I have yet to read "The Serpent and the Rainbow", but I have actually read Davis's "Passage of Darkness", which, I must suppose, deals more with the actual zombie cases than Davis's adventures in Haiti. I wish more people would have read it, because I find the Haitian mind-slave zombie much more compelling than the reanimated dead zombie which has oversaturated horror media in the last 20 years.
"The sorcery vs chemistry debate surrounding the zombie phenomenon can be thought of as a false dichotomy peculiar to the Modernist mind.
In Greek, the same word is used for both disciplines.
Just ask all the weirdos who go on Joe Rogan and swear that taking hippie party drugs put them in touch with primordial trickster spirits."
Damn. You beat me to it.
But, yes,the pharmakos, the voodoo bokor, and the zombie have not disappeared into the mists. The whole process has been corporatived and sterilized, and has grown advertising and marketing tentacles that reach into every mind, medium and pocketbook. Like so much else in our mediated and demon-haunted world, today's zombies are brought to you by Pfizer.
I have yet to read "The Serpent and the Rainbow", but I have actually read Davis's "Passage of Darkness", which, I must suppose, deals more with the actual zombie cases than Davis's adventures in Haiti. I wish more people would have read it, because I find the Haitian mind-slave zombie much more compelling than the reanimated dead zombie which has oversaturated horror media in the last 20 years.
"The sorcery vs chemistry debate surrounding the zombie phenomenon can be thought of as a false dichotomy peculiar to the Modernist mind.
In Greek, the same word is used for both disciplines.
Just ask all the weirdos who go on Joe Rogan and swear that taking hippie party drugs put them in touch with primordial trickster spirits."
Damn. You beat me to it.
But, yes,the pharmakos, the voodoo bokor, and the zombie have not disappeared into the mists. The whole process has been corporatived and sterilized, and has grown advertising and marketing tentacles that reach into every mind, medium and pocketbook. Like so much else in our mediated and demon-haunted world, today's zombies are brought to you by Pfizer.
"Suffer not the sorcerer" takes on a whole new meaning.
All 3 definitely