Muscaria Mushrooms Quotes & Sayings

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger. — Dalai Lama

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form. — Hart Crane

For long moments they clung to one another, only their heavy breathing filling the quiet. Gradually the mist cleared from Brenna's sight, and she gazed into the summer-sky blue of her husband's eyes. Eternity stared back at her. There was no world beyond their world, no time that did not belong to them — Cynthia Wicklund

It's called basic human decency, and I deserve no credit for doing what every man should. — Courtney Milan

I am a demon hunter. Clearly, I am not afraid of the dark. — Cassandra Clare

They did indeed use the AM in religious rituals and AM does have deliriant and hallucinatory effects and more. This would mean not only is it linked to religion and religious social structures in the ceremony, but there is a significant link that it produced these experiences by way of muscimol induced hallucinations. Since its consumption began fifty thousand years ago, it would put its use on the very beginning of religion itself. The idea that this is somehow a fallacy is far from the truth as not only is there a religious connection but the connection began at the same time. — Leviak B. Kelly

I don't know what I would have done if I had had to work for a living. — Harry Benson

Witches and sorcerers cultivated plants with the power to "cast spells" -- in our vocabulary, "psychoactive" plants. Their potion recipes called for such things as datura, opium poppies, belladona, hashish, fly-agaric mushrooms (Amanita muscaria), and the skin of toads (which can contain DMT, a powerful hallucinogen). These ingredients would be combined in a hempseed-oil-based "flying ointment" that the witches would then administer vaginally using a special dildo. This was the "broomstick" by which these women were said to travel. (119) — Michael Pollan

Thousands of years before Christianity, secret cults arose which worshipped the sacred mushroom - the Amanita Muscaria - which, for various reasons (including its shape and power as a drug) came to be regarded as a symbol of God on earth.
When the secrets of the cult had to be written down, it was done in the form of codes hidden in folk tales.
This is the basic origin of the stories in the New Testament. They are a literary device to spread the rites and rules of mushroom worship to the faithful. — John Marco Allegro

God holds us in the untamed moments too. — Ann Voskamp

Sacred space in which
To distil, like amber,
The best of your love. — Scott Hastie

The moment of cocoa-drinking was always the moment of confidences. — Stella Benson

Undine's white and gold bedroom, with sea-green panels and old rose carpet, looked along Seventy-second Street toward the leafless tree-tops of the Central Park. She went to the window, and drawing back its many layers of lace gazed eastward down the long brownstone perspective. Beyond the Park lay Fifth Avenue - and Fifth Avenue was where she wanted to be! — Edith Wharton

When a massive failure to preserve the integrity of an ecosystem occured, no one escaped the consequences. — Terry Brooks