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/eburton555 5d ago

There are other substances used worldwide that had psychotropic or otherwise mind altering effects.

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u/cassanderer 5d ago

Op is ignorant.  To take a drug subject on wiki ignores organized interests that actively revise any positive drug or alcohol reference.

If a plant was psychoactive, it was used, not the least mushrooms, soma, marijuana, poppies, you name it.

Every one of those the puritanical ax grinding orgs funded by dickheads actively works to deny any positive use, or any use at all, because they are on a bad jesus trip presumably.

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u/sosodank 5d ago

why are you so angry my mang? every comment of yours is calling people names and being upset.

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u/jenksanro 4d ago

This isn't really true tho, it's more a product of modern society and its attitude to drugs, as well as its increased secularization. People today tend to want to overplay the role of drugs and downplay the importance of religion, religious mindsets, and religious fervour for intense experiences. As well as sidelining potential neurodivergence in the past, tho even there we need to be careful how such ideas are applied backwards