Since ancient times, mushrooms have been perceived by people as a mystical-sexual object; they have influenced the cosmogony, myth-making, and religions of most major civilizations. While the sacred remains sacred, humanity has also commonly used mushrooms as aphrodisiacs, modifiers of sexual perception, and even as phallic symbols in everyday life.
In this engaging book, the author explores the distant erotic mushroom past of humanity and our psychedelic mushroom present, analyzing the myths, beliefs, and traditions associated with mushrooms and their unique symbolism. Significant attention is given to entheogenic mushrooms that can be used as aphrodisiacs. A separate chapter is dedicated to psychedelic mushrooms—specifically, cicada parasites—illustrating how the sexual life of mushrooms has been shown, through recent research, to have altered the entire course of human history.
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