Soma siddhas and alchemical enlightenment: psychedelic mushrooms in Buddhist tradition.
Journal of Ethnopharmacology October 1, 1995 S Hajicek-Dobberstein 34 citations
In the legendary biographies of some Buddhist adepts from the 2nd- and 9th-centuries there are some clues which can be interpreted to reveal that the adepts were consuming psychedelic Amanita muscaria, 'fly agaric', mushrooms to achieve enlightenment. This secret ingredient in the alchemical elixir they used to attain 'realization' was, of course, unnamed, in keeping with their vows to maintain...