No one read the article, but every suggestion in the comments are already dismissed by more educated experts.
My guess is that since it typically had a bench at the end, it was used by people to consume drugs/mushrooms in a ritualistic event and exit as a form of rebirth while still high as fuck.
No one read the article, but every suggestion in the comments are already dismissed by more educated experts.
My guess is that since it typically had a bench at the end, it was used by people to consume drugs/mushrooms in a ritualistic event and exit as a form of rebirth while still high as fuck.
You’d expect any kind of ritualistic practice that widespread to have some sort of historical record related to the practice
You seriously underestimate how poorly documented the non-Christian religions were.
And oppressed and deeply secret, one might even say, underground
Eating mushrooms in a tiny cave has been going on for centuries, so yes it indeed had, and currently does, have historical records.