Contents:
- Civilizations in ecstasy: Psycho Mushrooms And Peoples
- Vol 1 maybe, careful
- Hallucinogens and Christianity: Evidence in sacred art (Vol. 2)
- Brown’s Citation
- Search
- The Dream on the Rock
- They have seen thousands of gods: Secularity and religiosity of visionary experience
- For a science of states of consciousness
- Anthropology of consciousness transformations
This section of my gallery page links to Gosso books: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/images-of-mushrooms-in-christian-art/#Hallucinogens-Christianity-Sacred-Art
Civilizations in ecstasy: Psycho Mushrooms And Peoples
Civiltà in estasi: Psicofunghi E Popoli
September 16, 2022
url https://www.amazon.com/Civiltà-Archidoxa-Italian-Gilberto-Camilla/dp/B09XBS7QY8/
🤖 roboto:
“The experience of the real is a mental fact, a change in our perception.
Gilberto Camilla is a master in telling this mutation of the reality plan: for years he has been dealing with psychotropic plants and their interaction within the most varied cultures, from the ancient world to contemporary times.
To the term ‘psychedelic’, a word coined in 1956 by a friend of Aldous Huxley, today we prefer that of ‘enogenic’, which refers to a dimension in which the psychoactive substance ‘creates the divine in us’.
In nature there are little-known or completely unexplored entheogenic varieties.
This is the case with many mushrooms.
Amanita muscaria is one of them: harvested in certain regions or seasons of the year, it can produce psychotropic effects.
It is known that the esoteric conventue to which Hieronymus Bosch belonged made widespread use of it, and from its effects the great Flemish master drew inspiration for his paintings.
Just as the psychoactive properties of Psilocybe-type fungi are well known: many leave for Mesoamerica in their search, forgetting that in certain areas of our country they grow lush.
Gilberto Camilla leads us on a journey through the continents and peoples who have most used psychoactive fungi to reach the divine, with the knowledge that these, far from being the only cause of the mystical and visionary experience, often lead to a secret and unknowable inner world.”
Vol 1 maybe, careful
Volume 1 covers Amanita, according to volume 2.
url https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/8886345569/
check formats, dicey, compare eg https://www.ibs.it/allucinogeni-cristianesimo-evidenze-nell-arte-libro-gilberto-camilla-fulvio-gosso/e/9788886345569#a__author-ranking
Hallucinogens and Christianity: Evidence in sacred art (Vol. 2)
Allucinogeni e cristianesimo. Evidenze nell’arte sacra
url https://www.amazon.com/Allucinogeni-cristianesimo-evidenze-nellarte-secondo/dp/889720628X/
🤖 roboto:
“In this second volume of “Alluvinogens and Christianity” Gilberto Camilla and Fulvio Gosso, they continue their research on the fungal presence in Christian sacred art and propose some of their further “discoveries”.
If in the first volume the Amanita muscaria had a particular attention,
in this [edition] the authors also identify the presence, in some proposed representations, of the Psilocybe semilanceata.
In both works the evidence of the presence of hallucinogenic mushrooms in Christian iconography becomes numerous and it seems obvious that they are only a small part of those that exist or existed.
It can therefore be assumed that such a phenomenon, geographically and historically vast and widespread, cannot only be limited to religious representations.
Apart from the American “school”, some German authors and a few Italian friends who have expressed interest in the topics covered in these volumes, silence reigns supreme in the academic field.”
Brown’s Citation
Prof. Jerry Brown wrote at Hancock site:
“by Fulvio Gosso and Gilberto Camilla, who in 2007 and 2016, respectively, published volumes one and two of Allucinogeni e Cristianesimo: Evidenze nell’arte sacre (Hallucinogens and Christianity: Evidence in Sacred Art).
“The two volumes describe fifty-two color plates showing psychedelic mushrooms, both Amanita muscaria and Psilocybe-varieties, mainly in medieval Christian artworks from Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Holland, and Russia.”
Search
url https://www.amazon.com/s?k=fulvio+gosso&crid=5CZBTYM1DHVX&sprefix=fulvio+gosso
url https://www.amazon.com/s?k=fulvio+gosso
The Dream on the Rock
url: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1438448759/
Fulvio Gosso & Peter Webster
blurb:
“The Dream on the Rock takes an interdisciplinary approach to contextualizing and historicizing the phenomenon of shamanism from the Neolithic Age until the beginning of the Iron Age.
Fulvio Gosso and Peter Webster argue that rock art and other ancient materials provide a glimpse of the fundamental role played by nonordinary states of consciousness in our social and evolutionary prehistory.
Ultimately, the authors offer a comprehensive exploration of shamanism, religion, and the origins of human consciousness, along with evidence that hallucinogenic plants may have played a key role in this process.”
They have seen thousands of gods: Secularity and religiosity of visionary experience
Hanno visto migliaia di dei: Laicità e religiosità dell’esperienza visionaria
2019 Gosso & Camilla:
url https://www.amazon.com/migliaia-Laicità-religiosità-dellesperienza-visionaria/dp/8897206034/
There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance
A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance
translation 🤖
“There are those who have noticed that of the almost 500 human groups studied during the ‘900 by ethno-anthropologists, only a few do not currently have, to have suppressed them, systems to produce non-ordinarinous states of consciousness controlled, ritualized, group.
Everyone else does.
The question is: why have all human groups in their evolution felt the need to equip themselves with containers of meaning and ritualized devices for producing non-ordinary states of consciousness?
For at least three reasons.
Meanwhile, because it is part of the specific characteristic of humans never to be satisfied with being where they are.
As ants they work incessantly to explore their environment; and when they reach the limit of the exploitable with their senses and intellectual faculties, and encounter mystery, they do not give up, but seek tools to cross the border, and go beyond.
Then, because from that knowledge the experts report in the ordinary dimension indications and skills on how to work the dimension of the invisible and the immaterial; finally, because a group of humans who together experience the transit and travel in the other part of the world, or who rely on one among them capable of doing so, condenses into a cohesive, supportive, strong.
A us in which many surpluses, emergencies and needs find a ready, shared, controlled path in which to express themselves.”
For a science of states of consciousness
Per una scienza degli stati di coscienza
Fulvio Gosso
url https://www.amazon.com/una-scienza-degli-stati-coscienza/dp/8895458567/
🤖 roboto
“The theme of consciousness analyzed and eviscerated in its variations, in its historical conceptions and in its definitions is inspired by the conscious need to constitute a new scientific discipline dedicated to the study of states of consciousness.
From empirical and structural definitions to epistemological issues, from the bibliographic analysis of the main contemporary authors and gender literature to the psychological, cultural and social definition of the concept of consciousness, the author offers us an engaging and fascinating essay that drags the reader thanks to the pressing tone of his investigation.”
Anthropology of consciousness transformations
Antropologia delle trasformazioni di coscienza
Fulvio Gosso & Elisa Gosso
url https://www.amazon.com/Antropologia-delle-trasformazioni-coscienza-Elisa/dp/8895458605/
🤖 roboto:
“Do Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness (SNOC) concern only phenomena such as trance?
Are they confined to the use of hallucinogenic substances or oriental meditation techniques?
Is the majority of the population therefore foreign to this cultural specificity?
This essay shows us how the exact opposite turns out to be true.
We change our basic and waking consciousness daily with sleep and dreams, we “lose” our head in falling in love, in sexuality, in the “vertines” stimulated by extreme activities and we incibly on the perceptual and emotional level with multiple psychoactive substances.
From the analysis of the concept of “reality” to the transcendent and religious dimension as a natural change, from the anthropological study of hemp and its interactions with creativity and spirituality to the analysis of the dream as an object of social interaction, from Christian mysticism to the phenomenon of non-pathological and ritual dissociation, the volume drags the reader page after page on a journey to discover the daily life of consciousness transformations.”
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