A book I recommend

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If you sit in a closed garage sniffing scotch guard and suddenly you see the walls melt it doesn't mean elves and demons are real.

Ewwww huffing.That’s nasty.I don’t know how people can even do that.Just thinking about it makes me queasy.

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Some other books that were fascinating for me in terms of B-side history:

Manly P Hall's Secret Teachings of All Ages (antiquity mystery schools up through Renaissance alchemy and kabbalah, Rosicricians, Masons, etc., for similar reasons to Divine Comedy - a lot of the 'in plain sight' esoteric content in architecture and all kinds of other odd things like seven day weeks after the 'seven planets' tie in).

John Ralston Saul's Voltaire's Bastards - Almost 500 pages of modern political history, in-depth analysis of various countries from the Renaissance thru today, and his idea that the courtiers of the past became the bureaucrats and technocrats of today.


On goldfish's idea of 'Take some ayahuasca and go see it for yourself' - I think all psychedelics / hallucinogens get you in touch with that same place to different degrees and in slightly different ways. I also like what Andres Gomez Emilsson has said about psychedelics 'annealing' neural pathways in terms of healing trauma patterns - I think that analogy's a good match (another way to put it - it's like giving your brain an enema or a colon-cleanse). Having a lot of experience in that area what I'd say - it's mostly your own subconscious mind, however you do run into a lot of geometries, what one might call 'daemons' within yourself (ie. 'others'), sometimes far more complex things (like two or three people seeing the same thing), and you're also likely to have quite a few experiences that do challenge your grasp of physicalism - like dropping doses and then giving a police report because some people (actual rather than hallucinated) tried to break into your house, or a truck spinning its tires in the backyard next door because the neighbor girl is moving out on bad terms with her parents (the boyfriend is picking her up), even a bunch of flashlights coming through the woods and then finding out it's your neighbor's house - it got toilet papered, and obviously far more personal and strange things can happen as well. The most important thing about psychedelics though, and talking about geometries, you'll notice rather quickly that the fractal patterns in great cathedrals come from somewhere as what kinds of things tend to trigger the kind of brain chemistry that's in line with mystical visions of the sort that ancient sacred texts were based on.


So all of these topics really have a lot in common really - ie. seeing where many ancient 'things around you', whether architecture or beliefs, come from.