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Specific Entheogens: Psilocybin
Contents
Cowkeeping, mushrooms, modernity,
loss of sacred nature
Number of mushrooms per cow per
year?
The
theorists of Tradition, such as Evola, Nasr, and Guenon, have all sorts of
theories and hazy, lament-driven non-theories about why the modern era lost the
sense of the sacred. A McKenna type of
theory explains the true simple reason.
In the
modern era, people stopped keeping their own cows in their yard, therefore they
no longer had the ideal ur-entheogen, psilocybin/stropharia cubensis mushrooms,
in their face all the time. No longer
having cubensis mushrooms growing in their yard all the time, the moderns lost
the entheogenic door to the sacred, and that's why they lost the sense of the
sacred.
There are
forever two alternative explanations: the official confusion and
non-explanation, versus the absolutely simple and perfectly clear
entheogen-based explanation. How is it
that the Greeks clearly had intense mystic experiencing on tap?
The
official explanation is none at all: "It's a complete mystery to us (and
drugs are an inferior method to this proposed explanation or
non-explanation). Also, the ancients
were feeble-minded and superstitious and did a lot of drumming and wild
dancing, and starved themselves and had very, very impressive rituals. And they practiced Zen meditation
too."
The
entheogen-based explanation is impossible to surpass in simplicity: they had
intense mystic experiencing on tap, as did the mystically informed masses in
the middle ages, due to ready-to-hand availability of cow-pie mushrooms and
other visionary plants, readily present until the one oddly mystically ignorant
and illiterate era, modernity, when man altogether moved out of nature, away
from visionary plants, and into the city.
Suppose in
an average region of Europe, a person has a cow in their yard. How many psychoactive mushrooms per year
will result, in their yard?
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