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I was wondering if anyone has any clues what the Delphi Oracles used to induce traces in order to provide divine wisdon from Apollo to the masses? I thought i read somwhere that a smoke was released from the ground which caused these accurate predictions. I believe they also chewed somesort of leaves but they are shown tohave no trance inducing properties.
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Posts: 1955 Joined: 24-Jul-2010 Last visit: 12-Jan-2025
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I think the story was - there were cracks in the earth around where the temple of delphi was built, from which Ethylene gases crept up which caused trance and visions. There's a bit about it on wikipedia and here for starters http://news.sciencemag.o...enow/2006/10/02-02.html but it's not entirely clear which gas it was it seems. cheers Buon viso a cattivo gioco! --- The Open Hyperspace Traveler Handbook - A handbook for the safe and responsible use of entheogens. --- mushroom-grow-help ::: energy conserving caapi extraction
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ღஐ~Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ~ஐღ
Posts: 281 Joined: 28-Dec-2009 Last visit: 08-Mar-2020 Location: 45th parallel
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I think it was nitrous oxide but this is a guess Perhaps I am asking the wrong questions but it doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
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Josh
Posts: 23 Joined: 22-Feb-2011 Last visit: 27-Nov-2012 Location: USA
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Quote:...light hydrocarbon gases from bituminous limestone. De Boer and colleagues found ethane, methane, and ethylene in spring water near the Oracle. The euphoric effects of ethylene, which had been used as anesthesia in the last century, jibe very well with Plutarch's description of the gas the Pythia inhaled. Henry Spiller, a medical doctor who recently joined the research group, provided details on the narcotic effects of ethylene that completed the team's theory. This is a quote from http://www.sciencedaily....001/08/010807075959.htm
I've been to Delphi once, and if you ever get a chance to visit it is a remarkable place (both the excavation site and the town). Lot of wild cats though, so you'll have to get used to the smell of cat piss. Life is just a collection of experiences, and I hope to experience them all
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Chen Cho Dorge
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That's interesting , there is some ideas about henbane being burned. Dorge is cooperatively owned and cooperatively run by various hyperspacial entities working as a collabertive sentience project for the betterment of sentient exploration. Offical Changa web sitehttp://changa.esotericpharma.org/
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Josh
Posts: 23 Joined: 22-Feb-2011 Last visit: 27-Nov-2012 Location: USA
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Let's also not forget that the fumes were toxic and that the young girls would die around the age of 12 (can't find a source on this at the moment, going off of memory from the tour guides and historians there). Life is just a collection of experiences, and I hope to experience them all
Some are for everything, but nothing is for everyone
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Posts: 352 Joined: 11-Jul-2010 Last visit: 03-Feb-2014 Location: Home
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Hi there, I was browsing through BBC Radio 4's In Our Time archive and found an episode on the Delphic Oracle which you might find interesting. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00txj8dThe trees spoke to me through the wind. The more I listened, the more they spoke.
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