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.