Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (832 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0892819979 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Clark Heinrich has been an ethnobotanist since 1974 and has completed years of study with masters of yoga philosophy and Western mysticism. The coauthor of The Apples of Apollo, Heinrich lives in the coastal mountains of central California
I have learned a good deal." (Albert Hofmann, discoverer of LSD and coauthor of Plants of the Gods) . "fascinating, scholarly and original I love it." (Terence McKenna, author of Foods of the Gods and True Hallucinations)"No researcher to date has tackled the subject with Heinrich's painstaking ingenuity. His conclusions are as fascinating as they are certain to be controversial." (Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions)"An extraordinary and beautiful book. I read it with the highest interest and enjoyed enormously followin
While acknowledging the speculative nature of his work, Heinrich concludes that in many religious cultures and traditions the fly agaric mushroom--and in some cases ergot or psilocybin mushrooms--had a fundamental influence in teaching humans about the nature of God. • Confirms and extends Robert Gordon Wasson's hypothesis of the role of the fly agaric mushroom in generating religious visions. Rejecting arguments that the elusive philosophers' stone of alchemy and the Hindu elixir of life were mere legend, Clark Heinrich provides a strong case that Amanita muscaria, the fly agaric mushroom, played this role in world religious history. An illustrated foray into the hidden truth about the use of psychoactive mushrooms to connect with the divine. • Contends that the famed philosophers' stone of the alchemist was a metaphor for the mushroom. Working under the assumption that this "magic mushroom" was the mysterious food and drink of the gods, Heinrich traces its use in Vedic and Puranic religion, illustrating how ancient cultures used the powerful psychedelic in esoteric rituals meant to bring them into direct contact with the divine. His insightful book truly b
An excellent book Clark Heinrich's book is excellent. Clark provides practical information on the Amanita muscaria mushroom, its natural history and practical uses as a psychoactive, and he provides a "speculative history" of the role of the mushroom in human history throu. A Customer said Great, Now the CIA Knows I Buy Books about Amanita Muscaria. Notice I didn't say "Read Books". This is a well written account of the effects of Amanita Muscaria, and how it may have or did inform some magicians, fairy elves, and grown men in finding faith and a connection to something greater than themselves. The o. shroomified a well-researched (but fun-loving) exploration of the psychedelic underpinnings of religion. Vibrantly illustrated and effectively carrying the torch from greats such as R. Gordon Wasson, this one's a keeper.