anon_astute_ff wrote: > Interesting how people want to assume that Soma is current > hallucinogens. > Hallucinogen ingestion has existed since the beginning of plant cultivation. Apparently one of the first plants domesticated by man was the barley plant, from which the ancients made beer. Closely followed by hemp and then shrooms. There's no evidence that alcaloid use is a recent practice in India. Millions of yogis, fakirs, and saints chew betel nut and dip snuff on a daily basis in India and have done so for thousands of years.
> McKenna probably believed is own mind while tripping. > Maybe so, but there's no evidence that McKenna ever tripped on anything. > Baseless assumption. > We can assume that what was composed in Mandala X in the Rig Veda by the rishis was an accurate description of a decotion called Soma. I therefore infer from the scriptures that Amrita is the Food of the Gods, an elixir that enabled immortality. Maybe you've got a better theory than McKenna - if so please post it here. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
