The aminita muscaria, if you don't know, is a psychedelic shroom.
And no, this is in no way proof of anything, of course. But it is indicative, if you care to look into it, of the long standing historical link between psychedelics, altered states of consciousness and religion throughout history.
When you see and talk to Gods and snakes, and then "suddenly" notice things that have always surrounded you [like, for example, being naked] what else is that but being high and stoned out of your head?
Seriously though, there are lots of links between drugs and religion throughout history. ["Eat of my body and drink of my blood" takes on a slightly different meaning, yes?] And there are more than a few writers/scholars/etc who even think the ingesting of psychedelics, and how they re-wire the brain, may have been one of the factors that kick started the development of language and the increase in evolutionary brain capacity.
Now whether these naturally occurring substances that have existed and been used throughout the history of life on this planet actually transport your psyche to other dimensions to where you communicate with higher entities... or whether it just fucks up your brain chemistry for a while... well, that's a question for another day.
Pic from Konkrete Junkyard via the esteemed Dedroidify.
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