Snakes & Ladders: Tantric Mysticism, Cosmic Serpents and the Meaning of Life
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What's the Connection Between Gambling and Mysticism?
The study of games and religion is really sort of a chicken and egg question. Did we start playing games first? Or did we start doing divination first? I'm interested in how we get from this very deep, beautiful mysticism through to snakes and ladders becoming just a commoner garden game in the West. It's quite obvious that people in India would have seen these game bolts and understood how they worked then say all these complex inscriptions about our place in the cosmos.
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