This article deconstructs the persistent materialist and natural-myth reductions surrounding ancient water and ocean cosmologies in comparative religion. By executing an adhyatmika (internal/phenomenological) hermeneutic, we demonstrate that the celestial waters do not represent physical meteorology, but rather the unmanifest, causal matrix of cosmic consciousness. Focusing on the existential...
For over a century, Orientalist and philological scholarship surrounding the Proto-Indo-Iranian sauma complex has been dominated by a materialist, psychopharmacological paradigm. Researchers have exhausted vast academic resources attempting to isolate a botanical candidate—ranging from Amanita muscaria to Ephedra gerardiana—that could account for the "altered state of consciousness" celebrated...