Ancient Serpents, Pharmakeia and Human Sacrifice w/ Lewis Ungit
Exploring the link between psychedelics, the appearance of demonic entities and the consistent result of human sacrifice throughout human history.
What are the “machine elves”? Who are these ayahuasca serpents that people always talk about encountering when they trip? Why have the same entities been documented consistently throughout human history?
In this episode,
joins to discuss his book The Return of the Dragon: The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies. The findings in his book were fascinating. He illustrates a narrative of the mass usage of psychedelics in religious rituals and how they have resulted in human sacrifice throughout history. In its modern form it can be seen in the rise of abortions coinciding with the sexual revolution and hippie movement which introduced psychedelics to mainstream culture on a mass scale.Psychedelics are not only a topic that I have been enamored with for most of my adult life, but up until I became an Orthodox Christian, being a psychonaut was essentially my entire identity. This was one of those discussions I had a hard time ending and I was honored to have Lewis share his research. I would love to hear Lewis speculate why there is such a common pipeline of psychonautics to Orthodoxy because it is something I myself encounter often when meeting recent converts.
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