>>14125582These phenomenon are also highly related to the myth of Cupid and Psyche: the root of psychedelic is of course "psyche" and in Greek 'Psyche' means breath, life, soul. She was a woman in myth - actually, the twin soul of Cupid himself. Those wings pictured on Psyche and Cupid are astral wings, same as on the caduceus.
At the beginning all consciousness was in one and the same person also called Adam kadmon in Kaballah, for example. This is the primordial I am also called Eros, Phanes, Protogonos in Greek mythology.
Born out of primordial chaos was Phanes, known in other traditions elsewhere as Adam, Mithras, and Cupid/Eros.
In the beginning, humans, like Phanes, were androgynous. So says Aristophanes in his fantastical account of the origins of love in Plato’s Symposium.
Not only did early humans have both sets of sexual organs, Aristophanes reports, but they were outfitted with two faces, four hands, and four legs. These monstrosities were very fast – moving by way of cartwheels – and they were also quite powerful. So powerful, in fact, that the gods were nervous for their dominion.
Wanting to weaken the humans, Zeus, Greek king of Gods, decided to cut each in two, and commanded his son Apollo “to turn its face…towards the wound so that each person would see that he’d been cut and keep better order.” If, however, the humans continued to pose a threat, Zeus promised to cut them again – “and they’ll have to make their way on one leg, hopping!”
The severed humans were a miserable lot, Aristophanes says.
“[Each] one longed for its other half, and so they would throw their arms about each other, weaving themselves together, wanting to grow together.”
Finally, Zeus, moved by pity, decided to turn their sexual organs to the front, so they might achieve some satisfaction in embracing.
