A cave in California was found to have been used not just for prehistoric painting, but as a site for mind exploration. Within the cave walls were found “quids” (chewed up wads) of the hallucinogenic plant Datura, ostensibly used by the people who painted datura flowers all over the cave walls, thus giving it the name “Pinwheel Cave.”

Click above to listen to part 2 of Skeptic Check: Shroom with a View, featuring Sandra Hernandez, Tejon Indian Tribe spokesperson, and David Wayne Robinson, Archeologist in the School of Natural Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, U.K. 

Shroom with a View:
Part 1: Merlin Sheldrake / Mind Exploration
Part 2: Sandra Hernandez with David Robinson / Datura Discovery
Part 3: Albert Garcia-Romeu / Psychotropic Therapy

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