Podcast! Santa and Magic Mushrooms!

It’s totally a thing! Don’t believe me? Then listen!

Okay, maybe it takes some suspension of disbelief, but IT’S A BEAUTIFUL IDEA!

Here’s all the stuff I promised in the podcast.

First, here’s a link to the full interviews with both Dr. Rush and Dr. Ruck:

Dr. John Rush, Professor of Anthropology

• Books: The Mushroom in Christian Art and Entheogens and the Development of Culture

Dr. Carl Ruck, Professor of Classical Studies

• Books: Entheogens, Myth, and Human Consciousness and Mushrooms, Myths, and Mithras: the Drug Cult that Civilized Europe.

Further reading:

Jerry and Julie Brown, The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity

John Arthur, Mushrooms and Mankind: the Impact of Mushrooms on Human Consciousness and Religion

Terrence McKenna, Food of the Gods: the Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution

Phyllis Siefker, Santa Claus, the Last of the Wild Men

Mushrooms!:

Thomas Nast‘s Santa:

Siberian shaman:

Music from the episode:

• “Christmas on Acid,” The Vestibules
• “Psychedelic Bells,” Fared
• Future Sound of London, Lifeforms
• “Death to the World”