Did the Irish Druids Use 'Shrooms? - Jon O'Sullivan - Irish Pagan School

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A fascinating question for us today that has Jon in research mode for the last while regarding the ancient practices of the Irish druids and their possible use of psychoactive mushrooms native to Ireland.
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[@pennyrowe9705]

I would love to hear more about the co-mingling of the Irish and the Vikings. I have both in my ancestry and I would like to understand more about this time period in Ireland.

[@Eighty76]

I’d love to see a breakdown of the spiritual practices of ancient Ireland by provinces, I just discovered some of my family immigrated from the Munster province and I’ve been diving deep into Ireland lately. Love your videos, keep it up!

[@-RONNIE]

Always nice to have a video from the channel & keep up the great work

[@mukhumor]

I read an article about Mushrooms in Irish culture. Liberty caps are found at greater density in Ireland than any other European nation. It's a cattle breeding nation, and Liberty caps are common in cow pastures. Any shepherd/ cowherd would have been familiar with them. They were commonly consumed at Wedding's and Funerals. Alcohol was expensive time consuming and involved a lot of taxes and regulations from the colonists. Mushrooms were a convenient source of entertainment. In ancient Irish tradition, not everything is written down. A 'spiritual' experience is a later projection. 'Spiritual' was something to do with 'The Church'. Not Mushrooms from the cow pasture. 🙂

[@Rebellescum]

the attitudes towards psychedelics would have changed in each era. Consuming mushrooms recreationally in the part 1000 years or so, does nor mean that it wasn't consumed by the druids in their practices and rituals - what they thought of this - or what came of it, we don't know. Many religions and native spiritualities still consume psychedelics a per their practice. it would actually be strange if the druids DIDNT IMO. since we know of alot of other psychoactive substances used to give altered states from a more recent time. Hell, it could have been consumed BOTH recreationally AND as a part of ritualistic practice.

[@mukhumor]

@@Rebellescum Yes it's possible. Consider, in medieval Ireland anything outside of the Christian Bible was the 'Work of the Devil'. It was almost so that 'The Devil' became more significant than Jesus. A control mechanism. Like the KGB, or the Gestapo. No one was likely to confess to 'the regime' that they had been eating Shrooms.

[@Lukemacleary]

@@Rebellescum "Yeah, it would be SO strange if the religious administration from a previous age didn't participate in the same intoxication that I do!"