Etidorhpa-need I say more? (A trip with words)

[maymay]

Well guys something just flashed through my mind...the name of a book that I've read 5 years ago-ETIDORPHA...maybe some of you haven't read it yet so here is a link-you can read online the whole book, I myself bought it 3 years ago because I think it's worth having around- EtidorhpaContents

The ones who have read it will definitely agree that it is an amazing book...just read it and tell me what you think...believe me you will not be disappointed,just try it...

Interesting how the name flashed through my mind just like that...Enjoy the book and tell me what you think after you've read it:wink:

I've posted this here for a reason,it's more than a book-it's a trip with words...

 

[Dimitrius]

I can honestly say that I probably won't read the whole thing....

...but I did read chapter XVII (The Fungus Forest - Enchantment) and I really enjoyed it.

 

[maymay]

read the whole thing you don't know what you are missing...John Uri Lloyd was a pharmacologist and interestingly enough he had a second life...to make a long story short it was his only book out red it all you don't know what you are missing I repeat he was a PHARMACOLOGIST you know what that implies(hint-he had access to substances-enough said now go read=) )

 

[Dimitrius]

alllright...I will....slowly. a bit at a time, lol. here and there.

when was it written?

 

[maymay]

It was published during 1895,I cannot tell you when it was written initially because he claimed each time he was asked that the story was real...taking into consideration that he was a Pharmacologist he could have experienced all that during some trips and wrote it down,as you would write down if you were tripping and something spoke to you get it? the interesting part is that he had another hobby beside his job...

 

[Dimitrius]

Yeah, I gotch yah.

It felt like a late 1800's book.

I like it....from the one chapter I've read so far...:lol:.

 

[elofer]

WOW!! I just read the fungus chapter...I think i might just pick this one up..thans fro the heads up mon!
its weird but I have had repeatedly this vision of a place where muchrooms grow into appartment buildings and EVERYTHING and we live in them and there is hardly anything that isn't fungus...beautifull...I didn't wan't to leave!!

 

[Nordic]

" So men perverted, misconstruing the aim of science, answer the cry of humanity," he said. " One by one the cherished treasures of Christianity have been stolen from the faithful. What, to the mother, can replace the babe that has been lost?”

" The next world," I answered, " offers a comfort."

" Bah," he said; " does not another searcher in that same science field tell the mother that there is no personal hereafter, that she will never see her babe again ? One man of science steals the body, another man of science takes away the soul, the third annihilates heaven; they go like pestilence and famine, hand in hand, subsisting on all that craving humanity considers sacred, and offering no tangible return beyond a materialistic present. This same science that seems to be doing so much for humanity will continue to elevate so-called material civilization until, as the yeast ferment is smothered in its own excretion, so will science-thought create conditions to blot itself from existence, and destroy the civilization it creates. Science is heartless, notwithstanding the personal purity of the majority of her helpless votaries.

I enjoyed this bit.