Rites of the Eleusinian Mysteries - Bruce Damer and Joe Rogan @NewMediaProductionsOrg

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The great Bruce Damer and Joe Rogan discuss the history and importance of the Rites of Eleusis. The Eleusinian Mysteries were an ancient rite of passage in Greece that lasted for a thousand of years before Socrates and Co.

Phaedo: "our mysteries had a very real meaning: he that has been purified and initiated shall dwell with the gods" - Plato (69:d, F.J. Church trans)

-Added distorting topographical visuals to give an appropriately playful and abstract context to this conversation.

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