Spicy Hot
It is smooth, polished by years of sweat, blood, tears.
"Do you know what a mystery cult is?" I ask.
"I've read things. In your books."
"Yes. But reading is not understanding. A mystery cult is a path. A path toward something that cannot be reached alone. Something greater than us. Ecstasy, fusion, dissolution of the self. The Eleusinians called it epopteia, the vision. The Dionysiacs called it enthusiasmos, being inhabited by the god."
"And us? What do we call it?"