# The Magic Mushroom Christmas Theory | After Skool

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Published: 2026-09-21T15:21:49+00:00
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## Resource

The Magic Mushroom Christmas Theory Signup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/nxrd30pygahChristmas is the most iconic holiday in the world and it’s full of strange traditions. Activities like hanging stockings and singing songs about flying reindeer have become so deeply ingrained in Christmas, that we don’t even wonder where they came from. When we trace the origin of Christmas traditions, we find that many of them may be linked to the rituals surrounding the Psychedelic mushroom, Amanita muscaria. The large red, white spotted Amanita Muscaria is the most recognizable mushroom on earth. Throughout history and across many cultures, people valued this mysterious mushroom for its powerful hallucinogenic properties.Get the After Skool Kid's book, "Why Don't Country Flags Use the Color Purple?" https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Country-Flags-Color-Purple/dp/0578489244/ref=sr_1_4?crid=3C6UQKGPPXZK&keywords=why+don%27t+country+flags+use+the+color+purple&qid=1575326307&sprefix=why+don%27t+country%2Caps%2C190&sr=8-4Please consider supporting After Skool on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AfterSkool If you're interested in having us create an animation for your company visit https://www.afterskool.net/ Check out the new After Skool T-shirt design! https://teespring.com/stores/afterskool And be sure to subscribe for more enlightening animations. Thanks for watching.Sources of video: https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/jrcpe_48_1_lee.pdf http://amanitashop.com/amanita-habitat http://interferencetheory.com/Research/ResearchVenusBlueprintDatabase/files/287ae7753bc781c68415549eae18a8b2-249.html https://medium.com/@mustaphahitani/santa-was-a-magic-mushroom-d3065b05e76f Follow the podcast for new episodes. We cannot change the world. But…

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