Reissue: How Trance States Shape the World
The Emerald
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The Initiation of the Mystery Schools
There is a deep reason to take someone through an initiation that is about experience and not ideas. Plato spoke of the initiation as the great death that makes the soul void of all the powers that once haunted it. Epulius described it like this, i approached the frontier of death. I set foot on the threshold of persephone. I journeyed through all the elements and came back. And it's also death. It's sary passage of life, to pass into trance is required of us as humans. What would a human lifetime be without such initiation? What would it be without crossing over to the state of trance? What would elude us? Just out of reach? So
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