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Theater, imagination, the suspension of disbelief? Theater was a central Bacchic practice, and Bacchus/Dionysus is at once the height of loss of self control, and deeply cthonic. Death overturned by the relinquishing of self, through social enactment or personal initiation.



Suspension of disbelief. Or assuming a different set of beliefs. These beliefs being a set of assumptions or rules underlying a story or a game.

To move from one world to another.

To enter a movie, story, game... we are all pretty familiar with that.


I don't think people are familiar with how that structure implies the part is greater than the whole. A lunar ideology hiding within the solar.


Any links? Am curious, ta





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