Part 1 - What is Shamanism? (Interview with Abraxas)

What is "Shamanism"? This video tackles that tricky question and attempts to shed light on such a clichéd and misrepresented word.

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Coffee, Cigarettes & Gnosis #31-- Being John Allegro-vich
Shamanism & drug use in Judaism, early Christianity & Gnosticism.

--Special Guests-- Jan Irvin & Andrew Rutajit, authors of 'Astrotheology & Shamanism in Christianity and Other Religions'.

Topics discussed:

--The origins, evolution & ideology of Shamanism (and how it has been misunderstood in our New Age era).
--The reality that Judaism and Christianity, like most religions, were fertility, solar cults who utilized entheogens in a widespread manner. It just wasn't the priest who partook of the 'funny herbs', mon.
--Clues in the Bible, Gnostic texts and the Judeo/Christian tradition that point to the positive usage of entheogens and hallucinogens.
--How the war on drugs (which is also the war on the Goddess) began hundreds of years before Christ with a changing Jewish Priesthood, fanned out into the Christian worldview centuries later, and continues today with the same nefarious intentions.
--The spiritual and scientific effects of using certain entheogens such as mushroom, natural LSD and cannabis.
--Evidence of entheogens also in Hinduism and Buddhism.
--Redeeming John Allegro and his controversial discoveries of The Dead Sea Scrolls. (Jesus is a Mushroom...whadda ya gonna do?)

And much more!

Gnostics have always been accused of being 'out there'. But 'out there' often means an inward journey into the wellspring of gnosis.

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[shadowgheart]

these guys are so wrong it makes me so frustrated its dusgesting read up before u speak of something u don't know and they miss pronouce it several times

[GnosticMedia]

@shadowgheart In what way are they wrong?

[thethe234]

now I really can't speak for everybody, but something tells me alot of the interest in shamanism out there could be a way of rationalizing one's hallucinogenic drug use. anyone agree?

[GnosticMedia]

While shamans often utilize drugs, this does not negate the fact that the experiences with these substances, when done properly, are the most powerful and harrowing experiences we can go through. I suggest you read a book called LSD Psychotherapy by Dr. Stan Grof. Yours is a pretty narrow minded perspective and you really need to understand the EXPERIENCE that these substances provide that have been used globally for many millennia by various cultures for ritual use.

[amoxtlacatl]

And who says this is EVEN about salvation???

Is your mind so thwarted now by Christian teachings that YOU think EVERYBODY is looking for a salvation - like you, who needs to be saved from the wrathful, cruel hands of the very god you worship???

[ella5024]

There is so much talking and so little doing and teaching how.

[asktheanswer424]

world peace

[MrCodysir]

@zoloo71 Shamanism is the religion of the gods. It had been around since man was first crafted and place in Mesopotamia

[geostigma123]

@neighbouroftheforest And if that Technique works for you, I'd say you should stick with it. I think it depends on your age... Me as a rather young adult male = bad attention span, spontanious etc, like the plant solution (for now). Maybe later in life I will see the value of these other techniques better... who knows. Take care my friend ;)

[LendMeYourHand]

@neighbouroftheforest I can see sound & hear light when i am in hypnopompic states. After waking up from deep sleep i can hear vibration intensity of light translated as a buzz sound in my ear. As the light reaches white, i profoundly HEAR its vibration, This can also be observed by hearing a heat signature while your eyes are closed, observed in the minds eye which exceeds the peripheral vision & can be envisioned in a 360 degree observation outside of the viewing spectrum. So i looked it up.

[LendMeYourHand]

@neighbouroftheforest I to have noticed that once the experiences are introduced to an open mind, that repetition only serves to strengthen its foundation. This is the case with meditation as a few of us will finally reach a state of ever present Delta waves. I dont see a spirit world as you do, but i am very aware of my intuitive instinctual Psionic traits. I have experienced a wide array of knowings & utilizing one sense for another to feel(observe) these vibrations of energy.

[neighbouroftheforest]

@LendMeYourHand Tom Brown Jr. book explains it al so simple.

[neighbouroftheforest]

@NoFaceLeft Tom Brown Jr. Books explain it so simple and easy for anyone to understand.

[neighbouroftheforest]

@MrCodysir Tom Brown Jr. Books explain all.

[neighbouroftheforest]

@neighbouroftheforest All You Need Is Heart!