A better page, Writings on Nietzsche, to clear the pallette from that childishly stupid Catholic drivel that I just read about Nietzsche. They have some good stuff comparing Apollonian and Dionysian consciousness…

Dionysus, on the other hand, merges the individual with a Nature that is beyond one’s control. Dionysus can be savage, unpredictable, ecstactic, indestructibly powerful, pleasurable, a kind of primordial music that is beyond the mere phenomenology of representation.

… Dionysus is hot-blooded, instinctual, moody, and has the power to overthrow systems through intoxication, ruptures, or revelations such as an earthquake to show that there is something larger than our mere representation of the phenomenological world can try to map.

You know, all this stuff reminds me a lot of Philip K. Dick actually. With entropy vs. neg-entropy. It also makes sense that Nietzsche looked to Zarathustra, aka Zoroaster, since Zoroastrianism has at its heart, the battle between the two figures of Ahriman and Ahura Mazda.