Species and the culture

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Briefly put, alcoholic beverages are unique among all the drugs that bumans and our early hominid ancestors have exploited on this planet for more than four million years. Their preeminence and universal allure -- what might be called their biological, social, and religious imperatives -- make them significant in understanding the development of our species and its cultures. ~ xi / xii (Preface)

. . . . Sufis sought and still seek to experience God directly and in all his glory, a state that is referred to as “intoxication.” They are not averse to using physical stimuli to achieve their mystical and ecstatic states, especially when wine or another fermented beverage for attaining oneness is forbidden. They spin around in circles, like the whirling dervishes, or repeat Koranic verses and even graphic love and wine lyrics, ad infinitum

An explicit mystical thread does exist in Omar Khayyam’s poetry and has been cited in support of the cause. For example

HE IS, and nought but Him exists, I know,
This truth is what creation’s book will show;
When heart acquired perception with His Light,
Atheistic darkness changed to faithly glow ~ Page 103

2 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.

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