Richards reports experiments in which he himself administered high doses of LSD to a poverty-stricken research volunteer that saw images of a Hindu God with many spiraling arms during his psychedelic experience. He found out because the young man, who was in his mid-twenties, pointed it out in a magazine he was looking through some time after the experiment at Richards office and it was exactly that, a Hindu rendition of the God Shiva.
“Psychedelic research, however, does suggest that there are heaven and hells within each of us, often populated with fascinating images or beings found in literature and art of most world religions, as Muslim or Zoroastrian malaikah, as Buddhist celestial beings called devas, and in Judeo-Christian iconography.” …show more content…
The Rig Veda states, “Make these three places sprout, O Indra: my daddy’s head and field, and this part of me below the waist. That field of ours, and this my body, and my daddy’s head – make them all grow hair” after describing a girl, Apala, who attributed magical properties to the Soma because of its psychoactive affects. “There is now substantial evidence that the Eleusinian Mystery rites, performed annually near Athens for almost two thousand years, featured a mystical revelation brought on by drinking of an entheogenic brew” (Wasson et al. 1978).
Archeologist John Marco Allegro, scholar of the dead sea scrolls, suggested in his book “The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross” that the Jesus from Christianity was truly a reference to the sacred effects of the entheogen mushrooms Amanita Muscaria. Gordan Wasson, during an interview with Robert Forte, declared his respect for Allegro as a scholar however believes these attributions were unwarranted given the method Allegro used to translate the original
“Psychedelic research, however, does suggest that there are heaven and hells within each of us, often populated with fascinating images or beings found in literature and art of most world religions, as Muslim or Zoroastrian malaikah, as Buddhist celestial beings called devas, and in Judeo-Christian iconography.” …show more content…
The Rig Veda states, “Make these three places sprout, O Indra: my daddy’s head and field, and this part of me below the waist. That field of ours, and this my body, and my daddy’s head – make them all grow hair” after describing a girl, Apala, who attributed magical properties to the Soma because of its psychoactive affects. “There is now substantial evidence that the Eleusinian Mystery rites, performed annually near Athens for almost two thousand years, featured a mystical revelation brought on by drinking of an entheogenic brew” (Wasson et al. 1978).
Archeologist John Marco Allegro, scholar of the dead sea scrolls, suggested in his book “The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross” that the Jesus from Christianity was truly a reference to the sacred effects of the entheogen mushrooms Amanita Muscaria. Gordan Wasson, during an interview with Robert Forte, declared his respect for Allegro as a scholar however believes these attributions were unwarranted given the method Allegro used to translate the original