/lit/ - Literature

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Guenon in 'Studies in Hinduism' goes a bit into Soma and talks about how it was an important part of ceremony/realization and at one point makes some comment about how the loss of Soma tied into setting the stage for the Kali Yuga and that rediscovering Soma will play a roll in the inauguration of a new age/resetting of the cycle when Kalki arrives.

Evola as far as I'm aware is the only traditionalist that explicitly talks about psychedelics. Guenon was known to be a user of opium and I think hashish too, he once described opium as an aid to meditation. In my understanding a traditionalist position on them would be that meaningless abuse of them is obviously unwholesome, but that in cases where there is a tradition of using them in ceremonial/ritual settings as an adjunct to spiritual realization there can be legitimate usage of them; at least so long as the proper perspective is maintained and they are not taken as ends in themselves. It's not for no reason that hashish is widely smoked by sadhus across India and Nepal and that the people there don't consider that a violation of how a sadhu should behave.