#MushroomPillars

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Search For Answers - Mushroom Pillars of Göbekli Tepe

The monuments of antiquity are connected with ancient humanity’s deep rooted interest in the Spirit of Nature, they are coded messages in stone, recording this sacred knowledge for posterity. 

The worship of animal spirit companions and the concept of human-animal transformation is so ancient, that the origins of these beliefs appear to predate the development of agriculture. The encoded images of hallucinogenic mushrooms associated with feline deities and the Tree of Life are found in both the Old World, and the the New World, where a common motif in Olmec art represents the mushroom's effect of jaguar transformation and the soul's mythical underworld journey. 

Archaeologist Michael D. Coe (1972) demonstrated a long-standing Mesoamerican association of the jaguar with rulership, royal lineages, and power, having an intimate relationship with the sun in the underworld, the Jaguar Sun God (John B. Carlson 1981, p.125).

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The Meaning of the Megaliths - The Spirit of Nature

I remember walking down to the great Gobekli Tepe stone circle with it’s mushroom pillars, dotting the landscape like a Stone Age megalithic fairy ring in the moonlight... their dark shadows a reminder of their darker past and our ignorance of their makers and builders.

The megaliths, ancient standing stones often sited in the wild and isolated locations, exert a strange fascination for modern man. They are a testament to forms of knowledge, ceremony, and ritual that are now buried in a perplexing past. Traditional archeology can tell us much about the mysterious view of the world that gave rise to these sacred monuments, but alternative approaches, more adventurous, have also made valuable contribution to decoding the meaning of the megaliths.

“At the point in his evolutionary progress where we first call him `Man' beyond a doubt - Homo sapiens sapiens - and when he came to know, also beyond a doubt, what awe and reverence were, he clearly felt that Soma was conferring on him mysterious sensations and powers, which seemed to him more than normal: at that point Religion was horn, Religion pure and simple, free of Theology, free of Dogmatics, expressing itself in awe and reverence and in lowered voices, mostly at night, when people would gather together to consume the Sacred Element. The first entheogenic experience could have been the first, and an authentic, perhaps the only authentic miracle. This was the beginning of the Age of the Entheogens, long, long ago.”

-R. Gordon Wasson, Persephone's Quest: Entheogens And The Origins Of Religion

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Mushroom Pillar of Göbekli Tepe

On the surface of the planet previously unmarked by humankind, great monuments arose...

The quantity and quality of these structures, produced with only limited technology, is astonishing. The most famous sites represent only a tiny fraction of the total of these that have survived. There are over 900 stone circles in the British Isles, for instance, and more than 800 in the West African region of Senegambia. Even in our modern age, we can gaze in awe at the work and skill that went into the creation of a mighty megalithic monument such as Gobekli Tepe, in Turkey, and it’s mushroom pillars, or Stonehenge, in southern England with it’s Bronze Age mushroom carvings. There are two questions that unavoidably come to mind when contemplating these ancient sites: how were they built, and why?

Quoting R. Gordon Wassan...

"Here was the Secret of Secrets of the Ancients, of our own remote forebears, a Secret discovered perhaps sporadically in Eurasia and again later in Mesoamerica. The Secret was a powerful motive force in the religion of the earliest times (Wasson 1980, p. 53).

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"It [the mushroom] permits you to see, more clearly than our perishing mortal eye can see, vistas beyond the horizons of this life, to travel backwards and forwards in time, to enter other planes of existence, even (as the Indians say) to know God."