About this episode

The episode explores the connection between pharmaceuticals and sorcery through historical and modern lenses.

Pharmakeia — Show Notes: Fight Laugh Feast Documentary In this Fight Laugh Feast documentary, CrossPolitic traces a single Greek word — pharmakeia — from Homer's Odyssey through the book of Revelation to argue that the ancient world never separated medicine from sorcery, and that the modern West's attempt to draw that line may be its most consequential mistake. The film follows materialism's promise from the Big Bang to the therapy couch, tracks the ladder from prescription pharmaceuticals to ayahuasca retreats in Peru, and asks why the men who most loudly deny the existence of demons are increasingly found in dark rooms communing with named spirit entities. Along the way it draws on C.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Peter Hitchens, and the testimony of a man who sat in fifteen ayahuasca ceremonies — and what finally set him free. The answer is not another ceremony. It is guilt, repentance, and the One who drank the cup fully awake so we wouldn't have to.   Timestamps 0:24 — What is a woman? What is a human being? — and why getting the answer wrong collapses everything 1:04 — The materialist answer: evolved apes, accidental universe, cosmic…

People in this episode

Hosts: Pastor Toby, Choc Knox, Waterboy

Topics covered

• pharmaceuticals
• sorcery
• materialism
• ayahuasca
• spirituality
• demons

Keywords

• pharmakeia
• materialism
• ayahuasca retreats
• C.S. Lewis
• spiritual entities
• demons
• therapy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fight Laugh Feast

Books & works: Homer's Odyssey, Revelation

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