Mushrooms and Mankind: The Impact of Mushrooms on Human Consciousness and Religion (Paperback)

Brief Introduction

-- A Brief Introduction to Ethnomycology

Ethno-Mycology 1

--Amanita Muscaria- The Mushroom that Shaped Mankind

--Artwork as Revelator

--The Little People

--The Hidden Meanings of Christmas

--Santa as a Shaman

--The Christmas Ornament

--The Christmas Tree

--Good Ol' St. Nicholas

--A Sacred Meal

--The Holy Grail: Mushroom Symbology in popular myth

--Christianity: The Popular Western Religion

--The Christian Mannas Revealed

--The Fruit of The Tree

--The Last Supper: The Sacramental ingestion of the body of god

--Manna in the Ark of the covenant

--The Fountain of Living Waters

--Jesus and the Mushroom cap, or Aura?

--Jesus and the tub of transfiguration

Ethno-Mycology-2

--Sumeria; The cradle of Civilization?

--Enlil, Ninhursag and Enkei; Anthropomorphism and the mushroom

--The Sumerian Anunnaki

--Egyptology

--The Egyptian Scarab

--Initiation in the Great Pyramid

--The Sacred rite of initiation

--The Kings Chamber (Isolation tank).

--The Egyptian Book of The Dead

--Al Khemit (Ancient Egypt) The heart of the Lost Civilization

--The Winged Isis

--The Djed Pillar

--Amon and Amaunet feeding Horus the Ankh

--Mushroom Hieroglyphs

--Mushrooms on Temple Pillars

--Ankh, Djed, Disc, Snakes and Wings

--Mithra

--Mithras as a Lion Headed God

--Snakes and Stones

--Born from a stone

--The Temples of Mithra

--The Stargate

Ethno-Mycology-3

--Soma and Amrta

--The Flesh of Gold

--Hinduism: Soma (the plant god) and other symbolism

--Churning the milky ocean

--The war between good and evil

--The Gods and Demons

--Those who war

--Hari Hari (Hara)

--Bas relief in stone

--Bhuddhism

--Buddhism and Amrta

--The Wheel of life

--The Stupa

--Alchemy (Prima Materia and the philosopher's stone)

Ethno-Mycology-4

--Secret Societies, Religion and Government

--The Fasces (Symbol for world Fascism)

--Clothing full of Symbolism

--Alpha and Omega

--The Cosmic Egg

--The lord of Magickal plants

--The Sacred doorway

--The SOMA mixture

--Shamanistic studies

Epilogue

--Sexuality, Psychology and the big picture

--Experiences of the otherworldly kind

--Friday, August 13th, 1999

Appendix

--Disclaimer

--Recipe: Cautions and instructions

--The Best Time and Place for Amanitas

--Three states of Consciousness

--Three stages of effects

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