>>But another excellent example (if you buy the Amanita Muscara
>>scholoarship) is the Christian Communion. Actions continue, but
>>the meaning and purpose of the event is lost (and has been since
>>at least the sixth century, when the Catholic Church officially
>>recgonized the dogma of "Transubstitution").
I was thinking about this a while ago... its pretty bizzarre. The whole
thing may have started as a 'sharing of food' sortof thing... something
that builds community, etc. Very bonding and 'democratic' (tho thats not
the right word). Consider its current form; the involvement of the
communicants (?) is reduced to kneeling meekly and having wafers put in
their mouths (I don't believe they even have to CHEW)... All personal
action is removed. Very disempowering.
Metaphorically its something like "swallow everything".
The original sharing food as a community idea has been replaced with a
menes that mathaphorically increases the receptiveness of commincants to
the religions meme complex.
Or something...
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