Reads:
John M. Allegro,
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross:
A Study
of the Nature and Origins of Christianity
within the Fertility Cults
of the Ancient Near East, Doubleday & Co., NY 1970
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
'Who are YOU?' said the Caterpillar.
In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went, `One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.'
`One side of WHAT? The other side of WHAT?' thought Alice to herself.
`Of the mushroom,' said the Caterpillar, just as if she had asked it aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight.
Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question.
Illustrations by Arthur Rackham
Susan Eleanor Boulet
GODDESSES KNOWLEDGE CARDS
Rhiannon is the Great Goddess as worshiped by the Welsh. She is an embodiment of life, death, and rebirth, for in her realm there is no death without regeneration.
Her name derives from Rigantona, which means "great queen." A shape-shifter, she can assume any form she wants; she often appears as a white horse. She is a muse goddess and is accompanied by three sweetly singing birds who can revive the dead or put the living to sleep. The source of the king’s power derived from Rhiannon, the queen, and a candidate for kinghood met Rhiannon dressed as a stag, a regal figure symbolic of rejuvenation, beauty, strength, and instinctual masculine energy. In alter myth she appears a Nimue or as Vivien, the Lady of the Lake. Rhiannon is a beautiful queen of the night, a reminder of the close balance between death and rebirth. She demands that we honor our instinctual and animal selves as a source of creativity, abundance, and order.
Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough, London, 1922
WASSON R. GORDON, The Hallucinogenic Fungi of Mexico: An Inquiry Into the Origins of The Religious Idea Among Primitive Peoples, Harvard Botanical Museum
Leaflets, vol. 19(7), pp. 137-162, 1961
Robert Graves, The White Goddess. London, 1963
Jane Ellen Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, 1903
H.G.M. Hermans, Memories Of A Maverick [ch:
California - The Sacred
Mushroom - Arigo] published by Pi,
The Netherlands
Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow: lyrics "White Rabbit" ; check Golden Gate Panhandle 'Immortals'
Terence Mckenna, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs
and Human Evolution, Bantam, January 1, 1993
HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER, Translated by Gregory Nagy
Wachowski, Larry and Andy, The Matrix: Trinity sends Neo a message via his computer, "Wake up, Neo. The Matrix has you. Follow the white rabbit."
R. C. Zaehncr: Mysticism, Sacred and Profane, Oxford, 1957
