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Mushrooms
'Teonanacatl'
The visions were not blurred or
uncertain. They were sharply focused, the lines and colors being so sharp that
they seemed more real to me than anything I had ever seen with my own eyes. I
felt that I was now seeing plain, whereas ordinary vision gives us an imperfect
view; I was seeing the archetypes, the Platonic ideas, that underlie the
imperfect images of everyday life. The thought crossed my mind: could the divine
mushrooms be the secret that lay behind the ancient Mysteries?
- Gordon Wasson
The
Hallucinogenic Fungi of Mexico
By Gordon Wasson
"Perhaps with all our modern
knowledge we do not need the divine mushrooms any more. Or do we need
them more than ever?"Little
Flowers of the Gods
By Schultes and Hofmann from Plants of the Gods
"There
is a world beyond ours, a world that
is far away, nearby, and invisible. And there
is where God lives, where the dead live,
the spirits and the saints, a world where
everything has already happened and
everything is known. That world talks.
It has a language of its own. I report what
it says. The sacred mushroom takes me
by the hand and brings me to the world where
everything is known. It is they, the sacred
mushrooms, that speak in a way I can
understand. I ask them and they answer
me. When I return from the trip that
I have taken with them, I tell what they
have told me and what they have shown
me." The
Mushrooms of Language
By Henry Munn
"We
are going to search and question," she says, "untie and
disentangle." She is on a journey, for there is distanciation and
going there, somewhere, without her even moving from the spot where
she sits and speaks. Her consciousness is roaming throughout
existential space. Sibyl, seer, and oracle, she is on the track of
significance and the pulsation of her being is like the rhythm of
walking. Manna
From Heaven - Were Mushrooms Used in Biblical Times?
By Steve Kubby
"and the people shall go out and gather
a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my
law or no (16:4). And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face
of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on
the ground (16: 14). And when the children of Israel saw if, they said one to
another It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them,
This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat."
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