r. gordon wasson – an American author, ethnomycologist, Vice President for Public Relations at J.P. Morgan & Co, and recipient of CIA funding – theorized that fly agaric was the intoxicant ‘soma’ of the vedas
i heard of wasson at about the same time that i became acquainted with the work of the firesign theatre – not among their witticisms recorded at wikiquote is
“i’m high on the real thing – a clean windshield, a shoeshine, and a full tank of gasoline”
I believe you are possibly the William Blake of Alien Cytology and this piece is a breakthrough which integrates previous breakthroughs.If this were a Golden Age Sci Fi story your Wife would have heard a strange hum and seen a golden flash of light coming from your studio at the moment you completed this… running into the studio she’d have found (fill in the blank).
the central circle here reminds me of the psychedelic mushroom ‘fly agaric’ – amanita muscaria –
https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/ethnobotany/Mind_and_Spirit/flyagaric.shtml
r. gordon wasson – an American author, ethnomycologist, Vice President for Public Relations at J.P. Morgan & Co, and recipient of CIA funding – theorized that fly agaric was the intoxicant ‘soma’ of the vedas
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Gordon_Wasson
i heard of wasson at about the same time that i became acquainted with the work of the firesign theatre – not among their witticisms recorded at wikiquote is
“i’m high on the real thing – a clean windshield, a shoeshine, and a full tank of gasoline”
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I believe you are possibly the William Blake of Alien Cytology and this piece is a breakthrough which integrates previous breakthroughs.If this were a Golden Age Sci Fi story your Wife would have heard a strange hum and seen a golden flash of light coming from your studio at the moment you completed this… running into the studio she’d have found (fill in the blank).
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