The Mushroom Shaman

There is a great mythology that is having a profound effect on these times… the story of the Bible. The Bible has made an indelible mark on culture and the collective unconscious continues to be shaped by the symbols and archetypes of this book. 

One of the archetypes from the Bible that I see having a large impact on culture today is that of “The Shaman". 

Jesus was endowed with magical powers that could support healing and transformation for his followers. He offered miracles to his devotees — such as curing the blind or bringing the deceased back from the dead. (Not coincidentally, these “miracles” were previously attributed to the Ancient Greek God Asklepios, the healer of the Dream Temples, whose statues were replaced by images of Jesus once Christianity took hold across the Mediterranean. But, that is a story for another day). 

In our own psychedelic subculture, we see many people fixating on developing their “healing gifts”. Past life readers, channelers, energy workers… even therapists, guides, body workers — everyone wants to be the healer (Myself included in this, TBH). This is an archetype from Christianity that has become pervasive in culture, an unconscious program derived from a mythological story that drives the cultural narrative. 

I am currently reading the book, the Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, where they say that depictions have been found of the mushroom as Jesus. If this is true, and it was in fact a mushroom not a human performing these "miracles”,  how would that change the way humans relate to the environment, to nature, and to the spirits of the plants, fungis and animals?

If for the past two thousand years we revered the mushroom as God, instead of a figure of a man, how would that have shifted the collective consciousness? 

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