Teotzlcoatl said:

Does anybody find it strange that the Buddha died of mushroom "poisoning"? Do you think it's possible he was given psilocybin mushrooms and didn't die but instead moved onto another state of existience?

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Droz said:

Prove to me we exist after we die.

You can't.

So stop with the life after death ordeal.

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Droz said:

Prove to me we exist after we die.

You can't.

So stop with the life after death ordeal.

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Prove that we don't.

You can't.

So carry on.

Teotzlcoatl said:

Shrooms are all over the world (Whoever said they only grow in the americas is dead wrong, anybody wanna back me up?) I am postive they grew in china at that time, the chinese talk about it in medical documents, psilocybian intoxication is know as "laughing sickness"!
And you over looked the fact that i mentioned Amanita Muscaria/Pantheria which are known to grow in those areas, even if it's rare.

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I think you may be referring to me, so I'll answer anyway.

I know that mushrooms do not grow only in the America's, for they're growing in my closet right now. I said that mushrooms originally came from the America's, but I'm not sure how popular they were around the time of Buddha.

And by the way, Buddha was born in what is Modern Day Nepal, part of ancient India. He was not Chinese.

I still believe that the Buddha was not poisoned or given a hallucinogenic mushroom, not because of its availability, but because he stated that he plans on willfully passing into parinirvana after his final meal.

Teotzlcoatl said:

As we all known, no known mushrooms cults existed at the time of the buddha in the old world. Psilocybin mushrooms have ALWAYS grown all over the world they were not "imported" from america in the modern era.(somebody back me up)
And yes i know the Buddha was not born in china, all i was sayin was that the chinese had knowledge of psilocybian intoxication....India isn't that far from china so the knowledge was probley known there as well.

If i was going to have a final meal before passing into another plane of existience my top choose for dinner would be shrooms!

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I don't know much about the history of mushrooms, and you're probably right. But from what I understand about Buddhism, the Buddha would have never indulged in any psychoactive drug knowingly. I know you would, but in his case, as an enlightened being, he had all the serotonin he could ever need already.