A completely unique 1/1 Artwork. A highly meaningful piece for my own evolution as an artist and one that i will treasure as part of my creative journey into older age.

I have created this little guy after researching the psychedelic roots of religion. He is a mushroom effigy brought to life - expanding his own consciousness as he sits by a cauldron of medicinal brew. He is based on the South American mushroom stones from 1000-500 B.C.

Mushroom cults’ in Mesoamerica date back to at least 1,000 BC, indicated by mushroom stone effigies found in the Guatemalan highlands. In addition, frescoes from central Mexico dated to 300 AD show signs of mushroom worship. ‘Sacred mushrooms’ feature in Aztec texts as well – the Codex Vindobonensis, for example, visually depicts the ceremonial use of psychedelic mushrooms. The Aztecs called these mushrooms teonanacatl which literally means “flesh of the gods”.

Humans have been accessing expanded states of consciousness and mystical experiences through the use of plants for thousands of years.

It has also been theorised that the Egyptians may have used entheogenic plants to explore their own consciousness is the quest for wisdom and knowledge.

Have we, as a culture, become seperated from the metaphysical realm of consciousness due to this lost knowledge of our interaction with entheogenic plants?