In Egodeath Mystery Show episode 121b 1:14:00, and episode 121a 8:45 (@ Idea Devmt page 13),
I criticize Letcher Hatsis for not being critical enough and debunking – he fails to debunk and attack the popular and wrong “secret Amanita theory” of ancient Greek religion.
But it would be really easy for him to tackle that: all he has to do is use the proxy principle and debunk Amanita in Eleusis, only, thereby proving that there are no mushrooms in Hellenistic religious history. 😑
The “secret Amanita theory” of Greek religion is just a pop myth that’s making the field of entheogen scholarship look like an embarrassment, and it’s really holding back the field.
This baseless, invented, pop theory, the Secret Amanita Theory of Greek religion, is probably coming from Jan Irvin (certainly not coming from Hatsis’ good buddy Carl Ruck, since Hatsis urged “But I *agree* with Carl Ruck!”).
The Egodeath theory 