owen cyclops on Twitter - fairies, alien abductions, psychedelics, and the demonic

owen cyclops on Twitter - fairies, alien abductions, psychedelics, and the demonic

A fascinating but long and winding twitter thread in which the author (now a Christian) sees patterns and parallels between the stories told by people on psychedelic substances (with which he has extensive experience), and alien encounters, mysterious disappearances, demonic encounters, folklore about fairies and djinns, and fallen angels. In the end he provides a plausible explanation for why the word pharmakeia means sorcery, linking it to a passage in the apocryphal Book of Enoch.