Darren Springer: Mushroom Technology In Ancient Africa

Darren Springer is an expert on Pan African and African Diaspora legacies and traditions, especially when it comes to their initiatory and ceremonial rites.

Darren travels the globe providing insight into the legacy of mushroom use and other entheogenic technologies in Sub-Saharan and Kemetic Africa, Kemet being the native name of Ancient Egypt.

This collective tradition of ritualized psychedelic use and advanced technology in ancient Pan African society is fundamental to the human race yet largely overlooked by conventional scholars and historians for reasons Darren will elaborate on in this episode -

Ancient African entheogenic traditions are the well from which Abrahamic religion has drawn it’s own mythology and sacramental practices - the mysteries of Isis in ancient Kemet are the basis for the Eulysinian mysteries of the Greco-roman world, in which a Eucharist is consumed to facilitate communion with the divine - Sound familiar? 

We’re also going to touch base about the equity gap in psychedelics and how mushrooms and psychedelic experiences can serve as a lens through which to examine the wounds of colonization and to marshal a collective response to historical injustices and the extraction-oriented , violence-plagued state of the modern world.

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