John wrote: > MMY has been documented to say that soma is a chemical > derivative that can be found in the stomachs of advanced > meditators. MMY considers this chemical to be the > ingredient that supports bliss. This same ingredient > is the amrita that the vedic demigods had been looking > for in the mythological past. > Maybe so, but the Rig Veda Manadala IX and X says nothing about a psychedelic substance secreted in the gut. In fact, the Rig Veda describes Soma as a decoction prepared from plants and a fungus. However, it has been established by Robert Keith Wallace at MUM that the primary ingredient produced by TM practice is Seratonin, which is secreted in the brain, not in the gut. Are you thinking that you're producing Soma in your gut AND Seratonin in your brain?
> It is possible that modern researchers have > misinterpreted the meaning and sources of soma. > No, I'd say that the traditional mystics in India have no idea what Soma mentioned in the Rig Veda was. Obviously, Soma is the magic mushroom of immortality, a fungus that grows all over the Caucasus mountains of Central Asia. This lore was forgotten due to the long lapse of time after the Aryan Sansrit speakers migrated into South Asia around 1500 B.C. Source: 'Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge' A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution by Terence McKenna Bantam, 1993
