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The Pharmacratic Inquisition

AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
edited May 2007 in A Moving Train
This is a really interesting look at the history of the world's religions and their connection with psychedelic substances. It's quit intersting.

For example it suggests that easter egg hunting originates with ancient shamans. Who would send their children into the forest in search of sprouting Amanita muscaria (a mushroom). When the amanita begin to sprout they look like eggs. http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/000/023/828/20061026/dyn001_original_960_720_pjpeg_23828_913ca4b242a841247aea87011045f4c6.jpg

They would then pick the mushrooms for celebration of the winter solstice (Dec. 25) and hang them on a tree to dry out. Hence, we have the Christmas tree with it's ornaments.

Santa Claus is suggested to be an anthropomorphism of the Amanita muscaria with his red and white appearance and his black boots. In ancient times the tribes people would build chimney's into their huts and in the winter, the snow would cover the main entrance, so the shaman would enter through the chimney to deliver the amanita muscaria for the Solstice celebration.

In the later stages of the amanita muscaria's life-cycle top curls up and becomes a golden colour. It would collect rain water and the water would become enriched with the active psychedelic agent in the mushroom. This is suggested to be the Holy Grail.
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/mushrooms/Amanita/Amanita_muscaria_Pa112042.jpg

Summary taken from http://www.pharmacratic-inquisition.com
Thousands of years ago, in the pre monarchic era, psychedelic/entheogenic substances where publicly known world wide and were respected for their ability to bring forth the divine, Yahweh, God, The Great Spirit, etc., by the many cultures who used them. Often the entire tribe or community would partake in the entheogenic rites. These rites were often used in initiation into adulthood, for healing, to help guide the community in the decision process, and to bring the direct religious experience to anyone seeking it, that might take these psychedelic sacraments properly.

In the pre literate world, the knowledge of psychedelic plant sacraments, as well as fertility rites and astronomical knowledge surrounding the sun, stars, and zodiac, known as astrotheology, were anthropomorphized into human/god like beings so their stories and practices could be passed down for generations. Weather changes over millenniums caused environmental changes that altered the available foods and plant sacraments available in the local vicinity. If a tribe lost its shamanic El-der (El - God), all of the tribe's knowledge of their plant sacraments as well as astronomical knowledge would be lost.
http://www.pharmacratic-inquisition.com/main/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=1&MMN_position=1:1

This video lecture is 3.5 hours long, but very interesting indeed. I encourage people to watch it.

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-4555365073003895154
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