You know all that "Toltec" crap in the bad section of the bookstore? It turns out that some of these tantric secrets were, in fact, known in Mesoamerica. The Olmecs did yoga. Long before the Toltecs (or even the Maya).
It seems that some "contortions" are, in fact, good for messing up the flow of blood to the brain. Hallucinations may result. Watson's The Great Divide wins another round - the Americas were all about getting high. All that "Toltec" stuff might take a W of their own.
Here's also another excuse, if not precisely a win, for poor old Cristobal of Liguria. The "Indios" of the new world really weren't so different from their namesakes in the old world, especially if we stick with the Aryans. First soma; now tantra.
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