I've took a picture that I'll have to send
People here are friendly and content
People here are colorful and bright
The flowers often bloom at night

Amanita is the name
The flowers cover everything
The flowers cover everything

There's something here I find hard to ignore
There's something that I've never seen before
Amanita is the name, they cover over everything

The flowers cover everything
They cover over everything (Amanita is the name)
The flowers cover everything

Look into the sun
Don't look into the sun

The flowers cover everything
They cover over everything
The flowers cover everything

The flowers cover everything
They cover over everything
The flowers cover everything

There's something that I've never seen before
The flowers often bloom at night
Amanita is the name, they cover over everything


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The Flowers of Guatemala Lyrics as written by Michael E. Mills John Michael Stipe

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    The Amanita Muscaria is a hallucinogenic and entheogenic mushroom. Indegenous people in Central and South America will often refer to them as "flowers". John Marco Allegro was the only non catholic priest and agnostic on the 12 member qualified team to read the Dead Sea Scrolls. Allegro's claim is that the scrolls prove that christianity and Judaism came from earlier hallucinogenic mushroom and fertility cults and the Amanita is the forbidden fruit of the bible creation story. It is the fruit that gave humans knowledge so "GOD" did not want us to eat it. In more original creation stories "GOD" was never the creator of the universe but is "the seven lords" or landlords of this earth who did not want us to eat from the tree of knowledge otherwise they would no longer be able to control us. It appears the bible creation story was altered to make eve and serpent appear evil while in more original creation stories the serpent is the good guy who gave let us know that the landlords were lying to us about dying after we eat the fruit we were told not to eat, he gave us knowledge and eve was the intelligent or enlightened human. Amanita Muscaria are Red with white spots like "apples" and they flourish under conifer "christmas" trees. Now imagine all those red and white gifts we put under christmas trees. The Amanita Muscaria and other mushrooms go through and "egg" stage and can also be gold in color, so you end up with mostly red and white mushrooms and a few gold ones. Now think about why we have children go and look for colorful eggs at Easter and bring them back to their parents for a treat, because who better to crawl under those conifer trees than little children rather than a big clumsy adult. In some original languages the same name given to the Amanita is the same as "word" in that language, which suggest that humans learned how to speak from the mushroom itself. Obviously I have deviated far from REM and this song and I am sure REM is not performing "The Flowers of Guatemala" in reference to all of this. But this is a very important mushroom indeed in human history and a good topic for them to write a song about. There is much to learn about this so Look up "The Pharmacratic Inquisition".

    SaintCaptainFreakOuton August 29, 2009   Link

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