{"id":1003,"date":"2008-04-06T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2008-04-06T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T02:05:00","slug":"the-god-with-many-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"The God with Many Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new issue of The Entheogen Review<\/em><\/a> carries a piece by David Luke<\/a> on cross-cultural encounters with a godlike being covered with a multitude of eyes. (Yes, Ezekiel’s cherubim<\/a> are one of the references.)<\/p>\n

His article, “Disembodied Eyes Revisited: An Investigation into the Ontology of Entheogenic Entity Encounters,” describes such encounters and descriptions from Jewish, Muslim, Tibetan, and non-traditional entheogenic experiences:<\/p>\n

Then the multitudinous eyes of the being before me suddenly and quite deliberately blocked my curious consciousness’s further explorations by mesmerizing me with its squirming, rhythmic eyeball hypnosis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In Tibetan tradition, a multi-eyed being called Za functions as a “protector of the law,” being a guardian deity on the borders of our world and the Other Side. Luke hints at a connection with Python the guardian of Delphi<\/a>, mythologically slain by Apollo.<\/p>\n

Searching trip reports at Erowid<\/a>, he finds more similar reports, leading him to wander, “But is there anything that can be found in this wayward meandering through myth and visions that offers a case for the genuine reification of ‘the other’ encountered in psychedelic spaces on the far side of the psyche?”<\/p>\n

Yes, it is the interpretatio graeca<\/em><\/a>, saying that all these experiences are of the same deity \/ psychic structure \/ whatever. And why not? In applied polytheism, you start with your own experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new issue of The Entheogen Review carries a piece by David Luke on cross-cultural encounters with a godlike being covered with a multitude of eyes. (Yes, Ezekiel’s cherubim are one of the references.) His article, “Disembodied Eyes Revisited: An Investigation into the Ontology of Entheogenic Entity Encounters,” describes such encounters and descriptions from Jewish, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8,40],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-entheogens","tag-polytheism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-gb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":980,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=980","url_meta":{"origin":1003,"position":0},"title":"The Ayahuasca Diaries","author":"Chas S. 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Clifton","date":"November 5, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"As long as I'm blogging the BBC, let me point out this story on the effectiveness of traditional therapy, including the use of entheogenic (\"psychedelic\") plants in a shamanic context to overcome drug addiction in Brazil.","rel":"","context":"In \"entheogens\"","block_context":{"text":"entheogens","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=entheogens"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":125,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=125","url_meta":{"origin":1003,"position":3},"title":"Who looks down on whom\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 22, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Who looks down on whom An interesting graphic on the hierarchy of snobbery in Pagan\/entheogenic\/shamanic circles--and fairly accurate, too. (Link courtesy of The Pagan Prattle). The chart was created by Ashley Yakeley, who runs the Seattle Pagan Information web site.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1460,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1460","url_meta":{"origin":1003,"position":4},"title":"Thinking Magically about Corporations\u2014and Plants","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Writer Dale Pendell muses about the idea of a corporation as a magical creation. Pendell is the author of the three best-ever books on psychoactive and entheogenic plants: Pharmako\/Gnostis, Pharmako\/Dynamis, and Pharmako\/Poeia. New editions are forthcoming from North Atlantic Books. Here is his Web site.","rel":"","context":"In \"entheogens\"","block_context":{"text":"entheogens","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=entheogens"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":981,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=981","url_meta":{"origin":1003,"position":5},"title":"Shroom the Book, Shrooms the Movie","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Still on the entheogenic theme ... Andy Letcher, author of Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom, lent his expertise to a horror film in this YouTube video: I liked his book, so I suppose that publicity for it is a Good Thing. 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