Yet, the picture on the left, of this mushroom, will probably be familiar to the reader.
Muraresku's book features a brilliant Foreword by Graham Hancock, the New York Times bestselling author of America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization.Īmanita muscaria or the Fly Agaric is not a well-known mushroom based on its scientific name or common name. Muraresku in his best selling book, The Immortality Key: The Secret History Of The Religion With No Name, used Robert Gordon Wassons work: Soma The Divine Mushroom Of Immortality as one of his research tools. A section on the post-Vedic history of Soma is contributed by the Sanskrit scholar Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty.īrian C. In his presentation he throws fascinating light on the role of mushrooms in religious ritual. Wasson has aroused considerable attention in learned circles and beyond by advancing and documenting the thesis that Soma was a hallucinogenic mushroom - none other than the Amanita muscaria, the fly-agaric that until recent times was the centre of shamanic rites among the Siberian and Uralic tribesmen.
One of the key enigmas of cultural history has been the identity of a sacred plant called Soma in the ancient Rig Veda of India.
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