Talk:Botanical identity of Soma-Haoma

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I believe there is too much anti-mushroom sentiment on this page, and too much pro-ephedra ideas. Ephedra does not grow on mountain tops. One of the most frequent traits of Soma is that it grows on the "mountain-top."

http://huxley.net/soma needs to be incorporated. --Espoo 09:41, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

"Ephedra does not grow on mountain tops" - Bullshit. It does not grow in the snow. As long as temperatures don't go below freezing the stuff can grow literally anywhere provided it's dry but not too dry.

If there is one thing that can be almsot certainly excluded by now it is fly agaric. If you don't believe me, try the stuff out and attempt to ride into battle like Indra when you're high on it (DON'T.) Even if the active compounds in the 'shroom can act as a stimulant, dosage varies so much that it is essentially impossible to guarantee that the hallucinogenic effect will never manifest. Yet there is only one single scrap of evidence to suggest soma was hallucinogenic, and that could have been produced by several plants (or shrooms).

If messing around with fly agaric is too tough for you, simply take some of 'em and beat them, energetically, for hours. If you're able to produce something that needs to be strained before it can be used, you're a better man than I am.

Also, the color is way too far off for soma to be fly agaric. If you eat something like fly agaric that has the color of soma, odds are you won't survive that experience. Dysmorodrepanis 04:08, 20 May 2007 (UTC)