GrahamHancock.comThanks for reading The Most Revolutionary Act! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. There is an old saying: If you want to hide something, put it in plain sight. To our surprise, we learned that this saying is especially true for Christianity, where medieval works of art were created to illustrate the teachings of the Bible for the largely illiterate population. A close look at these religious artworks reveals the presence of psychedelic mushrooms–hidden in plain sight for centuries.
This is not a new theory. I first became aware of it about 5 years ago. I think people have to ask themselves why Western European culture was the only culture too dumb to discover the mind expanding effects of psychodelics. I don't believe Europeans were that dumb. I believe they, too, experimented with psychodelics before they were suppressed (most likely by the Catholic Church).
Also I believe you are mistaken about the Gnostics. They went underground after they were persecuted to emerge as various other heresies during the Middle Ages (the best known being the Cathars).
LOL. Astrophysicist Carl Sagan argues that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
Indeed. What we have are four very different mushroom like depictions (one of which is a tree, by the size of it). They appear to be from quite different regions and times, and yet all are identified as psychedelic mushrooms. The gnostic era was pretty short, and limited to the area around Jerusalem, if I'm not mistaken.
People try to make a name for themselves by coming up with something "revolutionary", and a lot of times it's pretty silly.
This is not a new theory. I first became aware of it about 5 years ago. I think people have to ask themselves why Western European culture was the only culture too dumb to discover the mind expanding effects of psychodelics. I don't believe Europeans were that dumb. I believe they, too, experimented with psychodelics before they were suppressed (most likely by the Catholic Church).
https://bigthink.com/the-past/psychedelic-christianity/
https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast/2021/3/4/21759683/christianity-psychedelics-brian-muraresku-the-immortality-key
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/368632.The_Sacred_Mushroom_and_the_Cross
Also I believe you are mistaken about the Gnostics. They went underground after they were persecuted to emerge as various other heresies during the Middle Ages (the best known being the Cathars).
LOL. Astrophysicist Carl Sagan argues that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
Indeed. What we have are four very different mushroom like depictions (one of which is a tree, by the size of it). They appear to be from quite different regions and times, and yet all are identified as psychedelic mushrooms. The gnostic era was pretty short, and limited to the area around Jerusalem, if I'm not mistaken.
People try to make a name for themselves by coming up with something "revolutionary", and a lot of times it's pretty silly.