For many years now, people have noticed psychedelic mushrooms throughout religious art. Often in scenes from the Bible. In fact, across medieval artworks, you’ll seem to find these “mushrooms” everywhere. Like the Plaincourault fresco, that 12th-century wall painting of the Garden of Eden. It’s a bizarre image, the tree of knowledge looks like a giant fungus. Then there are the visions of Hildegard von Bingen with divine cities in the sky and incomprehensible beings that take the appearance of angels. Others are abstract geometric shapes: rings, circlets, and sacred diagrams.

Could artworks like these reveal hidden truths about Christianity and psychedelics? Or is there another explanation? One that’s more rooted in the weird world of medieval illustration. Welcome to Strange Christian Art. This Episode: Psychedelics.

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Sources & Further Reading:

Does This Medieval Fresco Show A Hallucinogenic Mushroom in the Garden of Eden?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles...

Criticism of mushrooms in Christian art by Tom Hatsis and Chris Bennett
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2...

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Music:

Intro - Epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian by Peter Pringle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUcTs...

The Inspector by David Celeste
Via Epidemic Sound

Erudition by Amber Jaune
Via Epidemic Sound

Never Forgotten by Christoffer Moe Divletsen
Via Epidemic Sound

O Frondens Virga by Hildegard of Bingen
Via Wikimedia Commons

Outro - Peaceful Ambient Music by CO.AG https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcav... License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

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