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J. Brown, J. Brown. In the beginning there was a mushroom. Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity.

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Under the general editorship of Mikhail Vishnevsky
A majestic picture of the transformation of the original mushroom cults into modern Abrahamic religions unfolds on the pages of the book. Introducing the reader to the stunning visual evidence of their anthropological journey through Europe and the Middle East, the authors document the role that mushrooms that cause visions played in the birth and formation of Christianity. They trace the path that R. Gordon Wasson, the famous “seeker of sacred mushrooms”, first walked, who studied psychedelics in Ancient Greece and India and conducted his research among the reindeer herders of Siberia and the Mazatecs of Mexico.
Analyzing the texts of the Bible and the Gnostic Gospels, the authors reveal the decisive importance of entheogenic mushrooms in the emergence of the Judeo-Christian religion, offer to rethink knowledge about the life of Jesus and introduce a theory that clearly demonstrates how the first sacred paths to God were paved.
For the widest range of readers, as well as for ethnographers, cultural scientists, religious scholars, historians and ethnomycologists.

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Content

10 From the editor

15 Thanks

17 Preface to the Russian edition

Preface

23 Invitation for the reader

26 The Seeker of sacred mushrooms
R. Gordon Wasson (1898-1986)

Part One

THE FIRST RELIGION

39 “Green Man” from the Roslin Chapel
Roslyn, Scotland, 1446

55 Oh, immortal Soma!
Indus River Valley, India, 1400 BC

72 Santa, shaman of reindeer herders
The Russian part of Siberia, 2000 BC

89 Eleusinian Mysteries
Greece, 1500 BC.

109 Maria Sabina and the “little saints”
Mexico, 1955

128 Miracle of the Swamp Chapel
USA, 1962

Part Two

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT

149 Battle of the trees
Merigny, France, 1291

170 The Prophet said
Noan-Vic, France, 1120

186 Down the rabbit hole
Rennes-le-Chateau, France, 1891

206 Canterbury Tales
Canterbury Cathedral, England, 1180

226 The Mystery of St. Bernward
Hildesheim, Germany, 1015

Part Three

COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS

249 Daddy’s banker
Aquileia, Italy, 330

267 Dark Church
Cappadocia, Turkey, 1050

287 The Kingdom of Heaven
Jerusalem, year 30

305 Psychedelic Renaissance
USA, 2015

APPLICATION

319 Interdisciplinary Committee
on Psychedelic Gospels

331 Notes

347 Bibliography