This edition brings together two works by Robert Gordon Wasson, the “father of ethnomycology” — the man who first argued that humanity owes the origins of all religion to entheogens and psychedelics.
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The Road to Eleusis reveals the secrets of the famous Eleusinian Mysteries — a deep investigation into the secret rites, psychedelic sacraments, and spiritual revelations that captivated ancient Greek society for nearly two thousand years. The sacred potion drunk during these rites, the authors argue, was infused with a powerful psychoactive entheogen of fungal origin.
In Persephone’s Quest, Wasson and his co-authors explore the role of psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of Ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica. They examine the evidence behind discoveries about “magic” mushrooms and the fly agaric — which Wasson himself called entheogens, or “the gods born within.”
The material in both parts reaches beyond the purely scientific into the legal, social, and spiritual, rethinking much of what we thought we knew about the rituals and rites of Hellenic, Central American, and other religions and cults — and broadening our understanding of the foundational principles of philosophical and spiritual thought.
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About this edition
Authors: R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Jonathan Ott, Carl A. P. Ruck, and others
Format: Book
Contents: Two works in one volume — The Road to Eleusis and Persephone’s Quest
Subjects: Ethnomycology · history of religion · cultural history of psychedelics · classical studies
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