Psychedelics and the Birth of Philosophy | Brian Muraresku
Philosophy For Our Times
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What Kind of Wine Was This?
In the classical period, the greeks had very specific visions about wine. There was table wine, just like there is to day,. But wine was also this versatile vehicle. You would dissolve your medicine into it and use it at the symposium to lubricate discourse. And it's possible you would slip your drug in there to heal your enemy, ah, to harm your enemy, a, or maybe just to have a recreational event. It seeps itself into christianity. At the beginning of the second century, a d ignasius of antioch pens this letter to the ephesians. He refers to the eucharists as the parmacon athenac
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