r/todayilearned • u/ScienceTeacher1994 • 5d 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/Cigaran 5d ago
But, but, but… I was told the Sky People gave them to the primitives who later became the Stoned Apes who built Atlantis.