Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy

by Clark Heinrich

Book Overview

An illustrated foray into the hidden truth about the use of psychoactive mushrooms to connect with the divine.

- Draws parallels between Vedic beliefs and Judeo-Christian sects, showing the existence of a mushroom cult that crossed cultural boundaries.

- Contends that the famed philosophers' stone of the alchemist was a metaphor for the mushroom.

- Confirms and extends Robert Gordon Wasson's hypothesis of the role of the fly agaric...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892819979
• ISBN13: 9780892819973
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Park Street Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.0" x 9.9"