Darren Springer: Mushroom Technology In Ancient Africa

<p>Darren Springer is an expert on Pan African and African Diaspora legacies and traditions, especially when it comes to their initiatory and ceremonial rites.</p><br><p>Darren travels the globe providing insight into the legacy of mushroom use and other entheogenic technologies in Sub-Saharan and Kemetic Africa, Kemet being the native name of Ancient Egypt.</p><br><p>This collective tradition of ritualized psychedelic use and advanced technology in ancient&nbsp;Pan African society is fundamental to the human race yet largely overlooked by conventional scholars and historians for reasons&nbsp;Darren will elaborate on&nbsp;in this episode - </p><br><p>Ancient African entheogenic traditions are the well from which Abrahamic religion has drawn it’s own mythology and sacramental practices - the mysteries of Isis in ancient Kemet are the basis for the Eulysinian mysteries of the Greco-roman world, in which a Eucharist is consumed to facilitate communion with the divine - Sound familiar?&nbsp;</p><br><p>We’re also going to touch base about the equity gap in psychedelics and how mushrooms and psychedelic experiences can serve as a lens through which to examine the wounds of colonization and to marshal a collective response to historical injustices and the extraction-oriented , violence-plagued state of the modern world.</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>