What if the holy sacrament wasn’t wine… but a mushroom smoothie?
This episode starts in a medieval Paris chapel, where Tatyana spots something strange carved into a 15th-century altarpiece: Amanita muscaria. Yes, that mushroom — red cap, white spots, fairy tale icon, and psychedelic sacrament.
From there, we dive into The Psychedelic Gospels by Jerry and Julie Brown, a book that claims Christianity was born under the influence. Hidden mushrooms in church murals, trippy altarpieces, Jesus’s “missing years” in Egypt, and a whole lot of wishful anthropology.
You’ll learn:
🍄 Why the Oratory of the Duchesses of Burgundy might be hiding mushroom lore
💀 What the Church doesn’t want you to see in your Sunday school icons
🤯 Why R. Gordon Wasson helped birth psychedelic science — but refused to touch Christianity
👁️ And why the real sacrament doesn’t live in a fresco… but in your nervous system
This episode is skeptical, irreverent, and just serious enough to leave you wondering:
What if the original sin was… taking the mushroom?
👉 Start your own sacrament at Discover Functional Mushroom Benefits | Unidelics Natural Solutions
🎧 And don’t forget to rate, follow, and pass this on to someone who still thinks Adam bit an apple.
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