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Persephones Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion

by R. Gordon Wasson

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ISBN13: 9780300052664
ISBN10: 0300052669
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This fascinating book discusses the role played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica. R. Gordon Wasson, an internationally known ethnomycologist who was one of the first to investigate how these mushrooms were venerated and used by different native peoples, here joins with three other scholars to discuss his discoveries about these fungi, which he has called entheogens, or 'god generated within.'
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Michael Padrick, October 24, 2006 (view all comments by Michael Padrick)
An anthology of rather esoteric writings about the origins of religion. Revelations include the identification of soma as the amanita muscaria (fly agaric) mushroom - the same 'fruit' at the heart of the Judaeo-Christian Fall story - and the rediscovery of this knowledge in the 1950s in the mushroom cults of South America. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the history of religion.
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ISBN:
9780300052664
Subtitle:
Entheogens and the Origins of Religion
With:
Ruck, Carl A. P.
With:
Ruck, Carl A. P.
Author:
Ott, Jonathan
Author:
Wasson, R. Gordon
Author:
Ruck, Carl
Author:
Kramrisch, Stella
Author:
Ruck, A.
With:
Ott, Jonathon
Author:
Ott, Jonathon
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Subject:
General
Subject:
Comparative Religion
Subject:
History
Subject:
General Social Science
Publication Date:
July 1992
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
257
Dimensions:
9.25x6.14x.76 in. .90 lbs.
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