In Nu
Sun Gunnar Thompson documents Chinese voyages to the Americas
in ships like this ancestor to the sea-going junk. Chinese emperors,
three centuries before Christ, had regularly sent out expeditions
to the “land below the eastern horizon”. They were
sent to discover the mountain paradise where the drug that could
prevent death with illusion of immortality could be found. The
drug was known to be a hallucinogenic mushroom, known only in
the eastern barrier to the great ocean. The Shih Chi, oldest
of the known and un-destroyed dynastic histories records these
voyages, but doesn’t say if they were successful. In the
Americas, descendants of the Mayans, the Mazatecs of the state
of Oaxaca, still use he psylosibic mushroom, also known as The
Divine Mushroom of Immortality. One of the last of the legendary
curanderos (shaman-priests), Maria Sabina, died only recently
at the age of ninety-two.
From Atlantis
in America – Navigators of the Ancient World by Ivar
Zapp and George Ericson
