--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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
I had Sweet Pan once on the streets of Delhi. But I'm no saint. > 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/
