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#95: Collective Consciousness (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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The Ecstatic Rituals of the Ancient World

Rike: Almost as soon as ecstatic rituals appear in the historical his written record, a note of ambivolence enters into the story. Euripides play the bace both records these tensions and expresses what seems to be a tormented ambivlence on the part of the playwright. We have some evidence from a very different part of the ancient world of the dampening effect of civilization and social hierarchy on traditional rituals. Recent carbon 14 dating of an archaeological site in wahaka suggests that the earliest residents, who were hunter gatherers, living about nine thousand years ago, met on a cleared dance ground for rituals which included the entire community.

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