words expand your reality

The word “entheogen” was chosen to define such substances. It is derived from two words from ancient Greek: éntheos, literally “full of the god” or “possessed”; and genésthai, “to come into being”. So an entheogen is a substance that facilitates the finding of the “god within”.

throughout history certain human beings could reach a state of “enthusiasm” without using entheogens. I have picked this word carefully. Enthusiasm also has its root the ancient Greek word éntheos. Enthusiastic dancing, drumming and various other rhythmic movements seem to open access to the “god within”. Even in people not initiated in secret rite

• Eidolon (εἴδωλον): A ghostly phantom or illusory double in Greek mythology, reflecting an unreal or idealized image of a person or thing.


• Daemon (δαίμων): A divine or spiritual being in Greek philosophy, acting as a guiding force or moral conscience between gods and humans.

The word ‘ecstatic’ is from the Greek ekstasis and means ‘standing outside oneself

The Greek word Pleroma literally means “fullness”, from the verb plero, “I fill”.

This god was known as the Demiurge, from the ancient Greek dēmiourgos. This word, meaning “craftsman” or “producer”, was first used in a philosophical context in Plato’s Timaeus, written around 360 BCE.

Corbin introduced to the West a concept he termed the Mundus Imaginalis, the world of the image. He had used this term to describe an idea well-known in Iranian Sufi circles which had no equivalent in Latin, French or English. The qualifier, which may be translated as “imaginal”, does not mean “imaginary” but is far subtler. In French and English “