The supermodel of the mushroom world must be the Fly Agaric or Amanita Muscaria. It’s beauty is widely revered and in the past was used to kill lice, bedbugs, and house flies.
Although all parts of the plant and its extracts are legal to cultivate, buy, possess, and distribute (sell, trade or give) without a license or prescription in the U.S., it is technically poisonous and when consumed can lead to nausea and even seizures.
It is also a psychoactive and triggers a range of hallucinations that can be stimulating or sedating, depending on the person.
Not to be confused with so called “magic” mushrooms, which contain psilocybin that is being studied as an anti-depressant due to its targeting serotonin receptors, the psychoactive in Amanita Muscaria is muscimol, which effects the GABA receptors in the brain.
The 1970 book “The Sacred Mushroom And The Cross” by John M. Allegro argues that Jesus never existed as a historical figure but was himself, a mythological creation of early Christians rooted in an ancient sex-and-mushroom cult and under the influence of psychoactive mushroom extracts such as psilocybin.
Jesus was, in essence, said to have been a psychedelic Amanita Muscaria mushroom.
I have read this book myself. It is quite eye opening.
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