Paul Stamets: On Psilocybin Mushrooms and the Mycology of Consciousness
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The Myth of the Pileus
There was the bavarian beer purity act in 15 16 am, which actually band specifically mushrooms, henbane, am and other psychoactive plants from being put into beer. So we have a glimpse of what our ancestors were actually participating in. And here is a depiction of a demeter giving her daughter persephone a mushroom. Legend goes to the origination of greek culture, is theorigination of the seasons. When persephone would consume the mushroom in the fall, then she would go into the underground, liter literally and figuratively, and that would be the onset of winter.
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