The American Entheogenical Society - Devoted to Studying Civilization's Entheogenic Roots
This site has excellent material but has broken navigation, so the present page is a site map for everything found at the site.
"This online serialized book shows that the world view induced by entheogenic mushrooms is so unique that members of ancient priesthoods, brotherhoods and other esoteric cults required inititates to ritualistically ingest these mushrooms to enable them to view the world through entheogenically altered eyes. Moreover, we shows that many of antiquity's artists, inventors and authors were, not surprisingly, entheogenists who, for various reasons, cleverly hid entheogenic symbols and more elaborate themes in the large part of the mythological, archaeological and linguistic records they created."
Copyright@1998 The American Entheogenical Society, entheogens@adelphia.net
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book/Chap2Page1.htm - EGO DEATH AND SPIRITUAL REBIRTH - I am now faced with the difficult problem of attempting to explain to readers who never experienced an ego death and the spiritual rebirth that inevitably follows exactly what the perceptions and emotions that characterize them are like. However, readers who have experienced these phenomena will clearly recognize the descriptions of them that follow. My problem is thus akin to the proverbial one of trying to explain what something tastes like to someone who never tasted it or what red looks like to a congenitally blind person.
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Figurines/MoreFigurines.htm (a short detour)
Figurines/Breast%20Addendum.htm (a short detour)
Figurines/Asherah%20Analogues.htm (a short detour)
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book/MoreFigurines.htm (continues with figs 8a-8f, and items 6 through 12)
book/FigurineIntro3.htm points to http://home.adelphia.net/~entheogens/book/serpent_and_the_goddess.htm (not found)
Short. Concerns figurines and mush's:
book/Breast%20Addendum.htm - To fully appreciate the brilliant ways prehistoric sculptors expressed the notion of A. muscaria as essentially a stalk with a cap that yielded a milk, all one has to do is look at the three figurines in Figure 1. The figurine on the left is nothing more than a breasted stalk, while the early Bronze Age, Cretan figurine in the center is headless because it was designed to depict a mushroom cap as a breast and the mushroom's stipe as a neck. Unfortunately, the true brilliance of these and other brilliant works has never been fully appreciated because of a widespread failure to recognize how important sacred mushroom's were in antiquity. Consequently, the Cretan figurine has been displayed and viewed from only one of its two intended perspectives. Figure 1. Left: Breasts on stalk. Center: Bust comprising an inverted mushroom cap with breasts and arms at the Archaeological Museum of Ceos. Right: Neolithic figurine from the Hamangia culture of Romanian depicting an inverted mushroom cap with breasts over a vulva rotated to resembl a mouth. Similarly, whereas the so-called pillar headed figurine from the Neolithic Romanian Hamangia Culture on the far right has been viewed as a congenitally headless female, the figurine's neck can now be viewed correctly as the inverted stem of a mushroom, and the figurine's breasts as the mushroom's cap. The artist cleverly personified the volva, from which the mushroom emerges, as a human vulva, and rotated it to resemble a mouth, thereby alluding to the anciently widespread knowledge that the mushroom could inspire people to prophesize. This figurine should thus be considered a prototype of the "tongue-in-belly" Iambe Baubo, who figures in the Hymn to Demeter and the related Eleusinian Mysteries, which once revolved around the ingestion of an entheogenic mushroom tea called kykeon.
book/Asherah%20Analogues.htm - short, figurine pics. Several analogues of Asherah from James B. Pritchard's Palestinian Figurines in Relation to Certain Goddesses Known Through Literature. The last one is particularly interesting in that it depicts a serpent coiled around what Pritchard inferred, probably correctly, was the foot of a similar figurine, since serpents were intimately tied to goddesses for reasons I shall explain
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HATHOR - Hathor feeding Queen Hatshepsut, just as she often feeds Horus, from Hatshepsut's Deir el-Bahri shrine. (Computer enhanced depiction by Dale R. Broadhurst)
The finding that ancient sculptors personified entheogenic mushrooms as women squeezing their breasts, coupled with Wasson's finding that Hindu mythopoets personified Soma, the A. muscaria deity, as a cow with a full udder, is particularly instructive in explaining why the Egyptian goddess Hathor was often personified as a cow in a marsh nursing the young, solar deity Horus, and in the adjacent picture nursing Queen Hatshepsut.
By Stephen R. Berlant - Introduction
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book/Test.htm (copy of crowns_intro, apparently)
book/Origin%20of%20White%20Crown.htm (mostly same as crowns_intro)
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book/Griffis%203.htm - (figurines?) Egyptians artists apparently continued to depict both the mushrooms they were ingesting and the mushroom-men they subsequently saw, but in ways that would allow only those who knew what to look for, and what they were looking at, to discern the presence of either. In fact, one of the techniques these artists used was the very same one modern artists, like M.C.Esher, have used for years to hide an object amid others. points to http://home.adelphia.net/~entheogens/book/menat.htm (not found)
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book/conclusions.htm - Conclusions - In summary, I have shown that (1) the primordium of the P. cubensis strikingly resembles the White Crown, because ingesting that mushroom led the shamanic ancestors of Egyptian monarchs to believe they were divine and immortal incarnations of that mushroom's indwelling deity; (2) the atef and triple crowns display stylized P. cubensis primordia, feathers and disks for the same reason; (3) the cap-crown was sometimes blue and sometimes gold, because it was a personification of the sometimes blue and sometimes gold cap of a psilocybe; (4) the white and red crowns first appear in a sack of barley, because they represented psilocybes that were cultivated on barley; and (5) these crowns were ingestible precisely because they were personified mushrooms.
book/Primeval%20Waters - 3 pics - probably for Crowns book
Was R.G. Wasson the Messiah And, If So, Why Hasn't Anybody Recognized It?
by Stephen R. Berlant
Societas Hermeneuticas, Swarthmore Avenue, Box 101, Swarthmore, PA 19081
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book/WasWassonTheMessiah.htm (appar same)
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book/HistoricalLinguisticsI.htm same as above?
book/test.htm - word "test"
ANIMATION
book/Fractals.htm - anim
book/flozoids.htm - anim
image7effects.htm - impressionist anim
book/landscape.htm - impressionist phot
book/newpage1.htm - anim related
book/test2.htm - anim related, girls watch stream
book/test4.htm - anim related
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