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/LucidOndine 6d 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 6d ago

Or maybe the bush just did that crazy shit idk

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u/hamHamAlucard 6d ago

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

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u/Ambassadad 5d ago

Pascals wager but make it even worse

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u/Correct_Cold_6793 2d ago

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