hallucinogen

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All the evidence agrees with anthropological research which traces the development of the sense of the sacred, and therefore the birth of religion, to the use of a hallucinogen, which is often a mushroom (the Mexican Psilocybe; the Amanita Muscaria of the Hyperboreans, ancestors of the Europeans; the Soma of the Veda Indians; the Ergot of the Mysteries of Eleusis; the Boletus of the Kuma).

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  1. noun A substance that induces hallucination.

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  • I was so overpowered by it now that it nearly crowded out my fear that my virgin tissues would react to alcohol as though it were a hallucinogen, that I would spend the next hours or days imagining that I was covered with insects, or worse. —  Secret Ceremonies
  • We're getting closer But when you take a potent hallucinogen, you stimulate the serotonin receptors which are normally the targets for these neurons from the raphe nuclei, disrupting the brain's delicate balancing act in cycling normal input messages from the exterior world--adding special effects, you might say, to that snapshot. —  Omni: October 1993
  • Save to say that the exudate of the frog is not really a hallucinogen, but something analogous to the quantum blade and powerful enough that quantum computers do much the same thing as it does. —  Asimov'sSF,April-May2008
  • No, that last line was not the by-product of some serious hallucinogen -- although the song at the centre of the matter may have been. —  Dose.ca Celeb News
  • LETICIA RIVERA, 40, of 42 Pine St., prostitution, illegal possession of narcotics, sale of certain illegal drugs by nondrug-dependent, sale of a hallucinogen or narcotic. —  News from www.rep-am.com
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