Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "ReligionForBreakfast" channel.

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  2. Interesting leaps in philological reasoning. Liked and shared.
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  3. My writing of fantasy novels began with the underlying conviction that magic and magery exist, "confirmed" in scripture by Aaron's battle of magic with Pharaoh's wizards.
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  4. -Non expert with a deep and abiding interest in cultural anthropology. It seem evident to me that science is spending an incredible amount of effort avoiding the obvious: Shamanic rituals are meant to stimulate the salient parts of the brain. Study the effects of ritualized drug use and examine those networks acting at high level during exaltation. Get yourself a few mushrooms, some peyote, arrow frog sweat . . . a million years of man searching for meaning and/or connection to the unknowable through alchemical preparations and ritualized observance. Shakers and Quakers, Vudu docs, and Dervishes got high on their own body chemistry. Yaqui, Navajo, pre-hindu (Google Soma), and Yanomamo shamen use various drug cocktails to obtain that connection. Get some of those guys in your sensor nets and MRI machines. The guys who've been tested aren't trained in the same way shamen are trained. Their neural pathways have not yet been specialized to the effects you wish to observe and understand. It's not rocket science. It's stoner tradition.
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  5. Church Slavonic is the source of modern Russian language. Those canny Greeks wrought well, I think.
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  6. Comparative religious study . . . cultural anthropology . . . interpreting the memes, artifice, and philosophical underpinnings of peoples, places, and things, isolated in time from our modern perceptions. Sweet! Count me in!
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