Psychedelics, Religion, Christmas and Spirituality Psychedelics, Religion, Christmas and Spirituality

Psychedelics, Religion, Christmas and SpiritualityWritten On November 9 th , 2016 In this article I will be delving into hallucinogens in regards to aiding in spiritual development. I will delve into some of the symbolism and rituals behind todays Christmas celebrations which include the origin of the Christmas tree, communion, the origin of Santa Claus, the zodiac and the bible in regards to the sacred mushroom. An excerpt from the book “Astrotheology and Shamanism: Christianity's Pagan Roots” states as thus. “COMMUNION: Amanita mushrooms go through a chemical process as they dry. This process is necessary, for most people, before ceremonial ingestion. In other words, they must be dried in order for them to work. The reason that we want to dry the mushrooms out is that they contain ibotenic acid. By drying the mushrooms out, much of the ibotenic acid is converted (decarboxylated) into muscimol, which is a much stronger etheogenic substance. One of the practices of drying the mushrooms would be to place them in stockings and hang the stockings over the hearth of the fireplace overnight. What was less potent becomes, by morning, a nicepresent after hanging over the warm fire, and is ready for consumption during the winter solstice celebrations. These mushrooms grow to be large and quite heavy when they are wet. The ideal practice would be to dry them out in the field before bringing them home. This way, the mushrooms are not as heavy when they are carried, and those on the bottom of the bag or basket won’t be destroyed by the weight of those on the top. After all, 40 pounds of dry mushrooms is going to be much greater in quantity than40 pounds of wet mushrooms. The mushrooms are dried in the sun before the shaman returns home with them. One way to do this is to find a tree in a a central location, hang the mushrooms on the tree and let them dry out in the boughs or the branches of the tree while the shaman continues to hunt for more mushrooms. After a period, all these mushrooms hanging in the tree resemble a decorated Christmas tree. It appears as though the pine tree is bearing fruit. It can even look as though candles have been placed throughout the tree, the red cap representing the flame and the stripe representing the candle itself. Today, as at Eater, most who celebrate Christmas do not use mushrooms in their traditions, but they do continue to use the symbolism of the mushrooms in many ways. In the Middle Ages, when alchemy was at its peak, mystery plays often featured decorated trees. The church did not like this. Although they compromised at first, they soon forbade the tree ritual altogether. How they compromised was interesting, to say the least. They added holy Eucharistic wafers to the ornaments on the tree. Just as the shamans did, they decorated the tree with their sacred meal. One the winter solstice had arrived, the shaman would go out into the local community and deliver these dried mushrooms to each of the tribe members. Because of the cold Siberian climate, the main entrance into the Siberian homes (known as yurts) would often be snowed over, so everyone in the family must climb up to the room and enter through the secondary or winter entrance, the chimney. Santa Claus, or the shaman bearing the bag of goodies, would enter the yurt through the smoke hole. This is where the symbolism originated. Santa Claus is not always red and white. Santa Claus or Father Christmas, or the shaman, would dress in clothing resembling the plants that were available in their local vicinity. The darker-colored Santa Claus is actually representing a different mushroom. It is not the A. muscaria that this darker-colored Santa represents, but the Amanita Pantherina.” The roots of Christianity are rooted in the only true “religion” that has ever existed, and that is in thecycles of nature. The communion that individuals take place in todays churches are, as mentioned earlier, a mock ritual of what was once a pagan ritual. This ritual is to bring ones chemical makeup intoattunement (atonement) with spiritual realms to help aid disease in ones body. It is not wise to abuse these chemicals and I recommend that one should use them only in order to begin the alchemical process of spiritual development. This does not mean that I condemn others who do otherwise, it is justmy own personal experience. I will term what exactly sacred means however and to show how this sacred plant is to be used in a sacred manner. The term sacred is derived from sacral or sacrum. “The sacrum; plural: sacra or sacrum’s, Latin os sacrum in human anatomy is a large, triangular bone at the base of the spine, that forms by the fusing ofsacred vertebrae S1-S5, between 18 and 30 years of age. This is why the mythos of the Christ is to have vanished for so many years. Wikipedia states as thus: The 18 unknown years, new testament gap: “Following the accounts of Jesus’ young life, there is a gap of about 18 years in his story in the New Testament. Other than the statement that after he was 12 years old (Luke 2:42) Jesus “advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men” (Luke 2:52), the New Testament has no other details regarding the gap. While Christian tradition suggests that Jesus simply lived in Galilee during that period, modern scholarship holds that there is little historical information to determine what happened during those years. The ages of 12 and 29, the approximate ages at either end of the unknown years, have some significance in Judaism of the Second Temple period: 13 is the age of the bar mitzvah, the age of secular maturity, and 30 the age of readiness for the priesthood, although Jesus was not of the tribe of Levi. Christians have generally taken the statement in Mark 6:3 referring to Jesus as “Is not this the carpenter…?” as an indication that before the age of 30 Jesus had been working as a carpenter. The tone of the passage leading to the question “Is not this the carpenter?” suggests familiarity with Jesus inthe area, reinforcing that he had been generally seen as a carpenter in the gospel account before the start of his ministry. Matthew 13:55 poses the question as “Is not this the carpenter’s son?” suggestingthat the profession tektōn had been a family business and Jesus was engaged in it before staring his preaching and ministry in the gospel accounts.” “The sacrum articulates (forms a joint) with four other bones. It is situated at the upper, back part ofthe pelvic cavity, where it is anatomically inserted between the two hip bones (ilium). The two lateral projections of the sacrum are called the alae (wings), and articulate with the ilium at the L-shaped sacroiliac joints. The upper part of the sacrum connects with the last lumbar vertebra, and its lower part with the coccyx (tail-bone) via the sacral and coccygel cornua.” It does not take much to see the symbolism behind these wings and the wings of the symbolism intermingled with the caduceus, which represents the sacred oil rising from the coccygel up the two sets of nerves packed with polar energies contained within the nerves, the oil raising up towards another battle, the two thieves or the two candle sticks which much contend to raise up towards the pineal gland. “The two snakes represent the two complementary halves of the nervous system: motor and sensory, sympathetic and parasympathetic. For optimal functioning of the nervous system, these complementary halves must be balanced.” The two witnesses in the bible are really also nothing more than parts of the brain, they are described as the two witnesses and the beast that overcomes the two witnesses and kills them is the prana or chi, the sacred energy which is raised up from the sacral. ‘Therefore, keep in mind how far you have fallen. Repent and perform the deeds you did at first. But if you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lamp stand from its place.” Revelation 2:5 This passage speaks on one who enjoys the world through unrighteous deeds, the lamp stand beingthe pineal gland which will be removed if one ejaculates ones sacred seed to often and has impure thoughts to often.’ One can look at these thieves in a multitude of ways such as that being the arbor vitae, the fourth ventricle, the cerebellum and the cerebellar cortex, bella meaning beautiful: Bella is a female name. It is a diminutive form of names ending in -bella. Bella is related to the Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese and Latin words for beautiful, to the name Belle, meaning beautiful in French.” Think of the human body as a sort of beaker like that found in a chemistry set and as such in the human body there should be a balance. Equations in chemical terms “are used to graphically illustrate chemical reactions. They consist of chemical or structural formulas of the reactants on the left and those of the products on the right. An arrow, which indicates the direction and type of the reaction, separates them; the arrow is read as the word “yields” The tip of the arrow points in the direction in which the reaction proceeds. So without placing pictures into this article one can see how parts of the brain steals prana away from parts of the brain, the chemical reaction proceeding to different parts of the brain. Equations should be balanced according to the stoichiometric; the number of atoms of each species should be the same on both sides of the equation. This is achieved by scaling the number of involved molecules (A, B, C and D in a schematic example below) by the appropriate integers, a, b, c and. I wrote in an article entitled, “creativity, social strife, yoga and bad vibes” in regards to music types. There are positive and negative frequencies present in ones body and these get distributed according to ones own attunement or atonement. “Archaeologists have discovered that psilocybin mushrooms have been used since prehistoric times and was used since prehistoric times and was used in religious rituals 6,000 years ago and there is cave art in the Tassili caves of Algeria dating from 7,000 to 9,000 years ago that show a species of Psilocybemairei. This substance has been used for religious communion, divination, and healing and mushroom stones and motifs have been found in Guatemala. There have been statues and the Aztecs used a species of the psilocybe species known as teonanacatl which literally translates to “divine mushroom”, or god, once again relating to being sacred or sacral. “The ancient shamans of Siberia would gather enough mushrooms for the entire community and have a communion. These ancient shamans would go into the houses of the people in the community in celebration of the winter solstice, deliver the mushrooms to them and guide them through the experience...it was their yearly tradition. This is where Santa comes from. The shaman, often dressing in the red and white colors of the Amanita and carrying a bag full of the same red and white mushrooms that he or she had picked and dried during the previous season (enough for the entire community), would go door to door and give the community the mushroom experience.” The Amanita muscaria along with other psychedelic substances acts as a catalyst for the chemicals already present in each one of our bodies in order to jump-start sort to speak the alchemical process of illumination as I have already mentioned above. Though I do feel that these substances are able to helpto propel one towards spiritual enlightenment I also believe that one should not substitute this for true spiritual growth, which takes substantial effort. “Astrotheology and Shamanism: Christianity's Pagan Roots” Jan Irvin and Andrew Rutajithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_years_of_Jesushttp://www.greekmedicine.net/mythology/hermes.html