I like these psychedelic speculations but would point out that Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) is a deliriant rather than a lucid psych like LSD. A sweaty, unpleasant mind-fuck more suited to shamans seeking an out-of-the-body experience rather than sadhus seeking to escape from the wheel of life and death.
An interesting fact about these mushrooms is that they retain their psychoactive properties after passing through the body. In Siberia the rich would pay to have fresh mushrooms collected for their brews. Afterwards their urine would be given to the poor for them to drink and enjoy their own astral voyage. When we have to drink the piss of our bankers and politicians that's when we'll know we've been well and truly screwed. A web search gives us: "The most interesting, and probably the strongest supporting evidence that Amanita muscaria is the divine Soma is the mentioning in the Rigveda of there being two forms of Soma. With those two forms which stand facing us, O Soma, thou reignest over all things (Mandala IX 66). Wasson in his studies of Amanita use in other cultures also came across two forms of Amanita. The first being the expressed juice of a fresh or re-hydrated mushroom, and the second being the urine of those who have drunk the juice."
