There is a reason that mushrooms are/were known a Flesh of the Gods. Eating God's flesh .. seems to be a recurring theme. Entheogens:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entheogen
, in the strictest sense, is a psychoactive substance used in a religious or shamanic context. Entheogens generally come from plant sources which contain molecules closely related to endogenous neurochemicals. They occur in a wide variety of sacraments of various religious rites [UDV/NAC] and have been shown (see Good Friday Experiment) to directly provoke what users perceive as spiritual/mystical experiences. In a broader sense, the word "entheogen" refers to any molecule which stimulates the central nervous system through one of the two main neurological pathways: Phenethylamine [which is a brain chemical associated with the adrenaline pathway, and a precursor of Mescaline, 2-CB] and Tryptamine [a brain chemical associated with the natural metabolism of serotonin, a precursor of Psilocin, DMT ].


John Allegro posited that Christianity started as a Mushroom cult, see The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

It's all pretty cool .. whether it be your truth or not. Or truth or not .. interesting to explore these avenues.


Barb. It's hard to explain it all, LSD, peak experience ..

I was probably 15, maybe 14, one of the first times I had taken acid. At home with my older brother, 5 years older than me. We had both dropped acid, my folks were gone somewhere. I was lying on the couch in the living room, with a stipple ceiling -- there were some little sparkles in that stipple. My eyes were open and suddenly the sparkles turned into stars and the ceiling blackened. And whoomp -- I was flying at light speed in a tunnel .. I came to a city, or structure .. it seemed glass-like, there was a vibration, a humming, and a crackling -- it all seemed electric and alive. I was enveloped in the warmest, most loving feeling I had ever felt. Pure unconditional infinite love. Was this God, or a spirit being below God, but of God, I can't say. At the time I felt it was God. And God said to me, something like "You can't stay here .. you'll be back some day. For now, go back to your life and know that everything is going to be alright." I take this message to mean for all of us, but maybe I am making the mistake of taking a personal message and applying it to all? The communication was telepathic, obviously. :-) There was much more going on, but that was the gist of it, the "message". Time had lost all meaning and afterwards I was like in a state of shock, and absolutely spiritually zonkers. High, but not from LSD. I had no idea how much time had passed, I recall worrying that it had been hours or days. I believe it was maybe 10 or 15 minutes, if that. I recall thinking life will never be the same again. Unfortunately it took me years to actually digest that experience, and stop chasing it again.

However, this message came for me at a time where I was in darkness. I just didn't understand life, felt like somehow this Earth just wasn't the place for me, like a stranger in a strange land. And I wanted out. So this little pep talk from God may well have kept me from shortening my stay on this mortal coil.