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Ancient Maya Mushroom Connections

An analysis of entheogenic mushroom use among the ancient Maya and how it influenced and informed hierophantic culture. This was my senior in college thesis that wound up being published in the 1981 July issue of The Journal of Psychoactive Drugs (Google the sucker) and is on file with a number of institutions around the world, including the US Army Command and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Phew! Who'd of ever thunk little ol' me could have conceived of this theory?

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Ancient Maya Mushroom Connections

An analysis of entheogenic mushroom use among the ancient Maya and how it influenced and informed hierophantic culture. This was my senior in college thesis that wound up being published in the 1981 July issue of The Journal of Psychoactive Drugs (Google the sucker) and is on file with a number of institutions around the world, including the US Army Command and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Phew! Who'd of ever thunk little ol' me could have conceived of this theory?

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Ancient Maya Mushroom Connections: A Transcendental Interaction Model THOMAS M. McGUIRE He who does not imagine in stronger and better liniments, and in stronger and better light than bis perishing eye can see, does not imagine at all. = Williem Blake ‘Mamy wantons... doe bunger after the carthie cexcresences called Musbrams. — John Gerard, 1597 The Herball, or Generali Histories of Plantes Traders and trade in ancient Mayan society are subjects of intense discussion and debate in anthropo- logical journals. Archaeologists such as Muriel Weaver (1952: $7) and William Rathje (1972) believe that without an integrated system of exchange, administeated by an astute managerial class, che Maya might never have achieved the lofty cultural peaks of the Classic Period. ‘Trade and a trader class were essential if life was to carry ‘on smoothly. The Maye traded most everything: salt, feathers, rubber, obsidian, flint, igneous stone, honey,

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