Is the enlightenment experience older than Homo sapiens?

[BipolarGrowth]

I don’t believe in Jesus actually being code for psychedelic mushrooms as some scholars have suggested, but there is some decent evidence to show that mushrooms have an abnormally high prevalence in ancient Christian art. Imo, nearly all major religions are in some way tied to psychedelics. I think it’s potentially likely the first spiritual experiences Homo sapiens ever had were very close to the genesis of our species due to the commonality of psilocybin mushrooms in the regions where Homo sapiens originated. Human spirituality could in theory go back much further than Homo sapiens and actually be older than our species itself due to psilocybin mushrooms being present throughout the whole duration of every human species’ existence in every place humans have existed other than modern Antarctica. Humans like easy food, and mushrooms are a good source once you can distinguish the lethal, safely psychoactive, and food only mushrooms from each other. I’d say it’s almost unquestionable that Homo erectus stumbled upon psilocybin mushrooms and accidentally ate a dose high enough to support an enlightenment experience in the over one million years they existed.  

Soma and kykeon are good examples of psychoactive substances that were likely psychedelic if you follow the descriptions of their effects. The Aztecs called psilocybin mushrooms teonanácatl - the Flesh of the Gods and are known to have regularly used the psychedelic in spiritual ceremonies. It’s funny that most modern understandings of eastern religions and even Christianity think there is no connection between psychedelics and the history of their religions. Even if those religions did not use psychedelics themselves, they were nearly unquestionably influenced in meaningful ways by other spiritual traditions built upon the use of psilocybin mushrooms as this activity could quite possibly be millions of years old and in every region where humans lived. Compatibility with psychedelics and likely specifically psilocybin mushrooms is built into our brains and our DNA. We have far more receptors to accept psilocin than other great apes. This suggests a possible long-running symbiotic relationship between humans and psilocybin mushrooms. 

These mushrooms are known to have been used for spiritual purposes for over 2,000 years in North and Central America making their use verifiably older than Christianity and potentially verifiably older than Buddhism with a bit more data. The Aztecs arguably might have a more developed understanding of spirituality than many of the most popular world religions. Their mushroom use gave them many similar insights to the most developed forms of Buddhism and Hinduism which as far as we know had no connection to Central America. This is evidence that spiritual truths are not specific to one religion and that different religions are accessing the same source of insight through different methods. This shows there are many paths to spiritual truth and claimants of one religion or belief system being the supreme truth while all others being false is quite laughable if you truly have not only heavily studied but also experienced spirituality for yourself.

[No Self]

@BipolarGrowth Very, very likely indeed. The only difference was that prehistoric peoples other animals never bothered posting any YouTube videos about their experiences.

[roopepa]

Psychedelics play a major role I believe. Some caveman did not just get randomly enlightened and start teaching others and create yogic science  They just realized that certain plants make you feel weird and started to eat them to make life more cool. Then life got REALLY cool. And now we're here. Doing the same thing.

Actualized.org is basically just cavemen taking substances and doing other weird things that make life more cool. We are the primitive fuckers.