Ancient Psychedelia: Alien Gods & Mushroom Goddesses
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 (65d) Eden Panel, Ceiling Painting of the Jesse Tree Saint Michael’s Church, Hildesheim, Germany Recent Restoration  (65h) "Christ Column" Saint Michael’s Church Hildesheim, Germany c. 1020 AD Saint Martin de Vicq Church is located in the Indre District of central France in the village of Nohant-Vic. In the 11th century, the church belonged to the Benedictine Abbey of Deols. In the beginning of the 12th century, the murals depicting Jesus entering Jerusalem with mushrooms being taken by hand were painted. The murals were not rediscovered until 1849. There are also depictions of the Last Supper, the Purification of Isaiah’s Lips and another image of the Towers of Jerusalem with mushrooms being harvested by hand (65f, g). (2) The event when Isaiah is given the Purification is presented here: (6) Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. (7) With it he touched my mouth and said, ‘See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.’ (Isaiah 6:6-7) |
 (f) Christ's Entering Jerusalem  (g) Detail from Towers of Jerusalem The Canterbury Psalter is one of the most revealing documents we have from the medieval period. The Psalter is an illustrated manuscript bound in leather and covered with gems. The book measures nineteen inches high by thirteen inches wide (63, all). (3) Replicas of the psalter were made available in 2004. The psalter is divided into two main parts. Julie and Jerry Brown both visited the various churches and hunted down the psalter in their book The Psychedelic Gospels. On the Canterbury Psalter from the Psychedelic Gospels: “The first and oldest part, which presents the entheogenic images, was produced between 1180 and 1200 in the Christ Church scriptorium in Canterbury, one of the most important workshops for making illuminated Bibles in England (The first half contains 184 pages that, in part, follow the iconographic organization pf the Utrecht Psalter (Rheims, ca. 800) and the Eadwine Psalter (Canterbury, ca. 1160), earlier Psalters with which the Great Canterbury Psalter is sometimes confused). Then, after mysteriously disappearing for more than a century, the unfinished psalter travelled to Catalonia, where it was completed between 1340 and 1350 by acclaimed artist Ferrer Bassa.” (4) (2) ibid, p. 114-15 (3) Psychedelic Gospels, p. 137 (4) ibid, p. 138 |
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