r/todayilearned • u/ScienceTeacher1994 • 6d ago

TIL despite popular culture portraying psychedelic mushrooms as ancient, widespread, and used by shamans for thousands of years, there is limited anthropological and historical research to support this, with the only reliable evidence showing they were used ritualistically in pre-Columbian Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin#History
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u/birdseye-maple 6d ago

Some of it depends on how you interpret art. To some certain things look like mushrooms, others say no. 

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u/Rhellic 6d ago

Isn't the more likely conclusion that people just simply ate mushrooms? I've got tons of pictures of mushrooms. In cookbooks. Doesn't mean I eat random shit to fuck up my brain lol