Reply #3: Cool article

[LunaSea]

Thanks. I particularly liked this illustration-



MEXICAN drawing of 16th Century shows three mushrooms, a man eating them and a god behind him, who is speaking through the mushroom.

Reminded me of this article I read earlier today-

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/960407.html

""Hypotheses have been around for 20 years connecting the beginning of religions with psychoactive materials," Shanon says. He believes the Israelites used two plants in Sinai and the Negev: one of them is wild rue, a hallucinogen used by the Bedoin to this day. However this plant is not identified with any plant mentioned in the Bible."