P.D. Newman @PD_Newman

Psychoethnopharmacologist innertraditions.com/author/p-d-new… Memphis, TN Joined May 2016

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One of the better interviews I’ve done, on @AmbroseAndreano's Black Crow Substack. He actually read the book 😄 and it was a really engaged, interesting, and thoughtful conversation. substack.com/@gregoryshusha…

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4 days ago

“The arousing and enrapturing [of the soul by poetry] is indeed the task of both [Muse and soul] and contributes to the fulfilling of a single entity—composed of the illuminated and the illuminating, I mean—for the one moves downward and the other is spread out below to receive…

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6 days ago

“If matter has an especially direct connection to the One, what of something below matter? Many thinkers in the Platonic tradition had placed a level of quasi-reality below the material world; the world of artistic representations. We remember that Plotinus (echoing Plato…

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Cornutus, L. Annaeus. _GREEK THEOLOGY, Fragments, and Testimonia_. SBL Press. Atlanta, GA. 2018. 242 pages.

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Rasimus, Tuomas. _Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence_. Brill. Boston, MA. 2009. 355 pages.

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Chaitow, Sasha (Translator). _The Hieroglyphica of Horapollon Nilōos_. Black Letter Press. Obernkirchen, Germany. 2025. 488 pages.

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“And if ideas are expressed through enigmatic and mythic language, this should not be unexpected. The cause is the nature of poetry and the custom of the ancients. They did this so that on the one hand lovers of learning, delighted by a certain elegance, might more readily seek…

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“And so, my child, it is my hope that you may be able in this same way to take the other things which have been handed down to us in mythical form, ostensibly about the gods, and may refer them to the elementary models that I have taught you, convinced that the men of antiquity…

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Richardson, Wade. _The Psychedelic Mindmeld: Telepathically Exploring Shared Consciousness_. Park Street Press. Rochester, VT. 2024. 332 pages.

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Faraone, Christopher A. _Talismans and Trojan Horses: Guardian Statues in Ancient Greek Myth and Ritual_. Oxford University Press. New York, NY. 1992. 193 pages.

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Struck, Peter T. _Divination and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Classical Antiquity_. Princeton University Press. Princeton, NJ. 2018. 288 pages.

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3 weeks ago

There’s a lot of talk surrounding the moon and how strange our satellite may actually be—it’s hollow, there are alien bases there, the moon is artificial, and on and on—but all of this apparent lunacy, if you pardon the phrase, pales in comparison to the gravitas of the light…

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Castner, James L. _Shrunken Heads: Tsantsa Trophies and Human Exotica_. Feline Press. Gainesville, FL. 2002. 160 pages.

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3 weeks ago

I’m reading these fragments from the Presocratic philosophers. Heraklitos complains that language is nearly useless—not just to express things about the gods, who encompass contradictions and thus are paradoxical, but even to explain everyday material phenomena. For instance, the…

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4 weeks ago

“Poetic and musical models are better than philosophical language and—while the language of philosophy is on the one hand sufficiently able to express things human and divine, it is on the other hand inarticulate and unable to express a language befitting the divine…