I would say it's an insult to mystery cults. Going back to the ancient Greeks shows mystery cults as social movements where the wildness within each was allowed to run free and the trappings of civilization were mocked and upended. Women and slaves freely participated in ritual dance with citizens. A study I once read on the cult of Dion…
I would say it's an insult to mystery cults. Going back to the ancient Greeks shows mystery cults as social movements where the wildness within each was allowed to run free and the trappings of civilization were mocked and upended. Women and slaves freely participated in ritual dance with citizens. A study I once read on the cult of Dionysus cracked me up when they mentioned the use of "spinal hyperflexion" to music to induce a trance state among the ancient mystery cults. That's the fanciest description of headbanging I've ever heard.
I guess my point is that mystery cults were very different from the modern woke movement and in ways that don't reflect well on wokeness. They brought people together and provided a source of social bonding between slave and free and women and men. They emphasized the body and the accessibility of religious experience to all. By contrast, wokeism divides us with endless arguments over who is the most oppressed and pronoun minutae. Wokeism sees the source of knowledge not in ourselves or in our bodies but in academic theory.
I would say it's an insult to mystery cults. Going back to the ancient Greeks shows mystery cults as social movements where the wildness within each was allowed to run free and the trappings of civilization were mocked and upended. Women and slaves freely participated in ritual dance with citizens. A study I once read on the cult of Dionysus cracked me up when they mentioned the use of "spinal hyperflexion" to music to induce a trance state among the ancient mystery cults. That's the fanciest description of headbanging I've ever heard.
I guess my point is that mystery cults were very different from the modern woke movement and in ways that don't reflect well on wokeness. They brought people together and provided a source of social bonding between slave and free and women and men. They emphasized the body and the accessibility of religious experience to all. By contrast, wokeism divides us with endless arguments over who is the most oppressed and pronoun minutae. Wokeism sees the source of knowledge not in ourselves or in our bodies but in academic theory.