{"id":11577,"date":"2016-12-23T14:25:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T19:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=11577"},"modified":"2016-12-23T14:25:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T19:25:03","slug":"santa-and-the-shrooms-the-real-story-behind-the-design-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/santa-and-the-shrooms-the-real-story-behind-the-design-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa and the ‘Shrooms: The real story behind the “design” of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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European Father Christmas isn’t the only inspiration for our Santa Claus…shroomin’ shamans from Siberia (and Alaska) seem to have brought the whole thing together for us here in the Americas.<\/p>\n

“And like so many other fantastical tales, it all originated with some really intense \u2018shrooms. On the night of the winter solstice, a Koryak shaman would gather several hallucinogenic mushrooms called amanita muscaria, or fly agaric in English, and them to launch himself into a spiritual journey to the tree of life (a large pine), which lived by the North Star and held the answer to all the village\u2019s problems from the previous year.”<\/p>\n

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European Father Christmas isn’t the only inspiration for our Santa Claus…shroomin’ shamans from Siberia (and Alaska) seem to have brought the whole thing together for us here in the Americas. “And like so many other fantastical tales, it all originated with some really intense \u2018shrooms. On the night of the winter solstice, a Koryak shaman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-11577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15879,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/magic-mushrooms-evolved-hallucinogenic-chemicals-to-stop-insects-eating-them-say-scientists\/","url_meta":{"origin":11577,"position":0},"title":"Magic mushrooms evolved hallucinogenic chemicals to stop insects eating them, say scientists","date":"February 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Keeping the bugs away, saving them for the humans to eat...how thoughtful of nature! 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