- Ecstatic Religious Experience, Psychedelics, Altered States of Consciousness, Psychedelic Trance, Psytrance, Entheogens, and 35 morePsychedelic Culture, The Divine Feminine, Paleolitic - Neolitic archeology and Goddess cultures, Ethnomusicology, Mystery cult, Music and psychedelic drugs, Euripides, Bacchus, Dionysus, History, Gender Studies, Women's History, Cultural Anthropology, Electronic Dance Music, Goatrance, Music and Affects, Sensuous Experience, Musical Experience, Anthropology, Anthropology of Consciousness, Magic, Religion, Spiritualism, Folklore, Mediumship, Trance, Paranormal, Parapsychology, Paranthropology:, Shamanism, Eleusis, Boom Festival, Maenads, Bacchanalia, and Costumesedit
- I reasearch the evolution of ecstatic practices in the west, weaving the threads from primitive culture to present day electronic music events.edit
The manifold parallels between the Indian god Shiva and his Greek counterpart, with reference to psytrance culture.
Research Interests: Altered States of Consciousness, Psychedelics, Ecstatic Religious Experience, Psychedelic Culture, Shiva, and 9 moreEcstatic States, Altered States of Consciousness, Psychedelics, dionysus and Shiva, Psytrance, Psychedelic Trance, Boom Festival, Ecstatic Religious Practices, Ecstatic Dance, and Psytrance Culture
Research Interests: Religion, New Religious Movements, Parapsychology, Anthropology, Folklore, and 18 morePolitical Theory, Altered States of Consciousness, Psychedelics, Magic, Shamanism, Paranormal, Mystery cult, Spiritualism, Anthropology of Consciousness, Psychedelic Culture, Mediumship, Trance, Paranthropology:, dionysus and Shiva, Psychedelic Trance, Mystery Religions, The Sacramental Use of Psychoactive Plants, and Psychedelic Religion
Research Interests: Religion, New Religious Movements, Parapsychology, Anthropology, Folklore, and 28 morePolitical Theory, Psychotherapy, Bibliography, Altered States of Consciousness, Psychedelics, Magic, Shamanism, Paranormal, Mystery cult, Spiritualism, Entheogens, Anthropology of Consciousness, Transpersonal Studies, Psychedelic Culture, Drugs, Music and psychedelic drugs, LSD, Mind, Mystical experience, Mediumship, Self Transcendence, Trance, Paranthropology:, Psychedelic Trance, Mystery Religions, The Sacramental Use of Psychoactive Plants, Psychedelic Religion, and Mental Healths
Research Interests: Religion, New Religious Movements, Political Theory, Psychology of Religion, Psychedelics, and 16 moreShamanism, Entheogens, Psychedelic Culture, States of Consciousness, Music and psychedelic drugs, LSD, Altered States, Ayahuasca, Peyote, Mescaline, Psychedelic Trance, Spiritual Growth, Mystery Religions, The Sacramental Use of Psychoactive Plants, Psychedelic Religion, and Philiosophy of Religion
When we think of Boom Festival and festival culture in general, we tend to think of it as a modern phenomenon, something that maybe only goes back as far as Woodstock and the 1969 Summer of Love. Is there any other event in the known... more
When we think of Boom Festival and festival culture in general, we tend to think of it as a modern phenomenon, something that maybe only goes back as far as Woodstock and the 1969 Summer of Love. Is there any other event in the known western history that could be even remotely comparable to a psychedelic festival? Could the Mysteries of Eleusis be even remotely comparable? And in which ways?
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Mad women running on top of the mountains without the supervision of their husbands, ingestion of mind-altering concoctions, ecstatic nocturnal dancing to the rhythm of the frame drum, ritual sexuality, these and more are the ingredients... more
Mad women running on top of the mountains without the supervision of their husbands, ingestion of mind-altering concoctions, ecstatic nocturnal dancing to the rhythm of the frame drum, ritual sexuality, these and more are the ingredients composing the early worship of Dionysus.
This chapter examines the role of women in the Dionysian cult: Who were the maenads, what happened during their women-only rituals, but also what was the reaction of their contemporaries and which were the most accredited interpretations of contemporary scholars on their legendary legacy.
This chapter examines the role of women in the Dionysian cult: Who were the maenads, what happened during their women-only rituals, but also what was the reaction of their contemporaries and which were the most accredited interpretations of contemporary scholars on their legendary legacy.
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I festival psichedelici sono un fenomeno strettamente contemporaneo o si possono incontrare nella storia fenomeni paragonabili a grandi raduni multiculturali dove un’esperienza di connessione tra i partecipanti e gli effetti... more
I festival psichedelici sono un fenomeno strettamente contemporaneo o si possono incontrare nella storia fenomeni paragonabili a grandi raduni multiculturali dove un’esperienza di connessione tra i partecipanti e gli effetti dell’immersione nella dimensione rituale possono scatenare profondi cambiamenti sia a livello individuale che di gruppo? Questa è la domanda da cui parte la ricerca di somiglianze e contrasti tra il fenomeno dei “transformational festivals” e i Misteri di Eleusi e delle religioni misteriche nell’antica Grecia, per offrire un quadro culturale di riferimento nel quale incontrare spunti di riflessione per capire da dove veniamo e dove stiamo andando.
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Rome, 186 B.C. The followers of the Cult of Bacchus, the Roman adaptation of Greek Dionysian worship, have reached such high numbers to become “almost a second people”, thus posing a political threat to the governance of the Republic...