R. Gordon Wasson
The secretive Mysteries conducted at Eleusis in Greece for nearly two millennia have long puzzled scholars with strange accounts of initiates experiencing otherworldly journeys. In this groundbreaking work, three experts-a mycologist, a chemist, ... [... more]
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Sacred Mushroom Seeker : Tributes to R. Gordon Wasson
 Book Description: Wasson (1898-1986) was an amateur mycologist whose scholarly writings on hallucinogenic mushrooms pioneered the field of ethnomycology. The essays herein were contributed by Wasson's close friends, colleagues, and family members, and [... more]
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Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion
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 [... more]
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The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
R. Gordon Wasson (1898-1986) was a pioneer investigator of sacred indigenous mushroom rituals in Mexico in the 1950s. Albert Hofmann, the famed chemist who discovered the curious properties of LSD in 1943, recently celebrated his 100th birthday in [... more]
$9.47
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Writing on Drugs
Facts were interesting, but needed better organization: Overall, I found "Writing on Drugs" interesting, in that it not only covered how various writers have written about, and on, various drugs, but also how the use of drugs -- legal or [... more]
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Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion
Brilliant Source and Homage to the Mysteries: I am a student of Carl A.P. Ruck, who was one of the contributors for this collection. This volume is indeed a collection which covers several sides of the story, touching upon almost every civilization which [... more]
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The Wondrous Mushroom: Mycolatry in Mesoamerica
The Hallucinogenic Mushroom in Mesoamerica.: _The Wondrous Mushroom: Mycolatry in Mesoamerica_, No. 7 in the Ethnomycological Studies series, by newspaper reporter and banker turned ethnomycologist, R. Gordon Wasson, is a fascinating account of the [... more]
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Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The ...
EXCELLENT: This book is perfect - It offered everything I was hoping for when I first purchased it. It covered from the end of the 50's and the Beat generation and how their influence lead into the hippie generation, and it ended in the early 70's tying [... more]
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Entheogens and the Future of Religion (Entheogen Project ...
Entheogens? Yes!: This is a great book for anyone interested in this subject, whether initiate or not. It provides insight from a number of the initial 20th century pioneers, as well as gives us a window into the inner ritual as performed by the more [... more]
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THE HOLY MUSHROOM: Evidence of Mushrooms in ...
Solid scholarship to force assessment of entheogens throughout Christian history: Every entheogen historian needs to read this book, to see how the field has been distorted and prematurely limited by too much uncritical respect for Wasson. The strange [... more]
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Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality.
Author: R. Gordon. Wasson Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 1968 [... more]
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The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and ...
The CIA's Experiments in Mind Control.: If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then? - George Orwell from _1984_. _The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate": The CIA and [... more]
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