magic mushrooms around the world: a scientific journey across cultures and time - the case for challenging research and value systems
From earliest times, in the pagan era, an alternative explanation for
Fliegenschwamm must have been a convenience in satisfying the curiosity of
the laity, and this popular rationalization was all that reached the ears of bookworms
like
England Albertus Magnus. The use of the fly amanita as an inebriant may
always have been reserved for rare occasions.
This is the famous gourd that responded
to Elishas miraculous powers in II Kings, Chapter 4, verses 38 to 41
And Elisha came againe to Gilgal, and there was a dearth in the land, and the sonnes
of the Prophets were sitting before him and hee said unto his seruant, Set on the great
pot, and seethe pottage for the sonnes of the Prophets,
And one went out into the field to gather herbes, and found a wild vine, and gathered
thereof wilde gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the Ls Power Seeds 1066 Pm19
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