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Psiles
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Human Sacrifices by Ancient Civilizations: Divine Mushroom?!
#14313925 - 04/18/11 09:14 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I just came to a startling realization. Most people well versed in history would know that when the conquistadores came to south/central America, they were appalled at the human sacrifices being carried out by these ancient civilizations (the mayans, for sure, and maybe some other civilizations). There is a lot of evidence to suggest that mushrooms were used for religious purposes by these civilizations. So what's the deal here? I don't believe that the mushroom would want people to perform human sacrifices, so did they get the wrong message? Or did the mushroom actually tell them to perform sacrifices?
I'm not an expert in this area, and most of you probably aren't either. What do you think the mushroom was telling them?
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Re: Human Sacrifices by Ancient Civilizations: Divine Mushroom?! [Re: Psiles]
#14314165 - 04/18/11 09:58 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Mushrooms didn't send any messages. Human beings ingested psychoactive substances that caused their brains to create strange thought patterns.
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Psiles
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Re: Human Sacrifices by Ancient Civilizations: Divine Mushroom?! [Re: Mind Transcribing]
#14314234 - 04/18/11 10:08 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I appreciate the fact that you are being objective and scientific, but mushrooms absolutely and indubitably speak to people. The mushroom experience is far more than a psilocybin molecule jostling serotonin out of the way and binding to the receptors.
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Re: Human Sacrifices by Ancient Civilizations: Divine Mushroom?! [Re: Psiles]
#14314326 - 04/18/11 10:20 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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if you believe this without a doubt, your search for knowledge will be sluggish.
Even if teh mushroom was speaking to them, why would the mushroom not want human sacrifice? Do you think nthe mushroom says the same things to everyone?
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Re: Human Sacrifices by Ancient Civilizations: Divine Mushroom?! [Re: Psiles]
#14314347 - 04/18/11 10:23 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Again, mushrooms don't speak to people. When you eat psilocybin mushrooms, the most complex composition of matter on the planet (the human brain)has crazy reactions and you begin to experience a lot of strange things. Do any of these messages have legitimacy? That's for you to decide, but psilocybin is a mere key in opening the perception of the brain.
And as the above poster asserted, the experience will change from person to person because there is no mushroom message, but instead an interpretation of events by an individual opening their doors of perception.
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Re: Human Sacrifices by Ancient Civilizations: Divine Mushroom?! [Re: Noteworthy]
#14314432 - 04/18/11 10:34 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Noteworthy said: if you believe this without a doubt, your search for knowledge will be sluggish.
And if the original assumption of mushroom-messages isn't ably defended with reasoned arguments, this thread will be a failure.
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Re: Human Sacrifices by Ancient Civilizations: Divine Mushroom?! [Re: Psiles]
#14314751 - 04/18/11 11:29 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I personally think that the human sacraficing of those people were to "give back" to mother nature in order to keep time and the world going... because to take and not give would be bad.
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