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Who Were the Lotus Eaters? (with pictures)
And during this period I got the chance to see and get to know better the world psychedelic scene. They stayed there until Odysseus himself brought them back by force, and they cried bitterly and were forced to fast. Looking back on this time, I realize now, with the benefit of experience and better knowledge, that the quality and dosages of the psychedelic substances I was ingesting was rather low. Mainly I was reading books about science, religion and philosophy but also I read a wide variety of periodicals as well. The theme has also been repeated in many novels and movies, such as 'The Age of Innocence' by Edith Wharton and 'Camp Half-Blood Chronicles' by Rick Riordan. Lesson Summary Too much food can give us a stomachache, too many shopping trips can get us into debt, and too much traveling can even cause us to lose sight of our everyday realities of work and family.
I also read the biographies of people like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates and found them inspiring and instructive. However I did maintain a keen interest in brain chemistry. Though I had and still have a lot of liking and affinity with a lot of the people who are a part of the world psychedelic community, I can also see the inherent limitations of using psychedelic drugs as a means to facilitate mystic states. It's clear Odysseus does not learn from this mistake, because he again trusts his men and sends them off with orders. There was a feeling that I had wasted valuable time and that it was necessary for me to play catch up.
What is a good summary of the Lotus Eaters in the Odyssey?
This made the three crew men who ate the lotus very contented, and forgetful of their home land. Too Much of a Good Thing? Phillips gives a very full treatment of myths that placed Odysseus and , his son by Circe, in Italy. One such candidate is the Egyptian Blue Lotus Nymphaea Caerulea which has mild psycho-active qualities and can be found in North-Eastern African Areas such as Egypt. Odysseus could have left the men on the island, but chose to do his duty and physically fight the men to get them back onto the ships. If psychedelic trance music was the siren song that drew me close then it was the drug ecstasy which acted as the bait and hook, which would bind and keep me in this druggy scene.
Zeus promises to strike Odysseus' ship with a lightning bolt. But individual readers may interpret it in the context of their own experiences. This article deals first with those who believe, as did many ancient authors, that the hero of the Odyssey was driven west or south-west from Cape Malea and, more than nine years later, returned from the west to his native Ionian islands: his landfalls are therefore to be found in the western Mediterranean. Throughout all this period it really felt as if I was only really passing through. Also I was probably getting diminishing returns in terms of new experiences and insights.
For a long time the most detailed study of Odysseus's travels was that of the French Homeric scholar. During this time, in and around 1995, I was living in the Farringdon area in London, which positioned me perfectly for going to any and every psychedelic event in London. Anyway, it was only after leaving the squat that my real investigations into the world of psychedelia and the land of the lotus eaters would begin. Ernle Bradford had meanwhile added some new suggestions: the land of the Cyclopes was around in western Sicily; the island of Aeolus was off Sicily; Calypso was on. The lotus eaters are a representation of Sloth.
According to Dictys, Odysseus fled from Troy after being accused of murdering. As a student I would often go to see rock bands play there, so I felt quite at home. Also staying in antiquity we find the mysterious Kykeon, which was ingested in the sacred rituals of the Greek mysteries and also the blue lotus or lily of the Nile which was used by ancient Egyptian high priests. They find a land where the inhabitants are fond of ingesting a plant called the Lotus. It was something to do when you were broke and bored. Finally in one of the earliest myths and also the oldest recorded story known to man, that is the tale of Gilgamesh, we also find a reference to some psychedelic plant.
Lotus Eaters * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
The winds drive him away. Events in the main sequence of the excluding the narrative of 's adventures take place in the and in what are now called the and its neighbours. They used the plant for multiple reasons like food, recreation, the relaxing effects made it a good aide for sleeping, and for spiritual experiences. I rediscovered my long time obsession with the brain and how the human mind worked. Touching or kissing the lotus-eaters was said to worsen the effects.
Polyphemus makes a show of hospitality at first, but he soon turns hostile. This manner of introduction was very formalized and formulaic in Homeric Greece and should seem familiar to readers of the Iliad. Starting from around the Summer of 1993, I would be involved with this scene, on an on and off basis, until the Spring of 1998. All the rest of my time was spent hanging around night clubs a lot and socializing with psychedelic weirdos, like the sort that I myself had become. The Ambracian Gulf and the island of foreground, centre , around which Severin suggested locations for the Sirens, the Wandering Rocks, Scylla, Charybdis and the island of Helios's cattle. Odysseus ordered the rest of his men not to eat the lotus and head back to continue their journey home.
What is a good summary of the Lotus Eaters in the Odyssey?
There is some discussion as to what the Lotus Eaters actually ate. Many of these are of a fragmentary nature and just about all of these are difficult to depict visually of describe in words. A more systematic discussion of the authenticity of the psychedelic experience will be left for another time and place. Have you ever being on the Island of the Lotus Eaters? My life went through a total re-orientation and I was living a very different existence from my previous one in the land of the lotus eaters. Reputation is of paramount importance in this culture. Polyphemus then calls on his father, Poseidon, god of the sea, to avenge him.
