> Heh. I think you would too, because I've been looking it over and it's even *more* amusing than I thought. You'd think, with a title like that, that this book extolls the pleasures of mystical flight in hallucinatory experiences, as conveniently fueled by Little Brown Mushrooms. But this book is far more earnest and Byzantine in its obscurity. As far as I can tell -- and it is pretty hard to tell -- the author's prime thesis is that the imagery, and symbolism, of the mushroom in history is the all-powerful 'key' to understanding the Mystery of the Resurrection. Literally.
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> Just as an illustration of how truly weird this is -- here's example from the English portion of the text, where he re-interprets the meaning of Daniel 5:25:
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> / / / / / / / / "The introductory formula, MENE, MENE, is comparable in form and content with the invocation Eloi, Eloi (E-LA-UIA) that preceded the secret mushroom name (see Ch. XVII). It refers probably to the Semitic god of fate, *Meni* (Isa 65:11; RSV "Fortune"), equivalent of the Sumerian NAM-TAR, "fate demon",¹ source of the mushroom designations Nectar and Mandrake. TEKEL is our "bolt-" fungus, and PARSIN is the Sumerian BAR-SIL, "womb", a reference to the mushroom volva. We meet PARSIN in the Greek form *Perseia*, as the magic herb that sprang from the ground after Perseus had dropped the chape of his scabbard (*mukės*, also meaning "mushroom") whilst flying over what was to become Mycenae (the "mushroom" city).²"
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For some reason I feel like re-reading the Dictionary of the Khazars (by Milorad Pavic).

-Faux "has the male version" Pas