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Luke Caverns

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Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

And there was a research team that was working in Egypt in the late 90s. And they produced this documentary that I named my paper after. It's aptly called The Flower That Seduced Egypt. And basically at the end of this research, they deduced that the thing that they can find the best evidence for right now

Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

And there was a research team that was working in Egypt in the late 90s. And they produced this documentary that I named my paper after. It's aptly called The Flower That Seduced Egypt. And basically at the end of this research, they deduced that the thing that they can find the best evidence for right now

Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

Technology is much more limited 30 years ago than today, and nobody's picked this research up since then. The most definitive thing that they can find evidence for that the Egyptians could have been using it for is sexual enhancement and, like, vigor, right? And I found that really interesting.

Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

Technology is much more limited 30 years ago than today, and nobody's picked this research up since then. The most definitive thing that they can find evidence for that the Egyptians could have been using it for is sexual enhancement and, like, vigor, right? And I found that really interesting.

Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

Technology is much more limited 30 years ago than today, and nobody's picked this research up since then. The most definitive thing that they can find evidence for that the Egyptians could have been using it for is sexual enhancement and, like, vigor, right? And I found that really interesting.

Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

But they also hypothesized the idea that it could have been used... There's elements about the flower that could be used for preserving youth and health, but also the psychedelic aspects of it. It's a fact that the fruit of the... All right, so the fruit of the lotus flower. It's a fact that the chemical that that produces is...

Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

But they also hypothesized the idea that it could have been used... There's elements about the flower that could be used for preserving youth and health, but also the psychedelic aspects of it. It's a fact that the fruit of the... All right, so the fruit of the lotus flower. It's a fact that the chemical that that produces is...

Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

But they also hypothesized the idea that it could have been used... There's elements about the flower that could be used for preserving youth and health, but also the psychedelic aspects of it. It's a fact that the fruit of the... All right, so the fruit of the lotus flower. It's a fact that the chemical that that produces is...

Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

When consumed in a moderate amount, whether you're distilling it in the leaves as well, but also the fruit, if you distill it and age it and put it in wine, which wine would have been consumed in Greece, also in Egypt, but in Egypt, they're also brewing beer. If you smoke it in moderate amounts, it will have a mild psychedelic effect.

Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

When consumed in a moderate amount, whether you're distilling it in the leaves as well, but also the fruit, if you distill it and age it and put it in wine, which wine would have been consumed in Greece, also in Egypt, but in Egypt, they're also brewing beer. If you smoke it in moderate amounts, it will have a mild psychedelic effect.

Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

When consumed in a moderate amount, whether you're distilling it in the leaves as well, but also the fruit, if you distill it and age it and put it in wine, which wine would have been consumed in Greece, also in Egypt, but in Egypt, they're also brewing beer. If you smoke it in moderate amounts, it will have a mild psychedelic effect.

Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

it'll be like if you took a couple of puffs of a blunt or something like that, um, you'd get this kind of soothing feeling. You'd feel a little bit better. Um, and then in consumed in high amounts, like with anything, it's going to have a profound effect. It's going to have a strong effect, probably similar.

Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

it'll be like if you took a couple of puffs of a blunt or something like that, um, you'd get this kind of soothing feeling. You'd feel a little bit better. Um, and then in consumed in high amounts, like with anything, it's going to have a profound effect. It's going to have a strong effect, probably similar.

Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

it'll be like if you took a couple of puffs of a blunt or something like that, um, you'd get this kind of soothing feeling. You'd feel a little bit better. Um, and then in consumed in high amounts, like with anything, it's going to have a profound effect. It's going to have a strong effect, probably similar.

Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

What I've seen it, uh, described as is, is it would probably be more similar to, uh, or consuming cannabis. Um, But there's an ancient source that attests to this. And it says, so I'm just going to read this verbatim. So Odysseus visits the land of lotus eaters. This is in the Odyssey, written by Homer in the Dark Ages, probably somewhere around 800 BC.

Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

What I've seen it, uh, described as is, is it would probably be more similar to, uh, or consuming cannabis. Um, But there's an ancient source that attests to this. And it says, so I'm just going to read this verbatim. So Odysseus visits the land of lotus eaters. This is in the Odyssey, written by Homer in the Dark Ages, probably somewhere around 800 BC.

Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

What I've seen it, uh, described as is, is it would probably be more similar to, uh, or consuming cannabis. Um, But there's an ancient source that attests to this. And it says, so I'm just going to read this verbatim. So Odysseus visits the land of lotus eaters. This is in the Odyssey, written by Homer in the Dark Ages, probably somewhere around 800 BC.

Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

Likely the island of Gerba off the coast of Tunisia. So this is Odysseus speaking here, but Homer writing. He says, they started at once and went out among the lotus eaters. Now this is his expedition around the Mediterranean trying to get back home to his family in Greece. So they started at once. They went around...

Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

Likely the island of Gerba off the coast of Tunisia. So this is Odysseus speaking here, but Homer writing. He says, they started at once and went out among the lotus eaters. Now this is his expedition around the Mediterranean trying to get back home to his family in Greece. So they started at once. They went around...

Matt Beall Limitless
An Extinct Lotus Flower had Psychedelic Impacts on Ancient Egypt | #49 Luke Caverns

Likely the island of Gerba off the coast of Tunisia. So this is Odysseus speaking here, but Homer writing. He says, they started at once and went out among the lotus eaters. Now this is his expedition around the Mediterranean trying to get back home to his family in Greece. So they started at once. They went around...