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Is There a God in the Sky?
There's an intrusion of the ancient shamonic tradition, which is tens of thousands of years oldin to the biblical stories at this point. Why jacob had a essentially shemanic experience is very difficult to tell because we don't know what these old people were up to right? And so we hear of this as a dream or as a vision. But perhaps that wasn't what it was either. It may have been induced by psychodelic substances like amanita mascaria mushrooms - they were widely used in india before they became extinct. That's the theory. Anyways, that seemed to be the basis of the chemical soma, which much has been written about...