Michael Hoffman, December 13, 2020
For Great Canterbury Psalter, see later crops, after library brightened: https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/06/07/eadwine-images-great-canterbury-psalter-catalog-gallery/

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Contents:

• Limitations of this page as of Dec. 7, 2024
• Another Large Shipment of High Medieval Mushrooms Incoming: Golden Munich Psalter
• Scope of the Images on This Page
• Image Search Links
• John Rush
• Y Y Y – The Mystic ‘Y’

• Article: “Mushroom-Trees” in Christian Art (Samorini)
• Samorini Figure 1
• Samorini Figure 2
• Samorini Figure 3
• Samorini Figure 4
• Samorini Figure 5
• Samorini Figure 6
• Samorini Figure 7
• Samorini Figure 8
• Samorini Figure 9
• Samorini Figure 10
  * Le Saint Graal Retrouve le Fruit Defendu et la Chair des Dieux
• Samorini Figure 11
• Samorini Figure 12
  * Plate 8 from Brinckmann’s book that was censored from Panofsky’s letter multiple times by Pope Wasson
• Samorini Figure 13
• Samorini Figure 14
• Samorini Figure 15
• Samorini Figure 16
• Samorini Figure 17
• Samorini Figure 18
• Samorini Figure 19
  * Adam and Eve, Bernward’s Door of Salvation, St. Michael’s Church
• Samorini Figure 20
• Samorini Figure 21
• Samorini Figure 22
• Samorini Figure 23
• Samorini Figure 24
• Samorini Figure 25

• Canterbury Psalter
  * Folio 134 Detail
  * Folio 11 – 12 Images
  * Folio 11 Detail: Row 1 Left
  * Folio 11 Detail: Row 1 Right
  * Folio 11 Detail: Row 2 Left
  * Folio 11 Detail: Row 3 Middle
  * Folio 11 Detail: Row 3 Right
  * Folio 11, Row 4 Middle
  * Folio 12 Top – Two Mushroom Trees
  * Folio 12 Row 3 of 4 – Mushroom Ram Caught in Mushroom Thicket
  * Folio 13 – Burning Bush
  * Folio 15 – Devil, Combined Cubensis-Liberty Caps + Vine-Leaf Tree
  * Folio 15 – Leper
  * Folio 16 – Italian Pine (with Bird Nests)
  * Folio 20 – Hanging from Italian Pine by Arm, Water Source
  * Folio 20 Italian Pine – Hi-Res Zoom of Umbrella Pines in Tree Canopy of One of the Italian Pines a.k.a. “Umbrella Pines” (Just to Clarify) a.k.a. “Parasols of Victory” for Those Really Astute Scholars
  * Folio 22 – Several Italian Pines, & Some Parasols of Victory as Well
  * Folio 22: Detail of Italian Pine #2 of 10. Or Parasol of Victory #2 of 10. Let the experts battle this dispute out. But DEFINITELY NOT mushrooms, Cubensis, Liberty Caps.
  * Folio 22 Middle – 5 Italian Pines, 0 Parasols of Victory. Or the reverse. Anyways, Def Not Cubensis, Liberty Caps, & Amanita.
  * Folio 22 Right – 0 Italian Pines, 5 Parasols of Victory. Or the reverse. Anyways, Def Not Cubensis, Liberty Caps, & Amanita.
  * Exercise for the Reader: Identify this Object: Some experts say it’s an Italian Pine. Other experts have definitively identified it as a Parasol of Victory. Which of these top experts is correct?
  * Folio 25 – Absalom
  * Folio 29
  * Folio 32
  * Folio 34
  * Folio 38
  * Folio 40
  * Folio 49
  * Folio 49 Left – Parasols of Victory
  * Folio 49 Right – Detail of Italian Pine (a Scroll Is Above It)
  * Folio 49 Middle – Gavel
  * Folio 49 – Billowing Holy Spirit Garment Lifting
  * Folio 51 – Left Branching, Right Non-Branching Italian Pines – or Is It Parasols of Victory?? Only the Experts Know for Sure, But Definitely Not Mushrooms
  * Folio 51 Hi-Res Detail Zoom
  * Folio 53 detail – Branching Left, Debranched Right
  * Folio 55 Detail
  * Folio 78 Detail – Umbrella Pines in Tree Canopy
  * Folio 98 – Italian Pine – Detail
  * Folio 145 Detail
  * Folio 177 – Right-hand Debranched
  * Folio 193 Detail

• Plaincourault Amanita Tree Fresco
  * Bory’s Plaincourault Lookalike Painting

• Images I Uploaded to the Web in 2002
• Eusebian Letter with Portrait of Eusebius
• Matenadaran Erevan – Baptism
• Water-from-Rock Ossuary (Cubensis) – Peter’s Water Miracle, from a Sarcophagus
• Montecassino Illustration Showing Psilocybe and Mandrake
• Saint Eustace Window at Chartres with Many Cubensis Mushroom Trees
  * Full Saint Eustace Window
  * Conversion of Placidas, Saint Eustace Window, Chartres Cathedral
• Gideon and the Fleece – Window at Laon Showing Multiple Mushrooms

• My Entheogen Picture Finds, Around 2002
• Virgin Mary Wearing an Amanita-cap Cap
• Last Supper Around an Amanita-cap Table
• Mark Lion Halo with White Dots on Red Edge
• Blessed Sacrament Monstrance

• Painted Roof in St. Michael’s Church, Hildesheim (Amanita Cap)
• Embroidered Jesus Christ Crucifix (Amanita Cap)
• Stained Glass Window: Jesus as Red Tree Canopy
• Halo – Golden Mushroom Gills
• Transfiguration of Jesus, Christ Column, Saint Michael’s Church
• Bronze Statue of St. George Slaying the Dragon, Amanita at Base
• Jesus with Amanitas in Garment Folds
• Christ with Liberty Caps on Rocks
• Christ Holding Lazarus with Amanita-Egg Cross-Hatching and Red Halo
• Stained Glass Window – Red-Cap Amanita-Cubensis Mushroom Tree Debranched on Right
• Door – Tax Collector in Mushroom Tree Listening to Jesus, Debranched Right Hand
• Wood Door – Elija’s Ascent
• Adam and Eve, Bernward’s Door of Salvation, St. Michael’s Church
• Jesus Cubensis Stained-Glass Window
• Crucifixion Between Two Mushroom Trees Debranched
• Donkey Apotheosis – Brown’s Psychedelic Gospels Book
• Notre Dame de Laon France XIII, Stained Glass, Red-cap Mushroom Plants
• Eve Eden Tree with Six Red-and-White Caps
• All Saints’ Church – Stained-Glass Windows
• Mushroom at Beast Entrance of Bascillica St. Vincent in Spain
• Mushrooms in Robe Hems at Last Supper – Brown
• The River of Life, Douce Apocalypse, John Led to Christ through Field of Mushrooms
• Le Saint Graal Retrouve le Fruit Defendu et la Chair des Dieux
• Saint Graal Retrouve
• Lot’s Wife Turned to Pillar of Salt (Cubensis Plant)
• Window of Charlemagne with Amanita
• Mosaic of Red Mushrooms, Basilica of Aquileia
• Gold and Red Vestments Chalice
• Chartres – Fortuna
• Alchemy King Amanita Cap – Effluents of Deity

• Moral Bestiaries
  • Salamander
  • Squirrel
  • Unicorn
  • Manticore
  • Manticore 2

• Hallucinogens and Christianity: Evidence in Sacred Art (Camilla & Gosso)
• Hallucinogens and Christianity: Evidence in Sacred Art, Vol. 2 (Camilla & Gosso)
• Samuel Anointing David as a King
• Entheos Issue 1 Gallery
• Todo
• Acknowledgments
• See Also

Limitations of this page as of Dec. 7, 2024

• Some of the images below are lower-resolution than in my other pages at this site. Ideally, I’d add links from sections below to my dedicated articles/ webpages. Find or Search in Site Nav page: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/nav/#gallery
• John Rush’s site https://clinicalanthropology.com is down in late 2024, so images that are hosted there might be down.

Another Large Shipment of High Medieval Mushrooms Incoming: Golden Munich Psalter

• Golden Gallery: Golden Munich Psalter Mushroom Trees
  https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/golden-munich-psalter-mushroom-trees/

• Golden Notes: Golden Munich Psalter per Theory of Psychedelic Eternalism
  https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/golden-munich-psalter-analysis-in-terms-of-the-theory-of-psychedelic-eternalism/

Scope of the Images on This Page

• Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms
• Liberty Cap mushrooms
• Amanita muscaria mushrooms
• mushrooms in Christian art
• Christianity mushrooms
• Christ Amanita muscaria
• Christ Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms
• Christ Liberty Cap mushrooms
• Christ mushrooms
• Jesus mushrooms
• angel mushrooms

I wish this page to have “all known” images, but that’s impossible by orders of magnitude.

That would be a massive ongoing project, including photographing countless books and articles; cropping; uploading; & tagging.

I’m going to run out of space on this server soon. I uploaded all 25 images from Samorini’s article today, and I sure don’t have time to compress the image files, as well as correctly tag them.

Image Search Links

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Jesus+mushroom

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=psilocybin

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Christ+mushroom

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=psilocybe

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Christian+mushroom

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=amanita+cap

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Christianity+mushroom

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom+religious+art

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushrooms+in+religious+art

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom%20esotericism

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Eden+mushroom

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Eve+mushroom

https://www.bing.com/search?q=amanita+christianity

https://www.bing.com/search?q=amanita+christian

https://www.bing.com/search?q=amanita+christ

https://www.bing.com/search?q=psychedelic+christian

John Rush

Y Y Y – The Mystic ‘Y’

From the John Rush archive.

See
The Mystic Y
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/30/the-mystic-y/

Dec. 7, 2024 status: John Rush’s gallery and https://clinicalanthropology.com website is down (an update of the DVD of blurry images that came with the 2011 first edition of Rush’s book).

Copy of the above caption text:

http://www.clinicalanthropology.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/10.jpg
http://www.clinicalanthropology.com/mushroom-in-christian-art/mushroom-in-christian-art-chapter-one/
“Plate 1:5 –Vienna, Austria – Moses Before the Burning Bush, Domenico Fetti, Oil on Canvas, 1613 CE We see God as  the burning bush and he holds one of the symbols for the “bush” in his left hand. In the bottom frame, the hand of God comes through the cloud (cap), while the red material around his wrist is the annulus, and the white hand and wrist are the stalk of the mushroom. Notice the plants to the right of Moses, the mushroom shapes in his alb and stole, including the celestial erection.” – John Rush

Mystic Y’s, identified by Michael Hoffman.

hybrid Italian Pine/ Parasol of Victory on the right. The one “cap” on the right clearly represents a Parasol of Victory, while the other cap clearly represents an Italian Pine.

It doesn’t matter anyway, since per Wasson, Samorini, and Panofsky, artists are idiots who don’t know what they’re drawing; they just stupidly follow templates that got messed up in the course of their inept recopying, so that they ended up by accident looking like mushrooms, in all cases.

This is why 100% of mushrooms in Christian art are to be dismissed.

I have so many quotes explaining that artists who draw mushroom trees are uncomprehending dolts, I’m going to start a WordPress page:
https://egodeaththeory.org/2025/01/07/panofskys-letters-to-wasson-transcribed/

Article: “Mushroom-Trees” in Christian Art (Samorini)

Better page/ collection: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/

Article title:
“Mushroom-Trees” in Christian Art
Gli “alberi-fungo” nell’arte cristiana
Author: Giorgio Samorini
Journal issue: Eleusis, n.s., 1:87-108, 1998
https://www.samorini.it/doc1/sam/sam-alberifungo-1998.pdf

My commentary/reading version of the article:
“Mushroom Trees” in Christian Art (Samorini)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/

Samorini Figure 1

Better collection: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/

Christian Mushroom Trees
Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497555

Samorini Figure 2

Better collection: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/

Samorini Figure 3

Better collection: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/

Samorini Figure 4

Better collection: https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/mushroom-trees-in-christian-art-samorini/

Page:
Christian Mushroom Trees
Subsection:
Italian Umbrella Pines
http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497557

Samorini Figure 5

Samorini Figure 6

Samorini Figure 7

Samorini Figure 8

Samorini Figure 9

Samorini Figure 10

Le Saint Graal Retrouve le Fruit Defendu et la Chair des Dieux

Section copied from lower in the present page, for clearer image than in Samorini article.

The Holy Grail Finds the Fruit Defendu and the Flesh of the Gods

Samorini Figure 11

Flip through the hi-res photos at page http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Panaeolus_semiovatus.html for branches under caps like Canterbury Psalter.

Samorini Figure 12

Plate 8 from Brinckmann’s book that was censored from Panofsky’s letter multiple times by Pope Wasson

Samorini Figure 13

Samorini Figure 14

Samorini Figure 15

Samorini Figure 16

Samorini Figure 17

Samorini Figure 18

Samorini Figure 19

The following two images are dup’d from elsewhere in the present page:

Adam and Eve, Bernward’s Door of Salvation, St. Michael’s Church

Samorini Figure 20

Samorini Figure 21

Samorini Figure 22

Samorini Figure 23

Samorini Figure 24

Samorini Figure 25

Canterbury Psalter

See Site Map: https://egodeaththeory.org/nav/#Great-Canterbury-Psalter

For Great Canterbury Psalter, see later-than-2020 crops, after library brightened: https://egodeaththeory.org/2023/06/07/eadwine-images-great-canterbury-psalter-catalog-gallery/

Canterbury Psalter Mushroom Inventory
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/canterbury-psalter-mushroom-inventory/

Folio 134 Detail

Folio 11 – 12 Images

Selected images are broken out below.

Folio 11 Detail: Row 1 Left

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=amanita+christ

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=amanita

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=amanita+psalter

Folio 11 Detail: Row 1 Right

I read the above as: Panaeolina, Liberty Cap, Cubensis, Amanita — Michael Hoffman, the theorist of ego death, [8:40 p.m. December 13, 2020]

Folio 11 Detail: Row 2 Left

Folio 11 Detail: Row 3 Middle

Folio 11 Detail: Row 3 Right

Folio 11, Row 4 Middle

Folio 12 Top – Two Mushroom Trees

Folio 12 Row 3 of 4 – Mushroom Ram Caught in Mushroom Thicket

Folio 13 – Burning Bush

Folio 15 – Devil, Combined Cubensis-Liberty Caps + Vine-Leaf Tree

Pyschedelic Christianity : A Scholarly Debate on the Holy Mushroom Theory
[sic 1st word]
YouTube channel: Psychedelic Historian, 1:07:15 —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PXZGiX4Qnk&t=4037s
Hatsis incorrectly claims it’s from Paris Psalter.

In the video, Hatsis incorrectly claims that this image is from a different psalter, the “Edwin-Paris Psalter”.

The Paris Psalter links below don’t show the image, but the Canterbury Psalter site shows the image:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f15.item.zoom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Psalter

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10515446x/f1.item.zoom
hi-res Zoom of Folio 1 of Paris Psalter

I proved that the above mushroom shapes represent Psilocybe deliberately used for religious experiencing:

1. The “Hanging-over-God’s-sword” mushroom-tree image by the same team is either meaningless, or represents trained, expert, peak-state use of Psilocybe as I proved.
2. The same team painted all these mushroom images in this work, the Canterbury Psalter.
3. Therefore all 65-70 mushroom plants illustrated by this team in this Canterbury Psalter, including the three mushroom trees in the above image, represent the use of Psilocybe to induce religious experiencing.

The vine-leaf trees which are coupled with these mushroom trees, by this team of illustrators, also indicate the routine, trained, efficient use of Psilocybe, to reveal non-branching of possibilities, destroying egoic possibilism-thinking.

The Canterbury Psalter “mushroom tree/ hanging/ sword” image with the trained, self-threatening Psalter reader, depicts not puzzlement over “the shadow” like today’s braggart hubristic Psilocybin therapists (Muraresku), but the opposite: the image provably depicts a Psilocybe expert-level direct engagement with the {serpentine dragon monster}, and reconciling with eternalism; learning how to deal with the pre-existence of control-thoughts, which kills, disproves, and effectively disempowers egoic control agency.

Folio 15 – Leper

Folio 16 – Italian Pine (with Bird Nests)

Folio 20 – Hanging from Italian Pine by Arm, Water Source

Folio 20 Italian Pine – Hi-Res Zoom of Umbrella Pines in Tree Canopy of One of the Italian Pines a.k.a. “Umbrella Pines” (Just to Clarify) a.k.a. “Parasols of Victory” for Those Really Astute Scholars

Folio 22 – Several Italian Pines, & Some Parasols of Victory as Well

Folio 22: Detail of Italian Pine #2 of 10. Or Parasol of Victory #2 of 10. Let the experts battle this dispute out. But DEFINITELY NOT mushrooms, Cubensis, Liberty Caps.

Folio 22 Middle – 5 Italian Pines, 0 Parasols of Victory. Or the reverse. Anyways, Def Not Cubensis, Liberty Caps, & Amanita.

Folio 22 Right – 0 Italian Pines, 5 Parasols of Victory. Or the reverse. Anyways, Def Not Cubensis, Liberty Caps, & Amanita.

Exercise for the Reader: Identify this Object:
Some experts say it’s an Italian Pine.
Other experts have definitively identified it as a Parasol of Victory.
Which of these top experts is correct?

Folio 25 – Absalom

Folio 29

Folio 32

Folio 34

Folio 38

Folio 40

Folio 49

Christian Mushroom Trees
Section: Canterbury Psaltery Showing Cluster of Mushroom Fruiting-Bodies
http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497563

From the Canterbury Psaltery, early 12th C.  It appears in the book:
Celestial Treasury: From the Music of the Spheres to the Conquest of Space
Marc Lachieze-Rey & Jean-Pierre Luminet (2001), p. 178.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521800404

twofold, basic Y branching, from upper left

Folio 49 Left – Parasols of Victory

Folio 49 Right – Detail of Italian Pine (a Scroll Is Above It)

tree shrub cluster, from upper right

Folio 49 Middle – Gavel

Folio 49 – Billowing Holy Spirit Garment Lifting

Lifted Garment & Mushroom Folds in Christian & Greek Art, Indicating the Ecstatic Holy Spirit Altered State
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/lifted-garment-mushroom-folds-in-christian-greek-art-indicating-the-ecstatic-holy-spirit-altered-state/

Dec 13 2020 9:17 a.m. — check John Rush book re: garment lifting.

I propose that this theme of Christian art with garment lifted to the right, and looking back and up to the right, is equivalent to Greek art with billowing cloth.

Experiment to run; hypothesis: in Greek & Christian art, the billowing cloth indicating the the Holy Spirit altered state is usually to the left; to the figure’s right side.

Folio 51 – Left Branching, Right Non-Branching Italian Pines – or Is It Parasols of Victory?? Only the Experts Know for Sure, But Definitely Not Mushrooms

Folio 51 Hi-Res Detail Zoom

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cubensis

Folio 53 detail – Branching Left, Debranched Right

Folio 55 Detail

Folio 78 Detail – Umbrella Pines in Tree Canopy

Folio 98 – Italian Pine – Detail

Folio 145 Detail

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cubensis

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom+%22liberty+cap%22

Folio 177 – Right-hand Debranched

Folio 193 Detail

Plaincourault Amanita Tree Fresco

(in Fact an Italian Pine – if You Are the Top, Expert Art Historian and Are Daft, or Are a Banker for the Pope)

Christian Mushroom Trees
Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497555 —

Bory’s Plaincourault Lookalike Painting

Bory’s mid-20th Century painting that’s a copy (imitation, re-creation) of the original fresco.

Images I Uploaded to the Web in 2002

Images I Discovered, Re-Photographed, and Uploaded to the Web in 2002

The below images are from my webpage:
Christian Mushroom Trees
Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497555 —

Eusebian Letter with Portrait of Eusebius

The below images are from my webpage:
Christian Mushroom Trees
Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497555 —

Book:
Treasures in Heaven: Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts
http://amzn.com/0691037515
Thomas Mathews, Roger Wieck, June 1994
“For over a thousand years the pre-eminent expression of Armenian culture was the illuminated manuscript―above all, the illustrated Gospel Book. Brilliantly painted and often bound in silver and decorated with jewels, these volumes constitute the principal source of information on the history, religion, language, and art of Armenia. … Contributors to this volume include….”

http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0691037515

Page 44 shows a mushroom tree in the lower left.

Information from the book: “Fig. 23 – Eusebian Letter with Portrait of Eusebius, by the First Painter, 1300-07. Los Angeles, University of California, University Research Library, Special Collections, Armenian MS 1, p. 4 (cat. 36).”

Scan of a photocopy of the black and white rendering in the book:

Below, page 45 shows a mushroom tree in the lower right:

Information from the book: “Fig. 24 – Eusebian Letter with Portrait of Carpianos, by the First Painter, 1300-07. Los Angeles, University of California, University Research Library, Special Collections, Armenian MS 1, p. 5 (cat. 36).”

Scan of a photocopy of the black and white rendering in the book:

Matenadaran Erevan – Baptism

Christian Art: Erevan, Matenadaran: ‘Baptism’, mid-11th century.  – Several Mushroom Trees

The below images are from my webpage:
Christian Mushroom Trees
Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497555 —

Book:
Treasures in Heaven: Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts
Thomas Mathews, Roger Wieck
June 1994

Page 47 has two illustrations — one has 3 mushroom trees:

Information from the book: “Fig. 27 Baptism, mid-11th century. Erevan, Matenadaran 7736, fol. 14v.”

On Page 47, an image shows 2 mushroom trees:

Information from the book: “Fig. 28 Baptism, mid-11th century. Erevan, Matenadaran 7736, fol. 17.”

Page 93 has the illustration just in black and white, of the illustration used for the cover of Bible Review, October 2001, the giant Amanita-cap Last Supper table shown at my page:
http://www.egodeath.com/entheogenpicfinds.htm —
“Last Supper around an Amanita-cap table”. The mushroom is hardly perceivable in this merely black-and-white rendering — color is essential in cases such as these.

I also have a color photocopy of an Eden cycle showing the tree as generally the same type as a mushroom tree: once the ‘mushroom tree’ idea was standardized, it was sometimes expressed very subtly: not recognizable by a cap shape, but rather, by the grouping of all the leaves in some shape at the top, and with two cut-off arms — branch-stubs, leaving a bare or near-bare trunk that, as a result, indicates a mushroom stem. One color picture in this book shows birds nesting in such a loosely portrayed single-top mushroom-tree that doesn’t have cap-shaped top, but more of just a circle-top.

Water-from-Rock Ossuary (Cubensis) – Peter’s Water Miracle, from a Sarcophagus

The below images are from my webpage:
Christian Mushroom Trees
Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497555 —

Ossuary showing the vertical “stream of water” (stem) flowing from the “rock” (cap), with guys grabbing and chewing at the stem. A strange way to portray a rock with water flowing from it.

This scan is from the book, p. 87 —

The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art
http://amzn.com/B01JXOZ7DS
Thomas F. Mathews (same as other book)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691009392

Montecassino Illustration Showing Psilocybe and Mandrake

The below images are from my webpage:
Christian Mushroom Trees
Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497555 —

Mushroom-shaped and mandrake-shaped Eden trees, with mushroom-shaped grape clusters on the ground in between.  Found at http://pharmacratic-inquisition.com/nontesters/pharmacratic/ – “Adam and Eve with serpent-entwined Psilocybe mushroom (caduceus). Italy [Abbey of Montecassino]; circa 1072 – British Library”.  Mandrake is chemically similar to Henbane and Belladonna.  Mandrake drawings traditionally show a human body instead of the tree trunk shown here.

Saint Eustace Window at Chartres with Many Cubensis Mushroom Trees

Full Saint Eustace Window

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Eustace+window

275  “Legend of St. Eustace (first part, window at Chartres), p. 276 second part, 277 third part

Conversion of Placidas, Saint Eustace Window, Chartres Cathedral

The below b/w images are from my webpage:
Christian Mushroom Trees
Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497555 —

Emile Mâle (Dora Nussey, tr.), The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century (Icon Editions Series).  1913 title of the initial English translation of the 3rd French edition: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century: A Study in Medieval Iconography and Its Sources of Inspiration, http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0064300323 (Amazon shows the full text but not the images).

Page 3 shows a Chartres stained-glass window with several mushroom trees — including a plain and starkly clear literal representation of a psilocybin-shaped mushroom, shown below.  This is a small portion of a very large window with many clear mushroom depictions.  The book shows a sharp, black and white close-up of this portion of the window, which is representative of the other parts of the window.

The book presents black-and-white renderings of stained-glass windows.

Information from the book: “Fig. 1.– The Sky, Water, and Trees. From the Legend of St. Eustace. Window at Chartres.”

iirc, i scanned these b/w images and uploaded them (to egodeath.com), around 2005.

Gideon and the Fleece – Window at Laon Showing Multiple Mushrooms

The below images are from my webpage:
Christian Mushroom Trees
Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm#_Toc134497555 —

Page 16 of the same book shows a stained-glass window with a couple fairly good mushroom trees, below.

Information from the book: “Fig. 8.– Gideon and the Fleece (window at Laon) (From Florival and Midoux, by permission of M. de Florival).

This is a scan of the black-and-white rendering in the book:

My Entheogen Picture Finds, Around 2002

Print images that I discovered/recognized; scanned or photographed; and uploaded to the Web around 2002.

Virgin Mary Wearing an Amanita-cap Cap

The below images are from my webpage:
Entheogen Picture Finds
Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
http://www.egodeath.com/entheogenpicfinds.htm —

Announced December 25, 2003

From Economist magazine, Dec 20 2003-Jan 2 2004, p. 29. This icon painting shows the mother of God (Queen of Heaven) holding the Christ child. Her headdress is an Amanita cap cap.

This is the cover of the issue:

On page 29 this icon appears:

From digital camera:

From scanner:

A close-up of Mary’s cap reveals it to be a literal Amanita cap:

From digital camera:

From scanner:

For comparison, below is a portion of a photo of a dried orange-gold (rather than red) species of Amanita, similar shape though from a different angle. In the icon, a fresh Amanita is represented, so the dots (veil remnants) are raised more.

Last Supper Around an Amanita-cap Table

The below images are from my webpage:
Entheogen Picture Finds
Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
http://www.egodeath.com/entheogenpicfinds.htm —

Announced November 10, 2001

From digital camera:

From scanner:

For comparison, here is a similar icon with a mushroom-cap shaped table, but one without any clear entheogenic allusions, though it does look like the common orange-brown color of Amanita cap with off-white spots:

Bible Review current issue, October 2001. Focus: Last Supper.

http://www.biblereview.org/bro01/brcover.html

When looking at the magazine cover at the newsstand, though Clark Heinrich has taught me to actively look for Amanita in iconography (http://www.promind.com/bk_stf.htm, http://www.entheomedia.org), I thought that this Eucharist scene on the cover was noteworthy because each disciple had a loaf/ plain tan cap at his place setting. Fortunately I bought the issue, and was embarrassed to plainly and immediately see that the tan loaves are off-white veil-remnant spots on the wrapped-around red edge of the table.

The table surface is golden honeycomb, a simile for honey-smelling, golden Amanita — to the taste and smell, this honeycomb is a literal representation; to the eyes, you must mentally replace the honeycomb lines by straight lines to form the usual Amanita-underside sun-halo.

I was able to recognize this pattern because I’ve been looking for not only Amanita-underside rays in Christian halos, but also for a rim, often red, with dots, representing the underturned top of the cap.

Other mushroom shape elements: the blue awning forms a thick stipe. Since the iconographically stylized table top has “poor” perspective, it is a semicircle which, combined with the blue awning, forms a perfect mushroom shape. The “poorly” drawn red container in the middle of the table forms the Holy Grail shape of the mature upturned Amanita (Heinrich, _Strange Fruit_ page 85 plate 35; Heinrich plate 5 page 54, Issue 1, Entheos journal).

In the Passover Seder meal, the significance of the food served during the Seder must be explained during the meal.

[see correction of this paragraph below] After Dan Merkur’s book _Mystery of Manna_, this would mean explaining the story of Moses poisoning the leavening in Egypt with a toxic strain of ergot (the “yeast of malice”), and forbidding the Jews to use the leavening, to walk away with booty and redemption from slavery while the Egyptians were incapacitated with ergot poisoning.

Correction: The ergot Exodus hypothesis was described in detail and published by Clark Heinrich. Dan Merkur’s book _The Mystery of Manna: The Psychedelic Sacrament of the Bible_, 2000, is packed with excellent ideas about entheogens (specifically, ergot) and the Bible, but I don’t see the ergot Exodus hypothesis there.

_Strange Fruit_, Clark Heinrich, 1994/1995, pp. 78-79 — “Could Moses have poisoned the Egyptians’ bread supply with ergot?” This book has some coverage of ergot as well as Amanita, and considers how to integrate the two possibilities.

After Clark Heinrich’s book _Strange Fruit: Alchemy, Religion and Magical Foods: The Hidden Truth_, this would mean explaining that Christ is consubstantial with Amanita, which causes a dramatic ego-death and rebirth experience when ingested after fasting. This rebirth experience amounts to transcendence of, and emancipation from, enslavement in the spacetime cosmos.

Jonathan Klawans, the author of the article “Was Jesus’ Last Supper a Seder” (Bible Review, October 2001, page 24), puzzles that the requirement to explain the meaning of the Seder was not introduced until 70 CE — “But the requirement may not have even been in place in the time of Jesus. … Gamaliel … lived … after the temple was destroyed in 70 C.E. … then Jesus’ symbolic explanation of the bread and wine cannot be connected with [the Seder meal explanation requirements].”

This objection is easily solved by assuming that the details of the life story of the Jesus figure were not invented until 70 C.E., or later, and back-projected to around 35 C.E., per Earl Doherty’s book _The Jesus Puzzle_ and Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy’s book _The Jesus Mysteries_. The details of the Jesus story were worked out over hundreds of years and mythically, we have every reason to read the Last Supper’s Eucharist explanation as a Seder type of explanation, simply because the story of the exodus and the story of the passion are largely isomorphic mythic and mystic allegories for psychoactives leading to ego-death and the emancipation of the spirit.

Mark Lion Halo with White Dots on Red Edge

The below images are from my webpage:
Entheogen Picture Finds
Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
http://www.egodeath.com/entheogenpicfinds.htm —

Announced April 22, 2002

Book:
Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World
http://amzn.com/0521595576
Peter Brown, 1995

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521595576

Zoom showing just the cover art:

Check out the very distinct white dots against red background on this Amanita halo edge in this iconographic painting on the cover of this book. I think the Lion is Mark’s symbol. This is the first time I’ve seen a lion with an Amanita halo.

Blessed Sacrament Monstrance

The below images are from my webpage:
Entheogen Picture Finds
Gallery page in support of my 2006 Plaincourault article.
http://www.egodeath.com/entheogenpicfinds.htm —

Announced December 17, 2002

Image from the cover of:

Book: Visits to the Blessed Sacrament

Alphonsus Liguori

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0895556677

2001

To isolate the Amanita cap, it would be good to use a circular crop tool on this picture. I don’t know the origin of the red color in this image.

In Alan Watts’ book Myth and Ritual in Christianity, page 198, he portrays such figures — “Monstrance for benediction and exposition of the sacrament” — as representing the spine and world-tree, with the heart of the sun, or the sun door, at the top. I’m continuing to build the case, or interpretive framework, that entheogens were much more prominent and widely used in Christendom.

Painted Roof in St. Michael’s Church, Hildesheim (Amanita Cap)

also called Michaeliskirche, Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany 

Embroidered Jesus Christ Crucifix (Amanita Cap)

Stained Glass Window: Jesus as Red Tree Canopy

Halo – Golden Mushroom Gills

Transfiguration of Jesus, Christ Column, Saint Michael’s Church

https://psychedelictimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/jesus-psychedelic-mushroom-1024×682.jpg

Bronze Statue of St. George Slaying the Dragon, Amanita at Base

Jesus with Amanitas in Garment Folds

Christ with Liberty Caps on Rocks

Christ Holding Lazarus with Amanita-Egg Cross-Hatching and Red Halo

Stained Glass Window – Red-Cap Amanita-Cubensis Mushroom Tree Debranched on Right

Door – Tax Collector in Mushroom Tree Listening to Jesus, Debranched Right Hand

Wood Door – Elija’s Ascent

Adam and Eve, Bernward’s Door of Salvation, St. Michael’s Church

Jesus Cubensis Stained-Glass Window

Crucifixion Between Two Mushroom Trees Debranched

Donkey Apotheosis – Brown’s Psychedelic Gospels Book

Notre Dame de Laon France XIII, Stained Glass, Red-cap Mushroom Plants

Eve Eden Tree with Six Red-and-White Caps

All Saints’ Church – Stained-Glass Windows

Mushroom at Beast Entrance of Bascillica St. Vincent in Spain

Mushrooms in Robe Hems at Last Supper – Brown

The River of Life, Douce Apocalypse, John Led to Christ through Field of Mushrooms

http://www.clinicalanthropology.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/mca3_33_a.jpg

Le Saint Graal Retrouve le Fruit Defendu et la Chair des Dieux

The Holy Grail Finds the Fruit Defendu and the Flesh of the Gods

Saint Graal Retrouve

Lot’s Wife Turned to Pillar of Salt (Cubensis Plant)

Window of Charlemagne with Amanita

Mosaic of Red Mushrooms, Basilica of Aquileia

Gold and Red Vestments Chalice

Chartres – Fortuna

Alchemy King Amanita Cap – Effluents of Deity

Moral Bestiaries

Moral Bestiaries are for teaching Christian morality, and are produced by illuminated manuscript shops.

Salamander

Squirrel

Pyschedelic[sic] Christianity : A Scholarly Debate on the Holy Mushroom Theory
YouTube channel: Psychedelic Historian
January 5, 2018. Hatsis vs. Brown
1:08:14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PXZGiX4Qnk&t=4094s
He says the mushroom trees aren’t mushrooms, it’s just a style.

He doesn’t say why the artists prefer using that particular style, of mushroom-styled trees.

Why does their style incline in the direction of mushroom trees, instead of some other stylized direction?

Why does the mushroom shape dominate in the art of Christendom?

Unicorn

Manticore

Manticore 2

Hallucinogens and Christianity: Evidence in Sacred Art (Camilla & Gosso)

Book:
Hallucinogens and Christianity: Evidence in Sacred Art
Allucinogeni e Cristianesimo. Evidenze nell’arte sacra
Gilberto Camilla & Fulvio Gosso, 2007
128 pages, illustrated
EAN: 9788886345569
http://amzn.com/8886345569

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 (Camilla & Gosso)

Book:
Hallucinogens and Christianity: Evidence in Sacred Art, Vol. 2
Allucinogeni e Cristianesimo. Evidenze nell’arte sacra, Vol. 2
Gilberto Camilla & Fulvio Gosso, 2016
112 pages, illustrated
EAN: 9788897206286
http://amzn.com/889720628X

https://www.ibs.it/allucinogeni-cristianesimo-evidenze-nell-arte-libro-fulvio-gosso-gilberto-camilla/e/9788897206286

Cyberdisciple wrote: From the description of book 2, it seems that book 1 focuses on Amanita, while book 2 focuses on liberty caps:

“Se nel primo volume l’Amanita muscaria ha avuto una attenzione particolare, in questo gli autori individuano anche la presenza, in alcune rappresentazioni proposte, della Psilocybe semilanceata.”

If in the first volume, Amanita muscaria had special attention, in this volume the authors identify also the presence, in some proposed representations, of Psilocybe semilanceata.

psilo-cybe semi-lanceata
smooth-head semi-spear
Liberty Caps

“In this second volume of “Hallucinogens 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 has received particular attention, in this the authors also identify the presence, in some proposed representations, of the semi-spear Psilocybe.

“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 existing 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, in the academic field silence reigns supreme.”

Samuel Anointing David as a King

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1f/79/97/1f79979a9a8726c6e6eb99ae0ca484e9.png

Entheos Issue 1 Gallery

Entheos Issues 1-4, Mark Hoffman
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/entheos-issues-1-4-mark-hoffman/#Entheos-The-Journal-of-Psychedelic-Spirituality —

Article in Issue 1 (Summer 2001):
Conjuring Eden: Art and the Entheogenic Vision of Paradise
Hoffman, Ruck & Staples 
Online gallery of ancillary illustrations
38 pages, 33 illustrations, 47 ancillary online illustrations cued to text.

• todo: Add to the present page, more images from the above online gallery’s other 4 pages:
• 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-47 – some are linked below. Too many to link.

https://entheomedia.net/eden1.htm

Italy [Abbey of Montecassino]; circa 1072 – British Library

Todo

• Provide my improved images of some low-res images above, from other pages (my crop for this site, and/or a direct link to image at other site).
• Dec. 2024, John Rush’s website is down, so images hosted there are down. https://clinicalanthropology.com
• On each mushroom, indicate the correct non-mushroom identification (either Italian pine, or Assyrian Parasol of Victory (or both, just to make sure we’re safely covered).
• Someone purchase the books, photograph each good picture, crop, upload, & tag each picture. The pair of Italian books: Hallucinogens and Christianity: Evidence in Sacred Art (Camilla & Gosso)
• AncientPsychedelia pics
  Ancient Psychedelia
  http://ancientpsychedelia.com
• John Rush pics.
  • Mushroom in Christian Art, Chapter 3
  • John Rush
  • http://www.clinicalanthropology.com/mushroom-in-christian-art/mushroom-in-christian-art-chapter-three/
• Carl de Borhegyi

/ end of todo

Acknowledgments

Cyberdisciple provided the link to the Samorini article.

Cyberdisciple provided leads for the Camilla & Gosso books.

See Also

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