear about it was my introduction to the underbelly of…