Jason: > In afghanistan there is a plant called > Som. It is an ephedra that produces a > greenish docotion... > Maybe so, unfortunately you can't get very high on "ephedra", the main ingredient in Asian green tea. Amanita, or something like it, was the Vedic Soma. This has been proved by G. Gordon Wasson, the author of 'Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality'.
Also, by other eminent botanists such as S. Hajicek-Dobberstein, the author of the paper 'Soma Siddhas and Alchemical Enlightenment: Psychedelic Mushrooms in Buddhist Tradition' published in the Journal of Ethno pharmacology and cited by Wasson (88). The Amanita Muscaria spoken of in the Rig Veda thus has its origin in the northern area around Finland and Siberia, where the fungus still grows and can be seen each year. Works cited: 'Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality' By G. Gordon Wasson Harcourt Brace Javanovich, 1969 'The Post-Vedic History of the Soma Plant' By Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, Ph.D. Ibid. Page 95. Below are some of the many Rig Vedic citations discovered by Wasson. Mandala I: 32-6 43-9 46-10 80-2 84-8 87-5 119-9 135-3 Mandala II: 13-1 Mandala III: 36-6 43-7 45-4 48-2 48-3 Mandala IV: 1-19 3-9 18-13 32-1 26-6 57-7 Mandala X: 43-4 45-9 51-4-7 85-2 etc., etc.
