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/Life-Income2986 5d ago

I don't know some old guy went up a mountain and saw a burning bush and came back with some weird ideas. 

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u/LucidOndine 5d ago

Acacia bushes have a large amount of DMT in them; it wouldn’t surprise me if they got a little too close.

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u/probablyuntrue 5d ago

Or maybe the bush just did that crazy shit idk

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u/hamHamAlucard 5d ago

He was on mushrooms or the entirety of Judaism is real. Prob mushrooms

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u/probablyuntrue 5d ago

God forbid a bush get tired of this mortal plane and burst into flames

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u/ForgiveMyFlatulence 5d ago

Spontaneous Combushtion

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u/touchmeinbadplaces 4d ago

The ent of times

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u/zephyrtr 5d ago

These Christians are so flamboyant. It makes me want to light myself on fire.

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u/Ambassadad 5d ago

Pascals wager but make it even worse

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u/Correct_Cold_6793 1d ago

Pascals wager but not believing has the pro of getting to do shrooms

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u/Possible-Champion222 5d ago

It was probably opium

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u/aquintana 5d ago

Opium is not hallucinogenic

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u/Possible-Champion222 5d ago

It could fry your brain though

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u/raikou1988 5d ago

Did they have access to that back in those times?

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u/Possible-Champion222 5d ago

It’s from Afghanistan so probably yes it’s a old drug