#ErikDavis: "There is a reason that #esoteric things were esoteric throughout the history of #culture and #religion, and it is that they are not for everybody, at least at the stage most people are, trying to just make a living, trying to keep their families together... because a lot of these esoteric practices and experiences, have a kind of #deconstructing quality, they pull the rug out from under you, they show you a multiplicity world, sometimes god is everywhere, and it is pretty groovy, but it can be, in someways, #unsettling."
@erik_davis & Douglas @Rushkoff on #Psychedelics in society
!["I fear we [Britain] have immensely out-done them [ancient Israel] in shedding innocent blood, in oppressing the poor, the fatherless, and the widow; and in every species of detestable injustice, prompted by insatiable avarice, and protected from human vengeance, (as it is greatly suspected) by shameless bribery and venality. In pride, adultery, luxury, and all debauchery, their guilt bears, I apprehend, no proportion to ours."](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/350/995/599/287/187/original/f16a0b5b0e79165f.png)