January
09
/ 2021
According to a 2019 paper titled Toxicology in Antiquity (Second Edition), almost all of the Mystery Religions and cults of the ancient world “frequently, if not always, employed the use of psychoactive drugs or entheogens to induce altered states of consciousness.” An example was presented in a National Geographic when a pouch of ancient ayahuasca, a strong plant derived hallucinogen, was discovered “in 1,000-year-old shamanic pouch in South America”. However, exactly how high our psychonautic forebears got has always been a matter of speculation. Until now. A new method uniting modern drug testing applications with the drug residues found trapped in the tartar of ancient teeth is promising to reveal exactly what types of “magically medical” plants were consumed in
