Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2024-04-11
Books mentioned on #2134 - Paul Stamets
Paul Stamets is a mycologist and advocate for bioremediation and medicinal fungi. He has written, edited, and contributed to several books, including "Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Save the World," and "Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The sacred mushroom and the cross
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross is a controversial study by John Marco Allegro proposing that early Christian religious practices stemmed from ancient psychedelic mushroom fertility cults.
Discussed“So these ones that they were attributing to like the sacred mushroom in the cross, John Marco Allegro's book on Amanita muscaria and the Bible — do you think that it's possible that at one point in time there were psychoactive strains of Amanita muscaria that vary from the ones that people have that have these different sort of more”
