Clark Heinrich. Magic mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy (translated from English, under the general editorship of M. Vishnevsky)

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The proposed work is based on R. G. Wasson’s theory of catfish. It expounds and interprets plots related not only to Hinduism, but also to the branch of Abrahamic religions, with which Wasson was undoubtedly familiar, but for a number of reasons did not make public (see the editor’s notes in the text); as a result, the book significantly expands the scope of Wasson’s research.
The author’s method is to analyze these plots as receptacles of extremely important cult information. If Wasson and Allegro use linguistic analysis and descriptions of art objects as an evidence base for the entheogenic origin of religions, Heinrich proceeds by interpreting and interpreting the plots themselves, relying on archaic entheogenic practices. This makes it possible to reveal a whole layer of new coded information left by the ministers of cults for the initiates. Such information was transformed, moving from one religion to another, modified depending on the historical and cultural environment, but kept the basic plots unchanged.
For the widest range of readers, as well as for ethnographers, cultural scientists, religious scholars, historians and ethnomycologists.
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Clark Heinrich is one of the world’s leading experts in such disciplines as comparative religious studies, mysticism, phenomenology, altered states of consciousness and ethnobotany. Co-author of the acclaimed book “Apollo Apples”.
In the proposed book, the author, trying to find the true roots of the origin of modern religions, takes the reader thousands of years ago to ancient India and explores textual and graphic sources. He analyzes Vedic and Puranic myths and images and explains their secret semantic content; reveals similarities between Vedic and Tantric cults and modern Jewish sects; traces the path of the elixir from the Garden of Eden through Moses and the prophets to Jesus and the Gnostics. According to Heinrich, the main mystery of Christianity was not allowed to fade away by the Qatari pastors, who connected it with the cult of chivalry and the mystical search for the Holy Grail — the chalice in which the “blood of Christ” was collected and which eventually became the property of alchemists who considered Jesus himself their “stone”.
Clark Heinrich sees images of psychedelic mushrooms throughout the history of Christian iconography. He suggests that the occult knowledge associated with entheogenic mushrooms is a communion, something equivalent to Christ, and proves that it was the mushroom that was the Logos.