…a sense of loss, but a kind of anger, a kind of fury directed against the natural world. And if you know the story of Gilgamesh, you know that he spurned the goddess Inanna and she sent a bull to convince him. And this is. And he destroyed the bull.…

…and they chopped down the tree of life. This is what GilgaMesh was all about. So GilgAmesh is like a transitional figure. Gilgamesh rejects the goddess, destroys the cow, forces the shaman to go with him into the wilderness to cut down the tree of…

…into the wilderness to cut down the tree of life. How much more explicit does the symbolism have to be? And of course, Gilgamesh is the paradigmatic dominator. He is almost the founder of the theory of dominator culture because he is a builder of cities,…

…is a builder of cities, a general of armies, a master of women, although of, not of the goddess. The strange thing about Gilgamesh is his sexual ambivalence. His obvious discomfort in the presence of women is so much a part of that myth. Well, so this.…

…of this stuff. And at that point, you get the appearance of historical civilizations. You have kingship. Kingship, the age of Gilgamesh. I mean, my God, when you read. The Story of GIlgaMesh, you just wonder what's going on. GIlGaMesh spurned the goddess,…

…armies, urban concentrations, canonized law, suppression of a goddess religion in favor of a religion of male warrior figures. The age of Gilgamesh, all of the agriculture, all of that comes at once. And I think it represents a break with the gaian mind,…

…psychedelic mushroom connection. A break with that and a profound alienation then from the natural world that issues into history. I mean, Gilgamesh, for crying out loud, the earliest piece of literature out of that area that we have is a story about a…

…loyalty and gets him to help him cut down the world tree. They go off into the wilderness, Enkidu, the shaman figure, and Gilgamesh, the wily king figure, and they cut down the world tree. This is the earliest piece of literature out of that area. So.…

…kingship. You know the age of gilgamesh I mean my god when you read the story of gilgamesh you just wonder what's going on. Gilgamesh spurned the goddess and the goddess sent a bull, which to me is you know symbolic of the mystery of the mushroom, the…

…nomadic herder. He took his herds of sheep and his tribe of people and founded another religion. Uruk was a city of farmers. Gilgamesh was a mighty King a great warrior. He had built the city of uruk with massive walls of stone. He had slain many…

…dealing with a coded story that talks about the internal psyche. This second self is the second self within every one of us. Gilgamesh is the human self who becomes arrogant through power. Gilgamesh had a dream in which he saw a star fall from heaven…

…internal psyche. This second self is the second self within every one of us. Gilgamesh is the human self who becomes arrogant through power. Gilgamesh had a dream in which he saw a star fall from heaven and the people came to pick up the star and it…

…They were not prostitutes. They did not sell sex for money. They offered love as an act of devotion to the goddess. Gilgamesh sent the priestess with the hunter and another companion out into the wilderness to search for this man called enkidu, enkidu.…

…saddened by this, but the people and the woman encouraged him and took him with them to the city and told him about King Gilgamesh and his arrogant, tyrannical ways and enkidu said: I will fight this man, I will right this wrong. And enkidu came to the…