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Examines the relationship between rock art, shamanism, and the origins of human existence.

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9781438448749

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This study establishes the use of psychoactive sacraments as the primordial experience that stimulated the evolution of human consciousness and its sense of the divine. It also documents the developing history of this shamanic event through an examination of cave and rock art worldwide, not only in paintings and engravings, but in the strange phenomenon of cup-marks carved in stone in the Alpine region, which may have played a role in the ritual use of the psychoactive Amanita muscaria mushroom. It is the first book to examine the full range of evidence and to place central Europe also in this context. - Carl A. P. Ruck, author of Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess: Secrets of Eleusis

"""This study establishes the use of psychoactive sacraments as the primordial experience that stimulated the evolution of human consciousness and its sense of the divine. It also documents the developing history of this shamanic event through an examination of cave and rock art worldwide, not only in paintings and engravings, but in the strange phenomenon of cup-marks carved in stone in the Alpine region, which may have played a role in the ritual use of the psychoactive Amanita muscaria mushroom. It is the first book to examine the full range of evidence and to place central Europe also in this context."" - Carl A. P. Ruck, author of Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess: Secrets of Eleusis"

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Fulvio Gosso is a psychoanalyst and one of the founders of the Italian Society for the Study of Consciousness. Peter Webster is a retired chemist.

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