Ethnobotanist RG Wasson asked the Mayan Shaman what the name of the
sacred (pscilocybin) mushroom meant. "little magical one-footed man."

Then, years later, in researching the origin of the Vedic potion Soma,
he asked an Ugarit Shaman what the name for the Amanita Muscaria he used
to make Soma was. Then what the name meant. "Little magical one-footed man."

There is an artistic sensibility written in the brain that results in
psychedelic art, which can be seen in every culture which uses powerful
entheogenic potions. And those of us who've tried these potions, get why
the colors in Tibetan Mandalas, Hindu altars, Mayan Frescos, and
Tocharian paintings were chosen.

And today, if you ask a shaman from any of these traditions to describe
the nature of the divine experienced in the altered state of
consciousness these potions produce, you see it is nothing like the
alpha male tyrants in scripture. It is not judgmental.