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Plants of the Gods: S2E4. Magic Mushrooms and the Roots (actually, the Mycelia) of the Psychedelic Renaissance

Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast

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The Holy Trinity of Ethnomichology

In Oaxaca, two varieties of magic mushrooms had disappeared due to the changing climate. The Maasitex were already practicing a syncretic religion with many elements of traditional indigenous religions in terms of the mushrooms. Some have referred to Wassen, Schulte and Huffman as the Holy Trinity of ethnomichology. We're now finding that fungi in the ruins of Chernobyl are eating radioactive waste.

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