Were "Underground" Warehouse Parties Religious Experiences?

Gobekli Tepe was closed up around 10,000 years ago. It was mysteriously, perhaps lovingly, preserved by filling in each of its otherworldly chambers with sediment. And after it was closed around 8,000 BC, it lay hidden just beneath the surface like an unconscious fantasy for millennia waiting for its uncovering and subsequent reintroduction to the modern world. When uncovered in the Mid-Eighties by Klaus Schmidt and his team, it didn't fit the categories of how human progress had been previously conceived. And it remains a wonder of liminal ideation and of the enigmatic expressions of human intentions to this day. The illegal warehouse parties that I went to in my early twenties had nothing in common with Gobekli Tepe, except, perhaps, an intention to encounter something novel and unreadable. In the post-industrial collapse of the Midwest, what was available was what was left, which were lots of abandoned industrial spaces. They were left to rot unlike the intentional manner in which Gobekli Tepe was carefully preserved. But was what we encountered in those dark, forgotten places anything like what those tribal nomads found when they descended into the various chambers at Gobekli Tepe? Join me on this highly problematic endeavor of religious comparisons.

Baddass vibes mixed by James Reeves of Midnight Radio: jamesreeves.co