Mushrooms the Biblical "Manna"?

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sad sate of affairs when you try to use the bible refereces to justify drug use that could be potentially harmful to oneself.

very interesting. some climate changes would have happened more rapidly than over thousands of years too. i remember hearing another story about ancient mushroom cults, that the mushrooms were so powerful, they would sometimes need to take another drug in combination, just to help them cope.

i believe it...i've seen god on mushrooms. haha.

Storing mushrooms in honey was definitely a method used among these cults. There's also a theory that due to climate change and migration, mushroom use was in decline with each passing century (we're talking thousands of years). There would be fewer and fewer mushrooms stored in the honey, giving way to the potential of mead (fermented honey) becoming the inebriation source of choice. Can you imagine the kind of cultural shift that would cause? Going from a psychedelic cult to an alcohol based cult? This would change the value system entirely, and might also help to explain the shift from a matriarchal, female goddess worshiping religion to a male dominating society.

I've read that some of the above mentioned ancient mushroom cults used to store mushrooms in honey. Which might account for the honey taste. Sounds like a good recipe anyway.

- Well i don t know about your interpretation, but in my language (albanian) there is a fruit called "Manna" which is berry like, is yellow and grows on large trees, and has sweet taste.
- We actually have those kind of trees in gardens in our town..
- Maybe that s why it says "tasted like honey" - because it was sweet.
- In our language in fact the word "manna" is also used in a name for blackberry - Mannaferra -
ferra tranlated "thorny".

It might be that the word in our language has same origin.
Hope i ve been of any help with this.

reiterate that one should read
terence mckennas food of the gods or listen to his rap about it on youtube. Also try Jonathan Ott.

Also fungi as been recently shown to clean up highly toxic superfund sites in a very efficient manner.

Also Francis crick experimented with LSD as did many prominent scientists of his time, and in his own memoirs claims that it was under the influence of LSD that he came across the double helix structure that prove very important in his nobel prize "discovery" of DNA.

Finally the claim that new world brought the cocoa leaf and mushroom to egypt has been written about my many people. It basicly boils down to the idea of ancient cultural diffusionism. My personal favorite author on the subject is David Childress Hatcher.

Great post.

Mushrooms are responsible for more than most can even begin to imagine. Their roots grow beneath our feet, providing nutrients to plants and trees, allowing organic material to decompose and recycle into healthy soil, literally supporting and holding the earth's eco-systems together. As for the religious context, there is ample evidence to suggest that mushrooms were catalysts for the evolution of human consciousness. It's also been suggested that all religions are basically echoes of ancient mushroom cults. There's a lot of good reading material out there for those who are interested. For a Christian perspective, John Allegro's "The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross" is a good read. For more of an esoteric general historical view, Terrence McKenna's "Food of the Gods" is a fantastic read.

I don't know about everyone else, but I remember seeing mushrooms pop up here and there as a child. Even then when I knew close to nothing about them, I was aware of the fact that there was something deeply mysterious and important about them.

only one way to find out!

How does something INDICATE something DEFINITE?

so this sounds like a bunch of hippies got together and had themselves a woodstock and created a storybook called the bible with a bunch of made up stories with heroes and legends...that sounds like the bible is a fake

Plus, the bible isn't the best "detail" resource. We know of legends and wars basically, with morality intertwined.

Full moon and mushrooms for sure, i learned more about life in that night than all of high school...

Say this is true... ok. The mushrooms could be any kind of mushroom that existed THOUSANDS of years ago.

I personally hope all living things are that resilient...

Everyone thanks for the positive comments, I was curious as to the kind of comments and feedback this piece would receive, and I definitely got a perspective on fellow current readers.

Cheers!

only certain people who have actually taken mushrooms (preferably on a full moon from a tea after 10 days of detox) can fully know the significance and truth, of this article.

Everyone else, of course you're welcome to comment, but it's like a man discussing the pain of childbirth, (sorry to women for the analogy but it was the first one to come to mind) you can witness it and observe it, but you can't talk about it from first hand experience...

there are tons of examples from ancient times where followers are given hallucinogens or some other mind altering drug so they can experience spirituality. the romans had machines and gismos that made noises like thunder to make them think that god was present and furious with their actions. just imagine billy mays and his oxyclean back a thousand years ago... he would have been a god if not at least a high priest/leader.

i think this is like drawing the conclusion to any unpopular leader to the number 666
it could make sense but it might not
but hey thats just me

its funny that mushrooms are illegal now...

mmmmm

MUSHROOMS ARE WONDERFUL. If the people in the bible figured that one out, at least they got something right!

haha so Christianity is based on a bunch of stoners.

actually in ancient times mushrooms were ground up and baked into bread...people have been eating mushrooms for thousands of years, and we still do (any visit to a grocery store will verify)

In Numbers it talks about manna being ground up and baked into cakes that tasted like honey. It was probably some type of grain.

Sorry but the book of Exodus actually happened, maybe not exactly the English version says, but we know the story is based on actual occurrences...

Huh, back when I was young and still believed the Christian and Jewish fairy tale, I had thought Manna was a bread or cake. So yeah.....manna is pretty fuckin lame.

I've seen miracles happen after eating mushrooms!