Ancient Psychedelia: Alien Gods & Mushroom Goddesses
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| As he got closer to home, “He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn—but it too was gone. A large rickety wooden building stood in its place, with great gaping windows, some of them broken, and mended with old hats and petticoats, and over the door was painted, ‘The Union Hotel, by Jonathan Doolittle.’ Instead of the great tree that used to shelter the quiet little Dutch inn of yore, there now was reared a tall naked pole, with something on the top that looked like a red nightcap, and from it was fluttering a flag, on which was a singular assemblage of stars and stripes—all this was strange and incomprehensible. He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe, but even this was singularly metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre, the head was decorated with a cocked hat, and underneath was painted in large characters, ‘GENERAL WASHINGTON’.” It turns out twenty years had passed since he drank that drink that night and fell asleep with the elves. When he woke up there was a red cap hanging on a pole by the lodge that said, “General Washington.” Now, if that story doesn’t make you feel a certain love for the early “land of liberty,” I don’t know what could. If one considers with an open mind who the early revolutionaries really were, it becomes obvious they were fighting for the right to use mushrooms and sacraments free from Catholic Church authority. Now, whether they did this with the direct encouragement of the British from the start, I can’t say, and I don’t know, but it’s highly doubtful. There were sincere revolutionaries and there were traitors working to subvert the freedoms, all along. Arthur Rackham drew an illustration for Rip Van Winkle in the Grimms 1900 Edition which features the scene with the “strange folks,” when Rip first arrived at the party and took his drink (90c). Arthur also drew an illustration titled “Peter Pan is the Fairies Orchestra,” in Kensington Gardens, by J.M. Barrie, in 1806 (90d).  (90c) Rip Van Winkle Arthur Rackham Grimms 1900 Edition |
 (90d) Peter Pan is the Fairies Orchestra, illustration from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J.M. Barrie Illustration by Arthur Rackham 1906 I would venture to guess that Arthur Rackham was a Freemason, though I have not been able to locate evidence as yet, other than a single phrase in a book he illustrated in 1837 titled The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels, which includes the phrase “And with no worse a singeing, to purge her iniquity, than a Freemason gets in the “Lodge of Antiquity.” A small clue is sometimes all you need. Food of the Gods Dr. Jacques Joseph Moreau, in the year 1841, was treating mental patients at his Hospital de Bicetre, with hashish and cannabis resins. He had looked into potions made during the Middle Ages, for treating mental illness and had used extractions of Datura and jimson weed previously, but in 1841 he substituted Hashish for the datura he had been using and after three years of experimentation he published his findings along with an appendix of observations by Gautier. Gautier had written his Mademoiselle de Maupin in 1835 and proclaimed that “abandonment to the sense was the will of God.” (9) This was a retelling of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, with the main difference involving cross-dressing, androgyny, and homoeroticism. In 1896, H.G. Wells wrote his novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau and I suspect the mental patient Dr. lent his name to this highly acclaimed novel. In 1904, HG Wells wrote his book The Food of the Gods, and How it Came To Earth. We will examine some of the text from his original book. This was one of my favorite movies as a child, in 1976. The movie is always much different than the novel though and the novel is usually where all the good stuff is revealed. A serum called the Food of the Gods is created and released by accident which makes animals and every creature who drinks anything with this substance in it, grow to enormous size and soon rats are terrorizing people and chickens are eating people and it’s a fine mess all around. In the movie it’s portrayed as a “milk” fluid that runs into the streams and gets drunk up by the animals at first. In the book, it’s quite different though. (9) Flesh of the Gods, p. 227 |
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