>tfw Veeky Forums tells you to start with the Greeks >tfw you read the history, philosophy, religion, poetry, myth, and drama of Ancient Greece >tfw you discover that the ancient mysteries all center around mysticism, magical thinking, and mind-altering chemicals
Does "starting with the Greeks" lead kids to drugs?
how the various parts and systems of the human brain work together to create and sustain different beliefs about the world; the ways in which religious beliefs and practices have measurable, biological effects on the individuals who hold and engage in them
Mason Davis
Join Dr. Newberg as he shares some game-changing discoveries coming out of the field of modern neuroscience, and perhaps on your thrilling voyage through these fascinating discoveries, you may reconsider some of your own beliefs along the way.
Angel Perez
Mystical Double Dubs
Isaac Johnson
Elizabeth Vandiver, Ph.D.
Dr. Elizabeth Vandiver is Professor of Classics and Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She was formerly Director of the Honors Humanities program at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she also taught in the Department of Classics
Religion and mysticism is where you tend to wind up falling too far down the introspective rabbit hole. Empiricism and rational philosophy is great and all, but learning to construct and reconstruct your own personal narrative brings much more insight.
Isaiah Wood
Dr. Grant L. Voth is Professor Emeritus at Monterey Peninsula College in California
...learn more about them than you ever thought possible, and to discover how mythology has the power to shape human history...
An Engaging Tour, a Master Storyteller
Professor Voth celebrates the same enchanting oral tradition that helped to spread so many
With almost every myth in the course, he first tells it as a story to be listened to and savored. Then he explains how different readings and interpretations shed meaning on the myth's role in larger culture. And finally, he invites you to develop your own interpretations of these age-old tales, as well as to ponder the role that myths-both ancient and everyday-play in your own life
Take a trip into your own mind to discover your innate magical abilities! Meta-Magick is an emerging system of practice designed to ... all » increase learning, intuition and communication abilities and accelerate the growth of new neural pathways in the brain. Powerful, effective and fun exercises are easy to follow and learn - as you are gently guided into surprisingly transformative experiences.
Featuring Lon Milo DuQuette, Michael Greer, & Symbolist John Anthony West
The Western Mystery Traditions enable one to accomplish this magnificent task have always been hidden in plain sight, inaccessible to all but the most ardent scholars and practitioners.
The Symbols have always held the Key
To be efficient and proficient at The Great Work, one must develop a broad understanding of the meaning of symbols and archetypes.
The Great Work Series, a Mystery School on DVD decodes and translates the symbols of the Egyptian Mysteries, the Tarot, Alchemy, Qabalah and other great esoteric traditions.
The series provides elaborates on how these symbols
• Work by themselves
• Work together
• And how the various western symbol systems fit into a unified whole.
Magickal Thinking is the result.
The Great Work series does not offer fixed ideas but is rather a training in new ways to think in order that you may derive fruitful meaning, and know the deeper spiritual reality that extends beyond pure reason and the physical sciences
Magical Egypt is a mind-bending exploration of ancient mysteries, Hermetic and magical practice and timeless technologies for accessing higher and rarer states of consciousness.
...a second life on the web, where it has racked up hundreds of millions of views to date. It has not only sparked widespread controversy and debate wherever it has appeared, but has served as a catalyst to "awaken" millions to the mysteries of consciousness and to the timeless ancient esoteric technologies...
...continues to be the subject of worldwide study groups and widespread debate in the philosophical, esoteric, magical and psychedelic communities...
Created and produced by renowned visual artist Chance Gardner, and starring the legendary "Rogue Egyptologist" academy award-winning researcher and symbolist author John Anthony West, the show is unlike anything else in the genre, featuring stunning, psychoactive visuals and a wry intellectual narrative style
...resonant and highly engaging quality...
...practical guide to the ancient hermetic / esoteric arts...
Xavier Williams
Is that extended info graphic where you start with history before reading mythology necessary?
Wyatt Ward
>2016 >believing (x)
Isaiah Cox
degenerate
Why not prefer the silky warmth of her cunny wrapped around your manhood after a day of competitively bashing in the heads of your fellow man as she equates you to her father?
Camden Moore
It certainly helps. If you just dive right in you won't understand as much.