Tag: origin
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What is Rosicrucianism all about?
from straightdope.com: Researching the occult is always tricky since you tend to find at least three times as much (oh, let’s be dainty, shall we?) bull excrement as you might expect from one bull. Wiccans claim descent from old world matriarchal religions, while some Masonic writers claim direct descent from God. The history of Rosicrucianism…
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Were Prehistoric Cave Painters High On Hallucinogenic Plants?
from alternet.org: “Prehistoric cave paintings across the continents have similar geometric patterns not because early humans were learning to draw like Paleolithic pre-schoolers, but because they were high on drugs, and their brains—like ours—have a biological predisposition to “see” certain patterns, especially during consciousness altering states. This thesis—that humanity’s earliest artists were not just reeling…
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Agrarian Magic: 20 Theories on the Origin of Religion
from MysticPolitics.com: Mystic Politics has compiled the top 20 theories on the origin of religion, from animism to agrarian magic: Religion is a species-specific human universal phenomenon, complex, full of paradoxes, and found in all cultures. Social scientists and anthropologists since the late 17th century have attempted to rationally answer questions about religion, and while we…