weed and the bible!!!!!!!!!

[yokinazu]

some beleive that datura or jimson weed, was the tree. it also has psychoactive propertys. and that mushrooms were soma.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

i think the forbidden tree of the knoledge of good and evil....was weed. it had to be.

what else makes "one wise"? no other tree that i know of, definitley not the apple tree.

the forbidden tree had to be some psycoactive plant. it had to be. and since its described as a tree, it could not have been shrooms or peyote or anything. it had to be weed.

It could have been an ayahuasca vine. Amazonian shamans used Ayahuasca for some incredible introspective journeys at a strength comparable to peyote. It also could have been beladonna berries, and I'm sure there's some hallucinogenic "trees" that we haven't heard of; maybe even some that only existed in the story.

But, overal, I think it's just a story about a magical tree of wisdom.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

some beleive that datura or jimson weed, was the tree. it also has psychoactive propertys. and that mushrooms were soma.

Yokinazu, do I recall correctly that Datura leaves are what you mix with Ayahuasca vines to trigger the psychoactive properties?

[yokinazu]

im not sure i as under the impression that ayahuasca was actually a mix of plants that mostly consisted of one or more species of banisteriopsis. it is possible that datura was mixed as to it being native from n.america down to northern brazil. but on that same token so was ipomoea and lophophora.