Vikki Bramshaw

“He is the hunter, yet also the hunted - and he is dead, yet also alive; these cycles of opposition were the driving force behind his cult rites. Dionysos offers us the joyous freedom of choice, yet he is also the toxicity that we ourselves administer by our erroneous decisions; he is Dionysos Bromios, ‘the roarer’ and loud-shouting god of pandemonium; ‘yet silence and stillness often fell upon those who were possessed by him’.[viii] Often symbolic of extreme and contrasting states of being, he embodies the primal emotions that drive us and makes us who we are.”
― Vikki Bramshaw, Dionysos: Exciter to Frenzy

“the Dionysian philosophy suggests that it impossible to develop spiritually without also embracing the realities of life – for Dionysos is a god of substance. The ancient Greeks had two different words for our word, ‘life’: the first was bios which referred to the literal, mortal existence of an individual, and the other was zöe which referred to the ‘spirit’ of life. This ethos was reflected at the core of Dionysian religion, which recognised both the reality of existence and also a profound spiritual awareness. Dionysos is sometimes described as “other-worldly without being world-denying” [vi] the Dionysian cult brought religion and the corporeal into one without negating the importance or viability of either; arguably, perhaps something that is missing in many spiritual and religious paths available today.”
― Vikki Bramshaw, Dionysos: Exciter to Frenzy