erikcason on Nostr: One of the funniest things about going to music festivals is that they are clearly ...

One of the funniest things about going to music festivals is that they are clearly spiritual and religious rituals that have been lobotomized of their base meaning. Yet somehow have still reactualized themselves in modernity with this secret encrypted at their heart and still offer people the same benediction that prior religious festivals before have offered—mainly a path of transcendence awakening through the combination of drugs, community, and celebration. While debased and inverted from its previous means, in the transcendental awakening it provides, it unveils why the secrets of this initiation are held in such a way, and why such an experience must be offered in such a way.