Sacred Mushroom Rites & the Hidden Meaning of the Egyptian Ankh

The Egyptian ankh has always been seen as a power symbol for life, but evidence suggests a deeper, more hidden meaning that has escaped most of the scholars of today. Perhaps because it opens a Pandora’s box most would rather leave closed—knowledge of the Amanita muscaria mushroom.

It all began when a dear friend of mine, living in Italy and now in her 80’s, told me about a man named Andrija Puharich who she had known and loved for many years. He had connections to everyone in the psychic field and had shared quite a few secrets with her. But that’s another story.

Intrigued, I read one of Puharich’s books: The Sacred Mushroom: Key to the Door of Eternity. It confirmed my belief that there was more to the ankh story than most of us have been taught.

During the years 1953 – 1955, Puharich was a medical officer and Captain in the U.S. Army. He was stationed at the Army Medical Center in Edgewood, Maryland, after being recruited by the Chief Officer of the Army’s Psychological Warfare Division. His assignment was to study devices which would increase extrasensory perception.

On December 9, 1954 a former research colleague and friend, a woman named Alice Bouverie, called Puharich to tell him about a subject he might be interested in studying. She related that while at a dinner party a young Dutch sculptor, named Harry Stone, had spontaneously gone into a seizure after she had shown him an authentic piece of Egyptian jewelry that had come from the British Museum. It was a gold pendant, belonging to Queen Tiy (Akhenaten’s mother).

After a few minutes, Stone fell into a deep trance state and began talking about his upbringing in Egypt during the Middle Kingdom’s 14th Dynasty, during the time of Ra Ho Tep. He then asked for writing paper and pen, and proceeded to speak and draw in an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic script.

Alice kept the writings and produced them for a skeptical Puharich, who soon learned that the hieroglyphic script was written in a rarely seen ancient Egyptian form, which very few knew how to decipher. Consequently, he had difficulty finding anyone proficient enough in the linguistic field to even attempt to translate what Harry had drawn. When he did locate a scholar, the translated information was even more intriguing.

Harry’s hieroglyphs referenced a mushroom practice used in the most sacred ceremonies to the Egyptian gods. A plant that the ancients cultivated in what is now known as Syria. It was used to stimulate communication with the gods, the greater cosmos, and served as an aide in the elevation of human consciousness.

The ancients depicted this “unknown plant” in pairs of two, shaped as parasols or umbrella figures. This unnamed plant was referred to in the Pyramid Texts of ancient Egypt as a golden plant with magic properties. (There is no word for “mushroom” in Egyptian hieroglyphics.)

Over a three-year period, Puharich  was able to study the Dutch sculptor during such altered states. Harry would often talk about the medicinal qualities of plants while in trance. What was surprising was that Harry had never been to Egypt or studied its history, let alone learned to write and understand ancient hieroglyphics. This ability was only exhibited during a trance-like state.

Harry described one plant in question as “a mushroom with a golden or a red color”. He drew it with white spots. He then related how this particular “sacred mushroom” would “induce a fission of body and mind so that the mind can operate (or travel) independently of the body.”

Puharich discovered that only one mushroom fit Harry’s description—the fly agaric or Amanita muscaria, a plant often used in fairy tales and legends. It only comes in two colors: red and a golden-yellow, has white spots and a “handkerchief” around the stem like in Harry’s drawings.

This mushroom contains muscarine, a deadly toxin that can quickly kill. Despite its non-edible status, the ancient Egyptians discovered a more profound use for this plant as an aid to higher consciousness.

While in trance, Harry talked about how the ancients had found several ways to diffuse the deadly toxin so that one could benefit from its hallucinogenic properties and still live to tell the story of what lay “beyond the veil.”

One such technique was feeding it to snails, who consequently died, but somehow neutralized the toxin in the death process, while the hallucinogenic properties remained in the urchin. This then made it possible for humans to eat the snails and experience transcendence without the deadly consequences. How they came to discover this unique process, we will never know. A much simpler way to safely ingest it was to peel the skin off the cap, then soak the mushroom in vinegar or brine.

Mushroom Offerings

This plant was specifically used for inducing a trance in order to attain consciousness expansion and mystical knowledge. It was, in essence, an ascension plant.

The ancients would rub it on an individual’s tongue as well as the top of the skull (the crown or soft spot area known in the Indian religion as the “Aperture of Brahma” or the “Opening of Creation”).

Harry also described a purification by water ritual which preceded the ‘”opening of the mouth” ceremony.

In almost every temple throughout Egypt we see gods offering an ankh to the mouth of the king or pharaoh. Scholars have always translated the symbol of the ankh to mean “eternal life” or “the key to life.” Many will admit that little is known about the ankh symbol, or its true origins, even though many religions which came afterward, would adopt this symbol into their own version of the Christian and Coptic crosses.

Drawing from Harry’s information, Puharich discovered that the ankh was the true symbolic representation of the sacred mushroom. Oftentimes, the ancient Egyptians displayed hidden knowledge in plain sight that only the privileged few could interpret.

In the oldest Egyptian writings, known as the Pyramid Texts, it references an unknown red/golden plant used in sacred rites. In the Egyptian Book of the Dead they are called it “the food of the gods,” or “celestial food” and “the flesh of the gods.”

Puharich observed that the Amanita muscaria, with its handkerchief skirting around its stem, actually resembled an ankh during its growth process. Could the walls of temples throughout the centuries actually be displaying depictions that foretold of reaching enlightenment through the aid of a natural, plant-based, hallucinogen?

We know that the ancient Egyptian’s also used the psychoactive properties of the Blue Lotus flower for deep dreaming quests, which I wrote about in a prior blog:  Secrets of the Ancient Egyptian Blue Lotus.  However, sacred mushrooms were in an entirely different category.

The psychoactive effects of Amanita muscaria are not only the deadly toxins of muscarine, but atropine (belladonna) and bufotenin (a secretion also found in the sweat glands of African toads), similar to adrenaline. This presents a unique combo of drugs that produces a highly hallucinatory effect. Harry talked about it being used to also look into the future.

It is no coincidence that the ankh is described as a vessel out of which the gods dispense, or pour, life. Or, as Puharich, termed it: The Key to the Door of Eternity. When Harry was asked about how the mushroom was used, he said, “by opening the door for the soul, by stepping in, and leaving.”

In a hidden away chamber, near the outskirts of Luxor’s Karnak temple, there is a chapel displaying seven doors, within doors, and seven ankh keys. Above the ankh keys is an immense tree of life engraved on the limestone wall. This particular chapel was a ceremonial post where sacred mushroom ceremonies were conducted by the priests after first undergoing a water purification ceremony. This particular purification ceremony can also be seen symbolically on temple walls, where the gods cleanse the king with the water of life (ankhs) in preparation for his ascension voyage. 

Crowns signify much more than rulership in ancient Egypt. The crown of Upper Egypt is usually displayed as a white cone or mushroom shape. When the red crown of Lower Egypt is added and worn, it symbolizes the King’s dominion over both Upper and Lower Egypt (according to modern-day Egyptologists). However, Harry’s trance writings referenced an “N ANKH” describing a “red crown” signifying knowledge.

This suggested to Puharich that when both crowns were worn together, it meant the King had merged the upper and lower realms of human consciousness and attained ascension into the higher realms. He had been initiated and “enlightened.”

The sacred mushroom rites were the path to this attainment of “knowledge”. (It is interesting to note that when one becomes a Cardinal in the Catholic Church, they are then permitted to wear the robes of higher knowledge: short red-caped tops, white stem-like skirting, and white head caps. Coincidence?)

On my most recent return to Egypt, where I lead small groups of fellow mystery seekers each year, I started collecting an album of pictures from temple walls of an upside down mushroom sporting a plant stem. This offering is usually given to either the King or to one of the gods. Most people think the object is some sort of cup or drink, but it clearly has a stem and is always displayed the same in every temple scene of its kind. There are so many of these same scenes that one eventually realizes that the ancient Egyptians were clearly into mushroom knowledge as a pathway to the gods and the afterlife.

Mushroom ceremonies have been in existence throughout the centuries, in ancient cultures from Mexico to Siberia. This knowledge is usually kept in the hands of the high priests and the shamans. But If you pay closer attention, you start seeing the Amanita muscaria symbology in somewhat unexpected places.

My home is decorated with both Egyptian and Balinese artifacts. After becoming interested in sacred mushroom rites, I happened to closely examine an old temple rubbing I had from Thailand. Imagine my surprise to find mushroom symbolism in the artwork which I hadn’t recognized before. The rubbing contained a deity scene with three dark “umbrellas”, all shaped like Amanita muscaria, complete with white spots. The three “umbrellas” are placed in front of trees of life–the plant of immortality (see b&w photo).

I wondered at the meaning of the name “Amanita”. It makes one think of the Egyptian God, Amun Ra–the King of Gods. “Aman” is a Muslim name meaning, “lovable protection without fear”. When I looked up the Aman derivative in other languages, it translated as “mouth” or “water”.

After all my trips to Egypt, I now see symbols and hieroglyphics with a more discerning eye. So many of the temple pillars are even shaped like giant mushrooms.

Many of the ancient Egyptians clearly found greater meaning in life through examining not only death and the afterlife, but the vast unexplored dimensional realms where human consciousness can attain higher wisdom and knowledge. In that respect, man has not changed much over the millennium. We are compelled to seek out answers to the mysterious, the unexplained, the truth that lies beyond.  I, for one, can’t imagine a life that doesn’t seek this greater understanding of all things.

 

Mushroom Statutes in Peru

Mushroom Statues in Serbia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A cool short time-lapse video of the growing process of the Amanita muscaria

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Dr. Kathy Forti is a clinical psychologist, inventor of the Trinfinity8 technology, and author of the book, Fractals of God: A Psychologist’s Near-Death Experience and Journeys Into the Mystical

Time Travel Stargate Found in Egypt

The Seti 1 Temple in Abydos, Egypt has always been cloaked in mystery. It has been rumored to have an Ancient Stargate, an opening to the next world. To add to the mystery, the temple contains strange carvings on several walls which Egyptologists have been at a loss to explain. Such carvings have not been seen in other temples.

New evidence now suggests that information on the Abydos Stargate may have been hidden in plain sight for centuries, waiting to be deciphered. But before I get into the specifics, a little history is in order.

The Temple at Abydos is the oldest necropolis in this ancient land and was believed to be the very heart center of Egypt. The temple we see today was built by Seti 1 over an older more sacred temple, which may contain even deeper secrets. It is well-known that the Egyptian Pharaohs would arrange for a “symbolic” burial tomb to be built in their honor at Abydos, even if their “physical” tomb was erected elsewhere. The Ancients believed Abydos Temple was the closest entry point to the next world and the much desired afterlife. One has to wonder why?

Abydos Temple was home to the Order of Melchizedek, the Brotherhood of the Law of One, known throughout millennium as the cosmic priests to the priests. The origin of this priesthood is said to go back further than Atlantean times, and quite possibly to the very beginnings of man on earth.

The Melchizedek priests were known as true visionaries, dedicated to the service of others. Their mission was to save man from his illusions, to free souls from earthly enslavement. The Melchizedeks were the founders of the Ancient Mystery Schools of Egypt. They were known to possess the knowledge of the cosmos and the keys to mankind’s ascension. They were also the gatekeepers to the Stargate at Abydos Temple.

Years ago I learned from a secret space program insider that Abydos contained a natural Stargate which allowed a covert military experiment to actually send an ET home. How? They forced the Stargate to open using advanced technology.

It sounded pretty far out, but I recall the insider saying the Stargate opening was along one of the Northern walls of the temple. Since Seti 1 built this temple on top of a much older sacred temple, I’ve been at a loss as to whether the wall in question was an inner or outer wall, above ground or below ground. This recently changed when I happened to mention the insider’s story to an Egyptologist friend of mine while revisiting the temple.

His face lit up with excitement as I related the details the military insider shared regarding seeing a series of “four field posts” positioned around “gates” as well as some sort of “projection device,” a “barrel” and a set of “containment rings”. Using a directed electromagnetic energy force, they were able to open and access this natural Stargate and effect time and space distortion.

My friend immediately took me over to an inside wall near the outside of the temple and pointed to an unusual carving that took up most of the wall. I was stunned. I had never really “seen” this carving from past temple visits. I’m sure thousands had walked by it, just like me, without understanding what they were actually seeing. It’s as if it was veiled in some cloaking field that transmitted to passing observers, “move along, nothing to see here.”

Abydos Temple – Sokar Sled to the Underworld

The entire wall carving shows a Pharaoh dragging a sled-like vehicle with wings (not an afterlife boat which is a common symbol seen in many temples). Oddly enough, this sled reminds one of the time travel vehicle used in the H.G. Wells movie, The Time Machine.

The Abydos vehicle contains four gated posts and a barrel-like device with rings displaying two heads of the falcon deity Sokar, the God of the Underworld.

Set Animal

On the wing is a strange creature with unusual ears. Oftentimes you see this animal-like head on the handles of “Was” Scepters, representing the symbol for ultimate power. Some have likened the head of this creature to the “Set Animal“—a  being used to control the chaotic forces of nature.

To the left of the Pharaoh is the deity Thoth, depicted with the head of an ibis. Thoth is the God of Wisdom, Knowledge and Magic. In this wall carving, he appears to be instructing the Pharaoh.

The powers of Thoth were known to be so great, that the Egyptians had tales of a “Book of Thoth”, which would allow a person who read the sacred book to become the most powerful magician in the world. It was said to contain “the secrets of the gods themselves” and “all that is hidden in the stars”.

Thoth was thought to be the Master Scribe to the gods. It is believed that he wrote down the story of man’s reality then placed it into the grids of the earth for us to experience and learn through the alchemy of time and consciousness. A ruler is often seen in his hand, as he was the one responsible for making “calculations concerning the Heavens, the Stars and the Earth.”

Ascension Gate symbol

My Egyptian friend immediately sent a picture of the wall carving to a forum group of over 2000 Egyptologists asking if anyone knew what the wall scene meant. Only one response came back: “Gate to the second world”. On each side of the wall carving are Egyptian symbols for “Ascension Gate”.

There is a noticeable deep chunk taken out of the wall, which would have provided the identity of an unknown figure. The missing chunk looks like it may have been intentionally removed at some time.

In a prior blog I’d written, The Reincarnation of Om Sety and the Secrets at Abydos, an English woman named Dorothy Eady, who would become the infamous caretaker of Abydos Temple in the late 20th Century, recalled how she had once fallen into a dimensional hole inside the temple, giving her a time travel glimpse into the past. Many report that during her years of dedicated service at the temple, she was often seen pressing her hands along the walls looking for some hidden doorway that might take her back to that place in time. Perhaps this is Om Sety’s Stargate wall. How often it may spontaneously open is unknown.

The Abydos Stargate is said to be a natural time travel bridge. In 1935, Albert Einstein and physicist Nathan Rosen used the theory of general relativity to elaborate on the idea, proposing the existence of “bridges” through space-time. These bridges connect two different points in space-time, theoretically creating a shortcut that could reduce travel time and distance. The shortcuts came to be called “Einstein-Rosen bridges”, or wormholes.

While the wall carving at Abydos may indeed mark a natural Stargate, it appears the military found a way to open such portals on-demand. Once opened, they utilized a strange black box-like device to access information from the portal pertaining to past and future events.

This technology has been loosely referred to as the “Looking Glass” device, “Yellow Book” or “Orion’s Cube” It is said to be alien technology retrieved from a spaceship, believed to be from the Orion Constellation, which crashed in the U.S. prior to the famous Roswell, New Mexico crash in 1947.

This “Looking Glass” device was given to U.S. President Eisenhower, then widely passed around to several governments to view into their most probable future and plan accordingly. The insider reported they were able to see, in holographic display, information concerning future presidents (i.e. Bush, Clinton, Obama) as well as the events surrounding the World Trade Center attack on September 11th, 2001. (It is important to note that what they saw were the most probable futures based on the strength of pulsed energy emanating from the images. Interesting enough, years ago, upon questioning another person who had access to this device, I was told that they never saw Hillary Clinton as a future president.)

The military carefully studied past events that became true and which ones did not come true based on the energy signature of the holographic image displayed. They learned that not every event is written in stone—the future can be altered. They tried to find a way to accurately read the future events that were more likely to occur. Eventually, the U.S. Government was able to reverse engineer this device in the 60’s and 70’s under a secret CIA program known as “Project Looking Glass”.

The Abydos Stargate was supposedly only used to pass information from the future and/or other dimensions back to this time. Which leads one to ask an important question. Have those in power been manipulating future timelines to effect more desirable/profitable outcomes? If so, governments have been playing some dangerous games within time and space.

Scientists report that wormholes can spontaneously collapse. Any person using the portal when this happens can forever be caught in a state of space-time limbo. If there were early experiments, which I have told there were, how many test subjects did not return?

As of this writing, no one seems to know what became of the Looking Glass technology.  If they do, they’re not saying. The device was said to be turned off years ago out of fear for the impact it could have on Earth’s future timeline. The technology showed them that it would be ON when Earth experienced some future catastrophic world event.

The insider somehow knew the device would be accidentally re-activated in the year 2016/2017. How, where and under what circumstances, he would not say.  I don’t think he knew. My intuitive guess as to its current whereabouts would be that it’s either being hidden away in the Vatican or is buried beneath the ice cap of the Wllkes Land Crater in East Antarctica—which might explain why many government and church leaders have suddenly taken so many unexpected trips to this frozen land in the last two years. No one wants to talk about what’s going on in Antarctica. Ii’s completely cloaked in a heavy veil of secrecy.

Futuristic vehicles seen at ceiling

Centuries ago, the Melchizedek priests may have stumbled onto such a Looking Glass device, or been given one by the “Gods” or “Star Beings” as they called them. It’s no coincidence that the three Pyramids at Giza are also aligned to the Orion’s Belt Constellation.

Such an advanced technology would have allowed them to see over the curvature of time and space to view such future events. Perhaps this is why there are also carvings in the temple depicting futuristic technology, such as spacecraft, a submarine, and a helicopter—all hidden on a high beam near the ceiling where it would generally go unnoticed.

Any carvings closer to the temple ceilings were known to be of a more esoteric, next world orientation. On close inspection, these carvings do not display any evidence that they have been altered or carved over as other wall scenes displayed lower down. Oddly, the spaceship carving also appears to display field post symbols.

Since there is no way to prove any of this information is true, out of curiosity I asked several highly advanced intuitives to give me their initial impressions of the Abydos wall carvings without any prior information on its possible meaning. I received the following impressions: “beyond the veil sled,”  “stairway to heaven” “as above, so below,” “sliding down the rabbit hole,” and “Oh, wow! Whatever it is it gives me shivers all over.” The mystery continues.

See also by Kathy J. Forti:

Discovering Extraterrestrial Evidence in Egypt

The Mystery Schools of the Order of Melchizedek

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