God is a Mushroom!

Prologue






    God is a mushroom!

    "But what kind of mushroom?" the discerning soul will ask, oblivious to the shock arising from our theological assertion in lesser minds, unfamiliar with paradox and wonderment, the living fount of all wisdom.
    In the twentieth century, two unlikely prophets, R. Gordon Wasson and Terrence McKenna, penned conflicting monotheistic scriptures. One claimed that our religious and mythological heritage originates in a barbaric cult of toadstool and urine consumption in Siberia; the other that our ancestors literally became human after they first encountered the cosmic mind in Africa by eating mushrooms growing on cow dung, which taught them abstract reasoning and symbolism, catalyzing the birth of language. Which is right?
    While allowing that the creative intelligence is One, whomever She or He is; and ecumenically appreciating the myriad gods and goddesses amongst the plants (and amphibians!) we nevertheless hold that, amongst civilized people, the deity truly is a Trinity. This truth transcends duality, while allowing a variety of cultural archetypes, primarily the Mother, Father, and Child, and Sun, Moon and Star.
    Along the way of this discussion we shall hope to match these three to their respective identities, the three Most Holy Mushrooms: the psilocybin containing mushrooms attendant to cattle dung and dead wood, the red (or yellow) white-spotted Amanita Muscaria of folklore and related species---and ergot, common fungal growth on cereal grains, from which Albert Hoffman synthesized LSD in 1938.




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