Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy

An illustrated foray into the hidden truth about the use of psychoactive mushrooms to connect with the divine.

• Draws parallels between Vedic beliefs and Judeo-Christian sects, showing the existence of a mushroom cult that crossed cultural boundaries.

• Contends that the famed philosophers' stone of the alchemist was a metaphor for the mushroom.

• Confirms and extends Robert Gordon Wasson's hypothesis of the role of the fly agaric mushroom in generating religious visions.

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