Beware that this is a deep rabbit hole that you are about to go down into. Also I'm pretty busy at the moment, so don't have time to flesh this out properly... just wanted to post an outline of it, because why the hell not?
I recently did a podcast episode with a freemason that had some interesting insight into matters, that I myself have been suspecting for a long time.
The Masonic Connection
The Eleusinian Mysteries most likely used ergot in their rituals, which is a form of LSD.
Anyway this practice was banned or died away… and could it be that it did not die? That the practices continued… perhaps into the Masonic Order? Even if the Masons of today do not incorporate psychedelics in their rituals, perhaps they did in the past?
Apparently the Egyptian Rite created by Cagliostro did.
To this day a new initiate in Freemasonry is given a branch of Acacia.Cagliostro writes that his candidates for initiation “shall drink” a brew prepared from acacia, the “primal matter,” thereby “raising his spirit in order to understand.” This is exactly the type of language that one would expect if Cagliostro was actually initiating his candidates with a form of ayahuasca.
For, the brew certainly satisfies the requirements of raising one’s spirit and imparting a certain understanding that comes only from the type of inebriation induced by drinking the beverage. As we have noted elsewhere, if not for its DMT content, we cannot conceive of any practical reason why Cagliostro would have his initiates literally drink an ayahuasca-like concoction of acacia. – source
Acacia is an excellent source of DMT. Also there is a theory about Moses and the burning bush being Acacia (DMT).
The Alchemical Connection
I have for a long time, but had not had the time to do so, been thinking about looking into the DMT extraction process and tracing it over the alchemical process… because I think that the Stone is DMT… it always was!
What does DMT look like? Crystals… i.e. Stones.
Also the most telling clue is that it is called the PHILOSOPHERS Stone…
A photo of the Stone i.e. DMT crystals.
Side note: does DMT, if orally ingested, need MAOI inhibitor? Apparently if you drink so much that the body can't "destroy" the DMT quantity you ingest, then you will get the DMT experience anyway. Which removes any issue regarding the lack of MAOI processes in alchemy... even if I think they might be found... I have not looked yet.
The LSD conncetion
The story goes that Albert Hofmann first synthesized LSD in 1938, which eventually led to the hippie movement and the "drop acid, not bombs" chants...
It has been claimed that ergot poising was common in the old days, and perhaps why some people were burned as witches.In 1933, five years earlier, Leo Perutz published the novel Saint Peter's Snow (also known in English as The Virgin's Brand). Critic Alan Piper considered it "a psychological detective story", although it has varyingly been categorised as science fiction or fantasy. Piper believed that the novel was decades ahead of its time due to the description of a hallucinogenic drug derived from an ergot fungus 10 years before the discovery of LSD. He also thought it astonishing that it discussed the experimental use of this hallucinogen on an isolated village 20 years before the 1951 Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning, and proposed that ergot was the psychoactive ingredient used in the ancient mystery cults 40 years before this was put forward as a serious proposal. - source
Ergot is a fungus that grows on rye. Ergot poisoning is also known as Saint Anthonys Fire, named after Saint Anthony the Hermit. Just saying...
Side note: According to the freemason I talked to there is also a theory that Albert Hofmann did not stumble upon LSD by accident, but that in fact he was part of an order that tried to find a compound that could end war (make love, not bombs)...
Conclusions
1. As I have put forward before, I think that alchemy is an offspring of shamanism.
2. All religions and ancient knowledge of "gods", "afterlife" and "wisdom" comes from psychedelics and/or shamanic rituals.
3. Alchemy is about finding the Stone, and the Stone is DMT... any other Stone is just a rock. Ha ha.Although I am sure healing potions and other usable and valuable elixirs can be made with Alchemy... but I don't think any of them is the Stone.
4. I can only seriously accept counter-arguments to this theory after you have smoked a heroic dose of DMT, or committed yourself to a proper brew of Ayahuasca... because I would have called this theory mumbo-jumbo before I did so myself. LOL. And if anyone tells me that if I only could see the Stone they made, and how it transmutes "lead into gold", I would simply just say: "not interested in making gold"
Because if making gold is the reason we are here, then I am utterly disgusted... unless you want gold to create a public domain statue to the Divine Mystery or something...
Awani out.
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