Ancient pagan religions were not based on mythology or whimsy but on creating powerful emotional experiences designed to simulate confrontation with death and the underworld; they were serious systems for helping humans face existential vulnerability and cosmic insignificance.
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“Pagan religions were extremely serious... based on creating very powerful emotional responses in people... It was initially an extremely powerful reaction to human vulnerability to our weakness in this immense cosmos... It was simply about creating this overwhelming emotional reaction in which you took the the initiates to the edge of death.”
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