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Welcome to Media Roots Radio.

This is Robbie Martin.

For our Patreon subscribers who are listening,

you're already very familiar with our ongoing series,

the Free Masonic History of the United States,

and we're about to release part seven of that podcast series.

And in the process of researching that series and doing reading,

I came across a very, very intriguing book,

a book by an author known as P.D. Newman called Alchemically Stoned. And the general premise of the book is that there is a

symbol used in Freemasonry, one of a sprig of acacia, a certain kind of tree that's very commonly found

all over the world. There's tons of different variations of this tree,

this species. This book Alchemically stoned by P.D. Newman is essentially saying that

the acacia symbol as used in Freemasonry may actually be a reference to consuming acacia.

And by consuming acacia, what we really mean is an early ritualistic use of DMT by alchemists

and early Freemasons.

P.D. Newman is not alleging that all of Freemasonry is somehow keeping this secret about

that the real secret to Freemasonry is DMT or anything like that.

His research is a lot more specific and actually goes to even proto-free masonry, before

Freemasonry, alchemy. But this is a very esoteric discussion we have, one that touches on a lot of obscure historical figures who are involved in ritualistic magic or alchemy or freemasonry. So if you're unfamiliar with

who some of these figures are, I would recommend pausing the podcast, doing some searching on

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