From the Bodies of the Gods

Blurb on the back of the book….

Long before the beginnings of civilization, humans have been sacrificed and their flesh used to produce sacred foods and oils for use in religious rites. Originating with the sacred harvest of hallucinogenic mushrooms from the corpses of shamans and other holy men, these acts of ritual cannibalism and visionary intoxication are part of the history of all cultures, including Judeo-Christian ones, and provided a way to commune with the dead. These practices continued openly into the Dark Ages, when they were suppressed and adapted into the worship of saintly bones – or continued in secret by a few ‘heretical’ sects, such as Cathars and the Knights Templar. While little known today, these rites remain deeply embedded in symbolism, theology, and sacraments of modern religion and bring a much more literal meaning to the church’s ‘Holy Communion’ or symbolic consumption of the body and blood of Christ…….

Paperback, written by Earl Leee.