Apr 10, 2009
In this episode of psychonautica Max Freakout interviews Jan Irvin,
the host of the Gnostic media podcast and author of 'Astrotheology
and shamanism' and 'The holy mushroom', Jan talks about the work of
Jack Herer, the dispute between John Allegro and Gordon Wasson over
the depiction of mushrooms in Christian artwork, the psychedelic
origins of Judeo-christianity, Jonathan Ott's pharmacotheon, John
Rush's website clinicalanthrolopology, mythological allusions to
entheogens and entheogen-experiences, the origins of the Jesus
story, the meaning of the word 'catholic', the similarity of Jesus
to other mythic figures such as Mithra and Shiva, relation of
christianity to fertility cults, the mushroom as a representation
of phallus and yoni, the relation of the Caduceus symbol to
medicine, the virgin birth of Jesus as a representation of the
lifecycle of the mushroom, entheogenic use of Amanita mushrooms and
its reliability for triggering religious experience, combining
Amanita mushrooms with Psilocybe mushrooms, the natural variability
in potency of natural entheogens, entheogen diminishment fallacies
and the relative efficacy of entheogens compared to drug-free
techniques such as meditation for triggering religious experience,
ergonomic accessibility of religious experience and the phoney
logic behind the war on drugs. Email maxfreakout@dopefiend.co.uk
and hang out with the friendly psychonauts at
www.thegrowreport.com.
Playlist: Morphine - Swing it low
web links:
www.clinicalanthropology.com
www.gnosticmedia.com
Playlist: Morphine - Swing it low
web links:
www.clinicalanthropology.com
www.gnosticmedia.com