How psychoactive compounds in plants have contributed to our creation of gods and religions
Plants do not produce chemicals for our benefit, nutrition, or entertainment.
Consumption of plants containing psychoactive chemicals generated images that were incorporated in to religious rituals.Plants are important to humans, although the feeling is probably not mutual. Many of our most important treatments for mental illness have been discovered in plants. Why do plants have such profound effects on our brain function? In truth, plants have no interest in humans at all.
The problem for plants is that they are not mobile; they cannot simply run away from the bugs or swat them with a limb. Their solution was to synthesize a large variety of chemicals to influence the insects’ behavior to serve the needs of the plant. These chemicals, many of which are psychoactive, are produced only for the plant’s interactions with insects. Plants do not produce chemicals for our benefit,Humans and plants share over 3000that are critical to survival.
The appearance of many small mystical societies in ancient times that incorporated psychoactive plants in their rituals ultimately evolved into more familiar modern-day organized religions, such as the Native American Church and the Santo Daime, União do Vegetal that have led to the use of semi-synthetic psychoactives, such as the Neo-American Church , and the Temple of the True Inner Light and Sangoma .
The holy anointing oil mentioned in the Book of Exodus might have contained extracts from the cannabis plant or the muskrat root containing the psychoactive chemical asarone. Extracts of the psychoactivemushroom were used by Tantric Buddhists during the 8th century.
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