(^),...When people--for example the pre-reformed Dionysians took their psychedelic sacrament which had names referring to sacred mushroom/Dionysos the celebrants believed they were 'possessed' of god of Nature.......this feeling happened IN the body. the body chewing, drinking sacrament, and then is ingestion and ecstatic FEELINGS with others , AS sensual body, AS sensual Nature.
When this becme reformed by the Orphics they abstract god to ''G'od'--a 'divine being' said to be apart, and that our bodies have parts of him trapped as 'divine sparks......can you not see the danger of this idea????.....eventually even psychedelic sacrament is diluted, and later phased out, and all thats left is dry ritual, symbols, and a desire to escape and 'return to 'God'', and the sense of not being GUILTY cause one is trapped in a body. Orphic saying was 'soma sema' meaning 'the body a tomb'!!......that belif system influences Christianity, right??
in Christianity we have the guilt about the body, now termed in Pauline Myth as the 'flesh'....different term same objective. which is to denigrate instinct, sensuality, and see an ' everlasting END' in some spirit-world.......This is diastrous propaganda for individual, community and Nature, cause it divdes you from your body, community, and Nature, and denies you your rightful freedom to freely explore all of this wonder with symbiosis of a psychedelic sacrament.
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so soul reall means FEELING. what the cults, religions, political ideologies have done/are doing is..DUMBing you'll down! also NUMBing yo down.