25/01/2022
🍄 Now ya know it Wednesday 🍄
Now I am not one to often speak about the using of illegal drugs, and I AM CERTAINLY NOT doing that now. I do NOT use, grow or encourage. Please be aware that, that is NOT what i am trying to do here.
Mushrooms of all sorts are insane. They can have amazing benefits in all areas of our health and well being. They can kill us.
This post is about is just a subject to ponder and to have an appreciation of how insane mushrooms really are in general, not just these sort.
There is some VERY interesting theories, folk lore and actual truth in and around the use of Psilocybin (a psycho-active compound found in several Mushroom species).
Terrence and Dennis McKenna (some very famous peeps in the world of mushrooms) speculated the 'Stoned Ape' Theory. In which early primates consumed large amounts of psycho active mushrooms, which helped develop their brains, increased their understanding and cognition and led to the progresses early man made
The McKenna's attributed the physical growth of the primates skulls over the thousands of years, which near tripled in size, to the 'Neurogenesis' (brain growth) that Psilocybin is said to cause.
So, cave men eating magic shrooms and inventing the wheel is a wild theory...
Until you consider the innate, and frankly undeniable creativity and insight they seem to bring.
Pythagoras (the circle maths guy) is said to have been a regular user of psilocybin and it is strongly thought that his work with angles may have been as a result of fractals and angles he saw during his use.
Vincent Van Gogh, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Sting...all amazingly creative and all being said to have indulged.
So perhaps, stoned ape theory has 'some' merit in that context.
Could Psilocybin explain some of our historic texts and religious beliefs?
By all accounts, visual and auditory hallucinations are a real thing whilst under the influence of these substances.
So, what are the possibilities that stories like 'Moses and the burning bush', The book of revelations, Adam and eve and the talking serpent, are results of consuming psilocybin?
There is no doubt that psychedelic's play a heavy role in the history of several cultures, like the Aztec, American native Indians and several cultures in Asia.
These days, studies are being done with psilocybin to treat PTSD and terminal diagnoses patients with very interesting results.
Well, now ya know it...
Mushrooms may have influenced early humans, religious authors, past and present artists, and may in the future help us treat mental health issues, and may even influence the next next generation of tech, music, art and literature.
